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by cooldeal 13y ago
Doesn't matter if it's a crime or not according to the constitution. Apple can ban any app for no reason whatsoever. If they've banned an Android magazine app(publishing which is quite legal), I don't see how reverse engineering being or no
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First real-world usage figures suggest Chromebooks are struggling(zdnet.com)
1 points by cooldeal 13y ago|0 comments
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by cooldeal 13y ago
>can spot the BS and back peddling in the MS press releases Perhaps you mean backpedaling? >Uh, no. I'm a developer and overall power user, so please spare me the "you were using it wrong" comments. Speak for yourself, I am a power
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by cooldeal 13y ago
Windows + I is a good shortcut to get you directly to #3.
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by cooldeal 13y ago
Reference? StatCounter data seems to show the opposite of what you're stating.
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Internal Microsoft email: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn’t(arstechnica.com)
67 points by cooldeal 13y ago|43 comments
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by cooldeal 13y ago
The marketing department markets the phones, it does not design the UI.
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by cooldeal 13y ago
Where are you getting your information from? You're just simply wrong on many counts. >During the 65 years of its independence, Federal government in India has remained under the control of one single family (the Gandhi family). Being t
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by cooldeal 13y ago
I don't see how it is all that impressive. Nokia has been shipping a million plus phones a day from a long time ago.
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by cooldeal 13y ago
Cliche at this point, but got to be said. "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." John Maynard Keynes, (attributed) English economist (1883 - 1946)
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by cooldeal 13y ago
>The iPad Mini didn't exist last year, and that's surely a lower margin product Why is it "surely" so? We're talking percentage margin here, not the margin in dollar terms. The iPad Mini can theoretically have a higher margin than the i
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by cooldeal 14y ago
45% is not greater than 55%. Headline is wrong. http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-Shot...
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Does this mean it's time to lift the anti-monopoly restrictions on Microsoft and Windows?
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Virtual Bitcoin Mining Is a Real-World Environmental Disaster(bloomberg.com)
1 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple is about to pull my app from the App Store, so it's free until its gone(reddit.com)
8 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Everytime there's a discussion about the walled garden, people say that it's to prevent malware, but Apple is going way beyond that by forcing a cut of in-app purchases, banning application prototyping apps, rejecting an Android magazine a
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BlackBerry to ask regulators to probe report on returns(reuters.com)
1 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Since page is not loading, full text: In 1980, a company called Franklin Computer produced a clone of the Apple II called the Franklin Ace, designed to run the same software. They copied almost every detail of the Apple II, including all of
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Microsoft Game Director Adam Orth Resigns Following Xbox Comments(ibtimes.co.uk)
2 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
There are a few ways that an article can appear lower than it should. 1) Flagging by people with karma over the threshold (currently set at 500). 2) For some domains, only 1/3rd of the upvotes count, e.g. Reddit, XKCD, images, tweets. 3) Th
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Bitcoin Plunges By Nearly $30 As Largest Market Suffers Outage(mashable.com)
100 points by cooldeal 14y ago|111 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Here's the how-to to add your own keys. http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/owning-your-windows-8-uefi...
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Make the ability to add personal keys to secure boot a requirement for having a Windows logo Sigh, that's already the requirement. If I had a cent for every poster that is ignorant about secure boot but rants against it as if they are
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>It's about microsoft insisting that the only pre-loaded encryption key is theirs, to the exclusion of all other encryption keys. Bullshit, they do no such thing. The OEMs are perfectly able and willing to preload other keys. It's the c
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I love the phrasing "ARM device" as opposed to Windows RT. Somehow the largest selling "ARM Devices" i.e iPads are not blamed for having locked bootloaders. But on a barely selling platform, suddenly it's a huge deal.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>There's a link in the very line that you're quoting that goes to an article that discusses "open systems" and "open-source software" as distinct things This is what it says about open systems. >Another way to look at the difference
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>instead of just using the same scare tactic MPEG-LA used before, of empty threats to kill momentum for VP8 Empty threats? They have publicly listed the patents that they think are being infringed. That is more than the MPEG-LA ever did
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The way Groklaw was cheering on Google/Motorola/Samsung's abuse of standards essential FRAND patents to obtain injunctions was quite telling that they're more of a cheer squad for their favorite companies(not to mention the Apple/Microsoft/
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The body isn't a closed thermodynamic system. You have to take into account metabolism, the human waste that is eliminated, the satiety of the foods consumed, etc. Not to mention the make up of bacteria as evidenced in the article.
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That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie(gizmodo.com)
6 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments

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