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by cube13 15y ago
He admitted that he uploaded terabytes of data. That's not being "careful". Comcast has had data caps for quite some time now. There's quite literally no excuse for not knowing that upstream bandwidth also counts.
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by cube13 15y ago
IBM hasn't gotten the patent yet. It's been filed, but doesn't appear to have been awarded yet. I'm divided over this. On one hand, it's a bullshit patent that shouldn't be awarded to them, like all business process patents. So getting t
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by cube13 15y ago
This is true. I probably should have said "companies that make products related to their patents cannot be patent trolls".
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by cube13 15y ago
>Consistent attribution of the motives applied to Microsoft would have all the competitors as evil doers. Fixed that. You can apply the same reasoning to every single company that made a bid for the pool, including Google. They shou
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by cube13 15y ago
You can't be a patent troll if you're actually making a product. The entire "business model" of a patent troll is to make money off of lawsuits, not from actually selling things.
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by cube13 15y ago
>The only difference between Lodsys and large software/hardware companies like Microsoft and Oracle is the size of their litigation targets. And the fact that MS and Oracle actually make products.
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by cube13 15y ago
According to Netflix's 2010 SEC filing, their operations expenses are around $400 million. Adding in development, marketing and general administrative costs, their total non-license costs were around $800 million. They paid $1.2 billion in
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by cube13 15y ago
>Secondly, do you think that "other" is enough? To what lengths should developers go to handle rare corner cases? Other is enough. It covers all the possible alternate cases. If the person really doesn't identify with either gender, t
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by cube13 15y ago
Whoops, I meant the patents. Edited to fix my stupidity.
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by cube13 15y ago
4G LTE technology. That's hugely valuable to everyone in the mobile space.
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by cube13 15y ago
Nortel has several 4G LTE-related patents in the pool( http://mobile.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/RIM-Not-Goog... ). Those are HUGELY valuable to Apple, RIM, Sony Ericsson and Nokia. I would be very surprised if none of those compani
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by cube13 15y ago
>In concrete terms, imagine if, just as individuals in a company cooperate, companies cooperated with each other. Everyone would be better off. At it's root, this is the difference between seeing life as a non-zero-sum game as opposed t
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by cube13 15y ago
How good of a source is a random forum post, though? Compared to an official line from a company or government, it's pretty shaky.
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by cube13 15y ago
Let's assume that it's a high-end luxury sedan, not a low-end family sedan. Unless gas goes up to $100/gallon, there's no way you'll save money by buying the Tesla over a affordable mid-size like a Honda Accord or Ford Fusion. So let's com
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by cube13 15y ago
Until recently, Flash didn't even use any hardware acceleration for video. I don't believe that it actually gives the direct access to the hardware that WebGL does. So while it's still a security risk(especially given Adobe's track record
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by cube13 15y ago
>Their near-monopoly is on good industrial and UI design. I'm not convinced that this is an absolute bad thing, because this isn't a problem with Apple. It's a problem with their competitors. Like you mentioned earlier in the post, Ap
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by cube13 15y ago
If you could get every single person that has ever made an accepted change to the Linux kernel to agree, sure. Otherwise, I'm not exactly sure how that would work out.
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by cube13 15y ago
That was pure sarcasm, in reference to the OP's statement that "their recent hacks were _not_ kiddie stuff". Most of the crap they pulled last week were merely DDOS attacks, where the only real coordination required is getting everyone on a
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by cube13 15y ago
This really doesn't solve the DDOS problem though. It's throwing more CPU time and bandwidth at a scenario that already requires both of those. It can slow a small group of script kiddies making a thousand requests to your server per seco
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by cube13 15y ago
Getting the machines to DDOS everyone took a while.
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by cube13 15y ago
I would argue ActiveX gives MS a lot of credibility here. If they're saying it's insecure...
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by cube13 15y ago
If the battery lasts longer than 5 minutes. Sure, you could underclock the device to save battery, but what's the use of all that power in a mobile device if you can't use that power while mobile? This is becoming a huge problem for the sm
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by cube13 15y ago
>Microsoft has attempted to make a successful cloud platform - their commercials all proclaim, "To the Cloud!" - and yet, they fail, while someone else takes their technology and (potentially) succeeds. I don't really think that MS has
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by cube13 15y ago
The attacks on the Minecraft and EVE servers were DDOS attacks. Nothing sophisticated, and the easy way to avoid them is to just get more servers, which really isn't a good solution for smaller developers. EDIT: I suspect the only reason t
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by cube13 15y ago
>We need the people who can advance the field to get the training to do that- and the people who just want to create the next great company should be able to learn those skills. The people in the second group should be going to business
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by cube13 15y ago
I think the government also realized that for the majority of communications, truly strong cryptography is pretty useless. There is always a point where the information is basically worthless to keep secret. For example, if the president(o
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by cube13 15y ago
>Samsung could be a good buyer for Nokia. It could switch over the supply of Nokia's internal components to Samsung thereby creating synergy. Samsung could swap out Symbian with Bada on lower end phones and (depending on the Microsoft c
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by cube13 15y ago
>That's bullshit, at least on AMD64. "Because the full 32-bit instruction set remains implemented in hardware without any intervening emulation, existing 32-bit x86 executables run with no compatibility or performance penalties" [0] Whi
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by cube13 15y ago
>There's no need to open a chain, though. Just build and sell a system to lunch cafes. I think that this technology might be the end result from this venture, more than the restaurants themselves. Making yourself the client can remove
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by cube13 15y ago
Cash, delivered in person, does the same thing.

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