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by cube13 15y ago
>If one assumes their numbers are accurate, they point to other factors besides "desirability" behind the purchase of a smartphone. This survey was(presumably) from October/November 2010 to March/April 2011. There was a major Android r
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by cube13 15y ago
Pretty much. Looking at it, there's a lot of things that need to be fleshed out before it's actually ready. EDIT: The main concern I have over this is that it basically forces a state into an already stateless protocol. Streams need to be
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by cube13 15y ago
Or the hard drives were actually stolen.
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by cube13 15y ago
I said that the journalists should try to be unbiased, not that they themselves should be. It's a very subtle difference, but I know that it's impossible for them not to be unbiased. They are human, after all. The problem that I have wi
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by cube13 15y ago
>By way of a similar example, most people think Daring Fireball is biased. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with Gruber's investments, just his passion. Some people avoid his writing because of his bias, some embrace it, and som
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by cube13 15y ago
I don't see how it's entirely Motorola's fault, honestly. At best, both parties are equally at fault. Google could have refused to release the source, forcing Motorola to go with Gingerbread instead of Honeycomb.
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by cube13 15y ago
.NET isn't what allows that to happen, though, since, AFAIK, MS has not committed to binary compatibility between .NET versions. While the framework makes it easier to leverage these features(you can still use it with non-managed C++ but i
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by cube13 15y ago
>Second, Sony did tell credit card companies and they do know about this. I called mine and the operator was well aware of of the data leak. They have been monitoring all accounts from the beginning. Did Sony know about this, or did the
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by cube13 16y ago
Would replacing all the PS3's fix it? It seems that this is more related to the infrastructure of PSN than the actual PS3 hardware. If that's the case, there's not much that Sony can do to really fix the situation.
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by cube13 16y ago
A better example would be paying for something with cash. You're taking money, and giving it to someone else(presumably in exchange for a good or service). The point is that you're moving your currency(BTC, USD) from you to another party w
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by cube13 16y ago
PSN really isn't on the same level of service as XBox Live, though. A lot of features(both for end users and developers) aren't included in PSN that come standard with the 360's SDK. This includes things like cross-game voice chat(free fo
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by cube13 16y ago
Which is the same as mailing cash. It's possible to do that without a bank as well. Since the Bitcoin protocol allows third-parties to hold user's wallets, it's entirely possible to create a bank. In fact, the protocol seems to encourage
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by cube13 16y ago
Nintendo has traditionally had 5-6 year console cycles. So it's not really a surprise that they're releasing a new console next year.
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by cube13 16y ago
>A few years ago everybody and their brother were deriding Microsoft for pushing hacks into Windows XP to remain backward compatible with selected application -- like memory allocation workaround for the SimCity game. They did unsound e
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by cube13 16y ago
>((in the glibc discussion)) Linus stood for users in the short term (works here and now). Not for good development practices (read manuals, fix bugs, use modern hardware facilities -- here HAS_FAST_COPY_BACKWARD CPU feature). If you're
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by cube13 16y ago
Even so, .5% downtime per year is about 44 hours, and Reddit's definitely had more downtime in the last few months than that. Of course, that's assuming that 100% of Reddit's problems were due to EBS only and not a combination of EBS, EC2 a
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by cube13 16y ago
What's the difference between this, movies(both theatrical and DVD release), video games, or books? All of those usually have different release dates for different countries.
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by cube13 16y ago
>And this goes beyond just the interface. Sony may have brilliant engineers, but you can tell it's a dictatorship - and The Man, while he may be a good general-purpose businessperson, is pretty dumb in other ways. After this and the ent
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by cube13 16y ago
There's also the fact that the system uses 802.11b wireless, which makes any downloads unbearably slow. In addition, the PSP's prices for older titles are quite high-usually around $20. For a few titles(especially the ones published by Atl
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by cube13 16y ago
Could this be related to the mobleMe "Find my iPhone" feature that Apple added in 4.0? If so, this is probably a non-story. I'd be interested if it still logs if Location Services are off, too.
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by cube13 16y ago
The image is wrong. According to a post in the reddit thread, as well as Samsung's own website, Samsung unveiled that phone in February 2007, one month after Apple showed the iPhone. Looking at Samsung's photos, I do not see how it's possi
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by cube13 16y ago
>I think one option is to accept that the bitcoin protocol will be forked massively and design it from the ground up to support exchanges between various versions of the protocol. That way, libertarians could avoid versions with inflati
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by cube13 16y ago
>The bad news: if such assignments are done as true assignments, the Righthaven model still works, or at least is not undone be a congenital defect that can't be overcome in future cases. I'm not sure if any media creator would ever sig
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by cube13 16y ago
>I don't think it's reasonable that a simple silhouette of a phone, used as an icon to represent a phone, is trademarkable. Trademarks are an interesting case, though. You can trademark common ideas, especially if you're the first one
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by cube13 16y ago
>No comment on if this is good or bad, but we should probably decide explicitly if we're going to grant monopolies on entire kinds of products. That's exactly what the patent system was intended for, though. If you invented a new produ
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by cube13 16y ago
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Samsung-Wave/ That doesn't look all that much like the iPhone, to be honest.
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by cube13 16y ago
>It's trademark... No you can't go on individual features, like being rectangular, or a grid of icons, or thin, but once you put that all together in a certain way, you start getting into design trademarks. If it is the trademarks, it's
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by cube13 16y ago
Parking tokens(or arcade tokens) shouldn't have any issues. They aren't issued for general currency like coins are, they are used to redeem a specific service provided by the people issuing the tokens. In that way, their redeemable value ne
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by cube13 16y ago
>"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmat
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by cube13 16y ago
>A coworker's android phone (Droid 1) died during an OTA upgrade due to lack of battery. This bricked the phone (he had to get a replacement)... combine with the fact that his phone wasn't backed up, and he was a very upset guy for a we

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