czhiddy

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   Why Apple shares are dirt cheap (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

   31 points by czhiddy 16y ago|11 comments
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   by czhiddy 16y ago

   Likewise. I'm looking forward to when DVD/BD drives on laptops are replaced with additional batteries.
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   by czhiddy 16y ago

   IIRC, the jailbreakme.com exploit relied on a flaw in libtiff.
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   by czhiddy 16y ago

   http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2306882
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   by czhiddy 16y ago

   http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A "Watch slideshows and movies on the big screen by connecting your iPad, iPhone 4, or iPod touch (4th generation) to a TV, monitor, projector, or LCD display that uses a VGA connector." I haven't
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   by czhiddy 16y ago

   "And the big question is will the iOS devices have monitor outs?" They've already had 30-pin to VGA output for quite a while now, and now HDMI out with the latest dongle accessory.
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   by czhiddy 16y ago

   I enjoy reading the occasional iOS/Android thread on HN - it's perversely interesting to watch otherwise intelligent people engage in name calling, personal attacks, and the sort of fanboy-type behavior you'd normally see on Engadget or Giz
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   by czhiddy 16y ago

   Happened to stumble on Engadget's review of the U36Jc: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/asus-u36jc-review/ "The company has an extremely great handle on what components are needed to make a really awesome thin and light machine – standa
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   by czhiddy 16y ago

   "Yes, we can all agree that the displays are seriously cruddy and the overall build quality and design, for lack of a better work, suck, but at this point we've just come to expect that for a tablet under $300."
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    Like the disabling the transparent menubar and 3D dock, enabling the Dock indicator will be one of the first things I do on reinstalls.
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    The complaint is that Apple's lack of TRIM support impacts performance on their SSDs; the Anandtech article says that this isn't the case. The fact that their SSDs are slower than the competition is a separate argument.
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    If they had waited for an optimized Flash implementation and spent more time fixing the OS bugs, they would have been beaten to market by the iPad 2 by a couple of months - most likely a death sentence at that point. Rushing it out is the s
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    I would say no, but never underestimate the extent of human stupidity. All those bizarre Farmville-branded snacks and drinks at 7-11? Somebody's buying that crap.
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    I wasn't aware that Apple announced the iPad in 2007.
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    For better or worse, Gruber posts usually have lively discussion threads on HN. Hard to avoid the inevitable flame wars though...
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    How does Amazon's VOD DRM free you of software/hardware lockin?
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    If I remember correctly, Amazon's planned Android app store caused a giant ruckus a few weeks back because of the ridiculous pricing policies.
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    "I can only imagine what they'd dare without any competition." I don't remember anything evil during the height of the iPod era.
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    I'm not sure how small they can make the Kinect hardware - I doubt Steve would approve of an add-on more than 6 times the size of the Apple TV.
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    What device(s) would Apple even stick the PrimeSense technology in? The 12 watts [1] needed to drive the thing only really makes sense on desktops, and for what - a weird experimental Minority Report style 3D interface? [1] http://www.joy
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    When was the last time Apple had a bad quarter? :-)
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    I think they have closer to 50B in the bank. They were definitely north of 40 all of last year.
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    My apologies! Your friend's reaction was just plain absurd, unless he/she was playing a joke on you.
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    Sounds like your friend suffers from bizarre paranoia or acute social anxiety. (See how I can just make stuff up too?) Having been invited multiple times by friends to Infinite Loop for lunch and dinner, and debated the quality of the food
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    So they don't have to pack 6gb (or whatever ridiculous size it is on OSX) of printer drivers in iOS?
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    _was_ pretty much a replacement. The app is still banned from what I can see in iTunes. Considering that the app was making 250k a month according to their blog posts, the decision to add in the easter egg is one of the dumbest things I've
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    A "detailed work flow" that consists of taking multiple exposure shots and merging them together with local tone mapping? That's the textbook definition of HDR.
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    Except that the compilers are typically mature enough where you CAN flip the switch and have SSE output instead of x87. On Mac OSX at least, gcc uses SSE by default for floating point operations. It's like compiling for ARM and forcing cod
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    I think as the novelty of iAds wears off, the number of people who view them in otherwise empty apps will drop significantly. People who use the flashlight app could care less what was on the screen when all they want is the back to light u
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    by czhiddy 16y ago

    I imagine this is happening: 1) New iPhone 4 owner downloads a free flashlight app. Plays around with the one-button interface, gets bored. 2) Notices iAd, clicks on it. 3) Navigates around the ad more than he/she does the app. I don't see