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by dejb 17y ago
Use a Windows Mobile phone?
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> I'd tell them how much money I've won (or lost), not the intricate details of how I play. If only my poker pro friends were as considerate. Seriously though, in the long run the money is the metric. Holding your own against great play
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The only valid conclusion to be drawn out of this 'study' is that push polling works. If you get people to affirm a view and then you ask then a logically related question they are likely to bend the answer to be logically consistent with t
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I think biggest issue for now is whether medical science can extend your 'ordinary' life. If they can get you to 120 in relatively good condition then there is nearly 100 years to work out the rest.
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> I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this thread is too small to contain This isn't going to be like Fermat's theorem all over again is it? Seriously though I agree that you need a system that copes with the fact t
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> we have to surmise that either users don't care about said features, or said features have such flawed execution... No this doesn't follow. It is a logical fallacy. Just because a product is successful doesn't mean that it has all the
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Actually I saw your comments a being the exact opposite of condescending. You aren't speaking from an 'assumed position of superiority' you are actually speaking as if everyone has your capabilities. I'm just putting forward the theory that
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> You can do anything you want in this country, even if you weren't born in this country and didn't even speak the language. Just don't take no for an answer and always accept responsibility for your own failure. It is great that you ha
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Free is not dead and it never will be. Going forward people will always be able to distribute information for a negligible cost and many will chose to do so freely. From a business perspective the advertising business model is the only one
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Actually I had a look at a few of the guy's other articles and it seems he is a little loose with his facts. I love good speculation and I thought that article had some. But the author often does seem to miss the distinction between fact an
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by dejb 17y ago
I think you don't get it. Speculation is not the same as junk science. Speculation can be insightful, interesting and intelligent or it can be the opposite. Obviously you thought it was trash and just as obviously a larger number of HN'ers
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I think you are falling into the 'nobody will ever need more than 640K' fallacy. New applications will come along that demand hardware improvements. In fact I'd say hardware feature innovation is partly responsible for the iPhone's success
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> The word "failure" is clearly an antonym of "successful," but that isn't the word I used. True but in the context of the full thread, I was talking about the original poster's prediction of Android becoming Windows which would be thei
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> does it mean anyone who doesn't agree with you that Windows works well enough? Well I think that the fact they they still are by far the dominant OS would at least mean that somebody with any sense of balance wouldn't use them as an e
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If by Windows you mean the platform that is still so dominant that many regard it as a monopoly then you just could be right. I'd say it could be like the 80s all over again were Android does indeed represent Microsoft / IBM compats and the
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> There is NO SECURITY DOWNSIDE to emailing a user's password to them vs. having some multi-step reset procedure. Yet another downside is that the hacker can continue to access your account indefinitely without you knowing. If they hav
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> Also, I still like eating tasty animals. I think this is the 'logic' that has underpinned the previous dominant views of animals as mindless automatons. I like eating animals -> eating animals is morally OK -> animals don't ha
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And in other news 104 years old woman uses twitter. Riveting.
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A agree with the importance of marginal utility but disagree with your 'marginal' maths. The pay off with these mega jackpots needs to be in the 10s of millions to make it positive net value. I'd argue that the marginal value of money start
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It wouldn't be too bad if it was likely to last for a year or more but without upgrades the sales are likely to fall. By the sounds of it once you are out of the top 100 they fall quite a lot. Remember also that the guy has nearly 20 apps i
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> The author hit the nail on the head pointing out the importance of being on the top 100 lists. Really, if you aren't on there you are invisible to buyers. This makes me wonder if there are a lot of developers who would try to pay for
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I think the popularity of the app store shows that people do care about downloadable apps. It is a good thing that it takes the hassle out of the process. But this doesn't necessitate not allowing technologies such as flash to be installed.
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Ok thanks. I do remember windows CE/Pocket PC phones being around from about 2003 as well. So my notion doesn't really explain it. I just don't get why everyone thinks Jobs invented the smartphone then?
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> You chose to take potshots at me while making your specious arguments, which you still have spent no time backing up, and so you're an asshole. But I won't kid myself into thinking you didn't know that. So his discussion is over. LOL.
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No just the particular software they want. Whatever they want. Why should anyone else be able to stop them? You don't agree with the concept of freedom axod? Who needs to wake up?
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Well I find attitude of many Apple fans to be smug and snotty. That total assumption of unrivalled superiority is reflected in your comments > Certain designers have tried to catch up to Apple for a decade, now. > So far, no competi
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I do get the point about qualitative vs quantitative. In the case of screen resolution and web browsing I think they come closer than in other cases. Most web pages are design to work on screens of 1024 so presumably this width on a phone w
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> Something consumers have, IMHO, overwhelmingly proven that they do not demand from their cell phones. I think you are generalising from one case. I'm sure when the Model T ford was the best seller people would have been arguing along
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> I'll assume you've heard all the counterarguments I want to provide right now, and simply choose to ignore them. No I'm not ignoring them. I've heard them, understood them and disagree. > If you want to be an ass online you're all
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I think you are mistaking 'allowed' for 'able to'. I can't see how it would be called 'jailbreaking' if it was somehow sanctioned. It is like saying 'you are free to leave - if you can escape'. > You just can't jailbreak your computer a

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