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by deong 13y ago
That's what I was talking about in the last paragraph. It's definitely unfortunate, but I stand by my statement. If it's one or two people, then it doesn't affect you that much and certainly isn't worth Apple limiti
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by deong 13y ago
I would expect that sort of user to (a) probably not be running an iOS beta, and (b) less likely to think to report it as not working on iOS 7 specifically. I'm sure in both cases there are exceptions, but it's surely not the majo
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by deong 13y ago
I'm not sure how "Doesn't work on iOS 7" qualifies as a negative review exactly. He's not saying the app is a pile of crap. He's saying it doesn't work on iOS 7, which appears to be a factual statement. Ap
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by deong 13y ago
They don't need negotiating power. Qualcomm can tell Google to shove it -- the Android code is still published under the Apache license and as long as they don't claim to have written it themselves, they're free to do whateve
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by deong 13y ago
And you can pay for that feature. I have no real stake in the game here, but I'm failing to see why that is a must-have feature for every user of the service.
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by deong 13y ago
I'm an American living in Iceland for about three years now. I like it here -- it's nice. But if you get your "facts" from the foreign press, you'll be sorely disappointed. It's not some sort of wonderland wher
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by deong 13y ago
Yeah, but Fischer was wanted for playing chess in Yugoslavia and generally being an ass. Accepting Snowden is whole new level of shit-storm for whatever country does it. I've been living in Iceland for about three years, and there&#x27
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by deong 13y ago
Grabbing a woman's hand and forcing her to touch your exposed penis is, I think, sexual violence by almost any reasonable standard.
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by deong 14y ago
I have three degrees in CS, and I (correctly) answered the titular question with "No", and then proceeded to prove it with 10/20 on the button. I notice the differences (slanted terminals, narrower "A"s, etc.), but had no clue which was whi
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by deong 14y ago
Regular copyright law perhaps. Unless they protected those emails via some technological mechanism that you had to circumvent to publish, the DMCA isn't relevant. That said, if nothing else there is a strong argument fair use argument for p
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by deong 14y ago
It works, but Outlook (or at least some versions) will always show your emails as being from something like "address-you-forward-to@gmail.com (via you@your-real-domain.com)" which is annoying.
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by deong 14y ago
Not if I stick my fingers in my ears and shout loudly enough.
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by deong 14y ago
I was going for snarky there. :)
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by deong 14y ago
Isn't that the whole purpose of a court system? If you insist on calling OJ Simpson a murderer who got away with it, he can sue you for libel. He is, as a point of fact, not legally a murderer, and you would be lying to defame him. Legal tr
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by deong 14y ago
Well, they are the only retailer I can think of that has to take their entire site down for several hours to add a new sku.
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by deong 14y ago
I believe that suing everyone under the sun for patent infringement is a public stance on patent laws.
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by deong 14y ago
I don't know. That's the problem with bias. I haven't seen a surface in person or visited a Microsoft store, but from the entire tone of the article, I know I can't trust his account. He may be a veritable prophet with regards to Microsoft
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by deong 14y ago
> coyly calling the competition (iPad) a tablet, rather than name it Kind of like putting a picture of a Nexus 7 on the screen and calling it "a competitor's tablet"? This isn't trolling, it's the way advertising has worked throughout t
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by deong 14y ago
Processor, memory, keyboard, touchpad, display, storage, and build quality. Well, and price.
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by deong 14y ago
The closest thing I can imagine to what he wants is something like a "t+15 years" version of the Motorola WebTop (and many other similar ideas). You carry a powerful processor with you and either use it "bare" or connect it to a standardize
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by deong 14y ago
Dropbox is software, and like any software, it has bugs. One of those bugs could easily result in "delete this file and then propagate the deletion to every client". Granted, Dropbox has some rudimentary versioning, so it's pretty likely th
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by deong 14y ago
That's a fair point, but I'm not sure where I'd draw the line. The worst consequences you cited -- identity theft, fraud, etc. -- are already illegal. We criminalize the act; not necessarily the surrounding things that made the act possible
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by deong 14y ago
That's a pretty dramatic overstatement in the context of this discussion. There's no "reasonable expectation" of privacy in the sense of preventing people from seeing you and monitoring your publicly visible travels. That word "reasonable"
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by deong 15y ago
> It's not important to attempt to eliminate fraud, it's more important to make sure people have enough information to know when they're doing something risky. I suspect it's at least as hard to do the latter as it is to do the former,
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by deong 15y ago
Oddly enough, yes, I did. Six lines of text, and I blew right past that one. Sorry about that. :)
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by deong 15y ago
> Maybe the mistakes done by the speaker were too great to be ignored Still not appropriate behavior. Ideally, you bring up your point, have a brief discussion, and then, if you still feel the speaker is wrong, you take it offline. You
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by deong 15y ago
I also see and give a lot of academic presentations, and I'm not aware of any venue that encourages someone from the audience to commandeer a talk. "Let's take this offline" is so common as to be a cliche, and if the speaker got flustered e
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by deong 15y ago
It's not a downside of using your own tools. It's a downside of the Apple way where you use your own tools without a fleeting thought to how anyone else might need to use them. Apple's development system appears to be optimized for the scen
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by deong 15y ago
That's a bit disingenuous. The fact that Google's offerings are both good and free significantly reduces the likelihood of their being expensive alternatives. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. There are companies that sell software that comp
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by deong 15y ago
I can't speak for the parent, but personally, I just don't like awful new stuff. My iMac has a 27" display and a fairly expensive set of peripherals. It's not an iPad. In their efforts to make it into one, they broke nearly everything the

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