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by devx 13y ago
I'd wait for Nexus 5. Should be here in about a month.
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by devx 13y ago
Well I seem to remember there was a time beating iOS as a whole was hard to believe, and some still think that's true for tablets, even though Android already has more market share in tablets (each quarter, not yet in total userbase),
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by devx 13y ago
Then maybe Jon Ive is just not very good at software design. His changes to the iOS UI seem like what an amateur designer would do (brighter colors, lots of random ugly icons, inconsistency throughout the UI, and so on). It's like th
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by devx 13y ago
No, if anything it's a lot more like Android, UI-wise. Here's a comparison: http://www.droid-life.com/2013/06/10/ios7-vs-android-a-quick...
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by devx 13y ago
> The only issue is that after a while some animations start being a lot to sit through each time, especially the multitasking interface animations and app fly-in This is what annoyed me a lot about WP7, too. Long "cool" animat
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by devx 13y ago
Most things about iOS7 seem inconsistent, and like they were rushed - which they were. I mean Johny Ive was head of UI for like 9 months only, and had to change everything in iOS in that period. These changes should've arrived in iOS8
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by devx 13y ago
We should probably assume all the major and important companies in our everyday technologies have been asked to do it. Microsoft was asked to put one at least in Bitlocker, too: http://mashable.com/2013/09/11/
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by devx 13y ago
You're thinking short term. DARPA was already testing drones that can see who you are from 1.8 KM above.
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by devx 13y ago
He just wrote an article as a response to this: http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/18/finally-the-war-on-aging-ha...
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by devx 13y ago
> and search engines such as Google will be expected to do more, including fitting Chrome with systems to block infringing sites and divert users to official sources. The day Google agrees to having their browser hijacked like that by ot
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by devx 13y ago
I find the lengths to which Apple fans go to write about everything Apple has done and make it sound as if it's something masterful and like an 8th wonder of the world, unbelievable. He dedicated almost a page to writing about the para
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by devx 13y ago
>The American body politic is suffering a severe case of auto-immune disease: our defense system is attacking other critical systems of our body. Great analogy.
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by devx 13y ago
So they passed the same certification level (FIPS 140-2) that the recently broken smartcards received? http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/fatal-crypto-flaw-in...
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by devx 13y ago
So in their minds, 3rd degree relations are "relevant" to an investigation? This sounds like they're just trying to save their asses. Phone metadata collection is illegal in many countries, and can be illegal in US, too. Citz
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by devx 13y ago
You wouldn't have looked at the device anyway?
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by devx 13y ago
Apple and others could take advantage of the -30 percent or so battery life improvements the next-gen chips are offering them, but none of them do that, because they will cancel it out with all the performance they can squeeze out of it, wh
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by devx 13y ago
Only if you don't have a very compact phone, like the iPhone. Motorola has been making 4.3" phones the size of a 4" iPhone for a while, for example. Even the 4.7" Moto X isn't much bigger.
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by devx 13y ago
So this guy was right? The geometry-based particle interaction theory sounds similar to what this guy was saying a few years back on TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_every...
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by devx 13y ago
The nice thing about the mobile platforms like iOS and Android, is that they feel as fast as the Core 2 Duo era, even with lower end hardware than that, because the apps themselves and the OS, too, are a lot leaner than the ones on the PC
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by devx 13y ago
All new chips support OpenGL ES 3.0 except Tegra 4.
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by devx 13y ago
It's really bad when out of all the reasons governments can shut down Tor nodes, it's DMCA's that do it. If DMCA's really have that much power, then their reform is long overdue.
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by devx 13y ago
NSL's need to be seriously restricted. First off, they shouldn't be used for drug-related cases and "other" type of situations. They should be used for " imminent national security threat" sort of thing. Secon
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by devx 13y ago
Between US trying to create an empire for itself through total surveillance and bullying of other countries (up to attacking them and removing the leaders they don't like) and the totalitarian-friendly China, it seems like the world is
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by devx 13y ago
This is what US overreach in spying has led to, and probably more will follow Brazil in doing this soon, and I can't blame them. Hopefully the US government will realize that greed and lust for power aren't always good things, and
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by devx 13y ago
They've already done that with Windows RT and WP8. No, I'm not talking about not being able to run legacy apps on it. I mean not being able to install apps from other sources other than the Windows Store. Do you really think Micro
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by devx 13y ago
If you can't get one of those, you can try Moxie's RedPhone for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...
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by devx 13y ago
What exactly do you mean by "Surface-like" devices? You mean more touch-oriented devices? In that case, I'm pretty sure Android will be the one dominating: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsofts-biggest-pro
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by devx 13y ago
Bullshit. Everything he said.
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by devx 13y ago
Can't wait for Google to replace ext4 with F2FS by default in Android. It offers significant speed improvement (~50 percent faster, or even 2x faster in some cases I think). There are a lot of performance improvements built into the ne
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by devx 13y ago
Can we remake the Internet by encrypting every packet with ECC? Something like DJB's CurveCP [1] to replace TCP, but with some user-friendly improvements (seeing proper names and links, not just strings of random characters). DJB said

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