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by easp 15y ago
Can it save anything to the filesystem (within its own sandbox?)
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by easp 15y ago
Nice. My hope is that the market for eBooks (and Video) end up going the way of digitally distributed music and ends up DRM free.
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by easp 15y ago
It'll have to wait for something better than Lillyhammer to come along...
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by easp 15y ago
Fun post, but I don't think it supports its own conclusion. Given the tangle of dependancies involved in a properly functioning human, why put focused effort into patching something as easily remediated as the inability to synthesize Vitami
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by easp 15y ago
People need to remember that this is a preview release targeted primarily at developers. It may well drop support for all the machines in question when it ships in the summer, but it wouldn't be at all surprising if some future preview rel
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by easp 15y ago
Your examples don't resonate for me. With respect to scrolling, clearly how everyone else does it doesn't matter to Apple, since they are willing to change the way they have always done it. So why did they do it? Because it makes obvious se
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by easp 15y ago
Which, of course, is BS
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by easp 15y ago
Indeed, making a select list of writers and journalists feel like they are on a a select list of writers and journalists has long been an important item on marketing checklists. What is unusual, in this case, is that Apple made it the way t
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by easp 15y ago
This strikes me as hopelessly naive on a number of fronts. Good professors spend years refining their lectures and they change things year to year, but many of those changes are evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. Reducing all educatio
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by easp 15y ago
My wife started pinning DIY posts from her pet blog on Pinterest and discovered a lot of them had allready been pinned. Also, in just over a month, it has become the leading non-search referrer to her blog.
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by easp 15y ago
Yes, there was a way to have it but not have it. When I was in high school 25 years ago, they tore it out of magazines and put it up on their locker door, the cover of their notebook, or on the wall of their bedroom. More recently, my wife
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by easp 15y ago
Fwiw, pinterest didn't start with categories. A few weeks ago, I did some blog archeology looking for early mentions of Pinterest and examined the screenshots, and announcements on the company blog. They started out with tags on each pin.
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by easp 15y ago
Once upon a time, smart, thoughtful people thought it was a good thing for different applications to make use of a common set of well thought out UI elements because it allowed users to leverage knowledge across many applications. Some woul
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by easp 15y ago
ECC corrects single bit errors and detects multi-bit errors. Why should you care? Well, if you are lucky, the machine crashes. If you are unlucky, it keeps running, and that bad data gets written to disk, or causes a cumulative error in so
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by easp 15y ago
It's one thing for the OS to be making this sort of decision, since it has a global view of resource needs, a single application does not. Actually, I don't even get the sense that chrome has an adequate view of its own resource needs. My
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by easp 15y ago
At its core, student debt is a labor issue, just as colonial indenture was, subsisting off the desire of those less privileged to gain better opportunities in exchange for their future labor. One of the goals of the planners of the US univ
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Academic Freedom and Indentured Students(aaup.org)
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by easp 15y ago
Just about every other company is already having trouble competing with Apple on price and quality. So, my guess as to what happens is that Foxconn attracts and retains the best (most productive + highest quality work) employees, leaving th
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by easp 15y ago
If you want to think about how Apple could throw their weight around, consider the subtler options. Their moves with strategic suppliers might give a clue.
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by easp 15y ago
I suspect there are much cheaper ways to bring hollywood into their orbit.
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by easp 15y ago
The RAM isn't on the die, it is in a package that gets stacked on top of the SoC package. Still not going to be a simple upgrade though.
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by easp 15y ago
Yes, and the point is that there are market niches that would either have gone unserved, or would have been served at greater expense because there was no suitable alternative that are now being served by PV solar. This what the start of d
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by easp 15y ago
No. We are talking about Apple. You may be talking only about Apple's Chineese subsidiaries. Even so, they do not exist in a vacuum, and it is foolish to think that Apple's IP, brand and trademarks would be as secure in China without the gl
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by easp 15y ago
And I'll add that Apple is one of the best companies to put pressure on. They have a super-strong strong brand and their products often fetch higher prices and profit margins than their competitors. This gives them a strong incentive to p
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by easp 15y ago
Absolute and total nonsense. Do you really think Apple and other multinationals could operate as profitably, or at all, without many of "those services." Enforcement of Apple's intellectual property? Protection of their brand and trademar
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by easp 15y ago
Microtransport works against energy efficiency to the extent that empty vehicles are moving around unoccupied. On the other hand, if they achieve higher utilization, then that is offset to some degree by better utilization of the embodied
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by easp 15y ago
You don't have to look far in the US to see that PV solar is winning against grid-connected power. I don't know the exact shape of the niche, but it seems to be a combination of relatively low power needs vs the cost of bringing grid power
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by easp 15y ago
Can we please not do this? There hasn't been a trial yet. I doubt you have any inside information on the activities of megaupload. In the US, justice demands a presumption innocence in criminal cases. I was distrustful of Megaupload and its
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by easp 15y ago
This is an interesting experiement. It's been a long time since I really paid close attention to the movie industry, but I remember that one way money was raised, and risks shared, was in the divvying up of distribution rights (and or optio
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by easp 15y ago
There is a lot of romance surrounding the movie business. That romance is a lot of the reason there are so many good looking and or talented waiters and waitresses in LA. It may be less visible, but you can be damn sure there are lots of a

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