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by eco 14y ago
Google refused to allow Apple access because Apple was unwilling to allow more Google branding and Latitude support. It was a breakdown in negotiations, not either side being selfish.
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by eco 14y ago
There is a Google Tech Talk on this very subject by Kirk Sorensen. He's a big thorium proponent so apply salt as you see fit but his talk seems fairly well cited. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI
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by eco 14y ago
The Android Market app store was the biggest part and served as the framework but Google Play wasn't a renaming of the Android Market but rather was created to merge Android Market, Google Music, Google Books, and everything else Google sol
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by eco 14y ago
It's just a fanciful name for their content marketplace. The name making sense is less important than building the association between what the business does and the symbol that is the word. Sometimes a fanciful name is better than a logic
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by eco 14y ago
Yes, you can download a fairly large region and keep it on your device. It also downloads a route when you begin navigating so you could just turn off your wireless once you start and it'll still get you where you are headed.
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by eco 14y ago
There is a version that is 5 times longer Planet Money did for their regular (excellent) podcast. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/13/165046113/episode-...
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by eco 14y ago
They discuss inflation more and talk about a lot of other stuff in the longer version of this story. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/13/165046113/episode-... One interesting thing they didn't include in the short version for Mornin
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by eco 14y ago
This makes me wonder how feasible it would be for a group of activists to get patents on business practices they are morally opposed to and then never license them to anyone.
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by eco 14y ago
If what you are saying were true President Obama wouldn't have campaigned on reddit two months before the election. Presidential campaigns don't take risks like that. You are vastly overstating the damage to reddit's reputation that small
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by eco 14y ago
I didn't even notice the headphone jack on my Galaxy Nexus was in a different position (on the bottom) than it was on my previous phone (on the top) until someone pointed it out months after I switched phones. I make plenty of use of headph
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by eco 14y ago
You can kind of do the voice search stuff already (click the microphone on the Google search box). Desktop searches seem more reluctant to fork over Knowledge Graph results for some reason though. Voice Actions are, of course, not possibl
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by eco 14y ago
What I like about LTE is the decreased latency (rather than the higher peak speed).
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by eco 14y ago
I think there just isn't a good term for this feeling of vicarious embarrassment.
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by eco 14y ago
Check out The Office if you want to experience it (UK or US) or Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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by eco 14y ago
I wish manufacturer would just stop using diagonals as a measure of screen size and just write the display area. Diagonals are a terrible way to describe screen size.
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by eco 14y ago
My understanding is that the overwhelming majority of "jailbait" images that were posted on Reddit came from Facebook by way of 4chan (or at least that's what violentacrez, the mod of the now closed /r/jailbait subreddit, claims). Yesterda
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by eco 14y ago
That's pretty amusing that the corporate firewall is making your system far less secure. There has most likely been hundreds of security issues fixed since Chrome 15.
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by eco 14y ago
That's not actually true. Carmack uploaded the source for the level editor and utilities for modders to use. The modding community just made much better and easier to use tools. .wad files were also created specifically to encourage modd
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by eco 14y ago
The Falcon 9 v1.1 will switch to an 8 engines circle with another in the middle layout (as well as using the more powerful Merlin 1D engines). The v1.1 is expected to replace the current v1.0 next year.
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by eco 14y ago
More wise would have been just to remove him from the jury during jury selection. Overturning a jury's decision is pretty rare.
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by eco 14y ago
Well, Apple did play the American company vs. foreign company card during the trial. Apple feels that it can carry some weight with the jury.
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by eco 14y ago
Does anyone know if this will be an arm capture again or if it will it get to dock directly this time?
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by eco 14y ago
I don't see why not if Firestone is still making the best tires for the price and the tires you have in development inexplicably blowout occasionally. Switching to your own tires (if you can make them competitive and meet your needs) is a g
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by eco 14y ago
You do not know how much (if anything) Google was charging Apple for API access or if it increased when they generally increased the pricing. They almost certainly got a better deal than general users of the API because they are Apple and
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by eco 14y ago
The website says it works with both Bluetooth and NFC.
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by eco 14y ago
So the voice search is called Google Now? During the keynote it was confusing because they kept calling the voice stuff "Voice Search" and "Google Now" was only used when talking about the cards (which are confusingly in the same app).
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by eco 14y ago
I wonder if this means iOS <6 maps will stop working in a year.
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by eco 14y ago
My understanding is that negotiations broke down because Apple wanted turn-by-turn navigation but in exchange Google wanting more branding and Latitude integration. http://allthingsd.com/20120926/apple-google-maps-talks-crash...
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by eco 14y ago
It's really weird that there is that restriction because all of the other 4G phones on Verizon can do simultaneous voice+data. Must be something weird about this new all-in-one qualcomm chip they are using.
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by eco 14y ago
Are you sure that's not due to being an OLED display? They generally have a slightly grainy look to them whether or not they are pentile.

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