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by ergo98 16y ago
>It's just unbelievable that Sony is launching phones running Android 1.6 now which can't be updated by Google directly like it can the Nexus One. Did you buy one of those Sony phones? Probably not. In fact that major disadvantage of So
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by ergo98 16y ago
If Microsoft can keep their phone software from getting captured by Microsoft, that would be a good thing in my mind. IMO, it is impossible to overstate the horror of a world run by a single corporation, and I'm afraid that iOS is merely se
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by ergo98 16y ago
The will be no early adopters.
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A big deal was made when Apple licensed the "ActiveSync protocol" (which they used to allow iPhones to talk to Exchange servers via EWS). I never heard about Motorola licensing this, so perhaps that's the attack strategy.
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by ergo98 16y ago
For the people who need OLAP analysis, the relevant expense range is seldom that much of a consideration. I'm looking at storage systems right now that costs $800,000. It's considered mid-range and is merely the starter system. Note that OL
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by ergo98 16y ago
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This is a futile effort by Google and will go no where. If they somehow managed to chop file sizes by 90% or more, it would have a small chance (it still wouldn't be guaranteed, as
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by ergo98 16y ago
>SQL is actually quite often a bad way to try to answer those questions, too! See http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/data-warehousing.html for an entertaining explanation. That's why data warehouses rely upon cubes/OLAP for analysis. It
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by ergo98 16y ago
"If I understand your point correctly" You don't. "You are contending that Apple is in an equally powerless position" No, I'm not. "Yet even the app in the anecdote" It isn't an anecdote.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Also addressing the point by ergo98 The reply button is available for your convenience. >a single anecdote does not a convincing argument make It isn't an anecdote. People submit binaries to Apple, and they either do static and dyn
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by ergo98 16y ago
An application in the Apple app store purported to be a flashlight app but was actually a tethering application: There was no secret binary obfuscation or amazing hacking, it just simply said "I am A" while actually being B. That should giv
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by ergo98 16y ago
You overestimate people's ability to time lights. I have absolutely seen people accelerate to "catch a yellow", and then fall into the red by a substantial period of time. Where the only safety from an accident is that the crossing traffic
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by ergo98 16y ago
Total number of accidents is only a part of the story. I would fully expect minor rear-ending types of accidents to increase, possibly substantially. On the flip side I would expect the deadly T-boning variety to decrease. The unproven assu
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by ergo98 16y ago
I suppose, but there are better ways people can spend their time. This article is rife with misspellings and typos, which essentially shows a disrespect for readers. Secondly it's 1300+ words split into 6 "chapters" to say, poorly, what can
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by ergo98 16y ago
Map - Split a problem up and distribute to workers Reduce - Gather and aggregate/collate the results from the workers That's it. That's the big thing to understand. The fact that everyone keeps looking for some new way to describe MapRe
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Nonsense Obnoxious. >The iPhone is $599 or $699, depending on model. Ignoring the laughable notion that $549 compared to $599 makes one "cheap" relative to the other, my delivery price of the Nexus One was greater than walking into
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by ergo98 16y ago
"The beauty in Android is that it doesn't have to be the best ... it just has to be good enough + shipped on cheaper phones ... just like Windows did." The "cheaper phones" bit has never been Android's advantage, though it always gets bro
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by ergo98 16y ago
It depends upon the implementation of the "backdoor": If the government had a heavily guarded server that held the only copy of a private key that was the pair of a public key that all asymmetric encryption added as a mandatory target (just
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by ergo98 16y ago
Not irony (not even the pseudo-irony that has become the norm). This reads like one of those "feel smart by setting up a strawman" things that, ironically (yuk yuk), "stupid" people resort to.
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by ergo98 16y ago
It's the slavery, owned-property model. It really is grotesque.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Firefox 4b6 has hardware acceleration and comparable performance on Windows. Both of them are in beta.
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by ergo98 16y ago
I had the same reaction. It seemed adorably quaint, as if I was reading something from the 50s. In fact the whole article gave me that impression: "It's all them new fangled gadgets I tells ya" I don't feel enlightened having read that. The
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by ergo98 16y ago
DNS was never mentioned in that post. Further it's a curious way of controlling flow, though I suppose in a moment of panic...if nothing else works...
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by ergo98 16y ago
They built their own custom DNS server? Most of the failures that people encountered were a failure to contact the nameserver itself. Perhaps in the rush to try to fix it someone screwed up that as well.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Open TechCrunch and take a look at the net tab -- Facebook and Twitter are killing the web.
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by ergo98 16y ago
key insight here: > in a future of cloud computing I want to consider every single core as a computer itself. I didn't interpret that as an insight more than a rather weak attempt at squeezing some lemonade out of lemons. I also don't
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by ergo98 16y ago
Either the CPU-consuming process was running at an idle priority -- meaning the OS would always push it aside for other activities that needed CPU, such that when the author was browsing the web or navigating emails, those more important
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by ergo98 16y ago
Very interesting. I am in the area soon and will set up a side trip to come and visit the road that leads to the dwarfs.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Honest question: How is this at all relevant here? Why does this matter? I suspect the answer is, quite sadly, "To people who cheered with Apple, any negative news about Adobe smells good".
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by ergo98 16y ago
tjic said they were born with $0 net worth, which is generally true of all newborns, no? Your assumption that they bootstrapped themselves up seems misplaced. I would very strongly guess that they had a comfortable middle-class existence. O
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by ergo98 16y ago
Your position is completely uninspired, unintelligent, uncreative, and boring. It's the standard simpleton fare that has continued the circle of poverty for decades. Just out of curiosity: You a Glen Beck fan by chance? I'm going to guess y

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