ergo98

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by ergo98 16y ago
>No news here. Is this like "the seven stages of grief" or something? Yeah, there is big news here, denial-be-damned. A few short months ago we were all told that there was just so much confusion in Android-land. So many choices and s
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by ergo98 16y ago
>An inferior phone for a dozen reasons The iPhone 3GS is an inferior phone for a dozen reasons. In fact it could be called crippled.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Refusing to support older technologies helps encourage people to start using the newer technologies. If by "newer technologies" you mean "The Apple App Store" then you have a point. If you mean HTML5, then you have been taken to the cl
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by ergo98 16y ago
On a serious note -- was John Gruber ever known for anything besides being a ridiculously biased Apple apologist? I do remember reading his site and enjoying it in the past. Now...holy shit I can't stand it. It's like reading an eager hopef
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by ergo98 17y ago
>They literally used loan money to pay back loan money Which is exactly what I said. GM isn't "in the hole" for anything, and what remains in the escrow account is theirs free and clear. The governments obviously hope to recoup their "i
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by ergo98 17y ago
Yeah, something like that. Only Steve Jobs is FULL OF SHIT . How many HTML5 games are you playing on your iPhone? Humorously I thought I'd see how the HTML5 game scene is like on my Nexus One, and it turns that virtually all of them rely u
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by ergo98 17y ago
This really is kind of silly and is people engaging in nonsense math. GM was expected to need {X} amount of cash to remain in business. They got that, with the government converting a large percentage to an equity holding (essentially like
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by ergo98 17y ago
Firstly, every single screenshot that users have sent me over the past couple of months has been adorned with a persona. You don't like it, but a lot of end users -- where Firefox needs to make inroads do. As far as speed, well that's jus
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by ergo98 17y ago
Yes, I see that you have absolutely no comprehension of choice.
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by ergo98 17y ago
Sorry I didn't read the thread correctly and mistook the placement of your reply. However yes my statement was very much the same, however questionable comparisons to the console market may be.
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by ergo98 17y ago
I believe that's pretty much exactly what I said.
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by ergo98 17y ago
>Could you stop using words like "vapid", "ridiculous", and "asinine"? No. It is what it is. You don't like it because it undermines your blatant, translucent apologism. >Developers who build on Flash can't multitask until the iPhon
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by ergo98 17y ago
"There were a few faltering attempts with Windows Mobile and Symbian, but frankly, they were terrible." Technology marches forward. My N1 has more power than my desktop did just a few short years ago. Prior initiatives died primarily becaus
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by ergo98 17y ago
>All the technical justification you need can be had from Adobe's other half, which only 3 days ago shipped their first Photoshop for Mac which doesn't use Mac OS Classic GUI APIs. Humorous given that Apple has several very prominent ap
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by ergo98 17y ago
And you're missing the part where they're a $250 billion dollar company. This has nothing to do with being a monopoly. When big companies do shitty things to undermine normal competitive forces they get scrutiny.
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by ergo98 17y ago
"How are Apple preventing you from buying the ever more popular Android phones?" They aren't and I have. Right now, however, the biggest momentum that the iP(hone|ad) has is the app market, and the fact that a lot of large organizations hav
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by ergo98 17y ago
"They're making choices based on what they think is best for their platform, and letting the market chose." The former is absolutely true. The latter is absolutely not. Hence why the government is looking into it. Apple's actions are comple
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by ergo98 17y ago
This justification is one of the most astonishingly vapid ones around. I'm not quite sure how it keeps getting repeated as if it has credence, when technically it has no legs to stand on. The distinction Apple is making is that they have a
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by ergo98 17y ago
>How are the restrictions placed by Apple on what's allowed in the App Store any different then the restrictions placed by console owners on what's published for the XBox or PS3? >For example, the XBox XNA community games system req
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by ergo98 17y ago
>There is no deep conspiracy behind Apple's and Microsoft's support for HTML5 video and h.264. Who said there's a deep conspiracy theory? Saying "they aren't being entirely open with their motives" is an observation that is almost alway
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by ergo98 17y ago
>This is more about a debate for the web That's a cheap, unsupported distraction. The no-Flash in the browser on the iPhone/iPad/whatever is entirely and absolutely Apple's choice, and no one can make that choice for them. They can argu
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by ergo98 17y ago
Your entry adds nothing new, however given that you bring it up, I have to remark on how shocking it is that seemingly intelligent people can rationalize such intense hypocrisy. If Flash is a no go because of HTML5, why does the iPhone app
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by ergo98 17y ago
>Most of the time you want PNG for drawn images. JPEG is only for photos taken with a camera. You clarified this in your next line, however the above summary, particularly the comment on JPEGs, is wrong. PNGs are appropriate for areas w
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Simple color picker for non-designer web devs(yafla.com)
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by ergo98 17y ago
What sort of turn is that? Their joke talked about replacing SQL with a syntactic variant. Do you mean other elements of the lauded NoSQL? Guess what : We've had them for time eternal. SQL Server replication allows you to decouple from CAP.
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by ergo98 17y ago
>That is not necessarily true. The 'last ditch' operation oracle will perform before a full-table scan is an index range-scan (very IO intensive compared with common index use). Only if the index is covering.
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by ergo98 17y ago
Mostly from observation of systems in the field, though it is a very hard to gauge number. I had one install where the I/O rate of the disk subsystem was dramatically faster than the query plan was estimating (it was going too far to avoid
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by ergo98 17y ago
>The resulting bytecode clearly makes use of an index instead of performing a table scan. If you drop both indexes and explain the query again, the bytecode changes to indicate that it is performing a table scan. You have no data. It kn
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by ergo98 17y ago
>Yup, and with single-column indexes on both of the columns it will try to pick one with better selectivity If the selectivity yields an estimated result more than -- in most cases -- about 2% of the data, the database system will not u
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by ergo98 17y ago
>With only an index on one of the columns, Oracle at least will still use that index. Not necessarily. Oracle, and every other decent database, will look at stats to guess how many hits will return, comparing that with the total row cou

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