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by ergo98 16y ago
I believe their intention was to make sure that they get a piece of the mobile ads pie Well sure -- the reason they want you using Google search is so they can advertise to you. And they can get you using Google Voice, and Google Maps, et
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by ergo98 16y ago
YES! YES THEY DID! This was a no-so-directly stated purpose and intention of Android since day one. That any late to the party analyst looks at the situation and thinks they've discovered a hole in the plot speaks more to how ill informed t
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by ergo98 16y ago
Still, though, it's $50 on a 3-year contract , over which time thousands of dollars will be paid in tithe to the mobile company. In smartphone pricing anything below $200 (in a contract) is a wash, because very few people actually buy thei
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Here's the discount argument. Just to be clear, so people can sign up for $3000+ contracts, but they just can't afford that $159 for the iPhone 4? (on contract at Rogers. Or they can get the 3GS for $99) That ridiculous argument doesn't pas
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by ergo98 16y ago
"Why is this considered an amazing insight? If you could get an iphone on more than one carrier there might actually be something to discuss here." A year ago I decided to embrace Android (as a user and as a developer), a principal reason b
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The S in SD stands for secure. The technology was to placate media and copyright owners. As an Android user and developer, I appreciate why Microsoft did this. With Android the SD is treated entirely as a free-for-all, untrusted grab-bag. T
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by ergo98 16y ago
The magnetic strips are increasingly a relic of the past. My CCs have both a chip, and a near-field PayPass system- http://www.mastercard.com/us/personal/en/aboutourcards/paypa...
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by ergo98 16y ago
The complaint is that 7" is in a no-mans-land between pocketable-and-good-enough and something that justifies being carried in a bag That's Steve Jobs angle because Apple currently makes an 10" iPad, and now have a black hole between it a
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I wouldn't first argue that Dvorak spits out 'ignorant bullshit' while claiming that all design preferences are equally valid. Indeed. So who claimed that all design preferences are equally valid? Oddly you seem to be inferring that I d
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by ergo98 16y ago
It's very doubtful that either jshen or Dvorak "cried like a baby" or "pounded their fists". Dvorak was so incensed that someone moved his cheese (to draw from a terrible book) that he wrote an article predicting Google's "inevitable ruin
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This is why I think the author came frustratingly close to having a good point. If 7" is so different, then shouldn't applications be different? Absolutely. A big thing about Froyo on tablets is that most apps assume that you have a small
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by ergo98 16y ago
The default for the Flash plug-in should be onDemand (aka FlashBlock). I love having Flash on my phone, but yeah if you have it on all the time it is going to seriously bog down the device. The perfect medium is ondemand where you can enabl
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by ergo98 16y ago
Beware splitting hairs when you are ignoring the main point Splitting hairs? These are the specific things that he complains about being wrong with the new version, and they're ignorant bullshit. The new google image search is worse than
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by ergo98 16y ago
Dvorak could legitimately be described as a professional troll. "you get over 20 pages of large thumbnails all on the same huge page....And because thousands of useless large thumbnails are loaded, a huge waste of user bandwidth takes plac
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by ergo98 16y ago
Old men? You could have just said people and been done with it. When Facebook moves a button there is outrage and mass demonstrations. You younguns and your confirmation bias. Amiright?
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by ergo98 16y ago
>A brute force CPU attack took even less. I suppose it depends upon the password and the complexity. However my lowly GTX460 was cracking 600 million hashes a second. Another poster mentioned yahoo -- the hash I drew (it changes hourly)
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http://www.elcomsoft.com/lhc.html Nothing custom
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When you put a puzzle online, people who solve it have to somehow say "I am not stupid. I demonstrate my non stupidity by solving that puzzle". On that note...I too solved that puzzle! I, too, am not stupid! Though seriously puzzles like th
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A brute force GPU crack took about 1.5 seconds.
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"Apparently these people are sufficiently powerful that taking down a few useless sites can get the FBI to put together probably a multi-million dollar investigation." You, nor 4chan, decide what is useful or useless. While I might empathiz
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by ergo98 16y ago
GoGrid lets you mix and match dedicated and cloud servers, which offers the performance and value of a baseline of dedicated, and the flexibility of the cloud. I find it to be unparalleled.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>It's one of the most widely used open source projects and yet the best we have are rumors on it. Join the Open Handset Alliance if you want an inside track. That's the group that develops it. Android is not in any way open in the same
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by ergo98 16y ago
I clicked through to the link where the people in the town meeting call him a pedophile I would like to hear that someone was sued for slander for that. It's an outrageous accusation as a weak "Witch!" cry because their poorly raised, nit
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Have you ever tried getting help from a vendor that you know is selling something at 5% margins? Good luck to you.. Dell has incredibly good support (and if you want wipe your arse support, you can pay for it and get it). Their product
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by ergo98 16y ago
Are you on the board of Apple? Are you a shareholder? Then why do you care? Seriously, why does Apple's profit margin have any relevance to you, a consumer ? I would really like to know. See, I care about relative marketshares as a devel
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by ergo98 16y ago
Now realize that if they dropped the unsubsidized price of the iPhone 4 by $200, you could get it for free subsidized. That's great, and obvious, and even specifically mentioned in my post. Are you autistic? Actually, in the unsub mark
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by ergo98 16y ago
Again this topic brings out the "Always use relational databases" folks. You show that strawman who's boss! I don't get why people steadfastly assume everything fits the paradigm they're most comfy with. Indeed.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>HTC is a relatively new smartphone brand Yes, that's quite clearly the point . If Foxconn -- the makers of the iPhone -- came out with a smartphone, they would be a new smartphone company, witty caustic replies notwithstanding.
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If market share was all they cared about, they could drop the price of the iphone by $200. If they dropped the price by $200, it would have a negligible impact on sales. If there was an advantage to hitting a lower price point in the subs
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by ergo98 16y ago
Why people can't accept the fact that Apple doesn't care about having biggest market share Thank you for bringing up the biggest lie in technology . It's a transparent loser's speech that, thankfully, we've yet to actually hear Apple inc

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