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This Is The Kind Of Competition Publishers Want(davidgaughran.wordpress.com)
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by fpgeek 12y ago
GP wasn't making a statement about the impartiality of legal processes [1], they were making a statement about the evidence in this case. If you'd like to dispute that, I'd suggest looking at some of it. [1] In fact, the comm
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Is FiOS still giving out those terrible Actiontec routers? If so, maybe this will get them to fix that. I still remember switching from them to Comcast to what should have been a far better connection (over 2x download and maybe 8x upload)
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by fpgeek 12y ago
This is old news, especially with regards to iBooks: http://www.marco.org/2010/04/06/ibooks-and-private-apis
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Samsung has already done it themselves (for a price, of course): http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/ET-G900VMKAVZW
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by fpgeek 12y ago
While I agree that higher-order functions are higher-level than tail calls, I'd say that the prevalence of things like off-by-one errors makes the comparison between loops and tail calls far more ambiguous.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
> Apple and Microsoft have managed to turn that line thoroughly into mud by weaponizing patent trolling as a tool to wage proxy wars. Which is why I favor calling them patent ogres, not patent trolls. What Apple and Microsoft (most notab
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Are you serious? Your supposed examples of the powerlessness of the wealthy are full of holes. It's obvious that, for a variety of reasons, at least some wealthy clearly prefer a corporate tax with a high headline rate but filled with
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Yes, it does seem like publishers want two contradictory things from Amazon: 1. Don't you dare discount our ebooks! 2. Don't you dare stop discounting our paper books! However, these positions are perfectly consistent. They'r
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It's not just maps. No matter where you are searching, Google is very aggressive about trying to figure out what you meant. Almost no one else bothers to try. Amazingly, even Amazon didn't try to correct misspelled product searche
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I think you're missing the point. It doesn't matter what's right or wrong with tax and spending policies. If the taxing authority routinely fails to collect the taxes that are on the books, there's a more basic problem w
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by fpgeek 12y ago
An alternative to whitelisting would be a generous refund policy [beyond the standard window]. I've paid for more than a few apps that said "This might not work on your phone because of XYZ. If it doesn't we'll give you
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You're forgetting that Nokia (and a few others) managed to sell a few hundred million iPhone-uninfluenced Symbian devices before that platform was flattened by Android. That's plenty of evidence that the mass market already wanted
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On the other hand, for the launch price of an iPhone you could get 5 Moto Es. Even if they're only supported for a year, that's 5 device-years of updates ;)
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I suspect it has to do with exFAT drivers. IIRC, Motorola devices (like Nexus/GPE devices) don't include exFAT support (to avoid Microsoft entanglements). Unfortunately, microSD cards larger than 32GB come pre-formatted as exFAT,
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They have to ask you. They're two different phones and they don't know which you want. Maybe you want a phone to use in the US. Or maybe you want something cheap for travel or for sending to a family member overseas or ...
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I agree it isn't ideal, but hitting that price point isn't easy. And a Moto E and a flashlight is still quite a bit cheaper than a Moto G, so I understand why they might have made that cut.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
As I've noted below, Oracle's API copying goes all the way back to their beginning. After all, Oracle doesn't own any of the original SQL copyrights (and somehow I doubt they've ever licensed them from IBM).
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Oracle isn't shooting themselves in the foot (now). Today they have the money required to pay lawyers to put on a vigorous fair use defense of any potential API copyright infringements. Of course, back in the late 1970s when Oracle was
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And not just open source. Compatible re-implementations are a standard staple of proprietary software as well (arguably including, ironically, Oracle itself as a compatible implementation of IBM's SQL).
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Other than a pile of legal fees, it's not clear that there will be any direct impact on Android and Google. Even if you assume Google loses all their appeals (a big if - the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court often don't see ey
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by fpgeek 12y ago
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/7/4598834/apples-patent-case-... http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/apple-wins-german-ba...
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Actually, for people who know their technology history, it is very easy to not side with Apple. Apple's whole pile of smartphone and tablet lawsuits is a transparent attempt to get a do-over on Apple v Microsoft. "Look and feel&qu
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Of course if Samsung hadn't stifled Motorola and HTC, Apple was already well along with lawsuits on those fronts (including an import ban that probably helped start HTC's downward spiral).
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Because the silly patents in question are so broad (at least on paper, before trial) that they are practically impossible to not trip over. Consider the "data detectors" (one of the patents Samsung lost on, IIRC). It dates from th
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Those point-of-sale computers are probably running XP Embedded, which has a longer support window.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
If you want to submit an Android patch: http://source.android.com/source/submit-patches.html The problem with Android was never that they didn't have a contribution process. IIRC, they've had that since day 1
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by fpgeek 13y ago
How about the fake incompatibility between DR-DOS and Windows? How about bankrolling SCO's lawsuit? How about all of the patent shakedowns (Linux, Android, Rockstar, ...)? And their new pro-software-patent advocacy group? And that&#x27
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It's not necessarily bandwidth or range. Some of it can just be the quality of the router implementation. I remember having lots of trouble with a Chromecast (discovery issues, losing connections and other issues) and I couldn't f
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AllCast (one of the more notable apps that supports streaming from local apps like VLC) got its Chromecast support back once the official SDK (finally) came out: http://phandroid.com/2014/02/04/allcast-chromec

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