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CyanogenMod developers passing on Samsung Galaxy S4(androidcentral.com)
3 points by fpgeek 14y ago|1 comments
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by fpgeek 14y ago
How would money laundering via prepaid SIMs work? Every time I've gotten a prepaid card, I've had to show identification (usually a passport outside the US). From what I recall the ostensible reason for this is to track people who might use
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by fpgeek 14y ago
To me, the most interesting part of the story is the parenthetical comment at the end: (Incidentally, because of some of the changes we are being required to make, we cannot guarantee that Scrivener on the Mac App Store will have a
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THX sues Apple over speaker patent(engadget.com)
7 points by fpgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 14y ago
What happens if a telco doesn't want Skype in the version of the Apple App Store or Google Play Store their customers see? It's simple and straightforward. They make a phone call and it's done. Maybe some grumbling if the other store doesn'
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Amazon has effectively guaranteed it will stay that way for a while. Don't forget: Even early on, the Amazon Appstore was popular enough to force AT&T to stop blocking sideloading. It is only more popular today.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
This doesn't seem like a big deal. Outside of Windows RT, Flash on the desktop (including the Windows 8 desktop) has been unrestricted the whole time. So this only affects Windows RT users and people using the formerly-called-Metro version
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by fpgeek 14y ago
"The first version of Internet Explorer (later referred to as Internet Explorer 1) made its debut on 16 August 1995." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer "0.4 Netscape September 9, 1994 First public beta release" "1.0 Netsc
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Google Play Movies and TV is going VP8? Interesting.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
And if you're a content creator or video professional? Or try to make a website that serves a lot of H.264 video and then come back and tell us how free H.264 is. More generally, this is a video format we're talking about. "Free as in speec
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Exactly. I remember the days when Infocom called their text adventures interactive fiction.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The alleged infringement was massive - every download of Chrome 6+ and every Gingerbread+ Android device (or at least the ones with the Google apps) to start. And all of it could easily have been willful - On2 and MPEG-LA had apparently tan
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by fpgeek 14y ago
They did pay. Google spent over $100 million on On2 Technologies, the company behind the VP codecs. Did you expect more than buying a company and employing their developers?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Indeed. In fact, it was ready so long ago that Firefox was in the Android Market for almost a year.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The license agreement also applies to future codecs derived from VP8, most specifically VP9, so I doubt the MPEG-LA thought it was giving a license to a dead effort.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Samsung couldn't sue - they've already shipped hundreds of millions of WebM implementations that they lose their patent license for if they do. Depending on how much WebM-related code ended up in their graphics drivers and/or how widely dis
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Doesn't it depend on how much they paid? If the person paid for much less than the restaurant was asking and/or for less than a court case would cost, I'd say they won. And as long as the size of Google's MPEG-LA payment isn't visible in th
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I didn't say what sort of Minix monoculture we might have wound up with. In particular, who says the licensing would have been fixed? Without Linux's success how many people would have thought there was a problem?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Power users are inherently high-maintenance. The difference between not giving a shit and active hostility is, to a first approximation, in name only.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Yes, Sony is so firmly against VP8 that they sell millions of devices that ship with VP8 support every quarter.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Yes and no. Apple wants to protect their Twitter partnership, but... Apple knows that there aren't any effective police in the park next door. So the question is whether Apple values their Twitter relationship enough that they're willing to
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Who says a "Real Names" policy any significant impact on a harasser? It certainly wouldn't impact an offline harasser (except by making it easier to find their targets offline, of course). And how many of the serious online harassers would
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Well, that probably depends on whose locks you're trying to get around. igrigorik noted that the proxy does pass along the user's IP address in the X-Forward-For header, which could be used to preserve a country lock. Who will actually do t
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Have you never seen someone comment "Gingerbread is the new IE6"? What do you think that means in terms of bug-for-bug compatibility?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
A Minix monoculture never happened. But what would actually have been wrong with it? Think of all of Tanenbaum's design decisions that Linus ended up changing. One big reason we know, in detail, what would have been wrong with a Minix monoc
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by fpgeek 14y ago
As some one who (peripherally) lived through the gcc/egcs schism, I'd certainly love to hear their perspective on open-source monoculture. Somehow I don't think it would be nearly as monoculture-friendly as you do.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> Get off my lawn, you kids. Isn't that what they were doing?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Here's a recent, dramatic example about how that sort of memory use can go wrong: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/12/16/samsung-exynos-4-exp...
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by fpgeek 14y ago
It's even weirder than that because you can watch Amazon videos just fine using Flash in Chrome Google TV. In fact, until the most recent Google TV update that was the only way to take advantage of this high-profile, remote control button-w
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Don't forget the Handspring Visors and Compaq iPAQs that could be turned into smartphone-equivalents with the appropriate add-ons. Those came even earlier.

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