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by futurix 9y ago
Apple's duties might be partially self imposed, but that's part of their value proposition. I don't want to sift through reviews to find out whether the app is safe to use, like my friends with Android phones have to do. And
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by futurix 9y ago
You are looking at my point and refusing to see it, and then go on to make the same point yourself. You want Amazon to take full responsibility for their merchandise, but yet okay with Apple not doing the same thing. Amazon has to take the
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by futurix 9y ago
There is a huge difference between police state and letting dodgy products on some store's 'shelves'. Do you support Amazon allowing sellers of counterfeit goods on Amazon Marketplace? Besides the walled garden of Apple is no
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by futurix 9y ago
The only 'icon' I understood what the one with the text in it.
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by futurix 9y ago
Call me odd, but I generally trust Swedish or UK courts.
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by futurix 9y ago
Agreed about Manning and Snowden, not so sure about Assange. He seems like a way murkier character.
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by futurix 9y ago
One of the very few good news this year...
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by futurix 9y ago
That's like your opinion, dude... The main thing limiting C++ code in UWP is sandbox, not the compiler. C++/CX is a glue language between proper C++ and the rest of the OS - you can freely mix it with proper C++ (11, 14, etc) with
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by futurix 9y ago
I feel like posting something positive here - I travelled to the US last week for tourist-y purposes and the border control was fast, efficient, nobody looked at my devices (even though I had 3 phones with me), and the only gripe was with t
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by futurix 9y ago
Funny enough, I don't remember precise websites that really changed my life - usually they would trigger a flurry of activity and would be forgotten themselves. I don't remember where I read in 1997 that being gay is 'okay&#x
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by futurix 9y ago
So the article mentions the threat of retaliation against the security researcher, and you are surprised people are afraid to come out publicly?
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by futurix 9y ago
"Google Chrome required" - sure, because current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination.
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by futurix 10y ago
I'm guessing dates were translated as well.
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by futurix 10y ago
I'd argue that Van Gogh isn't such a great example in this context...
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by futurix 10y ago
Fascinating! Voices in the head that are not actually voices. I wonder if deaf-blind schizophrenic would 'hear' them in Braille.
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by futurix 10y ago
Sudden coffee? That's when someone knocks the cup into my lap!
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by futurix 10y ago
Latest update of Workflow that came out earlier today axed support for Google services and Uber...
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by futurix 10y ago
Because last time I checked it on the desktop (2-3 months ago) - it did. I'm very happy it is no longer the case!
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by futurix 10y ago
I hope this means the end of Silverlight on the desktop - as it is still required for Amazon Video and NOW TV (in the UK at least).
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by futurix 10y ago
This is mostly a side effect of their development efforts for Xbox and Windows 10 Mobile.
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by futurix 10y ago
When the choice is between proprietary apps or DRM for multimedia content inside open web environment, I'd rather have the latter. Yes, in ideal world there will be DRM-free streaming - but unfortunately that's unrealistic.
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by futurix 10y ago
Not with Oracle being litigious pricks.
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by futurix 10y ago
The frame data is incomplete with no keyframes - if you want to do a fairly typical memory conservation technique where after user switched away from the browser tab, you pause a GIF, unload it from memory, and then need to reload it from t
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by futurix 10y ago
Structure of animated GIFs is odd - you pretty much have to read entire file to animate it correctly; hence the inefficiencies.
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by futurix 10y ago
I bet you'll think differently when installing LLVM –2147483648.0 !
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by futurix 10y ago
Version number inflation strikes another software package, although at least it is not as bad as Chrome or Firefox.
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by futurix 10y ago
I think St. Petersburg has/had somewhat better housing. Even 'khrushevkas' aren't entirely uniform.
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by futurix 10y ago
I am biased as I lived in one of those for 20+ years, but I think they couldn't be replaced quickly enough. Atrocious housing stock.