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by glenra 15y ago
The iPhone is as much a music player as a phone, so every iPhone comes with a special microphone headset with some external controls in the chord. Many iPhone users (myself included) prefer to talk on the phone via this headset. Using the h
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by glenra 15y ago
There was nothing wrong with the Apple antenna. It was a perception issue, not a flaw. People kept buying that phones even after Apple stopped giving away the free cases and people kept giving it a higher customer satisfaction rating than
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by glenra 15y ago
The usual story about IQ is that men have a higher variance , not a higher average . If those with an IQ above, say, 130 are much more likely to be men, then it shouldn't be surprising that careers which select for intelligence tend to al
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by glenra 15y ago
Much of the "Google is doomed" talk is based on the mere fact that Google is entering these new markets. Getting spread too thin is the fear. Google could focus just on being the best search engine it can possibly be but it's not doing th
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by glenra 15y ago
We don't need USPS to disappear. We just need it to be legally allowed to undercut the post office. So long as it is illegal for FedEx to deliver envelopes to your home slowly (because that would indicate it's not "urgent") or for les
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by glenra 15y ago
This law is an EXAMPLE of the higher cost of doing business in the EU. Assuming it costs more to provide this extra level of warrantee service, Apple will just have to raise the price even more for EU customers than they already have. There
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by glenra 15y ago
The USPS was losing money on package delivery - especially "priority" delivery - when private companies were initially allowed to enter the package and "express mail" business. FedEx and UPS made a profit providing the exact same service th
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by glenra 15y ago
This essay is extremely political, neither "news" nor of special interest to "hackers". Even judged as a political polemic it seems underwhelming. In that it's just a bunch of assertions - many of them dubious, some mutually inconsistent -
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by glenra 15y ago
> I don't see why they can't raise stamp prices to 60 cents or so. That would cover most of the shortfall. Why do you believe they'll sell the same number of stamps if they raise the price? When GM was in trouble, would you have posted
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by glenra 15y ago
GarageBand for the iPad has some features as-yet unmatched on the Mac, so it's helped me create songs. (In fact, that was why I bought it). You can also use it to read documentation while programming on your main mac; you can even use it as
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by glenra 15y ago
On that second item, writing & proofing: it might help to use a word-processor that includes a grammar-checker. Spell-check alone is not sufficient to catch things like "It's killer app will be in" => should be "Its" "Their going to
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by glenra 15y ago
Apple has been successful so far with a very careful strategy: they focus on just a few markets at a time, only enter new markets if they have a big competitive advantage in those markets and only release new products if those products are
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by glenra 15y ago
There's also remembering your strategy index tables. True, that's not a lot of numbers - some might use as few as 18 indices - but still: You're keeping in mind at the same time (a) the count, (b) a set of basic strategy rules appropriate
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by glenra 15y ago
> However, I'd like to make one point: it's Apple's money, they can do what they want. The city has an "Environmental Impact Review" process whereby citizens OF CUPERTINO at least have the right to whine about it a bit and plead for a f
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by glenra 15y ago
I worked in the main Apple complex (R&D5 on Infinite Loop) and it seems like they're just doubling down on what worked well before. It was really nice in there to have a little private park interior space to lie on the grass or have par
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by glenra 15y ago
My chief concern is that the security agencies have often been known to lie and/or be technically incompetent when it comes to such things. Case in point: I still remember when we were being told that going through the xray machine doesn't
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by glenra 15y ago
You can directly record an actual guitar on an iPad (or iPhone, for that matter). And some of the new features they added to the iPad version of Garageband make it easier to use than the MacBook version. A few geeks are recording songs on i
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by glenra 15y ago
>Nobody will ever produce an album on an iPad. That seems like an extraordinary claim. I'm positive somebody will eventually produce an album on an iPad if that hasn't already been done. Whether it'll be a good album is another questi
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by glenra 15y ago
The scanners we have in the US are using radiation. Some of the scanners used in Europe are using sound waves instead. (I noticed this because I always opt out of the radiation ones.)
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by glenra 15y ago
Apple gets attention for their events mainly by not squandering their goodwill - they don't have an event unless there's something significant (and of visual interest) to show. When they have such an event the pitch has been polished to p
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by glenra 15y ago
Apple was essentially the first mover (by which I mean, the first to package the new tech in a viable consumer-focused product) with multitouch gestures, which we saw first on Apple and then a year or so later on Android. Apple also led wit
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by glenra 15y ago
It'd be refreshing if people running such stories would go interview some teens who work at McDonalds or at Disneyland and ask the same questions. Electronics assembly is transitional employment for young people. It's a boring dead-end job
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by glenra 15y ago
>Try to beat even amateur players in 19x19 go...the domains you mention have very simple rules which allow symbol shifting systems to succeed. Computers already play go at an amateur level now - 2-5 dan. And are gradually improving with
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by glenra 15y ago
When it comes to face/voice recognition, what makes you think people are doing anything more clever? Our brains seem to have edge and shape detection modules too, do they not? Is it not knowing the algorithm that makes what we do seem "in
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by glenra 15y ago
if "sophisticated symbol shuffling" is sufficient to beat the world's best chess players, the world's best Jeopardy players, beat the world's best pilots, and safely drive a car while following all the rules of the road, what makes you thin
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by glenra 15y ago
> We haven't made much progress in building intelligent machines since the late AI winter. We haven't? We got the AI winter because DARPA was for a while willing to fund projects that made outrageous promises, so they got outrageous pro
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by glenra 15y ago
...and losing 22 students due to asbestos in a single building isn't unlikely, according to your common sense?
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Where did you get the information that the alleged deaths/sicknesses were of students rather than, say, construction workers?
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by glenra 15y ago
Was it the asbestos that allegedly killed 22 people, or was it the asbestos removal effort - against Claude's advice - that did so? Given that he objected in 1996 and the article claiming some number of deaths and injury was written in
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by glenra 15y ago
Okay, but where can I buy one of these devices for under $100?

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