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by gmlk 16y ago
Meaning they stopped digging a deeper hole? Or that they do continue to dig, only now it's filling up faster then they can dig?
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by gmlk 16y ago
> You wouldn't need apples seal of approval though, would you? Short answer: You still need to get apples seal of approval. You will still have to use the AppStore to get that app on the iPhone. The only other route is a web-app. You wi
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by gmlk 16y ago
That still doesn't change much to my argument: If the app does not behave exactly like a proper iOS app should Apple is going to reject it. So we can forget about a simple cross-platform middleware layer that can create the same app for mul
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by gmlk 16y ago
I wouldn't bet on Flash CS5 apps being accepted anytime soon. You're still required to adhere to the iOS look and feel, apps that behave differently will be rejected.
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by gmlk 16y ago
I don't think this actually changes anything? Apple still bans under section 1 and I think 10.1 any app that don't have a consistent iOS look and feel and behavior. The requirement to only use native widgets is still enforced. So, either t
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by gmlk 16y ago
Similar: http://tunes.org/legalese/bugroff.html
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by gmlk 16y ago
At which price is doing the work still viable? What if the added value of the work being done is lower then the minimum wage? Then no employer will pay you to do it. Or consider a machine which can do the same job cheaper then some employee
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by gmlk 16y ago
At the core of the economic problem is the mismatch between the price of basis necessities (which include healthcare, shelter, energy, mobility, education, clothes, food and water, etc) and a normal income: The last century wages haven't in
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by gmlk 16y ago
Likewise we could postulate a more realistic and limited creator-god, one which might even be empirical observable, either directly or indirect. The point being that we can only know which features a deity actually has after one has been ob
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by gmlk 16y ago
What are "divine powers"? Imagine someone was able to calculate where the ball will fall with only a glance of the roulette wheel… Or someone who is able to go from casino to casino every hour of his life? Without requiring a full night o
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by gmlk 16y ago
The problem is that one has to be convinced that multiple universes (which by definition can't be observed) exist. Which means rejecting the idea of one (potentially empirically observable) unknown entity [a creator or "god"] only to replac
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by gmlk 16y ago
When people use the word "god" it's meaning is often implicitly assumed, rarely identified, almost never defined in a testable way. How do you recognize a deity? Which observable, ideally measurable, features should one be looking for? The
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by gmlk 16y ago
Thank you, I'm going to plagiarize that ;->
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by gmlk 16y ago
The entertainment business (MPAA, RIAA, etc) are a very powerful antiglobalization force? They are in fact betting against real globalization. Just consider regional coding for DVDs or the fact that there is not just one Apple iTunes Store
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by gmlk 16y ago
The main advantage we get from having a relatively huge moon is stability of the earths rotational axes, without the moon the earth would have periods where it had one sunny side and one cold dark side.
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by gmlk 16y ago
The problem I see is the simple fact that one can't ever do an actual experiment that demonstrates the existence of multiple universes… Here we have left empirical science and moved on to "anything can happen" speculative fiction, where aut
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by gmlk 16y ago
What about evolution? All known life is algorithmic? Hence, given enough time, programming (coding) should be easy enough so that it could be automated. Given a suitable environment it could even spontaneously just happen. No? Design is har
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by gmlk 16y ago
What if you could combine "no intellectual privileges" (and therefor unlimited and natural dissemination of intelligence throughout the population) with an unconditional basic income for every citizen? That way "creatives" are payed enough
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by gmlk 16y ago
And this was said by someone who definitely has 'blood' on his hands?
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by gmlk 16y ago
Well, that is at least one of the advantages of Common Lisp… ;)
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by gmlk 16y ago
The whole flash discussion is purely hypothetical: Whether Apple would/should allow some of Adobe's vaporware, might it one day be realized, on the iOS platform? And this is not even considering that the iOS version of Safari (afaik) doesn'
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by gmlk 16y ago
I'm using Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Linux -- whichever is the best choice given the hardware and legal constraints.
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by gmlk 16y ago
I rather not have a world where there is one most used implementation? I think it would be better is the world would get to the point where unix (as an informal platform) with many implementations became the norm? Some kind of low-level vir
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by gmlk 16y ago
So SmallTalk and Self are not visual enough? http://www.smalltalk.org/ also http://www.squeak.org/ http://selflanguage.org/
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by gmlk 16y ago
Interesting use of generalization with a universal qualifier. One has to be a wee bit naive to "accept as true" everything that one can see: The truth is often hidden behind very convincing illusions and stories, most of which are not reall
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by gmlk 16y ago
The words "I believe X" used to mean "Based on all available evidence I have seen, I'm convinced that X is true". Lately however people have started to use the word to mean any strongly held opinion regardless of any evidence or reason. To
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by gmlk 16y ago
Just yesterday, I ordered a new Mac mini (2.66-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 2x2GB 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM; 500GB SATA-HDD) to replace my older Mac mini as main development machine.
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by gmlk 16y ago
It's aluminosilicate glass or Al₂SiO₅ with a hardness of about 7 (Mohs scale) at best. Sapphire crystal is Al₂O₃, which has a hardness of 9. So it's hard, but not that hard.
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by gmlk 16y ago
You are correct, I think. I'm not in the USA, I'm in europe? AT&T wows isn't an issue over here, though there are problems here as well, take T-mobile in the Netherlands. I do think however that if Apple thought that there was a viable
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by gmlk 16y ago
I wrote: "shared open standards ... so that devices can work together". Context matters. The whole concept of a multi-platform framework is anti-innovation, anti-diversity: Its only purpose is to generalize, to make make everything uniform

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