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by gnaffle 14y ago
The "netbook" concept was not bullshit at all. It was the first inexpensive small laptop. The EEE PC which coined the term netbook, was inspired by / a response to the OLPC XO-1. The price was achieved not primarily by lowering quality but
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Agreed. Even an analogue mechanical timer wheel is better than many of the digital designs. I think the sad fact is that anything that adds mechanical parts also adds cost, and is therefore avoided now that the cost of electronics has dropp
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by gnaffle 14y ago
The interesting thing is that the new Apple hardware starting with the iMac certainly started out as lickable, and very similar to the original OSX software (with pinstripes and all). Both the software (OSX) and hardware has gradually becom
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by gnaffle 14y ago
War has become less brutal and more efficient, but it's very foolish to say that as a result, there are going to be fewer deaths. WW2 was more deadly than WW1, and if you look at the weapons we have available today, I don't know how anyone
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Isn't the reason mostly that the spectrum is licensed? So the only ones that can actually set up a picocell are the ones that own spectrum, and they don't have a good reason to do so (except in remote areas / on boats).
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by gnaffle 14y ago
One concern that has been raised is that while the radiation is weak, it does not go through the body but is localized in the skin, and that the machines were not properly certified as medical devices, so there was no way to know whether it
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Absolutely, the only exception being that Airplay currently has a slight lag and doesn't support Retina displays.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Why would Steve Jobs return to Apple, he also had more money than he'd ever need from Pixar. If Gates returns, it's because he loves the company and wants to see it live on.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
So if Apple releases a lot of dodgy products, they are entitled to a break next time they screw up one of their new releases?
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Like others have commented, Apple could release such a device in no time. You can already hook an iPad up to a monitor and keyboard, so Apple just needs to add the OSX desktop. Looking at the Windows 8 reception, I doubt they are going to d
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Yet, iOS has a much higher information density than WinRT and still works very well. Of course you can ignore the guidelines, if _most_ apps follow the guidelines you will end up with a platform that looks very good in product demos but isn
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by gnaffle 14y ago
My experience is that it's a love/hate relationship. Often the IT management prefers to run with Microsoft if they can because it's already interated into the existing infrastructure. And Microsoft has very good salespeople that can tell th
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think all the people that used to be responsible for platform strategy have been fired already. That's part of the problem. They also botched their enterprise mobile business with the WP7 and now WP8 launch. All my friends working in pret
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by gnaffle 14y ago
While you're right about bad guys in the form of criminals / gang members, I don't really think the people going into schools to kill are in a state of mind where they worry about what kind of resistance they meet.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
The FAA has announced plans for an industry working group: http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId... The difficulty lies in testing the airplanes in such a way that you cover _all_ potential devices, past present or
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by gnaffle 14y ago
There are actually some studies conducted. Note that these are _suspected_ interference from personal electronic devices and also incidents with passengers unwilling to turn them off: http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/docs/rpsts/ped.pdf Of course,
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Those devices are all transmitting at low power, usually to a WiFi / cell base station nearby. The issue here is when several devices are transmitting on high power at the same time. Also, a computer is a single shielded device with most da
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by gnaffle 14y ago
This is exactly my experience with Apple Maps as well. It's so unusable that after a few tries, you just stop using the app altogether.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Where I live, annihilation is actually an apt description. Apple Maps is completely unusable for me. I don't know how they managed to put the airport where _it used to be 25 years ago_, for instance. It can't find one of the biggest swimmin
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think the point to note is that _everybody_ owned a cell phone before the iPhone as well. If you look at revenue share of the mobile market, I think Apple and Samsung now dominate the entire mobile market because smartphones have higher m
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by gnaffle 14y ago
There are a few things wrong with this assumption: 1) Apple exclusively looks at potential revenue when introducing a new product. That they introduced and still sell the Apple TV even though it's still just a "hobby" pretty much negates th
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Most Apple customers don't buy new devices every 18 months. Apple only needs to make customers happy enough (and locked into their ecosystem) so that when they upgrade at some point, they still buy Apple.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
iMovie (the ideal app for parents editing a HD video of their kids) runs just fine on an _iPhone_. And remember, this is just _two_ years into the current tablet market, so this sounds a lot like how the minicomputer and mainframe guys were
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Looking back, I think many of the big initial successes for Microsoft were propelled by missteps from their competitors. Apple, Lotus, Word Perfect, Novell, the list is long. This time, their two biggest competitors haven't made many mistak
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think it's important to separate two things. One is the tablet trend, but along with that you have an OS platform play. I think it's completely plausible that in the next couple of years Apple and Google will launch add-ons to your averag
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by gnaffle 14y ago
It's a valid comparison because most people do very simple stuff with their PCs. Stuff that tablets also do today, and will continue to do better and better. Do you think comparing minicomputers to PCs makes any sense? Of course not, you ca
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I'm a happy long term Mac user. However, I've resisted buying first generation products, and I wouldn't buy Apple products without an option to cancel the purchase. I'm happy with the attention put into the product design, but not with thei
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by gnaffle 14y ago
They are soundly engineered, but quality control leaves something to be desired. If you don't think the engineering is applied past appearance, open one up and see for yourself.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Antennagate was way overblown, but it was a real issue for some people. With the right combination of specific unit (varying tolerances for the antenna / radio assembly) and cell phone coverage, you would run into problems. The iPhone 4S an
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think this has been The Apple Product Cycle for ages. 1) Random problem appears on 1st iteration product 2) Some are lucky and get it repaired, some are not. 3) Lots of petitions and screaming in forums 4) Apple silently changes their pol

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