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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think it's easy to say that without taking into account all the experience that pilots may bring to the table when an incident occurs. Pilots (and airlines) seem more than happy to turn flying over to the computers, in fact FAA and Airbus
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I'm not downvoting you, but I think this is a kind of problem that seems solvable on the surface, but is very, very difficult to get right. You will always have situations where all speed indicators fail in a similar way leading the softwar
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by gnaffle 15y ago
That might be. I did read something on folklore.org about Steve Jobs often being told an idea, dismissing it as stupid, and, several weeks later, often coming back with the same idea thinking it was his own.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I guess the problem isn't targeted advertising per se. It's that you don't know what your personal information will be used for in the future. Maybe it will give you better, more targeted advertising. Maybe it will be used to deny you an in
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I guess they should ship handsets without bluetooth or headphone sockets as well in order to make the iPhone more "visible". Or maybe the rumours are true that the people at Apple are actually at work building the phone they'd like to use t
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by gnaffle 15y ago
One example: http://www.blogher.com/ipad-nearmiracle-my-son-autism ..and all the stories about grandparents getting iPads. These are all anectodes of course, and we'll have to wait for the peer-reviewed papers to come in some years from n
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Well, an anti-reference: The (admittedly few) doctors I know enter simple keywords into some predetermined fields - perfect for an iPad. For anything longer they record a message that someone else transcribes.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
It seems like the Big Telcos attempt at doing what Apple did with the App Store. Their biggest fear have always been to be reduced to a "dumb data pipe", which is basically what has happened now with the iPhone and Android (notice how Apple
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think you'll agree that it's much more likely that we'd had Android 3.0 on phones if they released the source code, than that you'd become a millionaire if you bought a lottery ticket. After all, people have done that to previous open sou
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I missed the part where the author asked his friend to have other music apps pulled on order to promote his own app? Apparently this is what Chamath did, and what Morin tried to keep from happening.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
They could have been, though, if the source code had been released. :)
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I'm finding it hard to believe that the difference is about zero. I think it depends _a lot_ on the usage pattern, and while your statement might be true for the majority of users, some people _are_ experiencing reliability issues with SSDs
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by gnaffle 15y ago
GarageBand: http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/garageband.html IMS-20: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJSyPW4BFgo nLog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjiSIPF-Ho Not to mention iWork and a host of other apps. Yes, the iPad
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Yet this is for a box of _three_ cartridges that should last you 2000 pages, which is quite cheap compared to other forms of color printing. This price drops of you buy a bigger printer which can take larger toner cartridges. And I'm bettin
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Can anyone confirm that there are toner cartridges that stop working after a set number of pages? I thought this only applied to inkjets. My (10 year old) laser printer will happily print until the pages become unreadable - and then some mo
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I don't see how [2] says anything about whether Apple invests in HCI research. Whether they do market research or customer research is a completely different matter.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I've worked with one large corporation (30K employees). This corporation went from HTC WM6 to HTC Android phones, with an option that employees could buy their own iPhone / iPad and use it on the condition that it is set up by the IT staff
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by gnaffle 15y ago
While I agree that trying to challenge Apple is a mistake, the problem with your suggestion is that Apple _already_ has entered the enterprise market. Big Fortune 500 companies are rolling out iPhones and iPads because enterprise employees
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by gnaffle 15y ago
Actually, my experience is that a lot of people are getting smartphones that hate their computer and rarely use it, and just want a good phone. My mother got an iPhone, not because she wanted lots of apps, but because the user interface was
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think the biggest problem is client support, and that some people prefer using multiple devices for chat, including web based services (GMail, Facebook Chat etc). Even with Jabber where you can have separate resources, it's not possible t
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by gnaffle 15y ago
You're misunderstanding, OTR isn't equivalent to plain text at all. For a good introduction to the details, see the CodeCon presentation on the website ( http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). The encryption keys are not sent with the chat, they
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I never changed any default settings, and still got a dialog box asking if I wanted to upgrade. And I'm glad I got that question instead of a forced upgrade, because some of my installed extensions weren't ready for FF5.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I guess if his mother entered his room without asking and hung up pictures of his dead father, most people would think that the mother was a bit inconsiderate. Of course, some people would claim that his room was not a personal space, and t
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by gnaffle 15y ago
If people are condescending towards you because you don't have an iPhone, I think you should try to find other people to be around. Running away is the correct response. :) It's easier said than done, of course.
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I think you should reread my post regarding "charities". I said that it's easy for people to mistake Google and other companies for charities because they provide so many free to use services. I never said open source is a magic bullet for
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I understand that you don't mean to complain to open source projects, and that's good :) It feels like whining to me mostly because these stories are often brought up, but rarely without any mention of the alternative: Without the wealth of
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I'm sorry, but this sounds like whining to me. In this case, you're not the only one building an empire on the quicksand (which by the way, was freely provided by voulenteers, which only make changes to the quicksand in an effort to _improv
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by gnaffle 15y ago
I'm guessing that the fans are controlled by the PMU. The PMU runs independent of the main CPU, and I'm guessing that this approach is easier than having the PMU talk to the drives through the SATA controller, requiring drivers, OS support
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Another solution might be to simply dim the display and enable a "red only mode" in the app, similar to Star Walk. There might still be some white light bleeding through the LCD, but it should be quite small.
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by gnaffle 16y ago
The point isn't so much whether or not Google comes out bad, it's whether you have someone to talk to that can actually fix the problem when something happens. There are providers that can give you various guarantees, response times and tha

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