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by gnaffle 16y ago
Well the Metcal tips only slightly more expensive than the Radio Shack sabers and are easily replaced, although I wonder what they'd say if someone called them and asked which tip would be appropriate for boiling water or aromatherapy. :)
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Probably cost and lack of effort. Just look at the iTunes / App Store DRM. It can be removed quite easily, it's mostly there for deterrence. As soon as Apple could, they dropped DRM on iTunes audio files by switching to iTunes Plus (and bef
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by gnaffle 16y ago
My experience is that CS-educated programmers will often be more humble and ready to admit that they might not know all there is about a subject, and self-taught programmers more certain that they know the one way to solve a certain problem
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by gnaffle 16y ago
For what _most_ people actually do, which is email, browsing and word processing and other productivity work, I'm having trouble believing that a tablet won't work equally well. Maybe future tablets will be larger than 10" or support multip
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by gnaffle 16y ago
The existing iPad Keyboard dock supports connecting power and an external display through the 30-pin connector on the back. I'm guessing it'll work with the new HDMI connector as well, although I'm not sure. I don't think making the iPad a
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Of course, not everyone seems to get pouding headaches from 3D movies, and not everyone finds the touch interfaces finicky to the point of being impossible to use. Extrapolating from your own experience to conclude they are a fad is a bit s
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Sure, and just because the x86 instruction set works for desktop PCs, it doesn't mean it works well for cellphones. Which was exactly my point: It will spread because of incentives, not because it's the "better" solution. And if another sol
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by gnaffle 16y ago
In many ways, the IPv6 debate is similar to the x86 vs RISC debates. While everyone agrees that the Intel architecture is bad, in practice it doesn't matter all that much on big desktop chips. Linus Torvalds had a small rant about that when
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by gnaffle 16y ago
I think it's more like saying it's not worth the cost to scrap all existing airplanes for a new airplane design with a 10% gain in fuel efficiency, if a modification to existing ones will make them slightly uglier, heavier and still give yo
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by gnaffle 16y ago
One example: RIM wants to ship their Playbook with support for Android apps. They probably need the Android source code in order to do this. They've annouced that Playbook will only support Gingerbread Android apps. With the Honeycomb sourc
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by gnaffle 16y ago
One obvious way to implement that would be the MagSafe connector. Indeed, Apple has some patents relating to data-enabled MagSafe connectors.
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by gnaffle 16y ago
When I read about the component shortages of 10" displays, I couldn't help but think about Steve Jobs rant last year about tablet sizes. He went on about how Apple had thought a lot about tablet screen sizes, and that you needed a 10" scree
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by gnaffle 16y ago
The surprising thing is that they managed to design and build the 747 in the 60s in record time, without access to machine learning or any CAD tools whatsoever. Although the Dreamliner is a completely new design using new materials, I'd say
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Here's the problem, though: Who is capable of doing the due diligence? By outsourcing, you end up losing a lot of the in-house knowledge necessary to spot problems early on.
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by gnaffle 16y ago
I think people are forgetting that Nokia _did_ make a very innovative platform back in 2005 with Maemo at the GTK-based Hildon GUI. If they hadn't stopped innovating and had gotten others on board except for Intel, that platform could have
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by gnaffle 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that they would have been able to come up with another non-magnetic solution if they wanted to. But it would take a lot of money and manpower to come up with a good alternative and test it. A less elegant solution is the bre
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Some are competing on quality (Panasonic Toughbook is an example.) Some even try to compete on product design (HP Envy?), but they fail to match up to the attention to detail that Apple is known for. My guess is that they have outsourced mo
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by gnaffle 16y ago
You're right that they should stop trying to copy Apple, and instead try to make something better. To me, Android is only more open and flexible, but it's not better. It might be good enough, though, just like Windows was good enough and mo
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Apple paid $500M in cash to Toshiba for flash memory in 2009. They invested $3.9B this year in some unspecified manufacturer, reportedly buying them manufacturing equipment and tooling. I'm pretty sure that those cash payments will enable t
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by gnaffle 16y ago
It seems like a _very_ good policy from a privacy perspective, if I accidentally uploaded some pictures that I really didn't want online (easy to do with an upload tool pointed at a directory), then I'd feel much more assured if Flickr woul
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Although this is a terrible mistake on Flickrs part, and it shouldn't have been possible to do this by accident, am I the only one that is happy that deleting a Flickr account really means _deleting_ it? Most other services like Facebook, G
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Actually, in Norway there are some banks that use the credit card chip for two factor authentication (the same which is used for EMV). You put the card into a small "reader" with a display, and out pops a number that you use when logging in
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Sounds more like another POP3 mail application downloading and deleting your messages, AFAIK Mail.app never deletes messages in any Inbox regardless of available space. So either that, or you've hit a very rare bug since deleting peoples in
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by gnaffle 16y ago
I had this feeling with some poorly made 3D movies. But I only occasionally had that feeling while watching Avatar.
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Which is more likely, that 3D makes no sense to most people, or that you're one of the few which has problems watching 3D movies? I do know a few friends which thought Avatar 3D was "nothing special", but most of us thought it was great in
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by gnaffle 16y ago
I agree that having translations adds inertia and resistance to change in the code, and that this can be a problem. You should add localizations when you "need" them and know that you are going to have to support them, not because they're n
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by gnaffle 16y ago
I think this highlights a problem. Localization _can_ be hard, but most of the time it's not. You shouldn't be scared to localize your app. After all, there's a vast amount of open source software that has been localized with gettext withou
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by gnaffle 16y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I automatically dragged the window by the empty space between the icons - and it works as expected. Hopefully they have done some testing on this to feel safe enough about the change.
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by gnaffle 16y ago
I have a 4 year old machine and no sluggish scrolling, unlike with iTunes. Is this a common problem?
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by gnaffle 16y ago
No, it was parabole. :) From what I understand, they use the same number every single time without exception.

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