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by gnaffle 13y ago
In other words, he was unable to anticipate that Apple would be able reduce the price of the iPhone, like they did with the iPod?
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I'm not too sure about that. A lot of Microsofts dominance in business comes from the ubiquity of its operating system, while IBM has _always_ been big in enterprise / mainframe computing and research regardless of their "for
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by gnaffle 13y ago
My slightly pessimistic view is that the ones with resources would be able to keep their privacy and use that to their advantage, while the less fortunate would not. Popular opinion might change, but as we've seen laws can change much
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think the biggest problem with this idea is the question of who gets to decide what the social norms and what is "acceptable". Our social norms are influenced by the media, the politicians and laws that they pass, so certain peo
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by gnaffle 13y ago
The DigiSpark seemed to live up to expectations, and it shipped only a little bit late. That made me back the DigiX, even though it's a more complicated product. I think the more ambitious the project is, and the less actual production
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Would say that a company would be equally well protected by having all computers on their network with reachable IPs, with no filtering whatsoever?
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Yep. At least some HN members will get the same attitude back at them in the form of their users bragging to others about how smart they are since they managed to bypass the company firewall or some such thing, and saying "so far, I ha
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Agreed. Not to mention, those low wage, low skilled attendents have quite a bit of training that can save your life if you are ever in an airplane accident. They may not know about the latest gadget from Amazon, but they do know their stuff
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by gnaffle 13y ago
So 14 days and still "pending analysis". I don't know where he lives, but it can't be that difficult to find someone with an oscilloscope and the knowledge of how to use it? Again, sounds very fishy. I would expect a mor
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by gnaffle 13y ago
With many (most?) desktop motherboards, the flash chip is desolderable and can usually be taken out and read on a dedicated flash reader if you have the equipment. There would be no way for the rootkit to bypass that.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Yes, especially coupled with the "been going on for 3 years" and yet no actual analysis of the virus, no oscilloscopes, digital signal analyzers or spectrum analyzers put on the task, no third party researchers confirming this. So
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by gnaffle 13y ago
If not impossible, at least very strange that he has not done more research to verify this (would be easy to do with an oscilloscope attached to the speaker output). Seems like trolling or some form of paranoia.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think the biggest problem with software is that it can be perfectly safe and work OK in 99.9999% of all cases, and still contain deadly bugs that strike in very specific and difficult to reproduce circumstances. That the software works ve
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Even in the 787, the spoilers and horizontal stabilizers can be operated electrically independently of hydraulics and flight computers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire .
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by gnaffle 13y ago
For me, so far no. Even after the Spotlight indexing, I've noticed a very significant decrease in battery life after upgrading. I don't know why, and the Power tab in Activity Monitor doesn't give any hints. It doesn seem tha
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by gnaffle 13y ago
The processes in and of itself aren't amazing, I think what's amazing is the scale that Apple operates on. Not many other PC manufacturers use CNC milling as extensively as Apple. Here's an interesting video with Jony Ive tal
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Do you seriously believe that the government subsidies of Airbus/EADS and Boeing in the 60s and 70s have been a net negative benefit to their home countries economic and employment wise, now that those two companies dominate the jet ai
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by gnaffle 13y ago
That might be true, but doesn't the whole "vertical integration" argument get thrown out the window when he describes the problem on Microsofts own hardware, the Surface Pro? Certainly Microsoft should have the ability or mon
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Yes, but I don't know of a way to give one Linux instance several desktops, and enable super fast and seamless switching between them.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Here's at least one: I've read some rebuttals to the "ethnic theory of plane crashes" here: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety and here: http://askakorean.blogspot.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think it's easy to forget how ruthless Bill Gates and Microsoft actually was, never mind the fact that they were convicted for antitrust violations. The history is littered with casualties from what started as well-intentioned partne
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think it's possible do to so, I remember seeing this ARM USB/HDMI board, which apparently can mirror the screen over USB: http://www.fxitech.com/technology/any-screen-ip/ Not sure how well it works, th
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think most MacBooks are good for running Linux as well, if you like the build quality and features of the Mac. The Ubuntu Wiki has a good rundown of how well the different models are supported. That said, I think Apple has done a pretty g
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I meant virtual desktops, mostly because I like to be able to take my laptop anywhere. I actually used Synergy at one point for my desktop setup (and also because the OSX mouse acceleration profile was broken for me for quite some time). A
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Can it also show inline previews of PDF files and search emails?
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think if you're a very basic user, you can get a consistent experience just because you can use the included desktop in Ubuntu or some other distro and not run into many problems. However, your experience will still be inferior to th
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I used Linux exclusively for many years but switched to OSX for work some years ago. I still feel more productive in Linux, but it's because of a few tricks that I so far haven't found a good replacement for in OSX: - Focus follow
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by gnaffle 13y ago
It's not a very good comparison. First, it's not presented as funny, it's presented as science, complete with links to studies. If you ask most people reading Gladwell, they will believe his theories. Second, it's not th
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by gnaffle 13y ago
This is at least one of the studies I've heard of: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6872627
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by gnaffle 13y ago
No, but the outlook is uncertain. There's a history of solid mobile platforms being abandoned much more quickly than most would expect: Symbian, WM6, Palm, Sidekick (including the spectacular Microsoft data deletion screwup), so to not

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