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by grantheaslip 16y ago
If that happens (and it almost definitely won't, at least for a long time), then switch. Making a decision based on pure speculation is a terrible idea. There are plenty of good reasons to switch to Ubuntu, but "I have a feeling Apple has a
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I convinced my dad to get an iPad when our old family PC (which, last I heard, took about 15 minutes to start up) finally died. He's downloaded one app: Google Earth. He was a Google Earth fanatic on the PC (he's an urban planner), so it wa
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I recently went from a 2007 MacBook to a Lenovo X201 with 9-cell battery, and it's worth pointing out that the much-improved battery life (3-5 hours -> maybe 6-9), lower weight (5.5 pounds to 3.5) and heat (uncomfortably warm -> bar
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I just can't see myself seriously considering buying an Android phone sold by, and supported by, a carrier (or, really, even a third-party manufacturer). I don't want to buy a phone with an awful, slow, gaudy interface tacked on, I don't wa
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
The complete lack of responsiveness in the Android UI, regardless of how difficult it is to fix, needs to be remedied, and needs to be top priority. The UI is the connection between the user and the device. When it's laggy and unresponsive,
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Sorry if this sounds a bit mean, but what's to stop someone from taking the concept (which is interesting) and just running with it on their own without buying it from you? If all you've got to offer is some almost-definitely-terrible cod
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
By Winer's logic, shouldn't the iPad also support Java, Silverlight, Realplayer, Shockwave, Windows Media Player and Quicktime? There's definitely useful information locked into each of those formats as well. Arguing that browsers should su
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Why should they be? They have an official support channel--they aren't obligated to have some poor "evangelist" follow up on every reference to their product on the internet. Some companies might do this, and you might be used to getting a
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I'm assuming Scoble is doing his usual act--that is, construing what he personally likes, what he sees in the Bay area, and what he hears from the "new media" sycophants that comment on his posts for how normal people operate. Among normal
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Whenever I've had to bring my computer in, they've always told me to create a new account called something like "Apple" or "Apple Store", and they probably should have asked for the same thing from her. I suppose there are times where the c
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
As annoying as it must be for the developers of some of these apps, I have to wonder what they were thinking when they decided to make an app that so clearly straddles the line into duplicating app store functionality. I can't imagine takin
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
It more of a meta-comment about the genre of articles that yours loosely fit under :). I missed the fact that you were actually referencing a claim made by Apple--sorry for jumping to conclusions!
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Smartphones yes (though many smartphone users don't have much choice as to browser, or at least rendering engine), but netbooks are an arguable case. I was referring more to people making their desktop browser choices based on benchmarks wh
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I'm getting kind of sick about hearing about how browser X outperforms browser Y in Z JavaScript performance test. It's good to know that the browser developers are continuing to push JS performance--it's important that it gets better and b
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Sure, but at that point Apple could be held liable for knowingly selling the app (and why you assume Jobs is personally handling this, I have no idea). This is the way almost every content company works: when they receive a takedown notice,
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
This is probably a stupid policy on the part of the Times, but they're entitled to enforce the use of their content however they want. "We disagree with their policy because they web should be open and free!" is not a valid legal defence. I
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Good to see nobody is blaming Apple for this; there are legitimate problems with Apple's handling of the App Store (though perhaps taken too far sometimes), but this is clearly not their fault.
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
I also wonder how adversely the titled text affects readability. On Safari 5, the text looks a tad blurry, though it could just be me looking for problems; I imagine it probably looks worse on Windows and Linux, where the text rendering eng
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Little tidbit I picked out of the development guide: Safari will automatically update extensions by checking a publicly-accessible plist file: http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/Tool... I think Chrome does this as wel
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by grantheaslip 16y ago
Nice catch! In terms of day-to-day usage, that's probably one of the biggest new features for me.
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Paginate.js - Instapaper-style pagination in Mobile Safari (WebKit)(github.com)
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