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by grhino 16y ago
Again, I think it's better to simply look at it as a sale price that comes after the product has become successful plus a little bit of guilting those that haven't paid for it to buy it.
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by grhino 16y ago
Yep, I always cringe a little bit when my wife uses a download link to Photoshop from a "friend". I know that commercial software isn't without risks, but at least, you can raise a fuss.
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by grhino 16y ago
It's also possible to put an online feature in the game like check the high scores or check for updates, and you'll be able to track usage while not having a DRM feature. DRM is about controlling the right to run the software, and I don't t
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by grhino 16y ago
CoolPreviews, an addon for Firefox, caused the PacMan music to play even when the user wasn't viewing google.com. They've released an update that fixes the issue. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207/
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by grhino 16y ago
Almost all web servers keep a log of HTTP requests if only to weed out troublesome pests. The worry is not that the information is sent. The headers, IP address, and search query is always sent to any search engine regardless of their priva
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by grhino 16y ago
I think the author underestimates the problem of finding an explanation out of the mess of data that's available. It's possible there could never be a simple explanation of what caused the sell-off. It could just be that 1) we need more mea
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by grhino 16y ago
Winning teams in professional basketball usually make around 45%-50% of their shots. During an average game, a team might attempt 80-90 shots. In this case, Kobe Bryant, a career 45% shooter, was held to 33% shooting and still attempted a l
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by grhino 16y ago
Exactly. Plugging in the iPod should not interrupt iTunes. Sync in the background, display a notification if you must, but don't interrupt what the software on the desktop is currently doing. I don't think it should even interrupt what the
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by grhino 16y ago
Media companies fought the introduction of those devices as well. They haven't lost the fight with internet video yet.
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by grhino 16y ago
Anyone who created Java applets heard lots of gripes about the Microsoft JRE vs Sun JRE. I wouldn't be surprised if web games implemented as applets are still using the 10 year old API of the old Microsoft JRE. I still shudder when I think
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by grhino 16y ago
I agree. I could come up with some uses that law enforcement could use the street view data combined with logs from access points to guess the user for a particular MAC address.
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by grhino 17y ago
So, if a user has a laptop on a coffee shop wireless network, access to a log of the MAC addresses registered at the coffee shop could be cross referenced with Google's data to find out where that MAC address was at the time the street view
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by grhino 17y ago
What's the threat if someone has your MAC address?
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by grhino 17y ago
He could have at least compared it to a similar iPhone app.
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by grhino 17y ago
In chrome, you can create an application shortcut for a website, and it will remove the chrome title bar, tab bar, google menu bar, and google docs title bar when you open it.
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by grhino 17y ago
The title doesn't lose much pull when changed to "Apple is Tightening its Grip--Not Gonna End in Gentle Snuggle"
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by grhino 17y ago
I think the patent violation only applies to advertisements that appear in the print edition. At least, I hope so.
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by grhino 17y ago
There are lots of casual games for the Xbox 360, and they are making a clear push against Nintendo Wii with Project Natal. Also, Microsoft envisions Xbox as an entertainment center where families not only play games together, but watch TV a
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by grhino 17y ago
Which is surprising to me. I guess to be a success in his mind is to completely dominate a market space. I guess when you use the market share of Windows as your barometer for success, nothing else quite compares.
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by grhino 17y ago
A good part of why the XBOX 360 has done well as a gaming platform is because they were able to leverage the success of the PC as a gaming platform. Of gaming platforms, the PC has been one of the most open and easiest to develop for on the
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by grhino 17y ago
With the iPhone, you need an iTunes account. I don't know if you can set that up on your iPhone. You can go without ever syncing to your desktop. You might need to sync to the desktop to update the iPhone OS, though. Of course, since your i
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by grhino 17y ago
They certainly don't let other digital media sellers make it convenient for iPhone users. You have to go through their store (iTunes) in order to synchronize digital media from other stores to your phone.
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by grhino 17y ago
The core of the ChromeOS is open, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os... . Chrome OS is espousing a new style of computing which is all done through the web browser. Chrome OS has a standards based, no gatekeeper m
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by grhino 17y ago
If no one knew or cared about the difficulty in climbing everest at all except those who climbed it, climbing everest would no longer have near the status that it does. He argues that hardcore gamers don't want an easy mode because it makes
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by grhino 17y ago
Mega Man 2 actually had an easy mode that was called normal mode. Ninja Gaiden is a terribly difficult game, but it's unfair to choose Mega Man 2's normal mode as representative of the difficulty of the Mega Man series. "Technically, Mega M
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by grhino 17y ago
Simple tweaks to a game like increasing hit point pools can make the game difficult in meaningful ways if there is additional depth available in the game. If an enemy has 100 hitpoints instead of 10 hitpoints, you may have to learn to antic
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by grhino 17y ago
Is there a Nintendo approved way to get ROMs on the iPhone? Does Nintendo have no legal recourse to this?
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by grhino 17y ago
Unfortunately, Flash can be a huge resource hog on Linux and can cause usability problems as well. It's certainly better on chrome since it runs in a separate process. I'm hoping the next stable version of flash reduces the resources needed
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by grhino 17y ago
The beta is a closed proprietary system, but it won't always be that way. Google created a proprietary implementation of an open protocol and has created an open source client/server implementation. Check out http://www.waveprotocol.org/
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by grhino 17y ago
Can a nation thrive with all citizens living in urban areas? The internet is becoming the main way to disseminate information. I'd rather folks in rural areas have access to broadband. Libraries and broadband access are important to providi

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