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by halo 16y ago
There's a big difference between competing with another business in a market on a level playing field (e.g. Android vs iPhone) and essentially deciding to ban another company in a sector from competing with you (e.g. Admob vs iAd). I think
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by halo 16y ago
I have wondered this before too. I can think of a few reasons why this might be the case: * US phone operators charging for incoming calls and messages, which make prepay phones much less useful. * Standardisation on GSM in most of the rest
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by halo 16y ago
I certainly hope not.
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by halo 16y ago
I believe they're aiming for November 2010, but knowing Mozilla, this means June 2011.
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by halo 16y ago
I believe they deliberately removed vim from the default install since they felt that it wasn't suitable for a desktop-oriented operating system. It can be installed using via optional packages ('installoptionalpackage' in console).
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by halo 16y ago
Perhaps this suggests that people were looking at HP's purchase of Palm in the wrong way. HP are the biggest computer manufacturer in the world. While I'm sure entering the phone market is a bonus to them, if they think that the iPad is a s
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by halo 16y ago
It was almost certainly registered before they tightened the restrictions on registration, and the current owners bought it from them.
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by halo 17y ago
You could have said the exact same thing about Apple buying NeXT in 1996.
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by halo 17y ago
"Few years"? Android has been out for 17 months, and only really got going with the HTC Hero about 8 months ago.
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by halo 17y ago
X.Org is available on several different operating systems too, but I assume you don't think that Microsoft should have been prevented from shipping a GUI with their OS.
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by halo 17y ago
I doubt there are many buyers who would want to enter the smartphone business as the underdog with a custom OS at this point. One big exception would be RIM, whose own software is looking increasingly dated. They might see Palm as a way of
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by halo 17y ago
I'm not sure how you can be so confident that the regulators will conclude that Apple doesn't have a monopoly if investigated by regulators. This can be far from obvious. In the Microsoft case, it was decided that the operating system marke
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by halo 17y ago
I'm surprised that no-one has suggested the obvious: that The Art Of Computer Programming Vol. 4 - Combinatorial Algorithms is complete. But that's no fun, so I hope it's something truly earth shattering, like Knuth getting an e-mail addres
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by halo 17y ago
Sorry, but I don't really understand your post. The fact that an idea is old doesn't mean it's outdated or useless - the patents in question cover functionality that is a major part of Apple's TrueType file format, and FreeType was using an
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by halo 17y ago
Apple seem to be keeping a close eye on LLVM which would allow architecture-independent binaries with relatively little penalty. I'm not an expert in the field, but I suspect that x86 will continue to offer the best value in terms of perfor
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by halo 17y ago
Perhaps Wakemate learnt from the late-release PR disaster and have decided it's better to offer pessimistic worst-case-scenario delivery estimates and over-deliver than to offer over-optimistic delivery estimates and under-deliver.
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BBC deprecates RealMedia streams after 14 years of use(bbc.co.uk)
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by halo 17y ago
Personally, I can think of a few advantages. Duplicating 2 or 3 lines may seem like a minor problem, but having to change those 2 or 3 lines every time you make a change quickly becomes a maintainence burden, especially when they're littere
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by halo 17y ago
Perhaps there's a middle-ground solution - a universal prefix that denotes experimental or non-standard features that may be liable to break or not work cross-browser. In the long-term (i.e. a major browser release), once the property is st
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by halo 17y ago
It's not a joke, you're just not taking the reponse literally enough. It's trying to tell you that "What's that got to do with the price of ....?" is an idiom which literally means "Your question is unrelated to the current topic of discuss
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by halo 17y ago
I've thought for a while that the concept of teaching instruments through games is a great idea, and hope this lives up to my expectations. If this piques your interest, you might want to look at the independent PC title Synthesia ( http://
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by halo 17y ago
Perhaps they should go on eBay and buy a copy of Visual Basic 6, put it in their office, and think that it was one of their best selling development platforms and they replaced it anyway.
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by halo 17y ago
Two half-decent reasons come to mind. One is teacher familiarity. Many people have used a variant of BASIC before, whether in 80s home computers, via Qbasic or VB on PCs in the 90s, or via VBScript in Office. This may make potential teacher
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by halo 17y ago
Compare render times between Netscape Communicator and IE and you will see that Netscape tends to be considerably less efficient than its competition. Doesn't mean a decent browser couldn't be salvaged from it, though.
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by halo 17y ago
Indeed. It's shown on the digital terrestrial channel More4 the day after broadcast, as well as available online via 4OD. Sadly, The Colbert Report is also blocked and that's not shown in the UK.
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by halo 17y ago
They're using scare quotes to indicate a paraphrase.
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by halo 17y ago
Microsoft are worried about being hit by antitrust action by regulators for abuse of their monopoly, so they offer many applications would otherwise bundle as a free download.
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by halo 17y ago
What if Google simply see a long-term strategic advantage in helping the web have a free video standard? Especially a standard where they have a significant amount of control over its codebase, tooling, and direction, as well as avoiding t
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by halo 17y ago
One of Mozilla's focusing with Firefox 3.6 was improving the startup times (see: https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2010/01/21/f... http://autonome.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-perform... ). I believe they're going t
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by halo 17y ago
While your cynicism about official crime statistics may be well placed, there are ways of measuring crime that are practically impossible to manipulate, such as crime surveys which ask a random sample of the population if they have been the

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