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by halo 17y ago
The UI makes both the iPhone and Android look incredibly dated. I have a few questions about discoverability and usage in practice and it looks a tad laggy in places, but on the whole it looks very nice. The downsides are that it shares man
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by halo 17y ago
Doesn't the iPhone have online activation?
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by halo 17y ago
Non-paywall mirror: http://cmm.cit.nih.gov/~hassan/dyson.pdf
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by halo 17y ago
So you're comparing Windows since 1995 with everything Apple have made? No wonder Microsoft appear to have badly stagnated. Microsoft have changed a lot since 1995. They moved into the mobile space with Windows CE and Windows Mobile. They
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by halo 17y ago
I don't see how you can say with a straight face that's Windows has "nearly not changed" since 1995 while saying that Mac OS X has significantly changed since 2001.
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by halo 17y ago
Good producers have a right to fix prices for their products. Stores have a right to refuse to stock items that it believes are too expensive. I don't see the problem here. I don't see why you have any problem calling Amazon a store for Kin
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by halo 17y ago
There's always the status quo - that the majority of content producers will simply continue to make content using Flash that the iPhone and iPad can't access, and users mostly live with it with the occasional grumble, while the bigger provi
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by halo 17y ago
As a data-point, Amazon lost $3b over their first 6 years before turning a profit (citation: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/dotcom-delig... ) .
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by halo 17y ago
He helped to bring cheap personal computers to hundreds of millions of people, I doubt he needed help sleeping at night or needed his legacy protecting even before his unprecedented philanthropy. I feel the "Microsoft is evil" meme lacks so
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by halo 17y ago
Because Flash has 99%+ marketshare, whereas the H.264 video tag has <1% marketshare, so Mozilla are in a position to influence the latter but not the prior.
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by halo 17y ago
>Google has a near-monopoly in online video thanks to the ubiquity of Youtube. This means that they are the effective arbiter of codec choices for HTML5 video I don't believe that to be true, and that the true arbiter of web technologie
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by halo 17y ago
The technical problems are trivially overcome by requiring the user to press a button to activate Flash and/or providing an option, so that's pretty much moot.
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by halo 17y ago
>Sure, I'm agreed software patents are bad. But average users just want stuff to work. Right. Yet you've said before that you'll get rid of your iPhone if "they put Flash on it". How do you reconcile your position that "average users ju
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by halo 17y ago
If the H.264 video tag wants to win over Flash, they'll either need a huge market share or budget (which they don't have) or technological superiority over Flash (I don't think this is the case either). They're also fighting against Mozilla
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by halo 17y ago
It's interesting to draw an analogy between this and Apple's lack of support for Flash, especially given the lack of support for the prior but the large amount of support for the latter on here. I can only conclude you think it's equally se
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by halo 17y ago
I don't think the idea that people will use tools to automate generation of CSS is a new idea, nor is it worth claiming the "demise of CSS" over it since it's only a paper-thin abstraction over CSS anyway. People aren't calling web scriptin
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by halo 17y ago
Why? It's a fact that typefaces aren't covered by copyright in the US (unlike much of the rest of the world).
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by halo 17y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the root cause of this patch was a deal that Microsoft made to bundle Flash with Windows 2000/XP which expired in 2010.
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by halo 17y ago
Surely one downside is if OEMs such as HTC are able to make a better WebOS handset than Palm?
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by halo 17y ago
If the US is anything like the UK, then there is probably a Universal Service Obligation in place that legally requires telcos to provide phone services within their service area whether or not it's profitable to do so.
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by halo 17y ago
Interesting, I'll bow to your greater experience that Java bytecote is better as a target than CIL.. That said, I think that my core point still stands, even if the CLR isn't yet quite as good as the JVM: Microsoft are hardly letting .N
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by halo 17y ago
I'm not sure what makes you think Microsoft have let .NET languish. The .NET runtime and languages have been updated regularly with significant changes and improvements, and Microsoft themselves support C#, VB.NET and F# as "first-class" la
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by halo 17y ago
I understand you completely, but you're trying to abuse game theory combined with a bunch of conjecture of what would happen to justify your pre-existing opinion where it's simply not applicable. This has nothing to do with Nash's Equilibri
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by halo 17y ago
Surely that works both ways? If the government isn't aware that companies are using a loophole to avoid tax or more companies start using loopholes to avoid tax then it isn't a Nash equilibrium either and the government will be pressured to
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by halo 17y ago
Sorry, but I don't understand the point you are trying to make here. By "random features" I mean that the features chosen are fairly arbitrary in nature, taken from arbitrary sections of a fairly arbitrary selection of standards. That's wha
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by halo 17y ago
It's a critical Windows update, meaning that for most people IE will update automatically with Windows.
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by halo 17y ago
Actually, I'd argue that Microsoft's assessment of Acid3 is reasonably fair. Acid 3 isn't like Acid 1 (sane CSS box model) or Acid 2 (good resiliant consistent CSS2 support) - rather, it tests a whole bunch of random features and JavaScript
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by halo 17y ago
I wonder if this will result in more large companies creating browsers. If it takes around 2% marketshare to get on the 'main' list and you can get significant free advertising from it in Europe, perhaps it's worth Yahoo or Amazon creating
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by halo 17y ago
I remember reading a story that Teletext After Hours used to share their teletext pages with the kids pages and they were swapped after a certain time. Only one morning the childrens pages weren't successfully swapped back over, and soon af
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by halo 17y ago
On Planet GNOME, GNOME's blog aggregator, some contributors talk about software that isn't "Free Software". Stallman complains on the mailing list that as part of the GNU Project GNOME shouldn't be "presenting proprietary software as legiti

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