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by hammersend 14y ago
Huggyface is correct. The pointless mini-review drivel that pops up on these stories belongs somewhere else.
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by hammersend 14y ago
Steam will work on Windows 7 and XP unlike the Windows 8 app store. It also runs on OSX and soon Linux. What exactly is Microsoft supposed to do about it?
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by hammersend 14y ago
The Windows app store will be Windows 8 only on the desktop so Steam can serve the hundreds of millions of users on the older versions. Also, what marketplace comparable to this offering exists for Windows?
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by hammersend 14y ago
They may be concerned about fragmenting their ecosystem since virtually no apps will be "cross-platform" between Android and the desktop without a significant rewrite.
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by hammersend 14y ago
1)Maybe whatever events that led to them doing this didn't exist 2 years ago. 2)That seems like more reason to have an app store as you can weed that kind of stuff out. They will use Steam Greenlight a community driven process to vet apps f
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by hammersend 14y ago
The demise of Loki was informative for a variety of reasons none of which should lead you to conclude "how few Linux users will buy full priced games". The first lesson to gather from Loki was that in order to get people to buy your games,
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by hammersend 14y ago
When I'm in my office, I can hear somebody coming so it is rare that I'm caught completely by surprise. For something like this to work, I'd want at least a 3 second delay and notification before the camera turned on. That might help some.
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by hammersend 14y ago
"The flaw is that no one wants to fix anything because fixing things is boring" I've always thought this was the funniest thing as I relish digging into a piece of open source software that I love to use and fixing little flaws. Just this
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by hammersend 14y ago
Considering FF3 is available for download both on the iOS and the Android app stores I'd say it is extremely unlikely that most of the people who pitched in on kickstarter and actually care about Squenix games think it is exclusive. You're
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by hammersend 14y ago
"well intentioned" That's the problem. I'm not sure how a reasonable person can read the outright venom displayed in comment after comment all over the internet and then with a straight face say that it is somehow well intentioned. I don'
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by hammersend 14y ago
Menu Express was doing this in Nashville 15 years ago and they would pick up practically anything you wanted and deliver it to your door. Drivers had CB radios and everything.
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by hammersend 14y ago
Any phone with a 480x320 screen and free on contract (at least in the US) is low end. The iPhone 4 would be midrange and the 4S would be high but not the highest end.
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by hammersend 14y ago
Sme of us have tried both and love 'em both. Galaxy Nexus phone and iPad is a hard to beat combination in my opinion.
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by hammersend 14y ago
First of all that's a straw man as obviously all Free software developers don't feel the way he does. Secondly, it occurs to me that maybe people don't use Gnome 3 because, like me, they just don't like it. I don't like the way it looks,
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by hammersend 14y ago
I can't speak for the GP and I haven't used Phonegap but the problems I have encountered trying to use webviews in apps revolve around touch latency and animation. When a user touches an element on the screen they expect instant response a
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by hammersend 14y ago
And the GP was giving his honest opinion. An opinion that is held by many people I've interacted with in the open source community regarding Oracle. Maybe instead of browbeating him over it you could consider encouraging Oracle to pay att
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by hammersend 14y ago
I never knew it was the "Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" but I've been using this exact line of reasoning for many years when discussing the validity of stories read and watched in the media. Interestingly I discovered it as a kid reading
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by hammersend 14y ago
Since it is an open source app, couldn't you just compile it yourself? Or maybe drop a friendly suggestion to the devs to release an x86 binary.
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by hammersend 14y ago
How is that Google's fault though? How many modern mobile devices have completely open drivers including wifi, camera, accelerometer, bluetooth, and GPU? Exactly none. Even the raspberry pi has binary blobs. It doesn't make sense to bla
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by hammersend 14y ago
"When I was testing a samsung galaxy s2" I would not consider the S2 as being in any way definitive of "Android". The only Android devices that I would attach that label to are the ones with Nexus in the name. As far as running apps from
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by hammersend 14y ago
Is that supposed to be funny? No Jellybean devices have shipped to the general public yet the source has been released. Also, AOSP is not a sub-set of Android, AOSP is Android. Anything else is an add-on including the Google Apps.
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by hammersend 14y ago
I would imagine I'm about as much of a "power user" as anyone else on here and I couldn't care less about either of the things you just mentioned. Making a big deal out of the file copy dialog on a new OS does seem a bit over the top.
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by hammersend 14y ago
No problem. Just gives the non-biased people a chance to counter the FUD off the top so a real discussion can take place below.
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by hammersend 14y ago
"The nexus 7 will be sabotaged by google's crappy customer service." Dream on. This is just how the Nexus 7 is being sold right now. Best Buy, Future Shop, and Amazon are already putting in their orders and will sell the vast majority of
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by hammersend 14y ago
Of all the mobile electronics I've ever had, I remember my N770 the most fondly and wistfully. next to my then modern HTC Apache Windows Mobile device, it was like an artifact from the future. I coded up several great apps for it in python
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by hammersend 14y ago
I think the main difference is that if these routers came from the factory with FLOSS software that I could recompile and reload onto the device then Cisco would have a much harder time actually enforcing their particular implementation.
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by hammersend 14y ago
Well, the fact that you mention "tied together by a proprietary program" means you guys are talking about two different things. He's talking about BSD vs. GPL whereas you are talking about "something" vs. some GPL/proprietary hybrid. Seem
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by hammersend 14y ago
Samsung makes all the Android money because they make the best Android phones. It isn't that hard to understand. Second point I'll make is Nokia's windows phones are competing with Android so pretending that they are in some different "pool
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by hammersend 14y ago
You're One To Talk Being Worse Than RecoiledSnake.you Are Probably One Of The Most Obnoxious Google Haters On This Site. Also I Just Looked Through Tysons Post History And He Is In No Way A Google Cheerleader Or Microsoft Hater. Consider
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by hammersend 14y ago
It's been a meme all over the internet for a while now. Its quite frankly childish and annoying. You would think a place like hacker news would be above that.

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