huxley

83 ms·

721.
by huxley 14y ago
One qualifier: Apple only sells one NEW model of iPhone per year
722.
by huxley 14y ago
On the topic of 1ms touchscreen response, I'd be interested in seeing how the pixel integrated touch electrodes affect response time.
723.
by huxley 14y ago
The term fragmentation gets thrown around but its worth unpacking the rationale, because it becomes too simplistic as a epithet. When iOS developers talk about fragmentation they generally mean that it is hard to predict the target size (bu
724.
by huxley 14y ago
I know there are pressures to get an article --any article-- out there, but the linkbaiting and trolling (on both pro- and con) is going off-the-charts with the iPhone 5. I really should have stuck to my guns and ignored all the articles un
725.
by huxley 14y ago
I think it's becoming clear that Android is winning over the majority of feature phone upgrades, which is great for raw numbers but I wonder if it will take a while for those people to buy into the eco-system. Is the existing wedge going to
726.
by huxley 14y ago
Mapping is a growing part of the iOS SDK, I can understand Apple not wanting to be dependent on Google for that, particularly after Google started demanding significantly increased fees for Google Maps API usage: http://www.nytimes.com/201
727.
by huxley 14y ago
Putting R&D as a percentage of revenue is a bit of a dodge. Apple has significantly higher revenue than Google. Apple in the quarter ending Dec 2011 brought in $46.3 billion in revenue, while Google brought in $10.6 billion. So plugging
728.
by huxley 14y ago
If you find the right mix of David Bowie's Space Oddity (one with hard panning), playing one channel makes it sound like THE worst garageband Bowie cover ever. The high hat is high on the mix, you can barely hear the orchestra, and only one
729.
by huxley 14y ago
I'm surprised that the author didn't realize that Apple could generate revenues of $1 billion for every 100 million Dock Connector Adapters it sells for $10 ...
730.
by huxley 14y ago
Not anywhere as much as they should. A few things I do know of: Clang/LLVM (which has substantial support from Apple) will be the primary compiler for FreeBSD. Apple's Grand Central Dispatch (libdispatch) has been ported to FreeBSD. http:/
731.
by huxley 14y ago
It has exposed a lot of people to BSD Unix, which I think helped some. But outside of developers and hackers, most people have so little exposure to the Unix side of MacOS X (and practically none on iOS) that it wasn't as big an impact as s
732.
by huxley 14y ago
There's more to iOS/OSX Unix than the kernel. The Darwin portion is for most intents and purposes based on BSD -- particularly FreeBSD-- running on top of XNU (a hybrid Mach 3.0 microkernel with big chunks of the monolithic BSD kernel embed
733.
by huxley 14y ago
Similar situation for *BSD on the iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, it is a golden age for Unix/Linux but, like you say, invisible to the end-user.
734.
by huxley 14y ago
Is there anything new to this program? It sounds the same as the one announced in May ... http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/05/02/rimm-pro...
735.
by huxley 14y ago
Apparently Samsung disagrees with Dean Harding and sent an email apology for the "misunderstanding": http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/09/03/samsung-we-regret-mi... Here is the emailed apology that Samsung sent Clinton Jeff, one of the bl
736.
by huxley 14y ago
Also interesting are Bruce Horn's letters: http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/brucehorn.html
737.
by huxley 14y ago
Particularly interesting for me was the bit on his 1967 thesis "A Hardware-Independent Computer Drawing System Using List-Structured Modeling: The Quick-Draw Graphics System" (Pennsylvania State University, 1967).
738.
Jef Raskin on history of PARC and the Macintosh(mxmora.best.vwh.net)
3 points by huxley 14y ago|2 comments
739.
by huxley 14y ago
You'll need to remove fashion from that list, patent litigation is becoming much more common: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/12/design-patents-and-t... http://www.elle.com/news/fashion-style/lululemon-sues-calvin...
740.
by huxley 14y ago
It's actually a her not a him that covered the Apple v Samsung case on Groklaw. PJ stands for Pamela Jones.
741.
by huxley 14y ago
The HTC case was in the UK: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18709232
742.
by huxley 14y ago
It can happen, it's called jury nullification. There's some interesting reading in the background section of the wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification#Background
743.
by huxley 14y ago
Apple doesn't use PDMI. PDMI standard was developed in 2007. Apple introduced its 30 pin connector in 2001. PDMI was an attempt by industry players to standardize Apple's connector without Apple's input.
744.
by huxley 14y ago
If it's the one I think it is: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/ex54j/seeking_clarif... You probably won't find it looking for web2py. That was originally a discussion about Pylons/Pyramid that went off into the woods after someone
745.
by huxley 14y ago
There are lots of people that agree with you: http://www.plope.com/Members/chrism/pythonic I preferred what Ian Bicking wrote in response: http://blog.ianbicking.org/unzen-of-unpython.html One thing I like about the Django community is
746.
by huxley 14y ago
Really? Seems fairly transparent to me. https://www.braintreepayments.com/pricing Fastspring charges 5.9% + $0.95 (or optionally 8.9%) and then holds your money for 2 weeks at a time. The paperwork and $35/month fee (with $75 minimum in t
747.
by huxley 14y ago
My first computer with a GUI was 8MHz. I used a touchscreen with a light-pen in 1979. There have been countless groups of graduate students brainstorming since then. I think you'll find nothing is obvious until after it's been done. If you
748.
by huxley 14y ago
Actually the Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit part) owns the Mozilla Corporation (for-profit), the corporation handles all the development. http://www-archive.mozilla.org/reorganization/ In some ways it is about money, Google pays Mozil
749.
by huxley 14y ago
There's a chance that time machines would pretty much destroy prior-art as a defence in patent lawsuits.
750.
by huxley 14y ago
My father used to do a lot of research using microfilmed 17th-19th century documents. Cursive handwriting (combined with often poor microfilm or fiche photography) was an occupational hazard, he got fairly good at interpreting some document

More ›