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by idspispopd 15y ago
I'm curious why Apple allows this also, but making this an excuse to render a blame and bash Apple article is misguided. I say misguided because there are many ways that your personal information, behaviours, interests and usage history can
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by idspispopd 15y ago
This is a GPLv3 problem, and it's not limited to Apple. v3 is incompatible with many existing business policies. The trend of dumping GPL will continue in many of the for-profit tech businesses.
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by idspispopd 15y ago
It turns up from time to time in print publications as well.
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Apple smear campaign built around the existing problems in large-scale SE Asian(esp. chinese/vietnamese) manufacturing. Perhaps unfairly so because Apple not only actively addresses these issues, but also Apple's vendors are far above the a
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Your definition of lock-in needs a reality check. If my pocket calculator can't access the internet, it doesn't make the internet 'lock-in'.
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by idspispopd 15y ago
This storm in a teacup fear mongering stuff has to stop. It's silly to suggest this is locking in content, or even bad for anyone, and it's obvious why they use this distribution method over hosting the content themselves. 1. It's not in a
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by idspispopd 15y ago
This is an important point. I am reading a lot of defence on here for google and there is little to back it up. This isn't a minor oversight executed by a small team, rather the precise opposite. I would say Google's reply has been a lie(da
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by idspispopd 15y ago
I'd be appreciative to read a more informative and well-formed counter-argument instead of pages of thinly veiled attacks on the author. I for one recognise that they're all the 'devil'. It's about time we stopped pretending that these comp
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Actually.. Apple paired with Cingular. Because, as it turns out, Apple too had problems convincing carriers to take on the idea. AT&T bought cingular, realised it was a good thing and got exclusivity in exchange for better plans for con
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by idspispopd 15y ago
this is the blogspam version. http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Having been active on /r/minecraft since it started and reddit from when it was pretty small. I have seen this trend play out repetitively: 1. Niche communities form with lots of quality content 2. This valuable content spurs a spike in vie
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by idspispopd 15y ago
also a nice way to artificially inflate chrome visitation figures.
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by idspispopd 15y ago
There are 3 main methods used to stonewall the saving of images from online content. 1. embed in flash/pdf 2. javascript to interrupt right clicking 3. overlaying a transparent image to capture the click I say 'stonewall' because as a gener
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Google+ itself is a good service, but my distaste for it comes from taking a look at a "bigger picture", as this is not just about sharing cat photos and fart jokes online. Let me begin by saying I don't hate it, I just see it as a poor dec
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by idspispopd 15y ago
This is something I don't understand about zealots. Help me out here: Why is it perfectly ok to compromise your own common sense and intelligence for the sake of a company that: 1. Does not know who you are 2. Does not care who you are, rat
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by idspispopd 15y ago
I'm happy to be written in grey also. There is a growing base of HN users who are basically brainwashed into being a mouth piece for the latest Google or Apple marketing messages (i.e. Zealots) They're seriously degrading the quality of HN
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by idspispopd 15y ago
separate point: while photoshop isn't on linux, there are plenty of replacements for that unless he's doing print work, which I don't think is the case, as photoshop isn't the beginning and end for print. (actually, TBH, photoshop is pretty
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by idspispopd 15y ago
I like the idea. If only we had a system of cars, that for a small fee could drive us anywhere we wanted. That fee could be based on the number of kilometres travelled and the time spent in the car. We could call that fare a "taximeter", ba
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by idspispopd 15y ago
The logic of this article is flawed and deliberately trying to deceive. This is an article which assumes that the designer will value identical design problems as Apple. Hence they incorrectly argue that since Apple's design is simple, it's
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Although Siri is what it is, (i.e. seemingly great for some and disappointing for others) Apple don't really have a history of selling perfected technology out of the gate.(At all honestly) They do however have an excellent record of delive
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Thank you for pointing out this obvious PR campaign. The whole point of highlighting this exchange, the surrounding publicity, the custom url/etc is to raise the profile and get people to pick sides to generate discussion. This PR technique
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Certain protections of design/research aid the consumer/society. If all hard work is copied with no limitation, then this severely limits the amount of money you can spend on r&d to remain profitable. Take medication for example, the r&
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Your use of a car analogy here couldn't be any better placed. The reason why Germany has such strict laws pertaining to copyright, patents and design is due to the flamboyant duplication of their own motoring industry. It seems your analogy
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by idspispopd 15y ago
CarrierIQ itself isn't the problem, it's a diagnostic device with legitimate functionality for mobile devices(we want our service to get better, this requires certain aspects of reporting.) The problem stems from CarrierIQ being implemented
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by idspispopd 15y ago
I feel it'll be hard enough convincing someone to lay with a wide gauge needle in either arm for 6 hours, so if they're cool with that, then I'd be keen to have them on board regardless of their other personality traits. So while I wasn't f
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Try to reply with examples(and when you do avoid choosing examples that follow confirmation bias) instead of broad-unbased refutations. Minecraft clearly demonstrates the comparitive heaviness of using voxel arrays to represent a world in c
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by idspispopd 15y ago
I feel like you didn't actually read my comment. Minecraft is a perfect example of how non-repetitive voxel worlds are processor intensive, and rather, this serves as a demonstration that unless fractal-like repetition is used then current
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Minecraft demonstrates that (despite its possibly-inefficient coding) unique voxel based geometry is cpu heavy, and to pretend otherwise is fraud. From the outset it's obvious that recursion is affording the 'infinite' tag for this technolo
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by idspispopd 15y ago
I was going to mention minecraft here, as it's using a voxel system where by the local volume is divided into "chunks" that are generated based on an algorithm or saved data. This has simulation advantages over similar software which uses a
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by idspispopd 15y ago
Part of the problem is ignoring why consumers download digital content through unofficial channels, and instead call any such download a case piracy. Rather these are holes in the business models of media providers, as such they're only los

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