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by irons 16y ago
It's an interesting perspective, but some people deserve to have the weight of the government applied to them, whether or not they think it's just. Fearmongering about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency from a guy whose company was mi
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by irons 16y ago
Seems clear based on this self-serving account, in which he paints himself as a harmless engineer whose company's only fault was accepting advertising? I don't think that's clear at all. The government has extraordinary powers of persuasion
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by irons 16y ago
Sorry, that wasn't clear to me, partly because I've been using the 4.2 beta and it's hard to remember life without it. iOS 4's omnipresent list of running applications (sorted by most recent use, just like command-Tab on the Mac) is now my
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by irons 16y ago
http://www.marco.org/524984926 The main contributors to weight boil down to 28% glass, 21% battery, 20% back panel. No easy answers making naive cuts to any of them.
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by irons 16y ago
Pandora's had an iOS client going back to when it was called an iPhone client, and credits it with the major uptick in their usage rate. Since the 4.0 OS came out, it streams happily in the background. There have been IM clients since the f
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by irons 16y ago
Huh, Chrome works for me too, and that's a fairly new development, like the last month or two. Officially, Netflix streaming in a browser still only supports Firefox, Safari, and IE.
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by irons 16y ago
Netflix streaming in consumer devices (game consoles, Tivo, Roku, AppleTV, iOS gear, various televisions and blu-ray players, etc) never depends on a web browser. There's no cursor, no mousing, and no typing except with a ouija-board interf
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by irons 16y ago
There's no connection. Live streaming will be driven by wide public availability, e.g., web browsers. It's not going to yoked to a specific piece of Android kit.
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by irons 16y ago
Hulu's availability issues are entirely of its own making. The Hulu Plus strategy is explicitly about extending that reach, starting with iOS, Xbox, PS3, and the current-gen TiVo. They're already on TVs, in other words.
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by irons 16y ago
Are you aware of any cases where existing TVs gained significant new streaming features after the fact? This sort of integration is an inducement to buy, not an inducement to remain brand-loyal on your next TV purchase.
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by irons 16y ago
Nice to see Netflix, Pandora, and "more coming soon from Android Market", but beyond that the pickings feel a bit slim. Is it surprising that Hulu Plus isn't on board? With Netflix and Amazon as part of the package, Google's not averse to a
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by irons 16y ago
Pray tell, how does this lower the "barrier to entry"? Are we presuming that terrorists are stone deaf, nearly blind, and incapable of memorizing daily aircraft routes? If so, I agree with you, and further suggest banning iPhone-holders for
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by irons 16y ago
One reason Mint left me with a bad taste as a brand was that Shaun Inman had been using the same name for his analytics webapp for at least a year (at haveamint.com). The duplication felt tacky, to say the least.
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by irons 16y ago
"Well inside the terminal" comes as a surprise -- in the US, the carriers have traditionally tolerated everyone snapping their phones on within a few seconds of touching down. Which is really just another oddity, now that I think about it.
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by irons 16y ago
I'd like to know what drove the relatively recent policy shift around demanding that phones and other devices be "completely off" at takeoff and landing, with airplane mode deemed insufficient. From a visual survey of people turning their p
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by irons 16y ago
That's not a compelling explanation, considering that you're free to keep your head in a John Grisham potboiler (as long as it's not a Kindle edition), or remain fully asleep at takeoff and/or landing.
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by irons 16y ago
39 responses and no one's linked to Jonathan Rauch's blockbuster "Caring For Your Introvert" yet? Hold on to your butts: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-f... "It's not a choice. It's not a lifestyle. It's an ori
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by irons 16y ago
Incidentally, the limit of 3200 tweets via the API is the same as the 160-page limit on the website. 20 tweets per page * 159 additional pages = 3180.
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by irons 16y ago
The existence of post-paid services seems to have no direct bearing on whether pre-paid services, like Zipcar, should feel entitled to rapidly go ape on your credit rating when the funding source disappears.
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by irons 16y ago
"Divisive"? You think Gruber's sowing discord among the Android faithful? I think he's highlighting a lawsuit that exposes some hypocrisy in Google's public branding, branding which some people have taken a wee bit too close to heart.
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by irons 16y ago
As difficult a situation as Palm is in, I was reading that article thinking Nokia is in far worse shape. WebOS remains just a promising also-ran next to iOS, Blackberry, Android, and presumably WP7, but MeeGo doesn't even rate mentioning, a
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by irons 16y ago
The 9th is by far the largest circuit, so its rates of being successfully appealed and overturned are proportionately greater. Conventional wisdom says that the 9th gets overturned when its decisions skew too liberal. The Roberts court is f
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by irons 16y ago
That's not how legislation works. I don't understand why this wound up in the ACA, but it seems plainly peripheral, and anyone voting against the ACA on the basis of this legislative oddity would have earned far more wrath than they're gett
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by irons 16y ago
You're right: voiding other people's contracts because they (collectively) negotiated better deals than you did doesn't seem fair at all. Arnold knows exactly how to push your buttons.
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by irons 16y ago
That you can read a thread like this and describe the sleep LED behavior as "frivolity" nicely encapsulates not only why Apple does well, but why a certain segment of its competition will never grasp why it keeps getting beaten.
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by irons 16y ago
Nobody else is having visions of Metrowerks? Lucky you.
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by irons 16y ago
No, not like that.
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by irons 16y ago
It's a mistake (though a common one, and almost an American truism) to equate "being a shareholder" with "fixated on next quarter's earnings above all other factors". There are other standards of behavior, even if you still profess an inter
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by irons 16y ago
I suppose this is why Tweetie for OS X has been languishing for a year. Loren had better things to do with his time.
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by irons 16y ago
You're missing the point. The genius of the iPod, and the reason it neatly destroyed all of its competitors for years, was that it offloaded complexity, like adding music and editing metadata, to a general-purpose computer. The only things

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