joebadmo

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by joebadmo 16y ago
That's a really interesting question, but I don't think Apple's going to be the company to take gaming in that direction. Their cloud services are pretty lackluster. I have an ATV, and I only ever use it for Netflix streaming.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I don't think $100 is enough of a disparity to get the market we're talking about even vaguely interested. Especially since the titles we're talking about (I think we're talking about stuff like the Modern Warfare games) simply aren't feasi
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I guess my point is that robots/tech are good at certain things, and people are good at other things. It's great for tech to take up the things that they're good at to free up people to focus on the things that they're good at, and that's w
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by joebadmo 16y ago
This is actually why the complaints about the quality and questionable taste/propriety of the Android ecosystem actually sort of make me feel good about it. When I see questionable decisions being made, I know that the freedom to make those
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by joebadmo 16y ago
"As a nation, we spend more one education than the military..." You say that as if it's a bad thing. I spent four years in the military and can tell you that there's a lot of waste there. Your last sentence could very easily be applied to t
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I don't know about this. Hook up a &500 iPad to power and to your TV and pair it with the bt gamepad every time you want to play a console game? As opposed to a <$300 device that's always hooked up to the TV and controllers? I'd say
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by joebadmo 16y ago
But the "under 18" landing page doesn't actually block anyone, including those under 18 from continuing on with the site, so there's really no incentive not do it. If they move to a guaranteed to be filtered tld, they'd explicitly be asking
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Not "haz"?
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by joebadmo 16y ago
That's true enough, but there's a bigger distinction, isn't there? Maybe the better golden rule for developing for iOS is "work with what Apple will let you"? My point being Windows developers do not have exactly the same problems.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I'm not sure, but either way it seems to me an illustration of John Siracusa's "Apple Strategy Tax." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282066
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Hm. Interesting. I can certainly identify with not wanting to deal with the hassle. But I don't understand reducing and simplifying by using two separate services owned by two separate companies that aren't you to do the same thing that you
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I don't understand the appeal as opposed to having your own personal domain with a very simple landing page.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
My concern is actually in a different direction: that people will enjoy the restricting tool too much. In the microwave analogy it would be that people enjoy the convenience of microwaves so much that they abandon reguarly cooked food for p
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I think free ad-supported content allows for more discovery , too. I.e. how do you know what you want to pay for before you read it?
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I find it strange that no one seems to be talking about what his does to NYT's google-juice/clout in the link economy. NYT peddles influence by being widely read/the paper of record, but doesn't putting up a paywall directly mitigate that?
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by joebadmo 16y ago
That's not even to mention Twitter's historically frequent downtime.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
It sounds like a deliberate decision to try to filter out some of the noise, but, yeah, it does seem kind of anti-social or selfish.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
How is Facebook innovating? Serious question, I'm not on FB and I'm interested.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Wait, the Twitter engineering team should build something separate from Twitter? I don't understand. On a similar note, though, I am surprised that this hasn't sparked more discussion about the distributed open source social networking move
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by joebadmo 16y ago
To be clear, that wasn't my example, and I took your rejection of his example as a rejection of his assertion. And I'm still not clear on your stance. So, you don't deny that there are a whole class of applications that are possible on Andr
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by joebadmo 16y ago
What a weird industry.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Doesn't that initial $300-400 include a WinXP (albeit crippled?) install? I think especially at this price range, that could be a significant differentiator.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I just hope that some of the hardware manufacturers take some design cues from the Cr-48. The logo-less minimalist matte anti-chrome (ironic) is really doing it for me.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Not that I agree with the GP, but are they doing well? My understanding was that the ATV wasn't, and that MobileMe was pretty universally reviled.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
CR-48 owner here. From my experiences with it vs. a WinXP netbook, I'd say the CR-48 provides a much better experience. It could do to be a little faster and have more RAM, but for a lot of contexts I don't even notice that there's nothing
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Are you denying, then, that there are a whole class of applications that are possible on Android that aren't on iOS? My first example of this is always Locale. It's really, really great. http://www.twofortyfouram.com/ It's not available o
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by joebadmo 16y ago
As an Android user, I agree with you. Is anyone else concerned about the way Apple is changing the way we think about computers, more as appliances than what we think of as computers now? Maybe that's actually the more natural state, and th
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I think you have to consider the intended audience, though. Seemed to me he was addressing people who had idly dabbled in working out, but quit because they weren't seeing results or were intimidated, and people who chase fad exercises and
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by joebadmo 16y ago
So... he has altered the deal. I guess all we can do is pray that he doesn't alter it further? I agree with the GP: what bothers me most is the inconsistent, capricious nature of the judgments being handed down. I guess we'll see if any of
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Wired sync isn't exactly a great experience with iOS, either. iTunes db different from your iPod's? Get ready for some work.

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