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by jpxxx 14y ago
Yes to all of that. But the central question this story is going to answer is "What happens to people who embarrass the U.S. Government in the 21st century?" The answer to that question answers the fate of Wikileaks, which is ultimately jus
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Ah, you view him as a celebrity gadfly and this event of no real world consequence. OK.
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What is this argument you're making? Anyone who becomes a public figure must engage in chastity?
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Your characterization of Julian Assange as a "two-bit twerp" is weird. You are aware he is an extraordinarily high profile figure on the world stage, yes?
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Ach, you're right. The extensions loader alone blows up on boot. It'd be infeasible to remove the Apple JRE from the field. So much for my pet theory.
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Apple's already removed their own JRE from default OS X installs, demand-loading it only with explicit user authorization. Furthermore they've sent out recent security updates partially disabling applet loading in web browsers and disabling
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200+ DPI displays actually do make everything that came before trivial and irrelevant. So take that point and put it in your pocket and let's all move on.
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What an amazingly tasteless headline.
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The governments of the world only respond to two things, statistical polls and bullets. You cannot Like Button your way to social justice.
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I am in love with what I'm being shown. Super-rich compound multi-user documents. It could be fantastic wallboard software. Or you could just call it a wedding planner and it would be a minor sensation.
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Mockups, loose parts, and the rumors all agree that the physical home button will be staying put, just slightly smaller than before.
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Horribly complicated? Oh, I'll bite. All hardware discussions aside (and you do make some good points), the central advance of the iPhone was in the design of the software. Everything is an app. Everything. The alarm clock is not a special
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Also, at least for space satellites, high energy protons and other particles hitting the camera sensors cause streaks, glitches, and pinholes that have to be scrubbed out. Perhaps the same is true on Mars with only 4% of the atmosphere.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I'd be happy to see the native Google Youtube app allow me to copy a video URL. It is extraordinarily difficult to make such a simple thing happen on iOS right now.
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That's my point, although I'm not sure my argument is illuminating much. Why do they request applause for selling what is essentially an unchanging utility? Data goes to and from the handset. Lower latency, cheaper, wider range, higher volu
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Not to be sour, but an innovation in what? The first cellular network was a radio tower with a backhaul supporting handsets. LTE is a radio tower with a backhaul supporting handsets.
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P.S. Oh dang, right on cue. :3 http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/04/hacked-icloud-password-leads-...
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I only brought up Contacts as a joke. :) It's a little crass for my tastes but meaningless in the greater scheme. I agree that the law enforcement issues and tax holiday aren't really registering in the public consciousness, but they're imp
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Not a dime. I'm just tired of listening to willfully obtuse dilettantes try to calculate the exact instant they should be "over" Apple so they don't get caught looking uncool.
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An evolving trend in OS X and iOS is to rework various applications into little faux leatherette items - Contacts and Calendars have both received this treatment. Reaction is almost universally negative, even among tech uninvolved customers
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So tedious. Apple is extremely well positioned in front of almost every mass trend happening in consumer electronics. They are sitting on a tenth of a trillion dollars in cash. They have content deals with more companies in more places tha
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Interesting, thank you! Now to wait for it to come to the Mac. :)
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Virtualizers need as much RAM as you can possibly throw at them. Filler up!
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And then the 20,000 employees of Apple corporate will walk around in a daze and then collapse to the floor and curl up and die because obviously they couldn't possibly understand what makes Apple special or be a part of how it works or be a
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I find it baffling Microsoft doesn't support IMAP access to any of their e-mail properties. You're stuck with POP3 or else a webmail client when on the desktop. They do offer Exchange Activesync for mobiles, but without EWS or IMAP you can'
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by jpxxx 14y ago
So it's AirPlay without the flexibility, WiDi without Intel's backing, DNLA without the install base, and they have to define and implement and debug any controller scheme you might possibly want to send over the air. Good luck.
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Guh, those were some of the absolute shittiest portables Apple ever put out. Even after the discoloring plasticizers were worked out, almost every single one of them saw the topcase flake and crack in normal use. Performance was poor out of
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Oh don't 'dude' me over his sloppy grab bag of complaints. A pretty good case could be made that Apple's bifurcation of the MacBook Pro line was unnecessary - while they clearly can't manufacture Retina displays in adequate volume and a de
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You prefer the presence of an optical drive so you can tear it out and then put in a mechanical HDD? The product you want is called a MacBook Pro and it is currently for sale in any configuration your heart desires. While we're on it, the r
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by jpxxx 14y ago
This site is wonderful, thank you. Here's a quick list I pulled of common apps with Mountain Lion problems. The Sims TiVo Desktop Hulu Desktop Virtualbox 4 VMWare Fusion 3 Perian LogMeIn MacPorts MailTags MacFuse for NTFS DynDNS Updater

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