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by jpxxx 14y ago
Apologies! I stand corrected.
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I was counting both Macs and Windows PCs with iTunes installed. iTunes can pack up both audio and video and airplay it over to a receiver. "device" was a poor choice of words, apologies.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
It is true that PCs only have the one workflow: airplay audio out of iTunes. And iTunes is a raging piece of shit. But it is basically a system service on iOS, which does not require iTunes. And with the next release of the Mac OS, display
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Yikes. This is a $300 product that is incapable of doing the single thing it says it does on the box. It directly competes with Google TV yet doesn't offer any integration with it. There's no official developer story, no promise of future f
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Both Message-ID spoofing/reuse and dressing up the message body to look like it was coming from a mobile device would probably rank the spam's quality lower than otherwise. Occam's razor argues that this genuinely did come from an Android O
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by jpxxx 14y ago
My example was pure hyperbole. :) But I think my point stands: any government program can be justified by some party, deficit or not. Even deficit spending itself is a virtue for some. There is no test to separate pork from fiber where ther
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The actual value of a government program is a meaningless thing because the calculations you do depend entirely upon what you or your cohort personally value. The American military's V-22 tilt-rotor "Osprey" helicopter program will cost app
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What happens if the stream is interrupted? How long do you wait for it to start? When do you tell the user? What do you tell the user? What options do you give them? Do they even care? What if the disk you're writing to disappears? What if
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Letting an obscurant input handling bug fester so that they can drive people to a 41% margin product instead of a 40% margin product? Doubtful.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
:) Discussing ever-changing authentication schemes alone could (and does) fill a book. Then protocol changes. Discovery changes. UI changes. Better feedback on copy/delete performance. Pause/resume. Syncing and replication schemes. Performa
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I've played this - its wonderful. Soothing, quiet, a little quirky. The + expansion pack is a total disappointment but the game itself is well done, cleverly designed, and genuine fun.
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That's uninformed and goofy.
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"We took away this thing you know and replaced it with five things you don't on the theory that you'll be so delighted with the changes that you'll be more willing to purchase a less essential product from us in the future." That is a gamb
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Anything to the right of the divide on the dock is considered a stack, which is just a pinned folder. Once the user accidentally drags it off the dock, it poofs away and they are lost.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
This is true, I agree. But naive/novice users are stranded without it when they switch. Dock pinning doesn't come to them if they don't understand Windows Taskbar pinning, finding /Applications is not a sure thing, and adding items to the D
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I think this is going to go over like a lead balloon for the significant population of Windows users who are UI-blind. They do not know how to pin apps to the taskbar, they do not know any keyboard combos, they do not press the Start key on
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I think you're both talking about different sides of the same problem. Visualize a single SSD cell as a bucket of electrons. If it's full of electrons, it stands for 1. If it's empty, it stands for 0. Reading this is fast and unambiguous -
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The perceptual performance increase from a SSD in a laptop or a desktop is tremendous, and there's no going back once you make the leap. Hopefully, HDDs will shortly follow DVD-ROMs down the memory hole for portables.
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The -4 on my post argues you're right. :) But nonetheless, I'm popcorn.giffing over this whole kerfuffle. Apple has descended into hell, rose again from the dead, ascended into marketshare heaven, and is seated at the right hand of Oracle t
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Nope. But it's a great deal of (nasty) fun watching a former hundred pound weakling pulverizing three gorillas at once in the ring.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Thought experiment: $100 subsidized, fun design, good accessories, amazing social photo experience, great keyboard, and comes with all the free messaging you can stand paired with a cheap data plan. Kin + Crackberry
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Two copies solves more problems than it wastes space. What you're describing is concurrent access to a shared resource, which means we now need to start having the following discussions: - Who's accessing? - Where's the thing they're access
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Relax. :) Now we're getting to the crux of the situation. Let's talk spreadsheets. That's a pretty data-freshness-critical thing, yes? Jennifer gets an e-mail with an Excel attached. She previews the Excel, decides it needs an edit, and ta
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I understand what you're saying, but you need to illustrate an actual problem beyond "technically there's two" that this causes in mobile workflows for typical consumers. That the current Send-To idiom is limited is not under dispute. That
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Free and unprofessional advice on how to avoid Mac malware and headaches: - DO NOT INSTALL A VIDEO CODEC PACKAGE - DO NOT RUN COPIED OR TORRENTED SOFTWARE - DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANTIVIRUS PACKAGES OR "SYSTEM CHECKERS" - Enable Firewall (System P
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Yes and no, mostly "no". There are functioning Microsoft Office trojans that can self-replicate through e-mail. There was a largely harmless but extremely widespread trojan that did drive-by Java attacks on webpages. Repeat the above for Fl
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Dropbox, Skype, and Microsoft Office being distributed through App Store would be a hallelujah moment for me beyond all other hallelujah moments. A staggering number of people I meet either can't get the job done, are too intimidated to s
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Missouri, circa 50's, catholic school.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I wish to debate for a bit. You're technically right on so much of this but keep coming to Apple-sucks conclusions that I don't feel are warranted. Let's grant this: if malicious code can start executing on OS X as a regular user, it's game
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My parents were both in schools where they were physically beat, their fellow students were physically beat, and physical violence was always on the table as a response to student behavior. Their resentment (and the feeling of betrayal by t

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