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by jpxxx 15y ago
Who cares about "security"? This is an aesthetic goldmine: the ability to emboss passive no-power fluorescence onto any surface or material permanently is huge. Tattoos, buildings, glassware, bezels, cars, reflectors, furniture... jeez. Thi
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by jpxxx 15y ago
Apple -> System Preferences -> Sharing To confirm it kicked in, open Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal and type 'hostname'. This is what anyone else on the same network sees you as. You'll also see your machine on other
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by jpxxx 15y ago
This is what Bonjour (nee Rendezvous aka Zeroconf) does in life, and Windows machines do the same thing. Hostnames are not private otherwise why would you need a name in the first place?
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by jpxxx 15y ago
I don't think there's remotely enough money in apps to justify future development. This OS will need hundreds of millions of dollars in development to stay competitive and it's not starting with a userbase of any real size.
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by jpxxx 15y ago
Honest question: to what end is this happening? They receive no money from a sale of the project, they still have to commit engineering resources, they lose some level of control over its development and its future,and how is it going to be
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by jpxxx 15y ago
I don't feel this situation is the same. Microsoft didn't win for two decades by nibbling small potatoes off of everyone else's plate, they won by persecuting swallowing entire industries that were evolving rapidly. Word processing, filese
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by jpxxx 15y ago
That is absurdly limited thinking. Ponder that iCloud was invented to ensure the following scenario: that a typical user could not, in any reasonable scenario, irrevocably lose the user-state associated with their purchased applications. Ap
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by jpxxx 15y ago
Literally the most important single figure in all of computer technology just died, a man more popular and beloved than the President and the Pope combined, and you're upset because this frontpage will be afire with the news for a few hours