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by jpxxx 14y ago
I don't, but let me talk louder and slower in case I'm being unclear. The goal is to sell subscriptions and in-app upgrades to game softwares of exceeding depth and breadth that are operated primarily with a keyboard and mouse. The Windows
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Yes, these are fascinating new ethical questions. watching legions of homeless, mentally ill vets mill on the street below
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Point well received, but just to be dead sure: System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Allow Applications downloaded from: [X] Anywhere will restore previous behavior.
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The technical considerations are uninteresting here: all of Blizzard's titles are optionally built to use OpenGL, letting them avoid the golden handcuffs of DirectX & Friends. So if porting is cost-effective, why would they do it when v
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by jpxxx 14y ago
There were many, many, many things to hate about the Hobbit beyond its length, and none of them are particularly well kept secrets. - Hobbit Hater
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So unit sales are down and margin is down and Windows' perceived value is down and the new touch paradigm isn't adding perceived value and the app store revenues are barely calculable but we shouldn't call Windows a flop because it might go
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While not germane to the conversation, it's worth pointing out that this is a wonderful movie with an exceptionally smart and computer-literate script that celebrates electronic culture instead of deriding it.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Correct, the tiles were from Google and Google got first cut of the route information. But Apple was the one collecting vectors, and there's no reason to think they were ever signing those over to Google.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Quibble: Apple has been collecting realtime traffic data from Apple Maps users since year one or two of iOS.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
The PC industry's shitty netbook lines killed the netbook. Apple was just standing there.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Literally triggered the day they released an advertisement touting the feature. Embarrassing for anyone, inexcusable for Apple.
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So if we redefine the term "netbook" from 'small, shitty, cheap laptop' to 'small, cheap laptop' then "netbook" sales were really always super healthy. Congratulations on achieving your word count, please stop.
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Oh, that moment of frisson when a piece of the future arrives. This is so excellent, thank you!
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Facebook is the one your family is on, and your family's news and personality emissions are quite literally priceless for many, many, many people. Most, even. If you want to come for Facebook you'd better bring a bigger gun than "I'm an Eas
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by jpxxx 14y ago
The only mortal threat to the US military is a cut in their trillion dollar budget. This super-soldier horseshit belongs in comics.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I do agree such a world would provide clearer signals. But while I admit that I am speaking well out of my depth, I don't see much evidence that people currently value television above 'Free' or 'Unlimited After Monthly Subscription'.
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There is no check sufficiently large to convince a $130B industry to smash their business model into bits. And the second they unbundle, half of their content pipeline evaporates overnight.
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--Setup Instructions for the OUYA ODK-- Windows: TBD Eclipse: TBD ... and no working homescreen, no friends lists, no simulator capable of working with the controllers, a dummy API for the store, no final hardware, no final controller, no
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I agree, the crowds can be punishing and that's certainly an alienating experience for many. But the stores remain at maximum capacity, they're the #1 retail draw anywhere they exist, and you're still sending Apple money. :)
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Whichever one comes with the touch cover... er, I mean the type cover. I mean the colorful one that is a keyboard but isn't a keyboard but I can type on it fast but just not as fast as a real keyboard but it's a real keyboard which makes th
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by jpxxx 14y ago
You are correct to describe Apple retail as a shopping "escape". There are interesting window displays, inviting and modern interiors, generally unobnoxious staff, and screechingly fast unlocked and unfiltered wi-fi. That's enough to be the
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I think folks are too quick to point to the iPad (& misc. tablets) as the cause of Win8's apparent downfall. PC vendors bungled this one on their own. It's a shitty economy and Microsoft & Friends are offering tired form factors, se
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Which Tizen and Bada are designed to do. They're shipping alternatives today that can let them juke if it gets hairy, taking their investments with them.
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Not badly enough, apparently.
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You're correct, this was The Oregonian's editing office and the erstwhile home of the owner but not a press. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittock_Block
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I believe this is in the Pittock Block building at SW 9th and Washington. While it's certainly not open to all comers, its no Fort Knox. Attractions upstairs include a police substation, two cafes, and a Swedish bric-a-brac-ery.
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The weird thing about Safari is that it's simultaneously a niche irrelevance on a minor computing platform, a groundbreaking web browser of major historical import, and the public face of the most important wad of code in play on Earth toda
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Essential reading: end-of-year mobile phone statistics for 2012(communities-dominate.blogs.com)
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What a worthless site. I searched for "gun", "homeschooling" and "gay marriage" but nothing came up.
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No thanks. When you recall their once-titanic power, their vicious business culture, their decade-long seizure and stagnation of the entire web, the way they openly eat their own with gusto, and the incalculable amounts of money and effort

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