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by jsz0 11y ago
> Casual gamers don't care about playing on their TV. Is that really true though? Seems like an under serviced market to me.
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by jsz0 11y ago
If no paired remote is detected I'm guessing it'll prompt you to re-pair?
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by jsz0 11y ago
> the N.T.S.B. recently reported that they were involved in one in eight of all fatal accidents and about one-quarter of all fatal accidents in work zones Involved or at fault? It seems like these stats are including accidents where truc
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by jsz0 11y ago
Third party battery replacements can be purchased for ~$10 or less for most phones. With first party batteries you're mostly paying for a warranty, maybe a higher quality battery, and nicer packaging.
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by jsz0 11y ago
For ISPs there simply wasn't enough customer usage of NNTP servers to justify their continued existance. 5 years ago when I was working at a mid-sized ISP only about 2% of our customers used our NNTP servers. We carried binary groups a
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by jsz0 11y ago
> Absolutely no one wanted it. No one asked for it. How so? Billions of people choose to pay for services/software with their privacy these days. Microsoft isn't to blame for that. If anything they were really late to the party
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by jsz0 11y ago
> This is not going to fly with business customers. If businesses fall too far behind adopting modern software/features their employees are familiar with using on personal devices they will have to accept reduced productivity.
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by jsz0 11y ago
> This is about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success. That's how the music business has always worked. With a few exceptions labels take a loss on the startup costs of
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by jsz0 11y ago
Carriers who choose to offer 'free' iPhones are doing it for basically the same reason as the labels accepted this deal with Apple. They're willing to take a short term loss / risk in exchange for years of revenue from s
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by jsz0 11y ago
> "you're filling my eyeballs with garbage." This is fundamentally a usability problem. One of the main reasons I use ad blockers is invasive web advertising often forces more mousing/tapping. Due to many many years o
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by jsz0 11y ago
FYI Safari on OSX has officially supported ad blocking extensions for over 5 years. You can install [AdBlock]( https://extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.betafish.adbloc... ) from Apple's extensions site.
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by jsz0 11y ago
> Which is still not "pulling it off" Honestly if you're that nervous and scared of what might happen in the future there's probably nothing Apple (and most other companies) can possibly do to comfort you. Probably be
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by jsz0 11y ago
> This product seems rushed Apple is almost always conservative with the feature set of software shipping on first-generation devices. Maybe they learned an important lesson in the 1990s about the dangers of not building on a solid found
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by jsz0 12y ago
> By that logic" doesn't belong anywhere near a discussion of Apple review guidelines or behavior. Just like every other rule/law in the world.
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by jsz0 12y ago
Market share matters because when a viable competitor exists in the market it provides a check/balance.
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by jsz0 12y ago
> I'd want to see the name in the description/meta-data. I would much rather go to a web site that specialized in covering Pebble apps. The rankings, reviews and comments would be more relevant to my interests. Even simply doin
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by jsz0 12y ago
> automatically switches you to the "fastest" network available. It'll be interesting to see what type of impact this has on battery life / reliability. > refunding data I'm surprised they didn't go with
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by jsz0 12y ago
It's not just the ads. The shows are louder too. This is in large part due to the poor quality of speakers in many modern TVs. Same reason for the loudness war in music. The audio is mastered to sound good on bad speakers. It's mo
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by jsz0 12y ago
> no way for developers to build meaningful relationships with their customers Isn't that just a nice way of saying 'forcing a meaningful relationship' onto the customer? Obviously users can seek out more information from
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by jsz0 12y ago
The changes started in 10.7 to modernize OSX with some iOS inspired features have grown into killer features for me. When you add up everything from the last few years it's an impressive list: * HiDPI support & Retina scaled resolu
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by jsz0 12y ago
Siracusa's OSX reviews offered the same quality and attention to detail Apple puts into their best products. The reviews were also an incredibly valuable resource in the early days of OSX when it was hard to find any good coverage of t
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by jsz0 12y ago
> I think my OSX machine is more than capable of serving my own personal cloud to me Yep it sure is. That's why there are many software options available for exactly this purpose. It's your responsibility to use them if that&#x
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by jsz0 12y ago
Any device with a modern web browser can access Photos libraries via the iCloud web site. You can also use apps like DropBox/OneDrive/etc to upload you photos to other cloud services. Why should Apple be a middleman in that proces
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by jsz0 12y ago
There's never been any limitation preventing access to data inside the iPhoto Library. The library is simply files in directories with a database to glue it together. I've used software such as exiftool / photorec to yank dat
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by jsz0 12y ago
There's certainly room for improvement but when the odds of file system / medium causing data loss are lower than more practical concerns like fires, theft, etc isn't that really good enough?
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by jsz0 12y ago
HFS+ is not fundamentally unreliable. The potential exists for data corruption to occur in the amount of time required for the kernel to panic and halt. Even when that happens it still requires the stars to align and catch the HFS+ process
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by jsz0 12y ago
These developers are very naive if they are unaware confidentiality / non-defimation clauses are part of most B2B agreements. As a general rule yes you should fear breaking contracts. Bad things might happen.
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by jsz0 12y ago
MagSafe was great when laptops got 3-4 hours (or less) of battery life which required re-charging in hostile conditions. MagSafe3 is 8-10 hours of battery life. No one can possibly trip over your charger if it's not plugged in.
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by jsz0 12y ago
> bagful of adaptors that weigh more than the laptop They would have to carry around somewhere between 30 to 50 adapters to reach 2 pounds. I'm excluding the power adapter since that's a baseline for any laptop.
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by jsz0 12y ago
OSX has ZFS via OpenZFS.

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