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by jsz0 14y ago
I would guess Samsung has already paid license fees or come to some other arrangement. Otherwise they would probably have already been sued by AuthenTec over it.
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by jsz0 14y ago
From the ISP perspective it's actually getting easier to accommodate these faster speeds. Very few customers can actually saturate a 100Mbit/sec connection for more than a few minutes. I suspect the usage on a 305Mbit/sec package would be n
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by jsz0 14y ago
How about a content rating system? People are familiar with this from movies, television and music. A developer could declare their un-sandboxed application the equivalent of NC17 while most users live happily in their equivalent of a PG13
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by jsz0 14y ago
The problem with it is that you are assuming that your users are blithering idiots without any actual work to do. I think we are assuming there will be more sophisticated organizational systems built on top of this abstracted file system
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by jsz0 14y ago
For cable systems there have historically been some good technical reasons why upstream speeds are much lower. DOCSIS3 solves most of those problems. If there is a demand for it cable upload speeds can jump to 10-15Mbit/sec in the near futu
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by jsz0 14y ago
I can't recall ever experiencing auto termination on Lion or Mountain Lion throughout the DP previews. My hardware is nothing fancy -- 2011 MBA /w 4GB of RAM. What are your specs? Do you often have memory hungry applications open? Most of m
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by jsz0 14y ago
My understanding is with these 'B stock' parts the big guys will reject an entire batch / production run when the quality drops below a certain threshold. So these companies are probably salvaging the parts and either testing them or just p
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by jsz0 14y ago
I'm surprised the Mac grew at all given how late in the quarter they updated the notebooks plus no desktop updates at all. I guess it just proves how little people really care about spec sheets anymore -- or maybe they made it all up at the
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by jsz0 14y ago
Sparrow did everything right. They built an incredible email app I would say they did everything right except choosing to build an e-mail client. The days of paying for e-mail clients is long gone. The days of even using a local mail cl
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by jsz0 14y ago
This is exactly why people are skeptical of science. They view it almost exclusively through the mass media filter. When you see massively conflicting stories on a monthly basis it's easy to conclude scientists are just 'making it up as the
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by jsz0 14y ago
The greed at the top is too hungry for it to ever be enough. Whatever sum of money you pay them if they can make an extra $X on top of it selling you out they will.
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by jsz0 14y ago
negotiate some black market underworld he knows nothing about to get his guns Why not? Many people do it to obtain illegal drugs.
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by jsz0 14y ago
Agreed. Companies that were previously making Android tablets could probably make more money now building high margin accessories like cases and docks for the N7. To have done so much damage to the potential third party Android tablet marke
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by jsz0 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised at all if an impending Windows client was part of the timing for this deal. A resurgence of people using stand alone clients on PCs that don't display ads could have been a big problem for Google's business model. If
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by jsz0 14y ago
That's exactly why they had to kill it. If you don't use the web app you don't see GMail ads.
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by jsz0 14y ago
Anything that creates a bad user experience is ultimately bad for the platform so it's in everyone's best interest to get it fixed. In this case the update is probably 99.9% similar to the last paid update. That should really be a freebie.
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by jsz0 14y ago
Isn't that far worse for innovation? In this case we would have the original iPhone shipping in 2012 instead of 2007.
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by jsz0 14y ago
Apple presently has the most to lose due to the size of their bank account. I think when they were forced to settle with Nokia they realized you must play the game to win. The companies that have decided not to play to win are being naive i
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by jsz0 14y ago
anything you haven't been able to do on a consumer grade PC for the better part of a decade already. Just at a much lower cost on the iPad. The PC software packages for soft synths are often hundreds of dollars. Dedicated hardware can set
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by jsz0 14y ago
The Surface Pro would be interesting if it weren't 2 pounds. People had issues with the original iPad at 1.5 pounds. It may not sound like a big difference but it's not going to be the type of device you actually hold in your hands to use f
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by jsz0 14y ago
What about Plex? IIRC it's a fork of XBMC and has been available for both iOS and Android for the last 6 months or so. Nothing against XBMC but Plex is probably a better choice right now if you want something stable.
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by jsz0 14y ago
In the post-Jobs era I think we'll see more of this. Jobs was the face of Apple and he can't be replaced in that role. Going forward the best they can do is put other faces out there and let them be authentic and true to themselves in the
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by jsz0 14y ago
What new transitional UI effects did Mountain Lion add? I haven't noticed any differences.
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by jsz0 14y ago
I think it's an honest assessment about the momentum the iPad has in the market. It's a lot like the iPod. Was it Sansa (Sandisk?) that had very good small digital players about a year before the iPod Nano? Apple flipped the switch on the N
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by jsz0 14y ago
Classic misdirection. Apple wanted to enjoy big margins from $500+ iPads as long as possible. There was no reason for them to release a cheaper device until someone forced their hand. They still have all the momentum to make the move gracef
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by jsz0 14y ago
The benefit is mostly to reach a bigger market without cannibalizing the existing market too much. It would be awkward to sell a cheap 10" tablet that is really 'good enough' to most people along side an expensive 10" tablet. How do you exp
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by jsz0 14y ago
Yeah I think that's new in Lion. The flagging feature is a little half baked since you can only pick from preset color labels. If there's a way of renaming them to something more descriptive I have no clue how to do it.
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by jsz0 14y ago
It's amazing how fast things change these days. Good 7" tablets for $200-$250 really undermine the whole Windows 8 strategy. Carrying around a laptop and a cheap 7" tablet that is actually light enough to hold for long periods of time is go
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by jsz0 14y ago
I don't want multiple devices Do you want a 2 pound tablet though? That's the big problem with the Surface Pro. The original iPad at 1.5 pounds was generally considered to be too heavy by a lot of people. I can't imagine adding an additio
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by jsz0 14y ago
The delay is not good but these shareholders have to understand this is RIM's last shot. Rushing something out before it's finished isn't going to save them.

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