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by ktizo 14y ago
All the cited apple patents on multitouch gestures appear to be filed since Jeff Han's TED talk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ - which clearly demonstrates many of the patented techniques. I find it really hard to understand
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by ktizo 14y ago
The internet is not killing storytelling or long form writing, and photos are not the new storytelling culture. There is plenty of long form writing on the web, which the people who read long form writing will happily go and read. And story
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by ktizo 14y ago
There were phone handsets with buttons on before cordless phones, so as far as the UI goes, there was little major invention initially. The main inventive requirement in touchscreen phones is in making small, thin, cheap touchscreen modules
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by ktizo 14y ago
buffer overflows could get messy.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I had a similar issue. Some bit of my head just started swearing and shouting stuff about op-amps before I could get any further. That happens sometimes.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Bespoke touch oriented UI systems have been around for a very long time, some of them surprisingly sophisticated and innovative. A mate of mine used to do interfaces for touchscreen information kiosks, for instance.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I was being very snarky, admittedly. The article just really irritated me and I was extremely drunk on rum.
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by ktizo 14y ago
The register can be good on tech issues, however it just goes completely mental if anyone mentions the words climate, nuclear, green or wikipedia anywhere within the editors earshot. Or if anyone shows Lewis a picture of some guns. Afte
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by ktizo 14y ago
If I was in China and looked at microsoft.com, I would think they were absolute idiots if it didn't default to Chinese. If you don't localise for all your major territories from your .com domain and force them to use a country domain instea
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by ktizo 14y ago
"Choosing google.com instead of google.nl however is a clear choice." No it isn't, .com is the global domain, not the english one.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Wasn't meaning it as intellectual, was more meaning it in as obsessed with pattern and order.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Good to see a More or Less story on HN. For those who don't follow it, it is basically either a UK current affairs show for the mildly autistic, or a regular open university maths and economics lecture - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00
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by ktizo 14y ago
I’m not Japanese. No shit. But ever since my wife and I moved to Kyoto, the Internet sure seems to think we are. The internet does not think. Or if it does, it has weird proto-dreams of kittens and porn. But it does not think of you, or
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by ktizo 14y ago
It is slightly more offensive to assume that .com + browser settings == english above the country you are originating from, if you aren't speaking english, anyway.
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by ktizo 14y ago
It asked her if she wanted Japanese and she clicked yes and it gave her Japanese. What crap do you think anyone is pulling here? Also, if in Japan, I would be surprised to find google.com not to be in Japanese, and I would expect to have to
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by ktizo 14y ago
Your stand is fairly unwarranted though. People know what "pointing your browser" means in this context as it is still a commonly used turn of phrase, even though it may date back into the long forgotten antiquity of almost 20 years ago.
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by ktizo 14y ago
You could think of it in terms of minimal states, sunshine and moisture might make moss happy. But happy for moss is only a very mossy kind of happyness and so is just a fairly simple form of cellular "Woo!" and not a lot else.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Not to beat a dead horse, but could we be any nearer to reddit? I wish I could hear from people who upvoted this one. I'm not sure who is ultimately responsible, however I think your response would definitely make the list of 0th world pr
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by ktizo 14y ago
After much consideration, the only stereotype I have found that consistently works in most situations is: People do lots of things. Most of them are crazy. And the more people there are, the more crazy the things are in general.
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by ktizo 14y ago
The problem in loss of manufacturing jobs is deskilling. You only have a solid industrial design base if you have manufacturing communities, otherwise their isn't a wide culture to draw on of people who understand these kinds of problems. A
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by ktizo 14y ago
I guess I should cancel the pizza delivery by dancing clowns then. Oh well.
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by ktizo 14y ago
a man never says Maybe unless he's absolutely sure that his mates aren't around. Also, do you only know three people?
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by ktizo 14y ago
I think you just did it pretty well.
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by ktizo 14y ago
You are basically claiming that fans of The Smiths are a particularly dangerous social group. I don't think you need to worry, they were going to bring about revolution, but then they decided not to because they didn't want to go outdoors a
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by ktizo 14y ago
In that case, why are there not a lot of people dead from this if it is that prevalent? Either the people you are describing are the most rubbish terrorists ever, or they are just really not that into killing, which would make sense really,
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by ktizo 14y ago
Was interested to learn about Nike actually doing the right thing by their logo designer when they made some money. Which doesn't excuse their manufacturing history.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Retinal scanners will probably be defeated in the next 5-10 years. I thought about this and wondered if you could make a hologram of the inverse of your retina, combined with the retina you want to have, on a contact lens.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Number 2) doesn't survive the barest comparison with history, as if it were true then there would never be political revolutions in oppressive cultures.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Well in that case, why not just have the tsars back. Because that worked out so splendidly well for russia last time, now didn't it.
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by ktizo 14y ago
So you are saying he must be unpopular or unimportant because he hasn't been put down for causing problems to the state? If you think all the popular and important people are dead, then you really hold very little hope for the living.

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