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by loire280 16y ago
Actually, Nintendo dropped that strategy with the most recent console generation (Wii) and look to be doing the same thing with the 3DS (their new portable). Wii hardware was sold at a profit from day 1. They were the underdog compared to S
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by loire280 16y ago
If it's an app that is supposed to be useful, it may very likely be worth $15 to you. A game that you enjoy for a few hours has already beaten a movie rental in value. Most users have, on average, gotten more than their money's worth on the
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by loire280 16y ago
Why will a huge portion of people not upgrade from XP? It's been at long time since you could buy a computer with it preinstalled (unless you specifically ask for it). Hardware attrition, upgrade cycles, and hopefully the end of the global
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by loire280 16y ago
Perpetual public beta is a problem, but there's a huge difference between a public beta from a huge corporation and a small private beta from a startup. I think it's pretty easy to judge based on company size, service momentum, number of co
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by loire280 16y ago
Now that Flash is baked into Chrome, if you only use Chrome you never have to worry about Flash updates. Last time a new version was announced, I was surprised to find it had already been automatically updated for me.
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by loire280 16y ago
My main problem with multitasking on iOS is that there isn't a good startup service implementation -- so for example if I restart my phone and don't open Google Voice at least once, I won't get push messages from it. However, one of the rea
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by loire280 16y ago
For mass adoption, yes. However, with the advent of cheap VPS hosting, most of the people willing to try a new language/framework before it hits Drupal/Django/Rails momentum are perfectly capable of deploying sites. Everybody has a VPS nowa
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by loire280 16y ago
I suspect most people never noticed the addition of multitasking in iOS. Suddenly Pandora didn't stop playing when they checked a mail message and their apps reopened much faster, but they probably credited/blamed the app developers for tha
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by loire280 16y ago
Groupon has had pretty huge revenue growth and is currently bringing in some hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue. Skepticism about the ability to maintain that growth rate, and the suspicion of many (especially here) that they
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by loire280 16y ago
O'Reilly sells DRM-free ebooks through their store, so they're unaffected. You load the ebooks onto the iPad using the usual transfer methods for media. It's one of the nice side-effects of selling DRM-free books: they don't need an app th
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by loire280 16y ago
I think the grandparent was talking about home use. Most of the time, anyone you see with a laptop in public is writing, coding, or some other type of "work" -- text-entry heavy activities that a device with a real keyboard will always be b
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by loire280 16y ago
Just use a hosts file that redirects known ad sites to 127.0.0.1 if you're worried about ads. It blocks everything, though occasionally it breaks things or causes weird behavior (like silent, blank ad pages on the NPR player).
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by loire280 16y ago
Yes, Photoshop knowledge is one of the major gaps in my toolset. I'm a little ashamed that I have to go to a designer for basic interface elements.
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by loire280 16y ago
There's still plenty of TWO letter domains out there. I registered oc.tl with gandi.net a few weeks ago.
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by loire280 16y ago
While better specs certainly never hurt, I've never heard any iPad users complain processing power or RAM. iOS does memory management seamlessly (if I didn't understand how it worked, I probably wouldn't even notice it) and the interface i
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by loire280 16y ago
Since Redis keeps the dataset in RAM, it offers performance in the same class as memcached -- though memcached is significantly faster. There's probably a way to run it without the persistence (or just decrease the snapshot frequency), tho
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by loire280 16y ago
That's an unfortunate side-effect of the Mac app store. It's too bad, because functional demos was one of the nice things about the Mac software ecosystem. I hope demos are a feature they're working on.
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by loire280 16y ago
If your goal is saving money, that's true. However, much of Groupon's appeal is the incentive to try new restaurants or do new things. The sushi place around the corner may be good, but you're probably not going to remember your nth visit.
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by loire280 16y ago
I think the revolutionary effect you are seeing can be better attributed to the fact that these populations have access to the Internet, especially through mobile phone. These people aren't leveraging the unique features of social media (th
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by loire280 16y ago
In July they announced that ebook sales had outpaced hardcover sales, so while sales probably haven't exceeded paperback + hardcover sales, it's certainly on pace to do so soon.
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by loire280 16y ago
In the article they say that paperback sales are still growing. It almost looks like ebooks are increasing the overall demand for books and are cannibalizing print books less than expected -- though without the actual sales data we can't b
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by loire280 16y ago
"Further, H.264 was a complete non-starter for Mozilla, and Firefox holds nearly 20% of the market. Using H.264 for HTML5 <video> would have guaranteed market segmentation and hurt the chances of a truly open future" Except Interne
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by loire280 16y ago
Then Sony's console business would go bankrupt? But seriously, except for scientific computing, the PS3 was a terrible Linux system, especially for the price. Is this really about restoring functionality, or is it just punishment?
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by loire280 16y ago
The marketing value of a supercomputer built from your company's product is surely worth the loss of subsidy. Each time one of them is built, it invariably results in a bunch of news stories. This helps reinforce the PS3's reputation as the
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by loire280 16y ago
Apple makes their money from hardware -- software sales are just icing on the cake. Sony, however, has to take piracy threats (since even well-intentioned cracking will lead to piracy) very seriously because they make all of their money fr
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by loire280 16y ago
I wonder if it means anything legally that (at least for the initial period of the console's life) Sony was selling the device for less than cost with the expectation that they would make up the difference with game sales. I think there is
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by loire280 16y ago
Credit cards are going to be the best form of payment for vendors for another decade. Even if next year all smartphones have NFC built-in, it will take many more years before there are enough users with NFC to make it worth supporting for a
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by loire280 16y ago
AT&T's reception problems seem to be mostly concentrated in a few large cities -- most notably NY and SV/San Fransisco. I'm a longtime AT&T customer and recent iPhone owner. I've lived in Milwaukee and Phoenix, and their reception
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by loire280 16y ago
My 12 year old brother and all of his friends use Facebook already. Many of them use the mobile site on their iPod touches. (incidentally, the iPod touch is a great way for Apple to build a userbase among the young)
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by loire280 16y ago
I get a lot of emails from recruiters who obviously have no idea that Java and Javascript are different languages. I wonder if many of those postings should have said "Javascript" instead. Anyone who says I'm a "strong candidate" for a big

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