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by lotso 13y ago
>Holy crap, that's lazy. Isn't a lot of the benefits of technology about making things easier to do?
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by lotso 13y ago
You need the disc in the tray to play games installed to the hard drive (that weren't digital downloads).
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by lotso 13y ago
>That would have been really innovative. And a great way to lose out on billions of sales.
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by lotso 13y ago
People don't want the hassle of owning a gaming PC vs a laptop for many reasons. It's much easier to just buy a console that will last for 8 years rather than worry about your computer getting out of date in 3 years. It's eas
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by lotso 13y ago
>You can easily get to that conclusion by gauging the HD storage shipping with each unit. Add to that the average speed of Internet in the US, and you have a poor situation for over the net gaming. You can add an external hard drive (sup
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by lotso 13y ago
>It's incredible how the Xbox team thought, "Look at that money over there. Let's take it!" What's next, Wal-Mart charging Ralph Lauren every time a customer comes in wearing a Polo shirt (because why should othe
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by lotso 13y ago
The once per day is to ensure you still have legitimate access to the game. The point of restricting used games is that all games are treated as digital downloads, whether they are delivered over the internet or through a disc install.
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by lotso 13y ago
What is a "girls perspective" ?
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by lotso 13y ago
Most of the time spent on Xbox is streaming video. How does that not fit in line with what their consumers want?
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by lotso 13y ago
Interesting to see everyone speculate on how terrible of an investment this is when most users couldn't wrap their head around the concept of Snapchat ~7 months ago. Here's why the need $100 million: They are building the future o
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by lotso 13y ago
This is an incorrect history of Snapchat. Snapchat was a couple of college kids' summer project. It had a couple of thousand of users in the Fall of 2011, but didn't take off until it went viral in a couple of LA high schools. They raised m
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by lotso 13y ago
I thought the Sony one was universally panned?
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by lotso 13y ago
I've been using PayPal for 8 years now. Never have had a problem. I'm well aware of their actions with freezing accounts, but I think it's a hard problem when you deal with money and millions of users across the globe.
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by lotso 13y ago
Which of the top apps on the App Store don't theme iOS?
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by lotso 13y ago
Microsoft doesn't have the APIs necessary to enable ads.
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by lotso 13y ago
HackerNews is pretty flat and still usable to me.
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by lotso 13y ago
For over a year, I couldn't log into the Twitter for Mac client. Hope this fixes it!
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by lotso 13y ago
> HBO actively refuses to even think about an Internet-only subscriber model. And you know this how? I'm pretty sure the execs at HBO have run the numbers. Why HBO Can't Afford To Offer A Stand-Alone Streaming Service http://www.forbes
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by lotso 14y ago
Is it worse if Twitter lets flattr do this and then shuts them down later?
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by lotso 14y ago
> Check-ins are moving to Facebook, Path, etc., so now Foursquare is left with local promotions but no core utility for the user. Is this anecdotal or based on data?
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by lotso 14y ago
Was any of the content copyrighted and therefore the cost was to pay for licensing that content? That was a common cause for the somewhat high prices for our course readers in college.
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by lotso 14y ago
The latest Gmail app is pretty nice.
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by lotso 14y ago
Definitely can relate to this post, but for me a lot of the stress turns into anxiety, which makes things even worse. How do people deal with controlling their anxiety?
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by lotso 14y ago
>This is disturbingly cynical advice. If you stand by it, why not attach your real name to it? If not, why put it in public? Could you explain this logic?
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by lotso 14y ago
Didn't he basically just dump a bunch of classified information, without actually going through it to see if it was worth releasing or if somethings were worth omitting from the release?
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by lotso 14y ago
Well Mr. Brown was part of the team when they launched, so he wins?
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by lotso 14y ago
Why are people upvoting this blog post that is pure speculation about the lawsuit? Oh wow, you made an angry blog post about how execution is king. Well, of course it is. My question to the OP is how do you know how much Mr. Brown contribut
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by lotso 14y ago
Well, Evan Spiegel, the CEO of Snapchat, went looking for someone to code it for him. Would you tell him he had no business starting a tech company?
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by lotso 14y ago
There are more programming/CS jobs every year than graduating CS majors.
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by lotso 14y ago
I read the NYT article. The takeaway for me was that there are serious problems with the car in cold weather. Regardless of it is "kinda of" true, cold weather concerns aren't "nonsense."

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