maxsilver

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by maxsilver 13y ago
To be clear, I'm not defending most of it. I'm only defending 'ISP's can charge less to home users in exchange for them agreeing not to do specific things'. I'm not defending the anti-competitive nature of la
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by maxsilver 13y ago
Because not all internet is equal. Most ISP's give home users a significant discount on their service, in exchange for agreeing to certain assumptions about their use. This is done because most home users could never afford internet, i
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by maxsilver 13y ago
Actually, Sprint and T-Mobile are both on-record as planning on merging. They aren't planning to do so in the immediate future, but they both see the long-term end game being just three carriers in the entire US. All they are waiting f
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by maxsilver 13y ago
Yes, there are puzzles. Most are 'exploratory' (they can be solved by just one person who does a lot of backtracking / note taking, but are easier with two) A few actually require two people. (I can't remember if they ar
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by maxsilver 13y ago
There are five installments in the original Myst series : Myst - (Cyan Worlds) and realMyst (same game, re-created in 3D) Riven - (Cyan Worlds) Myst III : Exile - (Presto Studios, of Journeyman Project fame) Myst IV : Revelation (
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by maxsilver 13y ago
It's very similar to the old Uru, but it may have new content, depending on when you last played. (this version contains most-to-all of the original release, and also contains extra content from the GameTap revival)
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by maxsilver 13y ago
I think the parent's mistaken BB7 with BB10. With the modern BlackBerry software, they made a hugely significant effort, way more than Microsoft did. They included an entire Android 4.x runtime in their operating system, just so develo
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by maxsilver 13y ago
I completely agree, especially around the permissions. I'm also worried that this is the end. Every previous company thats built decent 'prosumer' or 'power-user' phones appears to be dead or dying. I loved my Palm
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by maxsilver 13y ago
It's unfortunate, as someone who just purchased a Q10 (switched from Android), I think they've finally got their act together and released something excellent. The Q10's battery life is great, the hardware keyboard is solid a
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by maxsilver 13y ago
We don't have to imagine it -- that is how it is in the US. For example, if you are on T-Mobile USA, living on the east coast, anytime you drive west, after about 100km your "4G" smartphone is reduced to a feature phone (ei
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by maxsilver 13y ago
> Some users have chosen to switch to Hangouts, which is a separate product. This is only partially true. Many folks had no choice. For example, on Android, anyone who had automatic updates enabled was automatically upgraded to Hangouts.
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by maxsilver 13y ago
Is there any service like FastMail, with a FastMail-like quality web interface, that offers ActiveSync support? I don't mind paying a little extra to cover the licensing. But I don't want to be stuck with IMAP again -- the biggest
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by maxsilver 13y ago
Dwarf Fortress? I guess it's not really a text adventure, but still...
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by maxsilver 13y ago
FreedomPop primarily uses Clearwire's WiMax network. Wholesale bandwidth is significantly cheaper on Clearwire than regular cell networks. (Clearwire gets an average revenue of $11 per user per month. Rumor is that their wholesale agreement
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The Start-Something Startups(mutuallyhuman.com)
24 points by maxsilver 15y ago|5 comments
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Clean Commits (Being Nice to your Fellow Developers)(mutuallyhuman.com)
2 points by maxsilver 16y ago|0 comments