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by melange 13y ago
It is considerably harder to fake.
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by melange 13y ago
Theirs is better than the standard old fingerprint scanners and far better than using 'nothing' which is what they are replacing. They have blown nothing out of proportion.
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by melange 13y ago
That's not a 'critique', rather it is uninformed prejudice. The concept that averaging faces produces attractiveness has been well studied: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averageness The jezebel author a
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by melange 13y ago
And what does that particular choice of boundary represent?
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by melange 13y ago
ARMv8 in this case is just an instruction set spec. Apple's implementation is very much something to steal, given that it outperforms everyone else's.
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by melange 13y ago
I know where the assertion about the round corners comes from. Are you seriously claiming that this is all that Apple has contributed to the design of modern smartphones?
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by melange 13y ago
If you really think Apple has contributed nothing more to the modern smartphone than 'rounded corners', this is not the appropriate place to ask this question because you risk being mistaken for someone trying to start a flamewar.
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by melange 13y ago
Gruber reported the speculation as just that - speculation. He didn't write crazy opinions about how 'Samsung was doomed' or how 'Samsung's CEO should step down' etc. etc. His swift acknowledgement of when he
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by melange 13y ago
The A7 seems pretty exciting to people who pay attention to these things: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review
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by melange 13y ago
An arrangement of atoms is a snapshot of a small part of a physical process with arbitrary boundaries drawn around it.
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by melange 13y ago
They are afraid of this, and are moving away from Samsung as fast as they can, but indeed for now, Samsung is the only option.
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by melange 13y ago
They are doing everything the can to source a new provider. There just aren't that many people who have the manufacturing capacity to produce these chips at scale.
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by melange 13y ago
They gimmickify it because they don't want to be just making commodity devices on Google's behalf. They want people to notice a difference between their handsets and others and to be deterred from switching to something that look
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by melange 13y ago
I think we are in agreement. Although I'll comment that I think the brain is purely physical, but that the mind is an abstract entity that we don't have a good understanding of. It extends beyond the brain, not in a supernatural
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by melange 13y ago
You've contradicted the statement that you made elsewhere - that it's the arrangement of atoms that matters. There's nothing magical about the processes, but the specific state matters.
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by melange 13y ago
When the robot points the flamethrower at you, and announces using the Siri voice, "Fear not, a backup has been made", you will no longer be confused.
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by melange 13y ago
I don't really see how Jini was trying to solve the same problems. iBeacons are really just a simple way to discover devices nearby broadcasting a UUID. Jini was a super complicated attempt to create a distributed device fabric, whic
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by melange 13y ago
It's worth noting that iOS devices themselves can serve as beacons - so, for example a payment terminal app running on an iPad can announce itself to nearby iPhones.
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by melange 13y ago
What specifically has Jini got to do with this?
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by melange 13y ago
Bloggers, for the most part. There are minor regressions that people are making a big deal out of, but usability overall has gone up dramatically. Anecdotally, my 65 year old mother in law and non-techie wife have had no problems with the
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by melange 13y ago
This is just FUD. It's clear why sandboxing is required for the MAS - so that users can expect iOS like safety from the apps. It's also clear why MAS is required for iCloud - because otherwise anonymous developers would be able
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by melange 13y ago
In others words make a domesday robot that remembers people before it kills them. As they die, some will take solace in a religious belief that numbers in the machine represent everything they were and ever will be. Others will just die. A
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by melange 13y ago
Assuming that we accept that the 'arrangement' is what we are, and not the specific atoms, copying that arrangement would produce a new arrangement that isn't you, since all the atoms are arranged differently relative to al
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by melange 13y ago
Kurzweil works for Google.
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by melange 13y ago
I.e. People who think they are machines want to live forever?
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by melange 13y ago
I wonder why they chose today to announce this.
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by melange 13y ago
Apple can't control the quality of discussion in forums. It's not 'bad news' for them in particular that people have illogical discussions. As to self selection - I don't know what the composition of HN in general i
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by melange 13y ago
I don't think anyone's ignoring the decisions. Apple prioritized getting updates into the hands of customers. Google did not, since as you say their design decisions make what apple has achieved impossible for them.
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by melange 13y ago
And that fundamental difference leads to some advantages - More devices to choose from, cheaper hardware, side loading. And some disadvantages - most users have an outdated operating system, and developers have to deal with fragmentation of
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by melange 13y ago
Not only that, but by default, swipinging the view controller off to the right I.e. Physically reversing the animation that brought in in, also functions to go back, so the 'button' is more of a signpost of what you will go back t

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