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by mikelat 13y ago
Are they aware that if the techies leave, the demand for their jobs like making coffee and mopping floors will drastically decrease? These are not very forward thinking people.
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by mikelat 13y ago
That's the reason anybody remotely cares about this. Given that you aren't hosting your own email servers it's a likely possibility that your privacy won't be respected, however in Microsoft's case they had an entir
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by mikelat 13y ago
If this is an important issue then are there not people working on open source implementations of some of the apps? Maybe we can see a "distribution" of android that comes with f-droid and a host of other open source software prei
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by mikelat 13y ago
Nobody is "okay" with it but everyone is influenced by it and there's nothing you can do. If there's a company with a large marketing budget then you can bet a good portion of that budget goes towards making themselves l
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by mikelat 13y ago
> Not one single animal, insect or fish has evolved specifically to be eaten. I would disagree. Most animals didn't evolve any defense mechanism to make them less appetizing, and animals at the bottom of the food chain reproduce the
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by mikelat 13y ago
> what are some potential consequences of starving your body of sugars If you look at history we've never had so much sugar in our diet at any point in human history, not to mention the fact that most sugar isn't actually sugar
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by mikelat 13y ago
Maybe I wasn't clear, my point was that the major breadwinners still depend on their high operating system marketshare. I have no doubt that things like sql server would be the last to go, but if they ever lost their operating system m
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by mikelat 13y ago
Microsoft's ventures are very much dependent on their operating system though, making the entire company like a house of cards. If their operating system monopoly ever goes, the entire company would collapse with it since they're
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by mikelat 13y ago
They pick their hardware though, it's their device. You can't claim it's the drivers. I still don't really get what they're trying to do with the surface. If I want a tablet, I can buy a nexus 7 for cheap and it&#x2
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by mikelat 13y ago
It's a service, doesn't really fall into the same category as software you install on your machine (which you trust). You have no reason to trust their servers, but ultimately you're not giving them control over your hardware
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by mikelat 13y ago
They were busy trying to shift to a closed digital distribution platform, which gamers hanged them for. Granted their intentions were for their own profit margins and not at all for the consumer in mind, but things like that probably make t
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by mikelat 13y ago
Nintendo took a big risk for the Wii and reaped the rewards. From a consumer standpoint I want to see progress and change, that's what interests me. A lot of gaming these days seems to be taking the less risky route of making endless s
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by mikelat 13y ago
Call me impressed. I never thought that the biggest innovator and risk taker in the console market would be valve. All the other manufacturers have basically made their platforms "safe" and they're pretty much like the last g
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by mikelat 13y ago
They clearly think they own the market too despite the fierce competition from Sony and Nintendo, because the Xbox platform is now clearly about benefiting themselves and rather than selling a product to their customers. Hence the emphasis
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by mikelat 13y ago
I want to see a gmail type application I can run from my own servers, I don't have much faith in the cloud these days.
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by mikelat 13y ago
We've benefited from everything moving to web - we have actual choice in operating systems now and it should only get better with more competition. Let's be honest, the PC market was not what I'd call innovative and healthy f
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by mikelat 13y ago
The lack of innovation is because of lack of competition, the mobile space very competitive, innovative and healthy. For example the latest in high end smart phones sport a 1920x1080 display, which is the maximum resolution that my monitor
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by mikelat 13y ago
I would imagine that very few people in high levels of the company knew about this. I can't exactly blame them for the marketing campaign... just imagine you work for Microsoft's marketing division... Apple/Google are complet
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by mikelat 13y ago
I think the best part is that Microsoft has been bragging about how they care about privacy so much more than Google therefore you should use their products/services, and now they just got caught red handed doing the worst possible pri
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by mikelat 13y ago
What's sad that I'm neither surprised nor shocked about Microsoft doing this. If we hear the same about Facebook or Apple I'm not likely to be surprised either. If/when we hear the level of Google's involvement, tha
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by mikelat 13y ago
My next phone probably won't be a Motorola then. Does anyone know if this is a part of the Android Kernel? If it is it means they've modified the source code and they're obligated to share their changes.
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by mikelat 13y ago
> Google's wants to know as much about me as possible. Which is the reason they shut it down most probably. They can data mine your documents, emails, social networking etc but something like google reader doesn't help much. Th
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by mikelat 13y ago
I had a time where I suddenly didn't have access to internet for 3 weeks, and I didn't get the chance to put steam properly in offline mode or anything, however it still worked completely fine during this time and didn't feel
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by mikelat 13y ago
You can't really compare Steam's DRM to what Microsoft was proposing. Steam doesn't have the online checks and it isn't your only option if you want to buy PC games. A lot of the DRM Microsoft was going to implement simp
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by mikelat 13y ago
I'm just telling you what I've read. I don't agree with it, but it's reasonable to assume they ship a kinect with every xbox one, they want people to use it and they probably aren't thinking of mute people.
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by mikelat 13y ago
My guess is that it started with the simple idea of "we want to move to digital so we can phase out retail and get more out of each sale like steam does" (pressure from shareholders and increases in development costs). Then they p
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by mikelat 13y ago
You could very well do that. You could also crack open the kinect as soon as you buy it and change it so you can disable it by a switch or something like that. Although permanent disconnection apparently isn't a good idea as saying &qu
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by mikelat 13y ago
You are correct, but the amount of trust you have in products you buy and use is your personal choice. If you think that's what they're doing then you probably shouldn't buy sony products.
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by mikelat 13y ago
The gaming industry seems to be moving in the direction of the movie/music industry where they place completely unnecessary restrictions on the digital content they sell and blame their customers for it being there while all the meanti
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by mikelat 13y ago
This page says it's disabled by software - not by hardware. So it really depends on how much you trust the software and the people making it. The software is closed source and the people making it also happened to be the first ones to

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