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by mikhailt 13y ago
Can't read the article, behind a paywall. However, it is not an embarrassment of riches IMO. Look at what happened to RIM/Blackberry, Nokia, and so on. Tech titans can fall at any given moment, and they are going to need to rely o
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by mikhailt 13y ago
That is true but CPUs and panels do decrease in power usage over time to the point that you can adopt Retina in MBA without harming the battery life. Not to mention if they find a way to cut down on the weight, they can also increase the ba
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Correct, that's one of the screen technologies that is supposedly already in place for the new iPad Airs.
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by mikhailt 13y ago
There will not be any more non-Retina displays from Apple in the near future (2 years max), they're just waiting for the fabs to catch up and for the costs to drop. This is one of the ways to do this, by reusing the iPad's screen
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by mikhailt 13y ago
If the article linked here is correct, there's nothing to worry about because it's the same panel as the iPad's screens, just slightly bigger.
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by mikhailt 13y ago
> The NYPD, which did not comment on the suit, has defended the program as a tool to catch people with larceny in their hearts by presenting them with the opportunity to do the wrong thing. WTF... No, this isn't how policing should
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by mikhailt 13y ago
How is that a negative? It really isn't and also, it still uses the standard USB connector at one end. It's the de-facto standard for all recent iOS devices and upcoming devices for the next 5 years, and a lot of people love the r
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Google was offered a seat in Rockstar, they also placed a bid, and so on. They didn't want to. What exactly do you expect Rockstar to do when several Android OEMs are infringing on their patents without paying for it?
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by mikhailt 13y ago
A serious question, what was the patent system created for? > ... gives Congress the power "[t]o promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their re
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Except Nortel did use many of those patents. They decided to sell it to Rockstar, full of owners who are likely licensing the patents to themselves for use in their products. Yes, technically Rockster is an individual company that doesn&#x2
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by mikhailt 13y ago
I don't have an understanding of this whole credits system, it just never clicks properly with me but that's my fault, I couldn't find a proper source to analyze it. While I totally agree with you, he does have a tiny point.
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by mikhailt 13y ago
If you want to sell your app to businesses or startups that have accountant who is going to look at the app to consider the requests to buy the app, then you have to consider the maturity of your landing page. Some of the jokes will put peo
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Ok, what if: 1. The person is already at normal BMI 2. Not smoking, no drugs, and no drinking 3. Doesn't drive 4. Not fit to adopt kids (not everybody is fit and we should never make this an incentive to get money. We had many horror s
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Huh? This isn't the same thing. What happened in China at that time was extensive and more complicated than this very basic system. It worked great in a small village in India recently; http://mondediplo.com/2013/0
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by mikhailt 13y ago
What does Project Gutenberg have to do with anything? They offer free books that are in public domain. Elsevier is selling books that are copy-righted and also recent. They're more about textbooks that are used in schools.
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Umm, no. That's not what it said. They went DRM-free on their books, meaning their collection of 16000 books are now DRM-free. There is some sale for some books selling for 1$ but absolutely nothing about the entire collection being av
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by mikhailt 13y ago
> Is the speed increase to gain from HTTP/2.0 really worth the loss of discoverability and the increase of complexity? It's my feeling that the connections are getting faster more quickly than optimizing HTTP would gain us. I b
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Really, you're bringing in ethnics and politics in this? You should be blaming the governments for allowing everybody to bypass the taxes with BS loopholes and everything. It's not ethnics, it's pure business. Apple is a busi
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by mikhailt 13y ago
To those who keeps saying "VS2013 preview and Windows 8.1 preview" are enough, so what? How is that any excuse not to release the finished code to the developers early so that they don't have to trust MS on this? How about we
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by mikhailt 13y ago
What are they thinking? There are zero excuses not to release it early to MSDN/TechNet. There could be show stopper bugs that those folks can find. Developer needs those builds the earliest as possible, not on the same day as the same
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Not only that, it will cause us the lead in innovation and technology services. It affects all apps that depend on those cloud services and they are getting yelled at by their customers for not providing better alternatives.
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by mikhailt 13y ago
It sounds too good to be true, which automatically means it will fail. Wish I was joking about this...
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Didn't Apple preach several times, especially at keynotes, about how they're all about the intersection between education and technology? Seems BS if you're just going to censor the education part for your own benefits.
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by mikhailt 13y ago
It all depends on what you use it for. For the Gov.uk site, they don't need an FAQ, their design works great to categorize most of their information in a consistent pattern and I agree, they don't need one, it worked great for me.
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by mikhailt 13y ago
disgrace |disˈgrās| noun loss of reputation or respect, esp. as the result of a dishonorable action [ in sing. ] a person or thing regarded as shameful and unacceptable How is it a disgrace? You're making it sound like Apple meant for
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by mikhailt 13y ago
They give you less than 12 hours to respond? Really? I would seek a lawyer if you can afford one and if not, then you can't afford a lawsuit either, so in this case, pull it offline. If you do the latter, you should post the results of
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6057117
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by mikhailt 13y ago
Convenience isn't an excuse to not encrypt security data, it does not matter if it is a limited to a few areas where it could be exploited. If Google (any companies, including Apple) can not be trusted to protect such information, they
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by mikhailt 13y ago
The problem I have is that media is going to basically make anything Snowden says as the truth, even if he doesn't have any proofs of this. He could cause a lot of serious problems if he shares his thoughts and opinions as facts . He
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by mikhailt 13y ago
It's not every American, it's every human being. This isn't just happening in US but most likely in every democratic country as well. We're not special or unique in this area, yes we should be leading the world in terms

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