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by moskie 15y ago
Right. I'm not sure why others are misunderstanding how crowd-sourcing this information helps solves the problem. People saying that size numbers vary greatly are missing the point. If I say a particular piece fits me well (regardless of it
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by moskie 15y ago
Maybe they could crowdsource this type of information. "People who said this item fit well, also said these items fit well..."
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by moskie 15y ago
Good points. I guess I just fall into the category of people who want my phone/tablet to act as a fancy remote control, more than I want to be able to transition from watching a specific thing between multiple places.
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by moskie 15y ago
This also illustrates one of my bigger gripes with how AirPlay works, in general. Why should the mobile device, that has limited battery (and maybe connection speeds) be the device that does the heavy lifting in this situation? The Apple TV
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by moskie 15y ago
Would it be possible to load the files in Eclipse (or any editor) via USB, then edit and save them, and have AIDE compile and run it? This would save the hassle of maintaining Eclipse and the Android SDK on you development machine.
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by moskie 15y ago
Right, but that would allow you to see and (gasp!) install apps that Amazon doesn't want you to install on the Fire.
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by moskie 15y ago
No one arrives at any design independently. Design decisions are always informed by what's been proven successful, whether be the current designer or their competitors. Apple has of course influenced the market. The question is whether Appl
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by moskie 15y ago
It's a different color, which, in Apple's view, is good enough of differentiation. But I do wish it was a more standard USB port, like the micro one that Amazon's adopted.
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by moskie 15y ago
Any other sources to back this up?
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by moskie 15y ago
Is it safe to assume that eBooks will eventually go through a similar lifecycle as mp3s? Where, at first, publishers force DRM on items sold, but eventually give in because of customer complaints and demands regarding stuff like what happen
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by moskie 15y ago
I do. Every time I visit YouTube. Or Hulu. Or Pandora. Or Amazon Instant Video. Or Amazon Cloud Player.
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by moskie 15y ago
This made me choke on my coffee.
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by moskie 15y ago
-Step 1: Go to Bakesale Betty's -Step 2: Go to Scream Sorbet -Step 3: There is no step 3.
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by moskie 15y ago
Insiders often use the slang word "typo."
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by moskie 15y ago
I'm sure there's plenty of people who have referred to OSX as "Windows." Might not be the case so much now that Macs are becoming more popular, but I think my point still stands: calling for either tablet to be banned is just as absurd as c
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by moskie 15y ago
I used to have a 3G Kindle, but it was stolen, and now I have a WiFi Kindle. I agree with what you guys are saying, but without the 3g, my impulse purchases have really gone down. For example, I used to buy periodicals while on the train wi
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by moskie 15y ago
Right, that's true, but I was thinking just of e-ink devices. It's a tough sell, though, since e-ink devices are really only good for reading, so there might not be much incentive for creating an open e-ink device that can run 3rd party app
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by moskie 15y ago
And the problem with saying "No one will buy Amazon e-books without a Kindle, and no one will buy a Kindle if they can't read the books elsewhere," is that it's already untrue. With the Kindle app on iOS and Android devices, plenty of peopl
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by moskie 15y ago
Is there a hope that with more (successfully) competing e-book vendors, more DRM-free books will be in the works? As a Kindle owner, the biggest thing preventing me from considering buying a Google books based device would be the fact that
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by moskie 15y ago
My understanding is that it's not just search results we're talking about here. Search for "x-men first class san francisco" and the first thing you see isn't a search result, but information from Google's Movies service. Various similar fe
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by moskie 15y ago
As an ASP.Net/C# developer, I saw these new HTML5/JS tiles as an opportunity for my skills to be applied in a new context. I'm actually pretty excited about that.
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by moskie 16y ago
He thinks (or claims) that we have network neutrality right now, and doesn't want that to change. He thinks (or claims) that since we got to this point without any rules or laws in place, we shouldn't eff that up putting any in place. (Just
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by moskie 16y ago
Well, right, that wouldn't be Jeopardy, but ultimately, I don't really care about Jeopardy, thus my question. What I (and most of us here, I think) would find interesting is how Watson's language processing abilities compares to that of (ve
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by moskie 16y ago
This makes we wish we could rate Watson's performance against the players in a way that didn't involve the buzzer. For instance, if Watson and each player were able to give responses for every single clue in the game, who would have the hig
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by moskie 16y ago
This was essentially my justification for buying a Kindle: it's about the price of a new bookcase.
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by moskie 16y ago
So, is this meant to be accessed from only Android devices? Is there a use for using it through Chrome on a desktop? Would I be able to purchase an app from my desktop, at which point my Android phone would (potentially) automatically downl
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by moskie 16y ago
Agree with others here that this is post is a bit... dramatic. But I think of this as a shortcoming of the English language. The fact that a gender-neutral pronoun for a person doesn't exist (or exists, but isn't widely used) is forcing thi
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by moskie 16y ago
So is there any concept of "files" and/or "folders" on the hard drive of these computers? If so, is there a file explorer app to manage them? Or is it black-boxed, like an iP(hone|ad|od)?
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by moskie 16y ago
Man, I just had my Kindle 2 stolen last month. (Well, I left it on a plane, but someone did take it and purchase stuff). This is tempting.
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by moskie 16y ago
Here's hoping it has something to do with turning iTunes into a web app/store. I'm not trying to make a not-so-subtle dig on Apple by saying this, but I don't own an i(Phone/Pod/Pad) or a Mac computer, so I don't use iTunes, which is horrif

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