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by mrich 15y ago
I recall Eric Schmidt saying they thought about this, but the lawyers told them it would be illegal so they didn't explore it further.
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by mrich 15y ago
The thing is, even if Facebook used all of their cash for lobbying against software patents, there are many more entrenched companies on the other side of the fence that have spent billions already on patents and will defend their investmen
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by mrich 15y ago
Great, I will give it a try (but probably go back to MIUI).
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by mrich 15y ago
Nobody wants to work hard (learn to program), everybody wants to show off a coding masterpiece, say Quake or Future Crew's second reality, to their friends. A good teacher leverages the latter to motivate students to do the former.
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by mrich 15y ago
I fully agree with you. It seems the louder somebody shouts "Apple is the best, they invented x" the more you can be sure that - the person has not much background in computing - often hated/never could get PCs to do what they wanted/is sca
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by mrich 15y ago
This cannot be emphasized enough. High-performance algorithms are constrained by memory latency/bandwidth and the CPU caches. Java, with its large per-object space overhead is not well suited for this. You need special case libraries to get
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by mrich 15y ago
Well, last I checked Samsung, HTC, Motorola, HP, Dell, Asus didn't receive bailouts. We are talking about tech companies here - arguing that Apple does not care about profit is naive at best, as shown by my original argument. They could eas
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by mrich 15y ago
Would you ask your bank to raise the interest on your mortgage so they can become more independent and offer you another mortgage later?
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by mrich 15y ago
Easy counter-argument: If Apple is placing the customer first, why not sell the product at half the price (thus only 5% profit margin), wouldn't that make more customers even more happier? Branching out to different fields )i.e. iPod) than
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by mrich 15y ago
I agree with you to some point that Apple's focus on quality has played a large part in their success. However, an equally large amount has been due to heavy branding/advertising of Apple as the superior, luxury brand. This influences peopl
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by mrich 15y ago
This may be the case, and I admit Android is still a little bit behind iOS in that regard. What I despise, however, is the article's tone, which tries to make it look like this minor difference is important to the user, and he will hate And
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by mrich 15y ago
Have you actually used the Galaxy Nexus (which should be the only 4.0 phone) It has no lag/ stutter. The same goes for most of the dual-core Android phones.
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by mrich 15y ago
I think the trackpads are good (I mainly use the keyboard so I prefer the smaller ones over Apple's, because the keys are reachable more easily) What is it you don't like? (I'm judging the T510, T60 was also ok)
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by mrich 15y ago
Regarding hardware quality: "...why there's no PC manufacturers that would have the same overall quality of the hardware." In my experience, business ThinkPads beat MacBooks by a mile for working (e.g. programming). I am surprised
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by mrich 15y ago
I love the seamless WiFi calling on my Galaxy S2 (running MIUI ROM). When I'm at home or work and have free WiFi, I can make calls for landline prices (and cheaper if the call goes abroad) without launching an additional app etc. When I'm o
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by mrich 15y ago
For me it is one of the reasons why I avoid Apple products.
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by mrich 15y ago
C++ is great if used with care, the problem is that it has too many features and many things are quite braindead. Features are hardly ever removed (I like the Python approach better) But for complex, high performance applications it is stil
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by mrich 15y ago
It's even hard to come up with all the relevant test cases - if you miss a corner case in the implementation, it is likely you will oversee it also in the test case generation. Only an exhaustive search would somehow be able to discover thi
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by mrich 15y ago
You can find info here (unfortunately not just an easy download) http://www.sap.com/hana/index.epx
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by mrich 15y ago
I didn't realize Android had 40% marketshare, quite amazing! Anything that creates competition is good for the customer.
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by mrich 15y ago
I see. So for a large dataset you would still hit a bottleneck, compared to a main mem store which also uses compression. But nonetheless it's a good idea to do certain operations on hot data on the GPU. Which operations benefit the largest
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by mrich 15y ago
Congratulations, well done! Our team has built an in-memory DB (hybrid, both column and row store available, also using advanced compression). We have investigated GPUs for scans, we found that while they can outperform CPUs, the bottleneck
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by mrich 15y ago
Yes, the German export industry has been heavily subsidized by the monetary structure of the eurozone. This is paid for by the guarantees of the various bailout funds (hastily-constructed EFSF, to be replaced by permanent ESM), which are mo
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by mrich 15y ago
But please do not forget doing actual work and reflecting on it regularly :)
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by mrich 15y ago
They are using their dominance in the tablet market to own another market, exclusively on their terms. Similiar to what Microsoft did when bundling IE with Windows. I would not be surprised to see an antitrust case against Apple in the near
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by mrich 15y ago
Better deals with networks? iPhones are heavily subsidized at the cost of Android devices by the carriers. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/12/15/verizon_soakin...
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by mrich 15y ago
But that is irrelevant to the person who has to pay this added middleman.
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by mrich 15y ago
That 30% has to be paid without getting anything in return (bandwidth and storage only cost a fraction). Textbook publishers on the other hand provide value (advertising/lectoring...), which still has to be paid for. So prices will rise. I
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by mrich 15y ago
Apple is using the iPad as a platform to leap into publishing, eager to also collect the 30% Apple tax in this industry. Smart move, but it will be a sad day when schools/pupils will have to pay 30% of the price to the device manufacturer j
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by mrich 15y ago
At the moment each OS vendor is pushing their own cloud solution (Azure, iCloud, Kindle Amazon cloud storage) Dropbox could become the universal cloud storage, which can be accessed using identical APIs on every platform, thus becoming the

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