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by msabalau 14y ago
Indeed. Our governor recommended that people stay in their homes, and that businesses shut down. In exactly the way that he earlier in the year he recommended that they do so in a big snowstorm, both for safety and so that the streets coul
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by msabalau 14y ago
Possibly, based on the apps demonstrated at SXSW, one is allowed to create free (and advertising free) Glass apps that provide some sort of access to content or services that you separately charge for: a New York Times subscription or sendi
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by msabalau 14y ago
For what it's worth, I'm generally indifferent to the FPS genre, play them very badly, and still managed to gulp down this game in four evenings (on the least challenging setting). Approached this way, the gameplay simply becomes part of t
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by msabalau 14y ago
In addition to the light that others have noted, it's hard to understand why one assume that staring at someone is not obvious, but ubiquitous experience of having someone fumbling with a phone nearby is "quite noticeable" as a signal that
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by msabalau 14y ago
Good luck with the endeavour. Some thoughts: Requiring 100+ Facebook "friends" to join may serve as decent "this is a real person" filter for college educated urban 20 somethings, but you are likely filtering out lots of potential customers
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How Will Google Glass Change Filmmaking?(tribecafilm.com)
2 points by msabalau 14y ago|0 comments
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by msabalau 14y ago
Almost certainly. I wonder what their churn management interventions are.
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"TouchWiz is Android" in the same way green paint is the performance by Mila Kunas in "Oz the Great and Powerful". I'm a very happy owner of a Galaxy Note II, but nearly everything Samsung did on the software side is value subtracting. (Nea
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by msabalau 14y ago
There was some 3rd party development of applications, and presumably there would have been more if the Newton had thrived. But, fair point, it was mostly a product, and just potentially a platform.
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by msabalau 14y ago
True, but regardless, a not inconsiderable part of the value of a Newton died when the platform came to the end of it's life. A betamax machine or an HD-DVD player may still exist, but that does not mean a lot for their owner.
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by msabalau 14y ago
There's a lot of truth to what you're saying, yet plenty of platforms, products and services with perfectly viable business models go away. The Apple Newton (for which people paid good money) was launched and discontinued in less time Reade
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by msabalau 14y ago
Worse liability than "Automatic Calls for Help in a Crash"? Which is a great idea, it just surprised me that they'd be willing to go there for a $70 device, even with the appropriate disclaimers.
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by msabalau 14y ago
Is it only an emotional reaction, though? When an algorithm sifts through my e-mail the result is that I see a more targeted ad. When I mess up and inappropriately share something on Facebook it is obvious to lots of people in my life. (And
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by msabalau 14y ago
T-mobile is a great choice if you've got a HSPA compatible device like a Galaxy Nexus--not LTE fast, but fast.
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One thing they are doing well is the added value of the product descriptions from the "product historian". It was really neat to see, for example, the reasons for the delay of the Temple of Elemental Evil.
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That's my observation as well. Perhaps they mean "something from every edition is available" and intend to dribble out the content in an attempt to make the site something gamers revisit to see what's newly re-released?
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by msabalau 14y ago
Maybe the edge case of being misidentified as your brother, the mass murderer, is not one that Facebook needs to spend any time solving. And perhaps, despite some of the comments in this thread, strong traditions and protections for free sp
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by msabalau 14y ago
That's an interesting question. Obviously human beings are more than capable of splitting up into tribes of haters, even in cases such as social media where one can, at no real cost, participate in them all. But, while generally there's le
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by msabalau 14y ago
Hmmm, I don't have any immediate ideas, but will spread the word to others in the community who may be interested.
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by msabalau 14y ago
If we actually had meaningful competition the tablet space, the Engadget article wouldn't strike many of us as absurd. The Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7 have been the only credible contenders with sustainably differentiated offerings against
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by msabalau 14y ago
The other side of their market is employers--even if accurate, I'm not certain that pointing to a inch after one year is helpful. More generally, a name of with this sort of specificity gives people a chance to paint themselves out of the p
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by msabalau 14y ago
Agreed. Still, it might have been stronger to frame the conversation in terms of resegementation. "For users who want X we will have the best phone, and this will mean that we can grow and build as the third largest platform."
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Vic Gundotra reports Google+ passing 100,000,000 monthly active users(plus.google.com)
63 points by msabalau 14y ago|91 comments
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by msabalau 14y ago
Is there any evidence to believe that anyone would have known of or cared about the app if it had been accepted? It seems likely that most people have only heard of it because of the rejection, first on "technical grounds", and then for the
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by msabalau 14y ago
I can empathize with this point of view. I was very skeptical when our company added Socialcast--which scratches a similar itch--but in a large enterprise with people spread out in multiple locations around the world, I've been able to sha
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by msabalau 14y ago
So, even if lose their appeal, they give up a months profit and are still one of the leading smart phone manufacturers in the world. Still seems a far better outcome for Samsung than being RIM or Nokia.
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by msabalau 14y ago
Of course, that we speak of "the British" is a testament to a certain level of success of melding English/Scottish/Welsh identities, much of which happened in the context of imperial endeavor. And certainly many other groups (Sepoys, say) f
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by msabalau 14y ago
If I buy a new computer, I hopefully understand what features it has and lacks. It is another thing altogether for a operating system upgrade to purposefully destroy user data.
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I understand your eagerness. I had been mashing my update button for several days after the OTA update was announced. Evidently these things roll out over the course of weeks, which is not necessarily what you would expect if Windows or App
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Google Glass controls and Artificial Intelligence detailed(slashgear.com)
2 points by msabalau 14y ago|0 comments

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