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by musicale 1y ago
> The first TRS-80 ad was similarly scattershot, promising to be everything to everyone: “[p]rogram it to handle your personal finances, small business accounting, teaching functions, kitchen computations, innumerable games Innumerable
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by musicale 1y ago
> And as for Apple itself, they had built the first iPhone on top of ARM to begin with (partially because Intel didn’t see a market). So they were already familiar with ARM before they even started building ARM CPUs As a co-founder of Ad
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by musicale 1y ago
PS2 and PS3 were price-competitive with stand-alone DVD and Blu-Ray players (respectively) at launch. However, Switch is another console that sold for more than component and manufacturing cost at launch. But most of the cost that needs to
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by musicale 1y ago
Switch was always sold for more than component and manufacturing cost. PS4 crossed the threshold quickly (per Sony iirc?) However, that ignores R&D costs which presumably have to be amortized, largely through game sales and platform fee
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> In fact, I can't think of a single thing a console can do that a PC can't Play current Nintendo game cards (and run the eShop etc.) without headaches or workarounds of dubious legality? Run your whole PSN library reliably, wi
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by musicale 1y ago
s/doesn't/won't/
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Graphic novels and manga qualify as media mail ("books"), but smaller comic books do not. RPG books (Dungeons & Dragons) qualify as media mail ("books"), but boxed RPGs (Dungeons & Dragons) do not (except for boo
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by musicale 1y ago
https://archive.org/details/101basiccomputer0000davi/ https://archive.org/details/ahl-1978-basic-computer-games
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by musicale 1y ago
I think it's wonderful (and remarkable) that DEC employed David Ahl in educational product marketing, where he basically (indeed BASICally) bootstrapped the computer gaming field. After DEC killed its first microcomputer projects (not
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by musicale 1y ago
> It's no different than sitting, reading a magazine pre-Internet. The very idea would have been absurd Breaks improve employee health and reduces burnout. Not taking breaks harms performance. Work breaks are also required by law in
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by musicale 1y ago
It is certainly shocking news that Apple has secretly developed a locked-down smartphone that only runs Apple-approved software, and that Apple is charging developer fees. Next we'll hear that Nintendo has secretly developed a locked-d
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> uninvited advertising is not normally equated with a better customer experience As Jobs understood (per TFA), pushing ads degrades the user experience - the prime differentiating factor for Apple products in the first place, and what a
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I suppose some people must enjoy being woken up by an explosion of jet engines in the middle of the night. Victims are blamed for having ears and living within 50 miles of an airfield. Some airports do seem have "curfews", say fro
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by musicale 1y ago
"I'm sorry for how you feel about this" (we won't admit that we harmed you with our bad behavior, and it's probably your fault for feeling pain.) "your struggles" (it's your fault that you were harmed
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by musicale 1y ago
Already broke it unfortunately by posting on HN.
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"Even though you can already sideload on Android, we really don't want to pay Google the same kind of commissions that we're paying to Apple and Nintendo, because we like your money and want to keep more of it in our own pock
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by musicale 1y ago
> The Stop Killing Games movement highlights the growing frustration among players who see their purchases vanish Well they should just get used to it, right?
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by musicale 1y ago
I'm in favor of cutting air traffic at night.
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This isn't good news. It means that Apple's huge, expensive AI team has basically failed. And it presumably means that Apple is willing to accept Google's practices for ML model training and use.
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A lack of ownership of digital goods makes it very difficult to build digital libraries with similar benefits and longevity to physical libraries with physical books. For example, first-sale doctrine does not seem to apply to ebooks, and to
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Nobody could have predicted this.
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We'll need a pom filter to get rid of this slop.
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> Apple held about 9% of the global PC market Tablet market is growing while PC market isn't. iPads already outsell Macs on a unit basis. > I can't imagine a "macOS Home Edition" https://www.apple.com&#x
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by musicale 1y ago
The original Mac mini was $499 in 2005. But Apple had already released a $799 laptop - the eMate 300 in 1997. Ahead of its time - ARM processor, 28-hour battery life, flash storage, wireless modem card. Its curved, translucent case design (
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by musicale 1y ago
HP also split into HP Inc. and HPE in 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard
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MiiVerse used to have a similar feature where people could post drawings and messages (and game screenshots) that would (potentially) show up in your Mii plaza.
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> If AI spending isn’t directly contributing to sales in some fashion, then you’re just clowning around by pushing money from payrolls to revenue. Your company hasn’t innovated, your product hasn’t become more attractive or competitive,
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Google has already removed URLs from the first page of "search" results.
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I thought option-resize was supposed to resize the default (new document) window? My recent pet peeve is that macOS doesn't seem to remember window sizes and locations properly. Things are certainly complicated by multi-monitor setups,
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I'd like to see the key-to-pixel latency speed championship.

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