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by neotek 8y ago
>That's 43.5 billion right there. Apple's filings show that less than one half of one percent of their revenue comes from the entirety of the MFi program, which includes not just the first-party cables they make, but every sing
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by neotek 8y ago
>AirPods really have almost no distinguishing features from other earphones. You've got to be kidding. The kind of pairing made possible by Apple's W1 chip, and the completely cordless design, was absolutely and undeniably grou
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by neotek 8y ago
Because Microsoft made the dumb decision to turn it on by default in IE10, which instantly repelled every ad network that wanted to stay in business and destroyed any chance of it gaining a foothold.
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by neotek 8y ago
Hey, thanks to this comment, I just discovered that if you hit Cmd+Shift+C in Chrome it'll let you inspect any element by clicking on it. Cheers!
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by neotek 8y ago
>There's countries where the percentage is lower, yet it's basically illegal to criticize the government. Don’t you see how deeply ironic that statement is? There are countries where even trivial things like criticising the gov
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by neotek 8y ago
Gosh, what a surprise. I'm sure this saga will convince the general public of the need to be more sceptical about pie-in-the-sky bullshit in the future, and nobody will ever fall for pseudo-scientific scams again. Now, if you'll e
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by neotek 8y ago
Oh man, nostalgia wave right there! One of the first things I would do when setting up a new Windows machine was to install that icon pack!
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by neotek 8y ago
>As an American, what prevented the election of Trump being declared stupid and that the US gov't was not going to accept him? The Constitution. The referendum, on the other hand, was non-binding.
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by neotek 8y ago
macOS users can install CheatSheet, which displays all the menu keyboard shortcuts associated with an app when you hold down the ⌘ key. It isn't a foolproof solution though because it only displays shortcuts that are associated with a
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by neotek 8y ago
I'm not the person you replied to, but yes. I can't think of many subscriptions I have that I wouldn't happily pay more for if it meant having one central place to manage them all, overseen by a company that I fully believe g
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by neotek 8y ago
Labor had a series of sensible amendments that would have diminished the opportunity for any government to abuse this silly legislation. I think trying to equate both parties is disingenuous and wilfully ignores a mountain of context.
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by neotek 8y ago
>anything at all which happened would be blamed on them not supporting the bill. Which is idiotic, since the LNP would blame Labor either way, as they do for every single other failure they (the LNP) are responsible for. I wish Labor had
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by neotek 8y ago
Charge more for enterprise features by all means, but if basic security concepts are something you feel the need to charge for, your priorities are fucked up.
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by neotek 8y ago
I don't get it. Linux never captured the desktop because they don't arbitrarily limit security features to people who pay more?
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by neotek 8y ago
Not having to risk your machine being compromised every time you run a third party executable is not fancy tech.
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by neotek 8y ago
>Yeah... Good luck running the latest version of iOS on an older iPhone. (Many are still have a 5/6 and you really don't want to update those if you value a reasonable experience and latency.) Spoken like someone who's nev
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by neotek 8y ago
You misunderstand me, it has nothing to do with Windows being "too expensive", the point is that you've paid for it and they still abuse your privacy and shove ads down your throat at every opportunity. By way of comparison,
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by neotek 8y ago
Only Microsoft would come up with a new security feature and then intentionally and arbitrarily limit its availability to the most expensive version of their OS. This is the same company that thinks putting ads in the fucking file explorer
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by neotek 8y ago
I just don't understand how the US patent system works, if you can even use that word in relation to such a fundamentally broken thing.
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by neotek 8y ago
A few days ago I, an Australian, got an Apple News alert on my laptop about a Washington Post article that discussed Pell's conviction. When I clicked the alert, Apple News opened and displayed the article in full, uncensored. I'm
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by neotek 8y ago
Holy shit, that's a blast from the past! I must have ploughed hundreds of hours into TetriNET back in the day. It's been so long that I can barely remember how any of it worked, but IIRC it had some sort of scripting language or c
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by neotek 8y ago
The site seems to be suffering from the HN hug of death, unfortunately.
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by neotek 8y ago
I would really love to see some photos and a schematic if you're willing to share, that sounds awesome.
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by neotek 8y ago
This immensely stupid law applies to any business that operates in Australia, which includes Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Facebook, Github, and every other major tech company on the planet. If they want to continue doing business in A
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by neotek 8y ago
Why does it matter? It's not a zero sum game, what others are doing is completely irrelevant to the question of whether or not what we're doing is disgustingly immoral (and it is, as far as I'm concerned.)
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by neotek 8y ago
I can't tell if you're being intentionally obtuse or if you really don't understand that the way you say something is different from what you're saying. It's completely irrelevant whether or not it's reason
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by neotek 8y ago
>If you're saying that Tesla claiming hardware support is tantamount to claiming full functionality, then how do you suggest they describe the situation? Less dishonestly. Your entire argument boils down to "people should be ex
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by neotek 8y ago
Absolutely ludicrous. This is basically an incentive for other laptop manufacturers to do the same thing, knowing the punishment (if it even ever comes) is a drop in the bucket compared to the reward.
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by neotek 8y ago
>the reason why I turned them off is because of a large number of uploaders who abused annotations with stupid annoying messages that added nothing to the video. Same here, 99% of the time it's just a big annotation that covers the
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by neotek 8y ago
I've had annotations switched off for years now, they're almost always completely irrelevant to the content I'm trying to watch, and often just get in the way.

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