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by nlogn 16y ago
Apple may not make money on developer tools wrt software, but they certainly sell plenty of macs to developers as a requirement to develop for their platform.
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by nlogn 16y ago
I don't think Android devices being similar in some ways to the iPhone is even remotely analogous to what Bing is doing here. One is called healthy competition (and I don't see how Android is copying iOS). The other is literally just copyin
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by nlogn 16y ago
I would be concerned less with expense and more with things like how much battery life you can pull off when you have to support the monster gpu such a high res screen would require. When developing for the iPad and iPhone 4, I've noticed
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by nlogn 16y ago
This is actually really easy to do in c#: public static bool operator true(Class c) { return c != null; } public static bool operator false(Class c) { return c == null; } To avoid redoing this for each class yo
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by nlogn 16y ago
Yeah and considering the iPad gpu already has fillrate issues at 1024x768, quadrupling the number of pixels seems unreasonable.
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by nlogn 16y ago
And how silly does that look in hindsight? Person of the year, really?
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by nlogn 16y ago
Android has allowed native code through the NDK since 1.6. Now, you have to use it in conjunction with the SDK and thus some of your code will have to be in Java, but the main reason I can see to get down to the "bare metal" anyway would b
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by nlogn 16y ago
Isn't the obvious solution for Microsoft in the case of the Kinect to just up the price so they aren't selling it at a loss (assuming they are)? Hobbyists will still buy them and do innovative things with the device, especially if there ap
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by nlogn 16y ago
I think you are far too forgiving. Jobs' language initially indicated Apple wanted all music in the store. Later he reversed his position entirely and seemingly spitefully. Apple does great things, but Jobs does have a reputation for e
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by nlogn 16y ago
>Why not? You have iPod/iPhone in your pocket, or iPad on your coffee table. They can be used to look something up, and with AirPlay you can send content to TV once you find it. No, I don't. Do I need to buy one to search?
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by nlogn 16y ago
This sounds to me like arguing over whether BSD is more free than GPL. Google made it difficult (but still not impossible) for other services to gain access to your contacts data if those services are unwilling to reciprocate. The goal of
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by nlogn 16y ago
I don't see anywhere in his comment where he claims that there are enough resources to give high quality health care to everyone. He states that the distribution should shift from a "who can pay" based mechanism to a "who needs it the most
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by nlogn 16y ago
How would Microsoft run afoul of anti-trust laws? I could see that happening if and only if they made their app store the exclusive software channel.
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by nlogn 16y ago
Sorry I never noticed your reply. Your link is unfortunately broken now but I would love to see it if you still have it around.
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by nlogn 16y ago
What about all the "video preview" images? Surely porn sites would benefit from serving less bytes there.
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by nlogn 16y ago
I really like this but the slow refresh after zooming really kills it for me at least. Perhaps something like Silverlight's deep zoom[1] may be useful? [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645050(VS.95).aspx
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by nlogn 16y ago
We have a user on one of our games who repeatedly reposts his review every few days complaining about not making it into the high score list (top 100). He even lists the scores he has gotten that didn't go in. This is all despite the fact
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by nlogn 16y ago
Mobile app developers already do fill out a survey on the specifics on what their apps do: they're called app store/market descriptions. I believe the author meant that these descriptions should be indexed as well.
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by nlogn 16y ago
The difference is that Apple has enacted many policies that limit developers while Google has, to my knowledge, never done anything of the sort. In fact, it seems like they go out of their way to be fair to developers (for instance: every
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by nlogn 16y ago
It's the future because it presents a new and powerful way to view and potentially interact with content. I think these implementations requiring glasses to use are a poor representation of the potential of 3D display technology. The 3D D
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by nlogn 16y ago
What explanation do you offer for why the PC guy was just some suit and the Mac guy was a well-known, kinda funny young actor (certainly never in a suit)?
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by nlogn 16y ago
nodex posted this in that thread: "I would hate to see it get done the wrong way though and become hyper-commercialized and end up being an ad laden site with only pictures of cats..." Eerily prophetic I fear, if this Ben Huh guy gets his h
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by nlogn 16y ago
My understanding regarding iOS responsiveness is that it leverages the GPU for many UI elements while Android does not, relying instead on the 2D Skia engine. source: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914
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by nlogn 16y ago
I made the distinction between features and usability deliberately. In the context of my comment, a feature could be defined as "something the program can do," rather than "something the marketers will list as a feature," so in that contex
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by nlogn 16y ago
Other companies prioritize features over usability. Apple does not create as feature rich programs, focusing instead on making them simple, easy to use, and aesthetically pleasing. Google, Microsoft, Linux devs, etc. build more feature-pa
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by nlogn 16y ago
Having what Larry Ellison has is not the same thing as being Larry Ellison.
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by nlogn 16y ago
You consider the iPad to be a "far superior reading device" to, say, a Kindle or Nook? I do think the iPad (or any quality tablet with educational software available) could be very useful in schools, but I think it's a far cry from the "fa
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by nlogn 16y ago
Actually I believe Geee is correct and YOU are misunderstanding Jobs. Here's the actual quote: "...iPhone 4 drops more calls than the 3GS. But how many more calls per hundred does it drop?...The iPhone 4 drops less than ONE call per hundre