panacea

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   by panacea 14y ago

   Because pages in an e-reader are not physical sheets bound together that require flipping over before you can see the page below. If you can render the next page faster, then why fake a 'page turn' that takes time to animate. It's the very
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   by panacea 14y ago

   Everyone's mentioning Maps/Siri, but my most recent disappointment with an Apple product is the UI, performance and structure of Game Center for iOS. I've never been inclined to use it before the recent release of Letterpress which necessit
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   by panacea 14y ago

   Well a Director of Human Interfaces would be responsible for defining the Human Interface Guidelines.
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   by panacea 14y ago

   Apple consistently ridicules form factors and products it doesn't have an offering for. Steve Jobs famously ridiculed the idea of smartphones before they released the iPhone.
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   by panacea 14y ago

   >You will not see a single mention of the competition on Apple's site It's not explicitly mentioning the Nexus 7, but this is at the top of the iPad Mini's 'design' page on Apple.com: http://i.imgur.com/7Mg92.png
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   by panacea 14y ago

   Is there a way to see the top 4 films for all countries at once instead of having to individually select each from the (really nice) drop down menu?
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   by panacea 14y ago

   And nothing of value... /snark
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   by panacea 14y ago

   important=undefined
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   by panacea 14y ago

   There has to be large scale call centres. The number of calls they're making is impressive. I got two of them from different people last night (I'm in Australia).
10. 340.▲
    by panacea 14y ago

    I wanted to take this "Bing it on" challenge that they have banners for all over the site. Clicking it takes me to vanilla bing.com, not a challenge site.
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    by panacea 14y ago

    21,000,000 isn't cause for celebration either. (I know that this article is about bad science reporting, but it needs to be said that if a third of the UK had a stereotypical meal of fish and chips one evening consisting of adult North Sea
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    by panacea 14y ago

    "I would just like to make a completely speculative, and probably erroneous assersion as fact...."
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    by panacea 14y ago

    > Petrich has the old version of Google Maps working, yet says it’s still “crashy” and he isn’t ready to share the method quite yet. I'll stick with using the Apple Maps app and web-based Google Maps then. A working solution to mapping
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    by panacea 14y ago

    Yeah, not sure what the point of this post is. I've got a share button in my desktop, tablet and phone browsers (not that I neccessarily want them). These are for tracking and branding. Facebook, Twitter et. Al have not only implanted track
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    by panacea 14y ago

    'Apple makes digital copy of physical clock' ... "Is like cannibals being left to their own devices till they get bored and eat each other." That escalated quickly.
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    by panacea 14y ago

    I wound pay for a Guardian subscription.
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    by panacea 14y ago

    Permit me a small moment of pride at my choice of life-partner. I asked my wife if I could upgrade her phone to the new OS, but that the map app has changed for the worse and 'You may not like it... How often do you use it?' 'A few times a
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    by panacea 14y ago

    No. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534359
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    by panacea 14y ago

    Anecdotally, I had the first iPhone from day 1, inherited a 3GS and been sporting the 4 since it came out. I've never used a case and the worst damage that's happened was a stuck lock-screen button on the 3GS after years of use. I do see lo
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    by panacea 14y ago

    Is commenting on YouTube an active G+ action?
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    by panacea 14y ago

    It was the first iPod with mobile Safari that worked really well as a browser (it also made phonecalls). It was fucking revolutionary and the numbers speak for themselves.
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    by panacea 14y ago

    "but this time I'm going to refrain" Refrain from what? Damning him with faint praise and labelling him a cult elder seems pretty cynical to me.
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    by panacea 14y ago

    Not an answer to the question I asked. You've conflated 'connector sturdiness' with function. A micro-usb plug could be made rugged. Thanks anyway.
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    by panacea 14y ago

    Many thanks! (Apologies to anyone having to scroll past my Q&... appreciated.. A)
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    by panacea 14y ago

    This is what I was wondering about. You can do a heck of a lot of different things through a thunderbolt port. You don't need seperate copper pipes/pins for each function... It's not a miniature switchboard, with a bunch of tiny cables plug
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    by panacea 14y ago

    Thanks. Permit me another question, as my Google fu would surely fail me when trying to find the answer amongst the wash of 'its a money grab' 'Apple should just use micro-usb'. Why was the original dock connector 13 pin, and why is 9 pin o
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    by panacea 14y ago

    I'm not an expert, but yeah, I'm fairly sure these will need to be included in the box for iPhones sold in Europe. Off topic, but the Lightening connector has 8 copper strips, and it's a 9 pin connecter. Presumably, the outer metal strip is
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    by panacea 14y ago

    If they were called EM100(weN)vloops instead of "cookies", the politicians wouldn't have weighed in.
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    by panacea 14y ago

    I'm not sure I'm as altruistic in wanting to teach as opposed to the xkcd 'someone is wrong on the internet' thing, but I should point out the Woolworths trademark dispute that I linked to is a grocery store (but perhaps I'm not parsing t
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    by panacea 14y ago

    Added to my list of things to try before I die. I would, however, suggest they should be called 'greens' ;]