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by peterclary 13y ago
What's your tablet?
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by peterclary 13y ago
"Apple Made EA Delay Plants vs. Zombies 2 on Android" is a bad HN headline, for the following reason. Nowhere in the article does it say that Apple MADE EA delay Plants vs. Zombies 2 on Android. There are no claims there of thre
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by peterclary 13y ago
I can see it now: "I enjoyed reading this Neal Stephenson Kickstarter, but it didn't have a conventional denouement, and had lots of loose ends."
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by peterclary 13y ago
It appears that they want to trademark the term "startup" for some kind of service to help new Mac owners get started with their Mac, etc. Possibly a rebranding of their "one-to-one" service.
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by peterclary 13y ago
I knew there had to be a Control Group somewhere...
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by peterclary 13y ago
Consider the use of the word "scolds" instead of "blasts", "criticizes", etc.
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by peterclary 13y ago
To some extent any standard competitive behavior, or corporate practice, may be regarded as malicious. You raise several points, so I'm going to try and respond to them all: 1. Going 'thermonuclear' over product competition. This is the be
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by peterclary 13y ago
Could you explain how Apple is malicious? That's quite an assertion and not one I've previously heard.
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by peterclary 14y ago
From their "About" page: "Our success has been down to reputation"
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by peterclary 14y ago
"Today, the lab costs £870 a month thanks to the presence of a pair of Dell EqualLogic arrays." To paraphrase that fount of wisdom, the hippy from The Simpsons: Sounds like you're working for your lab. Simplify, man!
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by peterclary 14y ago
Due to libel tourism and the fact that this is visible to the UK, I would not risk naming any of the parties involved, even if I knew them.
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by peterclary 15y ago
Let me adjust my tinfoil hat here. Let's assume the following technologies would all make sense in something like this: - Forward-facing camera. - Eye tracking. - Object recognition (similar to Google Goggles) So Google can tell what you're
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by peterclary 15y ago
I have. The home button has become pressed down long enough to trigger Voice Control, which has then interpreted background noise as a command to call somebody random.
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by peterclary 15y ago
That page suggests you can only complain if you've been personally affected. Although I've been on O2 in the past, I don't have any evidence that the problem occurred during that time. I'm on Orange now, which appears to be unaffected. It's
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by peterclary 15y ago
If an image is loaded from a third-party site then presumably that request's header also includes the phone number. Can anyone confirm? That would mean that it's not just the website you're visiting that's getting your phone number, but adv
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by peterclary 15y ago
What about offline web apps which are saved onto the home screen? Are they also "cleaned"? If we can't depend upon an offline web app to be there when offline then that would fundamentally defeat the purpose. Of course, one could argue that