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by ralfn 14y ago
A single newspaper using patents to make sure their expression and opinions are the only one we get to hea? Thats not creepy at all. And this one message travels the world. For our standards, here in Holland, the app store policy representa
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by ralfn 14y ago
Where in the world do you get the idea, that Apples Walled garden has anything to do with quality? Its about one thing: extorting content producers, by limiting access to consumers. And they will eventually get into legal trouble. Its textb
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by ralfn 14y ago
Maybe i could phrase it like this. Your military are not free men. In a way, the US is the military of the free world. All of it: its media, its economics, its population. You guys (have to) live in a state of paranoia to keep that military
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by ralfn 14y ago
I made that statement without emperical evidence, since i consider it a logical implication. Consider credit ratings: a few tiny nations have the highest ratings. But their combined assets represent nothing compared to the states. The US is
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by ralfn 14y ago
That makes sense. One could even argue, that it is the prime freedom that 'powers' the US. (it could not be a superpower without) Although, personally, i consider the most "free" market, to be about more than tax levels and (lack of) labour
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by ralfn 14y ago
I was under the impression US networks are anything but free? I mean, guys like Viacom pay our cable companies for potential access to our eyeballs here in Holland. I heard they actually get paid by cable companies in the US. For jersey sho
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by ralfn 14y ago
You are right. Take the press freedom list, where you guys are at 47, and say Holland is at position 3. 44 positions difference is less than 142 ( the difference in ranking between the US and Russis ) Except rankings do not represent range.
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by ralfn 14y ago
I think its this constant denial, this lie, "the land of the free", that is the reason why things just dont improve in the states. From the red scare to the people-we-dont-like-are-now-called-terrorist. Why not just accept the fact that Rus
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by ralfn 14y ago
That does not make any sense. Yes, arguments should matter by their own merit, but why would we bother with a list of arguments curated by somebody that is inherently a fraud? With the same logic you can spent a full life carefully dismissi
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by ralfn 14y ago
Agreed. But the combined sillicon of the xbox, desktop, ps3, mediacenter and multiple laptops in my house, had a seriously high price attached, but using all that sillicon to do one task fast, isnt even an option. We need an open standard t
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by ralfn 14y ago
I think all the adoption regulation is completely bullshit, and likely against every nations constitution. Every one is allowed to have a baby. But, oh dear, if somebody wants to take care of a kid that has no parents. Personally, i dont th
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by ralfn 14y ago
Well, to be fair, there is a lot of spare sillicon in most households. One giant powerserver per family, is much more efficient and should provide more bang for your buck.
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by ralfn 14y ago
Yes and no. They ship with a lot of gnome3 apps, but none of the unity code uses any gnome 3 libs. They do use compiz though, and have compiz use the gconf settings. The thing is, they could switch to a qt based desktop, without touching an
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by ralfn 14y ago
Fair enough. It's a statement i can not prove. I don't think i'm wrong, but it's hard to argue about alternative history, right? It's all pure speculation. You are right about that.
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by ralfn 14y ago
Why would MS pay 3 billion dollar for Valve, if they can just abuse their position and disallow Steam on Win8, and then just steal the market. Which is exactly what they are doing, with the win8 store policy, metro sandbox, and pricing stra
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by ralfn 14y ago
Microsoft does not allow competition on their OS this time around. So, Steam is no longer allowed to compete. If there are no alternative, people may still hate it, but it will still be the killer feature.
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by ralfn 14y ago
Steam isnt allowed on Metro, nor can it sell metro based/integrated games. And the low and midrange win8 devices are all going to be ARM/Metro only. So, Steam on Windows has no future. Nor does origin. Welcome to the consolification of all
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by ralfn 14y ago
You are completely right, but its just a piece of the puzzle. The whole market is becoming vertical. There is a war going on who gets to extort content providers, by controlling the access to consumers. The hardware vendors can control acce
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by ralfn 14y ago
They are not afraid of losing the competition, they are afraid of not being allowed to compete. Steam cant be on Metro, and the x86/classic-desktop will likely end up, only in the high end of the market. Just like Apple, the common win8 con
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by ralfn 14y ago
The headline is misleading. He was talking very much, from his vested interest point of view. He was not dismissing the quality or value of win8 for consumers. But he is allowed to be a bit upset: Steam is effectively not allowed on Metro.
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by ralfn 14y ago
The OEMS are in a tough place. They have to compete with actual HW innovation ( apple ) on one side, and with subsidized hardware on the other side ( amazon ). And if they succeed, all the margins go to Microsoft. At least, in the case of A
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by ralfn 14y ago
You comment on YouTube? Are you a social worker? If so, you are aiming too high. There is absolutely nothing you can do for those people in those comments.
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by ralfn 14y ago
It is not broken. It is old, and not being updated. If they had bought a windows phone those 2 years ago, they would be saying the same thing about their windows phone. But i agree that most android vendors suck at updates and should be avo
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by ralfn 14y ago
"System of a down is cool, but people that listen to the spice girls are pathetic" The correct phrase is not "human" as you put it, but "immature". Replace apple/google with band names and hear 14 years olds being as pathetic, and manipulat
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by ralfn 14y ago
Were they using stock android or crappyfied android? Dont wait 24 months to suggest a windows phone. Suggest they flash a non broken version of android onto their phone.
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by ralfn 14y ago
What is most shocking, is that this is happening here. You would think this crowd would be more immunine to Steve's reality distortion field. But appearanty, their perspective is that of a sports team supporter. Not the perspective, of crit
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by ralfn 14y ago
They protect against accidental assignment. They also protect against unexpect classes having the compare/equality method begin overridden. So, no, not that important. But i actually think it looks nice.
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by ralfn 14y ago
I agree that some kind of support should continue. But in the case of an email app, focused on simplicity and ui design; not feature sets for power users, i dont think this expectation can reasonably consist of new features. On the other ha
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by ralfn 14y ago
Either that, or Google will loose money on this transaction. Im suggesting, that Google has the intent to maximize profits. So, if turns out bad for us, as consumers, it turns out bad for Google.
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by ralfn 14y ago
A bit off topic, but anyway: In buddism, the term for discipline is the same turn used for morality. ( they dont make the distinction ) You, here, interrestingly, suggest that a relationship between morality and guts. Im not agreeing or dis

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