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by ralfn 14y ago
Ho, stop! When you buy a product, you pay for what it is, not fir what it can be. This whole idea of free features for ever, is not economially viable in the first place. It only works as long as they can keep getting new customers at a hig
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by ralfn 14y ago
It baffles my mind, anyone would actually believe this. This whole, Google, is evil for hiring the authors of an app you like. Either they will put them to good use, or make less money.
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by ralfn 14y ago
I would want a external link in the gmail app, to open in a tab in the gmail app. The internet is everywhere.. I dont want those 50 tabs in one big browser window, nor do i want them in separate windows. I want them organised based on conte
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by ralfn 14y ago
Wait: im assuming they have a working prototype. If no, that would be shocking.
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by ralfn 14y ago
They have working prototypes. They can produce those for less than 99 dollars. They need investors to prefinance the next batch. Buying the parts requires money,you dont have, until the finished product is sold to a retailer. In other words
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by ralfn 14y ago
Those 5m are pre orders. For the next batch, they likely need to prefinance production. Off course, at that stage, banks would even be willing to lend money, to keep a conservative amount of consoles in stock. I doubt the margins on this hu
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by ralfn 14y ago
Well, most of those webapps will likely navigate/open external websites. I would love to have a hacker news window by default, so that external links i open there are nicely managed within the hackers news app. So, the tab bar is a plus, if
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by ralfn 14y ago
Theyll be able to spam, hopefully millions of websites, at once, with the same exact political message. If they use this sparringly ( only for things as big as SOPA ), most site owners wouldnt mind. And the impact, together with all major c
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by ralfn 14y ago
Many of them can. And they are still easier to convince, that an 80 year old that still uses racial slurs.
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by ralfn 14y ago
Considering the list of supporting sites, that are behind this project, claiming to play a crucial part of the defeat of SOPA, would be totally correct. But they dont actually do that. They use "we" in a politically rethoric form, where the
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by ralfn 14y ago
Im sorry. But a cat signal is awesome. And the problem with educating people isnt the quality of the informational value of the message, its the lack of entertainment value. Consider the daily show or colbert report, do they make people rea
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by ralfn 14y ago
Everybody considers themselves a geek these days. Because they like batman, board games or scifi movies like avatar. Lets hope a majority of people will be fooled into thinking they are part of a special club of l33t interweb freedom f1ght3
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by ralfn 14y ago
Not sarcastic. Question: do you need convincing, or are you not the target audience? Im suspecting that most people here, are already being served well by the EFF. Consider this a branch, with a different tone, aimed at the facebook / youtu
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by ralfn 14y ago
You could just, you know, choose not be logged in with facebook. Im not. And as for tracking cookies: every website has them to some extend. And every browser lets you pick the policy you prefer. But if you care some much.. Go help them out
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by ralfn 14y ago
It is not supposed to be a lobbyist. It is supposed to be a poltical movement. Its political marketing aimed at voters. It should target the type of teens on facebook, that you and i may look down upon. As far as im concerned, they dont eve
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by ralfn 14y ago
I think you have democracy backwards. We are not to serve our politicians, they are here to serve us. They dont care what a small group of nerds and tech companies want and think. They care what average people think they want. Symbolism, ac
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by ralfn 14y ago
The problem with ectasy is that it is illegal and you are not able to judge the quality. That makes its risky in society, but not by and of itself.
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by ralfn 14y ago
Dont trust your eyes. You dont see people eating fatty foods at McDonalds. You see them eating a shitload of sugar, salt, and a little bit of fat and proteine. If fat would make people fat, why are americans the mos obesive nation? Your die
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by ralfn 14y ago
So, technically and appearantly practically, you cant privately store a picture of yourself being born. Seriously, when did it suddenly become okay for companies to police our culture? Imagine cars breaking down because you used it to drive
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by ralfn 14y ago
Confused consumers? Seriously, what kind of drugs are these Apple fanboys taking. I want some of them? Talk about a reality distortion field. You ever met someone with a galaxy tab, and hear thm claiming they have an Apple iPad?
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by ralfn 14y ago
You should not be able to sue somebody over and over again. Yes, someone who isnt guilthy isnt always innocent. But in this case the judge considered it poven that the designs were not (legally) stolen.
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by ralfn 14y ago
The UK has slander laws. Apple claimed that Samsung copied their design. Not just in a private trial, but in public. You cant actually do that in the Uk, unless you can prove it. They could not, according to the judge, hence its slander. Th
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by ralfn 14y ago
I like the word "pirate". Everybody understands its meaning. Its not confused with the unlawfull appropiation of somebody's property ( stealing ), but it does have a negative connotation.
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by ralfn 14y ago
I love your example! Way out of my depth here, but i do have a question: The squirrel obviously has a genetic trait that causes it to have a small brain. We can tell its iq just by looking at it, without considering its DNA. Would the same
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by ralfn 14y ago
I apologize for antagonizing you to this extent. I don't work for Samsung.
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by ralfn 14y ago
> If you want to market a product in those countries you should respect that. They should. But here's the problem: the subset of things that offend any country in the world, is the superset. And the cultural and moral values applied, ar
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by ralfn 14y ago
>As to your claims about how my post "feels", please take your feelings and place them somewhere appropriate. That's uncalled for. I was being polite in my choice of words. Let me spell it out for you: Your story is the type of story a
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by ralfn 14y ago
You seriously cant tell iOS and Android apart? Your statement feels like a work of fiction.
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by ralfn 14y ago
The rules themselves can also be offensive. I know Apple blocked the free streaming app of the public tv here in holland originally. The government was pissed, and considering legislation because the fact the app was not allowed was conside
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by ralfn 14y ago
It was quite obvious it emulates the scrollbars on the desktop, but i have no iphone, and made no such assumption about what it actually does on mobile. Ive been following Qooxdoo for quite some time, and the level of browser normalisation

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