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by rbarooah 15y ago
True, but that is clearly impractical within a cocoa program since the PDF handling methods don't provide a mechanism for passing in parameters.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Add a parameter or two to the generated code, then you'll see the difference,
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Well one might hope that the incentive for providing iPhone style support would be iPhone style customer satisfaction. The situation you describe is basically that the OEMs didn't get a good deal from their OS provider and are choosing to p
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'm not trying it justify it, but neither to I think inaccurate bashing is helpful. They are being sued too (and were sued first by Nokia) in this dirty patent war. I think it's naive to expect them to simply ignore all that. It is possibl
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Fair enough, these broad patents indicate that they aren't showing restraint. However my point was that 'swipe-to-unlock' seeming to be about something 'trivial' doesn't in itself make Apple look bad, and that still stands. It's not an exam
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Slide-to-unlock doesn't seem like it is a fundamental requirement of modern phones, surely there are a lot of good alternatives. That makes it look a lot more like it was copied to make devices seem more iPhone line. Customizable user page
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If there's prior art then indeed the patent should be invalidated. Whether their customers want it is irrelevant. Sadly there is no good criteria for what is 'trivial' or not, and that is a big problem with the current system. I don't thi
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Or at the very least if there was a way to switch to an opensearch site as the default.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
To be fair, the use of this 'dumb gimmick' makes both sides look bad - is it really the only way to unlock a phone? Couldn't HTC et al have worked around it?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What's wrong with running Linux on Apple hardware?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If you don't think you can improve things, why bother?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What point were you trying to make by mentioning the BBC? I though you were suggesting it as a model for overcoming the free rider problem.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Well that's possible, but then you'd expect some of them to self-report great happiness. Once we go far enough down the "who's to say" route that we ignore self-reports for happiness, I'd say the term loses meaning.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'm not sure humans are a counterexample. Drugs don't generally relieve the need to work to buy food, and most serious drug addicts don't look as though they enjoying themselves.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Interactivity implies that the system be able to reproduce realistic facial expressions in response to the ongoing action without doing motion capture of a live actress . It's not so obvious to me that the path from this scene to that is v
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Now I'm just plain puzzled as to why that was downvoted. Care to explain?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Let me get this structure right, so that I can be sure that I understand you, before you go on. (I'm a little perplexed because if the first copies weren't produced, that would obviate the willingness of people to buy copies in the first p
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I can believe that we'll develop software on tablets in future, but I find it hard to believe that that future looks like a heavily cut down version of the eclipse text editor.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I don't like it, but I don't disagree with it. I was bringing it up as a topic of conversation, mostly in the hope that someone would argue against it convincingly, because if such an argument can be made, I'd like to hear it.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The cost of digital goods isn't in the copying or "maintenance" as you say, it's in the initial production. Copyable digital goods are special because unlike the majority of physical goods, they are templates that can be used to make virtua
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I don't see why you need to open with an insult. By your analogy, all copyable digital goods are like water, regardless of what they cost to produce initially, because the cost of copying is close to zero. If I'm wrong, please explain. I
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Higher price performance ratios in things like CPU and RAM, are irrelevant without great software. Really great software for tablets takes massive resources to develop - e.g. GarageBand or the new iPhoto. At the moment, Android tablets are
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by rbarooah 15y ago
How is your point any different to the point I made in the comment you first replied to? Am I missing something?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
No they aren't - they both keep important parts of their software protected and sell an adjunct service. The MMO server software is heavily protected, and you pay for access to the data center where they run it. MMOs are therefore both pr
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by rbarooah 15y ago
In a restaurant, the cost of providing you with a warm comfortable place to sit, and someone to bring you glasses of water (the cost of the water itself being deminimus), is covered by the expensive meal you pay for. Since all unprotected d
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The original claim may be floridly expressed, but I don't think you can write it off as baseless. Wouldn't you agree that one of the primary functions of government is to ensure social stability? It would therefore be strange for government
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What a bizarre comment to receive downvotes. Here's Marco's explanation: http://www.marco.org/2011/12/07/standing-up-for-android (he's also made the same point in his podcast)
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by rbarooah 15y ago
How is that worthy of downvotes? Seriously - it's not attacking anyone, it's an attempt to explain the difference in Microsoft's behavior towards two competitors, and it helps to clarify Marco's position.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
They have historically had products with multiple iterations all sharing the same name, and when necessary they qualify them with '3rd generation', or 'mid 2011'. Examples being the iPod, and the iMac. They are simply moving the iPad to th
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by rbarooah 15y ago
And yet despite not being Steve Jobs, you're certain they haven't done enough to stay ahead.

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