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by rbarooah 15y ago
From the parent: "trusting third party websites to honor user privacy ? seriously" That's what I was responding to. They seem to be suggesting that the idea of trusting Google is absurd on the face of it.
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IOMega used to make a NAS with support for foldershare (the dropbox predecessor that was sold to Microsoft). That was 6 years ago - before it's time I'd guess.
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Is it a joke to expect Google to honor user privacy?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What do you mean by 'the disruptive potential of cross-platform'? I don't see any great 'cross-platform' environments out there other than the web, and Apple is one of the leaders in developing that.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You don't think we're in trouble?
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By this argument, it sounds as though you are saying that the rich are inherently better at allocating resources for the public good than anyone else. This is an appeal to wealth fallacy. It's quite possible that the wealthy might have inte
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The difference is that for those, services - which cost Apple to provide on an ongoing basis, they want your app to go through App review. I could easily imagine a poorly written app that still worked and was useful, but that caused a disp
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Have you considered taking Vitamin-D at sunrise as Seth suggests?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Much as I wish this comment were true, I suggest you spend some time watching people who are intelligent and capable in their field, but not especially computer literate, using software. Most people aren't stupid, but they simply don't have
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It was indeed against the developer agreement to do this. But more importantly, we simply don't know whether Android is actually protecting customers or not. If people are just clicking through a warning and having their address book copied
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If you're right, that would be a major positive advance. If the open source community at large could build off an up-to-date Android base that was trivially compatible with top-notch hardware, I think some interesting possibilities might e
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You say: "Seth Roberts has speculated that vitamin D, despite its myriads of other benefits, may harm sleep based on some anecdotes (with 2 null results)" My point is that he's collected a lot more anecdotes since then, and there seems to b
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Yes it was, at least indirectly. The cmd key is designed to invoke shortcuts in the GUI layer and not conflict with anything that's a legacy from the text-mode style of interaction. That's why it's a special different key.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Have you noticed Seth Robert's more recent postings about time of day being critical to Vitamin-D effect? It sounds as though you were taking it just before bed - which is the exact opposite of what he now recommends.
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What stops them from developing in the open as things are?
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Why wouldn't you just patent the new method and even further raise the barrier to entry for competitors?
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How would this have that effect?
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Using that definition, I would conclude that no progress has been blocked. The parties involved have giant unspent cash piles relative to the amount they are spending on litigation, so none of their money is going into litigation instead
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What progress has been blocked?
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Guilty of what?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
This seems to rest on the idea that 'Apple started it' so everyone else is free to act in just as unprincipled a manner without cost to their reputation. As far as I am aware, Nokia won a settlement from Apple for the iPhone before Apple st
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Presumably you therefore regard Google's actions as equally 'disgusting'.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
So both stores ship on Samsung's devices? Then I'd guess Samsung would probably be interested in not shipping the Google Market. I wonder what would happen if Samsung paid for an exclusive on a big name title - e.g. a future Angry Birds
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'd say Apple cares about owing app distribution because it provides the differentiation that increases the desirability of their devices. Without distinctive software, Apple doesn't really have anything that can't be quickly knocked off. G
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Google is a search company. Owning the platform is Google’s way of making sure they own search. Google does not care about facilitating app sales because they can make 15-30x the money from search. It's interesting that an ex Googler who
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Earlier you said: "What's different now is that there is historical evidence that open source projects can produce higher quality software than proprietary ones." Now you say: "The open/closed status of the project does not determine the qu
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If they've decided to abandon plugins and proprietary languages in favor of javascript, why shouldn't they feel that it is ok to criticize Google's approach?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
So you don't think open source can produce higher quality software, and you don't have any evidence for anything. Fair enough. [edit - changed "produces" to "can produce"] - doesn't change my point.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It would be nice to hear why people disagree with this enough to vote it down. I'm no fan of advertising and would like to see cleaner sites more often, but that doesn't mean there isn't a conflict.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Fair enough, neither of us were particularly precise. The rubin figure will undoubtedly count anything that can possible be called an Android tablet, including the nook. That said, what matters is not how many devices are sold. It's how m

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