rbarooah

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by rbarooah 16y ago
The 90% of streaming video claim is utterly false - it's at least 54% and climbing very fast. If we're going to do this, let's at least not just make stuff up. ( http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/10/27/54-of-web-video-is-now... ) The closed
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by rbarooah 16y ago
They already do.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Because the growth in devices that Jobs describes as Post-PC (which incidentally includes android ) is much greater than the growth of the PC now.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
So, you can't sync your music with a Linux machine. That's it, really?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
They can't mirror automatically - it always appears to the app as a second window. There are games (e.g. The incident) that use this to let you play on a TV, and things like Keynote can display the presentation on the output and presenter n
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by rbarooah 16y ago
No - iPad's don't let you manage your music collection. I assume the no-delete is to reduce the risk of people accidentally deleting things they've just paid for, given that that's the only way to get things on to the device. Interestingly,
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Post-PC is just a statement about where the growth is. It doesn't mean PCs are suddenly useless or going away.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Fair enough. I don't think that's what post-PC is intended to mean though. Really I think it's just a comment about where the growth is.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Silly strawman. Actually none of them watched video at all. They used maps, google earth, the browser, a Craigslist app, the photos app, and kindle. But I guess I've fallen for a troll.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Yes - I was although I think a mountain bike is a better analogy. But seriously - people can't see the difference between an iPad and a $75 PC off Craigslist? Perhaps a pair of spectacles is in order.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
My parents and my mother in law literally don't want to do any of the things you just listed, but all of them have found my iPad useful, could use it immediately, and want one. That $75 computer on Craigslist simply can't do things in the s
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Serious question - if you buy an unlocked iPad from the store, what can't you do with it that you can do with an Android tablet?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The article is wrong about that if you buy one from a store.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
What can you do with an Android pad that you can't do with an iPad bought unlocked from the store?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
you're thinking of après-PC
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by rbarooah 16y ago
If you get one unlocked in the store, why can't your mother switch?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Sorry - we crossed over - I deleted my original while you were writing this. Honestly though the points you make here don't seem to have a lot to do with the question. If Google is going to make claims that things are open, they should be h
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Simply untrue. Presented in those terms, the 'fact' is: WebM - free license, indemnification against 0 patents. H.264 - paid license, indemnification against > 1700 patents. (here's the list: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Doc
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by rbarooah 16y ago
History is a slippery beast. We only understand the past in terms of what we know in the present. To change the future, we have to build it now. If we spend our time trying understand the past before we act, time will have moved on withou
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by rbarooah 16y ago
people in hospital can't sync their iPads?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The point of paying for the license is that you get the right to use all of the patents in the collection in one step rather than having to negotiate more than a thousand separate licenses. Even if you have to deal with other patents later
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Not to mention that you could power an ARM2 by collecting the waste heat from a 386 using a thermocouple.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
4.0 seems a lot better to me.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Are you suggesting that we shouldn't have the right to decide what ads get shown on our own websites?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I agree with you that this doesn't seem to be leading us towards a great utopia. The problem isn't just programmers creating their own prison though - it's about business models. How do we create this seamless brand-free info sphere and st
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Isn't a consequence of what you are suggesting that in exchange for appearing in the Google search index, websites would be legally forced to accept Google Ads at Google's discretion?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I don't think it would be good for developers for Google and Facebook to settle their differences. The last thing we need is the internet in the hands of a giant cartel.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Google claims WebM is patent free. MPEG-LA doesn't claim H.264 is patent free - they just offer a simplified way to license a large number of patents. If it is FUD, perhaps you can offer an explanation rather than just deflection.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Is there a reason that Google isn't offering patent indemnification other than that they aren't sure WebM is patent free either?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
That's a reason for some geeks to buy one. It's the reason I looked at buying one - not so much for Android, but for something to build a DIY dynabook on. I still probably will when someone makes something closer to Apple's industrial des

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