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by redrobot5050 16y ago
This is simply not true. Certain App Store developers have added web service calls to their applications so they "phone home" and pirated apps could be denied access. Similar to an API key.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
The reason is even simpler than that. In the US, only one carrier has the iPhone. Not everyone is going to want AT&T, or can get AT&T. They have an Android phone because their cell phone vendor says "This is our version of the iPhon
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Haters gonna Hate.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Apple wouldn't do it because making the user's have to click to load content without an intuitive explanation isn't "easy to use". Adobe wouldn't do it, because a large majority of their customers build annoying flash ads.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Except you can STILL go out to the internet and play those silly free flash games. And Flash Developers can now release their silly flash games on the iPhone/iOS App store. If either of those facts were not true, you might have a point.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
So what? The Mac App Store doesn't erase the fact that I can go to http://www.eclipse.org and get eclipse.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Sorry, not a 007 fantasy yarn.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
>This is counting games that come with the Wii. The Xbox does not come with one. I call B.S. The majority of XBox purchasers buy a bundle. Whether it is the Kung Fu Panda / Lego Indiana Jones (this my Bundle...my XBOX came with 2 games)
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Keep in mind Nintendo is the only gaming company that sells hardware that turns a profit (Sony and MS lose money on console sales, or at least did on launch) and is actively trying to grow the market (and depending on who you believe, doing
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
I love how this is being downvoted. Is the truth so hard to hear?
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
If the FBI is investigating them, either all REAL counter terrorism safeguards have failed, or its that "very special" kind of terrorist that's more likely to shoot himself because he can't figure out which way to point his AK. The CIA no
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
And forgive me for pointing this out...I don't want to be labeled stupid for relaying this...but the kid's posting on reddit was NOT an original idea. Alex Jones or one of his affiliates posted an essay stating that if there truly were terr
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Well, most of the core features (flash games, streaming video from websites, pay video services) are already implemented by my Nintendo Wii or Xbox 360. So it feels kinda ho hum. Google is a late comer to this field. They have to play catch
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Chrome and Safari both use WebKit. If Google releases an implementation, it shouldn't be hard for Apple to adopt it. That just leaves Opera.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
are we talking about integrated circuit chips? Because everyone in the EE/SOC world mocks the VLSI monkeys. Its a $120/hour CAD jockey job. It's an entirely different skillset and mindset to adapt an ISA to hardware than is to make sure the
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
You're right, but it depends on the length of the conflict. Each Apache Helicopter is built by hand. They have individual names. We only produce 60 of them a year. I don't know the loss rate we've encountered in Iraq and Afganistan (I know
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Yeah. I mean, look at the JooJoo/CrunchPad Debacle. According the Mike A., that's exactly what happened.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
This is like saying that Apache is a bad web server because IT people complain to the System Architects over how hard it is to harden it for PKI and use in Top Secret Environments. Odds are the IT monkey doesn't know what he is talking abou
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
>In your story, Chuck is ordering parts sure, but the guy who designed those parts was a specialist in designing parts... Exactly. In the long run, re-inventing the wheel is costly. Costly enough that Chuck graduates with his PhD, while
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Yeah. I remember reading that the F-22 or the JSF has contracts in 48 states. They really spread around the contracts to ensure smooth sailing in Congress. Everyone got a piece of the action (jobs to bring home) so to speak. The problem is,
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
I don't understand this logic. Yes, in a start-up, having multiple skillsets and job overlap comes in handy. In the corporate world, however, that MechE will likely never do anything but CAD up parts. They will have a machinist on staff to
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
From a work account? It might depend. Our company's policy forbids those kinds of things based off disciplinary action. From the company's standpoint (not law enforcement) they own everything.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
You have no privacy rights in a company owned email account, ever. They own every word you type, every email you send. How hard would it have been for that employee to have used his personal gmail account from his workstation?
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Winning a victory in court is only a secondary objective. Arrington wants to win in the court of public opinion, and he wants to wreck Fusion Garage. He wants the people who made the decision to bury him irrelevant to the Valley. This was h
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
>if you hold strong opinions be prepared to apologize with grace. I'm quoting this from now on. Can I attribute it to you? (I understand your reservation to giving out a real name over HN. Pls email me at this username at gmail.)
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
>I do not care what the content of the program is, as long as it is objective. Then WHY do you even own a TV? The Daily Show is a mock-comedy news program. It's objective is to be funny. That you don't get the joke and complain about ho
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
All SoC design comes from a fabricator's toolkit. When you do VLSI Design or Verilog layout, you always feed the compiler a "technology file" which describes -- gasp -- building blocks of what is possible to synthesize from the builder's fa
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
According to the DMCA, yes, you are, unless you KNOW you are downloading it from an authorized party. IANAL, for the record sake, but that's how most P2P has been bastardized by the law and you can't use the "I already own the CD" defense i
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Except Apple purchased PA Semiconductor and designed the A8 chip in-house. Samsung fabricates it.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Amazon.com accepts Amex. I practically buy everything there: Shoes, Aftershave, Books, etc.

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