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by roc 13y ago
But they're the people who will be reading the vapid-to-us articles written by those who have no understanding of, or context for, gaming and will simply try to encapsulate what they see on that stage. If Microsoft gave a 'core gamer only'
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by roc 13y ago
> "I doubt there would be a scene, only me embarrassing myself by probably dragging out some kind of justification of not wanting to hand over my details. Perhaps it's down to being schooled in implicit compliance, and it feels a littl
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by roc 13y ago
"features and experience" are still contingent, in a very large way, on how the business runs. e.g. ad-driven vs freemium vs subscription, quantity and types of advertising, etc. Focusing on making the best product/"features and experience"
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by roc 13y ago
(largely) free Lego, over the internet with all your friends and mods and plugins and such. So: kind of, but so much more.
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by roc 13y ago
> "How do you find out about this stuff? :(" There were tools... http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57584518-93/netflix-cuts-ba...
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by roc 13y ago
> " I guess a ransom-type deal would work better: " Or you could just, i dunno, charge for the service .
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by roc 13y ago
I wouldn't rule out individuals with individual axes to grind, but most of the anti-yahoo sentiment is based on: their track records of no interesting products, acquiring and then squandering interesting products, and management decisions t
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by roc 13y ago
http://www.google.com/patents/US7535468 Given how long ago that was, I'm guessing it still doesn't quite work, it doesn't fit into a feasible footprint, or it interferes with some other more-valued part of the current backlight/display/gl
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by roc 13y ago
> "It is now quite common for systems that handle HTML to provide mechanisms for extension to provide additional functionality" Yes, that's the point. Embrace/ Extend is part of the risk. The pitfalls have been shown before. We're su
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by roc 13y ago
> "No, if I was saying that, you would have seen those words in my message rather than yours." No-one was 'misattributing' anything to anyone. It was a figure of speech. Welcome to the sarchasm my friend. > "its not "non-message-
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by roc 13y ago
Having the capability and giving people enough rope to hang themselves is one thing. Just don't try to sell it that way. And for goodness' sake, don't implement the core functionality that way.
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by roc 13y ago
I was thinking NFC tag-to-watch to trigger limited-interaction sorts of prompts on the phone and then bluetooth from the watch to the phone for relaying the indicated data or firing actions or whatever. (bump watches, each watch gets a 'sen
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by roc 13y ago
Wearables ought to ditch the attempted interaction. The second I'm prodding at a watch to do more than triage notifications or cycle through a couple google-now-style 'cards', I might as well have pulled out my phone. They should focus on d
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by roc 13y ago
Other companies that can afford the first six patent lawsuits necessary to build up a reputation? Maybe. Other companies that can't even afford to win once ? Hardly.
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by roc 13y ago
So... you're saying it should have been conceived of as a particular file type and attached, like all other non-message-related elements? Would Google encode a vcf file in JSON and embed it in the message? How is handling VCF different tha
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by roc 13y ago
Considering people have close to zero control over how Microsoft licenses, say, SQL Server? Yes. And I never said they hated MS. I just said that increased revenue doesn't necessarily mean anyone is consciously buying in. Upgrading the
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by roc 13y ago
And there was something like a half million automobiles sold before the model T. In any case, my point wasn't that the analogy is particularly apt in this specific case. It was that extending "what has been done" to "what works for people"
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by roc 13y ago
The Model T was hardly the first car either. Sometimes getting the details right -- turning a curiosity for the rich into a tool for the masses -- really is a key advance worthy of its own recognition.
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by roc 13y ago
Those numbers don't necessarily mean anyone is making a conscious decision to buy in. they could simply mean the installed base needs 11% more server licensing by dollar to scale/maintain their existing solutions.
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by roc 13y ago
Further, things like this give them competitive ammo in G+ vs Facebook & android vs iOS, which are battles over far larger chunks of data than this service alone will generate.
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by roc 13y ago
Which also have the added bonus of not inviting 'fiddling'. Glass can record, but then there are the notifications and the 'interactions' and all that, that combine to put the lie to it being any different than staring at the phone.
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by roc 13y ago
The "free" market doesn't exist without regulation against things like fraud, collusion, monopolies, etc. This is exactly the sort of regulation Republicans should care about. Not that this excuses Republicans from being hypocrites. But
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by roc 13y ago
Isn't the point that not all phones are truly off when the user thinks they're off? i.e. if you can ensure there's no power (removed battery) you can be confident there's no tracking. But if you can't ensure it...
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by roc 13y ago
Anyone using Google Now is already sending all the data that constitutes the article's undesirable dystopic vision to Google. And anyone running Android, I suppose, could get an update that began surreptitiously phoning home data. If th
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by roc 13y ago
And there's so little information available/presented to the person who has to make that choice, as to which ones do work, or which ones they should even want to work.
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by roc 13y ago
Because you can get hits with rumors? (Hits with the rumor today, and more tomorrow, when the inevitable follow-up lands. And the day before the event, when you reiterate the state of the rumor mill, and the day after the event when you sc
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by roc 13y ago
The idea that a platform would pitch "We have the same Call of Duty everyone else has, but you can't play ours when the internet is out." is pretty unlikely. Activision might pitch that design for the game on all platforms, but MS/Son
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by roc 13y ago
Luckily there's a continuum of choices, rather than the false dichotomy of San Francisco vs Kowloon Walled City.
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by roc 13y ago
That would just see the NIMBYs shift to blocking the rail stations entirely.
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by roc 13y ago
From what I've seen on the highway? About 160 characters.

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