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by roc 14y ago
Yes, but where gamepads are already supported, it's more the rule than the exception that you're going to run into menus and things that can't be negotiated via the gamepad. (e.g. Windows UAC prompts, menus, pop-ups or text boxes that inexp
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by roc 14y ago
The "Steam Box" era won't/can't begin until Steam is actually delivering the "all gamepad" experience that living-room users expect. And that sounds like it's further away than hardware that hits any particular place on the price/performanc
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by roc 14y ago
Is there a lot of SEO that relies on 'like' or '+1' spam? Because that's the more apt comparison. Particularly when you consider the implementation of even a trivial 'karma' system. The very creation of a network of mannequins would seem t
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by roc 14y ago
Tracking history would bound right into the 'creepy' range of data collection IMO. But if you were fine with that, it's not hard to imagine such a solution tracking how much time you spent on a given page and using that to make an educated
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by roc 14y ago
Thinking on this more, the cloud-stored cache would wind up eventually being a subset of google's whole-internet-database. From which you could run a pretty awesome search service. Because it wouldn't consist of randomly spidered or submitt
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by roc 14y ago
So do bookmarks. And this overlap becomes obvious as people inevitably ask for Chrome or OneTab to allow them to cluster tabs by topic/project -- because a linear scan is never going to 'work' for people who leave enough tabs open that it
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by roc 14y ago
The question is: at scale , is that a risk a company can reasonably carry on its own? And is that a risk we want to see a court handle in the usual way? A massive manufacturing failure run through the courts can ruin an automaker. If s
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by roc 14y ago
> "The video left me feeling like the game is a time sink without getting the reward of getting little achievements like gaining levels and discovering new gear. The very things that make such games addictive." Those are the things th
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by roc 14y ago
The big problem is that current liability is relatively limited by fleet diversity. Toyota has enough variation in their fleet that even if a floor mat can cause a stuck accelerator, it's only an issue for certain models of certain cars.
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by roc 14y ago
I wasn't remotely talking about money; about why Maxis sold, whether they had to or anything along those lines. You're projecting an argument I never made. I'm talking purely about the games and the people who make them. EA buys studios and
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by roc 14y ago
Yes and EA is openly following the same playbook and has been less-openly following it for years. One could argue Activision took it from EA.
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by roc 14y ago
> "Takeover by EA is usually considered a death knell for game studios..." Further to this point: Maxis, makers of Sim City, were notable for a long time as being the glaring exception when it came to EA's habit of buying and squeez
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by roc 14y ago
For everyone except the people in power.
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by roc 14y ago
* Buys more than $10,000 worth of press.
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by roc 14y ago
I don't know anything about the situation at Yahoo, but in any company of 14,000 people, I find it hard to believe inter-team/department tension is based on objective reality. e.g. If sales and engineering don't get along, engineering will
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by roc 14y ago
> "but that's not what's going on here." Not with the NSLs, no. But when you consider the not-so-secret rooms at all the ISPs: that is what's going on there.
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by roc 14y ago
> "I don't want Google to consider me a single identity across its different accounts, either." Good luck with that. I've had Google prompt me to associate separate accounts across different domains (each driven by google apps). And
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by roc 14y ago
Personally, I've never seen that work. And it doesn't even sound like a reasonable approach, unless you're trying like hell to stay under some annual or lifetime coverage cap. [1] Before I had insurance I was getting ~$1200 quotes for proc
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by roc 14y ago
Is there a societal problem of people having massive fruit intake? It seems both logical and effective to just worry about the 'added' sugars in processed foods.
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by roc 14y ago
Nah, expiration is 20 years from the earliest priority date. So if they're claiming 1996, the patent will expire in 2016. The backlog used to be problematic along the lines you're thinking, but they adjusted the rules in 1995.
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by roc 14y ago
The problem with even decentralized things like USENET is that when so few legitimate users leverage a thing, it stands out in traffic analysis. Google and Twitter are great precisely because so many people use it. And if the authors had t
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by roc 14y ago
The first-to-file provisions (among others) don't actually go into effect until March 16th of this year. (The 16th being a Saturday, filings will have to be in by the 15th to be considered under first-to-invent.)
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by roc 14y ago
The US is first-to-invent, so invention date matters, not (necessarily/entirely) filing date. And this patent is a divisional application of a divisional application off an original filing in 1996. So this filing is considered in the cont
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by roc 14y ago
As a power user I don't 'like' it either. But I don't 'hate' it. I just use third party services when Apple's offerings don't fit. The only bit I took issue with, is holding up Apple as having 'failed' simply because their focus is on othe
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by roc 14y ago
While we're keeping history in context, let's also not forget this is also the company that was borderline irrelevant prior to their current direction.
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by roc 14y ago
> "How would this affect the usage of self-driving cars? " It wouldn't. Puzzlingly, this law seeks to ban aerial drone surveillance while explicitly allowing any surveillance, by person or drone, conducted by a device or person suppo
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by roc 14y ago
iCloud is first and foremost just a bit of service glue to make the native email/calendar/etc apps 'work' without sending people to Google or assuming they have a work Exchange account. In that capacity, it's as good as it needs to be. [1]
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by roc 14y ago
That just begs the question of whether marketers are actually people.
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by roc 14y ago
I don't think the arguments against were hinged that much on difficulty . Mostly it stemmed from supportability, correctness, having to train all your new hires on your new language, etc. Sometimes, sure, the right move is the least worst
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by roc 14y ago
And for the record: that's what qualifies as "incredibly inexpensive" in the US. Many people pay well over $1000/mo for family care, not counting what their employer contributes.

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