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by roc 14y ago
I'm sure AMD would be more than happy to sell their position to any would-be competitor, if it's transferable. I think the bigger problem is just that it's extremely difficult and expensive to compete with Intel on x86. And all of a sudden
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by roc 14y ago
Unfortunately neither the tech-press, nor the anti-IP-period crowd have a particularly good grasp on just what utility patents cover, nor any apparent interest in learning. So hoping they'll recognize, learn and appreciate the difference be
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by roc 14y ago
I think that just hits on a larger organizational problem that seems to be common to both national parties: A staggering amount of the services and resources that I would think the state/national party would build up and have on-hand, they
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by roc 14y ago
Didn't the latest Ars article suggest Orca wasn't a contractor concoction after all? [1] I think all we really see, is that the Obama campaign had experience and no primary campaign distractions. The Obama campaign had a v1 in 2008 and were
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by roc 14y ago
Mobile is changing the way enterprises think the same way the web did: very slowly. They will recognize the need long before they act on it. And when they act on it, it will be on an offering built to their specifications, with data conne
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by roc 14y ago
> "Customers understand the operating system and pre-installed applications reside on the device's internal storage thereby reducing the total free space," I think there's a reasonable disagreement to be had over whether the Surface u
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by roc 14y ago
To be fair: the President is charged with executing the laws as written. Inasmuch as this EO covers top-down directives for how existing government agencies are to execute on their legislatively-defined missions, he's not going beyond
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by roc 14y ago
This sounds like a slight-of-hand argument. How is "free to play" design anything other than a lottery ticket of another kind? Sure, if you get a free-to-play hit, it's likely easier to quit your day job while resisting the siren call of
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by roc 14y ago
> "Over time, this effect increases inequality, another effect already observed." I think you'd need some evidence that the lowest income groups experience higher inflation to make this connection. As distinct from merely reporting
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by roc 14y ago
> "Also the notion of a country being energy independent when relying upon oil is a silly one." Sure. But there's no path to energy independence that doesn't include either: A.) huge economic shocks or B.) extending use of fossil fuel
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by roc 14y ago
It's pretty well accepted that oil will never physically run out. Long before even extraction/refining costs make remaining oil infeasibly expensive, supply/demand will send the price spiking to uneconomical levels as soon as oil producti
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by roc 14y ago
To be fair: oil being fungible means that it doesn't much matter who gets Iraqi production or the direct profits from it. So long as that oil can be produced and sold by a regime not under international sanctions, it will increase market su
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by roc 14y ago
Let me start off by saying I was originally taking issue with the idea that touch precision is a problem . That it can't work in certain cases and that we'll always need mice. And all that in a complaint that demonstrated a pretty na
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by roc 14y ago
Thinking on this more, kinect-style cameras looking down the plane of the desk could probably do 'posture' analysis to sort out (un)intentional touches pretty easily. That might be easier than even trying to develop pressure sensors and heu
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by roc 14y ago
It sounds to me like you're conflating "the trouble with touch" with "the trouble with too-small-screens" and deciding the problem is touch. But I'm guessing you don't edit waves with a keyboard/mouse on a 3, 4 or 9.7" screen either. So ma
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by roc 14y ago
> "How do we address this issue?" The way people have already done so in touch software to date? You program 'un-pinch to zoom' to zoom the desired elements allowing increasing levels of accuracy as needed. And in the cases that you
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by roc 14y ago
And with most touch-screens you can (un)pinch to zoom in and get as accurate as you want/need. The entire desire for 'pixel-perfect' clicking on a static UI is a symptom of trying to shoe-horn touch into interfaces not explicitly designed f
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by roc 14y ago
Earlier yesterday it wasn't a hurricane though. And shortly after landfall it was no longer a hurricane again - even before it weakened. (cold core => post-tropical cyclone?) I think using a general catch-all that was not a narrowly-de
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by roc 14y ago
I will never understand why this concept gets downvoted every single time it comes up. Price comes first. It's not really a secret. Everything else follows from that.
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by roc 14y ago
But whose fault would that be, if not his? Wouldn't it be the job of the head of iOS development to identify the ideas worth pursuing and setting the teams/projects/schedules accordingly? If the guy ostensibly setting the feature list send
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by roc 14y ago
> "for some reason the number in USD is equal to the number in GBP for almost everything, even when GBP is 1.6-2.2x the USD" Price is set by willingness to pay. full stop. Cost for goods is almost always worked to, backwards, from pri
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by roc 14y ago
I seem to recall even Gruber himself has drawn the comparison between Kremlinology and reading Apple PR between the lines. I read it as a satirical joke. A little "on the nose", perhaps. But just a joke. (Edit: cleaned up repetition.)
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by roc 14y ago
Intents/services and lock screen widgets. Home screen and notification center widgets don't interest me. But if you could put something like widgets/live tiles/google now-ish space on the lock screen? Particularly with the increased vertica
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by roc 14y ago
I was specifically referring to the suggestion Valve could have an option to boot a machine directly to a given game. Which would imply no other third party software would be running. So the current (in)existence of other Linux software wou
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by roc 14y ago
retaken , perhaps.
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by roc 14y ago
> "None of this should be an issue if Valve decides to release some kind of Linux based 'Steam loader' that boots directly to the game itself" That's a pretty interesting angle. But it might be a bridge too far. Gamers would almost
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by roc 14y ago
If so it hasn't translated into any sort of "halo effect" for android tablets to date. I'm not sure why that concern would be expected to suddenly manifest after Apple releases a device. No-one really seemed interested in Android tablets
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by roc 14y ago
Because it's Apple. People know Apple, they know how it will perform, they know it will run the Apps their friends talk about, they know the Apple stores are there if they need service, etc. The iPad Mini, instead of being a bold play to ki
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by roc 14y ago
Because you can make more money selling four+ tablets than one desktop monitor at sizes/resolutions that continue to have very low total sales?
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by roc 14y ago
> "A million more pixels than the iPad 3/4" I know it's something of a running joke that people like to see escalating numbers on spec sheets, regardless of what they mean in objective reality. But in this particular case it strikes m

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