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by roc 14y ago
> "They're late on this, but agencies always are." Months-late could be attributable to the somewhat understandable slow wheels of over-careful i-dotting and t-crossing. But we're going on years-late. And the court had to order th
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by roc 14y ago
> "What exactly is the judge going to do?" Hold those in charge personally responsible. Find them in contempt. Lock them up. Go as far up the executive chain as necessary. Have the civilian police deactivate/seize any scanners unt
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by roc 14y ago
They could deliver a taxi service initially. Given that the sensor tech is only theoretically going to become affordable as production ramps up, they may have to start there to keep pushing things forward.
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by roc 14y ago
> "The macbook pros are quite durable to scratches and scuffs, so perhaps they could have used the same material/processes." They do. On the white/silver iphone5. And it, by all accounts, handles wear just like the unibody macbooks.
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by roc 14y ago
That sentiment was popularly applied directly to iPhones not too long ago. http://www.davidhughes.org/aged-to-perfection/
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by roc 14y ago
> "Did I miss anything important?" Yes. These problems apply to Windows on the desktop as well. And Windows exists as the 800 lb gorilla on the desktop for two big reasons: 1. massive numbers of legacy enterprise apps with mind-boggli
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by roc 14y ago
Links have more subtle affordances that make them stand out from web text and few people have a problem navigating that. Microsoft's problem isn't inherent in having a 'flat' design. It arises because of their alternately uniform (outlook)
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by roc 14y ago
I felt that way three years ago. At this point, I'm starting to think the omission is intentional. Similarly with home-screen widgets. Though I think lock screen/notification center widgets might be incoming.
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by roc 14y ago
I'm not saying Apple is right. I'm saying the contexts are wildly different. They probably ought to cough up some sort of fee, or change if the designers don't want them to use it. But one face on one app of a multifunction device is simpl
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by roc 14y ago
They're going to solve it the same way anyone would. By spending a lot of time -- and making their vendors spend a lot of time -- addressing issues as they're identified. And the 'cloud-based' nature of the app isn't entirely irrelevant, a
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by roc 14y ago
Has Apple ever cracked down on apps that allow the purchase of physical things for not using in-App purchases? IIRC the only time this has gotten sticky, is when it comes to apps that allow users to buy access to more content that is access
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by roc 14y ago
The big distinction that seems to be getting missed is that Apple isn't selling wall clocks with this design. So they aren't remotely competing with the designs that they 'copy' from. Samsung is copying Apple, arguably intentionally, to cr
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by roc 14y ago
I don't think the 'average fan' is ever breaking anything down on their own. It just requires too much dedication and time to build the knowledge. But the key is that this isn't being released to just the average fans. What we're more li
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by roc 14y ago
> "Moreover it completely ignores the risk of devoting a ton of resources to developing a product that is already protected by a patent." That's what the legal advisers (who recommend this strategy) are for. You bring them a concept
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by roc 14y ago
It's worth remembering that many, many people experienced horrible performance problems on the iPhone3G under iOS4. It's entirely possible that your 8% of users avoiding 4.3 despite its availability aren't tech-newbs, but are making a consc
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by roc 14y ago
> "To begin with, as experienced by others here, my Google+ is extremely quiet." But isn't that an advertised feature of google+? That you could 'friend' people, but then toss them in a [siberia] circle to keep their noise from clu
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by roc 14y ago
Would anyone deliver an actual video this way? Say, something with more than a few dozen frames?
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by roc 14y ago
Cul-de-sac suburban developments rarely connect to neighboring developments. They don't even always connect to all of the larger streets that they border. This lack of connectivity between them is the primary criticism. The map of Istanb
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by roc 14y ago
They went through this rigamarole because it's an animation and animated gifs aren't great.
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by roc 14y ago
Thing is, it's not a video. It's a glorified animated gif. This has almost nothing to do with autoplay and the video tag and much more to do with a desire for a script-controllable animation. (Most obviously: they don't start playing until
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by roc 14y ago
Whenever I've restored from a backup, it's included all the device music, playlists, contacts, all apps, all app data, icon positions, etc. Basically everything, just the way I left it. This has even held when restoring an old backup to a
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by roc 14y ago
It's continually revamped. In fact, large parts of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act are going into effect just next week. (the rest to follow in March) It includes many of the top items that internet geeks call for. http://en.wikipedi
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by roc 14y ago
Watch more patent litigation. The suits are always just proxies for the licensing negotiation. Even seeking to get products blocked from market is just hardball. Despite the massive judgment in the Samsung/Apple case, it will likely all b
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by roc 14y ago
It has long since begun. It is beyond me, why everyone chooses to ignore Nokia's taking a chunk out of Apple and Microsoft taking a chunk out of HTC, Samsung and Barnes & Nobles. Apple's case isn't anything new.
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by roc 14y ago
When did they even have rapid evolution? Sure, there was some rapid change as things like Android and WinCE dumped their old-style geek-centric interfaces and moved toward a more iPhone-ish consumer-centric approach. But after "the big s
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by roc 14y ago
Funny, I seem to recall that the disillusioned techie reaction to the 4S was that it was also a non-update. Same shell. Modest internal updates and the only feature of note (Siri) was panned as an app that Apple bought that merely caught it
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by roc 14y ago
We are in this situation, primarily, because food and medicine is present-enough to enable more life but is not yet at levels sufficient to allow that life to thrive to the point that people reduce their procreation rates by choice. But all
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by roc 14y ago
I think you're misunderstanding OWS rhetoric; or conflating edge noise with the core philosophy. Their primary complaint is that the 1% have already used their money to gain political influence to advantage the further consolidation of exis
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by roc 14y ago
There's nothing that says an iTunes rewrite would necessitate opening X programs to sync content. It's trivial to envision an architecture where a sync service is aware of and can pull from those X repositories. In fact, iTunes already wor
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by roc 14y ago
Your State House is also bought. And more cheaply at that.

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