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by roc 14y ago
> "You know what is worse than using one app to handle 15 tasks related to your media/app collection? Using 15 apps to do the same." Funny, it works out just fine from the iOS side. And that's even when I consider additionally managin
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by roc 14y ago
They could break up iTunes under the covers and maintain a legacy 'unity' interface for a cycle or two. And the sync problem is solving itself as iOS devices continue to migrate away from iTunes as the repository manager.
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by roc 14y ago
How does the Patriot Act hold up to the HUAC or interment of citizens during WWII? The Patriot Act is bad. But it's not unprecedented. And, personally, I don't find it notably worse than the war on drugs.
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by roc 14y ago
The problem with "vote against incumbents", particularly in the era of Citizens United, is that you'll have just greased the revolving door and destroyed any incentive to not sell off everything that isn't nailed down. The corporate spons
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by roc 14y ago
After having used the XBox 360 Metro-style dashboard redesign for some time now, I think you're mistaken.
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by roc 14y ago
Here's to hoping facial camouflage paint/sticker solutions become fashionable.
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by roc 14y ago
It's just a function of the increase in topic breadth. When you get to articles about technical details, I still see the quality comments as before. It's just that there are more tech-fashion articles and "bitch about the policy of company
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by roc 14y ago
> "I don't see how pressure can be applied to a position with a lifetime appointment." People don't have to be forced to do things to make effectively political decisions. Being incentivized also works. And social incentive seems
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by roc 14y ago
> "JSON ... gets really messy around the third level of indentation." This is not a place where XML compares favorably.
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by roc 14y ago
The point of discussing multiple types of jeans was to compare and contrast their demand curves. My apologies if that wasn't communicated clearly. I simply disagree that the one axiom gives us anything close to a reasonably accurate pictur
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by roc 14y ago
The problem is that demand is not as simple as "agents will buy goods below their reserve price." Real world experience shows us that there exist luxury and inferior goods. We can quite simply see that there are (many) agents who could buy
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by roc 14y ago
I'm pretty sure we all read this same story last year, at least once. Well, at least twice, if we count the "Verizon subscribers don't really want the iPhone" stories that came out in Q2, as iPhone sales on Verizon tapered off as people ex
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by roc 14y ago
I would be surprised if you could get a court order to turn over details on 12 million users.
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by roc 14y ago
They're trying to avoid the situation where they have to stand up to a morality-in-the-media-type group and defend someone else's freedom of expression. Allowing the web is PR-defensible: "it's the web". But when it comes to things you exp
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by roc 14y ago
At the mall, probably not. But going to or leaving work? Or a theatre? Or restaurants [1]? Or a party? Or your beer-league bowling/darts/softball games? [2] Pretty much anything with a predictable schedule would be quickly swamped and del
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by roc 14y ago
Take a trip down to the nearest suburban elementary school to see whether "getting dropped off and picked up at the door" necessarily translates to "never having to park again". In many situations, you won't have to hunt for a spot. And th
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by roc 14y ago
If they have a parental control feature, recognize that it's not usually turned on, so set app store policy assuming parental control isn't on, but that style of protection is desirable ... why don't they just default parental control t
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by roc 14y ago
But if you're not ready to make the smartphone/data-plan plunge, or your smartphone has a crap camera...
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by roc 14y ago
Communication programs would make synchronizing and sharing photos (particularly one-offs) much easier. Touch-to-focus, touch-to-set-white-balance are pretty awesome and far more user-friendly than comparable functions/processes on today's
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by roc 14y ago
If we want to give advice that will insulate people from making a poor networking decision, stick to: "go through the motions for the entire process ." Because the negative reaction from the interviewer isn't to any perceived rudeness in
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by roc 14y ago
Wayne Westerman is one of the identified Inventors. Published papers/articles by the inventors can count against their being able to get a patent, dependent upon the character of the disclosure (did they tell a couple friends or write a wi
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by roc 14y ago
The claims as-filed, sure. But the USPTO doesn't generally update the published application to match the current document (including changed and struck claims) during the process. So it's entirely possible that wording didn't survive. In an
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by roc 14y ago
Beyond that, we need to consider priority dates when determining when something was 'invented' when it comes to prior art. Note the application referenced downthread (20060238520) is a continuation of a 2004 filing, itself a continuation of
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by roc 14y ago
The only things that matter with regards to patents, are the claims. That line, and the general and detailed descriptions can be ignored entirely.
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by roc 14y ago
Value makes them relevant to estate issues. It seems to me unlikely that digital content will remain the domain of relatively cheap music, books and videos.
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by roc 14y ago
Library size has nothing to do with it. People choose digital for reasons other than "too many little plastic discs to keep track of". Digital content enables a certain class of packrat, to be sure. But they're tangentially relevant, at
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by roc 14y ago
> "I have a hard time seeing how debit cards are worse than credit cards." In the US, debit cards are generally also credit cards. They can be processed exactly like a credit card, without a pin number, without a second glance at the
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by roc 14y ago
The Portland numbers are pretty much irrelevant without accompanying context. e.g. population growth, sprawl, rail expansion vs average commute distances, funding, etc. As for the linked arugment: seriously? People are honestly arguing tha
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by roc 14y ago
> "What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits?" It's hardly surprising that people without the money for cars ar
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by roc 14y ago
I think we're in agreement here. There's plenty of advancement: it just isn't in desktop horsepower because that's not where the demand is. I never meant to imply there was no advancement on the desktop at all. I was just trying to get t

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