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by rortian 17y ago
Apple does not allow third party apps to use multitouch so that is a known issue. >Apps with the same codebase for Android/iPhone will automatically suck as far as the UI is concerned Hardly. There is the graphics api called opengl that
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by rortian 17y ago
It's a good question and it turns out to be the most important issues for any anti-trust action. If you are really interested, I would encourage you to look up some famous cases and read the decisions in some of the cases.
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by rortian 17y ago
I hope you understand there is a reason that this can't be done: Developers cannot disclose the license. The first time I and many others saw one of them was when EFF FOMAd one from NASA.
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by rortian 17y ago
This is addressed in the original post. As of now, projects that were made other the the approved ones would have obvious file layouts characteristics. Theoretically, you could make it hard to tell the difference, but in practice its pretty
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by rortian 17y ago
Very interesting review. It's very hard to say this was sycophantic. I was very surprised with how primitive the iWork document management was. Also, can you imagine being that constrained when web browsing? I need my tabs.
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by rortian 17y ago
This is really sad. Did you see libertarian in there? Ron Paul is not the only libertarian and is despised by many libertarians. I'll go into that further if you so desire. >Black Swan theory, the problem of economic calculation, the br
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by rortian 17y ago
It does and I'm not above making that move with certain positions. If you don't have a problem with bullish pundits then I wonder where you were in the late 90s. Regardless, predicting the future is a bit of a silly exercise and not many pe
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by rortian 17y ago
Alright, here's a problem for you, no one will assert that bullish pundits on CNBC are credible. http://www.cepr.net/index.php/dean-baker/ Dean Baker is an actual economist and he called the housing bubble. I find your last sentence bizar
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by rortian 17y ago
First, your quote from the economist covers 24 years. During that period a lot of people came out of extreme poverty. That does not mean that a huge portion of them are not poor. It'd be interesting to be able to look at the original papers
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by rortian 17y ago
I wish that article wasn't behind a paywall, but I don't think I'm disputing people have come out of poverty. You are not addressing any of the issues I was raising though.
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by rortian 17y ago
I wish you had just replaced Peter Schiff with, "Ron Paul's economic advisor" to save me some time. What you assert is simply untrue. It would be a good thing, currently, for the dollar to be devalued somewhat. Our exports would be cheaper
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by rortian 17y ago
What you assert is hard to square with things like this: >China’s remarkable economic development has gone hand in hand with the rise in nepotism which has powerfully distorted the distribution of its benefits. As a result, China’s weal
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by rortian 17y ago
Yes, it is in fact far fetched. They are powerless to do anything about their dollar reserves without losing substantial amounts of wealth.
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by rortian 17y ago
Hulu isn't going behind a paywall. They are providing content that they do not currently offer behind a paywall.
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by rortian 17y ago
Ummm... >People need to accept that they are just assuming their rightful place atop the world order No, that's okay. Thanks for the suggestion though. I'd love to hear your theory of 'rightful' places in the world order. You have an od
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by rortian 17y ago
Here's the thing about that though: it would devastate Apple's profits. At&t hands over a hefty portion of the contract (where the real money is in wireless). Why would any carrier consider that with a nonexclusive phone?
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by rortian 17y ago
They aren't customers, they are students. You can't fail customers.
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by rortian 17y ago
You may have been alluding to this but all phones should/could be 2.1 OS in the future: http://androidandme.com/2010/02/news/all-u-s-android-phones-...
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by rortian 17y ago
Just a couple things to start with: 1) Overuse of cliché. 2) Inability to use adverbs. I'd have to review to go in more depth but those things are a little jarring to me. If you'd like to work on improving how you sound I'd recommend readin
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by rortian 17y ago
Do you think that when you attack someone that has been less fortunate than you that you don't have to use specifics or identify positive characteristics?
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by rortian 17y ago
I don't know how much hate has been conveyed in here, but you are telling this in a weird way. He dropped out of high school because he was already making a lot of cash. I personally have qualms about the guys ethics. He got his start by ly
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by rortian 17y ago
Hmmm, interesting questions. I don't think I implied people only deserve money if they have a good command of language. I think I made that comment more to point to how his lack of education was apparent from his manner of speech. I would e
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by rortian 17y ago
Short of a weird issue with is first company. Check this out: >And ValueClick in Westlake Village, Calif., which offers performance-based online advertising services, acquired Click Agents.com in Fremont, Calif., which offers those same
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by rortian 17y ago
Why would it? He doesn't seem to have a very great command of language but he's got all that money so whatever. Lot's of people made a lot of money with the internet boom, pg and Mark Cuban among them. However, they are still people that di
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by rortian 17y ago
I wonder if pg ever considers paying Aaron to stop writing stuff. People that read stuff like this have got to start wondering, "Is it really a good thing to get a payoff before I am ready for it?"
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by rortian 17y ago
I would just like to point that constants are rarely the important point. Exponents are a huge deal. A lot of things are possible and fast because FFT is N log N versus N^2.
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by rortian 17y ago
Lot's of things are tests of and do improve those things. I got really high is sort of a silly statement.
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by rortian 17y ago
I think that is well put. It is fairly trivial to project (in the mathematical sense) most any human activity in a way that makes it seem useless or worse than. Strangely these projections tend leave the projector in a still elevated positi
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by rortian 17y ago
Yeah this guy seems so full of it. Why is climbing a mountain not a fake achievement?
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by rortian 17y ago
This was a horribly written post that was not even spell checked. The bulk of it quoted two articles. If this was an interesting topic that you would like to discuss, please post the link to one of the original articles. Feel free to HT the

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