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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Well, there's a reason why it's worthy of a news story. You don't see articles written whenever someone creates a song on his Mac or PC. That's a bit like saying, "you don't see articles written whenever someone creates a song on his pian
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
The author actually states these "mom and pop" startups are good for the economy and for the people founding them: These founders don't want to change to world. They just want to make enough money to provide for their family, buy a car, or
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Some Fresh Twitter Stats (as of July 2012, Dataset Included)(diegobasch.com)
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Why NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Landing Will Be Seven Minutes of Absolute Terror(gizmodo.com)
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Quick doesn't have to mean dirty(me.veekun.com)
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Actually, many generations of Macs shipped with 32-bit processors. The first two generations of Intel 15" and 17" laptops, the first generation (at least) of Intel iMacs, and I believe three generations of Intel Mac Minis.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Well, you could have planned ahead... it's not like this situation cropped up spontaneously. I bet months ago you knew the Olympics were starting today and you knew you didn't have a way to view them. Not judging or accusing, just sayin'.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Well, if you're willing to pay, couldn't you sign up for cable for one month? I agree, it's not our ideal and it's more overhead for you since you'll need to deal with installation, but it's not like it's impossible to pay to see the Olympi
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I suspect the good reason is they didn't want to spend time making the 64-bit kernel support 32-bit EFI and didn't want to create and qualify an EFI update for 64-bit machines that have 32-bit EFI. Likewise, they probably didn't want to spe
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
The system itself uses the correct, new logo in all cases I've seen.
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Backblaze raises $5 million; Why we took funding after 5 years of bootstrapping(blog.backblaze.com)
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Out of the box (so to speak), AirPlay mirroring only supports traditional AirPlay destinations, e.g. AppleTVs. I'm pretty sure you'll still want to pick up that app which makes an iPad an AirPlay destination.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
"Under the hood"? Not really. There are a few nifty new APIs – SceneKit, NSXPCConnection, NSUserNotification, the sharing stuff – and the 64-bit kernel (with kernel ASLR) is now the default. Regarding user-visible features, I think there ar
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I believe it's telling that Apple's latest keyboards no longer include a Dashboard key; in its place is a Launchpad key. While I actually do use Dashboard on a regular basis (gotta check my stocks!), I don't think it's long for this world.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
It isn't like these support issues are a surprise to them, they just have different priorities than fixing them. Exactly! Like I said, I'm sure they felt their limited resources could be better spent elsewhere. Supporting 6 year old hardw
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Yep, you just reiterated my point.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Looks like apple trying to increase those profits even further. Actually, its likely more a technical reason than a financial one. IIRC, the first generation of Core 2 Duo machines shipped with 32-bit EFI, even though the processor is 64-
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
The current machine lineup will likely start shipping with Mountain Lion very shortly. I'd put good money down saying that any machine ordered online tomorrow ships with Mountain Lion installed by default. In fact wouldn't surprise me if th
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Entitlement and Acquisition(mattgemmell.com)
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I think it's easy for me and you to understand that they were acquired for their talent but to ordinary people it just looks like they've bought something, were promised updates, and they weren't delivered. That reflects badly on all devel
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Awakenings: An Android Design Process(dewith.com)
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
it can be interpreted as that; that's obviously how you interpreted it. The irony is Apple's one of the greenest, if not by far the greenest, manufacturers in the world. Can you name any tech manufacturers that are better?
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What is the Readability & Instapaper business model? Is it same for both?(quora.com)
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Vooza Introduction(vimeo.com)
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Learning to Program(lenz.unl.edu)
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Doh, should have fact checked that statement. The 20h is a power stat I've heard for another product, and it was stuck in my head as I wrote that post earlier today. 7h is the advertised time for the latest MBPs and the 13" MBA. Sorry for t
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I'd make the exact opposite claim. Apple's been extremely aggressive about minimizing their impact on the environment. They've reduced or eliminated packaging whenever possible, reducing the carbon costs of transporting their products. Heck
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I got a nice little notification in the notification bar when an update was available. My point was more that most phones aren't receiving updates at all. No update means no notification.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Here's how normal users will realize they aren't getting updates, because it happens to me often. Somehow they learn about some cool app they want and they go to the Play store to get it. But they can't find it. It doesn't show up on their
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
And vendors like Motorola probably don't care about you and your situation. From their perspective, they likely see two things 1) a still growing cell phone market 2) a rapidly growing Android market As long as the market's still growing, a

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