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by rythie 13y ago
If you bought a mac to play Q3Test, surely it's not beyond the realms of reason that someone with PC, would dual-boot Linux to play a game (since it's no cost).
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by rythie 13y ago
What about Ubuntu? they have their own store so they could benefit directly from the game's sales
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by rythie 13y ago
We've got all that in the U.K.
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by rythie 13y ago
The hardest bit by far is getting traction.
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by rythie 13y ago
As a disruptive product, it did exactly what you'd expect it to do, i.e. start slow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
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by rythie 13y ago
A lot of people pay a lot less than $2 for coffee.
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by rythie 13y ago
This is distorted based on the idea that most people pay more than $0.99 for a cup of coffee - which is not true. I think the price of a "Cup of Coffee" needs to be defined here. Coffee can be made for $0.07/cup [ http:&#x2F
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by rythie 13y ago
1) I got started using Basic on BBC micro, using book borrowed from the local library and bit of help from my parents. Not long after I switched to Q Basic on a PC, then Visual Basic. Until I was about 13, all the equipment I used was borro
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by rythie 13y ago
I'm guessing this an attempt at Price Discrimination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
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by rythie 13y ago
These things are all easy to fix. > 1. iOS is not good at multi-tasking which is bread and butter for desktop. Look what happened to Windows 8 which tried to forced full screen apps on 24" monitors all the time. The base of iOS is s
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by rythie 13y ago
At some point Apple is going to discontinue 32bit iOS - just like they did with OSX, they need about 3 years before they can do this. It makes sense to start early, because at some point they'll only be making devices with 4GB+ of memo
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by rythie 13y ago
My guess is that it would do both of those things. Moves App is something that seems it could make use of both, they've already said they think it is interesting: https://twitter.com/movesapp/status/3775074554
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by rythie 13y ago
My guess it's a rebranded Cortex-M3, which would be low-power enough to run continuously. The fitbit flex uses a M3 and it claims 5 days of battery life. I'd guess it stores collected data on chip and iOS copies it over when it wa
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by rythie 13y ago
In 2000 Netscape had 19.25% market share, it took 8 years to get back to that position with Firefox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#The...
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by rythie 13y ago
The model for many of the iOS games is to sell you in-app purchases, the cost of the game itself doesn't mean much in that system.
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by rythie 13y ago
Good point, I missed that. Read the feature list which lists stuff the filesystem does itself.
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by rythie 13y ago
I'm struggling to find something that it does that a webserver pointed at the filesystem doesn't do (with hash-ids for file names). I'm wondering if that's all it is, with a bit of logic to write the files in the correct
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by rythie 13y ago
"just a manager and marketer?" You realize that late 70s and early 80s were full of 100s companies trying to do the same exact thing as Apple right? Just like there were 100s of competitors to Facebook, Dropbox, Reddit and anythin
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by rythie 13y ago
HTTPS is still broken though - it would nice if that was fixed so it really could be read by the whole world uncensored.
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by rythie 13y ago
Here's an idea: Use the user's password to decrypt a key, that then decrypts the data - which I know you can't do because of password resets... So to deal with password resets, create another password which decrypts the same
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by rythie 13y ago
It depends on what cost has been used
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Flickr is down and is going to be down for 6 hours(mobile.twitter.com)
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by rythie 13y ago
It's a 32bit chip anyway, can they even support more than 4GB of RAM? (or even all of that - PCs couldn't, it was 3.5 - 3.7GB visible to apps)
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by rythie 13y ago
The problem is that if you go to some random machine, you'll most likely have the following problems: - Getting an account takes most of the one day you're there - None of the software you use is there - It's not eve
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by rythie 13y ago
I wonder if this will actually be able filter SSL sites. Even if it can, it's not going protect from people using Tor or VPNs.
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by rythie 13y ago
Also, bash already has a hook to do these types of completions: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/316
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by rythie 13y ago
Sounds like the real product you need to build is the payment system for adult sites. Schlep Blindness: http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
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by rythie 13y ago
Yeah, I don't really want to be a "person of interest" for the rest of my life. :-)
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by rythie 13y ago
I wonder if anyone would be brave enough to test this, i.e. use TLS 1.2/forward security to one of sites mentioned, send a message to a "friend" (dumby account) that says you are planning an attack, and see what happens (i.e.
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by rythie 13y ago
My understanding is that Facebook does it that way. I think for Twitter it creates two problems though: - It's hard to make that realtime, because you'd need to some sort of broadcast every second or at least every few seconds. -

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