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by salem 14y ago
This is not news. The cell phone industry has a long history of petty non-novel patents, such as for vibrating _and_ ringing at the same time. A phone with a screen, a grid of icons and round corners sounds equally petty.
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by salem 14y ago
Well, I know of at least one very large SFX shop that skipped GPUs for now because the results were not consistent with results from the host CPUs. But you're correct, man-hours to rewrite are more expensive than the CPU time in that applic
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by salem 14y ago
Much of the SFX film industry is not using GPUs, at least not for final renders because differences floating point precision.
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by salem 14y ago
What's the big deal, I remember a CD of Janes books used to cost $10,000, and that was in the 90's without widely available broadband.
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by salem 14y ago
Several omissions in this article, for example compared to oil, uranium is available from more stable trading partners with huge reserves (Australia).
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by salem 14y ago
I don't particularly like the writing style, but at least they are covering the case. Where is the coverage in the rest of the press?
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by salem 14y ago
And, I should add, without compelling local role models or opportunities, many students looking at selecting a major are going to go elsewhere.
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by salem 14y ago
I suspect a large part of the problem is Australia's very conservative investment culture. This is a country where Fortescue Metals Group was a risky investment because they were building a mine, some rail road, and a port for one big iron
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by salem 14y ago
400 devices is probably overkill, you can get by with far less if you want to cover 90%+ of the market. This sounds about right from my experience: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/03/testing-netflix-on-andro...
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by salem 14y ago
If Microsoft pulled a move like this there would be hell to pay
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by salem 14y ago
As long as the device is upgradable. The soldiered 4gb ram on the mb air sucks.
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by salem 15y ago
This is probably the only way Cisco can build a genuinely innovative team that is remunerated well and is not bogged down by Cisco corp-BS and actually ship something awesome. The downside for Cisco is that they will all leave once they max
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by salem 15y ago
I have seen plans that have separate quotas. And even ISPs that don't, I think it's safe bet that there is shaping and throttling on international routes.
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by salem 15y ago
Not only that, but Australian ISPs usually pay 100% of the cost of their links to international peering points, and these costs get passed on in the form of quotas and tiered plans, sometimes with separate quotas for international traffic.
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by salem 15y ago
Considering that Steve Jobs wanted to "destroy" Android, they were at least headed in that direction, and at the time, they had the majority of the smartphone market, i.e. phones where you could actually buy an ebook.
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by salem 15y ago
The analogy is flawed because Walmart has not made a deal with publishers to ensure that physical books sell for the the exact same price in every retail outlet, and the same wholesale price to every retailer.
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by salem 15y ago
I am not a lawyer, but to me this seems like they were the market leader in smartphones at the time and using that monopoly to monopolize another market.
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by salem 15y ago
No what Apple did was force all sales of virtual goods to use their API, with a 30% cut for them, while also forcing all book sales to only give a 30% cut to the retailer, ergo no one but Apple can sell ebooks via iPhone apps. I can think o
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by salem 15y ago
This is the real issue with the Agency model and Apple, it may or may not have prevented an Amazon monopoly on ebooks, but it did guarentee that nobody but Apple could make money selling ebooks via iPhone apps.
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by salem 15y ago
If newer versions of Android monetize better for Google, then Google should be paying handset makers a bounty for each of their phones that is upgraded to the latest OS to encourage them to push the update. Otherwise it is likely cannibaliz
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by salem 15y ago
Custom ROMs don't always follow spec, and often break apps, causing more fragmentation, so clearly this is not a full solution.
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by salem 15y ago
Regarding the taxis, just about every taxi in Australia runs on LNG these days. It's widely available, and aside from the benefits on somewhat cleaner emissions, you can easily make the money back on the conversion for the number miles they
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by salem 15y ago
Exactly right. To get that performance from a gas powered car would not only cost a lot more than a tesla, but you'd easily drop $40k of value on the car by driving it out of the lot, let alone by killing the battery.
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by salem 15y ago
That understandable, but it's also a bit of a shame, since there's hardware out there that might be able to be hacked to run this already, the Motorola Atrix.
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by salem 15y ago
It's a slippery slope to have teams fire-walled and competing with each other. We hear stories from the Dropbox guys that One Apple team invited them over to ask how they hacked the finder, because they didn't have access to the functionali
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by salem 15y ago
What about modernizing the arcade game experience, I would love to see this scaled out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8Bh5iI2WY&feature=playe...
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by salem 15y ago
There's a fairly powerful tegra chip in there, so I imagine that voice recognition would be a software update away: http://pressroom.nvidia.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=A0D...
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by salem 15y ago
The Prius was criticized for having only a single higher end model early on. The variations here makes sense. The main variables seem to be of fairly modular components: battery, motor controller/inverter, wheels+tires, suspension and trim.
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by salem 15y ago
I imagine the range would be very hard to quantify exactly, since it would probably depend on many many variables, such as driving style, speed, road grade, ambient temp (battery efficiency), head winds etc. It's an electric car, with the d
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by salem 15y ago
Before the Twisted/Tornado bridge existed, I made a rest-api for my DB in Twisted. There are a bunch of good async DB clients implemented for Twisted Python. It also made for good MVC separation.

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