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by sbuk 3y ago
~25mph assuming a Cd of 2.1 (a smooth brick is the closest I could find) a mass of 0.194Kg and a surface area of 0.01142313m^2 (75.6mm x 150.9mm). Of course that assumes it’s falling facing its largest surface, and not tumbling or a falling
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by sbuk 3y ago
That's still around $2400 - which is $1400 more than the mythical $1000 comparable desktop...
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by sbuk 3y ago
The closest easily available Unix is FreeBSD or NetBSD from a heritage point of view. In fact, both have a direct line back to the original Berkeley Systems Distribution, which itself is derived from Unix version 5.
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by sbuk 3y ago
USB ZIP drive on a PC in 1999? Possibly with an added card. I called ZIP drives out specifically because I remember being surprised at how quick they were in comparison to SCSI attached ZIP drives. And how much less hassle they were. I sort
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by sbuk 3y ago
> They've been an NIH company since the beginning So who did Woz copy for the Apple I ][ and ///? > and now you & few others are desperately touting the one, or one of the few areas where they embraced standard
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by sbuk 3y ago
So a base of N+1. I was a designer in the late 90's/early 00's. I worked for a large, well known global agency. We had iMacs. I also had one at home and remember the "pain" of USB, though supported peripherals (Io
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by sbuk 3y ago
And yet, look at the clear blue plastic peripherals that saturated the PC market post iMac. > USB became popular due to digital cameras, USB printers and scanners, flash drives and the like In the late 90's/early 00's, who
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by sbuk 3y ago
Apple used 386BSD (4.3?), some userland from FreeBSD, and the Mach Microkernel from *CMU, all from the acquisition from NeXT , who developed XNU and NeXTStep 18 months-2 years before the Linux kernel was released. The innovative thing with
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by sbuk 3y ago
> They let vendors make Mac-compatibles and then screwed them, IIRC. It nearly caused Apple to go bankrupt.
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by sbuk 3y ago
You may have a point with regards to Webkit, however even that is potentially tenuous. The difference that you are missing, and that was addressed is how Microsoft levereged their market postion in the OS market (>85% in the late 199
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by sbuk 3y ago
Fair. However, applying Occam’s razor, I’d suggest tracking has more impact than the removal of lead from fuels.
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by sbuk 3y ago
Property theft has been on the decline while the use of device tracking technologies, among other simple deterrents and measures, have simultaneously been increasing. Correlation?
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by sbuk 3y ago
Try using USD instead[0]. It's an open scene description from Pixar that is well documentented and seeing adoption across the board - including apps like Blender. [0] https://openusd.org/release/index.html
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by sbuk 3y ago
They're studio headphones. Clearly he doesn't know how headphones work...
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by sbuk 3y ago
Blue and green bubbles, from day one have indicated this.
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by sbuk 3y ago
And, as I point out, either way, I do not believe that the criterion for antitrust is met, rationally or per se illegal .
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by sbuk 3y ago
Agree, but it is a closed service. Hacking for shit-n-giggles is fine. Doing it for security research and bug bounties is also fine. Offering another service (and planning to charge, no less!) that uses that closed service without concent
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by sbuk 3y ago
> So no 3rd party client software unless the company running the service gives explicit permission? That's about the strength of it. Unless the protocol is open, paid or otherwise. iMessage is closed and undocumented.
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by sbuk 3y ago
The fundamental difference is that iCloud email is based on a 41 year old plain-text open protocol which was designed to be federated and lacks any real security or E2EE built-in.
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by sbuk 3y ago
It's clear that iMessage is a feature specifically tailored for Apple-to-Apple device communication, and it remains that Apple continue to see it as such. The size of Apple as a company, in this context, seems less pertinent. Although
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by sbuk 3y ago
>Your analogy doesn't make sense Happy to accept that criticism, it's fair. I'm sorry for pilling on more poor analogies... > Apple is trying to put a fence around is not something that it should be legal for them to in
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by sbuk 3y ago
Money paid to Apple isn’t the issue. There have been lots of analogies, and I apologise because I’m going to add to that! Imagine a music festival. The only way to get tickets is to buy direct from the venue. For years, people have been cut
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by sbuk 3y ago
> Beeper isn't marketed at Apple users Does that mean they are therefore not competing with Apple? And if their users are using Beeper Mini to access iMessage, are they not implicitly accepting the ToS?
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by sbuk 3y ago
This is the crux of it. Beeper are not competing with Apple. With Beeper mini, they are piggybacking Apples services without their permission.
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by sbuk 3y ago
> Try and chat to a group including 50+ year olds and see how far you get without it. I do. Regularly. Using WhatsApp.
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by sbuk 3y ago
iMessage in the EC has a share of less than 10% of the market. Here is the list of gatekeepers and the platform services affected: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en
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by sbuk 3y ago
> This is semantics and you know it. Nope, it's a distiction . And an important one. > There we go. iMessage is the default for Apple phones contacting other Apple phones. TFTFY. To contact other phones, use SMS, MMS. Even bet
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by sbuk 3y ago
> This is simply incorrect. iMessage is the default for iPhones. You're an Android user, right? Suffice to say that you are wrong. Messages.app, not iMessage is the default. It is designed to handle SMS, MMS and Apple iMessage servi
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by sbuk 3y ago
> Well, yeah. You said > "They replaced the standard messaging app with a proprietary alternative " Nope. SMS and MMS. > Too little to late. Thanks. I thought you were here in bad faith, now I know you are. > In the U
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by sbuk 3y ago
> It kind of is. They replaced the standard messaging app with a proprietary alternative, and then othered and ostracized users of non-Apple platforms who tried to use the standard. Nope. SMS and MMS were still present, and as they were

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