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841.
by sosborn 12y ago
> it's a very important battle for everybody who cares about freedom. Hyperbole much?
842.
by sosborn 12y ago
If you include FoxConn employees do you also include FoxConn revenue from Apple?
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by sosborn 12y ago
A product can be too expensive while also being too cheap. In this case "cheap" refers to the build quality. In other words, cheap for the company to procure.
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by sosborn 12y ago
In my experience, the standard newbie questions have all been answered. A quick search is all it takes to find the answer. The problem, of course, is that newbies rarely know the right questions to ask (read: search), which is to be expecte
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by sosborn 12y ago
>An utterly imaginably spectacular device. Maybe, but it is also entirely unessential. Nobody has to sell you on the need for a roof over your head.
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by sosborn 12y ago
Most forms of outdoor advertising are banned in Hawai‘i.
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by sosborn 12y ago
Extor… uh, I mean, Sales.
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by sosborn 12y ago
Is this the new Apple Death Knell? http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/death_knell
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by sosborn 12y ago
I think that what we are finding out though, is that our perception of "calories in" is not always correct. In other words, "calories in" is more complex than the number on nutritional label.
850.
by sosborn 12y ago
> (Ignoring possible cultural differences.) Well, that's a big part of it.
851.
by sosborn 12y ago
They may also just give you a warning.
852.
by sosborn 12y ago
ね is the colloquial way of turning a statement into a question.
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by sosborn 12y ago
> But are you a promised customer, one that I own as some sort of cow to be milked when I see fit? Of course not. See option 3. Again, which option would you prefer I take if you are the business owner? Which would you prefer that I didn
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by sosborn 12y ago
If I really want or need to acquire your doodad then I am a potential customer and I have three choices. 1) buy your doodad. 2) acquire it without paying money. 3) go without using your doodad. As a business owner, which would you prefer I
855.
by sosborn 12y ago
"They're probably missing out on several tens of dollars." * "The large number of people pirating songs" Yes, they went too far, but for fucks sake, it is really hard to imagine that these acts hurt a company?
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by sosborn 12y ago
> It's a bit puzzling to hear this coming from Nintendo Those R4 carts were all over the place. I was living in Japan at the time and everyone and their mother had one. There is no doubt it cost them a lot of money.
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by sosborn 12y ago
> The problem is that it's an unfortunate situation Unfortunate for whom? No matter what direction the industry takes it will never be all things to all people, and there will always be room on the fringes for products that don&#x27
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by sosborn 12y ago
There are plenty of outlets for independent films outside of Hollywood.
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by sosborn 12y ago
> taken Well, there are providing a service in return for those fees as well as high-visibility amongst potential customers. Striking out on your own means a lot of work in getting people to your website.
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by sosborn 12y ago
>The problem here is that the movies that people watch in any great number are sequels. It sounds like you are saying it is a problem that Hollywood is making movies people want to watch.
861.
by sosborn 12y ago
There's nothing wrong with it, but that doesn't mean it is smart to broadcast your porn habits to the world.
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by sosborn 12y ago
I'm sure there is some irony to be found here.
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by sosborn 12y ago
Did you read the part in the article about CSP?
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by sosborn 12y ago
There is also a big difference between "provided a degraded experience in non-Chrome browsers" and "you have to actively disable CSP (a global setting) for it to work in Firefox." Also, with respect to performance, this
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by sosborn 12y ago
I'm happy to accept the minor degradation in quality for the massive increase in convenience.
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by sosborn 12y ago
It takes resources (mainly developer time) to ensure that an application is working properly on multiple browsers. If you read the article you can see that a simple UA string change does not fix the problem.
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by sosborn 12y ago
"Support cost" doesn't apply only to customer support.
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by sosborn 12y ago
That sub is the modern version of the comic book back pages.
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by sosborn 12y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-ben...
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by sosborn 12y ago
>I lived in Japan for a year and as a white male Racism in Japan when you are white is not that bad. Ask your Korean or Nigerian friends in Japan what it is like and you will get a much different answer.

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