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by sprout 16y ago
I have to think that if licensing fees were required for Android Google would re-tool 3.0 for Python or something. Mobile processors are getting fast enough that Python wouldn't be a problem And if they didn't, I suspect device manufacturer
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by sprout 16y ago
Posted late on a Saturday night when everyone's out doing stuff or home asleep, artificially upvoted to 8 or so at which point everyone assumes it's not a load of crock. Also, people upvoting without reading; wishful thinking on seeing the
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by sprout 16y ago
What do you mean by >One social engineering event per conversation, please. Wasn't the central 'event' of the article social engineering? The central point of the article seemed to be the assertion that people who are that poor and shou
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by sprout 16y ago
Because they prefer spending money on sales, marketing, and lawsuits than maintaining / improving their products, even their most profitable ones.
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by sprout 16y ago
I don't see how "go ahead and use the pacemaker but try and create an alternative solution" is an unrealistic or impractical stance.
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by sprout 16y ago
>because people that refuse to cooperate unless all of their demands are met never really get anywhere (see RMS). RMS would be a clear counterexample. (See Linux, GNU utils, the recent GPLv3 release of Castle Wolfenstein, and many many
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by sprout 16y ago
I think most would agree that those are failed democracies. Just because democracy does certain things in practice does not mean that those things are in line with the core principles of democracy, of which compromise is one.
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by sprout 16y ago
The "spirit of compromise" is the core principle of democracy. If you're against compromise, you're against democracy.
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by sprout 16y ago
If you know your target's DPI, that doesn't sound to me like "the web."
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by sprout 16y ago
It was a general statement. Apple makes profits off of developer sales, Apple should not be making developers' lives unnecessarily difficult. Though I suppose yes, I would say that regulation based on sales is a much better metric than the
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by sprout 16y ago
No, they should abandon their rules and guidelines and trust consumers to make an informed choice. If they really want to keep up with this nonsense they can make some sort of an "Apple Approved" logo that gives you better search rankings i
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by sprout 16y ago
Maybe because they've already made bank and are sick of dealing with the app store? With those kind of profits, Apple should be accomodating them, not vice versa.
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by sprout 16y ago
Yeah, no one whose parents make less than $100k/yr pays more than $20k/yr, even at the pricey private liberal arts schools.
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by sprout 16y ago
>The only person his habit seems to annoy is his wife. "She wants to do things on the fly. I'm of the mindset that we can avoid that just by planning. I say, 'Katy, I'll be home at 7 or 7:30,' and she says, 'Let's talk about it later.'"
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by sprout 16y ago
Text messaging wastes far less time, and leaves time for more interesting pursuits than trying to quickly, extemporaneously, condense the purpose of your call into the space allotted by voicemail. Without my Droid, my conversations would co
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by sprout 16y ago
Point of fact, on modern browsers textarea is better than notepad. You have spellcheck, and the standard range of move/delete by word commands, and undo.
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by sprout 16y ago
I think that's completely the wrong offer. As you just said, they have way too much money. What they need is some solid UI people to come take a look, and a few backend people wouldn't hurt either. They probably have something right now,
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by sprout 16y ago
That kind of "let's wait and see how it looks until it evolves before we regulate" attitude is precisely what caused the current stagnation in the wired market. The market fundamentally is under heavy regulation; wireless can't work without
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by sprout 16y ago
What market? I understand why Google made this agreement, I suspect it might be the best we can get in the current political climate, but I can't believe they put their name on this statement: >We both recognize that wireless broadband
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by sprout 16y ago
I've found I do have to reboot my MotoDroid occasionally. Usually the guilty party is GPS - it absolutely refuses to give fine location unless I reboot the phone. I've also had issues with airplane mode totally ruining my 3G until I reboot.
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by sprout 16y ago
Software is meeting creators cost-benefit considerations. If and when full-desk displays with dozens of GPUs become as cheap as a normal workstation, then the software will emerge to transfer things seamlessly between different workstations
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by sprout 16y ago
The trouble is that "Android Phone" is not as meaningful a category as the article makes it out to be. Nor is "Motorola Phone." Droid Eris is not a MotoDroid is not a N1 is not a Sidekick is not a HTC Evo ... Really, there are certain Andro
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by sprout 16y ago
Is a separate ID generated for a porn mode session? What does Google do with that data? This might be a good reason not to recommend Chrome of any stripe for banking.
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by sprout 16y ago
Consensus is an imperfect metric. Some of those things, even if discarded by consensus in the near-to-long term could prove valid in a couple years' time. We want as many avenues of exploration as possible, even once the proof is decided ri
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by sprout 16y ago
Head spinning. At least I got that bit about LFP... mostly. The coolest thing about this all is watching the Internet doing what it was built for. Real-time collaboration on a massive scale. The whole of the relevant scientific communitie
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by sprout 16y ago
If developer profits are your main criteria for a viable app store, you might be doing it wrong. Linux repositories are, on the whole, far better managed than the iPhone app store, and are managed so much better in part by offering no mech
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by sprout 16y ago
I don't see how crashing a Windows box is any worse than robbing Goldman Sachs. (In both cases innocent people suffer, but the target is pretty reviled.) I say this as someone who likes to claim he's chaotic good, but really is pretty much
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by sprout 16y ago
It may not be so much innocence as different cost considerations. In 1996 bandwidth was at far more of a premium than it is now, so even the modest demands of Google AdSense would have had a much greater cost to the user. And certainly Hotm
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by sprout 16y ago
It's clear that that would benefit the OP, but your assertion that it would be to the long-term benefit of the people is completely opinion. You take any piece of government spending and cut it, there's a rational argument as to why cutting
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by sprout 16y ago
Letting people play with it to find out what it is and how it'll be useful is exactly how Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github, Reddit, and Zynga got their start. Nobody was willing to pay for it out of the gate, and most people still aren't.

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