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by tvon 16y ago
Simplicity for whom? I agree that on high traffic lists email should be kept to plain text, but for your daily business/social use it's far simple to format an email with html or rich text than it is to rely on ascii decorations for text ma
782.
by tvon 16y ago
What I'd really like is for a mail client to find a way to make inline responses simple and intuitive, to the point that your average user would think to do it.
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by tvon 16y ago
Luddite.
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by tvon 16y ago
I can't find the specific justifications but I believe it's all described in the GNOME HIG: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/ Not to say it's necessarily correct, but if you really want to dig into their reasoning, that's where it
785.
by tvon 16y ago
Far, far too much emphasis has been put on invention/innovation/originality lately. Doing something well is (generally) more important than doing something new. IMO, anyway.
786.
by tvon 16y ago
> The stark truth is that Microsoft has rarely invented anything that mattered. That doesn't matter, what matters is that lately their execution has sucked.
787.
by tvon 16y ago
That depends on how many of the reviews are from real customers.
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by tvon 16y ago
> The world is quickly crashing down around Apple fans everywhere. Oh come on.
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by tvon 16y ago
I've heard enough "cannot reproduce" reports to suspect it's a minority of devices, still that's a lot of people affected. My suspicion is that there is a coating process that is failing in some cases, which would mean it could probably be
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by tvon 16y ago
If OSX 10.7 is as well received as the iPhone 4 then OSX will do just fine. Not every update needs to be revolutionary.
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by tvon 16y ago
> Microsoft is really getting their shit together. Win8, if it's even a fraction of what is planned, is going to change things permanently. No offense, but I don't believe you.
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by tvon 16y ago
Not to get all tangental, but these are reasons why something like iOS is the probable future of consumer computing. There is so much crap that people deal with on a day to day basis with computers that they should never even have to know
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by tvon 16y ago
What hardware did you have issues with? Not that I necessarily recommend the hackintosh route, but if you had 10.5 running, 10.6 should run as well. I had my system moved to 10.6 within a week of it's release.
794.
by tvon 16y ago
Let me help your imagination: Nobody would give a shit if this was any other company. You'd get maybe 1/10th of the stories and 1/100th of the up-votes and comments around the web. Maybe.
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by tvon 16y ago
I'd prefer it to a two paragraph Wikipedia article.
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19% of software on Apple's App Store is paid, with $1.49 average price(appleinsider.com)
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797.
by tvon 16y ago
What ever happened to FOAF?
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by tvon 16y ago
True, but both "chrome" and "kit" are common in dev lingo, unrelated to WebKit or Google Chrome.
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by tvon 16y ago
I'm a little rusty on this stuff (haven't messed with it for ~5 years) but IIRC you have the ICCCM specification and some non-standard but well adopted extensions[1] that define how a window manager communicates with the X server, and in th
800.
by tvon 16y ago
Virtual desktops are a feature of X11, not GNOME.
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by tvon 16y ago
I hesitate to go down this road, but what features do you think originated in GNOME and found their way into OSX? I think you're giving quite a bit of credit where it is not due.
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by tvon 16y ago
> Mac's UX is not bad to the extent they have adopted a Gnome like desktop. To be clear, GNOME adopted an OSX like desktop.
803.
by tvon 16y ago
Different versions of WebKit, primarily. The chart seems to include every version that has shipped since '07.
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by tvon 16y ago
Sounds very much like A People's History of the United States ( http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-1492-Pre... ).
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by tvon 16y ago
Yes, and The GIMP is Photoshop for Linux. Great projects and all, but none are especially innovative on the surface. I should say though, I think people put far, far too much weight on "innovation" and "originality" (not mentioned here but
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by tvon 16y ago
Granted, with FaceTime being an upcoming "open standard", I suspect someone will make an Android app...
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by tvon 16y ago
Honestly, I'd do it but there are like 220 and no obvious way to get a list out of iTunes.
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by tvon 16y ago
more discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439949
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by tvon 16y ago
The idea is they'd be making iPhone -> iPhone and Evo -> Evo calls, not calls to each other.
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by tvon 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfAl48VREsA It seems to take some cues from another game, the name of which I forget, where you could shoot different colored paint on surfaces to make them behave differently. [edit: fixed with correct link

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