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by ugh 15y ago
Sure, there is some room to play but with JPG it’s possible that some photos are not recoverable. If you get the raw output auto white balance is basically completely irrelevant (beyond convenience). No matter how badly the white balance sc
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by ugh 15y ago
I like the content and I like all of their aesthetic decisions but I’m always a bit overwhelmed by their layout. There’s just too much screaming for attention for my taste. The site is obviously great despite that (and certainly also impres
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by ugh 15y ago
I don’t know. The screens seem a wash to me and whether one is better than the other depends more on taste than specs. I personally don’t like how those OLED screens look (I like their contrast and blacks, don’t like their colors) and I als
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by ugh 15y ago
I think he means white balance. And since both cameras don’t output raw files Lightroom won’t help you (much) with that. Besides: Consumer cameras should generally have a good automatic white balance since the vast majority of people will n
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by ugh 15y ago
Talking purely about looks: The look is a massive improvement over Honeycomb with its terrible 1980s future look (and quite obviously so much better than anything Android offered before). I still prefer iOS on tablets (I like the changes Ap
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by ugh 15y ago
Not really, no. Laws should fit the society, not the other way around. Laws that lock up everyone are unjust laws, no matter the crime. Everything else would be a misguided adherence to laws.
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by ugh 15y ago
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by ugh 15y ago
iTunes doesn’t use DRM anymore so deauthorizing won’t work.
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by ugh 15y ago
You don’t buy a laptop from Apple to save money. That’s a lame talking point. Sometimes people are willing to pay more for reasons that have not much to do with durability or specs.
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by ugh 15y ago
Haha. Very funny. The last MacBook Pro that was hard to take apart and put together again was sold in 2008. I have one from 2007 and it was pretty easy to replace the (non-defective but slow) HDD with an SSD. That’s, as I said, a MacBook Pr
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by ugh 15y ago
FUD. Torx drivers cost $2. Or: About as much as any other driver. It’s easy to replace both the HDD and RAM and you don’t need to buy Apple’s parts.
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by ugh 15y ago
I’m German so don’t tell me about European cultural standards of privacy. There was a huge outcry in Germany when Google announced that they wanted to start Street View there. Photographing the fronts of homes is perfectly legal in Germany
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by ugh 15y ago
What should Google do? Yes, the solution they propose is horrible and hardly anyone will be able to understand it. The important question is whether people really should be able to not have their access points mapped. SSIDs are public, just
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by ugh 15y ago
You are thinking of iSuppli: They do the BOM cost estimates. iFixIt only does tear downs. Easy to confuse, I know.
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by ugh 15y ago
If you want to listen to the podcast skip to 18:00. That’s when Siracusa starts with the book review. All the other stuff can be safely ignored if you are a first-time listener.
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by ugh 15y ago
This is not at all what the criticism Gruber linked to is about. At all. Not even a tiny bit.
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by ugh 15y ago
Oh man, this is beautiful! A clear cut demonstration that it’s sufficient to write Gruber on anything and some people will completely irrationally hate it, hate it, hate it.
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by ugh 15y ago
He didn’t finish his complaints in one seventy minute podcast. It’s actually a great and hilarious podcast – independently of what you think about Jobs. Siracusa is in his element.
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by ugh 15y ago
I’m a terrible review writer, really. Don’t judge me. When I say specs I’m mostly talking about internals. Size and weight do matter very much and those are also two things people actually understand†. CPUs, GPUs? Not so much. Other than th
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by ugh 15y ago
It’s not so hard, really. There are a very limited number of use cases, a limited number of tradeoffs. A long list of specs is much worse than just writing “This machine is great if you need a lot of power for video editing and rendering an
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by ugh 15y ago
Specs are an awful proxy. Specs do matter insofar as they impact user experience. That relation, however, is not linear. Diminishing returns are very common and there are also discontinuities. Also, there are tradeoffs to consider: noise, t
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by ugh 15y ago
Apple usually avoids shitstorms or backpedals if they cause one – but sometimes they don't. It's not unreasonable to assume at Apple won't do anything but it's risky.
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by ugh 15y ago
That’s because we don’t cure cancer, we find ways to successfully treat cancers. There are many different kinds of cancer and we do indeed find ways to better treat one kind or another kind all the time. There will likely never be one magic
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by ugh 15y ago
I think Writer is a pretty successful app that is in the charts (and Apple may have also promoted it at various times). Maybe the dynamics are slightly different for less successful apps that are less exposed in the App Store?
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by ugh 15y ago
It's not often that people get to pick who writes their biography, I think it's very possible that Jobs picked the wrong guy.
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by ugh 15y ago
The new behavior protects from the following scenario (which I think is very common): Someone wants to use an old document as a template and in the process overwrites the old document. That’s data loss and the user likely becomes unable to
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by ugh 15y ago
1440x900 screen, absolutely can’t stand maximized windows – hate them, actually.
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by ugh 15y ago
Duplicate → Save, Duplicate → Save. One step turned two. Worse? Yes. Tedious? No. It’s worth it given the other conceptual changes and the fact that this is very much an edge case.
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by ugh 15y ago
You still have to save one first time, else the OS wouldn’t know where to put the file and how to name it. Lion only auto saves after that. That is irrespective of whether your create a new file or duplicate a file. (Apple could have been a
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by ugh 15y ago
I always thought that the text shortcuts are intuitive and easy to remember. Shortcuts you are used to are always going to be easier to remember than new ones – that is always going to distort your view. I wouldn’t put to much weight on tha

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