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691.
by ugh 15y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think that keeping existing open source projects open source is all Stallman wants. Do you honestly believe that his comments help push for more free software? I don’t.
692.
by ugh 15y ago
The problem is that Stallman is a very public spokesperson for free software and he does an absolutely terrible job. It’s impossible to ignore the effects he has in his role and they are terrible.
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by ugh 15y ago
I thought nearly everyone with internet or web socialization was for paper voting and squarely against any kind of anonymous machine voting? That doesn’t strike me as an unusual view at all, it seems like the most common view to me.
694.
by ugh 15y ago
Read to the end. This is a very positive review of the new Kindle.
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by ugh 15y ago
No, I don’t think Stallman furthers his goals in any way.
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by ugh 15y ago
Stallman is as clueless about communication as ever. That’s no way to convince people.
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by ugh 15y ago
It’s a valuable goal but just that. A goal. It’s necessary to be pragmatic in the meantime. No point in dreaming. (If you didn’t notice, we are talking about the web here.)
698.
by ugh 15y ago
What’s the alternative? I know of no PPI-aware way of specifying font size.
699.
by ugh 15y ago
Body copy is a commonly used term.
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by ugh 15y ago
* for common pixel densities.
701.
by ugh 15y ago
You can’t please all the people all the time. MP3 players sucked. You had to manually copy music onto them or use the absolutely crappy music libraries that came with them. With the iPod you have your nicely organized music library and you
702.
by ugh 15y ago
Wha? The iPod was an industry dominating hit. That’s a fact, not revisionism. A look at its marketshare over the years suffices. Also: iTMS. It changed the music industry. To claim otherwise would be absurd.
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by ugh 15y ago
Not sure ’bout that. During the event they only explicitly pointed out that voice recognition is happening on Apple’s servers when they talked about dictation. They introduced that as if it were something new and unique for the dictation pa
704.
by ugh 15y ago
Germany is split in three (35% no religion, 30% catholic, 30% protestant), Greek Orthodoxy is prevalent in Greece. There is nothing particular protestant about Germany and there is nothing particular catholic about Greece.
705.
by ugh 15y ago
Apple's plan is to obsolete the current iPods by continuing to sell them. What?!
706.
by ugh 15y ago
It's about compromise. A smartphone with a one inch screen would be an obviously stupid idea, as would a smartphone with a ten inch screen. Seen that way "bigger is better" or "smaller is better" doesn't even make sense. My claim is: 3.5 in
707.
by ugh 15y ago
Your focus on that speaks volumes about how superficial you are :-)
708.
by ugh 15y ago
Why do you think that a larger screen is objectivly better? It's all about personal preference. I despise those phones with large screens.
709.
by ugh 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
710.
by ugh 15y ago
Execution. Execution. Execution. iDisk offered essentially what Dropbox offers. iDisk sucked, Dropbox doesn’t. I’m not saying the execution is great (I simply cannot know that at this point in time), I’m saying that execution is extremely i
711.
by ugh 15y ago
Apple doesn’t do that (all that often). If they like a design they are willing to stick to it. MacBook Pro. Mac Pro.
712.
by ugh 15y ago
Why? I think that notifications systems on the desktop are not useful and a distraction. Apple probably thinks similarly about them.
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by ugh 15y ago
Your finger won’t be stopped by the screen edge.
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by ugh 15y ago
I’m curious why you seem to think that Fitt’s law doesn’t apply to touch interfaces. Sure, certain concepts can’t be translated 1:1 (like infinite sized targets at screen edges) but even those have somewhat similar counterparts in touch int
715.
by ugh 15y ago
Can’t we postpone all this crap 70 hours and go on what will then be definitive facts?
716.
by ugh 15y ago
I would still call that broken. Sure, a lot of stuff works but some things just suck.
717.
by ugh 15y ago
So basically the process of making a free and open OS is – sadly – broken.
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A Machine for Reading Books(ignorethecode.net)
7 points by ugh 15y ago|0 comments
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by ugh 15y ago
Nah, thank you. I think I will rather just continue buying my OS. I’m not really willing to invest more time than just trying it out from time to time nor do I understand why I should be.
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by ugh 15y ago
So, what’s with Linux and margins? I thought they had solved that by now but nope, the margins are still all over the place, inconsistent and visually distracting. I feel this is even more apparent now that they dialed up the margins even m

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