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by ugh 15y ago
I think the model here is playing with your friends, so anti-griefing and administration is not so important - but it does limit how useful the service is, sure. It's certainly not a great service for starting a huge server where you play w
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by ugh 15y ago
I don’t want to say it’s doomed. Most of the people at Microsoft who decided to go that way are likely cleverer than me. I can only say that I don’t see their plan and I’m not sure whether they can be successful. (And also that I personally
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by ugh 15y ago
Exactly my point. That format would be h.264. And nothing changes. Switching to WebM is pointless if all other browsers still can get h.264. That way you can’t change anything.
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by ugh 15y ago
Microsoft didn’t before this. But now they do. It’s a surprising and daring move.
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by ugh 15y ago
Any key on the keyboard but you have to slide up (swipe, basically) with a mouse instead of just clicking? I get it that it makes sense on tablets as a lock screen, but on desktops? Ok, I’m going to call that a bug and ignore it. It’s easy
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by ugh 15y ago
Windows 8 is leaky. Tablet paradigms leak into mouse and keyboard interfaces. It extremely confusing. There is no clean cut, no mode switch. I understand the abstract principle behind it, but that does not help. Two examples I noticed when
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by ugh 15y ago
Make?! Are you serious? It already is . Currently Firefox is just using Flash to play h.264 videos, not OS codecs. There is little practical difference between those two things. This was always about booting h.264 from its position as the
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by ugh 15y ago
How was Google supposed to do that? Flash (still) doesn’t support WebM, so there wouldn’t be any fallback. Google surely isn’t arrogant enough to make YouTube videos not accessible to more than half of the browsers out there. There was and
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by ugh 15y ago
Bullying is a hard problem to solve, with and without Facebook. Parents always have little control, whether it's happening on Facebook or somewhere else. Facebook has to provide its users (i.e. kids and their parents) with working tools tha
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by ugh 15y ago
Schools should be able to do nothing. Parents should, obviously.
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by ugh 15y ago
Steve Jobs regularily praised the people working for Apple, sometimes as a group, sometimes by name. Watch any Keynote to see that.
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by ugh 15y ago
Network effects also favor Dropbox. Many Dropbox users I know don’t just use sharing features, they use Dropbox because of those sharing features. Those features are only useful if many other people are also using the same service.
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by ugh 15y ago
I don’t understand what point you are trying to make.
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by ugh 15y ago
Yep, that’s where I looked.
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by ugh 15y ago
Moral condemnation is possible outside of legal battlegrounds.
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by ugh 15y ago
I didn’t find anything. There is just the license agreement in that place which doesn’t seem to make any reference to OSM.
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by ugh 15y ago
Humans have different reactions. The way OSM is reacted is very much how I personally would react. That’s why it doesn’t seem the least bit fake or watered down to me. I guess if you are angered easily you might not understand how OSM could
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by ugh 15y ago
I think their message is just right. I would reserve calling them thieving bastards only after they explicitly refuse to give credit. What Apple did is shameful but I think what OSM is doing is most likely to promote their goals. Let others
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by ugh 15y ago
OSM or Apple's maps? OSM has crazy amounts of accurate detail for all cities I know in Germany. Apple's tiles have all the streets but not a lot of detail (probably by choice, nothing wrong with a sparser map, especially for the intended pu
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by ugh 15y ago
I don't know what's going on there. OSM does have lots of detail for Germany and the problems with OSM are more general ones with the consistency of label placement and such. No map breaking stuff. Apple's tiles, however have more glaring m
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by ugh 15y ago
Then congratulations Apple, for making a not so great map even worse. I can't really judge map quality in the US, but in Germany it sucks. Cities show up twice or are missing completely, labels are often small, unreadable and ugly. There is
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by ugh 15y ago
Of course it has become more expensive to ship bits. More people are finding more uses. Are you deluded or what? How disconnected from reality and how entitled can one be?
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by ugh 15y ago
Apple has been using prettier tile sets in iMovie on OS X – but (just like in this case) only for presentation, never for browsing or when you actually want to use maps. I don’t think this indicates anything. (Also: Those tiles are fine for
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by ugh 15y ago
Maybe they can’t give you an unlimited plan? Data is seriously expensive for the carriers.
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by ugh 15y ago
Depends. I don’t care about it if it’s clearly stated just how much bandwidth you get. I’m not in the US but in Germany carriers will often tell you they have unlimited flatrate plans but also state that if you go above a certain bandwidth
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by ugh 15y ago
But the other thing is quality. Viewing angles and color gamut tends to be horrible on laptops. Not so on the iPad.
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by ugh 15y ago
I’m not really sure why you are angry at the carriers. Knowing about the limits and how much you need is kinda your job. I know that I need at least half a terabyte per month when I’m using my laptop and I know to always check how much band
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by ugh 15y ago
I’m extremely happy that Apple is picking battery life over thickness and weight. It shows that they have their priorities straight: battery life is by far the best features of the iPad’s hardware. As long as the weight and size don’t get t
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by ugh 15y ago
I bet they were pissed after people were disappointed that they only got an iPhone 4S and no iPhone 5. Plus at some point you have to stop numbering. iPhone 23 doesn’t sound very appealing.
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by ugh 15y ago
You don’t understand. I’m not talking about the price of the device (which is extremely attractive), I’m talking about the price of the data plan. I’m not sure how it is in the US but in Germany you just get a second SIM card. Not a second

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