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by ugh 15y ago
“… clear political machinations behind the case?” Don’t be ridiculous.
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by ugh 15y ago
Hm, that’s just not how I view the world. Of course they can, of course they should be allowed to – but that doesn’t mean I won’t judge them harshly for it. When Apple praises their education initiatives and then turns around and puts such
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by ugh 15y ago
That’s the legal side. It’s still possible to be disgusted by this for purely moral reasons. Apple is pulling some vile bullshit here and they shouldn’t.
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by ugh 15y ago
Yes, the education angle seems appropriate given what this event was all about, but can I also say that it’s extremely boring? What’s much cooler are the books that are possible with the tools Apple provides now. They are like Al Gore’s Ou
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by ugh 15y ago
Textbooks need fast navigation and color. Textbooks also aren’t read like novels. All this is true of current textbooks, even without any animations, videos or interactive elements. E-ink is a bad fit for them. All it has going for it is th
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by ugh 15y ago
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU- Edit: I’m happy to inform the HN community that your defense mechanisms at all superficial signs of redditry are in order and working. (One negative karma point per minute is damn impressive.) Whether those defense mech
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by ugh 15y ago
Good care would be needed (and good care is what is often lacking when it comes to turning books into e-books) but to claim it’s not possible is preposterous and ridiculous.
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by ugh 15y ago
He describes in some later edition how he typeset the book himself which is in itself a towering achievement (with him not being a typesetter and all).
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by ugh 15y ago
They grabbed one of the first images that come up when you search for Wikipedia on Getty Images†. They were lazy, not malicious. And being wrong about one inconsequential detail doesn’t mean they are misrepresenting anything. They made a st
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by ugh 15y ago
How so? Can you point out passages? That seemed like pretty standard reporting to me. They explain what’s happening and bring out the position of each side, with an emphasis on presenting the views of those who take part in today’s protest.
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Android’s Broken Software Buttons(alanzeino.tumblr.com)
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by ugh 15y ago
Ah, ok. Legally I don’t think this is a problem. The login servers are not needed to play Minecraft. Singleplayer obviously works without them. Multiplayer does, too, but servers can (and in practice do) require you to be logged in. Morally
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by ugh 15y ago
Aren't they de-coupled by now? I don't think minecraft.net goimg down also takes down authentication anymore.
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by ugh 15y ago
Anecdote. I think scrolling on touch screens is tremendous fun and wouldn’t want to live in a world without it.
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by ugh 15y ago
It's not bullshit, it's pretty great and much better than what we had before. This is a desired result of the standards process, exactly the opposite of what you seem to think it is. There has to be a way for browsers to test new features i
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by ugh 15y ago
Sure, there is coercion. Note that I only said that there is no (for lack of a better word) external coercion. You might also call it open or explicit , I'm not sure, I'm not really happy about any of those words. What's not there, how
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by ugh 15y ago
Power imbalance can create exploitation even without any external coercion. I think a hypothetical example can be helpful here: Imagine you are in the middle of the desert and dying. Some guy in a helicopter arrives and offers you a contrac
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by ugh 15y ago
No. It’s exploitation, pure and simple. It might be better than the alternatives but it’s still exploitation. I simply cannot comprehend how you cannot have empathy in such a situation. Industrialization – over the course of more than one c
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by ugh 15y ago
(Yeah, sarcasm, but) You don’t have to take any of their views seriously. All they are doing is implement OpenType features. They are not in any way pushing for new features. You can already do that stuff pretty much everywhere except on th
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by ugh 15y ago
Georgia (the best serif font everyone has) actually has Old Style Figures. They are really nice (but they certainly don’t work in isolation, like in tables). The option to use Old Style Figures should always be applauded. As is obvious from
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by ugh 15y ago
They just disagree about the syntax and will have to try and come to some sort of compromise in the future. It happens. By the way, if they didn’t use pre-fixes we would be truly fucked now because of the differing syntax. Because they don’
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by ugh 15y ago
It’s a clever way of framing it. Apple has become this huge and powerful entity and they are very much unlike every other technology company out there. If you list all the companies or pick another one that’s not Apple they will just say no
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by ugh 15y ago
I can’t stand it. Judging from the transcript, at least whoever did that seems to feel the same. (Since humans are not terribly dissimilar I would be willing to guess that actually many other people feel the same.) That’s all I’m saying.
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by ugh 15y ago
On YouTube audio quality degrades with resolution. I avoid watching 240p videos whenever I can first and foremost because of their horrible audio.
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by ugh 15y ago
But aren't you scared? As far as I know all P2P is easily detectable and the liklihood isn't all that small that you will be caught at some point. Aren't the sums of money involved then potentially life-destroying in the US?
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by ugh 15y ago
You are kidding, right? One example: Have you ever actually tried to change settings or preferences in any version of Windows (for the PC)? It’s a clusterfuck and it hasn’t gotten better. The problem is not that it is ugly, the problem is t
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by ugh 15y ago
The whole point is that you can get away with terrible devices if you have the right content. Have you tried using those receivers you get if you want pay-TV? They are all terrible.
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by ugh 15y ago
It’s a joke! Like on Top Gear!
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by ugh 15y ago
See? That’s the kind of shit I’m talking about. Crap like that runs rampant on Reddit.
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by ugh 15y ago
Well, first of all it’s a bad joke. It’s not funny. Variants of it are repeated over and over and over. Second, it’s indistinguishable from what a racist would say. There is no subversion.

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