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by wanorris 15y ago
Great list. I found this comment more interesting than the OP, personally. The best addition to the list that I can think of is natural language processing. Extracting information from text, especially. There's a ton of interesting pieces,
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by wanorris 15y ago
And it's a really good one. It's easy to ensure that all the system software or all of a particular package (e.g. Office) uses the same version of a DLL, but approximately impossible to ensure that all third-party software is always refresh
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by wanorris 15y ago
1. As reported upthread, there was no press release to summarize. This was a story built on leaks from anonymous sources. 2. This is a Wired story republished on Ars, not actual Ars reportage. I certainly agree that additional commentary fr
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by wanorris 15y ago
User testing shows that non power users nearly always work in a single window anyway. They're unlikely to be confronted with the option at all. One possible way of managing complexity is putting the complex parts where typical users won't n
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by wanorris 15y ago
I have a job that I put extra time into, a longish commute, and two enthusiastic boys. When my wife and I get time to watch a movie at all, we want to watch an entertainment, not high culture. I'm pretty sure that historically, the primary
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by wanorris 15y ago
IMHO, the most shameless was Jonathan Geller at BGR, who not only hyped the supposedly impending iPhone 5 to death, he released a story on Monday pushing a rumor that Sprint was getting an exclusive 4G iPhone 5. Yesterday, his iPhone 4S sto
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by wanorris 15y ago
And yet, to me at least, the Metro UI itself doesn't feel at all like the sort of result you would expect from a product designed by focus groups. As with the ribbon (which I'm also a fan of), it feels like they worked with focus groups to
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by wanorris 15y ago
The killer feature Glympse appears to have in comparison with iOS 5: it's cross platform. Not everyone you're going to want to sync with will have an iPhone or iPad.
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by wanorris 15y ago
One of the reasons people "expect more than it is" is that it's hard for an average consumer to get an Android tablet to do anything out of the box. A Kindle Fire, by contrast, puts media front and center right away, and will surely make th
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by wanorris 15y ago
Everyone and their dog has an opinion on Apple, and they are floated far and wide on the internet. Yet despite the fact that Apple isn't really even part of TechCrunch's core focus, Siegler has managed to cut through this pundit overload to
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by wanorris 15y ago
Real estate, on the other hand seems like a classic example of a case where the concentration of wealth really can make poor people poorer, by crowding them out of more and more of the real estate market through gentrification. Of course, t
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by wanorris 15y ago
The internet connectivity and storage changes are utterly radical changes in terms of what they enable. That iPhone gives you Wikipedia and Britannica and Project Gutenberg and the Kindle bookstore and Spotify and the iTunes music catalog a
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by wanorris 15y ago
What if their plan is to buy the right to ship software updates to the million TouchPad owners? On the simple end, they could port Kindle, MP3, Prime Video, etc., and make them available as part of of a firmware update. If they really want
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by wanorris 15y ago
So far, I've been very happy with the content I've purchased from Amazon. Apple sells content as an enhancement for its device-selling business, and thus does not do much to make that content available off of its own devices (iTunes for Win
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by wanorris 15y ago
Actually, he runs a general merchandise store, not just a bookstore. And it would probably be more correct to say that he runs a digital content delivery company that makes it's own devices than to call it a tablet company.
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by wanorris 15y ago
My problem is that I ultimately find an e-ink Kindle too limited as a reading device. I have a substantial number of ebooks in PDF format, and only a minority of them are effectively readable on my 2nd gen Kindle. (There are other use cases
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by wanorris 15y ago
But the Nook Color has probably been the most successful Android tablet/ereader to date, and Barnes and Noble hit $250. Amazon has been more aggressive than B&N on price with the e-ink Kindles, so that's why I'm not surprised they were
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by wanorris 15y ago
The TouchPad also sold out as fast as people could find and purchase them, and you could easily turn right around and flip it for more than $200 on Ebay (typical seemed to be between $225 and $240, from what I could tell). That strongly sug
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by wanorris 15y ago
There is no Instapaper for Android at present. Read It Later is available in the Amazon Appstore, so it is likely to work on the Kindle tablet.
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by wanorris 15y ago
I was surprised when everyone was predicting $249 for so long, because Amazon plays to win, and $199 was a reachable price that both beats the Nook Color and sounds like a screaming deal to consumers. My guess is that unless reviews of the
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by wanorris 15y ago
Personally, I started out as a Netscape for Windows user thinking Microsoft had no chance of catching up to a competitor as nimble as Netscape. IE 1.0 was awful (basically a rebrand of an outdated Spyglass Mosaic), IE2 was a little better b
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by wanorris 15y ago
It's worth mentioning that the value of releasing a properly timed anonymous analysis report on a company could be enormous for a properly positioned market player. If you research a company, discover fraud like this, take a massive short p
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by wanorris 15y ago
If anyone can convince the mass market that they care about a voice interface, it's Apple. But there are some things not even Apple can do, and I suspect this may be one of them.
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by wanorris 15y ago
There was a photo posted online from within Apple that someone analyzed, and there was circumstantial evidence to suggest that it was from a new iPhone. There was a spec bump to 8MP, but the extra resolution didn't really add additional det
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by wanorris 15y ago
Keep in mind that it wouldn't be particularly difficult for the Kindle tablet to outsell all the other Android tablets put together. If that proves to be the case, why would they have any difficulty attracting apps?
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by wanorris 15y ago
Lately, yes. Over the last couple of years (Read: after Microsoft mostly cleaned up its act), Java has been been one of the primary sources of client exploits, along with Adobe products. I don't know that there's anything special wrong with
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by wanorris 15y ago
There are tumblr subcultures that are more like a sequel to LiveJournal, which makes it more meaningful (at least to those users) than just a meme delivery device. It also gets some use as sort of an improved Twitter. If you like a post you
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by wanorris 15y ago
Yes, Bing has gained marketshare. But over that time period, Google has lost only 2 tenths of a share point. For Bing to pass Google, they would suddenly have to lose a minimum of a whopping 15 share points after a decade or so of share gro
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by wanorris 15y ago
If they take in the full amount and then pay some percentage of it to the supplier, isn't that just treating it as "cost of goods sold" the way you would account for a normal reselling arrangement like retail, wholesaling, etc.? I can see w
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by wanorris 15y ago
This is usually short for "our idea is a special snowflake that no one else will ever think about unless you let it slip, but if it leaks out, anyone could rip it off in 5 minutes." Your idea is only unique if it's uniquely bad, and if you

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