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by zarify 15y ago
This is the problem I think. Their web app (both for Gmail and G+) are very good, so people expect that an iOS app for the same product will also be very good. Then they went and released the iOS app for G+ and it was woeful (and continues
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by zarify 15y ago
I was going to stick with my 4 for another year but ended up with a 4S through a rather circuitous route. Anyhow, since if you have a 4S you're going to play with Siri, I've found that it's really quite useful even when not in a hands-free
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by zarify 15y ago
Their intro ad is incredibly similar to Google's ad they ran a while back documenting a kid's life story. I guess time will tell on the transitory nature of information on th Internet. Also I loved how all his stuff only had three likes. He
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by zarify 15y ago
Funny how you can always pick the TC headlines. Anyhow, I thought this was interesting regardless. The last section sounds like sharing by default and it doesn't strike me as revolutionary, just creepy. Guess what, I don't want everything I
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by zarify 15y ago
Headlines like this really irritate me. It should read "Apple vs Microsoft: Here's what I prefer" rather than making it out that the article is about public opinion (ie "you"). There were some valid comparisons for why he evidently prefers
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by zarify 15y ago
And the bonus is then you can still use your social network to look at pictures of cats!
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by zarify 15y ago
I think this is why iMessage is attractive, because you're not supposed to notice the difference between messaging friends via SMS or via iMessage. Now if there were the same cross-platform transparency between other messaging services then
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by zarify 15y ago
I'm glad he led with the irony bit, considering the irony of someone on TC spending a paragraph calling someone out on link bait headlines.
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by zarify 15y ago
Funny you say that because my neighbor has a half-pipe (apparently, that's how it's spelled) in his backyard and I've never heard his son talk about editing video with FCP. And he actually does have a fair bit of video, as he uses a helmet
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by zarify 15y ago
I'd be going for Publisher. Even the Office addicts at work hate Publisher. I think PowerPoint is bad just because People think that Other People will be impressed by superfluous animation and other shinies. They don't think back to the tim
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by zarify 15y ago
I just linked a bunch of them into one of my networking modules for my highschool kids. Little evaluation exercise on whether they understand the concepts or not :)
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by zarify 15y ago
I have to be the only person who just didn't like this. Trying to get a class full of teenagers to work when everyone was busy playing the guitar was a headache :P Beautiful and creative, sure, but having what's essentially persistent sound
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by zarify 15y ago
I remember DOS programs just fine. In fact, thanks to today's technology, I don't even need to be old enough to remember them, I'm still living with some of them ;) [slight exaggeration sure, but not excessively so IMO] My point wasn't so m
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by zarify 15y ago
I wasn't so much suggesting that touch was the future, as suggesting that nowhere was the future if they keep lugging about compatibility for the last 6 or 7 (major) versions of the OS, all the while looking at radically changing the way th
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by zarify 15y ago
+1 for the support on Metro. I think the design and interaction is great (and more importantly some nicely original thinking). One of the things that really impressed me with the demo video was the access to the file system from touch apps
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by zarify 15y ago
Why not simply remove the ability to sell the patent to someone else? Sunset the validity of the patent like the original scope of copyright, and limit the transferral to being able to license it for use so that the only financial benefit g
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by zarify 15y ago
I always found the appeal of Second Life pretty low until I went to a workshop last year on post secondary teaching, and was at a session on preparing people for the workplace as well as different forms of training (mental health care was o
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by zarify 15y ago
I just couldn't read the first point without cringing. Looking to Facebook to socialise gaming? Christ. Games on Facebook might be popular (actually, I don't know, are they still popular? I ditched Facebook a year ago), but they sure as hel
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by zarify 16y ago
From what I'm aware of a lost of private schools work in a similar way with respect to extra curricular activities, to the point where they expect you to take on extra duties like coaching sporting teams and so on. My problem with this is t
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by zarify 16y ago
I take issue with your statement about stagnation. You're implying that apart from pay, the only other variable in the mix is the teacher. Now admittedly I'm in the Australian system not the American, but I know that if you asked teachers h
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by zarify 16y ago
"The fact is, teaching is an incredibly easy job." I'd just like to point out that this statement isn't actually related to the others you made. In Western Australia it's been popular for a while due to the mining boom to go and get a fly i
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by zarify 16y ago
I'm aware of that one. I suspect the parents who can barely afford materials for voluntary fee public schools may disagree however ;) (Of course I suppose the conservative counter to that is to get a better job, and that they'd have enough
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by zarify 16y ago
"If the abuses are really bad, you'd no doubt attract a lot of other disgruntled employees who'd prefer to work for a better company." So uh, that'd pretty much be like a union, right? A group of people effectively saying that they won't wo
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by zarify 16y ago
It's hard to argue with the logic of that approach. Classrooms aren't always logical places though. Consider factors like student movement between classes, courses and programs designed to move students to the workforce rather than complete
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by zarify 16y ago
I feel I should speak up about this one as a teacher (admittedly Australian however) and a supporter of teachers unions. Let's assume we are in a performance based pay system. How do we measure performance? Is it average student grades? If
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by zarify 16y ago
If I were a serious book reader on my idevice, then I definitely would buy a Kindle. The markup on books in the iBookstore compared to the Amazon store is enough to pay off the Kindle in less than a year's worth of reading. (Hell, it'd pay
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by zarify 16y ago
You make it sound like they're making their own game and ripping off the Blizzard characters/mythos/etc, rather than using Blizzard's own content creation tools which they release in order to promote modding... What are they going to do, gi
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by zarify 16y ago
Well the point is here that in many cases (I'm looking at you iBookstore, among others) the cost of the physical book is lower than the ebook, but the profit on the ebook is higher if they were at the same price point. In what possible set
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by zarify 16y ago
If he were carrying it on his person perhaps, but it was mentioned that it was in a pocket of pants in packed luggage. Considering the proliferation of bullets in the US, smuggling them in one at a time in your stowed luggage seems a little
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by zarify 16y ago
Loved the presentation, but alternately excited then saddened when it came to features and then browser support. It really makes me wonder that anything ever gets developed on the web when there's this gradual and incomplete adoption of fea

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