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by zerohm 10y ago
I think you could argue that people are going to be less "well rounded". In the past, you were pretty much stuck with the people in your school / town. It was probably pretty common to feel like the only person that cared abo
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by zerohm 10y ago
Off the top of my head I can think of many other 'types' of NES games that break the side scroll paradigm. For example: Top down action RPG (Zelda) Decision based RPG (Dragon Warrior) Picture games (Anticipation) Game show games (
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by zerohm 10y ago
Yes, I'm sure companies want to maximize sales, that is their job. And yes, people were very vocal about shitty DRM (and rightly so). The old way of doing business was proprietary everything. (See Sony in the 80s and 90s) I'm j
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by zerohm 10y ago
I don't know any players that are in favor of DRM per se. Players are willing to accept DRM, IF it is transparent, and even more willing if it enables some perks. There was a time when DRM was only visible when it broke your legitimate
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by zerohm 10y ago
It's not the age of the tech, it's the amount of space it takes up. Getting rid of the 3.5mm jack gives them 3 or so square cm on a preciously tiny motherboard. They can use this space for more battery or components on the mobo. O
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by zerohm 10y ago
I saw a TV segment / interview about Icahn years ago and that was impression I got. His M.O. is to buy a stock, create some attention, and sell, based mostly on the attention he brings, more so than the improvements he makes.
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by zerohm 10y ago
I completely disagree. 1. Visual cues are littered throughout the entire game. Sometimes it'a camera flash, sometimes it's the opponent blinking, to give you a warning. 2. The game play design is pretty consistent. Each fight get
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by zerohm 10y ago
I'm pretty sure I heard the phrase, "there's no way you can beat Contra without the cheat code" in college as well.
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by zerohm 11y ago
I thought the same thing from the opposite direction. My understanding of jpg compression is that the algorithm says, "I see you have a lot of color X, X+1, and X+2 in this area. Let's just call all of that region color X+1.&quot
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by zerohm 11y ago
I think he got down voted because SJW is a dismissive and meaningless trope. It's like Hipster, except not fun.
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by zerohm 11y ago
jp makes a valid point. Just going to throw out some rough numbers (in the U.S.) assuming $50 for your data plan, for 3 years. 3 year iphoneSE experience ($400 + 36 months * $50) = $2200 3 year cheap Android experience ($250 + 36 months * $
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by zerohm 11y ago
This. The computer that by far gets the most use in my house is a 2009 Mac Book Pro. I've upgraded the hard drive to an SSD so it's still quite snappy. The monitor is still bright and colorful. All the keyboard keys still have g
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by zerohm 11y ago
The irony here is that we are arguing about encryption options being included (not enabled) by default. Any criminal with half a brain will be able to find a wide selection of free 3rd party encryption tools. Undermining default encryptio
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by zerohm 11y ago
We are veering off topic here, but I agree with your perspective. "The US spends more than $500 million per victim on anti-terrorism efforts. However, cancer research spending is only $10,000 per victim." http://thinkb
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by zerohm 11y ago
Agreed, but also I think expectation, confidence, ambition are as important as opportunity. We have some relatives, from the outside they look like a totally normal middle class loving family. But we saw time and again the parents talk lik
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by zerohm 11y ago
Having money does not make a good parent. Also, where we are Montessori was no more expensive than a Catholic private school. But to my eyes, the Catholic school just looked like public school, but obviously more upscale (and also teachers
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by zerohm 11y ago
also unique to Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, all SEOs...
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by zerohm 11y ago
Not exactly like Apple. Google and Facebook's core competency is using your personal data to sell ads. Apple's core competency is selling you appliances. Yes, they wind up with some personal data because of the services they also
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by zerohm 11y ago
There is also a pretty fascinating story about the effort to save and restore the photo mapping of the moon from an abandoned McDonald's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_Image_Recovery_P...
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by zerohm 11y ago
I would also consider the NSA meddling with Bitlocker and RSA behind the curtain to be conceptually equivalent. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/can_the_nsa_b... http://gizmodo.c
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by zerohm 11y ago
I shudder to think what this Police Spokesman would do to a kid that made a full adder in Minecraft!
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by zerohm 11y ago
Apple is dominating the high end mobile market, where profits and the most desired customers are. (People who pay for apps and spend money within apps) http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/14/revenue-gap-between-ios-
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by zerohm 11y ago
Agreed. Apple and MS have completely different strategies. Apple chose to go the multiple OS route. MS is going with one OS to rule them all. (Also Apple ultimately wants to sell complete gadgets, whereas MS wants to sell software and s
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by zerohm 11y ago
Yes, they are playing catch up in the cover keyboard and stylus categories. However, they are still dominating mobile, revamping their TV line, and growing in a shrinking PC market. Oh and also they just released a pretty successful watch.
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by zerohm 11y ago
This might just be semantics, but you get Lagrange points with the simplest Kepler example, 1 body around the sun, or in other words, a 2 body interaction.
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by zerohm 11y ago
I like the way you found a new way to say "this never would have happened under Steve Jobs!" Nice work.
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by zerohm 12y ago
The Federal Government can make tech firms hand over any data they request. However, they can't stop tech firms from designing their products so that the tech firm never sees your personal data.
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by zerohm 12y ago
The point is to recycle parts, not to make another great micro PC.
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by zerohm 12y ago
Try getting all those old parts to a facility, test them, assemble a consistent product, and get it out the door. Their efficiency in doing that is their value proposition.
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by zerohm 12y ago
Azure Mobile has been a sponsor. I guess at that point it becomes difficult to even extrapolate the impact of the sponsorship...

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