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by zweben 16y ago
They should buy some plastic chairs.
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by zweben 16y ago
It seems that some people will never learn that going for market share first isn't always the path to maximizing profit. I could understand these arguments when Apple wasn't doing so well, but now it's just silly; Apple has, for ages, been
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by zweben 16y ago
I'm not greatly angered and I doubt anyone else is. It just strikes me as stupid, that's all.
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by zweben 16y ago
That would be a good theory if their page wasn't titled "HTML5 and web standards." There's not much room for interpretation in that. I suspect that they simply let their desire to make the demos really impressive distract them from the ori
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by zweben 16y ago
The point is that the iPad is helping, and will continue to help, HTML5 become the new best medium for rich content. Apple isn't always concerned with using whatever is best or most practical at the moment. Sometimes they want to help alon
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by zweben 16y ago
I guess he was implying that the question was so uncomfortable to answer that he would rather talk about his sex life.
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by zweben 16y ago
Some people probably just assume that switching to HTML5 content always uses fewer CPU resources. There are plenty of informed reasons to prefer HTML content over Flash though. One is that putting performance into the hands of multiple com
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by zweben 16y ago
I don't think it's ever reasonable to expect a business to do something that is not in their self interest; their existence is predicated upon selfish behavior. When companies take socially conscientious actions that would appear to go aga
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by zweben 16y ago
I suspect that this new unwritten policy is to prepare for the introduction of widgets in iPhone OS 4.0. That would explain why they want to get rid of widget-like apps, why they would try to keep it low-key, plus the timing fits. That the
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by zweben 16y ago
"But I wouldn't confuse that with true product innovation. They're just taking it step-by-step." Iterative improvement and innovation are not mutually exclusive. Just like with the iPhone (which had no app store at launch, and would be bor
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by zweben 16y ago
I disagree. The only reason iPhones aren't high priced is because they got a unprecedentedly large subsidy with AT&T. The phones may sell for $100-300, but Apple makes closer to $500-800 on them after what AT&T pays out. That's wh
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by zweben 16y ago
I don't know if it's a given that they'll never catch up, but at the moment they're not really relevant in the market, so it makes sense to leave them out. What would the articles say about them? Microsoft may regain relevance in the marke
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by zweben 16y ago
A program can suggest words or combinations that you might not think of yourself. It helps in the same way that having another person brainstorm with you would help.
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by zweben 16y ago
If you're going to convert a completely pointless website to work on a specific device for absolutely no reason, you might as well go all out.
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by zweben 16y ago
They sell non-free fonts that allow font-face embedding in their licenses. Google will only offer free fonts.
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by zweben 16y ago
Yes. In fact, nearly all of the fonts are also available on fontsquirrel.com.
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by zweben 16y ago
Is there any specific benefit to doing this? Does it decrease the number of files loaded?
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by zweben 16y ago
No, the article headlines use it.
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by zweben 16y ago
If that's what they want to do, they could still have the IE9 installer install the codec system-wide, but it doesn't sound like that's what they intend to do.
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by zweben 16y ago
AFAIK, ClearType settings apply system-wide. It should be pretty easy to tell though; if any non-image text in your browser is smoothed, it's on. If it's not, it's off. What it sounds like the white drop shadow did in your case was simply
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by zweben 16y ago
What browser is that in, and do you have anti-aliasing enabled in your OS? The 'original' text in your screenshot isn't anti-aliased at all, which I don't think should happen unless you have AA off on a system level.
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by zweben 16y ago
I've noticed this myself. Any idea why that happens? I've noticed that sometimes adding a blurred shadow disables sub-pixel anti-aliasing, and sometimes that makes things look better. I think, though, that there's a separate effect that ma
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by zweben 16y ago
Even if the sample were random, the numbers could be misleading. It's clear from browsing any category by release date (almost random) that many app store apps have no effort put into them at all. Trying to use a sample of mostly junk app
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by zweben 16y ago
There was an early iPad video on Apple's site that showed the lego icon while browsing a website (which they later edited), so it was there at least initially.
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by zweben 16y ago
"A Bluetooth version of the AirTurn is currently under development for the Apple iPad, and is expected to be available towards the end of 2010." Nice. Hopefully the iPad device is a lot less than $200 though.
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by zweben 16y ago
I'll just confirm that I had the same problem and doing the -windowed trick worked for me. Once you do it, you can switch back to full screen in the settings.
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by zweben 16y ago
As far as I can tell, Apple still doesn't care much about gaming on the Mac. I'm sure they could offer better graphics cards if they wanted to, it's just low on their list of priorities. Hopefully Steam will get enough people to start usin
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by zweben 16y ago
Their screenshot comparison is inaccurate. It didn't look right to me, so I duplicated their screenshot on my own Mac at 2560x1600. My Mac Portal screenshot matches their PC screenshot in sharpness. For some reason it looks like the Mac
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by zweben 16y ago
I installed Steam on my Mac, started download of Portal. It saturated my 15 megabit internet connection for nearly the entire download. Portal launched just fine and ran very smoothly at 1920x1200. I already beat portal on Xbox 360. Mac
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by zweben 16y ago
I believe it. Apple device diagnostic modes are usually extremely rough. You can put iPods into diagnostic mode. It's just unadorned text, and, on older iPods at least, you had to click the forward and back buttons to scroll through the

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