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by fh 16y ago
Ah, I get it now. I agree to a point. I'd add that once resolution itself is no longer an issue (because every phone's screen is above 300 dpi), Android still has the advantage of custom aspect ratios. Regarding the iPad, marketing-wise, th
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by fh 16y ago
Of course, but the 10-12 inches they quote as normal operating distance is pretty reasonable as far as I'm concerned. So while clever marketing, I wouldn't call it false advertising.
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by fh 16y ago
I don't understand your point. The iPad has a 130 dpi display, if anything, it should be easier to double that than it was to double the iPhone 3GS's 160 dpi. (I know that making larger displays at that resolution is harder and more expensi
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by fh 16y ago
I couldn't find an explanation of why one can't just put a real giraffe in a tank, fill it with water and "see what happens". (Obviously I suggest doing this in such a way that one can quickly rescue the giraffe in case it's not buoyant aft
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by fh 16y ago
AFAIK it's a combination of the hardware not being good enough, and Apple not really trying to optimize for those devices (they'd be happy if you bought a new one). The iPod Touch went through several iterations, just like the iPhone; the l
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by fh 16y ago
No, they wouldn't. All that they'd compete on is perceived payout. In other words, if you have private competing lotteries, they'd optimize the heck out of the feedback loop explained in the article, ruining people's lives even more.
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by fh 16y ago
I think WoW has to do that because it's a very complicated interface with roots in the text-based MUDs of old (for example the combat log). I don't consider it an example of good UI/tutorial design. Valve's Portal is how game tutorials shou
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by fh 16y ago
Even infinite depth of field wouldn't completely solve the problem. The point is, your eyes have to physically focus on the far away screen the entire time, or the whole movie becomes blurry (obviously). When you're looking at a "near" obje
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by fh 16y ago
That's true, many of those pathways are shared between all current species, so they must have evolved in that early period. I wonder how (for lack of a better word) inefficient organisms must have been before they evolved the modern citri
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by fh 16y ago
Didn't the Gizmodo article say that he saw the owner's name and Facebook profile while playing around with the phone (before it was bricked remotely)? If so, why didn't he contact him directly?
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by fh 16y ago
"Don't fix the UI problem, work around it! Who cares if a good comment is downvoted and a possibly worse one upvoted, as long as the user's total karma is correct?" Is that your suggestion?
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by fh 16y ago
Do you have a source? Because 40 billion is the number I've seen quoted most often, for example here: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/a...
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by fh 16y ago
4:3 is also the aspect ratio of almost all digital photographs, and I'm sure that was a consideration.
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by fh 16y ago
People, get your names straight. It's Windows(R) Phone 7 Series ; leaving out the Series is like calling Apple's desktop computer an iMa.
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by fh 16y ago
Not to disagree, but I'd like to mention that you don't actually need full complex number arithmetic to draw a Mandelbrot set. If you translate the Mandelbrot update rule into pairs of numbers, you get the following recursive equations:
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by fh 17y ago
Friendster? Socializr? This guy has a talent of coming up with the most generic Web 2.0-style names imaginable.
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by fh 17y ago
In essence, you say that the Nazi cult that some Pakistanis (supposedly) entertain is no big deal, because they are not responsible for the Holocaust. As a German, who as a matter of fact doesn't feel particularly guilty about things his gr
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by fh 17y ago
I'm sure there's a cute mathematical trick to calculate the missing digit, but Raphael is right, with numbers limited to 1 billion, this can be easily brute forced. You need a few gigabytes of disk space and a few days of precalculation at
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by fh 17y ago
I'm not going to comment on patents here, but you're absolutely wrong in assuming that implementing an optimized algorithm is trivial, especially in real-time graphics. Sure, coding up B-trees from a textbook description is easy. But in a
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by fh 17y ago
You have no idea what you're even talking about. Both Diablo 1 and 2 used pre-rendered sprites. Yes, technically they're "polygonic", but in the same sense that a Pixar movie is polygon-based: the amount of detail is only limited by the tim
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by fh 17y ago
That's a good point, however, might be solved by making the charger introduce itself as one of the well-known USB device classes.
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by fh 17y ago
Most cars here in Europe are stick shift though. A stick shift car can't go berserk on you, you simply press the clutch pedal, as you do anyway when braking, and the acceleration is gone.
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by fh 17y ago
Citations can be gamed as well unfortunately.
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by fh 17y ago
The conspiracy theorist part of me suggests that the reason for this proposal has something to do with the MiniMSFT blog.
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by fh 17y ago
This part of the article is most likely intended as a funny anecdote, not as an accurate description of a scientific experiment. Rest assured that Niels freaking Bohr would have thought of that.
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by fh 17y ago
This would be a much stronger finding if they had found any correlation between vowel sounds and the success/failure of actual brands, not just the perceived appeal of fantasy brand names. Does the fate of a brand really depend on what pe
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by fh 17y ago
(Maybe this was supposed to be a reply, instead of a top-level post?) Anyways, as little as 20 years ago, you'd routinely need adapters when traveling from one European country to the next. That's hardly an issue anymore, and I consider thi
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by fh 17y ago
From the article: "The fancy shmancy argument is that dominant design repels most attacks. There are lots of bad ideas that were adopted first, became dominant, and have been impossible to shake. The DVORAK vs. QWERTY keyboard debate is a c
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by fh 17y ago
Google says that they will do the right thing (in their opinion) and stop collaborating with the Chinese regime, and your first comment to that is about the lost opportunity for profit. I'm shocked. Now, I agree that Google probably does th
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by fh 17y ago
I can play first-person shooters all day long, but this makes me motion sick, and I had to stop after a few minutes. It's a shame, because I really like the concept.

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