pedanticfreak

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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
The Chrome Web Store looks like the native iTunes store. That is not a compliment. Despite that it is still better looking than the Android Market Web Store. The best thing I can say about the Android Market is that it is remarkably fast.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
I find it incredible someone with enough expertise to build the project and get it on the Mac Store can be so clueless with regard to licensing. Not only are they using unlicensed game assets, but it seems they are violating the GPL as well
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Nevermind the cheap device. The $25 per month service that includes 300 minutes, unlimited text, and unlimited data is the real story here. http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-... Of course, you get what you pay fo
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
No more awkward than Apple using Samsung to fab its chips.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/09/123_52401.h... South Korea built vast infrastructure around IE6 and ActiveX. Just a year ago a full 60% of Korean traffic still came from IE6. Why? Because they relied heavily on features t
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Until the W3C officially adopts a royalty free codec as part of the HTML standard, Google and Mozilla should assume HTML video is dead. They might as well make the <video> tag inoperable by default. Just parse it and ignore it. Of c
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Is Mozilla intentionally trying to create market confusion? It isn't obvious from the name, but this is built on XULRunner and has no relation to Google Chrome.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
I'm not sure about the IRS, but I know for a fact non-profits have been in a bind with Apple for years for just that reason. Apple wants 30% of the donations. Or rather, Apple will not allow credit card transactions that do not go through i
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
It's downright ridiculous if section 11.2 is applied universally. So does Apple get a cut of Cisco's WebEx contracts whenever a customer decides to fire up the free iOS app? Does Apple get a cut of OverDrive's contract to deliver eBooks and
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Why didn't Google's investigation go further? Why didn't they decompile the IE8 toolbar to figure out what it was really doing? Maybe that's against the DMCA and Google can't admit to it? Having the evidence in code would have made the accu
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
My understanding is that Amazon was guaranteeing some publishers the same profit per sale that they would get from a hardback book in exchange for allowing Amazon to fix the price at $9.99. In some cases the profit was more than the $9.99 A
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Nexus S? Nexus One? Nokia N900? OpenMoko FreeRunner? OpenPandora? There are more than a few more powerful alternatives to an iPhone that are open source and ready to hack. Most of them can even make phone calls.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Let me know when they finally ban the pink plastic shopping bags from Chinatown.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
The point is the competition still lags, so Apple still has a free pass with users and developers. And if the competition suddenly caught up, Apple only needs pull back just enough to make us all forget. Really, it's stunts like this that s
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
There are other troubling inconsistencies as well. But I decided to stop there. I only want the author to go back and fix his numbers, I don't want to write the article for him. Without a doubt, this whole thing is a poor abuse of statistic
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
This reminds me of the "no intermediate code" snafu that was later repealed. Apple keeps testing the boundaries of what we will tolerate because it knows it can get away with it while the competition still lags behind. This newest developm
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Something is wrong about the author's numbers here. The Consumer Expenditure Survey the author cites says the 25-34 year old that spends 37.1% of their salary on housing is only making $58,946 per year, NOT $100,000 per year. Whether intent
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
At $79 per year, Amazon Prime is cheaper than Netflix streaming only (12 x $7.99 = $95.88 per year). And you get free 2-day shipping to boot. It's an incredible value. Almost too good of a value actually. But that is what Amazon might just
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
I agree. Since when was Great Lakes a region? Most people call it the Midwest.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Why not? CES saw over 100 tablet launches, most of them Android based. Every big company should make their own Android spin. Even Disney has one: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/17/disney-to-sell-android-ph... HTC, Foxconn, and Samsung wi
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
OpenPandora had great promise. When they started it there was nothing more powerful. But now it's slower than even the most dated Android phones on the market. 600 mhz A8? We're in the 1.2ghz range right now. Two, three, and four core desig
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Institutional investors love predictability. But the company needs to be nimble and avoid making unnecessary commitments.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
What's with the alternating bolded lines in the list? It kind of makes the odd numbered names seem more important for no reason.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Direct link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipkfnchcgalnafehpg...
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Empirically verifiable data is good and all, but this so-called prosperity index is just a perversion of statistics.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Regardless of whether we should or shouldn't emulate the real, I still stand by my statement that swipes and taps are superior to the Kindle interface. Perhaps in your case despite rather than because that interaction is more like reading a
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
I find it interesting they make up a bunch of metrics which they claim are related to happiness rather than just asking people whether they are happy. It's as if I said I was happy and someone responded "What? You only make $50,000 per year
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
I agree in general that Palm was grossly undervalued. But I also think the author is overvaluing patents. Microsoft, who supposedly dwarfs Google and Apple in patents, still struggles to profit from those ideas. And IBM, whose patent portfo
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Some people do annotate in the margins. Especially non-fiction books. At the very least I've been known to add a bookmark (i.e. shred of paper) to a particular spot with some notes written on it. My criticisms of the Kindle are for its page
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Anyone else think there should be a DuckDuckGo of browsers that is similarly proactive about privacy? There way more ways than just cookies to track people nowadays and it's about time we implemented default behavior in the browser to block

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