snom370

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by snom370 16y ago
Sorry, but this is a very common misconception. Just like many people not familiar with programming think that anyone can make a great software product just by pointing and clicking in some GUI tool. The tools certainly help a lot and makes
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by snom370 16y ago
You wrote: "You could directly attribute the fact that Apple isn't responsible for most of that hardware R&D for their high profit margins. They know to buy the cutting edge from the rest of the industry, put some software on it, and th
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by snom370 16y ago
Agreed. Yet, to a lot of the readers here, it's impossible to understand why the "little things" make a big difference. They simply cannot understand why this attention to detail in a product is worth paying for. And I think this is key to
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by snom370 16y ago
Sure, they buy a lot of components off the shelf. But they are extremely involved in the design and manufacturing process of their products, and often work with the manufacturers to push the manufacturing technology forward to meet their de
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by snom370 16y ago
Yep. And this is the reason that all the sockets have built-in current protection. Additionally, there are circuit breakers per seat row, which is what I discovered when I tried plugging in my 110W laptop power adapter into one of them. The
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by snom370 16y ago
The acceleration curve came directly from NeXT (traditional Mac OS had a more similar curve to Win/Linux). So my best guess is that Steve Jobs also likes this acceleration curve ;)
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by snom370 16y ago
The problem is that I don't want to disable the acceleration entirely, I just want a _different_ acceleration curve: http://db.tidbits.com/article/8893 I'm not sure if this command will help with that. But in any case, I'm sold on the tra
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by snom370 16y ago
I can't use a mouse on a Mac for extended periods of time due to the mouse acceleration curve problem. I've never experienced them as unreliable or garbage, but I just don't like using them. Using synergy and an external Linux PC to drive t
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by snom370 16y ago
I also thought so, but maybe not with mobile devices with limited memory? I always thought thought it was strange to disallow GC in ObjC on iOS, but they might have tried it with less than stellar results.
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by snom370 16y ago
..or just don't care. Also, if the UI is not built with animation / OpenGL support built in from the ground up, it might be a substantial job to add good support for it later on. OSX did all of this from day one, so that making an iPhone wi
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by snom370 16y ago
Still, if OpenVPN drops packets lacking the HMAC packet authentication without processing them further, then either 1) the guy would also need the HMAC key, or 2) the zero-day is in the code that looks at the HMAC signature. It's not that I
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by snom370 16y ago
I guess I just never met anybody who didn't understand the quote. To me it says: Think very hard about what to add, and think very hard about what to remove. Of course, I realize that those who take the quote literally are not going to thin
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by snom370 16y ago
Absolutely true, execution is what matters. You can make a good business from a pretty standard idea. And the history is littered with examples of great technology that never succeeded, or only saw limited success. On the other hand, you ca
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by snom370 16y ago
Most people realize exactly what the quote is talking about, since the alternative (removing stuff until you're left with nothing, or with something barely working) makes no sense if the goal is perfection. Part of the appeal of the quote i
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by snom370 16y ago
Be gleeful all you want, but this is mostly a _patent_ suit. In fact, if you're running a fully compliant Java stack, Sun has given you a patent grant for that and you should be in the clear. But Perl6 running on Parrot? Oracles JVM-related
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by snom370 16y ago
They didn't invent the form factor, but they were the first to make it good enough to become successful. There's been tablets around for two decades, but the iPad is the first to achieve widespread success outside of niche markets. Even App
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by snom370 16y ago
Since you can fit several full-length movies on an iPad (16-64GB storage space), adding 5.1 channel audio won't be much of a problem.
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by snom370 16y ago
I've never used Microsoft Flight Simulator, but I've been very happy with X-Plane ( http://www.x-plane.com/ ). It's cheap, available for Mac, Linux and Windows and has a very active community. And it lets you use your iPhone/iPad as a contr
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by snom370 16y ago
Sure seems optional to me, he should have used must. :)
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by snom370 16y ago
PHP might create a mess that is expenesive to maintain for _you_. It might even create a mess for a lot of people, especially newbies. Likewise with Perl. That doesn't mean that creating maintainable PHP software can't be done - it's actual
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by snom370 16y ago
A lot of big companies are learning the hard way that doing business in Russia is riskier than they thought, when the other party has the legal system on their side. One example that made it to national politics, and AFAIK ended up being se
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by snom370 16y ago
You're far more likely to kill yourself due to inexperience, than due to engine failure or any other technical malfunction. You might also consider getting a glider license to fly motor gliders, as they give you more time and options to lan
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by snom370 16y ago
The problem is, no amount of good stories can repair the damage done to those who trusted PayPal because "it works OK for most people". They may even have great customer support most of the time, but if they still do stuff like this, it rea
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by snom370 16y ago
So you're assuming that PHP will create a mess that is expensive to maintain? Fallacy detected. :)
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by snom370 16y ago
I think he said that in 1997, not 2007. But if he had not done this deal, Steve Jobs would have been able to send his "well look at that, we're bigger than Dell" mail sooner.
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by snom370 16y ago
You break patents not by writing or hosting software, but by using it. So a safe-harbour patent free cloud in New Zealand could help.
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by snom370 16y ago
I agree, the point I was trying to make was that deciding to _not_ buy a phone because it's fashionable is a fashion statement in itself. If the iPhone 4 is good, why not buy it regardless of how (over)hyped it is? Then again, I do see ideo
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by snom370 16y ago
You do realize that being anti-hype and anti-fashion is fashionable nowadays? ;)
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by snom370 16y ago
As I said, it remains to be seen how open it will actually be. But at least all of these standards are either completely open or available for licensing, so unless they have added some "secret sauce" on top (for instance that iPhones will o
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by snom370 16y ago
And they _have_ enabled Skype, and even demoed it running in the background when introducing iPhone OS 4. So I'm guessing that they will allow video camera support for Skype as well, although you can never know with Apple.

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