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  1. Re:Apple went from one button to none on Apple Releases Mac OS X Lion, Updates Air · · Score: 1

    Apple have since day one insisted that everything in their computers be usable with single-button mice. Why? Because of user friendliness towards people who aren't comfortable with computers.

    As a result Apple brought the world the double-click.. which is far more confusing to users than a second button.

  2. Re:Only one way to fix this on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    I agree.

    Spreading viruses via abandoned USB thumbdrives is probably the *least effective* and *most expensive* way to do it... it's just not happening in real life.

    If you find a thumbdrive, it's going be the result of someone losing their thumbdrive. The odds that it has been rigged to infect your computer are so small as to be non-existent.

  3. Re:No, that's a job for the police! on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My sister had no idea there was a second man hiding in the back seat, and just wanted to be nice

    I love these stories that have details that, if the story were actually true, no one would actually know.

  4. Re:As someone who tried this... on Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters · · Score: 1

    Except that Apple is definitely looking to change the port with the iPhone 5.

  5. Re:Only Apple At Fault? on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    Apple requires the publishers do a 30/70 split if they want to be on iBooks... Apple also requires that publishers do the same 30/70 split with any competitors.

  6. Re:say no more on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    So, that's why they give away XCode (and a zillion tutorials, examples, etc.) for FREE?

    It's not free anymore.

  7. Re:Business 101 on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    there is nothing stopping anyone from having a webstore too

    Except you must charge the same on the webstore as you do in-app.. and you are NOT allowed a webstore if you don't have in-app purchases.

  8. Re:Business 101 on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    That means that the only way we can make any money at all is to ramp our price up to substantially higher than the recommended retail

    You can't even do that.. Apple forbids you from charging more than anyone else.

    So you have to charge the same amount as Apple does in iBooks.. but Apple gets 30% of your income.

  9. Re:Business 101 on Developer Blames Apple For Ruining eBook Business · · Score: 1

    Color me Naieve, but when did Apple charge software developers in the 80's and 90's for Mac development?

    From the very beginning.

    When the Mac first came out, you had to buy a Lisa and Lisa Workshop to do Mac development.
    Then MPW came out a few years later, and you no longer had to buy a Lisa.. but MPW was *not* free until after XCode came out.

    Basically, until XCode, it costs thousands of dollars to develop for the macintosh.

  10. Re:Another thought: Skype/VoIP built into Cars? on Microsoft Buying Skype for $8.5B · · Score: 1

    You have anything from *this* century?

  11. Re:Grants Ballmer on Microsoft Buying Skype for $8.5B · · Score: 1

    Where's the Internet Explorer for Mac?

    It got dropped when Apple started bundling Safari.

  12. Re:guilty eh? on Bizarre Porn Raid Underscores Wi-Fi Privacy Risks · · Score: 1

    It's a bit like using a steering wheel lock in your car. It's not that they can't be defeated, it's just that there's no point wasting time trying to defeat it when there are plenty of cars without one.

    Depends on the lock you're talking about. If you're talking about the lock built-in to pretty much every steering wheel, then fine. If you're talking about The Club, then bad analogy.

    Thieves actually target cars that use The Club because they don't have to carry an incriminating pry-bar around to break the built-in steering wheel lock.

  13. Re:What I want to know on 50% of Apple's Revenue Comes From the iPhone · · Score: 0

    and yet we still hear that Apple "barely breaks even on the iTunes Store".

  14. Re:Meh on Apple vs. Microsoft, By the Numbers · · Score: 2

    Not even Linux gives you free cloud storage.

    I agree with the rest of your post, except this. Ubuntu One gives me 2gigs free cloud storage.

  15. Re:Go Premium on Who Killed Spotify? · · Score: 1

    Netflix streaming-only accounts are $8/mo, or 5 euros.

  16. Re:Text editing on OSX on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    It's not that he doesn't have a home key.. it's that on a mac, home jumps to the top of the page, instead of the beginning of the line. End works the same way.

  17. Re:Better title on Expensify CEO On 'Why We Won't Hire .NET Developers' · · Score: 1

    Except the YCombinator forums ripped him a new one.

    Here's a great comment by someone who actually interviewed with them:

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2371549

  18. Re:It's a bit to soon to say for sure on Apple Handcuffs Web Apps On iPhone Home Screen · · Score: 4, Informative

    > Apple allow free apps in their store.

    Apple still gets money for that. $99/year to host a free app. If you stop paying the $99/year, Apple removes the app from the store.

  19. Re:A stable version of Chrome -- that's different! on Google Releases Stable Version of Chrome 10 · · Score: 2

    It doesn't need addons to be good at web programming/debugging. The built in inspector and javascript debugger is better than firebug.

  20. Re:C will live forever on Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    I have been programming in C for about 25 years now and the first programs I wrote still compile and run unchanged today.

    Mine don't. Mainly because they were written for a 16-bit environment and call BIOS functions and modify video ram directly. They don't even compile anymore.. but even if you could compile them, they'd segfault immediately.

  21. Re:Death to experts-exchange.com on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    That only appears if the referer is google. It doesn't help if what you were looking for is actually a related question, because as soon as you click on a related question link, the info at the bottom disappears.

    Basically EE can disappear from the face of the internet, and nothing of value will have been lost. StackOverflow is better in every single way.

  22. Re:butthurt on 3D Cinema Doesn't Work and Never Will · · Score: 1

    but Alice in Wonderland was available in 3D and had a solid story to go with the visuals.

    That's a joke, right? One, Alice in Wonderland is a 2D-3D conversion, which means it's the movie equivalent of a popup book. Two, Alice in Wonderland is a horrible movie.

  23. Re:The good and bad... on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 1

    Google's turn by turn caches the navigation instructions locally.

    Besides, as an AT&T iPhone owner, I can't believe that anyone wouldn't prefer verizon over AT&T for car trips.. "oh you can't use data & voice at the same time" versus "no signal at all".

  24. Re:Ok on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 1

    It's also limited to "AT&T's network is shit and Verizon's network is good".

    (Sitting at my desk with "no signal" on my AT&T iPhone).

  25. Re:Digital riot on WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon · · Score: 1

    "Anonymous" are like that kid from the twilight zone.. you do anything to upset him and he sends you do the cornfield.

    Or at least tries to.. DDOSing Amazon is soo far out of their league it's not even funny.