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  1. Re:Limiting your market on Intel and Micron Unveil 128Gb NAND Chip · · Score: 1

    but apple's implementation runs on that! and intel's offering is more powerful then what's in smartphones now anyway. (at least for the moment). What's your point?

  2. Re:Get ready for a new wave of poorly coded softwa on Intel and Micron Unveil 128Gb NAND Chip · · Score: 1

    you know, if done correctly, as apple did it, "eye candy" can be quite efficient. Unless you like your video card sitting there, doing nothing, being /efficient/ (rolls eyes)

  3. Re:facepalm on Researchers Find Big Leaks In Pre-installed Android Apps · · Score: 2

    so true! at least put security at the method call level, not in the code-body! A user of an API should NOT be capable of even running if the user does not have permission!

  4. Re:From HyperCard to PhotoCard on Why Was Hypercard Killed? · · Score: 1

    people obviously want it - they love iOS - they just don't know that's what they love about it. Neither, apparently, do the developers who seek to mimic Apple's success (which is really the realization of a basic programming pattern that they've had the time and money to really polish), but can't quite make it. Note how no one is serious competition for apple. That's because the competitor companies all think short term. Apple had the patience to do - and MAYBE Google has that patience too.. but the rest of the industry doesn't have the attention span to care about the enduser or developer (and if you don't consider developers a customer, man, you will NEVER have adoption worth anything. Apple understands this, hell they even sell their API for 99$ (the iOS app fee) to which developers feel they receive a product or service, and that further helps apple's image since people assign value to things they pay for.

    You can't tell me choosing Java, and only Java, for android tablets was really caring about the dev community. Where is the interface builder and GUI for android? Is it an eclipse plugin? Bottom line, can i download it and write some code? No? WTF!

  5. Re:From HyperCard to PhotoCard on Why Was Hypercard Killed? · · Score: 1

    ah... no. It's what most people have been given. It is a failing of developers and PHB's.. They FAIL to realize the power of dynamically typed UI. They fail to realize the power of animation. They fail fail fail.

    The reason apple is special is because Steve Jobs shouted down developers (probably reading this now - you - yes.. YOU) that obviously have no connection to their user base.

    (The API's of windows and Android all come off like premature optimization. The thing got apple right was the power of Objective-C over C - and most of you developers that read this STILL won't get it. C++ - even Java - are horrible UI metaphors. You start with trash, you end up with trash)

  6. "more research?" on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 4, Funny

    well we [the industry] will be just happy selling encryption with the tagline: so secure - no one can break it - except your average McForensic dude with a software package you can torrent. See, secure!

  7. Re:I propose we Occupy "Occupy" on Occupy Flash? · · Score: 4, Informative

    um - ITS THE PEOPLE (finally, i knew they were somewhere) not a corporation... people that don't hire other people to lie full-time on the TV for them, so maybe it is a little less presentable to the media at large.. I think i'm okay with that.

  8. Re:Honor system on RIAA Doesn't Like the "Used Digital Music" Business · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not the honor system, but it relies on the idea that a CD is a license to listen to the music. The RIAA should put their whole inventory online, assign them uuid's hashed with the users uuid, and provide a clearing house so that it's the NUMBER on the cd case that entitles you to the music, not the CD itself. it's a thought... closer to reality then stomping out the practice of selling used music is.

    Not that I want to help those asshole culture pimps along or anything.

  9. Re:Possible use... on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 1

    you are wrong. The chemical that TOTALLY screwed the pooch (not even benzene was close) was.... caffeine.

  10. Re:It'd be nice if ... on The IOCCC Competition Is Back · · Score: 1

    RIGHT the fuck on. +5, bigup, the facts of life.... here gentlemen - you have your answer.

  11. Re:Repair a smartphone?? on Motorola Reinvents the RAZR · · Score: 1

    the thing was as slow as molasses! oh my god, just flipping through numbers was a royal pain. Looks were all it had - and we. the public loved it. Says more about us then the phone ;(

  12. Re:Repair a smartphone?? on Motorola Reinvents the RAZR · · Score: 1

    if you want inexpensive and reliable, i loved the Kyocera Zio - you can probably find it without cell service, and with cricket its 60/mo unlimited everything. Bottom line, the device is slower, but has a BEAUTIFUL 800x480 screen that fits in your hand, and that, and price, make it my fav. phone and most recommended, by me.

  13. A better way i dreamed up - with water guns on Mixed-Reality 3D Volumetric Projector · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My best idea is to use a hundred pulsed water guns and a laser that can be precisely aimed on the fly. You emit downward-dropped, fast-moving squirts of water algorithmically timed so that when the drop reaches the "pixel" the laser also illuminates that spot, making a pixel appear in midair. If the guns are in a row, that's a 2D plane. You could do this with a 100x100 water guns to make a 3d system, where 2d is the box of water guns on the ceiling, and 3D is when the drop is illuminated.

    Make sense? I so want to do this!

    --
    Every CS major knows the time/space tradeoff. Those majors never get taught the third tradeoff of the set: comprehension

  14. Re:I did on Fee Increase Attempt Inspires 'Dump Your Bank Day' · · Score: 1

    and you can always send the check to your bank - and nowadays even fax it! What's the big malfun()?

  15. Re:What are the range of failures? on Hardware Running Android Fails More Than iPhone, BlackBerry Hardware · · Score: 1

    the rapid obsolescence you describe won't be constant - the switch to smart phones required drastic change but it will settle for five years before being replaced by "?" I think it's a fine time to buy a phone - and own it for three years. Too bad much of what makes a smartphone worth it are it's services - those can change, or be obsoleted. But only real weirdos (like, say, on here) would say that a 1ghz chip with 800x480 screen is somehow "not enough" for a phone :-)

  16. Re:Battery problem? on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 4S Battery Problems · · Score: 1

    ha - i know what you mean - but I have an android (the amazing Sanyo Zio!) which is amazing because it is solid and CHEAP. I can't believe anyone would want to take 600$ with them on a hiking trip or an unexpected downpour on a walk. My point is that I treasure durability and REPLACABILITY with my phones, and cricket+Zio is my personal phone heaven (i really like it! GOLanucherEX is pretty cool!)

  17. Re:But Apple on 'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems · · Score: 1

    my wall is matte - and that's all my pico projector needs (i project on walls at coffee shops where possible, yup i'm "that guy" :)

  18. Re:Quantum Computing Baffles Me on Hybrid Technology Could Bring 'Quantum Information Systems' · · Score: 1

    your first post made no sense, there in what i copied, but this response /was/ nice to read. A better explanation of "clever part" is desirable!

  19. Re:the way to go on Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates · · Score: 2

    programming with pointers is for weenies! real programmers never use a reference, amirite?

  20. Re:Not a Mac dumb down, please on Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem · · Score: 1

    (for those that care you can use shift-command-G to navigate to a "hidden" dir like /usr/bin and the finder will work just fine!)

  21. Re:Welcome to real world on Is the Apple App Store a Casino? · · Score: 1

    ...and the 4$ a year hosting site with no ads is? (want!)

  22. Re:Yeah on China's Cyber-Warfare Capabilities Overstated · · Score: 1

    whargharrrbal-delight!

  23. Re:Why is it bad ? on The Real Job Threat · · Score: 1

    except that if robots make the bugatti - there are very few humans that will see the wealth. With automation, you'll see the money (ability) travel in ever smaller circles as the wealth is NOT REDISTRIBUTED - contrary to your argument :)

  24. Re:GPS Enabled Cars on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 2

    (sorry for the double post) Shoot, you could create this speeding system off of peoples cell phones.. They CAN'T be in city B from city A in less then X time, EVER, if they are law abiding. Cells registered in airport terminals get a special reset-until-next-update status. Damn... fuck them all with spiky baseball bats if this this ever happens! Moral: we ALREADY have those devices implanted...in our pockets.

  25. Re:GPS Enabled Cars on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 1

    because the packets from the GPS would be routed to LOCAL receivers whose position is known! If you sped to get to a city, you couldn't say you were in that city before the "normal" speed limit would get you there... so just broadcasting your speed, even if the speed is normal, would be a dead giveaway. Didn't think of that huh? :-)