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Also, the evolution time of tech is remarkably fast. 10-20 years (I'm not sure how long these patents are valid) is an incredibly long time in computing to hold a patent on a small feature. Look at where tech devices/interfaces were 20 years ago. Prototyping something digital is far faster, and things can be changed and refined at a rate that physical objects just can't match.

The actual case covered far more phones than this ban list, they seem to only be interested in banning the top selling phones.

Though that'll just drive more sales to the Galaxy S3, I assume.

>low quality high volume manufacturer Wait til you find out that Samsung is one of Apple's main suppliers for the parts of the iPhone, you're gonna feel so silly.

>Alexia's articles are so consistently pure garbage.

It was even posted to HN by Garbage!

>Siri like technology belongs in all cars

And it won't if Apple's lawyers have any say in the matter.

I think the point was that when women played games more, that didn't result in an additional problem or conflict in the relationship.

I think you'd be surprised at how many people don't want to shoulder that risk.

Try not to lose perspective of the less technically inclined end-users. We might not be the target audience of an article like this, but perhaps the layperson surfing the Internet wouldn't realize how relatively dangerous browsing a religious website might be to their computer.

Does that mean it shouldn't have been posted here? Probably.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge [...]" - Charles Darwin

One of my favorite quotes.

The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

That would be a great book though.

>live in New York City

MYSTERY SOLVED.

Of course you don't want to own a car in NYC.

>If you can afford little, you might as well have as much fun as you can, especially if your prospects for making more money in the near future aren't that good.

Not enough people understand this concept, and it's been documented from at least the Great Depression from what I'm aware of.

What annoys me the most about DLC is the cost relative to the value added. $5 DLC for a $50 game is adding another 10% of the base cost of the game itself, but you don't add remotely that much enjoyment/value/playtime.

I like the Costco free sample comparison, haven't thought of it that way before.

Sorry, wasn't able to find that from the original link. I take back my last comment.

I guess it boils down to how many of those pirates you think were ever potential customers. Assuming piracy was theoretically impossible, how many would've purchased it rather than not play at all?

Which is also a completely unsourced number.

Aside from the number being pulled from their asses, Ubisoft is continuously one of the worst publishers in terms of utilizing harsh DRM. I wouldn't be shocked that people go out of their way to pirate Ubisoft games.

I know I haven't bought anything Ubisoft in a long time.

It's intuitive because of the rooting reflex.

I did. It serves me very well on my Windows machine.

I run a Linux VM in Windows on my desktop actually, but it's my gaming machine too. Last time I gave it a shot as a full install, I couldn't for the life of me get a brand new USB wifi adapter to work in Ubuntu. All the searching on the topic seemed to indicate that 64-bit users are screwed (which was me), and 32-bit users needed to use a driver emulator and dig through generic broadcom drivers to test.

I gave up.

No youtube video is worth that amount of time and energy.

EDIT: That's probably why I can't convince myself to put Linux on my desktop as the primary OS. I just don't want to take the time to compile github scripts or scour the Internet for drivers/workarounds/fixes to make all of the basic computing functions I take for granted on Win7 work.

That's almost exclusively what people actually use Bitcoins for, outside of Silk Road stuff. There are so few BTC stores that it's hard to justify the value of it as a currency.

It's like having a wallet filled with $100 bills at a row of soda machines.

As someone who doesn't really fit into HN (not really interested in startups, but like web design/development), I'd have to agree with the overall assertion. It feels a lot like an echo chamber, and I find myself often thinking "the rest of the world is a lot different than HN" after reading comments here.

Those... really don't look as close as you seem to think. Certainly not carbon copies.

>You know what I do during my lunch time? Trying to re-prove Fermat's Last Theorem

The people who are genuinely interested in math would still be doing that. We've tried teaching computation but the retention rate just isn't there, and isn't practical anyway. Why not do something useful with that time instead?

>A system where pieces of data don't have unique identifier is going to be serious drag at some point

Reminds me of trying to organize/tag my mp3 library. Those fringe cases of imperfect tagging get so cumbersome to manage. Also, with folders, it's so easy to just dump x number of files into a folder and have it organized. Batch tag editing just isn't as intuitive. Now I have an Android and use that as my mp3 player, and Poweramp has a "Folders" view that I almost exclusively use.

How would this file system work for the non-technical user? I'm sure there will be plenty more people chiming in on the inefficiency and inferiority of the folder structure, but how about the average user?

Genuinely curious. The more I think about this type of system, the more questions I have. It seems like you would only want to use this with a SSD or other non-disk based storage.

No. Metro is just an interface.

Curious, how would an OS work with no folders? All the system files just have a "system" tag?

Personally, I've learned folders. Now I have trouble thinking about a filesystem that wouldn't have them. How would you organize files on a physical disk with no file structure?

It's either Google the MAFIAA. Neither are great choices.

Hopefully this cuts into the number of bogus claims made?

As a dirty non-vim-using heathen trying to correct the error of my ways, I'm having trouble adjusting. Is there a good reason to use hjkl for moving the cursor that I'm not aware of by virtue of knowing nothing else? Why not jkl; or ijkl?