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Father: What ... what seems to be the problem.
Son: Death.
Father: Death, well I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction.
Son: I want more life, fucker.
Don't listen to some EE expert tell you the product can't be developed for less than a million. These guys are used to working at big shops that routinely throw that kind of money into the garbage. This product could have shipped, if only they had run the numbers first.
With a cheaper chip, better project management and using a shop like Proto Labs for tooling they could have made it happen. Resourcefulness, not resources. $99 is pretty aggressive, but it could be done with a slim margin.
Run the numbers first, THEN spend the money.
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According to the article Goldman deleted the existing license and replaced it with their own. Probably a violation of most licenses.
Joyent, you so cray. Thanks for reminding us that "Never" and "Lifetime", "100% Uptime Guarantee" and "Fanatical Service" are all bullshit indicators. You've got a good cloud, you don't need to make promises that you can't keep.
I think you should touch on frequency of updates: how often does Apple release, how often does Google?
Also it's not really fair to expect that every phone is going to run the very latest Android code, especially ice cream sandwich, which expects a forward facing camera, doesn't use the navigation buttons and so forth.
I do agree with the general premise that Android carriers/manufactures tend to release and abandon. They have no interest in updating the OS after the sale, which explains the popularity of Cyanogen.
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armored on Thursday October 27, 2011 @02:04PM
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armored on Thursday October 27, 2011 @01:58PM
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armored on Thursday October 27, 2011 @01:50PM
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Sure it's not IRC per se, but it is persistent chat based on topic, much like IRC.
Yeah, also I think that instead of number of casualties the amount of news coverage is the more important factor.
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armored on Monday September 12, 2011 @07:16AM
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armored on Monday September 12, 2011 @07:02AM
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armored on Thursday September 08, 2011 @11:13AM
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None of these authors have been published by any respectable publisher. I doubt any are in use as textbooks. The whole premise of this article is flawed.
Based on the type of documents released and the fact that they only released a few email accounts & passwords you can tell that this was not a very sophisticated attack. Probably a brute force attack against the mail server, or passwords gleaned from individual officers rooted home computers.
Obviously that's not the hard part. Building your own Twilio is. I want to depend on multiple service providers, like you can do with Asterisk or FreeSWITCH. When X provider fails use Y provider. When Y provider is cheaper use Y. That's the true power of openness which OpenVBX has a vested interest in not providing.
Whereas Plivo's lowest layer is FreeSWITCH, a pretty solid base. I'm pretty stoked about this, if only the page would come up.
Yeah but it all ties into the Twilio service, so there is definitely space for a fork or for something like Plivo.
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armored on Friday June 03, 2011 @09:32AM
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armored on Friday June 03, 2011 @09:29AM
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armored on Friday June 03, 2011 @09:20AM
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armored on Friday June 03, 2011 @09:08AM
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If it's really a "top journalism prize" you don't need to call it "top journalism prize". You just call it by name. Like "Pulitzer Prize". Which he deserves.
I love this comment: "UPDATE: The EFF is still unofficially accepting Bitcoins, but their address has changed to: 16g5mes4kW1gpX9Vp1F5VG7HXqN8ySar9EI've just donated a few BTCs to help them protect the freedom of the Internet - please help them too!" Nice one "Rebecca S. Reagan"!
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armored on Thursday June 02, 2011 @12:29PM
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