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Re:Hulu announces monthly subscription, support for iPhone/iPad, still...
on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @03:13PM (#1472411)
The answer is yes. Hulu has regularly blocked Flash-enabled devices through various (often circumventable, but still) means. It's just that you never hear about them.
Re:Is Google About to Launch a Facebook Killer?
on Sunday June 27, 2010 @01:33AM (#1465016)
I feel like Google is constantly launching Facebook killers and waiting to see what will stick. They have so many different social networks and feed mechanisms that it's hard to discern a coherent strategy from them.
Re:Less.js will obsolete CSS
on Sunday June 20, 2010 @11:24AM (#1446587)
Please, no. This is terrifying. Let us browse without JavaScript and in peace. Please.
Re:John Gruber: I'll Tell You What's Fair
on Thursday June 17, 2010 @02:35PM (#1439934)
HTC has been building giant-touchscreen-type phones for years. Windows Mobile is not some kind of cheap Blackberry ripoff; it's a Palm ripoff, a lot closer to the iPhone when it came out than anything else. Moreover, the first Android phones didn't even have multitouch or capacitive screens.
Did Apple influence some design decisions? Sure. However, the design of the G1 and the first Android phones were also a logical extension from what was available at the time.
Re:Everyone dials in
on Sunday June 06, 2010 @11:44PM (#1409790)
There's a conference call scene in this (relevant, interesting, funny) video which I think applies to this topic:
http://www.theonion.com/video/more-american-workers-outsourc...
I think that it could become a liability to do this at some point, though. When everybody is calling in and people have flaky quality, you are wasting at least some time. If a meeting is more effective in person, then have that meeting in person! You shouldn't be afraid to exclude one or two people if they're traveling; they're already excluded anyway. Why provide an illusion of close involvement?
Re:Ask HN: Overcoming engineer/developer bias against SEO
on Thursday June 03, 2010 @05:35PM (#1402652)
The points you make are disturbing. As far as I can tell, the reason why people shy away from SEO is not that it doesn't work. Indeed, it seems like people shy away from SEO because it works too well. At least for me, there's a perception that SEO is evil and crowds out legitimate content. I would hope that these startups are not going over to SEO just because it works; I would hope that SEO is trying to show that it works legitimately.
Re:Introducing The Kno.. a revolutionizing digital textbook
on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @09:40PM (#1400091)
It's a textbook. Flash doesn't matter. The content needs to be there. I've read textbooks on my iPad before; for the most part, it works OK. There doesn't appear to be any big advantage to the Kno that couldn't be matched in a specialized iPad app.
Re:Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponen...
on Monday May 31, 2010 @05:28AM (#1392178)
They lacked metallurgy, banking, agricultural technology... The Industrial Revolution was built on hundreds of years of slow progress and access to tons of natural resources. The Aeliopile was a toy that opened doors; it wasn't going to power any steamships.
Re:Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponen...
on Monday May 31, 2010 @05:22AM (#1392163)
So far, technology has solved all problems. What else is there?
Re:Google is leapfrogging Apple
on Friday May 21, 2010 @11:56PM (#1369742)
Palm?
Re:Bit.ly is Harmful to Your Reputation
on Saturday May 08, 2010 @08:06PM (#1331205)
Extra cloaking for malicious links? Bit.ly can't exactly check the original site to see if it's OK if it's hidden behind a funky redirection layer. I think that bit.ly was reasonable to have an interstitial, although maybe they should be more open about why and how to remove it.
Re:Postcard from Halden
on Sunday May 02, 2010 @03:47AM (#1312165)
Well - you basically made the exact reply he was expecting.
I think that letting serial killers out of jail is a bad idea, yes. The reason why we should keep serial killers in jail, though, is not that they're serial killers - it's that, in most cases, they tend to not care and will willingly kill again.
If there is a serial killer who is provably not sociopathic and who can actually become reformed, then that person should be eventually let out of jail. That is a very difficult standard to meet.
Re:Valve bringing Steam to Mac
on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @12:41AM (#1180287)
wine also works considerably better on OpenGL, as I understand it. A movement toward OpenGL usage would bring immediate benefits to Linux gamers.
Re:Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps
on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @03:48PM (#1179323)
Embedding Google Maps in one's own site would probably be a better solution. It also helps if you have a bunch of reference points concentrated in the UK or in some other small region (you could have one world map and one UK map). That would make things clearer.
Re:Mahalo's new spam is worse than old
on Monday March 08, 2010 @02:03PM (#1176098)
It's come to the point where I actively avoid SEO-optimized sites on Google. If I see my search terms in the URL ("how-to-become-a-travel-agent") of a result, I'll just skip over it. Even moreso when there is generic, cut-and-paste content in the description. SEO may help you rank, but you won't get any clicks from me until I've run out of options.
Re:Candid Camera
on Sunday March 07, 2010 @03:36PM (#1173953)
He went on to say that they were so focused on revenues in the early days of Zynga that they did some things he didn't like. He then mentioned the Zwinky toolbar and said he installed it on his machine and couldn't get it off. And then went on to say that he told his developer to take that lead gen offer down.
That really isn't the impression I get from watching the mentioned clip: http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...
Re:Revised Mac Developer Program
on Thursday March 04, 2010 @10:18PM (#1168723)
Those are device developer programs, though. XNA for PC is free, and pretty much all major desktop PC development tracks are free. iPhone/XBox/etc are a different story (and my understanding is that $99 is cheap for such a program).
Re:Father of the moderm tiling WMs proposed for deletion in Wikipedia.
on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @04:50PM (#1165292)
If people are complaining about their articles getting cut, doesn't that mean that they care about those articles and would maintain them? Wikipedia is actively spurning volunteers and reducing that "finite number" with deletionism.
Re:Keeping the Pirates at Bay
on Sunday February 28, 2010 @02:11AM (#1156594)
Note: This is a PlayStation game!
It's a key fact which you have to keep in mind when reading this article and considering it for use on PCs. Console copy protection is today important, but not critical as PC copy protection is. Chances are, this protection would have been instantly defeated on a reasonably high-profile PC game.
Re:Roger Ebert: Hello, this is me speaking
on Saturday February 27, 2010 @11:42PM (#1156448)
Isn't this mainly an aesthetic thing, though? Consumer text-to-speech is certainly adequate for vocalizing almost any conversation. One could just use that to carry out "covert voice communication."
Re:Opera 10.50 out for Mac, impressive performance and more
on Saturday February 27, 2010 @03:39AM (#1155100)
Tree-style tabs:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
Still not matched anywhere else. The bogging-down from ridiculous numbers of Firefox tabs may soon force me to switch, however.
I also like some of the highlight plugins for translation and search.
Re:Adobe announces Flash Player and AIR for Android
on Monday February 15, 2010 @05:49AM (#1126333)
Yes, it was (how else do you use Flash, anyway?).
It worked in IE mobile and I believe there were tricks to get it to work in other browsers (Opera). There was Flash Lite and a normal Flash plugin -- the whole thing was pretty confusing, I admit.
There are also apps like Skyfire ( http://www.skyfire.com/ ) hanging around which claim various degrees of Flash support built-in. In any case, as far as I'm aware all Flash support was and is via web browser.
Re:Adobe announces Flash Player and AIR for Android
on Monday February 15, 2010 @02:51AM (#1126114)
Bizarrely, Flash Player has been available for Windows Mobile for years and nobody has noticed. Windows Mobile also has a YouTube app and most of the other major apps, but they're all terribly neglected and have virtually no users. Microsoft had every advantage even before the iPhone came out and yet they managed to squander them.
I predict a Zune phone/PDA which will add even more confusion to the brew of brands Microsoft has managed to concoct. Windows Live Bing Connect Mobile CE XP Pro .net System 8 2010 for Home Users, Enterprise Edition, anyone?
Re:Video: Notion Ink Adam, iPad alternative
on Sunday February 14, 2010 @12:08AM (#1124177)
Android? Chromium? These are not exactly traditional desktop OSes.
Ubuntu I'll concede, but if they're putting Android on it by default it will be a lot closer to the iPad than to your Windows/Mac desktop. I think this was something you brushed aside too quickly earlier. Android was shown in the video, and if they want to compete with the iPad it's a very good starting point (being at least in the same league, if not on par with, the iPhone OS).
As far as I know, there are no files in Android or Chrome-OS. Android also has a touch interface (and this tablet doesn't have a mouse anyway).
Re:Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers
on Saturday February 13, 2010 @01:27AM (#1122650)
Yes. Have you missed the past few weeks of discussion on whether the iPad has a niche? The Kindle already has one. I don't have an iPhone, and I don't want yet another multipurpose device, but bigger. I have a Kindle because I want the e-ink screen.
Re:Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers
on Saturday February 13, 2010 @01:25AM (#1122648)
History texts for what? Past histories will remain in print form, and new revisions to them will still be published in journals and such. History from now on is going to be radically changed by the giant primary source called the Internet and its offspring. I think you're looking at it on too small a scale.
Re:I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.
on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @12:03AM (#1111583)
That's a given, though. I don't know what kind of fun you're after, but everything I can think of won't put much of a dent into a large sum of money.
Re:Here's the Vision of iPad Gaming Greatness Apple Overlooked
on Thursday January 28, 2010 @10:45PM (#1085748)
The problem with these kinds of scenarios is that they rarely pan out. Most of the time you just don't have access to 3 iPhones/iPod Touches and an iPad. It's too rare and usually not well-known enough to be worth implementing as a major feature: just a gimmick.
Re:The Irony of iPad: A Great Day For Open Technologies
on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @08:55PM (#1082721)
It doesn't matter how open HTML5 itself is. Going "to the cloud" is still a step backward for openness. I'd much rather be stuck with .doc files than have everything stored on Google Docs and transmitted using open Web standards. Openness is more than just file formats. Moving to the cloud is just as big a step back, if not more, than the App Store.