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Re:RIP Microsoft Tag on Monday August 19, 2013 @06:16AM (#6236409)
Best Tumblr ever
Isn't this Apples job?
This service has become such a joke.

People paid for a Twitter clone and just got a confused mess of hand wavy nonsense about being a general purpose pipe for applications.

Re:Google Blindness on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:48AM (#6211155)
How long till it has adverts seen as every listen will cost google something.

I'd rather pay

Re:Google Blindness on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:46AM (#6211146)
He does in his podcast and on Twitter
Re:Google Blindness on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:45AM (#6211140)
He's also gone into great detail on his blog about how unsuccessful that has been and if he worked on the port himself (outside company volunteered to work on it) he wouldn't have been able to go fulltime like iOS allowed.
Re:Google Blindness on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:41AM (#6211123)
You don't really get a choice about lock in, however you do get to choose if you want your actions, searches, communications and location harvested to build an advertising profile or not.
Re:Google Blindness on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:28AM (#6211079)
> not very good developers

Probably this judging by how many years the UI ignored the GPU on that platform.

Re:Firefox now only has one HTML parser on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @05:40AM (#6204788)
Typical Mozilla nonsense
Re:ElementaryOs Luna released on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:44AM (#6198419)
should have been deleted on april 2nd then…
Re:ElementaryOs Luna released on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:40AM (#6198408)
Honestly don't understand why we can't call them out on this.

> Did we actively intend for it to be reminiscent of OS X? Absolutely not

This statement is a total lie.

Re:ElementaryOs Luna released on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:38AM (#6198399)
Bit different, the first two directly mimic how a regular file browser window looks. The OS X and ElemOS preferences don't imitate their file windows.

God MS screwed 95 up so badly.

Re:ElementaryOs Luna released on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:11AM (#6198334)
> Did we actively intend for it to be reminiscent of OS X? Absolutely not

Sorry but this is pure BS

Re:ElementaryOs Luna released on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:10AM (#6198333)
1998-2003 Linux invests a ton of time imitating Windows Explorer and Outlook

2013-???? Linux invests a ton of time replicating OS X and iTunes

Why can they never just innovate themselves?

Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox on Friday August 09, 2013 @06:19AM (#6184749)
love how you're hosting this on neocities, seems apt
Re:Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox on Friday August 09, 2013 @06:18AM (#6184746)
One less reason to use Firefox
Re:Lego Architecture Studio Now Available on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:26AM (#6179487)
Google isn't helping me right now, but IIRC didn't Lego use to manufacture bricks for actual architects to prototype with. They were smaller than regular bricks.
Re:Stealth Startups Are Stupid on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @12:21PM (#6173793)
Don't know why you expected anything else from an "ideas guy"
Re:Xerox responds to the recent character substitution issue on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @05:34AM (#6171730)
You'd expect anyone who knows how JBIG2 works would also know it should never have been used for this
Re:Xerox responds to the recent character substitution issue on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @05:32AM (#6171721)
"the device web user interface"

Why on earth does a scanner have a web interface

Re:Firefox 23 is available on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @12:20PM (#6167460)
What a joke
Re:Firefox 23 is available on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @12:18PM (#6167449)
UI is just way better than anything else out there

UI feels and IS more native than anything else out there

Performance is better than Firefox and only worse than Chrome in beta technologies and a few edge cases

Re:The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @10:15AM (#6166673)
Unfortunately it wont do any good because you can't buy taste
They didn't expect Draw Something to drop off so much faster than their usual games.

Probably didn't understand that Draw Something isn't even a game when you think about it, so didn't really have a competitive angle and became tiresome quickly.

Serves them right really, what on earth did they think was going to happen
https://vimeo.com/29279198 real time face substitution
Re:Who saved The Old Reader? on Monday August 05, 2013 @08:39AM (#6159725)
Probably Digg seen as their reader missed the boat a bit
Re:Hands on with Bootstrap 3 - A landing page on Monday August 05, 2013 @08:28AM (#6159699)
Honestly don't get why people can't just use CSS for something like this.

Talk about over-engineering

Looking forward to the open source desktop versions of this kind of tech.
Re:The Quantum Zeno Effect actually does stop the world on Friday August 02, 2013 @05:01AM (#6146013)
A low quality article on the Gawker network? Surely not!

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