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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism That is not a "30-pin USB" port, that is Apple?s proprietary and licensable port interface. ...the sort of thing that validates the oldest joke in the Mac world: Q: How many Apple employees does it take…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Banalltv See Comment No15 here: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/...pper-required/ "...about 6 years ago, I purchased an archive edition of the National Geographic that used closed proprietary software to presen…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit Canadians said that as well... but the US was successful in extraditing a Canadian citizen to the US to stand trial for selling pot "seeds" by mail... and now he's sitting in a US jail with a 10 year sent…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 ...certainly more productive than whining on the web. hill60 Posts: 1,616
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Over simplification? Really not that difficult to figure out. Just like anti-virus software works. You develop a signature of how the ads work and you insert some CSS display:none or innerHTML on the div. Same c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 You are assuming there are zero costs in making that income. I suggest you take a basic finance course and go learn the difference between gross and net and think about how it applies here. No need to be i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by captbilly There was a time when I went to Apple insider to see what was new in Apple hardware and software, but now it just seems to be nothing more than the PR arm of Apple. People looking for Mac news have all mov…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Exactly. Anyone willing to pay for their own bandwidth, not get creative about their margins, etc. ... stick with what you've got and pay Apple nothing. Everyone else who wants access to millions of users …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jpellino Since there is already a huge market for Mac apps, and they do not all instantly comply to the App Store guidelines, they could be alienating a very large portion of the developer community. This needs to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bedouin Mixed emotions here. On one hand I want Flash to go away, but on the other -- it just means my ad blocker will need a lot of clever updates to 'compete.' . Indeed. Insidiously clever: while Flash blockers…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macslut AppleInsider has always posted what's newsworthy in terms of Apple. Of course they're not objective i terms of what they cover, they're biased in terms of covering APPLE. "Only a year ago Apple was the undi…
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First you wrote: Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I think most of us saw this coming a mile away. No other reason to make Cocoa-based iOS apps HTML/CSS/JS if you don?t plan to eventually unseat Adobe Flash ads across the web as a whole. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone 64 bit only. Too bad since my coding machine is an old iMac core solo. The family machine is a new iMac but I can't code in that room so I finally have a good excuse to retire my old machine. Off to the Apple st…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox The fact that the ISO subcontracts patent administration shouldn't be taken as any particular comment on the openness, interoperability or standard compliance of a given format. Agreed: introducing ISO into …
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox That's how standards work. You get a whole bunch of people to sign off and cross license. I'm wondering how this is worse than one company profiting off a proprietary standard. Yes, my point was exactl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox So it's also Panasonic's, Microsoft's, Sony's and Samsung's codec? Yes, like Apple they are among the companies that profit from the proliferation of their proprietary h.264 codec.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H Quote: Originally Posted by RationalTroll Maybe. How many other OSes are affected by this exploit? Oh for f**ks sake! This is not an OS exploit! Cool. But Java runs everywhere. So obviously a Java e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fishstick_kitty You sound like an idiot...removing java from the OS X install has NOTHING to do with the security of Java. If there is a security hole here, it's the fault of the OS, not the plug-in. Maybe. How ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tawilson You are kinding!! H.264 is not Steve's Codec. The MPEG-LA would certainly have something to say about that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-LA..._AVC_Licensors