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infiniteburp | 14 years ago | on: "Linux switch saved city millions and reduced user complaints"

If you really want it, doesn't linux run windows applications in some compatibility mode? Wine?

Linux is definitely cheaper than Apple.

infiniteburp | 14 years ago | on: Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program

Initiate? How about "re-instate dividend". Apple previously paid a dividend : http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=AAPL&a=08&b=7&c=...

infiniteburp | 14 years ago | on: Sorting in C++: 3 times faster than C

Loop unroll for limit branching. You can sort what's in cache, then load a new chunk of data into cached and sort it ... then merge the sorted chunks.

infiniteburp | 14 years ago | on: This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"

This is not a dumb comment. B&M Gates foundation does put a lot of money into NPR. To think that the management and producers at NPR are not aware of this is ingenuous. Every editor in the country is aware of who's paying for the ads. There's certainly cases where MSFT has gotten prominent puff pieces placed into All Things Considered. Both AAPL and MSFT have "long arm" marketing strategies; don't put it past them to pull a stunt like this.

infiniteburp | 14 years ago | on: This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"

Was this a stage play? If that's the case the "Reality Distortion Field"? is part of the schtick. If ThisAmLife crimped "facts" from it, it's their fault.

infiniteburp | 14 years ago | on: Steve Jobs used patents to pressure Bill Gates into 1997 investment in Apple

Why is this voted down? It's accurate.

infiniteburp | 14 years ago | on: Ask: I suffer from Chrone. 6 months after starting my startup I lost 14 kgs

Get on adalimumab (Humira) or do the absolute minimum amount of prednisone that you can. Take probiotics

infiniteburp | 14 years ago | on: We're not paying enough for apps

However ... if we adjust prices lower, people buy more. If we set prices higher, people buy less. Sellers price their product to maximize their profits.

infiniteburp | 14 years ago | on: If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone

Well Remember ...

Apple "advocates" always said: apple invented the gui, apple invented mp3 players, apple makes the fastest PC, apple's not the "big brother" company, etc. etc. Every claim usually turns out false. The Rep for "reality distortion field" has firm basis in trugth.

We can't always take Apple's claims at face value. This article just exposed, once again, another pro-Apple fallacy: that they own mini-tablet-phones and everyone stole the idea from them.

nonsense.

infiniteburp | 14 years ago | on: If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone

Steve Jobs saying he's going to spend billions and billions on frivolous lawsuits should make still independent developers wary about getting boxed into his walled "ecosystem". Perhaps it's time to revise the laws on "thought property" to declaw the patent and copyright industries. We need more competition, not more "I have a lot of money therefore I get even more money" monopolies. Geez. Patent law is just turning into a subsidy for Silicon Valley.