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YouTube was an acquisition.

Aye. The cast of TSS has remained pretty close. I don't listen to TWiT anymore, but I remember Patrick Norton used to be (may still be) a regular guest.

This is Hacker News. The only app environment that makes any money is iOS. Android is just a money pit. Get it straight!

Freenet is basically what you describe, and it's free.

Can't seize a .onion pseudo-domain.

I, too, would like to see Mozilla become more agile and cutting-edge. I still hold respect for them, though, as the organization that taught the masses "IE != The Internet".

Yes. TechCrunch is not exactly known for tact.

> my next phone is more likely to be an iPhone, where I know I'll get timely updates. One significant update per year, on which Apple has disabled half of the features because you …

How about these much-needed additional data sets? How many apps are being purchased per user? Are Android users spending an average of $.50 on one app, while iPhone users are spend…

That may be the case in the US, but in most other major markets, the iPhone is no longer exclusive to one carrier. The entire US population makes up at most 10% of the global marke…

>If/when the iPhone is available on Verizon,T-Mobile and Sprint (besides AT&T), Android's momentum is going to drastically slow down. Good luck with that.

There are also a lot of high-end Android phones that have come out in the last two months, and coming out soon. In the end, this discussion doesn't really matter. Obviously, nobody…

>His four main points are: openness... Actually, openness is not one of his points. He mentions it in passing only. >Android definitely has momentum but at their current rate it wi…

A product that has been actively developed for over 14 years had sure as hell better be able to say something more than "our performance is on par with" an emerging technology that…

Many mail daemons will "accept" mail no matter who the recipient is. Internally, unmatched mail may be discarded or forwarded to a "catch-all" account, but all the sender sees is "…

"this is Techcrunch" There's your answer!

I was actually considering an Android phone, the Instinct Q to be precise. I got a Palm Pre two weeks ago, which is also Linux-based, and now I feel that I made the right decision.…

Honestly I thought the question was rather pointless to begin with. Sprint didn't make the Pre. Sprint doesn't compete with the iPhone. The iPhone is a device, Sprint is a carrier.…

If I'm reading the charts correctly, the negative-rated comments have at least as many (and often more) replies than positive-rated comments. I'll remember this next time someone a…

Yes. In fact, CPU's are still increasing in performance exponentially faster than RAM or disk (hard or solid-state) storage. Fetching something from RAM still takes hundreds of CPU…

so hard to find, for example, a file with "accounts" in its name and "automobiles" in the contents ... Consider the UNIX find command which searches based on file metadata and the …

Just as an FYI, auto-playing slideshows bug the heck out of me. I'm probably not the only one who feels that way.

Thanks for the follow-up. After re-reading the post, I see that this is not /just/ an x264 problem. Thank you also for informing me that hardware encoders aren't very good. I had a…

While I found this an interesting read, I believe someone who works with *264 encoding with any regularity can easily justify using the relatively cheap hardware encoders available…

Also known as the "printer-ink" model.