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Ah, I get it now. I agree to a point. I'd add that once resolution itself is no longer an issue (because every phone's screen is above 300 dpi), Android still has the advantage of …

Of course, but the 10-12 inches they quote as normal operating distance is pretty reasonable as far as I'm concerned. So while clever marketing, I wouldn't call it false advertisin…

I don't understand your point. The iPad has a 130 dpi display, if anything, it should be easier to double that than it was to double the iPhone 3GS's 160 dpi. (I know that making l…

I couldn't find an explanation of why one can't just put a real giraffe in a tank, fill it with water and "see what happens". (Obviously I suggest doing this in such a way that one…

AFAIK it's a combination of the hardware not being good enough, and Apple not really trying to optimize for those devices (they'd be happy if you bought a new one). The iPod Touch …

No, they wouldn't. All that they'd compete on is perceived payout. In other words, if you have private competing lotteries, they'd optimize the heck out of the feedback loop explai…

I think WoW has to do that because it's a very complicated interface with roots in the text-based MUDs of old (for example the combat log). I don't consider it an example of good U…

Even infinite depth of field wouldn't completely solve the problem. The point is, your eyes have to physically focus on the far away screen the entire time, or the whole movie beco…

That's true, many of those pathways are shared between all current species, so they must have evolved in that early period. I wonder how (for lack of a better word) inefficient org…

Didn't the Gizmodo article say that he saw the owner's name and Facebook profile while playing around with the phone (before it was bricked remotely)? If so, why didn't he contact …

"Don't fix the UI problem, work around it! Who cares if a good comment is downvoted and a possibly worse one upvoted, as long as the user's total karma is correct?" Is that your su…

Do you have a source? Because 40 billion is the number I've seen quoted most often, for example here: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/a...

4:3 is also the aspect ratio of almost all digital photographs, and I'm sure that was a consideration.

People, get your names straight. It's Windows(R) Phone 7 Series ; leaving out the Series is like calling Apple's desktop computer an iMa.

Not to disagree, but I'd like to mention that you don't actually need full complex number arithmetic to draw a Mandelbrot set. If you translate the Mandelbrot update rule into pair…

Friendster? Socializr? This guy has a talent of coming up with the most generic Web 2.0-style names imaginable.

In essence, you say that the Nazi cult that some Pakistanis (supposedly) entertain is no big deal, because they are not responsible for the Holocaust. As a German, who as a matter …

I'm sure there's a cute mathematical trick to calculate the missing digit, but Raphael is right, with numbers limited to 1 billion, this can be easily brute forced. You need a few …

I'm not going to comment on patents here, but you're absolutely wrong in assuming that implementing an optimized algorithm is trivial, especially in real-time graphics. Sure, codin…

You have no idea what you're even talking about. Both Diablo 1 and 2 used pre-rendered sprites. Yes, technically they're "polygonic", but in the same sense that a Pixar movie is po…

That's a good point, however, might be solved by making the charger introduce itself as one of the well-known USB device classes.

Most cars here in Europe are stick shift though. A stick shift car can't go berserk on you, you simply press the clutch pedal, as you do anyway when braking, and the acceleration i…

Citations can be gamed as well unfortunately.

The conspiracy theorist part of me suggests that the reason for this proposal has something to do with the MiniMSFT blog.

This part of the article is most likely intended as a funny anecdote, not as an accurate description of a scientific experiment. Rest assured that Niels freaking Bohr would have th…