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Not quite, they also control the point of sale, for the most part. (For phones, that is. For tablets they are indeed a dumb pipe.)

I don't really understand your defensiveness, I didn't get that vibe from the article. Good on you for trying.

Yes, precisely. Kids these days, they're a new breed! We've never seen anything like this before! This is the end of the world!

I don't buy it. If cracking games was purely about the technical challenge, then there would be no need to distribute the crack when you're done. Also, what is the "conquered the w…

I don't see what all the fuss is. A good craftsman could build a house no matter what hammer he chooses. Don't be such a snob about insisting that hammers must have heads to drive …

Yup, also animated status bar text.

Perhaps, but those allow us to do things we otherwise couldn't. The blink tag just made annoying blinky text.

Flouting law enforcement does not strike me as a good design goal. If the law wants you to stop doing something, they will make sure you stop.

Interesting angle, I've never seen someone come at it from the POV of the shareholder. If you're unhappy as a shareholder with HBO's strategy, I can understand that. Do whatever sh…

I know. I don't make any bones about this HDCP stuff being bullshit. They are screwing their own, paying customers. That's terrible. It's just that I really have no time for this e…

"We've recently discussed the fact that HBO severely limits the availability of its shows to non-subscribers..." Really?! How dare they!

Andy Ihnatko about Oatmeal about difficulty of watching Game of Thrones: http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that...

I don't find it to be good for much besides keeping track of podcasts. I never saw the appeal of "syndicated content" (blech), I'd rather read websites. Very few people use it when…

What would outdated markup have to do with striping table rows? This is why you're getting downvotes, you really don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about.

Ah, I did not know that. But anyway, just to clarify, I mention that these apps exist because it could completely throw off the numbers as to how many "Kindles" (or "Nooks") there …

OK, I guess we should just completely ignore them because you don't like reading on lit screens. Makes sense.

iOS and Android have a Kindle app, which means every iPhone, iPad, and Android device can also be a Kindle. This fact is conspicuously missing in the analysis.

> I couldn't disagree more. I know. Trust me, I know.

Oh, stop. I'm tired of hearing about "smug" being the worst thing ever. Too easy to toss this insult around. Instead, personally my issue with functional programming is the aversio…

Your worldview differs from that of others. This happens a lot, no need to get all upset about it. "501 Developer" means absolutely nothing outside a very small group of people -- …

Believe it. Everything without a touch screen is broken to the next generation of users, and the entire PC industry is changing is big ways already.

This one hits all the bullet points for clueless Apple punditry, including calling Apple a cult and asserting that people will buy anything Apple makes, however stupid and useless.…

I feel bad for anyone who considers this sort of thing "fun"

Searle calls your objection the "systems reply", and his response can be found here (2a): http://www.iep.utm.edu/chineser/#H2