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Sorry, but this is a very common misconception. Just like many people not familiar with programming think that anyone can make a great software product just by pointing and clickin…

You wrote: "You could directly attribute the fact that Apple isn't responsible for most of that hardware R&D for their high profit margins. They know to buy the cutting edge from t…

Agreed. Yet, to a lot of the readers here, it's impossible to understand why the "little things" make a big difference. They simply cannot understand why this attention to detail i…

Sure, they buy a lot of components off the shelf. But they are extremely involved in the design and manufacturing process of their products, and often work with the manufacturers t…

Yep. And this is the reason that all the sockets have built-in current protection. Additionally, there are circuit breakers per seat row, which is what I discovered when I tried pl…

The acceleration curve came directly from NeXT (traditional Mac OS had a more similar curve to Win/Linux). So my best guess is that Steve Jobs also likes this acceleration curve ;)…

The problem is that I don't want to disable the acceleration entirely, I just want a _different_ acceleration curve: http://db.tidbits.com/article/8893 I'm not sure if this command…

I can't use a mouse on a Mac for extended periods of time due to the mouse acceleration curve problem. I've never experienced them as unreliable or garbage, but I just don't like u…

I also thought so, but maybe not with mobile devices with limited memory? I always thought thought it was strange to disallow GC in ObjC on iOS, but they might have tried it with l…

..or just don't care. Also, if the UI is not built with animation / OpenGL support built in from the ground up, it might be a substantial job to add good support for it later on. O…

Still, if OpenVPN drops packets lacking the HMAC packet authentication without processing them further, then either 1) the guy would also need the HMAC key, or 2) the zero-day is i…

I guess I just never met anybody who didn't understand the quote. To me it says: Think very hard about what to add, and think very hard about what to remove. Of course, I realize t…

Absolutely true, execution is what matters. You can make a good business from a pretty standard idea. And the history is littered with examples of great technology that never succe…

Most people realize exactly what the quote is talking about, since the alternative (removing stuff until you're left with nothing, or with something barely working) makes no sense …

Be gleeful all you want, but this is mostly a _patent_ suit. In fact, if you're running a fully compliant Java stack, Sun has given you a patent grant for that and you should be in…

They didn't invent the form factor, but they were the first to make it good enough to become successful. There's been tablets around for two decades, but the iPad is the first to a…

Since you can fit several full-length movies on an iPad (16-64GB storage space), adding 5.1 channel audio won't be much of a problem.

I've never used Microsoft Flight Simulator, but I've been very happy with X-Plane ( http://www.x-plane.com/ ). It's cheap, available for Mac, Linux and Windows and has a very activ…

Sure seems optional to me, he should have used must. :)

PHP might create a mess that is expenesive to maintain for _you_. It might even create a mess for a lot of people, especially newbies. Likewise with Perl. That doesn't mean that cr…

A lot of big companies are learning the hard way that doing business in Russia is riskier than they thought, when the other party has the legal system on their side. One example th…

You're far more likely to kill yourself due to inexperience, than due to engine failure or any other technical malfunction. You might also consider getting a glider license to fly …

The problem is, no amount of good stories can repair the damage done to those who trusted PayPal because "it works OK for most people". They may even have great customer support mo…

So you're assuming that PHP will create a mess that is expensive to maintain? Fallacy detected. :)

I think he said that in 1997, not 2007. But if he had not done this deal, Steve Jobs would have been able to send his "well look at that, we're bigger than Dell" mail sooner.