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pedanticfreak commented on Android Market Web Store just Launched market.android.com/... · Posted by u/jdavidson

hkuo · 15 years ago

Just happened to go to the Chrome Web Store, and suddenly thought, why didn't they just imitate this layout? Of course they had different teams, but their own Chrome Web Store's layout beats this Android one by a mile.

Link for comparison: https://chrome.google.com/webstore

Just a thought.

pedanticfreak · 15 years ago

The Chrome Web Store looks like the native iTunes store. That is not a compliment.

Despite that it is still better looking than the Android Market Web Store. The best thing I can say about the Android Market is that it is remarkably fast.

pedanticfreak commented on The case of the identical rabbit games kotaku.com/5750238/the-ca... · Posted by u/jeff18

pygy_ · 15 years ago

All game assets and demo data (should all be in "Data" folder in the root of the source tree) are not under the same license as the engine code. Wolfire has allowed the _data_ to be _freely_redistributed_ for _non_commercial_purposes_, but it is forbidden to use in any revenue generating works.

http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/lugaru/file/97b303e79826/CONTE...

pedanticfreak · 15 years ago

I find it incredible someone with enough expertise to build the project and get it on the Mac Store can be so clueless with regard to licensing.

Not only are they using unlicensed game assets, but it seems they are violating the GPL as well.

I suspect iCoder knew what it was doing all along.

pedanticfreak commented on The Future of Cheap Androids Begins Now gigaom.com/mobile/cheap-a... · Posted by u/pietrofmaggi

pedanticfreak · 15 years ago

Nevermind the cheap device. The $25 per month service that includes 300 minutes, unlimited text, and unlimited data is the real story here.

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-...

Of course, you get what you pay for in coverage

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/check-cell-phone-coverage

Meanwhile in Canada you can't even get unlimited data over wired internet.

pedanticfreak commented on Amazon Previews Rival Streaming Service to Netflix hollywoodreporter.com/new... · Posted by u/gibsonf1

btucker · 15 years ago

If Amazon & Netflix start becoming full-on competitors, it would seem to make Netflix's use of AWS a little awkward. I wonder if Netflix will regret the decision to move more and more of their infrastructure into Amazon's hands.

pedanticfreak · 15 years ago

No more awkward than Apple using Samsung to fab its chips.

pedanticfreak commented on Microsoft backs H.264. techcrunch.com/2011/02/02... · Posted by u/dansingerman

eli · 15 years ago

Maybe this is a dumb question, but what difference does it make what's in the spec? People will pick the browser that plays the videos they want to see over the one that follows the spec every time.

pedanticfreak · 15 years ago

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/09/123_52401.h...

South Korea built vast infrastructure around IE6 and ActiveX. Just a year ago a full 60% of Korean traffic still came from IE6. Why? Because they relied heavily on features that were not in the spec that Microsoft deprecated and nobody else can or will implement.

An extreme example. But it highlights the importance of sticking to specs that can be freely implemented by anyone. Five years from now when MPEGLA decides to throw down the crap hammer do you want to have to keep around old Safari binaries just for sites that migrated to h264 while the rest of the web moved on?

pedanticfreak commented on Microsoft backs H.264. techcrunch.com/2011/02/02... · Posted by u/dansingerman

pedanticfreak · 15 years ago

Until the W3C officially adopts a royalty free codec as part of the HTML standard, Google and Mozilla should assume HTML video is dead. They might as well make the <video> tag inoperable by default. Just parse it and ignore it.

Of course, Google owns VP8. So they are pushing it so it might become a defacto standard that later gets officially adopted. Despite meeting the requirements to be part of the HTML spec, without the official backing of the W3C it is no different than any other out of spec extension to HTML.

pedanticfreak commented on Mozilla Chromeless: making desktop apps with web technologies mozillalabs.com/blog/2011... · Posted by u/fdb

pedanticfreak · 15 years ago

Is Mozilla intentionally trying to create market confusion? It isn't obvious from the name, but this is built on XULRunner and has no relation to Google Chrome.

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