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Re: Intel sales show pockets of demand amid PC sales slump - Oct. 19, 2011

Frederic Lardinois — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:44:50 -0000

Ivy Bridge is 22nm, not 32 as the article states.

Re: AP Stylebook has new Food Guidelines section

Frederic Lardinois — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:26:08 -0000

That's for the complete style guide - not just the food section.

Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Frederic Lardinois — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:04:56 -0000

Sure thing. Happy to check later tonight if nobody else gets to check before.

Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Frederic Lardinois — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:54:56 -0000

Thanks - your're right. Easy to turn on again. Default seems to be 'off'
though.

Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Frederic Lardinois — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:41:04 -0000

Yes - could definitely be a bug or hint at major changes to the dock in the
beta (which would make paying a lot of attention in developing the dock a
waste of Apple's resources right now and explain an obvious bug that wasn't
fixed)

Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Frederic Lardinois — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:52:45 -0000

Yes. If you turn on the Cover Flow-like view and sort by kind, you get this weird kind of spacing. Not really an issue otherwise, though, and you probably don't want to use the Finder in this mode anyway.

Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Frederic Lardinois — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:50:20 -0000

Thanks for the update. I missed that in the System Preferences. Updated the post to reflect that.

Re: iOS on the Desktop: Hands-On With the OS X 10.7 Lion Preview

Frederic Lardinois — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:49:50 -0000

No problem - I uploaded a screenshot of the OpenGL Extension Viewer. The GPU on the Macbook is an old NVIDIA 9400M with 256MB.

https://skitch.com/frederic...

Re: Is Apple Getting Too Greedy? Demands 30% Cut of In-App Subscriptions

Frederic Lardinois — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:09:07 -0000

Fixed - thanks!

Re: Yesterday: Voice of America. Today: A Twitter Feed

Frederic Lardinois — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:38:33 -0000

That's what working together for all of those years will do :)

The VoA just feels like a natural comparison, given that their mission is very much the same.

Re: Google Rolls Out Optional 2-Step Authentication For All: Secure but Frustrating

Frederic Lardinois — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:39:04 -0000

I can handle it, but are regular users going to bother?

Re: Google’s Logo Dives 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (with Accelerometer Support)

Frederic Lardinois — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:33:32 -0000

Not right now, as far as I can see. I would guess it'll show up on http://www.google.com/logos/ sooner or later, though.

Re: iPhone App Fragmentation FUD Is Looming

Frederic Lardinois — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:54:48 -0000

I'm guessing the issue is indeed with carrier billing. If there were real differences between the two phones that lead to incompatibilities, we would have heard about that a long time ago. Chances are, iOS shields developers from those differences anyway. Nothing but FUD as far as I can see.

Re: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 Coming This Year: Shipping Updates in Small Bundles

Frederic Lardinois — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:23:07 -0000

Good point. A lot of this is about perception - but a faster release schedule will be a boon for all of us, too.

Re: Why You Shouldn’t Trust the uSamp Verizon iPhone Survey

Frederic Lardinois — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:26:35 -0000

Ah yes - you're right. Sorry. Was thinking about another post. I stand by that.

Re: Why You Shouldn’t Trust the uSamp Verizon iPhone Survey

Frederic Lardinois — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:56:54 -0000

In the long run, I totally agree. Lots of people will switch But uSamp's data says all these people will line up on day one. That doesn't feel right. That would be more AT&T users lining up for the VZ iPhone than people who lined up for the iPhone 4 launch...

Re: Why You Shouldn’t Trust the uSamp Verizon iPhone Survey

Frederic Lardinois — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:27:57 -0000

Well, a few thoughts:

a) I didn't say that I think ChangeWave is notoriously unreliable - I said surveys that ask consumers for future purchase decisions are unreliable for the reasons mentioned in that post and here.

b) re: 700+1 opinions: my opinion about the VZ iPhone isn't relevant here and plays no role in this post at all. No hunch involved.

c) I think I explain how uSamp gets it's data and why I don't trust it.

Re: After Fast Start, iPad Now Only Accounts for Quarter of Wired’s Sales

Frederic Lardinois — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:09:28 -0000

Mir - subscriptions for the iPad are a sore topic for publishers. The Daily, which launched earlier this week, is the first publication to support in-app subscriptions. Chances are others, including the Conde Nast iPad apps, will soon offer the same feature. As of now, you can't subscribe to Wired on the iPad and you have to buy single issues instead.

Hope that clarifies things - should have mentioned that in the post.

Re: Apple’s Mac App Store: First Impressions

Frederic Lardinois — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:35:40 -0000

Thanks Edwin - indeed. You need to install the 10.6.6 update and it'll just put the icon right on your dock.

Re: Apple’s Mac App Store: First Impressions

Frederic Lardinois — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:35:15 -0000

True - but if an app costs $50, I would rather give it a try to see if it fits my particular needs.

Re: All Good Things Have to Come to an End: I’m Leaving ReadWriteWeb

Frederic Lardinois — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:05:39 -0000

Thanks Autom - that's a good way of looking at it. Always appreciate your support!

Re: All Good Things Have to Come to an End: I’m Leaving ReadWriteWeb

Frederic Lardinois — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:47:03 -0000

you can always try :)

Re: All Good Things Have to Come to an End: I’m Leaving ReadWriteWeb

Frederic Lardinois — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:45:57 -0000

Thanks Marshall - we might just run into each other more often now than before :)

Re: All Good Things Have to Come to an End: I’m Leaving ReadWriteWeb

Frederic Lardinois — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:44:18 -0000

Thanks for those kind words Caroline - much appreciated!

Re: All Good Things Have to Come to an End: I’m Leaving ReadWriteWeb

Frederic Lardinois — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:36:35 -0000

Thanks John!