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Oh I do get the theory. I just don't think that's how it is likely to play out in the majority of cases.

Look at current advertising, it doesn't generally help you find the best product that suits your needs, instead it shouts at you that for a small fee you can learn the simple secret to perfectly white teeth.

In your above example no company could legally say that it is making pervert x-ray vision goggles. So what happens is the company with the best marketing strategy (and probably useless non-xray goggles) devises a campaign which alludes to the non-existent x-ray properties of their useless goggles. Google helps them target it at you and do so JUST as that cute neighbor next door is raking up the leaves in her annoyingly baggy gardening wear and BAM you're buying some junk which doesn't fulfill your need.

No doubt in some cases consumers will be provided with a product which fulfills their needs via googles adverts, but generally they will get worse value for money and I suspect they'll also get worse products.
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I didn't say Actionscript was faster, did I? If you took it that way, allow me to clarify: I meant to say they improved the language, and that the JIT is faster than the chrome JIT.
Looks good, doesn't actually look like it was using any of the most common differences ('u' ala 'colour' and 's' instead of 'z', like analyse).

I probably wouldn't bother mentioning the US/Canada residents having MyTopoo maps in the AU version though, the Cloudmade maps should be emphasized with the MyTopoo being an afterthought.
The lack of a fallback does seem to be the biggest issue. On the iPhone, it doesn't really matter, since none of the flash-based UIs would be usable on it anyways, so a separate version would still need to be developed. The iPad can afford somewhat PC-like interaction, so sites like Hulu could work if there was a flash plugin.

What reassures me that Flash is on it's way down is the way web technologies have advanced and been adopted despite IE's dominance and Microsoft's reluctance to properly implement CSS and other newer web features. When Firefox hit the scene, IE was far more dominant than Flash is now, and yet it managed to fight its way into the mainstream. Web sites are now written to follow the standards everywhere that it's convenient, and CSS and JS hacks are used to make it work in IE.

Sure, iPad users won't be as forgiving of broken sites as Firefox early adopters were, but their collective voice will be far more influential than the small band of rebels that broke the IE monopoly.
I'd love to find a generalist who can try to find cool, scalable ways to help a rapidly growing, profitable company get really reliable, efficient, and secure. We're located right on Union Square in New York, and we specialize in the profitable parts of the music industry.

Oh, and this would be a paid, full-time job, not an internship.
You should come to a Tucson Startup Drinks get together.

It's a combination of small business and startup business owners and employees in the Tucson area. There also tends to be a lot of like-minded students in attendance.

The google group is much more active than the website.

http://tucson.startupdrinks.com/
The iPad is the future of computing for the masses
Yeah, she she's spent a lot of time on setting it up to work (mostly) without a keyboard -- She says Quickscript is really good (but has some bugs). I want to play with it more myself, but it's one of those "you can have it when you pry it from my cold dead fingers" kinda deals.
Unexpectedly low iPad price forces re-evaluation of tablet PC strategies
There's always the status quo - that the majority of content producers will simply continue to make content using Flash that the iPhone and iPad can't access, and users mostly live with it with the occasional grumble, while the bigger providers will largely create dedicated applications to work-around the issue (and that isn't going to kill Flash).

Let's get some perspective here. The iPhone currently represents around 0.45% of all web browsing (citation: http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/net_applicatio...). The iPhone's dent in Flash's market share represents at most a drop from 99% to 98%. For the iPhone and iPad to get the marketshare of Opera, this usage would need to triple. Would you radically redesign how your site works for Opera users? Developers do follow what their users have, but little has changed and users still have Flash.

To make matters worse, there's no drop-in replacement. For the most common use-case of audio and video, we're in standards hell -- Firefox and Internet Explorer make up over 80% of web browsers on the Internet between them, and Mozilla aren't going to support the H.264 video tag and Microsoft are unlikely to support it in IE either. And in many other cases, websites are using Flash to do things they simply can't do in HTML (or even HTML5), whether DRM, streaming video, or something vastly more complicated.
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hello im in the process of designing CRM application something for small businesses
i didnt understand what does it mean in section 6 :
"It should be possible to make interactions with customers much higher-res" ?
in other words how to make my CRM more attractive then others ?
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Not sure why you're being downvoted, because you're right.

Adobe feels like that for the same reason: you get an annoying swagger when you own a monopoly.

Adobe owns "rich content" on the web. And just like Microsoft, they also know what a pain technology transitions are. No company wants to support a flash version and an HTML5 version of their site/product/app. And just like Microsoft, they'll start to advertise how all the fun stuff runs on their platform instead of building new stuff.

Realistically, flash is here to stay at least until IE supports HTML5 and achieves a critical mass. Until then, Adobe can give the finger to everyone and maintain control no matter how hard developers or competitors whine. Feels very familiar indeed.
Not allowing third parties access to your walled garden is hardly in the same ballpark of possible evil as having access to all of your personal communications. In the worst case of Apple being evil, you can't run Bob's cool software without buying another (non-Apple) device. The worst case of Google being evil is that you go to jail (or worse depending on where you live). And yes, people have gone to jail based on searching Google [1][2].

Please keep some perspective.

[1 | http://www.slaw.ca/2005/11/14/google-searches-used-in-eviden... ]

[2 | http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/26/wireless_hacker_plea.ht... ]

ADDENDUM: Yes, the evidence in these cases was not provided by Google. No, that does not discredit my statement. The point is that the business Google is in has far more capacity for "evil" than the business Apple is in. Some comments have pointed out that Apple could have backdoors in their software that would allow them to be equally evil. While that is technically possible it would be easily detectable using network monitoring tools, and no one has found one. On the other hand, we have no idea how Google uses the data they have on us. They claim to play nice, but there is no way that anyone could verify this, and it could change retro-actively at any moment.
I'm a native spanish speaker. This translation looks perfect to me, with a very minor exception; "agregarlo" sounds more like south-american spanish. We would rather say "agregarle" in Spain, even though both ways would be understood.
We're in Mountain View (SF Bay Area) looking for Rails/JRuby/Java coders, preferably folks who are okay with all three. I got hired with just Rails experience, so you might too if you're good :-)

If you've played with JRuby and have strong opinions on how Ruby and Java should integrate, that'd be a big plus.

This is usually a full-time job, with no problem with entry-level folk. But I'll bet we'd be happy to have an intern as well. I'll ask the guys at work :-)

It's a small programming team (about 8 full-time), but a very stable non-startup company. You won't get rich, but you'll have a lot of say in what we're doing.
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I assume the complaint is that there's not sufficient processor-assisted memory protection? In your opinion, which modules tend to interfere with other modules in today's OSs in a way that would be improved by this?
Well if the comapny advertising outright lies, that's a whole different issue. I'm just saying that there is a model for advertising where it's win win for both parties, and I think it's google's goal to achieve that.

A lot of advertising is inefficient but if you stop thinking about advertising in it's current form you can see how a more efficint system can serve a beneficial place in society.
Thanks for the comment. Another thing you might be able to answer... do you think it is important I have this translated specifically for Mexican Spanish as well?
Will your payment system be less complicated than the anti-spam system would have been?
Yeah, I noticed it didn't look very British. I guess you win some and you lose some on Mechanical Turk.

Would you be willing to make it right and add the u's and such?
I agree and would predict that in the future all of Apple's computers will be touch screens. They've already done away with the mouse buttons on their laptops to get a bigger touchpad, and it seems like the next evolution of that is a full touch screen. Maybe they will truly become like phones and we will have iPads with slide out keyboards for the people who need to type a lot (kind of like the Lenovo hybrid).
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I guess we'll have to wait and see on the software for the slate part. It looks pretty rough, right now.

I can't imagine this will be the future of laptops.
I mean it doesn't look like it was actually using any of the differently spelled words, it looks right now.
Drop this one! It's very, very poorly translated, probably by a automated service. I see flaws a bit everywhere. Any native french speaker can confirm this.
I know you're thinking machine code must be better than byte-code, but that doesn't do any good, quite the opposite.

With byte-code you can compile sections of code to machine-code, based on runtime profiling / type-inference (as the JVM does). With ahead-of-time compiling to machine code, you're probably going to end up with a serialization of the PHP code in the final executable, plus an interpreter :)
Our company's bread and butter are Flash-based portfolio sites (and a good amount of bread, I might add).

But I don't want Flash on the iPhone OS. I remember looking at one of our sites on my old Dell Axim—it sucked.

I'm already working on new, non-Flash offerings and they're going to sell well (I think). I can do almost everything my clients want now w/o Flash—once HTML 5 is fully supported, everything.

Like Gruber said, I don't care about Adobe, I care about me and my clients.
I'm currently a senior math major at Emory College, looking for an interesting entry-level job or an internship with the possibility of being hired afterwards. I've taught myself C, Python, ObjC, and Mathematica; I'm very fond of learning new things and I don't mind teaching myself when I need to. I want to do something new and challenging. I don't mind moving to another location. My e-mail address is in my profile.
As a home coffee roaster myself (including building my own roaster) I'm guessing that experimenting programatically with roast times would cause the smoke alarm to go off regularly.

I guess you could hope that later generations get better at this, but there's always the risk of a 5 alarm mutation ;-)
Do you think the following is better, and could I use this for both French and Canadian French?

Gaia GPS

Gaia GPS transforme ton iPhone en un appareil GPS multi-fonctions.

Utilise Gaia GPS pendant pour tes randonnées, tes sorties en vélo, quand tu fais du snow board ou du ski, en conduisant, quand tu fais du jogging, en faisant de la voile, et autres activités d'extérieur.

* Enregistre les routes et points de navigation et prends des photos géo-taggées.

* Lis les cartes routièrse et topographiques. Utilise les cartes MyTopoo aux Etats-Unis/Canada, et les cartes Cloudmade dans le reste du monde.

* Télécharge les cartes sur ton iPhone pour quand tu n'as pas de connexion internet.

* Affiche ta vitesse, la distance parcourue et d'autres statistiques de navigation.

* Recherche des lieux d'intérêts et ajoute de nouveaux.

* Importe et exporte des fichiers GPX, par email ou avec EveryTrail.com.

N'hésite pas à nous contacter avec tes questions, rapports de bug, idées de fonctionnalités et autres retours d'expérience à gaia@gaiagps.com. Écris nous en anglais de préférence, mais nous pouvons aussi comprendre l'Allemand et l'Espagnol.

Si tu es fan de GPS, nous serions contents de t'ajouter à notre groupe de beta-testing. Les beta-testers ont accès aux nouvelles versions et les testent avant qu'elles soient publiées dans l'App Store, et aident à aiguiller le développement de Gaia GPS.

_________________________________________

IMPORTANT - IPOD TOUCH ET LES IPHONES 1ERE GENERATION

Cette application ne sera pas complètement opérationelle sur ces appareils. L'enregistreur GPS et le compas seront inactifs. Tu pourras voir les cartes et les routes, mais tu ne pourras pas enregistrer de nouvelles routes, ou prendre de photos

Cette application n'a pas été testée sur les iPhones de première génération et fonctionnera plus lentement.

KEYWORDS

GPS, cartes, topo, cartes topo, cartes hors-ligne, GPS hors-ligne, chemins, randonnée, jogging, vélo de montagne, geocaching
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Pay attention. I certainly wouldn't yell but if you got the order wrong because you didn't understand what I was saying I would ask for the proper order. Even if the wording was redundant the message was clear that the person wants black coffee - you were too spaced out to put the information together.
I agree that Google's scope of possible evil is much more significant. But this is really all about perception, not reality. What Steve Jobs says at an internal Apple employee meeting isn't going to truly change Apple, but it may change how the employees view their company.
I am not a marketer, but it might make sense to locally tune the text for your south-american customers. Expect little changes, even none at all. Any mexican, argentinian, peruvian, etc. readers out there to verify?
Interesting. I wonder how well that has worked out in practice.

Seems to me like any designer smart enough to get comfortable with Django's templating language probably wouldn't have any trouble getting comfortable with Python itself!

It's not like you'd ever do anything particularly complicated (programming wise) from within your templates anyway.
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According to the article Jobs is quoted saying: “Make no mistake they [Google] want to kill the iPhone”.

What motivation would Google have for this? Considering the apps and services they offer on the iPhone, including iPhone optimized versions of their web applications, this conclusion seems rather strange.
Calling bullshit on that tablet. Why would I want two separate OS's in the same device?

In that test, you could see the display lagging terribly in the touch drag. And also the UI is completely horrible. As @austinshea says, its pretty rough. In fact, it looks like a caveman built it.
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The dual-OS thing feels like a kludge, albeit possibly a necessary one for many people. But I think I'd be perfectly content with Linux running on the whole thing, and no need for multiple CPUs and all the requisite extra crud. But, I'm a weirdo that thinks Linux makes an excellent OS for day-to-day computing.
It feels to me that the problem isn't so much the the total cognitive load/friction of a user interface, but the kind of thinking an interface demands. In order for an interface composed of high-level abstractions to be something that we can tinker with, it has to be a system that follows logical rules that can be easily inferred, and those rules have to be Turing-complete. Once you have formed an accurate mental model of the software, you can use it very efficiently with a low cognitive load.

But ordinary, everyday people don't want to infer how a system works. They don't want to think scientifically, and they won't invest any effort in building a mental model of how the device really works. Instead, they want the device to conform to the mental model they cobble together on the fly - logical consistency be damned. They have no curiosity to learn how to fully use the tool (or else what little curiosity they have is overwhelmed by the frustrations of the software violating their expectations). If they did, they would be programmers, because anybody who understands how computers work will end up using that knowledge to make it do something new. (The power and possibilities of a programmable machine are irresistible to anybody who actually comprehends it, but first you have to overcome the initial task of understanding how the machine computes. And to continue as a programmer, you have to tolerate the frustrations of the leaky abstractions.)

If you want a user interface that can be used without any scientific thinking, you have to restrict it to a finite set of capabilities so that you can anticipate what the user will try to do. But at that point it is no longer really a computer: it's a shiny toolbox. You can't make new tools with it; you have to buy them at the App Store.

The problem of users being unwilling to think analytically isn't one that Apple can overcome. I doubt that any for-profit corporation can do anything about it, because it is a broad cultural and generational problem. Computers haven't been around long enough for us to know how well the general population will eventually adapt to using them, but it's a sure thing that without true AI, people have to adapt their ways of thinking in order to use the full power of computers. Until then, people will keep wondering why we programmers can't manage to give their Photoshop an "enhance" button that works like the ones they see on TV.
What's the point of this beyond novelty? I could understand if it was running the same OS that stayed in sync, but having 2 OS's seems like way more trouble than it's worth. It basically becomes a different computer when you dock/undock. Personally I'd prefer a powerful 15" laptop and then a smaller, more portable tablet.
You don't think Apple has access to that kind of info on people? Have you heard of MobileMe? There's plenty of opportunity for Apple to do the same works.

They may not have data on as many people, but it's just the nature of their business. I think that Google has a pretty decent track record with that kind of thing.

In both of the examples you posted, the evidence was [probably, in the last case; the article is ambiguous] retrieved from the accused's computer's history and/or cache, not Google itself.
The way I see it, he's blowing off some steam around friends. The man is peerless (and has yet to name a successor), and has his '60s ideals at heart. He is right to call a slogan like "Don't be evil" bullshit when it comes from an ambitious public company that makes all of their money selling ads (targeted by mining collected private data) on a "free" service. "Organizing the world's data," is appropriate, but no company can say honestly say "Don't be evil." At least with Apple you know what you're getting, and you know what it costs.
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Once you add in the multitouch, accelerometer, and processors powerful enough to smoothly present the UI at the higher resolution, you don't have enough left in your budget (or the physical enclosure!) for a battery big enough make the device not suck. Instead of compromising on battery life, Apple chose to simplify the device down to something that $500 of hardware can actually do for 10 hours.
its about 4-5 times slower.

Really? In what actual benchmarks, real world situations?
"Agregarle" it's the correct word for it (both es_es & es_la).

"Agregarlo" would be correct if you are referencing an object (it's a 'loísmo', using -lo instead of -le when referencing people).

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Also, in Spain we refer to 'snowboarding' just as 'snowboard' (for the snowboard itself and for the activity)
I'm not saying that Apple wasn't successful. Just like they have become the "mind share" (RIM still has the market share) leader in the phone market, they ruled the personal computer market before the PC clones and Windows 95.

I can see how they had some success during their time with 3rd-party hardware vendors but that was short lived never truly made a big challenge vs. the Win/PC market. Also, this was during the non-Steve Apple and we can be sure that he won't be opening up any Mac OS to third parties because he wants to keep that control.

I'm saying that if you look at the entire time period from when Apple had a 90% PC market share to it's less than 10% and compare that to entire Win/PC market you have to say that a system that is open to 3rd parties is more successful than one which is locked down.

The iPhone and iPad will probably be better products than any Android powered device but that doesn't matter because history shows that a closed strategy isn't successful in the long run.
Worse yet this is the thing Paul Thurrott said would make Apple's tablet look silly (before it was even announced)[1]. That interface lags a full inch behind Jim's finger, you can bet Apple would never demo, let alone ship, something that laggy. I don't understand why people feel the need to make outlandish predictions for their product of choice.

[1]http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2010/01...
I agree especially with the aspect of once you grasp the underlying truth of what the thing really is, you can't resist embracing it and making it a part of you. It almost sounds like a choice between ignorance and enlightenment, but history tells how rare the latter and how common the former. Perhaps the entire endeavour is simply not conducive to normal human psychology.

If we are to assume that this is the case, is the ultimate result something of a guarantee of a class of professional developers marketing their wares to an ADHD afflicted mass of semi sapient, sycophantic, glad-handling humanity?

I want another path, I know wanting something doesn't make it real, but I can't help it on this one I don't think.
But the vast majority of flash games are useless on the iPhone and iPad, because they expect input mechanisms that those devices don't have. Though there's probably less variety, native games clearly provide a better experience because they are designed for the hardware.
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Except you don't run Java code, you run JVM byte code, and there are an increasing number of entertaining ways to do that without writing any Java.

The prospect of writing iStuff apps using Scala, Clojure (and one day I hope [J]Ruby) should be awfully appealing to innovative hobbyists, perhaps more so than using ObjC
The ideas on that list are intentionally only half of an idea. I believe it means they want to see more kinds of things for a CRM to do, not just sending email templates and logging notes.
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That's an interesting analogy and I agree with it, but I think the gaming market is more of a niche compared to the general PC and mobile market.