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Good point - and to further your definition of dialectical - it is not simple opposition of two forces that leads to a 3rd path (I think that is often referred to as Aristotelian dialectic).

The critical theory dialectic you refer to is the ability to observe something in terms of its totality. The moment (for Hegel) that the totality is clear and apparent it begins to 'sublate' which in this context means simultaneously to negate and transcend.

In the preface to Hegels "Phenomenology Of Spirit" one example is the acorn.

It goes through a series of discrete steps of growth. It is hard to say the moment that it ceases to become an acorn and becomes something else. It goes through a process of negation (no longer an acorn) and transcends this to become an oak shoot and then a tree.

There is a moment i am sure - when the shell cracks and a series of small quantitative changes result in a qualitative change.

There was a time in which the highly educated 'saw' the totality. Samuel Johnson was reputed to have read all the available knowledge of his time. (I dont know how one could know this - but for the sake of argument I will take Ben Jonson's word). But it has been 200 years since anyone would even make that claim.

But Zinn was able to hold up a recognizable fragment in which we could get a glimpse of a total image for a brief moment.
Not that McGraw-Hill published Harry Potter (because they didn't) but could have you imagined how much a publisher would have flipped out if Steve Jobs had leaked the ending of the final Harry Potter books the day before it came out (had he known the contents)?

When I saw this guy on TV I was thinking, "What the hell is he thinking- there's no way Apple is sanctioning this"
Apple recently released the Gallery app, and released a new version with an authentication bug fix the next day. It's pretty safe to say that they don't have to resubmit apps for approval.
Wil Shipley responded to this very eloquently:

"As a creator, part of what I seek is recognition, immortality. I don’t work for Apple or Google (I’ve been offered jobs & buyouts) because I want the fame myself. It’s my shot at immortality. My designs are my children. So it stinks when I feel like Steve might get the fame for my innovation. I lose my children, as it were.

But your children aren’t really yours. They have lives of their own. So when your designs do change the world, you have to accept it. You have to say, ‘Ok, this was such a good idea, other people took it and ran with it. I win.’"

WIL SHIPLEY, DELICIOUS MONSTER
Related news: Apple now allows VOIP apps with the new iPhone / iPad SDK

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/apple-lifts-voip-over-cel...
A contradiction between which of those two word pairs ;)

Seriously though, if you think of Socialism as a group of ideas across different fields, you find a lot of diversity once you get to the applied level. You can get anarchy (the aforementioned social libertarians and others tend towards anarchism) or totalitarianism. Direct democracy or dictatorship.

Say you accept Marx's characterization of history as a struggle between classes, you are moved to rage by The Communist Manifesto,^ it describes the brutal no-nonsense history of civilization in a way that makes sense. There are lots of directions you can go from there. Obviously marx had some pretty specific applications which I read as leading to something not that far from bolshevism, but you don't have to agree with everything.

^I suggest that you read it. For most people, I suspect you'll quibble with bits and pieces that have since (it's been 150 years, after all) been subject to more trial and scrutiny. As a narrative, it is not without predictive power.
Like the first Apple, the iPad is a miracle of tightly integrated design, giving maximum power from minimum hardware. (e.g. custom A4 processor for 10 hours of HD playback.)

Web apps will be too slow.

Eventually, hardware will catch up, and less efficient but more modular designs will be fast enough (as with the first Apple).
Yeah, but I haven't changed them? Maybe FF is doing something weird since it's the US english firefox running on an Australian English user account but I wouldn't have thought I'm the only person in the world doing that. I suppose it's possible I'm the first to visit that page, though. 60k people isn't much really.
5 hours later, they dropped 7 basis points. Unreal.
Sure. Hopefully we will be able to see it in historical context by the 200 year anniversary of The Manifesto. As a model for describing history, its not hard to see the attraction to Marx. He was, after all, a very smart guy.
http://www.macmillan.com

Macmillan is not McGraw-Hill.
How does an alternative web browser confuse people? Has Firefox been taking market share from IE because it confuses people? No, it's because Microsoft got complacent, and let their browser rot, and some open-source hackers managed to produce a product that was better enough that even many non-technical people who barely know what a browser is run Firefox because it's faster and more secure.

And Apple is not immune to this sort of problem; there are alternative products that they forbid that really can improve the experience (for instance, better podcast clients, email clients that are optimized for Gmail, and the like). And given the quantity of software they have on the app store, and how crappy some of it is, it's not about quality control at all; it's about the fact that Apple simply wants control, and doesn't want any third-party developers getting too big or too powerful.

The point about LLVM is not about developing LLVM on an iPad. It's about the fact that you can't use such technology on the iPad. If I want to develop a product to run on the iPad, and that product would be greatly improved by containing a JIT or an interpreter, I cannot distribute that on the iPad; it is forbidden. And this means that there is less of a market for developing such things in general. If the hardware that the consumers have and use forbids me from selling them a product with an interpreter in it, then there's a lot less of a reason for me to produce that interpreter in the first place.

I write interactive educational multimedia software that's scripted in a dialect of Scheme. The iPad may be a great platform that we could port our software to; the screen is a perfect size for our type of content, it supports video, composited graphics and animation, and multitouch interaction could really improve some of our simulations. However, we cannot run our Scheme interpreter on the iPad. Writing a compiler would be prohibitively expensive for our small team, as would porting all of our content to JavaScript, the only interpreted language you are allowed to run on the iPhone/iPad. Apple is explicitly preventing me from porting the software I would like to the iPad.

But you don't hear as much about people like me, who simply turn away from the iPhone or iPad and don't develop software for it. You hear about the success stories; the people who made a quick buck selling a fart app for the iPhone. The only cases in which you do hear about people being turned away are cases in which people did make the initial investment, developed the software, and then were turned down; but because most people don't want to risk that, they never bother developing the software in the first place if they think there's a high chance that Apple will reject it.
and that somebody decided to underline articles related to that thing in red!
http://www.mhschool.com/
From the above url, its hard to tell if the companies are different.
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Theres also this quote that he tweeted earlier today, that I'm becoming partial to: If Delicious Library were just a pretty set of shelves, I’d be really pissed. But it’s a lot more, and very different from iBooks. - http://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/8290423381
Three Reasons Why the iPad WON’T Kill Amazon’s Kindle
I think Macmillan/McGraw-Hill was just a joint venture they have in elementary school textbooks. Macmillan is private, while McGraw is public, so I don't think either is owned by the other.
Yes. Who would possibly think of a bookshelf as a metaphor for your collection of books.
Heh, I have an experimental NPAPI plugin that I wrote myself, so my plugin profile isn't shared by anyone else.

Creepy that sites can query this info so easily, though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
What nobody talks about is the impact iPad could have on the data-entry / industrial market. I'm pretty certain that I'll be buying a bunch of the 16GB $499 iPads for my job (pharma manufacturing). Make a simple web-app for collecting data and the iPad replaces paper easier than any other 4x more expensive tablet. No need to setup or install software or custom apps: Safari + default onscreen keyboard works just fine.
Since everyone is pouncing on this with the same response, I'll just respond to myself and say Ok, I understand what he was trying to say now. Also, why is my question (followed by an if-so) being downmodded? I wasn't even being rude.
they own and control the hands-down best mobile CPU in the world.

Let's not get carried away. It's only fair to make that statement once Apple DOES cram the A4 into an iPhone and blows the competition out of the water. (I'm assuming that's the plan, but until then, the comparison implied by calling it a "mobile CPU" is a bit pointless).
Now that's mobile banking
A book reader using books on a bookshelf as a metaphor?

Phil Ryu is a master of marketing. Making a fuss about this is just another press opportunity.
It could also be due to http://www.google.com/history/optout?hl=en

I disabled this. It's appaling that it's on by default.
Recognizing that class distinctions exist in society is not the same as being communist.
No, they went for not buying it just like they didn't buy Konfabulator for Dashboard, and probably dozens of other examples.
That's only because apple won't let google release a mail client.
I agree with Yehuda that any good browser platform helps promote web apps, and HTML 5 makes this even better. One point of disagreement: I think that it is awful to not have a sandboxed Flash implementation so the device could access hulu.com, conference videos, etc. This rules out my wife and I buying one of these because I would not by a web browsing device that could not access quite a bit of web content.
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I wonder how much the decision not to have multitasking was influenced by the desire to have the ipad look fast?
There are hackable and customizable phones out there - the iPhone is not meant to be either. You knew this coming in. It's not like they lied to you.
I think the iPad will be successful but it will have more of an iPod success curve versus an iPhone out-of-the-gate smash hit curve. I believe there are some pieces that aren't in place yet. I think eventually, to hit the magic price point, Apple needs to find a way to subsidize the iPad without a cellular carrier. I suspect that will be in the form of an iTunes subscription program. Shave $100 off the cost to build it and subsidize it by $200 via an $8/month charge built into the subscription program. All you can eat books, movies, music and TV. $199 out the door. That's the point where everyone will want an iPad the same way the iPhone became hugely successful at the same price point. $499 is a very reasonable starting point for now. I think they'll easily sell 3-5 million of them this year. The last thought I have is that Apple's hype machine probably got a little ahead of themselves here. CNN had the iPad release as their Breaking News story for a couple hours today. That's probably a sign that your hype factor was impossibly high. That puts you firmly into backlash territory. I would expect to see another round of features/enhancements/deals shortly before it's release -- probably in conjunction with iPhone OS 4.
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I have no idea how John Gruber could possibly think he has a remotely informed opinion on what constitutes the "best mobile CPU in the world".
here is another one http://tejji.com/ip/my-ip-address.aspx
Huh. An interesting development in light of the locked down iPad announcement.

Are they going to allow Google Voice now, too?
I am a big fan of apple product and I don't wanna be rude to the author, mostly because I don't know much about him. But this post reminds me of a typical obnoxious apple fanboy.

"Its not only good, it awesome, super, duper good."

Lets not get carried away now. We know almost nothing about the processor. We don't know how it will compare against a similar range intel processor. We don't know how much the ipad OS (which obviously isn't _exactly_ the same as iphone OS) was optimized for this processor.

Most importantly we can only speculate about apple's _real_ reason for going into chip making business, it might not be because they have a better product - but in the long run it might be cheaper for them to make their own.
Well, there's a few problems. Gore didn't actually use the Mann hockey stick that is presented, although the hockey stick in 'An Inconvenient Truth' is very simliar (in that it omits the Medieval Warming Period)

Those commenting on the start date fail to realise that the start date of the data set he uses is 1929. You can't blame the author for that.

The fact that it's part of the 'head' or 'blade' of the stick is irrelevant, all of the 'handle' is based on multi-proxy reconstruction, which has major data problems, as the endless to-and-fro on this issue says. One of the major problems highlighted has been the use of tree-rings as a proxy, and the tree rings do not agree with the instrumental record. This is the famous 'hide the decline', where the authors sought out statistical methods (the trick) in order to splice the tree ring proxies with the instrumental records, which they really shouldn't have done.

The field of coming up with global averages from temperature datasets is so complex I won't even try and make a comment on that. Plus I don't know any clojure.
Maybe I can find some nerdy angle and write a blogpost that I would feel good about submitting :-)
Propriety (n.) - The quality of being socially or morally acceptable.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Because we all know how much more comfortable it is to stare at e-ink than at a backlit LCD for hours on end? Also, battery life.
It'll be interesting to see the uses people come up with, but so far I'm not terribly impressed.
No one's denying that NFL players train heavily throughout the year. But their games are pretty short on action. Pretty similar to your powerlifter comparison, actually.
Indeed, mine as well.
"... Steve has a reality distortion field.' 'A what?' 'A reality distortion field. In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.' ..."

Gruber needs some grounding against the "Reality Distortion Field" ~ http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
Great article on the literal orchestration of the camera shots/angles in a Monday Night Football program:

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/17/sports/inside-monday-night...
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/macmillanmcgraw-hill

looks like macmillan and mcgraw-hill are the same companies.
throw_away mentioned the joint venture, but its easiest to see the difference if you look at Macmillan's logo (nowhere to be found at mhschool.com), and maybe more importantly, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill's titles, which are all educational, and not quite what you'd expect from one of the big 5 advertised at today's Stevenote.

In fact, the joint venture ended awhile ago. Some context:

[In] 1989, McGraw-Hill entered into a 50/50 joint venture
with Macmillan, combining the elementary, secondary, and
vocational education businesses of both companies[...]

[...] In 1993, the company bought out Macmillan's half of
the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Company[...]

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-mcgraw-hill-companies-inc
iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
n articles about Apple, followed by 2n articles not about Apple, with n = 0, 1, 2, 3 (Well, we can't say for sure about n=3)
The iPad: Sounds Cheap and Insincere
They're not ;) See below, or,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1083043
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that's not going to happen.
Hear that sound? It's me, playing on my Wii, not caring about the name of things after the first month.
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As I was tracking the press conference on the live blogs I had the same thoughts as you did.

One of my larger clients is a factory setting using a custom built web app for, among many things, inventory control. When it comes time to do physical hard counts we've been stuck using crappy Dell laptops and pads of legal paper. The 16 gig iPad is perfectly priced and seems more than capable of handling our web app. I'm pretty excited about the possibilities for the iPad in industrial/factory settings.
Bruce Schneier has talked about how to securely get your laptop across the border on his blog:

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The author is way off base carping about the CPU. It's the fastest CPU on a mobile device because it's likely a 3-issue ARM11-derived CPU with out-of-order execution: that means PA Semi (now part of Apple) has designed a chip based on the Cortex A9 or started with an ARM11 and tacked on similar features, like Qualcomm did with the Snapdragon (in the Nexus One) instead of opting for an Cortex A8-derived core.

When the Tegra2 and OMAP4 (Cortex-A9 derived ARM CPUs)start shipping in bulk the playing field is going to be leveled: now everyones got access to a 3-issue OOOE ARM11. Only these will (optionally) be multi-core, something Apple probably isn't interested in as it's not doing multitasking.
"[I]ts similarities ... are beyond the realm of coincidence."

Though certainly far from their most avid reader, I must say I generally enjoy reading Wired's content quite a bit. That gem right there, however, made me want to throw up.

Is anyone familiar enough with Wired's writers to declare this an isolated incident? Maybe then the nasty taste in my throat would go away, and I wouldn't have to worry about coming across this level of obvious dickishness in their articles were I to start reading them more regularly.

"The 3D page-flipping effect looks almost exactly the same." How many ways are there to animate a flipping book page? It's not like we're talking about tons of different moving parts. There's like...one.
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Yes, this does seem to be a violation of the NDA.
I'm in Harbin, but location has little to do with it since this pertains more to cyberspace than meatspace. The pro-Google sentiment I refer to in the beginning was coming from mostly Western blogs and social news sites. For a Chinese netizen perspective, chinaSMACK translates comments from popular BBSes here (though I don't know about authenticity/bias - my Chinese isn't that good yet). Here's an example regarding the Google announcement: http://www.chinasmack.com/stories/google-threatens-leaving-c....

It's difficult for me to gauge the Chinese reaction on my own, though. A handful of translated comments or an online poll don't amount to anything, really. Doubly so once you're aware of the "50-cent gangsters" who are paid to astroturf online (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party and http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20091221_1.htm). The best resource I have are my adult students who spend the time online and can give me their impressions. So far, their responses have been to the tune of: "If Google leaves, what am I going to do!? I use GMail and many other services, and the search engine is better than Baidu for finding information in English. It's a critical part of my work!"

It should be noted that all of them (university-level and older) are aware of the censorship, they just have differing ideas on its necessity.

Do they feel like the West is unfairly criticizing China?
The Party loves playing the victim, probably because Western media affords them ample opportunity. What better way to unify the Chinese and distract them from a growing number of domestic problems than an enormous external enemy? But it's probably not always the direct work of the government - the Chinese are culturally cohesive, where the group is more important than the individual. Nationalism and its ilk pop up so often in the discussions here with students, it's frightening. (I used to live in Japan before coming here, and naturally it comes up when meeting new people. Actually having to try and reassure some people that modern Japan does not want to invade China and enslave them is unreal.)

Honestly, it's tough to say if such anti-Western reactions are genuine (thought out and justified) or just an internalized defensive mechanism.
Is there a reason they can't input on the iPhone/iPod Touch? It seems like the iPad (or frankly, any tablet) would be tough to enter data in unless you're sitting down.
as an owner of 2 OLPC laptops, I submit that it is not the model of usability and maintenance you seek.
Why not just sell this device as the next generation iMac?

Because it has a 1GHz single core CPU which is far slower than any other computer Apple sells, with an architecture that most likely won't run any existing programs.
why this and not one of the other significantly cheaper linux/arm tablets?

if nothing else they would be less likely to grow a pair of legs.
You are absolutely correct but you picked the wrong venue to express this view, hence downvoting.

From a purely technical perspective web platform is approaching DOS circa 1990 accelerated by sheer amounts of open source libraries available today. But it still provides pretty much DOS experience albeit on a high-res screen.

I am not sure it's a bad thing though: when you give developers absolute freedom over your hardware they will quickly turn your PC into a typical popup-ridden WinXP box with tray area half-screen wide :)
We did our full physical inventory using MC70s http://www.barcodesinc.com/symbol/mc70.htm last month and had absolutely no problems. I bought a total of twelve Wifi MC70s at a cost of $1600 each. I would have absolutely no problem buying 20 iPads if they can replace the mountains of paperwork that need to be filled in manually for every single production run of a pharma product. I would have bought a CrunchPad for $300-ish but I'm willing to pay more for iPad because of the battery life and quality. Now I just need to find cheap barcode scanners that plug into the 30pin instead of USB.
For $199 (clean, no subscription) it might be worth having on the coffee table. I guess I can give it a few revs like I did the iPhone.
Apple's approval process might not be /that bad/ if you are lucky or if you are writing a fairly average app that doesn't do much or doesn't do anything Apple cares about at least, But it sure is stinky if you're among the 0.10% that Apple has beef with for some reason or another. Then you're looking at lots of wasted time, effort and of course money.
And of course you can't know for sure if you'll be in that minority until after you have already spent the resources to develop the app in the first place.
My wife absolutely loved the iPad so much she wants me to buy her 2. one for her and one for her brother. (and maybe one for me if i'm nice to her)

This thing is going to be huge.
FDA forms are complex: http://www.devicelink.com/mddi/archive/00/01/0001d76b.gif

Much easier to have a large 1024x768 screen than try to fit everything in a tiny 480x320.
Gruber, the author is the alpha dog of mac fanboys.

He sets the tone for the rest of the tribe. He is very good in what he does.

What you see may be the remnants of the reality distortion field he was exposed to today ;)