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While this is an interesting hack it seems like a very strange approach to the problem at hand.

If you don't care how often your function runs then why not just rely on the system clock and maintain a "lastrun"-variable?
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because that would violate his 'stateless' requirement
I have a hard time believing that Amazon is not greatly in the wrong here. Perhaps there are details yet to be revealed, but to me it looks very much like Amazon is abusing its power trying to make a point. Regardless of its goals, that's just not kosher. If I go into a bookstore and find that suddenly a huge swath of books have been removed from the shelves due to some retarded corporate back room strategery that will almost certainly be the last time I visit that bookstore. Amazon is treading dangerous ground here in its seeming wanton disrespect for both books and its customers.

I hope I am mistaken or that they will remedy the situation in a way that alleviates my concerns but I fear that I may be forced to stop giving Amazon my business in order to maintain a clear conscience.
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I have to disagree on this one. Everyone I know with a Xbox 360 has them in their livingroom, hooked up to a big-ass HDTV.

Ofcourse you can attribute that to my age, and the fact that I don't know too many teenagers, but for the teens in my family, if they are gamers at all, what they have is a PC in their bedroom. Console-gaming is if not exclusively at least largely a social thing, and thus makes more sense to have in a room made for socializing.

While my argument isn't backed by solid data and mostly relies on my own experiences, you can't really claim yours is any better either.

As for as the Xbox 360 goes right now it is a massive success. It is one of the top three consoles in a market where there used to only be two. That's big achievement in itself.
There's the FlashBlock extension, it's a bit primitive yet but still seemingly useful:

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In most browsers you wouldn't know if it was Flash that crashed or the browser itself. In Chrome it is more explicit.
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I don't think it's fair to say that the Hulu developers "picked" flash. The number of technologies suitable for displaying video on the web in a reasonable way (pre-html5) is extremely limited, flash is pretty much the only game in town. Vimeo, youtube, break, etc, they all use flash. Now HTML5 is at least a reasonable alternative for a small fraction of web users but still Flash is the only reasonable option for video on the web today.
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Launching a mobile operating system seems very different from launching an iPhone. Possibly the time was just right? People forget that there where mobile phones before the iPhone, and programmable ones, too. You could even buy "apps" for them.

What changed is the viability of mobile internet. It's only recently that it has become fast enough and affordable enough. Why should Apple be the only company inspired by these new possibilities?
Seems to me that Macmillan threatened to play hardball (see "extensive and deep windowing of titles": i.e. we will forbid you to sell our books on your Kindle until after your competitors have sold them to your customers) and Amazon decided Macmillan deserved an object demonstration of who needs whom in this relationship.
Most iPhone users who are also blogging are tech freaks, who suck up every word Apple lets out. So they know every trick for using the iPhone.

Recently a non-geek friend of mine bought an iPhone. She already had if for over a week when I met her and finally showed her how to zoom...

Not saying the iPhone interface isn't great, but it is still not problem free.

Also, doing specific things might require using iTunes (to buy the required apps), and the iTunes interface is definitely not great.
True, I should've had my coffee first.
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I find the rush to judgment on whether the iPad is or is not a success to be wildly premature. We won't really be able to tell until it's been shipping for at least 6 months.
From my understanding of the issue, a scripting language was once a small language with one purpose which quickly expanded to fill all possible needs (e.g. Perl).

By this definition C isn't a scripting language, as it was small and stood that way.
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You have a point - but bear in mind that "corporate back room strategery" in this case involves Macmillan trying to raise prices by 50% for consumers. This isn't David vs. Goliath.

In a serious PR war, I don't see how MacMillan can win this one.
you can do that with python generators, too. These don't seem like the most eccentric Haskell features to me.
Every time i see a page with flash on it i think,

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Nothing keeps you from installing your favourite OS on it. And I do not see why they would not provide an option to simply "add" the keyboard to the currently running tablet OS if you plug it it.
No, your analogy isn't right. Or rather, using your analogy, no one is being prevented from competing with Apple either, all you need to do is build your own wildly successful gadget with AppStore. Easy!

No, a better analogy would be to look at how Google restricts use of their APIs. I remember a couple of years ago, I wanted to geo-code a couple of hundred addresses of handicapped parking spaces in Paris for a handicapped friend. Google's terms of service required me to pay money for this access, because a couple of hundred hits, run over a few minutes, was considered commercial use of their service. I didn't have an automatic right to use Google's service in an innovative way. And indeed, I tried it anyhow, just to see how they reacted, the server stopped responding after the first 50 or so hits.

Both companies are very restrictive in how you, as a developer, may use the services that they provide. And they are both near-monopoly providers of those services. As others have pointed out, both are publicly traded companies that are there to make a profit, and both will put restrictions on developers that they feel are using their systems in ways that they have decided are inappropriate.
When will hardware makers realize that you can't half-ass (or in this case, 1/8 to 1/16th-ass) the software stack for a new usage paradigm? Assembled parts does not a system make.

Tablet PCs have sucked for years for the simple reason that they just wanted to sell touch-screen, keyboardless laptops. They're completely different systems from the user's point of view, and just shoving an onscreen keyboard and handwriting recognizer doesn't cut it. Proper tablet computing is 10 years of user interface and systems research that hasn't (afaik) been done.

Notice how apple started with an appliance (an ipod touch) and scaled it up to just be a larger appliance. They recognized the problem and (not-very-cleverly) avoided it.

Sadly, we're going to see more bad ideas like this for a while; there are too many hardware vendors who simply don't understand the whole system stack. It's no coincidence that the only vendor to do a tablet that wasn't a desktop OS bolted-with-crap is Apple, a full-system vendor.
Elitism does have a negative connotation. I think "excellence" would have worked better in the title. For that matter, I don't really understand why the word "economics" is in the title. The title doesn't seem to fit the article all that well -- at least not to me. The article is about the culture and design process at Apple, not Steve Jobs per se. Yes, Steve Jobs is intrinsically part of that culture. He founded the company and he is an important leader within it. No, you can't really separate the two at this point. But he isn't actually a one man show.

I like the quote used within the article that "A defining quality of Apple has been design restraint." I think that basic idea should have somehow made it into the title, rather than the name Steve Jobs and this incomprehensible, seemingly irrelevant, phrase "Economics of Elitism". Perhaps they could have just said "At Apple, Less is More" and then explained why.
>and likely OS, too

I think it's worth insisting on that too. Their hybrid linux looks horrible, and is lagging terribly. The whole point about the ipad is the whole experience, as with every Apple products.

Also the 2 computers in one idea is quite ridiculous if you ask me. I hope they add some sort of sync, but if it is as buggy as their linux OS, it promises to be awful.

In short, this is the opposite of an apple product :
Bad user experience, useless display of technology, and weak hardware.

I'm no fan of apple but it's gonna take a better product to do better than the iPad

EDIT : Understanding how software works would be the first step in here. Ubuntu MID looks 1000x times better than their so called OS
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/mobile
- - Adobe has failed to deliver a major mobile Flash upgrade since early 2007.

Flash Player 9.4 is shipping on the Nokia N900, and works pretty nicely in the standard browser. Wouldn't that count as a major upgrade? (It's still one version behind the desktop counterpart, but at least it supports all the features of Flash 9 instead of a Lite subset.)
With which constituency? Authors are, understandably very upset with what they see as a power grab by Amazon. You can get a sense of the sentiment in that community by looking through the comments here http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012148.html#01...

But in a larger sense, most readers understand that authors do need to get paid if the flow of new books are to continue.

My take is that Amazon will come to regret this action.
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It can't possibly be good for consumers that any one middleman is so powerful that they can lay a major hurting on MacMillan like this. I really dislike the arbitrage model where the middleman tries to capture all the profit at the expense of the supplier and the consumer. I like the fixed margin model (like Apple's). I think it's good for everybody.
Heh, one step at a time... Those sound like they can produce headaches.
I shudder to think how routine may be such activity by Chinese corporations. Imagine sending a not-too-tech-savy sales/marketing dude to China. In the evening he gets 'friended' by a young lady offering a free thumb drive (or herself). How much training are western corporations giving their international staff about high-tech security?
this is from march 2009?
I disagree. It should not be Amazon's business what MacMillan charges for its books (in this case, specifically its e-books). I think this is a slippery slope situation. When Amazon has so much power to throw around, what's the limit of their demands? Today it's pricing, what will it be tomorrow? And the day after? It is rare for any large corporation to avoid abusing any newly acquired power to the utmost extent in seeking advantage for itself. If consumers roll over and don't raise a fuss about Amazon's use of power in this instance, I have little doubt that Amazon will find future uses for its new found power.
This has been my approach--I'm not pinkus, but the individuals on the teams I've run have all had specific areas of responsibility over which they have absolute control. In that area, I was their assistant and nothing more.
Not without some graph theory:

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Check out the reactions here:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/31/amazon-pulled-macmillan-t...

Yes, not a very random selection of people, but IMHO a decent enough approximation of your average consumer. Note that all of the upvoted comments are congratulating Amazon on fighting for the little guys.

I too am disturbed by this power play, but in a large PR battle with the general public I don't think MacMillan is going to win many points.
That one depends on the delivery.
I am currently on -2 for the original mistaken remark and +5 for this one, which means I've garnered one more upvote than downvote for screwing up and then admitting it.

I think that's wrong. Could someone please downvote one of these exactly once? (To be more precise: if you're reading this and the total score of its parent and great-grandparent is more than 2, please downvote one of them.)
It can't possibly be good for consumers

Amazon wants to sell me a book delivered on day 1 for $10. Macmillan wants me to choose a book delivered on day 8 for $30 or a book delivered on day 180 for $15. Remind me why I'm suppose to back Macmillan again?
It's a cool example. Though I would point out that the one-ton gorilla of pixel art, by a long shot, is cosmigo Pro Motion.
Producing closed product ecosystems is hardly "evil". Don't like it, don't buy/support it. (Now try getting away from the Google surveillance system on the web. Can you opt out?)
How is that meaningful from a computer science standpoint?
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Don't generators have to yield in order to return data?

And I never claimed these were eccentric features.
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> If that perception continues, Apple loses recruiting access to a lot of the best developers.

I certainly consider Google to be a more ethical company than Apple. Currently, I own neither an iPhone or an Android phone; if I did get one it would be the Android because it is more open. If I did have an Android, it's quite likely I would develop software on it.

On the desktop, I currently use a Linux box. I've considered getting a Mac; several of my friends have them. But the locked-down nature of the iPhone and iPad deter me from buying any of their products.

So Apple has certainly lost me as a potential customer, due to my perception of them being evil. Do they care? Probably not. However, if lots of programmers think like me, the software ecosystem around their product will suffer.
It isn't just the crashing, it's also the annoyance of having some craptastic Flash banner ad taking way more than it's share of CPU. I've seen that on Windows and OS X.
> Amazon are going to fight this one ruthlessly because if the publishers win, it destroys the profitability of their business and pushes prices down.

Wait. This guy is claiming that publishers are trying to push book prices down, and Amazon is trying to keep them up. This doesn't jive - Amazon has cut the prices of books so incredibly heavily since they came along, and had a very good shopping experience with reviews, excellent customer service, shipping, and so on.

I think people are afraid of any company getting too powerful because of the abstract concept - but myself, I'm starting to get comfortable with companies like Google and Amazon taking large share by being the best. If they get corrosive later, they'll have a few year window where they're still on top, but then someone will come and take them out. But I think the current leadership of companies like Amazon and Google is good enough that they won't make shortsighted bonehead decisions against their customers.
You don't have too - almost nobody remembers this, but Microsofts entire office suite can be fully used by a COM client. Granted the COM API is one ugly son of a bitch, but the Python implementation isn't nearly as bad.

So my suggestion would be to write the book in a format that you like and then write a quick Python program that uses the COM API of MS Word to compile it into a .doc which you can then send to the publisher.
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The Apple clones where a success for everybody, except Apple. Apple closed down the clone operation because they started cutting into Apple's profit margins. I think that was then Apple decided that they'd rather have a huge slice of a small pie, than a small slice of a huge pie. I don't think Apple cares too much about winning any sort of platform war. They're perfectly happy about being in second place as long as they make the biggest profits.
It depends on how much formatting he does, but HTML isn't exactly known for its brevity.

Imagine each time you want a new paragraph you have to write <p>ee</p> - sure you _can_ but it gets annoying rather quickly.
Amazon are being perfectly reasonable, every large retailers operates in a similar fashion. Retailers try to get the lowest prices from their suppliers, and charge the highest price to their customers. It's how the retail industry works. Cutting a relationship with a supplier isn't an uncommon negotiation tactic.

You could argue that in this case Amazon are abusing a monopoly, but they're nowhere near a monopoly position. Their income from book sales in North America is only $6 billion (B&N at $5 billion, Borders at $3 billion).

Even if Amazon did have a monopoly, Macmillan can still sell their books directly on Amazon via Amazon marketplace at whatever price they choose. I don't think there's any ethical question for Amazon to answer here at all, this is just business.
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Unfortunately, I have this sinking feeling that this is not going to be that.