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No voice calls ???

Is that their way of saying you need to buy their phone too ?

That seems like a missed opportunity.

If they're just looking at selling this to people that already have an iphone then that's one way of looking at it, but the market of people that do not have an iphone but already have another phone, by enabling voice calls they'd give all those people an excellent reason to buy one of these.

So, it's crippleware then. Technically all the bits and pieces are there but they chose to not make them work.

What a pity.
Mac OS X is quite user friendly, yet isn't locked down. No need to lock a system down to make it usable.
Do we have any confirmation that you can't put non-iBookstore books on the iPad?

I'm not really sure why Apple putting DRM on media they sell is an issue as long as they also allow non-DRM'd stuff to work just as well.
I don't particularly dislike the device -- it looks exactly like what I'd expect out of Apple for that product.

But frankly, I live my life in emacs and a terminal. It's just not for me. I'm even swapping in my iPhone for a N900.
The thing is, without an open platform, the new, innovative ways of working with this machine will never be invented.

You mean aside from the ones Apple developed? Why is the platform vendor always excluded?
Aren't "fussy tastes and a rigidly enforced house style" the defining features of Apple?
That's not the point I get from the article. It talks about people being literate and able to create tools. It talks about power, not locked down narrow use tools.

EDIT: "We would like the Dynabook to have the flexibility and generality of this second kind of item[paper or clay], combined with tools which have the power of the first kind[cars, television sets]." I'd say they were aiming for inspiration AND power. I'd also argue that inspiration without power is worthless...
Only if you accept your very limited definition of enabling. You mean so that you can program it. I'm guessing most other people think it means so it can do loads of cool stuff without me having to speak in 1s and 0s.
Then you will never get your chance to talk in Italy, according to the book anyway.
Explain to me how carrying around two separate devices is more portable?
working a mid-zed company who releases apps often, I've seen the approval process drop dramatically to around 5 biz days or less
Grandparent is probably thinking along the lines of a local monopoly, analogous to an old company town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

The analogy is not perfect, since you can buy mp3s and movies and ebooks from other services. But on iPhones and iPads the barriers to getting content from non-iTunes sources is certainly higher than it otherwise would be on a regular Mac (or any other PC for that matter).

full disclosure: lifelong Apple user
The cost would keep my startup going for another week, so no.
I've gotten burned on used cars badly enough that I'm willing to buy new. I think the best outcome is a quality used car with low mileage, but that's actually hard to find, and there's some risk involved. The best you can do is find a used car that appears to be quality. I'm three times bitten, forever shy on that one.

A lot of people figure that the most predictable and low cost approach is to buy new and take good care of the car for at least a decade. There's a big difference between a used car with low mileage that you've owned since the start, and one that you've test driven once or twice.

The worst approach from a financial pov is to buy new and sell every few years. But buying a lemon of a used car and running up the maintenance bills sucks big time.
You could see it another way:

Want to write a competing web browser that will confuse people (why do I need another web browser?), no can do. It's a quality control issue.

The iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad do specific things and do them well. They are not personal computers. They are web browsers, music players, calendars, etc. The customer is paying for a device that does these things. They don't want (or arguably need) a personal computer.

Why would you want to develop LLVM on an iPad? Do you honestly think that Apple would junk their desktop OS in favour of an App Store-driven laptop/desktop experience? Developers write code on personal computers. Apple is not a closed ecosystem because of this fact alone. There is room in Apple's world for 3rd party innovation - it's just not on their consumer products.
I think your list of negatives is the big sell of the iPad for most computer users... of which there are many on this planet who don't care about open source or installing different broswers or jailbreaking or any of the other reasons most HN readers won't want one of these devices.
you mean "with 90% adoption of HTML5 capable browsers AND a breaking change that prevents this from working", don't you ? :)
The iPad is a living room computer, a couch computer, a coffee-table computer. It won't live on a desk, it will live in the places in a house that people live in. The goal is not to replace desktop computers, but to supplement them.
It supports a bluetooth keyboard, it seems sensible it would support a bluetooth mouse.
The Google Analytics code has now been removed from the embed. I took a quick look at the stats for our own ProductPlanner.com and didn't notice any dips as a result of the survey.io code. If anyone has any more details or ideas, please let me know.
The problem is that the iPad doesn't run Mac OS X, it runs the locked down iPhone OS. You can't run just anything on the iPad.
It could have an ARM emulator, but I doubt that's the case.
I just tagged this excellent article on delicio.us - description: "Awesome example of using Clojure for data manipulation!"

A good read, and I bet that a few of the code snippets in the article will save me coding time.
Apple has also shown that their closed 'circle of one' system does NOT work. That's why they lost to IBM/MS so long ago. Everything apple was proprietary and people went to PCs.
and they are paying <4%

Try <0%

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/flight-capital-back-1-month...
It's certainly in need of a second version and some editorial oversight but I think the core is good. For example under the "what do these hand signs mean" part I was expecting the OK sign to also say "wanker" as with movement and orientation this is a UK version. OK is definetly out of use here (as a hand sign) and thumbs up is quite childish/dated (like saying "fab").
This may have nothing to do with with Survey.io, but I've noticed some weird survey behavior in the past week. When I click through some newly opened tabs, occasionally there is a large blank survey page up, like the javascript choked on the survey and never managed to get to the requested page. There's no obvious way to click through to the actual site. Reloading the page usually gets it to go away. I have not been paying close enough attention to say whether the survey was from survey.io.
Simpler client-side code. Instead of setting up an XMLHttpRequestObject and forming a traditional POST request, you request a URL via GET.

If there's another advantage, I'm probably missing it (the image switchout shouldn't require a server-side call, since we already have the up/down icons loaded in the browser)
There is an app for watching YouTube videos. In my opinion the app is even better than the YouTube website itself with its ads and trashy comments.
Note for Android folks: There is no MobileMe for Android, but there is a similar app called Mobile Defense (and it's free!). I downloaded it after reading this.
just downloaded it, you need snow leopard :(. looks like i'll be making a trip to the store
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Hmm? The questions so far seem perfectly fine. What are you complaining about?

Plus, now that it's been advertised here, the HN-crowd can ask questions too.
Netbooks, to respond to the sibling comment, don't have large touchscreens.
All of the examples presented are cases of under-modeled, under-specified systems. If bank products were well-modeled, consistency rules were part of the system specifications, and each of the bank's products was represented with a common drill-down ("Show me when the customer agreed to these terms") API which could be wired into the CSR app, then Mr. Adams might have had one less example.

As a side note, given how much Mr. Adams can likely charge for incremental work (custom art as the given example), why does he not hire a high-end secretary to sort these things out for him?
I hope it doesn't come down to open source advocates getting their way so they can install vim

Installing vim isn't mutually exclusive from having a usable system.
That's a rather US centric viewpoint.

Technically speaking these 'bundled sales' should be illegal anyway. They were for a long time but nowadays courts are much more in a hands off mode with respect to things like this, even though it clearly hampers consumer choice and increases costs.
Is this in reference to the no dedicated servers or the ~4.5hr long campaign?
I agree with geebee. I generally buy new and drive it into the ground. I bought my current car new for $25k in 1998, and I can probably comfortably squeeze another year out of it, before expensive stuff starts to break. I'm in the market for a new car, again in the $25k range.

It's not about the car's purchase price, it's about how much that car costs you to own over time: how much it depreciates in a year, and how much it costs to maintain it. I think I'm at about $3k per year for my current 1998 car (not counting gas), assuming it has zero resale value (which isn't the case).
Totally.

The article is a good read regarding data crunching, but I take exception to some of his methodology.

Specifically, he's only using data from 1929 and on -- this is all part of the hockey stick's head. The 1920s are supposedly the start of the dramatic temperature increase. So of course the graphs don't show a dramatic slope change; there's no pre-1929, lesser-slope data included.

Edit: I'm not implying intentional omission on his part; 1929 is the earliest year available from NOAA (ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod).
And yet when you go to a restaurant you order off the menu.
I wonder if anyone at the FSF realizes how unprofessional their iPad -> iBad conversion and other similar slogans sound. It makes it hard to take them seriously.
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I don't know why anyone expects they will be allowed to do that. Music is a form of digital IP that had already descended into lawlessness by the time the iPod came along. Movies (because until recently they were too big to download) and eBooks (because until recently there was no convenient way to read them) can still be "controlled" (controlled meaning continue to generate significant revenue for incumbents). Between Kindle and iPad, in 5 years most normal people will have a benchmark in their head that an ebook is "supposed" to cost ~$10 and they will be ok with it. Letting anyone load eBooks onto the iPad risks putting the publishing industry where the music industry is now.
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Unless you have a PPC Mac, you could just download the Snow Leopard dmg without leaving the house :)
The price would need to drop quite significantly, and/or the durability would need to increase drastically (children + strong, well engineered device = broken device in short amount of time!)
My mother (who only uses the web) could switch entirely to an iPad and probably would be equally if not more happy, but the iPad requires a Mac which defeats the purpose of switching entirely.
Yeah, from the looks of it Apple is running some seriously beefy graphics hardware that somehow sips power. We know the CPU is in-house, but what about the GPU (which IMHO is the bigger part of the equation).
I am considering getting the wifi version.

Primary use: Browsing

I would like to eliminate casual surfing on my laptop and only use it for work - so this might be a great excuse to get the ipad.

edit: After attempting to read a book on my laptop and iphone - I think this would be a great device for reading pdf books too. You can hold it where you want and you aren't continually scrolling.
Yep. Also specifically stated: a standby mode that lasts months.
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Why would anyone (edit: a user who buys a below $1k machine) be inclined to purchase a netbook or even a 13" PC instead of this?

Some may want to type more than a sentence at a time, and some advanced power users may want to do wacky things like IMing while checking a website.
Yep, risk premium -- people go to the dollar in times of stress.

As long as we actually maintain our position as the world's most stable economy, that is. Doubling our debt in the last decade didn't help. What did we see from that again?
By implication you're saying global warming is not real, and that's not true, global warming is real.

The questions center around how much of it is due to our influence and if we are capable of doing something about it.
Exactly.

So what to buy? I currently own a netbook, and while I like the device, for longer ebook reading and surfing, having the keyboard part is impractical. And I don't want Kindle, since I do a lot of reading in the dark room, and don't like the external lamp solution.

Overall, I am finding iPad to be a kind of product I'd like to have, but will probably buy similar alternative with Win7 or Android/Chrome OS.
Agreed. The locking down is unnecessary. It hinders power users and prevents those who would become power users from having the option to do so.
Link to research and videos:

http://www.barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/
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So all we need to do in order to follow these stations, is filter out those in the northern hemisphere and re-run the job.

Isn't this the same sort of thing that the tree ring people did? There were some statistical points that looked like they were going to mess with the results so they threw them out? They only threw out a few outliers, which is standard practice, but here we're throwing out a whole class of data.

It's also interesting that the northern hemisphere is warming up faster (if the methodology chosen by the author is correct). Since most of the earth's landmass is on the northern hemisphere (as well as most of the developed countries), doesn't that mean we're in trouble?

By looking at each station indiviually instead of compressing them to an unevenly weighted average, we will be able to clearly deduce how the weather has changed through the years recorded.

This still doesn't take into account the density of stations. Also, trying to compare stations like that, with the curves obscuring each other, is a crime of presentation. If you took the time to do a regression on the datapoints with the other data, it surely would not have took much longer to code for regression on each of the individual weather stations (incorrect as that may be).

On a different note, the use of clojure was enjoyable, which deserves an upmod.
It is half the price of the cheapest MacBook. The target audience is clearly netbook buyers. People who just want to do a handful of focused tasks. Let's not forget this is going to be an amazing gaming platform. Can you game on a $299 netbook? No because PC games are largely written for desktops with modern powerful GPUs. This device has some real advantages to anyone who has a checklist of 5 or 6 things they want to do with a small portable device.
Interesting. The capitalization on "Code Contracts" (as opposed to "code contracts") suggests to me that it's a proper noun, and your interpretation didn't occur to me until I read the comments. Since you've been upvoted many times, a lot of people seem to agree with you.

Is English your native language? This seems to be the sort of thing that non-native speakers might miss, but I don't really know.
Perhaps, but only because it would be the perfect platform for a visual/tactile development environment (think APL-flavored Squeak + "fingerpainting" flowcharts.) Might have to wait until it's jailbroken, though.
I'd hate to be his HR person. The deluge of resumes is going to be overwhelming. Although, I don't agree with all that he says I applaud him for pointing out something companies often times miss: testers should test other people's code, not their own code.
Yes, but to _receive_ calls you'll need to keep skype on all the time.
Hmm, so I understand what they're tracking. But what's the end game for this experiment?
Exactly that's why we should concentrate efforts on building up free alternatives. It's not that music discs, printed books and movie theater tickets were free before the advent of the PC. I believe the most important breaktrough for freedom (in regards to IT) is the personal cloud (or the houshold/street cloud).
Almost certainly. I want this form factor for some of the iphone music apps! BeatMaker would be rad on this!
Much respect for their work, but the FSF really needs to tone down the puns. "iPad is iBad"? Really?
I disagree. The iPad is directly competing with netbooks, but providing less functionality at a higher price point.

A quick survey around the dev team here highlight this: They think it is too expensive and impractical. (and this is no anti-apple bias, a good 3/4 of the team have iPhones)
There's a very small chance I might want one after playing with one.

Right now my impression is I would be buying a $500 iPod touch for people with extremely large hands. Anywhere I would want to read with it, I would take a book.
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Delicious Library is for cataloging your media and books. iBooks is iTunes but for purchasing books. Pretty different purposes.
Google leaving China due to "government stuff" is a simple way for them to ease out of a market where they are losing to Baidu.

according to: http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/12/28/googl...

Baidu's market share for search in China was about 77% in the third quarter, up from 75.6% in the second quarter. Google (GOOG), she says, lost share in China, dropping to 17% in the third quarter, from about 19% in the second quarter.
This isn't a real product; it's a reference design. What's unclear is whether 199 is what it will cost manufacturers to make or the price it will be on the street.
Not the OP, but I think (s)he means because we lose them as a potential marketplace for our wares.
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There's the Stanza app that can download Project Gutenberg books... Presumably that will continue to work on the iPad...
The major difference is that there are many books that people will want to read that are in the public domain. Also, as far as I know, their book-reading competitors (Kindle, Nook) allow un-encumbered ebooks.
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Apple made a major investment in Adobe back in the '80s, if I'm remembering Triumph of the Nerds correctly. That's how Mac really became the platform for artists, etc. I don't think Apple "owes" Adobe anything.
"global warming" is a phrase that has taken on a larger meaning than just increasing-average-temperature. his joke is obviously referring to the movement (he did capitalize.)
I would classify myself and quite technically skilled, and I still need a near-constant and perfectly working Internet connection to be passably useful. :P
Exactly. That's about as selective as you can get.

No way of saying that hockey stick will appear if he includes all the data but the way he filtered out the end part and then stretched it is just being very selective with the data provided.

The reason why there is so much room for interpretation in all this data crunching in part is because of the troublesome normalization issues faced when consolidating data from so many different sources.

If there had been reliable weather stations in the last two millennia this would be completely different. But obviously that's not the case.
There is also the question of whether the net effect of the warming is a negative economic impact, and if so if "fixing" it is a greater cost to the economy than not fixing it.
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That's not true at all. You don't need a Mac.
I think the point is that the consumers Apple targets would value 10 hours battery life over multitasking. Engineering is all about trade offs, and if Apple were to deliver everything the geeks wanted (OSX, Flash, multitasking), then Apple would end up with an overpriced, slow, thick, hot, sluggish, power thirsty tablet that would only appeal to computer nerds.
On Apple and Flash: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075440
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I love the "notepad" joke implicit in that name.
i wasn't being sarcastic. we're mostly makers here, not only consumers.
I'm actually mildly impressed. It's just too expensive for me to justify right now, and I have a Droid.
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That's too subtle for me to catch, sorry. A capital more or less does not give a sentence a different meaning.

Please keep in mind that not everybody reading this is of English native extraction and such subtleties are easily overlooked.
How do startup enthusiasts get around the fact that you're free not to use an iPad? How do we get to the point where we believe that companies should not be free to build product offerings in whatever lawful way they see fit?

It feels like people want it both ways. They want the openness of Linux without sacrificing the competence of Apple. That doesn't seem like a reasonable demand to me.
I've been wearing Vibrams to get close to the barefoot feel.

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Downsides: Being asked about them at least three times a day from passerby. For colder weather, toe socks are almost required. And they get damp quite easily; that's tolerable when it's warm and you wear the shoe by itself, but in the case of wet & cold weather, damp socks = frozen feet. Despite this I was still wearing them in last week's storm in the Bay Area because, at least at the time, it seemed better to feel cold than to feel clumsy.
I was talking about the already college student. And soon-to-be college students applies to. They obviously aren't going to be getting a tablet as their main computer. It's an entertainment device. And I doubt most would have the money or reason to get both a laptop/desktop and an iPad.
Kindle, Nook, etc.?

If it were open, had a camera, I'd be interested in it as a portable POS.
This is complete blogspam. The original article is here, on Thorne's actual site:
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The original article is pretty old. All the other threads referenced in the beginning are actually newer than this one. Except all the links go to this site without giving credit to where they copied it.
"Only $499" essentially depends on where you are in this recession right now.

If you've survived so far or are back on track, if your employer or business is in the black and you're a decently-paid professional without too many expenses, it's probably a worthwhile investment in improving your digital lifestyle.

If your outlook is more mixed, especially if you're part of that 10% of Americans currently without a job, you probably want to keep that $499 in the account just in case you need it when you go out for groceries in the coming months.