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> Have you heard of MobileMe?

MobileMe is paid up front, and not ad supported. There is no collection of private data for the purposes of targeting ads, and your actions are not correlated to your search history, or any website that uses AdSense or DoubleClick. Your email may be on their servers, but it is not connected to a tangled net of tracking information that follows you everywhere that you go. Maybe Apple could add these things, but their business model has been for the customer to pay for their service up front, not for them to find creative ways to monetize any personal information they might have.

They did recently purchase Quattro Wireless for mobile advertising, but they say this is to provide a framework for iPhone developers to include ads in their apps. It's probably a competitive play to get developers to not use Google ads.
My point was not to say that Tornado is faster, but that his test is far off from proper results.

His tested showed that Tornado was 2x slower the Node.jsbecause he did it wrong, I actually find Node.js rather impressive =)
Indeed.

One of the best explanations I've read for Google getting into the mobile biz was to increase the opportunity for people to use the Web and see ads.

Sounds more like Jobs wants to portray Apple as the underdog, despite the incredible success they've been having.
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I would be strongly in favor of eliminating the minimum wage, if we had an appropriately socialized system of food, water, clothing, and job training distribution. But that's never going to happen.

I have a nearly unlimited amount of viewpoints on political matters, but more and more I think it's almost irrelevant. Politics seems like this kind of fun thing where we can have infinitely many new and continuing arguments, but this arguing is never going to accomplish anything. I'm not a senator, and even senators quickly become jaded and cynical at how little actual power their high status provides.
Exactly. If I am working on something and suddenly need more portability, why in the world would I want to suddenly end up in a totally unrelated, different OS? It would make a ton more sense if it was either running the same OS in both scenarios, preferably not just Android based.
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From your first link:

"Google’s press office did not respond Friday to an email inquiry about the case, but a lawyer standing by for Petrick said he believes the evidence was all culled from the hard drives and he has no information that Google participated in the investigation."

So this shows Google's "evilness" about as much as it shows the evilness of the browser and OS the guy was using.

Speaking of which, as the company that writes the OS and Mail.app, doesn't Apple have just as much access to personal communications for its users as Google does? How do you know that the OS and mail programs don't have back doors that can be used whenever it's required? You can't even get root on your own iPhone (unless you jailbreak it), so in a very real way they have more control over you own device than you do. How can you be sure that it's not beaming your GPS coordinates to [insert evil institution here] all the time? You know when you're sending information to Google, but Apple controls closed-source software running on a location-aware personal device with a microphone on it that people carry around all the time.
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There is solace in the fact that we can build really powerful tools like web browsers with social networking apps or CAD programs and normal people can use them if we design them well enough. But Turing-completeness hasn't gone mainstream, and it doesn't look like it will anytime soon. So that leaves us hoping for a breakthrough in AI, because that's what it will take for a computer to be able to always understand the user's intentions.
You'd have to work pretty hard to make a compiled algorithm slower than an interpreted one.
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There's good reason he has yet to publicly name a successor--when you publicly name a successor, the successor gets all anxious to take over and people start expecting you to step aside in the near future. If you don't believe me, ask Jay Leno or Brett Favre.
Could you (or someone else) possibly expand on that? Is writing in raw HTML generally discouraged? I am totally ignorant in this area, but I am curious about it since I admire Mark's formatting and he seems to get a lot done.
yeah i did understand this . but i didn't understand
what can be more in CRM that can add this special thing ..
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Do you see that arrow beneath the finger? That's why I wouldn't buy it. I guess is not multitouch either. And ~1000$ is way too expensive.
I'm still wondering when Apple will get around to buying Wacom. They bought FingerWorks to get the best multi-touch technology, but I don't think that multitouch will be quite enough to accommodate the full range of capabilities we geeks want from our tablets. The combination of pen input and multitouch offered by Wacom's Bamboo and apparently Axiotron's upcoming Modbook Pro is, however, enough for general purpose computing. (Command lines and programming are still hard with pen input because nobody has made a pen input system that is optimized for all the strange punctuation.)
I bet this is human-translated french, but it still contains mistakes and looks a bit unprofessional, e.g.:

- typo: "routièrse" should be "routières"
- grammatical person: the text uses the second person singular, which sounds a little informal. I'd use the second person plural instead ("enregistre" -> "enregistrez", etc.). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-V_distinction#French
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The thing I like about Steve is he calls it like he sees it.
> a system that is open to 3rd parties is more successful than one which is locked down.

It was competition that won out in that respect. Competition drove down prices. PC hardware became a commodity.
When my drive got busted, I went to the monitor (CALL -151 was it?) and typed in assembly something that me and a buddy of mine come - basically changing the speed of the disk, based on the key you pressed - something like a piano.

But the sound was important. Normal DOS directory track was number 11, so it sounded one way, while the cool stuff sounded differently - games, apps, etc.

It was awesome time, back then, before teh internet...
Wesley is definitely my favorite obfuscated code thus far. Amazing job.

As imurray posted, the .hint file is useful. Descriptive, and contains compiling notes (would've solved ajross' problem).
I'm not sure people are ready to pay for content on the web. I know I wouldn't pay for HN... uh wait, I would.
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I guess I should probably clarify what I meant by the "No." above:

Facebook has a large, well-tested codebase, with a huge amount of infrastructure built on and to support PHP. It would be ridiculous to expect Facebook to migrate all of this to a different language.

Re: the article itself, you'll have to wait until Tuesday.
Never said Windows 7 was finger-friendly, and I don't think I'm qualified to comment on it, but imo, the win7 is simply geared to replace the mouse actions with a finger, and that's not helpful at all.

And from where I'm looking, portable physical media storage is fast becoming non-essential(obsolete?) with respect to devices that are used for consumption of music, the web, books, etc; ie- CONSUMER devices. eg- laptops, ebook readers, mp3 players, etc.

I'm a tech-savvy person, and I've had a broken dvd-drive on my laptop for about 7 months now. I've never found a reason to fix it; I'm as surprised by that as anybody else, I suppose. I play movie dvds on my console, and the eye-fi card on the camera is handy as hell.
> I don't understand why people feel the need to make outlandish predictions for their product of choice.

That goes the same for Apple fans prior to a keynote (any keynote).
Which is sorta ridiculous considering that it's definitely not among the most complex of the Web apps out there. Even late competitors like www.shoutem.com are much more complex as they allow for a bunch of Twitters to be created on the same platform.

The only complex thing about Twitter is its size, and I bet their developers are working round the clock just to keep it from falling apart.
perokreco, you asked a question, and anothermike answered it. No need to be snarky and go on a tangent.
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could you add duckduckgo please?
>Will the iPad be better for this?

I own a DX & I hate to say it, but yeah, probably. The page speed does hurt. You have to decide if it's more important than the e-ink screen.

I personally wouldn't trade my DX, but I think many people will want to watch movies & check email instead of only reading pdfs for extended periods.
I think that point was that the 'base' has a full laptop computer in it, but when you detach you only have the Snapdragon processor (and board). That's why there are two separate operating systems. If you wanted the laptop to run Linux too, you'd be in the same boat (two separate Linuxes running).
Forms are IMO, most misunderstood, and underdocumentated feature of Django. A from is not just a representation of a HTML.

A form is,

0. a representation of a HTML form.
1. Knows how to validate and sanitize that data.
2. Know what to do with the data. In my apps, a lot of logic
is in forms, (which people generally put in views.)

Its written by me, but I think is explains some interesting ways to use forms which people miss and do the hard way.

http://uswaretech.com/blog/2010/01/doing-things-with-django-...
But at $1000 you're getting more than an iPad. Do you think that the iPad would be the same price if it was integrated into a MacBook?
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The beep comes first though! "Beep" + whrrrr + chackachacka...

I'm driving up to my parents' place in a few weeks so I can pick up my old Apple //e from their garage.
My office bought one of these a year ago to try it out. It was extremely heavy for a tablet and the person who was going to use it just couldn't use it for what she wanted to do. Basically it was meant as a way for a Professor to bring it to class and meetings, take notes, do presentations and all kinds of stuff the iPad seems to be aiming at. I think in the end the iPad will have a market. No where near the iPhone but a decent size. I think this is going to replace the MacBook Air.

Personally, I'm waiting for the android tablet about to come out from MSI. I prefer android as a platform. But the iPad is far from the failure people seem to claim it is. It's built for a certain kind of user and they usually have the money to spend on this stuff. I can think of doctors,lawyers and professors as people who already use similar devices.
Looks cheap. Check out the smudges and the warped bezel (watch the reflections through the entire video, particularly near the top).

Looks weak. Check out the REALLY slow framerate with a simple resize operation (beginning of video). Yes, I'm aware of what could be going on, but that sort of thing should be optimized, and a beta version capable of being released on video should scream performance, not lag, or you'll hurt your market before it exists.

Looks significantly more expensive. "Under $1000" != $499 at the bottom-end, and the iPad can claim the same for their top-end version. Plus, more likely, <1000 means 999.99 (before tax).

It also apparently has a separate CPU in the keyboard... which implies they're setting it up as a 2 CPU system when it's in, or they're wasting power by only using the Intel chip, and by using it as a tablet you immediately cripple it. (if the Snapdragon CPU was more powerful, and they are only using one at a time, then why bother with the Intel in the first place?)

No. Sorry, Lenovo, but Apple beat you on price, power, quality, and release date (and likely OS, too). I also saw no indication of multitouch capabilities, which are nearly essential for a tablet to be truly useful. You officially fail. The only thing you have going for you is a more open setup for software, and then you get the hassles of any regular computer, so it's a plus and a minus.

EDIT: omg, it just gets worse, though apparently it is multitouch. Watch the scrolling not work (and they quickly pan away) in the first video, and read to the end: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/lenovo-ideapad-u1-hybrid-...

Unfortunately, the screen itself was pretty abysmal, with terrible horizontal and vertical viewing angles -- it basically disappeared at 45 degrees off axis.
Watch the video in 720p and pause when "Windows 7" pops up. The taskbar isn't black, and there's an "Examples" folder on the desktop, which makes me suspect it's Kubuntu or something.
User are frustrated with the complexity of computers, but they don't want it solved with simplicity. They want the rich feature set, but with the complexity managed. Big difference.
So this shows Google's "evilness" about as much as it shows the evilness of the browser and OS the guy was using.

Enabling private browsing eliminates local browser history. There is no such recourse for server-side tracking. Even turning off cookies (and Flash [1]) won't stop that [2].

Apple controls closed-source software running on a location-aware personal device with a microphone on it that people carry around all the time.

There is merit to your accusation in that there is no way to monitor network traffic over 3G to verify that audio is not transmitted. However, all cell phones allow basic geo-location via triangulation (most carriers lie about that), so if you don't want to be found you shouldn't have a cell phone at all.

[1 | http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cook...]

[2 | http://panopticlick.eff.org]
It's an interesting approach but I think the problem is when you look at this thing you get a lot more questions than answers. How do files sync between the two computers? Do I have to worry which half my files are saved on when I take the tablet off? What happens to the Windows half? Does it stay on? Go off? What if I want it to stay on? How do I do that? Are there two batteries or one? Do I have to track the battery level of both devices? So if I use the tablet for 8 hours, come back and dock it into the laptop, can I just grab the laptop and go? Fully charged? Do the two halves communicate with each other or are they basically two separate computers with a shared display? How is networking handled? If I want to leave the Windows half going does it have its own separate wifi? Do I have to enter my WPA key into both devices or do they sync that information? Too much complexity for something that is supposed to make your life easier.
Maybe he uses a translator, like markdown.
More is not always better, and I think that this video perfectly illustrates that. A tablet should do what a tablet does well and a notebook should do what a notebook does well.
Gruber is right. I checked my site's stats, and to my surprise 8,4% of my visitors don't support flash.
Not true. The runtime has access to information that the compiler doesn't, such as which branches are actually taken.
Tough pill to swallow? Apple never staked a claim to some fuzzy moral high ground. All Jobs is pointing out is that to the extent that you equate greediness with evil, Google is precisely as evil as every other company.

Google is open where it thinks it can afford to be and not where it doesn't. So is Apple.

Google locks down its algorithm to give a good user experience in search. Apple locks down its App Store to provide a good experience on the iPhone. Both of these moves are designed to make money, but mysteriously, Teflon Google easily sheds all acknowledgement of its motives.

Maybe I'm not a good judge of morality. I still hold the romantic notion that people giving you money means people think you're doing something good for them. Apple's fans are some of the most loyal on the planet. It doesn't seem as though they're extorting folks into buying their stuff.
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Shoot, missed this one. Looking forward to the next one.
> the latter sort of like Slackware's increment of version numbers from 4 to 7

That was done because all of the other distros at the time had higher version numbers and people were looking at Slackware with a, "Well, it's only version 4. RedHat/Mandrake/etc are already on version 7!" attitude. I remember there being a written (web) justification for it.
Do any of those make money?
This is not only a good tutorial on getting started with your environment, but has some really good resources for getting started with actually building apps or getting them on your device :)

Now we just need someone to come along and teach us web hackers how to go from developing in a MVC php/python/ruby/etc.. methodology to building java apps. I'm great with a *nix system so getting the SDK running on my Mac was no problem, but building Java apps... I'm clueless in that department!
I'd actually suggest showing the top result for each search engine with an AJAX "show more results from X". Maybe top 2-3 results.
This makes no sense. Interpreters add indirection at every single statement in the program. The fact that they may know the direction of the occasional branch cannot possibly make up for this.
Don't forget Gordon, the open source Flash runtime implemented in Javascript and HTML5: http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon

I don't think something like this will save Adobe's derriere though -- at best it'll be a fallback-option developers can use if they must include Falsh content.
I'm going to school in Bellevue, WA (north-east side, bordering Redmond). I'm interested in part-time work at the moment and full-time when the semester is over. My top two languages are Python and PHP, though I'm proficient in C/C++ and Java and I can read Lisp pretty easily. Most of my experience is in web apps and simple 2D video games.
It doesn't look too 7-y, but there is an Internet Explorer icon / launcher right near the left edge. There's also an ungodly amount of those right-edge service icons (forget what they're called, don't feel any great loss at realizing that fact), which is pretty typical for a Windows box (however sad that may be).
I have never, never, EVER had flash crash. Nor has anyone else I know. But then, they all use PCs..
Yes, you're an early adopter, but you're one who drinks kool-aide. There are about 5% of you.
How is the flash vm faster than v8? It seems like v8 would have a slight advantage since their JIT doesn't produce intermediate code.
It doesn't provide everything that flash does, and IIRC only supports flash animations. Some things that flash provides that JavaScript (at least JS provided by the server) can't provide: Webcam and microphone access (think sites like ustream and stickam), exact font control (there was a demo site a while back that showed the same site rendered on different browsers to demonstrate how much even the placement of fonts differed), etc.

I'm no proponent of Flash, but to say that Gordon can completely replace Flash is not the truth.
>Every new version developers are just praying this time Adobe will give us a product they've gone back and fixed instead of just adding more stuff to it.

I can't tell you how many times I have made this statement regarding After Effects. I've been hoping they would do this since version 6.5.
On that note, is it possible to do that on Android? I know it's Java-based with their own low-level JVM or something like that.
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> The success of Cocoa Touch and the App Store has pretty much made J2ME a footnote

So now all cellphone apps are written in Cocoa Touch?
I opted to use Adobe Air for a new project a year (or two maybe) ago. At the time Adobe's was making lots of waves at the speed of their JIT compiler and support for platforms like Linux had improved (at least slightly). Now I'm thinking Adobe just hasn't delivered on any of the promise it showed back then. I think they have themselves to blame, and there certainly seemed like there was a time when Apple really wanted flash on the iPhone and they just didn't deliver.
I'd be really tempted to judge you by the company you keep, and put Fair Isaac out of business.
"[...] the available energy was never utilized very effectively"

Doesn't that apply to all big corporations to some degree? I think it's a tradeoff between using each individual's potential and utilizing economies of scale. The latter requires coordination of many people, which reduces the leeway for all individuals involved.

Corporate culture is certainly important, but no corporate culture can completely overcome the limitations imposed by utilizing size. At least that's what the ad-hoc scientist in my head says, you know, the one that never reveals any sources ;-)
Maybe you will get more ideas once you are well into building your product? As pg often says, making software is a bit like writing. The more you make, the more ideas you get. It's definitely happening to me as I'm working on my product now.
> Google locks down its algorithm to give a good user experience in search. Apple locks down its App Store to provide a good experience on the iPhone.

You lost me at this point. Out of all of the things that Google does or has done, locking down their algorithm hardly ranks on the scale of evil.

> Both of these moves are designed to make money, but mysteriously, Teflon Google easily sheds all acknowledgement of its motives.

Google locking down their algorithm does not prevent someone from competing with them. On the other hand, Apple locking down the AppStore does allow them to prevent others from competing with them (i.e. where is iPhone Opera Web Browser?). Google's algorithm is more in line with the hardware design blueprints of the iPad and the source code to the operating system. No one but the most rabid FSF supporters are railing on Apple for not open-sourcing their operating system. And no one is railing on Apple for not posting their hardware design blueprints for the iPad and/or iPhone.
I think Steve's evangelical streak is showing here at least in regards to Google. You're either with us, or you're against us, and if you're against us it stands to reason that you're evil because we represent everything that is good and pure. I have concerns that Google's sheer size and participation in so many areas creates potential for accidental evil but I see nothing that suggests they are committing an Orwellian fraud on us by projecting anti-evil double speak to cover their true intentions.
My point wasn't that this was an awesome product. My point was that they are providing more than the iPad does, so they can't run it at the same price point.
China.
Actually that video makes it sound worse. The "real" sound has a lot more dynamics and details in it. I love it, it was my first computer.