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this is not really news in some running circles (there were advocates in rec.running fifteen years ago, for example).

one word of advice - if you are a runner and decide to switch to a forefoot strike (even if keeping using shoes) then do so gradually. i got a very painful, slow healing stress fracture in the front of my foot from changing too quickly.
This is definitely a stretch. When I go to a restaurant I'm choosing a priori to give up control of my possible choices when I decide to go. There's no confusion. If I wanted to have full control I'd stay home and cook.

I suppose the argument then is that you choose to limit yourself to what the iPad offers by buying and using one. As long as a priori most people understand what they are getting themselves into when they buy an iPad, I think everyone would agree that people should be able to make that choice. The problem is that a lot of people aren't going to understand beforehand the limitations of this device, so they won't have made a fully informed choice.
The FSF has their own ideology they want you to follow -- Apple, specifically Steve Jobs, has an ideology he wants you to follow. As a consumer I don't see an OSS iPad alternative that has the same features & quality so my choice is pretty easy. If the FSF, and others, want to promote OSS/DRM free devices they need to step it up and offer real quality alternatives.
The Irony of iPad: A Great Day For Open Technologies
The iPhone model is not terribly detrimental to software innovation. Of course there's a lack of transparency, long approval waits just to release bugfixes, occasional bizarre app refusals... But mostly it doesn't matter because the open web provides an increasibly viable secondary outlet for software.

Hardware is an entirely different beast. Apple brashly requires hardware vendors to engineer their products specifically for the iPhone platform, and you can't work around these limitations in software.

For a glaring example, there's no open Bluetooth stack on iPhone OS. Most probably the underlying implementation is essentially identical to IOBluetooth.framework on Mac OS X, but instead of giving software developers the degree of freedom that's taken for granted on computer platforms, Apple has chosen to restrict iPhone OS to a much more limited API which can only connect to devices that contain an Apple-licensed chip.

Apple doesn't seem to mind suffocating independent hardware innovation in order to extract licensing fees. What a long way they've come from Steve Wozniak's days...
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You make some good points, and it's probably around the late 1800s that the move to corn grain became more common. I should note also that studies clearly show health benefits of "grass"-fed corn (higher Omega 3s for example).

It's true corn is a grass. Actually, all true grains are grasses, I believe, and farmers are allowed to feed a percentage of grain crops and still call their animals "grass fed" if they feed the young sprouts (pre-seed), but the FDA (or USDA?) doesn't allow them to call it grass-fed otherwise.

I wonder what term could be used to replace "grass-fed" that would more specifically define what is meant.
Check back in two years and see if Looks like basically an oversized iPod touch so far… has taken its place alongside No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. in history.
So following my post the other day about how exactly people go about launching a beta we just leapt in and opened up. We scored a nice blog post from a prominent blogger in the Flash game space which has doubled our userbase already, and we're working hard on even more features to better-align us with the requirements for social games, and to go even deeper into casual game tracking.

It's going to be a very interesting February seeing how we cope with all the new games being added. :)
>"But the problem with that kind of reasoning is that if it is going to have a net positive economic effect that we can rape & plunder mother nature to our hearts content and that simply isn't true."

I doubt that any serious environmental economist thinks this way. Economists do include non-monetary factors in cost/benefit analsyes, and the cost of environmental degradation which does NOT show up on profit/loss statements is one of the oldest topics in the field.

Dismissing the entire discipline of environmental economics as the work of "bean counters" is a really bad rhetorical start for any serious discussion of ecological policy, though unfortunately it happens often among the masses on internet message boards. I am really disappointed to see that these caricatures abound.
I've considered Vibrams as well, but have been holding off due to the look. You can also try the Nike Free line, which were made with the barefoot running idea in mind. Those have been around for a few years.
One example of this that comes to mind is the Xbox. When the Xbox was first released, while being essentially a computer, it was only meant for playing games and watching dvds. Later when modding became easy, and therefor widespread, people developed new applications that made the Xbox do things it wasn't supposed to do. One of these applications was XBMC, or Xbox Media Center, which from the beginning was a 'clone' of Windows Media Center. But today is the basis for startups like Boxee and Voddler, and is the (IMO) most competent htpc platform, as well as the most 'cutting edge' one. Redefining the way we think about media.

There's a similar story with the Linksys WRT54G routers. And while you might be able to jailbreak the iPad, it's just a lot less likely that a community will be able to form around 'alternative' usages.
Zola Pieterse (Budd), is famous for having run barefoot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zola_Budd
The fact that developers are not the target audience is, I think, a problem. It means that apps will be created that developers think people would want to buy, NOT apps that developers would want to use.

I must use a different machine to build applications for this, which means on the gradient of iphone to macbook, it's much closer to the iphone. If the only niche it fills is for grandmothers, secretaries and managers, how will the developers ever really grok it? It seems like they'd only be monetarily driven... and that just sounds like iFart.
I also think there's an opportunity for 'board' games: the iPad can be positioned on a table for viewing and operation by multiple players simultaneously, moreso than previous devices.
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Since the iPod Touch supports push (as long as it's on a data network), I would be shocked if they left it out of the iPad API.
Now it's over with... the iPad
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We (humanity) have reliable temperature data as measured by a thermometer and at fixed locations going back 300 years?
I've spent a lot of time walking around barefoot (no Vibrams either--never felt like spending the money on them) in cities (NYC and SF), and your feet get used to the concrete thing really quickly. Your feet toughen up and it's not a big deal. I agree about barefooting being annoying in cold weather though.
What a travesty of an article. Beaudouin-Lafon is nothing more than a shill for ACM and the entire scientific publishing industry.
Yes. Two even. One 16GB WiFi one ASAP and then a 64GB 3G+WiFi one.. with the hand me down to the wife :-) I was cold on the iPhone but this thing is a massive deal.
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As I understand it, the tree ring thing was that the more recent data is distorted by pollution. That is, the width of each year's ring should be dependent on how warm the year was, but the increase in pollution in recent times has caused a decrease in the width of the rings laid down.
I don’t think they need it.

They don’t have iphone.de (German domain). Heck, Google doesn’t have gmail.de. Nobody cares (Google did, but lost that lawsuit).
(NB: Annoyingly seems not to work on Chrome Dev for Mac. Fun to watch the tweets go by in any other browser though...)
I also haven't taken the Vibram plunge, but I can give you a huge thumbs up for the Free line. I've been doing almost all my running (40+ miles per week) in Free 5.0s since I switched over last fall, and they are reasonably comfortable and attractive as everyday walking shoes as well.
Vertical stuff mostly, insurance guys, realtors.

Basically anybody filling out forms on the hoof.
I am reading a lot of concerns that Apple has created a closed system. You are right, Apple has a closed system. That's what Apple has mostly sold for years.

What I think is exciting is that this device breaks new ground. It's only version 1.0. Better devices will come out. Hopefully, from companies other than Apple. There's virtually nothing stopping another company from selling an open platform, one that runs open software, has open hardware, has WIFI, has USB and has higher screen resolution than the 1024x768 that my 8 year old iBook has. And, hopefully someone will deliver a device that uses low power open cores.

Stop complaining. Start dreaming up something better.
Will NASA retreat from human space exploration?
With WebSockets right around the corner, is there any reason to care about Comet anymore? (Of course, node.js can also be used with WS, which is what I plan on doing.)
Throwing an iPad in and out of your bag to "just check" something is going to be a different kettle of fish to getting out a notebook, opening it up, waiting for HD to whir up, loading Safari/whatever, blah blah.

The iPad will be the sort of device you can leave lying around, in your bag, etc, and then just refer to at will. I can read it easily in bed without scalding my legs or hearing a fan going at a gazillion RPM, I can read it easily at a coffee shop without looking like an idiot, I can draw on it and take full sized notes wherever I go.

It's not just for replicating notebook stuff; it's for new stuff too.
Occam's razor. ARM provides backwards compatibility with iPhone apps.
The retreat was started decades ago. It is coming to a close.

The US simply can't afford a 'war on terrorism', a 'war on drugs' and a space program at the same time.

Cool if you downmod because you disagree, but please enlighten me as to why you disagree.

The height of the space program was the commencement of the shuttle programme and the assembly of the space station (arguably an international more than a US endeavour, but without US participation it would never have happened).

But the shuttles are at their end-of-life and it remains to be seen if there ever will be successor.

They always were near-earth devices, some people would argue that the US space program ended with the last manned moonshot.

A significant reason for this is that the US has spent large sums of money keeping a vast number of people locked up in jail for minor infractions, spent countless billions abroad to try to influence events in Latin America and the middle east.

Not to mention two wars that might have been avoided by not empowering people that turned really bad (tm) when they slipped their leash.
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 45,667 tested so far."

I use FlashBlock and Ghostery as well.
it's not just the development environment app writers care about, but also the app store infrastructure: an easy way to charge for your application and in-app content, availability of user reviews and ratings and possibly free advertising are all things that a bigger screen won't offer for webapps.
I think the opportunity of the iPad for developers is to offer feature rich desktop quality applications. Judging from the iWork demo, and the other built-in applications, the iPad hardware & SDK is advanced enough to create some serious applications. As a result I think there won't be the same race to the bottom we saw with iPhone apps. There will be a bigger market for $20-$50 applications here.
No eink display

Hardly a disadvantage. You might as well say it has no solar panel.
The border does leave space for "out-of-band" touch areas, like the one to toggle scaling.
Very interesting argument. As it turns out, it isn't only the quarterlies that are getting whacked, it is also magazines like saturday evening post, or life or look as well.

The Mother Jones article sounds a little eliteist in this light. However, we are consuming, by OP's measure, more stories now than in the heyday of the quarterlies.
Very well said - I really can't understand why so many people on HN think turnkey == closed. Sure there is a correlation, but is it just me or does it seem like everyone has forgotten that correlation != causation.
At the minimum, people who wnat to use software more powerful than iPhone apps (Photoshop, music production, programming, etc.).
Right, and all that goodness would be destroyed for your family if others could run Ruby scripts on the device.

I imagine you should be able to see the difference between not targeting a particular audience and doing everything to lock that particular audience out.
What really makes the [Apple product] any more special, especially considering the price?

Please don't say the UI, as it's not so well loved by everyone...

I don't know what to say to that if you don't already know by now. What answer are you looking for? That Apple customers are brainless sheep?

Who's "everyone"? Everyone whose opinions you like to read on the Internet?
With respect, I suggest your experience is limited.

I deploy embedded safety-critical software into establishments such as nuclear naval bases. We need testers because while the code works (we use formal and semi-formal software derivation techniques) there are, on occasion, unexpected interactions between features. You need to run through combinations of configurations and actions, and some of it can't be scripted because the interactions are unexpected - the Black Swan principle.

Our cycle is a long one in part because acquisition programs in government and quasi-governmental organisations are like that. We can't deploy changes every day into the field. For one thing, we usually have access. For another, any change needs associated training and manuals.

It would be a waste of a talented programmer to run through the sorts of detailed and exhaustive testing our software has to pass before it will be accepted.

Perhaps you simply think that my company is placed in a less than ideal market. I assure you, it's worth being in the game.
... which explains why football games are so boring.
Articles like this always seem very strange to me. My mother grew up dirt poor, and didn't wear shoes all summer long in Northern Minnesota. As soon as they got enough money together, shoes were the first thing they purchased.

I grew up in Central America, and I spent a lot of time playing soccer with other kids that were barefoot. As soon as those families had money, one of the first things they purchased were shoes.

It strikes me as very strange that shoe companies are now selling expensive running shoes that give you the feel of running barefoot. I understand the reasons for it, but I just don't get it.
"Me too." I'll buy a 16 GB WiFi for my wife to replace her ailing laptop. All she does is surf the web, organize photos, play games, e-mail and word processing, and she likes to be able to move around because of our young children. I'll likely get the keyboard dock for her for when she needs to do serious writing.

I'll buy one for myself with 3G to replace my iPhone. I don't actually use the phone all that much (seriously, only about 45 minutes per month) so I'll switch to a prepaid phone. Even with the unlimited 3G, that I'll likely not need since my max internet usage so far was 181, 30 per month plus about 10 a month for prepaid cell phone will get me what I need for my 2 hours a day on the bus. I'll probably be porting applications to it as well, for work,
I consider myself a barefoot runner, although I'm rather new to the scene. One's feet toughen up rather quickly.

Sometimes people pull over their cars as I run by and ask, "you need a ride somewhere"...
You don't mean mutually exclusive. You mean independent.

If events A & B are mutually exclusive, it means that if A happens, then B cannot happen, and vice-versa
the amount of effort going into pushing browser technology has always confused me with apple, unless they never aimed for the appstore to be a permanent thing.

but its a pleasant surprise, im excited by the type of applications we can build these days using very common web standards
These redesigns seem limited to lifting the main functionality out from a bunch of irrelevant detail.

Users who visit the site regularly would probably appreciate the fact that the page contains only the parts they use and no other stuff.

You'd need to do a lot of analytics on the old design to ensure that all the regularly used features are still easy to find.
The second area is that you aren't getting the right feedback from customers.

Yes, if you are bringing your customers into the office and actually watching them use your product.

Usability testing is and always has been one of the most lacking areas of web development (probably other types of consumer software as well, but web is my area of expertise). A good tester can address these issues up front more than anyone else in the organization. Everyone else is too close to project to give it a fresh look. It's no substitute for real usability testing, but it's a good deal closer than anything else internal.
I've always run with toe first, even though I don't go barefoot. It wasn't until I finished the book "Born to Run" that I realized so many people run with heel first. It just looks non-intuitive and inefficient. The most straightforward transition from a walk to a sprint is to explode on your toes. I really don't understand the heel first running style.

For most field sports athletes, I think it's a pretty natural form as well. For any sport requiring pivoting, cutting, and rotating (soccer, basketball, football, etc) explosiveness is key. I can't think of any activity where heel first running would work, except for really light jogging or power walking.

The high incidence of knee (or other) injuries in some sports isn't really related to running form either. Most of them are a result of trauma, such as landing awkwardly or physical contact. Toe first versus heel first doesn't really matter there, except for the stronger muscles that the former form may build. Running toe first will reduce the chance of injury from persistent strain put on the lower body as a result of long-form running, since it happens repeatedly over a long period of time.
eye fatigue... imagine when you stare at a computer screen too long, reading now... your eyes get tired from strain, you could get burning sensation, glare, dry eyes.. all this could lead to bigger health concerns. Thats why e-ink is superior. People have reported issues with led and sight. If you want an ebook reader, the kindle,nook , and ereader are all superior for a hard core ebook reader.
links :
http://www.computervisionreadingeyeglasses.com/eye_fatigue_s...
problems with led:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1677617...
Oops, yeah I read the spec wrong thinking it was restricted to just wi-fi/cell tower location capabilities. Still a no for me though, for now.
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Occam's razor doesn't apply the same to the hardware equation.

If the architecture is ARM, it would mean that Apple bought PA Semi for the purpose of getting them to dump their main architecture, which was the whole reason they were created, and got them to switch over to ARM and develop, fabricate, and test the chip in the span of a about a year.

I'll place my bets on Power architecture + ARM emulation/JIT/whatever or iPhone App recompile for the iPad.
If you want to get the top .1%, you need to evaluate 1000 people.
The problem is that a lot of people aren't going to understand beforehand the limitations of this device...

You seem to be assuming several things: that this is peculiar to the iPad, that people who do understand the limitations also care, and that if they don't make fully informed choices about things they care about that it is someone's fault other than their own.

I don't think those are accurate assumptions.
I thought Cortex A8 was TI's implementation of ARMv7 and Snapdragon Qualcomm's: the ISAs are the same but Snapdragon can run distinct cores at distinct speeds because of disjoint caches per core, beneficial for power savings, for example.

Check http://www.arm.com/miscPDFs/14128.pdf

for more details than are simple to read.
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Agreed. I've had very similar experiences.

Another thing I've found is that if you are playing a sport which requires sudden direction changes (e.g. indoor ultimate), the skin can peel off the bottom of your feet.

It's probably different for everyone, but something to look out for if you plan on playing hardcore tennis or basketball in them.
The success of the internet and web keep Apple's computers relevant in a still-Microsoft-dominated world.

I was a Mac user starting in 1989 (and since then switched to BeOS and then Linux). Once everything started moving onto the internet and then the web, alternate operating systems became far less like neglected ghettos. Now as long as it has a good web browser, even the most marginal platform is pretty useful.
"But minority browsers don't use as much CPU while playing HTML5 video tag data."

Are you sure about that?

Yes.

I just tried it again to be doubly sure. In Chrome the YouTube HTML 5 demo uses 2/3 of the CPU used by the Flash-based version. In Firefox playing the demo ogg files at: http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html uses about half the CPU than playing the video with Flash in YouTube. This is all in Linux.
LOL. That's one of the best.
Could there be unknown knowledge?
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A different point from this article, but still: how long before someone jailbreaks the iPad?
I don't understand. How does buying an iPad prevent people from using other computers for those purposes, or wanting to, aside from the opportunity cost of actually buying the device?

You seem to be talking about things that machines can do, but you're referring to people. If a machine is limited it does not follow to say that the person is limited.
I doubt the code is that much cleaner compare to using framework (jquery) ajax call.

Maybe it's faster to do a "img get"? Or that you can't terminate it half way as suppose to an ajax? Better browser compatibility?

I haven't test it yet. I just hope someone who has can educate me.
I like this viewpoint.
When html5 matures? Seriously? Have you ever done any web development? Have you looked at html5? It's an incremental upgrade, nothing that's going to let you do new interesting things with all the new, interesting hardware we have. Plus, it will still be very, very slow compared to code running through fewer layers of indirection.
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Gruber's initial thoughts on the iPad (15 minute video interview)
Yeah i think I agree with you. Web apps require knowledge of a ton of software layers, not least of which is the web server/client architecture and protocols. To the extent that native apps are also communicating with remote services there is probably not much difference, but many native apps are built to stand alone which, in my opinion, makes them an order of magnitude easier to develop.
Of course the person is limited. They are limited because they can't for example, install Firefox on the iPad and use it as the browser rather than Safari. The person is limited because the locked nature of the device limits them.