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Not if it's the first time that they've visited your site, and in the case that Mozilla are optimising for (a single landing page for people on IE who might want to switch to FF) the first impression counts. Apparently by quite a lot if 15% is anything to go by :)
As a bit of a CarPC enthusiast, I am interested to see how long this holds up. I have fabricated my own touchscreen into my car and did all the work to make it look as factory as possible, however it takes a lot of time to make sure that everything holds together. Honestly, from the clips they showed, it really doesn't seem that the iPad was made to stick in there if the roads got a bit turbulent. I have seen people's touchscreens fall out from not being properly secured into the dashboard (including my own from a particularly rough driving experience...)

Ultimately, I think it's pretty cool but the iPad interface is not a very safe one to use while driving. This is why I always, always, always install a dashboard frontend like Centrafuse or RoadRunner on mine to make navigation simple.

Aside from all that stuff, I am pretty curious to see a) how the iPad holds up on the car battery, and b) how well the screen illuminates during sunlight. Both of which are always interesting problems to work through when building your own CarPC.
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University of Chicago - http://masters.cs.uchicago.edu/

If U of Chicago is doing it, likely there are others. I would also suggest looking at UK universities - the 1 year taught course Master's degree is a popular cash cow for many universities.
>To ask, pay, and celebrate them for doing the former and then fastidiously insist that they only do it in a way that conforms to our hero fantasies is incongruent.

Well, it would be incongruent to do that, yes, but I don't ask them or pay them or celebrate them.

I expect the soldiers in the video are just doing what a lot of people would do in the same situation. That might make their behavior in some sense "normal", but it doesn't make it OK, or beyond reasonable criticism.

Most of what you're saying could equally well be applied to (e.g.) criticism of suicide bombers. It may well be the case that suicide bombers are not, as a rule, unusually evil people. If you have the relevant life experiences, you might even have a sense that you'd do the same thing if you were in their position -- in the same way that it's easy for an American to feel some sympathy for the soldiers in this video. Nonetheless, the actions of suicide bombers are unambiguously wrong, and are rightly subject to criticism.

(Of course, I'm not attempting to equate the soldiers' actions with suicide bombing, it's just an analogy.)
but there's a difference between being a German soldier and manning the death camp. No one takes issue with the German soldiers who invaded France -- they were doing their jobs. The problem is with the people who rounded up the innocent women and children, put them in trains, and then sent them off to die.

You can certainly make an argument that they're the same, but I think there's a pretty clear practical distinction between the two.
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I'm concerned that my siblings and I have ruined my mother's self-esteem.

She is a beautiful person, who immigrated here and created a wonderful life for my siblings and me. We're now educated young adults, making money, and having new experiences. We all talk with and see Mom often (We live within 30 miles of each other.), and we share good times.

However, we're also insecure children in that we use the gifts our mother gave us (education, freedom, culture) to put her down. We think we're being so subtle that she can't tell - sometimes we don't even notice it ourselves. But I'm realizing that Mom sees it all; we're just too self-centered that we can't view our behavior from her perspective.

For example, Mom used to love to be creative. From goody bags at parties when we were kids to jokes during conversations, she always surprised us with her ability to delight. She doesn't do this anymore, because she now worries that she'll be embarrassed - that her kids will think she's lame. Maybe we'll say nice things - thinking that she won't realize we're patronizing her. She hates writing emails, because her English isn't as polished as ours has become. She avoids political discussions, because they feel less like conversations than lessons.

I can't even begin to know how she must feel - always afraid that her inner joy and creativity will embarrass herself or her kids. Always feeling inadequate because her kids are throwing stones of education, liberalism, and culture at her cowering pride.

I hope it's not too late to change my ways, and I'll talk to my siblings about this. But I needed to write my thoughts down. And I also needed to know if anyone out there knows what I'm talking about. My dream tonight will be receiving a response from a mother who tells me that this is just part of the process when people acclimate to new countries and generations at the same time - that Mom will be okay, and that we'll all be happy together soon. But I'll settle for anyone telling me anything - at least so I'll know that I'm not the only child to have done this to his mother.
Is it me or is that a really terrible info-graphic.

I can't read the writing, and instead of linking to a larger version it just seems to link back to the page itself.
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If you read the official documents on the investigation of the incident, including the sworn affidavits, the ground forces were 100-200 meters away throughout the entire thing.
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The robot is, true to its species description to date, robotic. It is performing the exact same sequence of operations - almost like first trying to generate a 3D model of the towel (the spin) followed by some cross checks (the twists) and then proceeds to fold it. It looks like there is no learning apparent from one towel fold to the next, which would be thoroughly fascinating if it were done in even the littlest of tasks simpler than towel folding.
Given the rule against scripting on the device, it can't be a particularly useful IDE...I would guess maybe it's an app front-end to some online PHP sandbox.
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Is it really much comfort to say: well, at least we're not rounding them up into death camps?

I don't find people do much discriminating between different groups of Nazis. The infantry perpetuated violence and death just as much as the death-camp members. After all, what do you think they did to the newly-conquered populations those polite infantrymen rounded up?

There's also a difference between the world 100 years ago and today. We live in a more civilized, more peaceful time. The violence in Iraq is some of the broadest and most destructive of our day.
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"none are ever mentioned in the video"

They specifically mention a Bradley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Bradley ) in the video.
I don't know firsthand, but I can imagine that the gunner seat in a chopper like this is pretty high anxiety. Your life could depend on shooting the right people at the right time. Not only your life, but the lives of all your buddies flying with you, not to mention the fact that you're protecting a piece of machinery that cost your country millions.

All I was saying before was that gunners like this are used to facing insurgent tactics. When they see vans like this, they aren't looking to give them the benefit of the doubt. They have been trained that, if they do, they may be putting their lives and the mission at risk. This guy is probably scared out of his mind. He has a huge responsibility, and screwing up - as we've seen today - has enormous consequences.

To me, the laughing and joking isn't making light of slaughtering the enemy, it's nervous laughs and desperate attempts to bring everyone out of it. We're human, we don't deal with this shit well. The comments here are good proof of that.

None of this excuses slaughtering innocent unarmed civilians, it's just my attempt at bringing some perspective.
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From the list of partners, it looks like they're all basically either handset manufacturers or content providers, which is . . . interesting. Microsoft and Apple are noticeably absent, and not too surprisingly there aren't any Linux-related organizations on there either. Their "Why" page for partners specifically targets chipset vendors, OEMs, operators, content providers and developers, and end users.

So it certainly doesn't look like they're going out of their way to play nice with browser or OS developers, or that they're trying to open up the actual implementation: the program seems more geared towards getting Adobe's software onto devices, getting hardware acceleration from chipsets, and getting content providers and developers to deliver content in their formats.
In one short clip, the war has been shown up for what it is: a morally corrupt act that has no hope of making the U.S. friends nor assure it of future security.

The bombings in Moscow reminds everybody that the price of security in the future for citizens of the US will be rule under totalitarian government. For the three hundred million people in the States, I hope you've learnt your lesson.
I've tried very hard to stay out of the discussions, and someone pointed this out to me. It's a good read (sworn statements and determinations made by investigating officers) to understand the full situation (ie, everything going on outside of the one camera and radio chatter) and the judgement calls made.
Shouldn't the efficiency of an atomic-synchronized watch be infinite, since there is no user input? Having a crown which neither needs to be pulled out or pushed in would give 100% efficiency, and the no-input watch seems strictly better than this.
It's because they sell a physical product, which you probably already realized, but don't let that stop you from being a smartass, good lord.
The overwhelming majority of jobs probably wouldn't classify as they're all creating intermediate products.
So it's like sorting algorithms? Or...?
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> The problem is with the people who rounded up the innocent women and children, put them in trains, and then sent them off to die.
>

The whole point of this video is about killing of innocent man, women and children by shooters who wanted to kill. Not soldiers killing soldiers. Whether they were rounded up or not, or put on a train or not shifts the focus.

The discussion is not about does this resembles the Nazis or not. It's about: are we looking for a justification for this killing by falling so low on the morality ground, that the same logic can even be used by the Nazis for justifying their killings.
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Unlike the non-functioning spam-filters you speak of, the AppStore approval process actually has a flawless record of keeping it out.

Now, I'm not saying that's squarely because of the diligence of the reviewers. Most likely, it's just as much or more because there's a paper trail from every app to its publisher, a long with the fact that someone is at least going to make a cursory review of the app before giving it the 'OK'.

One of these, or all three in combination is keeping malware out of the AppStore. Whichever, the end result is that the AppStore review process is stopping malware extremely well.
It doesn't surprise me they found an RPG on the ground after the chopper reported there was one.

I have it on good authority from people who were actually on the ground that soldiers regularly keep RPG's and AK-47's in the Humvees such that if they do kill an innocent civilian, they just place the AK-47 or RPG on or near the victim to make them look like an insurgent. I don't know if that's what happened in this particular instance, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was.

Edit: I guess I'm being down voted for hearsay? Well, I worked with a number of soldiers and have a few friends who are infantry. This does happen, whether people want to accept it or not. Again, it could be that there was someone, or multiple people, were armed in this particular instance. I don't know. I haven't, to my knowledge, met anyone that was involved in this incident to ask. I have, however, talked to a number of people that were on the ground, that did have to take the lives of other people, and did have to cover things up when they made a mistake.
I'm just saying, I don't see how this is efficient outside of "can we make a robot that folds towels?" Sure, it's pretty cool, even putting aside its slowness, but it seems like a lot of effort towards something with little application. When you're just /learning/ robotics you're supposed to experiment and make useless stuff, but this seems like a professional project.

I guess I'm not familiar with the whole world of robots-- maybe this stuff is normal and fine I'm thinking too much at 3 AM..
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Well I haven't read Arrington's review, but he shouldn't be too smug since he was heavily involved for most of the development. Clearly TC could have moved a lot more product, but it seems like maybe nobody involved had the UX chops to make this thing work. Arrington is certainly good at criticizing things but I have no evidence he knows the first thing about building a product, so it's not surprising there would be some friction.
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At the moment Jane never has to have her son help her with her phone the way she does with the PC. She knows how to do everything, even if she never does it. Even without any direct bottom line issues (eg avoid voip takeover), I think this might be enough to motivate Apple.
[Long time lurker. Please forgive me for length]

I think the most obvious creation of value comes from my view of how video games increase the value of technology. Video games tax the underlying hardware and software technology to its limits causing those underlying systems to shift towards greater utility under market pressure.

If value is seen by its utility, then I would say that it is inevitably the result of market pressure to have a better product. Where money is concerned, profit pushes improvement. This is just part of the underlying structure the economy.

If you are asking about social incentives, it is a personal one for the programmer. He feels fulfilled writing the program. Is it not the same self-fulfillment that his manager was seeking- the idea of meeting his ideal self's human potential? It may not be the same goal, but the main crux of the argument is in self-fulfillment.

But all of that is off-topic considering the headline.

If you are looking for an argument that would give merit that this job "creates value," I would say that it feeds the families of those who work at that company by making it more sustainably profitable.

I'd weasel my way out of answering the question directly. I would counter that you can ask the same thing about what value marketing gives. Sure the companies have useful products, but what does all that money spent on image branding and market testing product color and style pallets give? Hell, even the TV programming they place it against can be absolutely vapid and lacking in any moral or mental fortitude.

But back to my off-topic rant up above. When the general economy hires talent, we generally view that the use of such talent not only increases the talent pool by demand but also the training quality of future professionals by the increased use of such training facilities (universities, researchers, hardware, market). Relying on only measuring directly viewable metrics is a nice and dandy, but the big picture approach (although based on ideals and doesn't correlate 1 to 1 in reality) is a general notion that is hard to argue against.

tl;dr The more you use a resource the more it improves (towards efficiency). This includes talent.
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You are right, there is a huge difference. Essentially he's whining their legal terms do not serve his purpose. And they have better paid lawyers to prove it. And then he gets all upset about robots.txt which is actually not a contract of any sort. Let's all move along.
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The robot is picking up an object with a deformable geometry, analyzing that geometry, and then using that data to manipulate that geometry in a desired fashion. It does this with a series of objects of different sizes, shapes, and colorations. It was presumably not familiar with these particular objects ahead of time.

There's a lot going on here, and it's valuable to have done it.
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How is it ridiculous? The more ridiculous thing is to expect robots.txt to actually have some sort of legal force.
I am not American. I did support the initial Iraq War because in some cases, I believe the ends justifies the means. Yes, we can argue that Bush went for oil - which he probably did, but that's besides the point.

At the end of the day, Iraq just had another relatively successful democratic election where there is even more accurate representation than the first one. It will likely continue to improve, with bumps as they go along, but that would have never happened had Saddam been there still. The new government will be a coalition government run by all major sects. Not one dominating and robbing everybody else.

Why Iraq? I know. Why go to Iraq and not more 'dire' situations like Rwanda, Darfur, Sierra Leone, etc.? I get it, yes those would be good too..but that doesn't take away from the fact that a few million people have some semblance of a democratic institution that works alongside their religion (despite what they had been taught for the last few decades).

I too support the escalation in Afghanistan for the same reason. When all is said and done and the Afghani people have more powerful institutions in place and it will be well worth it. Al-Qaeda will have less fertile ground to recruit from. Until then, it will be a difficult road to travel.

Like any war, there is collateral damage. I don't think the issue with this video is the fact that there is collateral damage in war. It's more the coverup.

While I tend to be pro-military, I think in a case like this, where I am SURE their post-operation analysis revealed that they messed up big time, they should have come clean. Yes, the politics might have made the war more difficult...but it would have been the right thing to do. At the very least, for the families of the reporters killed.
Bruce Tognazzini covers the topic of information theory in user interfaces very well in "Tog on Interface" (which is an excellent book in general).
In the EU, you have a two weeks period that allows you to send back goods ordered online if you don't like them. I always thought something similar existed in the US too. Or are US consumer rights that underdeveloped?
Sending emails is a task that is already well done using some SaaS services (SendGrid, CampaignMonitor, etc), and works great.

But would be interesting to have an opensource app installed on Google Apps todo just that, send emails, with a REST interface.
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Those soldiers, even after seeing the video, seem to remain convinced the people in the van were gathering weapons. Weird.
"Here is my position, restated as clearly as I possibly can:

1. Apple should not charge to put applications you’ve written onto your personal iPad (or iPhone, for that matter). If you purchase one of these devices, you should be able to install software of your own creation on it without any intervention or approval on Apple’s part, other than creating a free developer account. Essentially, take today’s iPhone/iPad developer program, and make it free."

This is key to me. The day Apple allows me to program whatever I want and deploy to my device without giving them an annual "developer fee", I'll buy an IPad, ITouch and MBP.

I am no Open Source Zealot and am perfectly fine with the closed OS and somewhat ok with the AppStore policies, but I find "developer fees" a very patronizing idea, specifically when I have to pay it every year! wtf! if I paid for the damn device. why should I rent my right to develop on it with 20% of the device cost annually?!.

So hopefully someone in Apple will listen people like Payne and revoke the developer fee (at least the "annual" bit).
Too bad the joojoo and the ipad have the exact same price. It makes it really easy to do a side by side comparison. Engadget's review makes it sound like the joojoo was a product from 5 years ago -- it's heavy, slow, poor battery life, gets hot, and has lots of annoying bugs.
I'm with him on this thought experiment all the way up to the last paragraph: "I can't think of any imaginary situation in which long term happiness could come from other people. The best you can hope for is that other people won't thwart your efforts to make yourself happy."

On the contrary. Almost completely, happiness is other people.
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I didn't realize everyone would buy iPads for their kids to the exclusion of everything else. It must be like the 80s when Speak and Spell destroyed that generation of tech whizzes.
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Could somewhat explain why is it so ridiculously expensive? At least in US?
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There's no way to have a non-lethal round come out of a helicopter that's a mile away. If you want something that will maintain any semblance of accuracy over a mile, it has to be high-velocity. Anything moving fast enough to be accurate over a mile isn't going to be non-lethal.

Now, you could argue that they could be close enough that they could reasonably fire an accurate shot with a non-lethal round, but that also puts them much, much closer to danger. At a mile away, they're comfortable enough that they (should) be able to take the time to assess the threat and figure out if lethal force is necessary. If they have to be close enough for a non-lethal round, I doubt they'd ever switch to it since at that range, you really want lethality if you're in a big target (i.e. a helicopter).