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I think they got eaten instead.

Biological immortality no good if you get ate pretty soon.
Good point. This might have something to do with global warming and extinction of predators.
So is this animals natural predator diminishing in numbers, which is why they are spiking?
Making better smartphones seems like a decent counter strategy.
For what it's worth, your CSS corners probably won't work in IE. One of the reasons some things are hard in Cappuccino is because they are unreliable in many browsers. We've focused more on cross platform ways of doing things. Of course there are some things we just haven't done yet too.

Anything that's possible with HTML/CSS is possible in Cappuccino. There's either a different way of doing it, or you can drop down to native code if you must. The latter is just generally not a great idea.

JavaScript is an OK language, but it's syntax is far from superior to Objective-C's. More importantly, syntax is irrelevant. What it lacks are features. Features like code importing, and dynamic message passing, and native classical inheritance. Those features (and more) are available at the language level in Objective-J.

Not sure what you mean by "native browser rendering".

The docs aren't great, for sure. But one of the advantages of using a proven set of APIs like Cocoa, rather than implement your own untested APIs, is that there's an incredible amount of quality resources out there that are almost completely applicable to Cappuccino. The APIs aren't "inspired by" Cocoa, they are the same, and so many of the books and tutorials are the same.
According to one of the linked articles, they are suspected to be hitchhiking in the ballast of large ships, so their habitat is unnaturally expanding. There could always be other factors too, like an over-fished predator.
What about enthropy? I would expect that after going between polyp and adult many times the DNA of some cells may get damaged, and the cells may not convert correctly to their new cell types, and eventually the organism will become more and more wrong until it dies.
I've been listening to an entire album once or twice a week for the last year or so. And this is serious, lights off, audiophile grade BUF-03 based amplified Grado headphones on, no distractions listening.

But I'm an anomaly, as I still buy CDs rather than individual tracks from the ITMS.

Here's something weird that I do: if I'm tuning the radio dial and run across a song or band the I recognize as being very well liked by a (absent) friend, I'll stop and listen to the whole thing out of respect for their opinion, even if I don't like it myself.
Good observation. A spike in population implies a recent change in the organism or its environment. Since most multicellular organisms cannot evolve that quickly, it's more likely that there was a change in the environment which this organism was able to take advantage of. I doubt that their numbers are spiking because "they are bale to bypass death".
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Sorry, I'm not clear what you mean. What's the problem?
hmm, that's weird. The question was: is life difficult and your answer is YES, but you still vote NO , because you are answering to the question, I guess: Do you enjoy life? Life's difficult Buddy, that's the first thing you learn when you are born in africa, the next thing you learn, life's not always fair, and that's the time you understand, you have to figth or die.
Ah, that one example of a successful Lisp project.
FYI, SproutCore implements classical inheritance in Javascript.
He's trying to gloss over international laws. In some countries, you can't put something in the public domain except by your copyright naturally expiring. It's not the best example of legal writing, though.
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I'm sure the whole tech scene hopes so, but there are some important differences this time around. I only know enough about law to realize it's extremely complex.
How do SproutCore and Cappucino compare to Google Web Toolkit (as far as the client side)?
I wonder how you manage that. There's either two border crossings or a whole lotta swimming to get there. Once you're there, though, I imagine you're home free.
If it's not one thing it's another.
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There is not a single pair earbuds on the market you can recommend? I want to fall asleep with them: I lie on my side.
They are jellyfish, and jellyfish thrive on the recent development that is large amounts of nitrates in the oceans. Think greenhouse gases, but instead of heat in the atmosphere, it's algae and jellyfish in oceans.
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I think they were talking about the papertowels that you use to wipe off fingerprints/hairs/etc from the bathroom. There's no point in trying to hide your crap-covered toilet paper, because you've already dumped your actual crap into the toilet. In general though, no one is going to be sifting through airplane toilets looking for your DNA. The only thing that you might be protecting yourself against is if 'they' are looking for someone else by sifting through the toilet contents, and happen to match your DNA against something they have on file somewhere.
Maybe border guards are jerks to non-citizens.

And it's funny, please tell Fox News that are border laws are more stringent. Apparently we're the leaky sieve of North America when it comes to letting in terrorists :)
It was stupid because he was tweeting from a known twitter account. Presumably no one that is trying to vanish should be holding on to such accounts.
I love the sentiment as a php connoisseur, but my lack of knowledge about enterprise language has me asking why...?
What's interesting to me is how big a shift mobile represents to Apple's strategy.

Gruber was first to convince me that Apple didn't care about the business that Dell was in. Dell could have it. No margin.

Apple believed they built computers for the "elite" consumer who had taste or money or both and wanted a premium experience. They played there because that's where the margin is.

This situation (highlighted by iPhone vs. Android) is a stark departure for Apple, and it probably illustrates one of two things:

1. The competition is better, or
2. The switching costs for phones is much lower than for computers, and by costs I mean both money and the hassle of migrating data and applications.

Google is doing an amazing job on both fronts. If the iPhone didn't exist, Android would be the clear leader in this market. And when it comes to switching costs, Google is eradicating them: I use Gmail, Google Calendar, and Picasa. All work on both platforms very well. And I use Google Contacts as my primary rolodex.

I don't use Mobile Me because Google provides the equivalent for free (Google's services are probably better, really). Apple really doesn't have any hooks into me.

If Google can deliver a compelling alternative to iTunes, I could move tomorrow and the only costs I'd incur would be walking away from the $30 in Apps I've purchased.

Compare that to my trying to move from OS X to Windows.

Apple is rightly terrified of Google.

And it probably gets worse when the Chrome OS hits the market.

I love love love my MacBook Pro and my iPhone. But increasingly they are delivery vehicles for Google services. The irreplaceable part of that equation is Google, primarily because I'm not interested in Microsoft's or Yahoo's or Apple's alternatives.
Apple seems to be fighting a losing battle here. Google has a larger war chest - that is more products which people find great value in, than Apple and they are fighting on the side of openness which is more in the interests of users. At the same time, I do appreciate the fact that Apple has instilled a sense of aesthetics into the industry.
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Although to be honest, I've not tried either and don't know how they differ. I guess in the end it's that they built something randomly and had fun doing so.
Google's getting bullied by China, sued by Viacom and outmaneuvered by Apple left and right. Media companies (Fox, Viacom, etc.) are ganging up against Google. Bing is gaining market share, and with Google pulling out of China god knows what that will do to Google's stock price.

Apple's got $40B cash vs. Google's $24B.

I think Apple's got the advantage vs. Google.
I imagine that most of the people there that were 'running from something' weren't running from Border Patrol or the CIA. More likely they either skipped bail for some minor charges, or were running from something like child support, minor drug charges, etc. Things where people have no heavy motivation to seek you out other than to put your name on 'watch lists' (e.g. someone is notified if you use a credit card in your name or something like that).
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Google's only major cash cow is search. they know this that is why they are trying to get into apps. mobile, etc. throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks.

other than search, Google doesn't have anything.
I suspect the whole thing, on the dev's part, was a PR ploy. Everything about it seems juvenile too.
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Exactly. I hated jazz too when I thought it all sounded like Kenny G.
In that case, they'd better be delicious, in order to keep the population down...
From the article.

A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.

According to quantum theory, particles act as waves rather than point masses on very small scales. This has dozens of bizarre consequences: it is impossible to know a particle's exact position and velocity through space, yet it is possible for the same particle to be doing two contradictory things simultaneously. Through a phenomenon known as 'superposition' a particle can be moving and stationary at the same time — at least until an outside force acts on it. Then it instantly chooses one of the two contradictory positions.
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I was really hoping for something more interesting than "economics would be a required subject".
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Government of India has also setup similar online (Engineering) courses here - http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/

They have great collection of youtube videos - http://www.youtube.com/iit

Khanacademy has good resources for Primary and Higher Secondary level. A good online repository of aggregating all these education videos , may be playlist of courses would be brilliant.
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It all depends on how well the organism can distinguish between the incorrectly copied DNA (this is probably what you mean by damage) and the right sequence. Given that most of the DNA will be copied correctly, if slightly wrong bits can be detected and excised, then the organism should stay healthy. Biological codes are just as digital as computer ones.
This is all a bunch of tin-hatted flim-flam, but I would be seriously interested in seeing what advice a group of actual security professionals would put forward.

Here in the UK, I can't begin to imagine how hard it would be to go missing and stay missing. Cars are tracked by Automatic Numberplate Recognition systems, bus and train stations all have plentiful CCTV, the cash economy has been decimated - its an interesting thought experiment when considering our levels of state surveillance. As far as I can work out, your only options would be destitution or a dinghy across the channel.
"TDD is clearly not a cure all"

Who said it was?
It's nothing to do with democracy. It's about unjustified stubbornness over a poor design choice that will making upgrading implausible for a great deal of users.
Sorry if I was unclear by my remark on rendering. What I was referring to was Cappuccino's habit of rendering a lot of stuff using canvas, which SC (at least natively; obviously developers can use whatever presentation layers they want) does not. SC also relies on the browser to do much of its work–from resizing to animation—without using any JS.

As for the relative merits of Obj-c and JS, I supposed that's a matter of taste. As mentioned above, SC does implement classical inheritance, but I actually find prototypical inheritance to be very powerful. In general I find my Obj-J (and -C, for that matter) code much more verbose than my JS. Perhaps that's my failure, but still it's something to keep in mind.
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Hmm...I think I might submit that.

EDIT: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1205911
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I've really wanted notifications for a while now; I figured email was the obvious and standard way to do something of that sort (hopefully you can add that soon).

On a related note, your comment is over a day old now - normally I wouldn't reply so long after the fact. Since I know you have notifications on, late replies are now worthwhile. There's a chance this feature can actually affect the discussion here by allowing people to ponder a while before responding. In the past you could only wait so long before the thread left the front page and everyone moved on; things were likely written in haste.
Cappuccino doesn't render anything in Canvas, with the possible exception of a couple minor pieces of the tableview.
Personally, I'm not particularly picky about my forms of immortality.
What about Hydra?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality#Hydra
Sorry, but I see this as a very micro-focused example.

And my argument revolves around iTunes. The sheer amount of content that apple has sold through iTunes would surely suggest that moving to another platform would be a major barrier to transferring to another service.

As you said, Google indeed is doing a fantastic job on a lot of fronts. But from what I see, in this "war" Apple is accomplishing a well executed flank attack by controlling both the hardware and software platforms.

Apple will never get into the search business, but there are so many outliers that many companies (Google, MS, Yahoo etc) have that Apple can out-flank and simple dominate in the long term.

In addition, I'm convinced that Apple is sitting on the AppleTV since they don't yet in their eyes have enough control over games, media content and associated distribution. But, they are headed there, and I would expect that the app Store will soon make it's way to the apple TV (and variants) platform.
My (uneducated about security) guess is that it is because most bugs are in code written in a language by a programmer, not runtime bugs or bugs in the language itself. And that when it comes to languages, how easy it is to shoot yourself in the proverbial foot could (should?) be looked at as being as (or more, depending on your POV?) important then how secure the runtime is.
Seems like immortality without memory is useless, so really that's the question.
Yes, but clearly Microsoft is well aware that doing so would put a huge dent in their image, which would cause them to lose sales (not gain profit).

Apple only sues everyone because they can get away with it. They have brainwashed enough of the population to believe that everything they do is innovation, so people think that its fair nuff that they sue everyone.
Oh great. That's all the Lisp community needs is a hoard of different Lisps competing to see who can write the coolest game using their particular dialect!
Nice, I never saw that site before. Apparently it's more of a iou than ours, where the focus is the actual action of buying somebody else a drink.
Wouldn't border patrol check against the watchlist? Canada at least knows if you're on the list of concealed handgun permit holders.

I guess with enough forest to sneak through and a "clean" buddy to drive through the borders and pick you up, you'd make it. This kid did it, and he was one of the first big BC Bud smugglers: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7683923/kid_cannabis
Unfortunately, I can't really help you with a decent pair. I too go through headphones really fast.

But if you don't care about quality, I'd suggest that you buy a really cheap pair. I am currently using a $4 dollar pair (eh 220 earhugger). Sound quality isn't great, but they work well for audiobooks and are okay for music. And $4 dollars is cheap enough that I don't care buying more once I break them.
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just scroll down from the dailywtf article

(http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Thinking-Machines.aspx?pg=3#... for Ken Jones).
'All other headphones are junk' is a bit strong, no? What about AKG K701s, Sennheiser HD800s, Grado PS1000s or Ultimate Ears 18 pros? I'd rather listen with any of them than anything by Sony. Broadcasters love the MDRs, but only partly for reasons of fidelity.

In response to the OP, the simple solution is to do what we do professionally with $1000 custom in-ear monitors and $2000 lavalier microphones - attach them securely to the user. Unless you're doing something really weird, it's cable strain that is killing your earbuds. Think about how you can secure the cable to yourself to stop the cable from getting tugged in your sleep.

Possible solutions:- Loop the cable from each ear and tape it to the back of your neck with Micropore surgical tape. Use bobby pins or spring clips to attach the cable to your clothing. Run the cable inside your clothing. Use an armband or a clip to attach your MP3 player to yourself.

If you sleep on your side then that rules out all the quality in-ears I would normally suggest, as they all protrude quite far from the ear. My usual low-budget recommendation is the Sennheiser CX300, which sounds a bit boxy and dull compared to the high-end buds but works well enough for $40 and comes with a 2-year warranty. Just don't buy them on eBay, it's full of counterfeits.
> nobody knows, for example, the road rules in their local area at any given time?

Actually, they don't. Almost every vehicle, including those fresh off the lot, will fail an inspection by someone who wants to find a problem.

> The more stable these laws are, the easier it is to know what they say. This proposition makes them less stable.

You're assuming that this change will significantly affect people's ability to know the law. It doesn't - they're already ignorant AND the law mutates enough as it is.

> So repeal bad laws.

It's almost impossible to repeal things. The US still has a mohair subsidy from WWI.

> That sounds like a better idea than presuming that all laws are bad and repealing them automatically.

I'm not presuming that all laws are bad. I'm proposing a mechanism for getting rid of bad and obsolete laws that has some chance of actually working.

We don't elect legislators for life, so why should the default for laws be "forever"?
"The sheer amount of content that apple has sold through iTunes would surely suggest that moving to another platform would be a major barrier to transferring to another service."

That will not continue to be true for long. The future of media consumption (well, at least music consumption) is from streaming services, which don't make you deal with syncing. iTunes may be user friendly, but the whole sync process is still time consuming and frustrating. Also, all music that's been sold on iTunes for over a year is DRM-free, and you can 'upgrade' your older songs for a relatively modest fee if you want to.

There's an argument that video content (which is still laden with DRM) will provide adequate lock-in, but that will probably start streaming too in the next year or two. And I think it's less of a big deal to most people if they can watch a TV show on their phone, anyway.
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There is not Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute. The author of this article meant the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

http://www.stri.org/english/research/facilities/marine/bocas...
Or, or, or, and this is the tough part, I could get an internship at a national lab, working on more interesting OS stuff, for $24/hour. Damn, what to choose.

Honestly, who does unpaid engineering internships anymore?
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I might wait a bit then, because I'm trying to find a mobile which I always have, which has good video quality (because I never know when I need one)..
It's just simply rude.
They say Steve Jobs believes in karma, and there's been some questions about how fair it was for him to get on another state's organ waiting list and possibly jump the queue or whatnot. It's good that he's doing something to help everyone else who needs an organ transplant.
If I am copying to multiple machines, it would be a pain to enter the passwords that many times. Also, ssh-copy-id is specific to .ssh. If I have a passphrase set up on my keys, copying my other config files would ask for passphrase if I don't have my ssh-agent running and keys added.

This copy utility is meant to be a generic setup utility which I use the first time I have to configure a remote node. You only have to enter your passphrase/password once and assuming you have the same setup on every node, it would run fully automated from their.
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I also use Netbeans IDE. It works through a native gem and requires a specific version of the gem to work properly. Its a little funky, but I almost never need it.
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Agreed. Six months of full time work is ridiculous. That's not even an internship, it's just unpaid labor.

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IANAL, but I doubt that part of the contract would hold up in court. When looking at contracts, the court tends to favor the little guy, and I'm certain that app developers could argue that Apple was unjustly enriched by the contract. Now, I'm hardly a source of reputable knowledge, as my only experience with law is only one quarter of Business Law in college, but I could see the case going either way.
Sorry to hear about your bad luck. :(

"ruby internship offer @ 70+ hours a week unpaid"

Wow. Just wow. Why would anyone choose to program Ruby for 70+ hours a week unpaid when they could launch their own Ruby web app instead? Either way you get business experience but if you launch your own web app at least you have a chance at revenue.
I prefer life difficult. I could make life easy, and not care or try so hard at the things I do. I really could, and I do sometimes to get away for brief periods of time. But I simply enjoy the challenge. Life's more interesting difficult.
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Depends on whether or not you can selectively preserve memory. If could be useful if it acted sort of like amnesia where you retain things like muscle memory and factual memory, but not personal memory. Though I wouldn't necessarily look forward to the prospect of losing my life experiences.
Makes you wonder if immortality without memory is even immortality at all.
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It was built for fun and practice. I've only shown it to a few people so far, and their feedback has been very helpful. Your comments are most welcome.
If you said no - and meant it - then you are wasting it. (Or perhaps we just interpret the question differently.)

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