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Eh, only partially. The point&shoot -> camera phone transition does indeed work, but there's still the entire medium-amateur market which is still buying a fairly large amount of them. DSLRs are expensive, and camera phones suck. Sure, the market's shrunk rather dramatically, but that's because there was no convenient option before.

Will laptops diminish similarly? Probably a bit. But the same was claimed about netbooks, though Apple wasn't making them, and there's still the large amount of people who do work on laptops who will guarantee a market. Besides, there's too much crap out there, some tighter competition would probably be good.
does not really apply to you...
but those living with roommates could cook alternately throughout the week. A duty cooks and cleans everything up for everybody in house - so you get to cook fewer times than everyday but eat healthy dinner everyday. not sure if it's common thing in here, but I remember being surprised (when I first came to US) seeing Americans (students sharing house/dorm) eating dinners separately.
of course, it only applies to dinner, but that's the most time consuming one I guess.
Ehh, someone had to make the claim, why not Amit?
And come to think I'm the weird one.

I've got a blackberry, an eee, an ibm laptop, multiple desktops, and a good server. I carry my phone everywhere, so I get email/sms/gvoice/facebook/msn/yahoo messages there. If I need a computer, I can use my eee, which is almost always in my van, for windows and linux apps. And to top it off, if I need raw cpu power, I can log in at my apartment to my server and 'crappycluster' of ubuntu eualyptus testing.

As per the iPad, are there any "real apps" that offer printing via cups, ssh, vnc/rdesktop or the multitudes that give access to a real machine? Probably not. I'm sure there are on the 3rd party ipod app servers.... But not on the main Apple controlled one
I fully agree with the author. However, the day he talks about isn't most likely going to be tomorrow. It will either be this summer (when OS 4.0 with multitasking comes out) or this fall (when the iPad will get a camera + multitasking).

Before any of this happens, the iPad is sadly any thing but an iPod Touch (albeit bigger and badder of course).
Right analogy; wrong conclusion.

I still use my digital camera when I want to do "serious" photography, whether it's for taking family photos or any other event that I want to perserve a memory. When it doesn't matter or when my digital camera isn't available, I fallback to my iphone.

The same will be true with a tablet. It won't replace my laptop for work, serious web surfing, research, etc, but it might be there for me when I'm bored and just want to consume content. It will never replace my laptop, but may be light enough and convenient enough to be replacement for for some of today's laptop tasks.

For some people, a camera phone is a enough of a camera. For some people, a tablet may be enough of a computer. For most people, they'll probably want both.
Maybe not on, you know, the day the iPad is released.
I consider this as a hack--I never was able to consistently cook/grill meat until I got a good instant-read thermometer. Now it's embarrassingly easy. Char the meat on the stove or grill for a couple minutes, then throw it in the oven on low heat until it hits the right temperature. It comes out perfectly every time and there's very little effort involved.
Yes. I was amazed at how different mushrooms taste when steamed. Totally different animals. Same goes with a lot of veggies. You can add flavor if you want, but many times, it's unnecessary.
I think the ultimate time saver for cooking good tasting food with little effort is a crock pot. Anything that cooks food over low heat over a long period of time.

This method always seems to produce food that has that special "something" where all the ingredients meld into something magic. It's virtually impossible to mess up and it's good for getting rid of odd bits left in your fridge.

It can also be easily adopted to your nutritional requirements, and to any type of cuisine. Basically every single culture on earth has a version of stuff-thrown-in-pot-and-cooked-for-a-long-time.

The secret to success is to begin with similar ingredients. Usually onions and carrots and garlic- then celery for something european, bell pepper for something south american, maybe ginger for something asian.

Then you add some kind of cheap cut of meat, chicken, pork, beef, it doesn't matter, (sausage or ham, leftover meats- doesn't matter if they've been cooked already) then some other appropriate long cooking vegetable (potatoes, corn, anything that won't fall apart during cooking, an hour before eating, you can put in the more delicate vegetables). Then some water. Cover and leave it for like 4 or 5 hours and when you come back it'll be amazing. If it's appropriate, you can also add any kind of dried beans.

Prep is also easy, because you dont really have to worry about cutting the vegetables carefully. Just cut them any way you like and dump them in.

You can make rice or cous cous or quinoa (starch) to go along with it, or you can have it with bread or crackers.

Some specific examples: osso bucco, coq au vin (adding alcohol in really helps make it good) cassoulet, chili, goulash, tangine, gumbo, indian-style curries, etc., you can see how versatile this method is.....
fun widget for viewing a random photo a day from one friend. i have tons of friends, each with tons of photos....i want to engage with them (these aren't folks i speak to normally), but it's overwhelming.
I disagree. I have Four Computers, Three Iphones, Two Kindles, and, in 12-14 more hours, an iPad.

Two of the computers are desktops - one of them with a 30" monitor and 8 Gigabytes of memory (That was a big deal three years ago. :-), One of the Laptops is a four year old MBP, one of the laptops is a two-year old MBP.

I'm not including the Half-dozen Latitude D600s I use for consoling and labwork.

I am enthusiastically looking forward to my iPad acquisition tomorrow, but I expect it will be replacing my iPhone/Kindle application interaction. For serious work, I _already_ use my Laptop, not my desktop. There really is very little I need the Desktop for, with the possible exception of my always-on VMware cluster of about 15 Unix Systems (8 OpenBSD, and about 5-7 Ubuntu) that I use for OS and Network Simulations.

Everything else I already do on my Laptop. I can only imagine how much more powerful a current MBP Unibody laptop would be.

There really is very little that a desktop offers _me_, except the always on and somewhat higher/cheaper memory parameters. Oh, and the Big Disk. (Though, at home, my TerraNAP NAS is the substitute for that on my Laptop)

So, nice idea, but, ultimately will be wrong. Laptops are not going anywhere, though we may use them a _little_ less in the office. Probably a lot less at home, though.
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If you're asking about VNC clients, the iPhone with iTeleport (nee Jaadu VNC) is a drop-dead awesome VNC client, and there's no reason to think the iPad won't be even better.
Yeah, I have to third the couscous option. It's great for tight schedules.
The method of having the user prove they own the book makes me nostalgic for the Microprose games of the early 1990's. It's easily defeated, though, by going to the appropriate page in the e-book.
I've been trying to understand how the iPad will be disruptive to any market, but I can't. The iPad misses the mark in so many ways. What does it do that my netbook doesn't? Nothing. Is it more comfortable to use? That's really debatable. Better input mechanisms? Certainly doesn't look that way.

I've seen tech folks point out that the iPad must be great because it's something that their mothers want to use. But is that a good thing? Are the same qualities that are attracting your mother to the device the same qualities that would inspire strong adoption? Make the device popular among teenagers? The business community? Artists? The tech crowd?

I can't wait for the iPad to come out because I'm hoping I'll finally have an epiphany about exactly what makes this device worth purchasing.
If you can get past the curt/cocksure/consciously-provocative first two laws, the laws starting at the third have an interesting quadrant-based analysis of human interactions.

The stuff about 'bandits with overtones of intelligence' brings to mind Coasian analyses -- we really don't want to prohibit such net-positive banditry, just arrange side payments. So it didn't surprise me to find at the end that the piece was written by an economics professor.
If anything, I'd say it technically means "it was legal when they were rarer, but now that they're becoming more common, it's illegal" as it's the growth of unpaid internships, not of unpaid interns, that may be illegal.

They were trying to fit the fact that unpaid internships may be illegal and the fact that they've been growing all into one title, and it didn't work so well.

But splitting hairs a) is kind of annoying, and b) doesn't add anything to the conversation about the content of the piece.
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I love quinoa tabouli. Tabouli is a Middle Eastern salad. You'll find various recipes on the web. I like to use cilantro in place of the usual parsley & mint, scallions, cucumbers, tomatoes, salt, pepper, and a dressing of fresh lemon juice, garlic, salt and extra virgin olive oil. I make a huge batch of that and snack on it for a couple of days.
I'm typing this on a $200 netbook that meets my needs far better than an iPad could.

With apt and linux I have an awesome free app "store" with thousands of apps that have been vetted by the community, a task that Apple's app store is far from accomplishing.

I can connect to the internet via bluetooth through my phone's connection.

I use this laptop to write lots of code on, and rarely mind the slightly slower processor, slightly smaller keyboard and slightly smaller screen.

All I'd ask for is a bit more battery life, but surely UNR will compile in top end kernel optimizations for battery life, and maybe my next $200 netbook will be a bit faster and get 10 hours per charge.
Do kids actually learn about power factor?

That point aside, while an intuitive understanding is nice, power factor is really a mathematical construct arising from the multiplication of two out-of-phase sinusoids (i.e. voltage and current).

I think to really understand active / reactive power and pf, you need to look at the maths. It's really not that difficult. And you certainly don't need to know vector calculus, merely high school trig.
In terms of preparation speed - there's a reason we Americans like sandwiches - if you're preparing food for yourself, a sandwich is about as fast to produce as you can get. Also, can be made just about as healthy as you want, depending on what you put in.

For example, buy a chunk of deli meat, a block of cheese, some lettuce, some tomatoes, and various sauces (mustard, mayo), and you can slice them up and have a meal in about 5-10 minutes. You can do that all week, alternating condiments, meats, and cheeses for variation.
Check out this great blog dedicated to exactly the purpose you describe:

http://vegstrong.org

edit: this is one of my favs: http://vegstrong.org/post/422370700/tasty-breakfast-scramble
Good point. :) I'll get rid of the authentication code eventually, but for now at least people can read it if they want to.

And yes, I may have had Spectrum Holobyte Tetris for the Apple IIGS on my mind when I was deciding how to enforce purchases before.
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>a particular service is essential to a civilized society the service belongs in the public sector

Like health care, manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, indeed everything? Welcome to the World Soviet, comrade!
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I love green smoothies. I use other fruit in addition to bananas, also use collards, kale, dandelion and other dark leafy greens, and I don't skip the dairy. They are delicious and very filling.
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Wow, I had no idea. I wonder if this article is going to saturate that bar and make going there pointless.
Ask HN: analytics for web api?
Is there anything like Google Analytics for analyzing web api traffic? Preferably self hosted so the data will stay on my server.

I launched an iphone app that generates a lot of web api requests. I spent half a day rigging up a simple jqplot system for displaying simple stats, but now I want to do geo-ip and displaying which country/state is using my app.

So instead of reinventing the wheel, is there already an web app that can do the analysis for me, and I just need to feed it the data in the proper format?
I guess I think of 'just a vnc client' is somehow missing the mark. The iphone/itouch/ipad are unix devices. Samba has /dev sharing as an option. An app should be able to do something akin to XDMCP login and make it a full fledged computer with access to local storage as a cache to rsync.

I mean, people, this is a full touch computer that Apple has dumbed down to a youtube viewing device... And its capable of soo much more.
Wow, I just made the best omelette of my life. Thanks!
"stupidity" is a poorly-formed category evoked by those too lazy to find the real processes determining other people's behaviors.
You just can't have all those at the same time. Healthy and cheap almost never go together though healthy and quick can if you prepare for a few days. That said, the best source for cheap healthy food is usually farmer's markets. I get fruits, veggies, meats, cheeses, butter, and milk from a couple of different local farmers markets. Fruits are usually much cheaper ($5-$8 for 2 dozen oranges) but meat is usually more expensive because it's much better quality.

Get your ingredients and figure out two days to cook. I do the bulk of everything Wednesday and Sunday. This is a good balance for me with freshness of food and cooking frequency. Also fresh OJ only last 2 to 3 days. Whole milk (preferably raw if you can find good stuff) is a good balanced snack, so is fruit and cheese.

If you're really wanting to be healthy and cheap, and can stomach it, animal parts that people don't usually want are priced pretty well. The Whole Foods here sells grass-fed beef liver at $4/lb and it's incredibly good for you though it tastes terrible (email me for a recipe that makes it tolerable if you're interested). Make broth out of beef ox tails and marrow bones or chicken feet. Eat every 2-3 hours. Eat shellfish once a week.

Anyway, as another poster here said, it's worth it to spend the time on your food. You'll be surprised how much better you feel and work when you're healthy.
This is one of the few cases where I think making a law would be a good thing. It sucks that things like closed-captioning have to be forced, but it seems they rarely happen naturally. Maybe because everyone knows the law is coming, so why bother (because you will have to change your scheme)?
US Postal makes money delivering marketing materials from local businesses (supermarkets and the like) to P.O. Boxes. They also offer no way to let you opt out of this.
If you shoot your stats data out in the same (or similar) format that Apache does, you could use AWStats or Analog (or numerous others) to get graphs and analysis pages - including IP resolution and geo-locating,error frequency, etc.

They're not web apps, per se - you'll need to download and run through PHP.
In tech at least, I've always found the "valuable experience" argument to be a bit of a scam. There are plenty of companies that will be happy to pay you a good stipend (not even anywhere near minimum wage) for an internship. If you want something less job-like, you can work informally with lots of smaller companies, visiting their office and doing odd jobs, essentially as an unpaid freelancer (e.g. find something crappy about their site and offer to fix it). But if they want someone coming in to the office 40 hrs/wk, with a boss and deliverables, they should be prepared to pay them in something more than vague promises of "valuable experience".
I fall into the same camp, but I don't think we fit under the bell curve. But, I love being an outlier! What netbook do you have?
The iPad is the absolute worst tablet device Apple could possibly have released. There is literally no way they could have produced anything inferior to it. I can forgive the Apple fanboys to an extent. When you're a fanboy, it's hard to see the world for what it really is. I'm a diehard fan of certain sports teams, and I'm not able to judge them objectively. Now the non-fanboys who are predicting the triumph of the iPad are just people who fail to understand technology. They resort to imagining use cases where "their mom" loves the iPad. Your mom isn't the one preordering the iPad. You are the one preordering the iPad. And at the same time, you say it isn't suited to "tech-savvy people like you".
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Yeah, this allegedly happens in some areas in the U.S. too, especially business and law--- unpaid internships as a way to filter out the poor, who can't afford to work unpaid internships.
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Google Groups is another Google Products just like that we have Yahoo Groups. The logic of getting traffic from Google Groups is same as that we apply for Yahoo Groups. You have variety of topics to be discussed in Google Groups ranging from different categories.
Thank you. I love seeing sensible people in all of this.

I hate it whenever Apple releases a new product, this extreme overhyping is customary. To be honest I'm excited for Apple's eventual downturn so I can stop seeing this hipster-fanboy-driven drivel any time the company does anything.
Honestly, it seems like the desktop is more in danger of dying these days. Laptops have been far more compelling to average users for some time, especially with the rise of netbooks, and the increasing proliferation of cheap full-sized laptops. It's hard to even recommend desktops to users unless they're heavy gamers or dealing with hardcore media editing.
I disagree.

Camera phones are replacing point-and-shoot cameras because they're starting to catch up to point-and-shoot cameras in terms of quality. Moreover, your regular consumer can do just fine with a slightly blurry 5 megapixel image because all he wants to do is upload his Saturday-night-party pictures on Facebook. (Offtopic: most non-techie people I know prefer to use goodish-quality POS cameras for their vacation/wedding/$IMPORTANT_OCCASION pics because they know cameraphones suck.)

Now the iPad is a completely different beast. It has been designed from the ground up as a media consumption device. Sooner or later, people will realize that the iPad is a kickass entertainment device, but it's useless when you need to work. Just imagine how painful it would be to type up a 200 page report on that thing, even with an external keyboard.

There are a bunch of people who use their computers for actual work, and this bunch is not limited to hackers. Architects, designers, musicians, filmmakers, doctors, researchers, teachers, retail store owners -- all these people need tools - both software and hardware - that the iPad simply doesn't support. Okay, let's assume Apple makes the device more open, or a better device like the Notion Ink Adam takes off. Even then, tablet computers (that's what they're called, right?) will never be powerful enough for most people because of hardware limitations. Media producers, at least, need powerful CPUs and/or GPUs. And tons of storage. There's no way a tablet computer can compare to a full-blown laptop or desktop in terms of raw performance.

Now, I understand the argument in this article is that people will prefer using desktops as work computers and tablet computers as portable computers. The OP is arguing that laptops are a poor compromise between power and portability. Sure, you get more performance-per-dollar with a desktop than a laptop, but laptops are useful not because they're portable computers but because they can double up as desktops. Plug in an external display and keyboard, and you're good to go. And, of course, they can do everything desktops can do.

I, for one, wouldn't want to go to college with only an iPad in hand. I do a lot of reading/programming in the library between (and sometimes during :p) lectures.

PS: I really don't want to sound like a fanboy, but if you want a laptop that is comfortable and has about 8 hours of battery life (10 if you dim the display and turn off WiFi/Bluetooth when you're not using them), get a Mac :)
Yes, AWStats, Webalize and the like will work, but GA handles time series data better and can drill down on specific urls.

I'd also like to be able to modify the code and customize some analysis. That's why I want something like a web app.
I don't think you're being unrealistic, and I think your quest is worthy. I work with a guy who fits your description: he designs screens and then implements them in HTML and CSS. And it's awesome. When those skills are in a single brain, the result is interfaces that feel native to the web (and not like pretty pictures that were sliced up and made clickable).

But these guys are indeed tough to find. It might be helpful to advertise for two positions -- web designer and front-end developer -- and in each description mention the other skills you expect applicants to have. Most people I think will naturally be stronger in one area than the other, or will just self-identify with one job title or the other for whatever reason. Framing the position in a couple of different ways might help you cast a wider net.
> Anything that can't run Emacs isn't usable.

I think this is the most important point in this entire thread :p
is there a pdf version to download and read? do you have plans to do this?
I'm guessing Jason is utilizing/exploiting (you pick) the fact that Cory's piece is licensed under a Creative Commons license - and can be reproduced with attribution.

Two points:

1) The attribution is made, but the link is broken

2) The original work is licensed under CC-Non Commercial.

One could argue that this site, which is a vanity project of Mahalo is thus commercial and would fall outside of the CC-NC license. But it's pretty common for companies to do this - Gawker end up using peoples CC-NC photos all the time and they are clearly a commercial company. This shit just kinda happens all the time.

There is also general ambiguity around whether CC attribution needs to point to a URL or not.

(The fuzziness of both points is an argument why Creative Commons licensing hasn't been a successful as it could have been - although I remain a massive proponent of it, and release as much as I can under it, but I digress)

So while I have my own views on Jason I think it's trick to be too critical of this particular incident.
Isn't it strange to talk about cooking being an investment, and healthier eating in one sentence, and then recommend a way to prepare mac & cheese in the next?
I might put one up eventually, but I'll probably charge for it the way some other authors have. In the meantime there's a version on the Kindle (which apparently you'll be able to also read on the iPad as of tomorrow).
I wouldn't call someone who is working on the "poke a friend" or "throw a sheep" features a "hacker". While the audience is large, facebook isn't changing their lives for the better. The user base may think so, though, just like with the TV.