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There will still be a place for Apple to sell developer tools, which would likely still be desktops and laptops. Or to put it another way, Apple engineers will probably want to use Apple computers to create Apple products.

It’s possible though that some point in the future that these desktops or laptops will probably end up with the mindshare similar to their xserve servers, pretty much unheard of to consumers who know Apple as “the iPod/iPhone/iPad” company.
Heh, I'm lying in bed reading Hacker News this morning, and where is my MacBook? Perilously balanced on my knee ;)
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I disagree about Intel and AMD getting pretty good at shutting down idle circuits. The more-than-40-watts of idle consumption of the CPU alone in Intel's latest i-incarnations is not anything remotely close to "pretty good", even with the hindsight of how things used to be 10 years ago.

Here's an interesting fact, btw.: some cores in the P3 family that have a TDP of 15-20 watts can idle at about 2-3 watts - numbers and percentages that the Core 2 and iN architectures don't even come close to.
The teardown indicates that "K4X2" is written on the A4 chip and they believe this to be a Samsung DRAM part number. I Googled for it but found nothing helpful so am going to stab in the dark and guess 4 gigabits (a more common measurement on-the-chip for memory) * 2 == 512MB * 2 == 1 gigabyte. Of course, that's a total guess and I've not seen memory part numbers work quite that way before ;-)
To convert any video source (including AVI and--don't tell anyone!--DVD's) to MPEG4/H.264 to play on the iPad or some other device, you can use HandBrake: http://handbrake.fr/
They sell replacement parts, you get the necessary step by step instructions for free on their website. They are also pretty much always the first to (systematically and publicly) pry open new Apple gizmos.

Seems to be a great strategy. When I wanted to research prices for iPod mini batteries yesterday the first address that came to my mind was ifixit.com
Nick Carr: The post-book book (iPad)
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It's trivial to rip a DVD into a high quality mp4 with Handbreak or similar tools. At this point AVI containers are actually not as well supported as mp4/h264. I can't think of any good reason to encode to AVI.
Hmm. I remember a guy, whatshisname, bald, rich, monkey-like, running around on a stage shouting DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!!!

Don't know what ever happened to him, but i think that maybe he had a point.
From what I understand of the (very preliminary) plans for 8 is to integrate some of the elements from Surface, finally do away with the registry, and hide much of the filesystem from the end user among other things that may be more or less surprising to some. Backwards compatibility will still hang around in the form of virtualization.

Microsoft is still an innovative company that needs to do a better job fast tracking R&D to real world applications.
Oh lame. I was viewing the single page view, My bad.
Hence the reason you try to take a large sample size (230 photos), to control for effects like that. Those players are just examples.

Besides, Mantle drowning himself in alcohol typically = unhappy. As they did not explicitly say SMILING MAKES YOU LIVE LONGER, but that players who tended to smile tended to live longer, that still fits the results. The unhappy guy is killing himself, and it shows up in his facial expression.
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1. When anyone loans money or buys an insurance policy, they are subject to counterparty risk: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/counterpartyrisk.asp

What is evil is that if it was you instead of Goldman Sachs, AIG would have paid you pennies on the dollar instead of the full value on paper.

4. See #1. Counterparty risk is part of every deal.

Example:

If you took a bet from Joe Sixpack that would probably pay $1000, but possibly $10 million (more than his life time earnings), the US government would not, and should not, be using taxpayer money to pay you $10 million in the worst case scenario. Unless you happen to be Goldman Sachs.
Link didn't work for me? I wonder if Max regretted the "attention grabbing" title of this one...
anyone who would be worth taking on as an unpaid intern, is worth paying minimum wage

It's not the money you save by not paying the intern that is valuable to the explosion of companies that want unpaid interns.

The real value comes in restricting the opportunity to people of the right social class and with the right family connections to be able to subsidize your company by paying. Working unpaid costs money for commuting, for dressing up, by closing the chance to work a job for money, and other ways. Only the privileged can afford to do it.

So if you want to include only the already privileged in your company, unpaid internships are the way to go. And that's also the reason they should be tightly regulated or outlawed.
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There's a link on his twitter that still seems to work: http://blog.cubeofm.com/private/miEcmBmtdd
I started off writing a reply here, but it became way too long. So I converted it to a blog post, and then it became way too long.

So I apologize in advance for the super-long post, but I hope it'll clear up your questions: http://neosmart.net/blog/2010/the-arm-the-ppc-the-x86-and-th...

EDIT:
Submitted. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1238930
I couldn't find any concrete numbers from a resource I trust, but a quick search reveals a few articles:

This claims that the idle power consumption of the Quad Core 45nm Nehalems is around 17 watts:
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_conte...

And this one is about a 32nm Westmere (dual core) where the entire system draws 27 watts at the wall when idle:
http://anandtech.com/show/2846/4

Not great considering that the chip isn't doing anything, but definitely not the 40+ you're claiming.
The ARM, the PPC, the x86, and the iPad
If your goal is to do something to make a difference in the world, are you sure you want to become a quant? I think you may be misleading yourself about the degree to which you can participate in that world without becoming part of it. Swim with the sharks, and you become one.

Why not make money the way Larry & Sergey or Jobs & Woz did, by creating wealth?
Something like this is almost certainly going to happen, especially as performance-critical code is rewritten to be massively multithreaded over the next few years. At that point, if you can get two or three times as many cores, running about the same speed, on the same number of square millimeters, with the same power usage, then your computer will effectively be two or three times as fast. At that point, it becomes hard to justify the massive amounts of chip real estate and power consumption devoted to decoding 386 instructions, slightly accelerating single-threaded performance with huge out-of-order execution buffers, and that kind of thing.

Tilera seems to be kind of betting on this today. GreenArrays is betting on it a lot harder; they have what appears to have taped out silicon with 144 processors, running an aggregate of 100 billion instructions per second, on 650 milliwatts, linearly scaling down to 14μW on idle.

Things I disagree with in your description:

• It's not clear that OpenCL or Grand Central will be the software platform on which people will achieve massive parallelism for most performance-critical software. It might turn out to be something older like R, or OpenMP, or MPI, or assembly language with manual synchronization.

• If your many slower cores aren't fast enough, the GPU isn't going to help you; it only speeds things up when your work is already parallel.
There's a couple of things going there. One of them is that nowadays you have enormous caches (6 MB?) to fill out the chip and wring out performance. Unfortunately, in today's deep submicron processes, you get significant static current which was not a problem ten years ago. (If you put the cache in an ARM, it will have the same power draw.)

The other is that the server chips (not to mention laptop) are where to look for the best in power efficiency. For consumer/gamer machines with 200W graphic cards ...
Probably a typo for "NurtureShock", a recently published book: http://www.amazon.com/btw-you-can-put-anything-here-or-even-...
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I've said it before and I'll say it again about his posts. I'm highly skeptical that the anecdote held much truth. His stuff would be a lot more interesting if he cut about 50% of each article.
I'm pretty sure that Lisp isn't as worthy as Gabriel paints it, for this simple reason: We grasp the static-verse more readily than the dynamic.

At most levels of work, we aren't actually making enormous changes all at once - even in the writing analogy, a story has to be written one sentence at a time, and if the concepts start changing partway through, the rewrite has to be done....one sentence at a time. The breakthrough concept that turns everything on its head is usually itself just one sentence.

In programming, we change two lines and then run the program again, we build on known, tested libraries and languages, we develop a concept on paper and then implement it. And because these things are built on a small foundation of logical concepts, we can build the language to ensure ever-greater levels of self-consistency that would otherwise only be manifested at runtime.

Feedback loops.

The fiction writer has a short feedback loop - the "state" of a story is small - no explosions of complexity as one would get with loops or recursion - so its progression can be kept in her head.

The programmer has a longer feedback loop, because her expectation is not to maintain the entire progression of the program in her head, but to let the computer do it and then display the results in some manner.

Dynamicness optimizes the feedback loop for greater incrementalism: the program runs until it hits any one point where an irreconcilable error is encountered, and then multiple options are available to fix the error and even let the program continue.

Staticness optimizes the feedback loop for "batch" error-checking: the programmer writes a full body of code she thinks is correct, with no run/test cycle to speak of, and then gets all the errors at once. When the program compiles, it works.

Since we can't implement either ideology perfectly, it's probably best to have some of _both_.
My understanding was that the money paid to Goldman came out of the pockets of the American taxpayer, through AIG and into Goldman's pockets.

Sure, AIG owed Goldman money. But when AIG went belly up, why did the U.S. taxpayer step in to pay Goldman in AIG's place?
I'm writing this post on an iPad.

It's a very nice device. Noticeably heavier than a kindle 2. Typing on this is a breeze, but not as accurate as with a keyboard. Write now I'm typing about as fast as I can on a normal keyboard (landscape mode). Making several typos here and there, but it's nice to do short messages with. I won't correct typos in the next paragraph.

No PDF support but ere are some programs that support is. Noticablt GoodReader which has drop box support.

"the above should have read" No PDF support but there are some programs that support it. Noticeably GoodReader which has drop box support.

If you type slower on it, it's more accurate. Think in the 20-30 WPM range.

Netflix on it, wow. Really cool. The screen on it is gorgeous. Everything looks really good, except upscaled iPhone apps. Most of those are muddy looking. For example, Fieldrunners for iPad looks a zillion times crisper than the iPhone version upscaled.

Some media (an iTunes movie I bought, some games) don't have very good volume. Other things are loud and clear, so there's some rough edges here and there.

Scrolling in this hacker news text entry box is annoying. Similar to using it with an iPhone. It needs a scroll bar (likely Safaris fault).

Overall it's about as intuitive as an iPhone with a few new things here and there to learn. It's really fun to consume content on it, particularly books and websites. Im not sure I would want to create much on it. Creative apps will have to have very intuitive, easy, automated UI's to make creation easy. Part of me wants to see TextMate ported to it, but another part of me thinks that's a horrible idea. Maybe with an external keyboard...

I can see a lot of people buying one of these and using it more than their laptop/desktop. Really, if you didn't have to sync the iPad with iTunes, you could forgo using a desktop entirely. Not an option for techies or hackers, but few people fall into that category.

It has gotten easier to type on since starting this post. Definitely try one out. This is some very cool tech.
It's very hard to algorithmically translate Latin, a lot harder than other languages. It is an ancient language that was used differently throughout the ages. Obviously the old Latin from the time when Rome was just a kingdom in the Italian Peninsula, the Latin of Virgil, the Latin of medieval laws and the Latin used today in the Vatican are very different from each other, not grammatically or in vocabulary but in idioms, methaphores, etc., stuff that really make a language unique. It is hard enough even for humans to translate old Latin texts sometimes.

Still, I don't doubt that the clever people at Google would be able to manage to do it, I'm just saying that it's a lot harder than translating from or to a modern language.
Apple will switch the Mac to ARM if and only if Microsoft does it, too. Let's set aside the technical questions for a moment--the ability of a Mac to painlessly virtualize a Windows VM or boot into Windows is a key feature.

Also keep in mind that x86 has already defeated several technically superior ISA's in the marketplace by a combination of lock-in and Intel's ability to keep performance high on x86 parts.
Why do you think I underestimate my own mom? She's been trying to learn to use a computer for the past 10+ years, and she can't. I showed her my iPhone a few months ago and she began to actually do something interesting with a computing device for the first time in her life.
Outside of the great depression, have the crises been as bad as they were before the institution of the Fed? It's possible that the Fed has moderated the severity of monetary crises.
I don't think it really greatly shapes the way you locate and consume information - and again, I'm comparing me (born 1966) with my kids (born 1994 and 1999). The feeling I have is that I always conceived of the world the way it is now, and it's only now catching up. Google wasn't earthshattering, although it's true that I do a lot less interlibrary loans. I keep up on news better, because I always found newspapers tl;dr (except for the comics page, and Web comics are better than anything on there nowadays anyway).

I've taught my kids everything they know about the Internet, the only excepting being that my daughter researched Twitter for me and how to tweet from my phone - but only after I asked her to. And yeah, she found xkcd on her own - a year after I'd been following it.

So I just don't buy it. Unless I'm a digital native, which is chronologically impossible, I'm forced to say that there are just some people who deal well with the Internet age and some who don't, and there is a generational skew due to exposure - but talking about "natives" vs. "immigrants" is boneheaded.

Your larger point is spot-on. I have yet to interest either of my kids in programming, despite numerous attempts. For my son, 11, the computer is essentially a gaming and cartoon serving machine, and for my daughter, 15, it's a portal to her friends around the world and something to write her fan fiction and more serious work on, and find music. How it all works is just not interesting to either of them. (Darn it.)
Well, the big advantage is it doesn't listen on a port, which means if the system in question has a crazy local firewall policy, this works better. Also, on a multi-user system, this is more secure as other users cannot connect to this port.

Plus, I'd rather use one command than two, makes scripting easier.
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I've been carrying this around for a year and finally mocked it up. Maybe a YC or other incubator application, however I am an old geezer with a family and committments so that might be an additional challenge. Please contact me off list if you have any interest. Thanks.
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Easy to say, but hard to do when its your savings on the line, and the life or death of the project you're creating.

I'm not all freaked out about it; I'm still productive everyday. But I agonize over whether I'm missing an alternative path.
"Haskell or Erlang or Factor are mind expanding in ways Common Lisp never was."

I see Lisp is more mind-reflecting beyond just being mind-expanding. It's easier to write Haskell programs in Lisp than the converse.
I have a different experience. The best teachers I've had generally spoke without notes (although I'm sure they'd thought about what they were going to say beforehand).
Sweet! Thanks for posting this (an hour before the other submission that hijacked your link by pointing to page two, I might add).

The only bad thing is it was a bit deflating to see the thing disassembled while I'm still waiting for UPS's very slow (in subjective terms) delivery today.
BTW, I thought I should mention that my netbook has no trouble with AVI files. It runs VLC, an open source app that plays anything as long as it isn't DRM'd (and some stuff that is DRM'd).

I really hate this. It seems to me like people really don't understand audio/video encoding and compression. After putting in patches to ffmpeg I found an appreciation for the capabilities and limitations of the software. For example, the reason why his netbook probably isn't able to play 720p H.264 is probably because it doesn't have an integrated hardware decoder chip. The iPad does. After seeing the kind of nasty things that people do with video formats I don't really blame Apple for limiting the video decoder. FFmpeg, for example, is perfectly willing to package AVC/H.264 video and AAC audio into an avi container in complete violation of the specification.

It's not like Apple leaves the user no choice, either. Quicktime 7 is capable of transcoding almost everything I've found to AVC/H.264 in an MPEG4 container.

I'm not claiming I'm an expert on signal processing, but it always seems like the people who know the least are screaming the loudest.
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Victory at Boston's Apple Store, and a look at an early multi-player iPad game
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How many apps were rejected? Without the denominator we have no idea whether or not surviving review is actually difficult, only the reviewers' very poor reputation for mostly just approving trivially reviewable apps like fart button #148272.
Well, from what I can tell, this is as slick or slicker than every other tablet, and no one else can match the App Store iTunes ecosystem.

As I said before, extra screen real estate has a nonlinear effect on UIs. It's far more than a bigger iPhone already, and this is just a start.
Copy/paste is even slower if you don't know about the keyboard shortcuts. Which a lot of people don't.
If that's true for the iPhone, it's much truer for the iPad. (Posted from one)
Always nice to hear when the good guy gets the girl.
Annoyance again: doesn't work on a page with a text entry box!
This is a link to an article about hemorrhoids.
Congrats sivers !
I've just been running into this same issue actually and it's sooo frustrating. Especially with software patents that are so ridiculous. In my case, some idiot has a patent on basically using a database to look stuff up (just applied to one specific industry). It's actually an issued patent! Crazy!

Anyway, we had a brief consultation with a patent attorney and we think we can work around the patent in our case. But he said a thorough review of the patent and all the documentation could like run upwards of $10k, and any litigation would easily be $25k to start and most likely a whole lot more expensive.

Options are really-

(1) Find a way to work around the exact patent methodology and still accomplish your goal
(2) License the patent
(3) Do nothing and risk getting sued
(4) Give up

Best of luck to you!
I'm not sure about that...Sivers seems more like a bad-ass that appears like a good guy.
Best bang for the buck/upgrading GPUs.

I happen to be using my laptop for gaming now, and it can handle everything, but I fully expect to need a new desktop in a year or two, because I won't be able to update the graphics card. The laptop will be fine for everything but gaming at that point.
Education schools may have the data, but it's probably in their best interest to bury it deep ;-)

A search for "infantilization" may get you something. I hit this: http://infantilization.blogspot.com/ - apparently short lived, may be a start.
Weird, no one seems to blame our own government.
I'm glad to see such a rational argument about why Haskell matters. After reading this I wonder why more people aren't using Haskell.

Why are the reasons to stick with Java over Haskell in the long run?
Really?  Am I the only one who wants Wordpress in git?
I'm probably just an idiot, but why is the only copy of Wordpress I could find on github almost 2 years old?

I've rolled my own.
Size markets using narratives, not numbers
How often do you print 16"x20" prints, because only for this size you need 8Mpx?

How often do you crop photos? Being able to take in more of the shot and focus in on the details is priceless. Granted, shrinking the picture to 1/4 size is unusual, but it's still worth having the option. (It means you can always shoot wide, and not worry about sudden movements, etc.)

As for camera phones, Verizon almost never has a flash. That cripples their camera phones.

I bought a point and shoot this summer, but that was so I had something I could go snorkeling with. (Waterproof to 30ft and wouldn't want to pay thousands for an equivalent SLR even if I could scuba dive with it.)
Well, great insight.I haven't thought about it. You changed my opinions. But as you know when you master your expertise after 10 years you can make a lot of money by investing.

These people are rare exceptions. I am just not sure if I can invent something so great as they did.

I am also interested in computer security. I would love to create OpenBSD-like user-friendly system and sell only hardware like Apple. But it is so improbable. Masses are not interested in secure system. They want a pretty and easy to use system. So it is really hard to work on things in which you have passion, interest and make big money as well.

My main tendency is to donate research. There are smart people who are short on money. I could pay for their education etc. Creating another Google is hard task, but make money for honest poor student is not so hard. It is quite difficult to make a decision now.
I'm on page 73, and I don't think this guy has said one positive thing about a single person so far (except his parents, who always take his side). What an anger-filled rant.
How much latin text remains that wasn't already laboriously translated by experts centuries ago?
Make sure you read the claims carefully -- only the claims can be infringed, and often the claims are much narrower than the description.

(A patent claim can be thought of as an AND statement, or as an infringement checklist - see a posting I did this morning for more details, at http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/2010/04/how-patent-claims-wor...

EDIT: Usual disclaimers: Don't rely on this as legal advice, I'm not your lawyer, etc., etc.
CPU's were/are one of the last pieces of computer-related hardware that I still kind of considered "magic." This article definitely helped to alleviate that...
Not developing for the iPad is risky? Sinking a massive amount of money into porting a huge app suite to a platform it may be rejected from is probably at least as risky.
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