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The party's position is (fairly) secure - they're certainly not in immediate danger of losing political control of the country. Attacking Taiwan would result in some pretty dire consequences, not the least of which is trade sanctions from just about every single one of China's largest trade partners.

As an export and industry-oriented economy, they simply can't survive that.

If the party is looking for a quick PR win and publicly flex is muscle, it would do much better to attack a domestic target - the international community has more than proven that when it comes to ethnic issues in China they will do little more than issue mild rebukes.
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Couldn't Android change their wakelock interface to satisfy the mainline devs and then distribute some kind of low level backwards-compatibility layer to keep existing apps/drivers from breaking?
That map has San Diego as a suburb of San Jose.
misleading title?
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I keep trying to explain apple aren't in the cellphone business. Do you consider the ipod touch, which is outselling the iphone now, a smartphone? What about the ipad?

Apple are in the mobile computing with a centralised app store business. And according to my calculations (based off data from wikipedia) they have ~88% of the market.
Also, Bill Gates doesn't run Microsoft anymore.
Malicious software removal tool?

Ironically, Windows XP Tablet has become the platform on which I run my FOSS software on a tablet.
Because you get money while it lasts. If you're fully aware of problem and its consequences - why not just stop worrying and love the bo^W appstore. I'm not sure why would any hobby developer do that though...
While we're on the subject, iTunes could even do with being remade on OS X. It's a bit crufty and funky feeling (non-Cocoa?).
It is a thought experiment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment
Apple is definitely not "minute" in the smartphone market, although obviously how you define the market is key.

It is an interesting thought experiment to think about what would happen if the iPhone OS did start to head up in market share (e.g. if Apple actually released iPhone minis or something of the sort). As they approached dominance, there would be a whole number of things that they all of a sudden couldn't do. Blocking Palm from iTunes, exclusive App Store, this restriction, etc. Strategically if they started to head towards large market share it might even make sense to slow it down to preserve their freedom to operate.
Can I see the EFF's Utopia of the Future for comparison?
Except that's even easier, because it's just Shift-F.
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That's part of the "magic".
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It was made clear, or it was clear because you read through all the agreements?

I'm asking because I think it's a different story if it was buried in some fine print versus stated clearly up front.

Jamie is the one who brought such a wide audience to the story, but he didn't mention anything about being aware of the chance that there may not be any funding.

I still think that what Bootup has done is pretty shady, but it may end up being less shady than the blog posts have made it sound.
There are more than 10x as many people who can pay $1M for a launch than there are who can pay $10M.

We've seen this before many times before.

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex... Auspex vs Network Appliance, (early) Ford vs all the luxury car makers, and so on.

> And if you were to hop on a rocket, would you pick the one that had a severe failure within the past few years, or one that has been operating as engineered for the past 20-30 years?

Except that that's not the choice that I have. My choice is between going up on a rocket with a 5% chance of failure or not going at all.

Yes, there are folks who won't take that 5% chance, but there are a lot that will.
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I consider iTunes for Mac to be a lousy piece of software, too. I've found it to be a memory hog with inadequate features on both platforms. I think that most people don't complain about it on Mac because it meets their needs and they don't know any better, as most lay Windows users don't complain against Internet Explorer.
On Linux (Gnome), you can drag and drop from the save dialog in the Take Screenshot app so you never actually have to save it. I just tested it with GMail and it works like a charm.
Yeah, and we recently switched to pure phonetic spelling as well. Sorry, I meen fonetik. Dam.
It explains why the shortcuts don't work on Gmail, they are disabled by default on google domains, see the preferences.
I'm next door to Bootup Labs... all I know is, Hackernews needs to chill out. The people at Bootup, both the startups and management, are great folks who care about tech, care about the community and about innovation. The character assassinations of the people involved are unwarranted.

Securing funding is always hard, and the whole VC scene is crazy. Some companies get millions thrown at them even though they've been burning cash for years, others have great ideas and just can't secure some pocket change to get going. As far as I can see, Bootup is doing a pretty good job.
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I realized my calling in life was to sell hand-knitted red, white & blue beer koozies. Alas, Walmart won't carry them in their store. Can I get some blogger outrage over here?
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Where was this ten years ago when I needed it? I worked for a electronic medical records ISV, and we had requirements like: Print referral letters on regular paper, chart notes on paper with a special blue line on the edge, and prescriptions on a special printer. Our thick Java Swing client was at the mercy of an admin to configure each workstation correctly. Even then, we could not easily do things like print to an alternate printer when the primary one was not working.

I had envisioned some sort of document printing service which could receive a request from our back-end services to render and print, say, a RTF document using a specified set of print rules (paper requirements, micro-geographic preferences, etc.).
Please, Microsoft, do this. An iTunes designed for Windows would take 90% of the irritation I have with my iPod away (and would just be a generally classy move on Apple's part—providing the best experience of their hardware, regardless of your choice of OS.)
In this case "they" is a company that sells products that you are free to not buy wielding the "weapon" of a development agreement that you are free to not enter into.
> SpaceX seems more to me like fast food

And this is a bad thing?
Do you know of any better music player software for OS X?
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I like how apparently nobody else got that this was an April Fools prank.

At least, I hope to God it was an April Fools.
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Google adds more data to their store. Will Google be retaining the documents to be printed in any way?
They'd just raise prices.
I hope you realize how simplistic you are being. Does Apple give its shareholders all of its profits? Hardly.

It is interesting to theorize what a stock price for a firm that cannot be purchased by another firm (at least extraordinarily unlikely to be purchased) and that doesn't pay dividends means.

People about all sorts of measures of return. However, very few talk about equity being debt.
I think the point is about double standards. Not that I disagree with you.
Why is that trouble? Consequences, schmonsequences!
If you readed the linked article, it says it could work offline, the whole protocols are open source.
I've heard conflicting reports on this too. Do you have a link saying Twitter is profitable?
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that: the Pentavirate is now in charge. A secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including Microsoft, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows. The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up.
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If you only need something to play music/video files, I would suggest VLC Player; I haven't found anything better. However, if you're big into organizing your music (different playlists for different moods, etc.), you might find VLC to be lacking a bit.
The G1 collector, for starters, is a lot more advanced in terms of GC technology. From what I remember, the CLR is a simple generational collector.

I've also seen examples of the JVM running well on extremely large boxes, where as I have not seen it with the CLR.
This would actually make iTunes for Windows much better.
The important thing is it'd fuck Apple completely while it drags through the courts. It's a shame Adobe, Google, Novell, Unity etc aren't in a position to do anything about it.
There are plenty of other media players that work fine with Windows. Some even let you just rsync your media to the device and they figure it all out.

The only people who still use iPods are college kids and Apple fanbois.
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Did anything important come out of the talk - can anyone summarize who watched it?
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I agree. That would require Apple loosening the noose though (which seems unlikely)
Hidden down below he also has a video of how he made it:

http://www.rationalcraft.com/Winscape_MakingOf.html
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At least Europe has high-speed trains, so if you are traveling within Europe there is the possibility of making progress towards reaching your destination.
The Common Data Set figures are gathered by a standardized methodology (dictated in large part by the methodology of reports colleges are required to make to the federal government). Here's a pretty comprehensive list of publicly posted Common Data Set filings for colleges.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection...

(Go to near the end of this long thread for the latest updated alphabetized list.)

The tuition revenue per professor indicated in the HN comment

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1268063

is simply too high. That was a wild guess, not a statement based on actually doing research.
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To be quite brazen about it, the only point I see in LinkedIn groups is to slap the logo of a former employer/assocation/whatever on my page so that people see it when they look at my profile.
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The Space Shuttle program has had 130 launches. The crew died twice. That's a failure rate of around 1.5%. The Apollo program had 11 launches and no loss of life... as long as you don't count the three astronauts who died on the ground in the Apollo 1 fire.

Assuming the same failure rate of 1.5%: (1 - 0.015)^11 = 0.84. That means that if the Apollo program was just as (un)safe as the Space Shuttle program, we would have an 83% chance of seeing no loss of life in the Apollo missions.

The Apollo program had the advantage of using big dumb boosters with no reusable parts, but the Space Shuttle program got to use newer materials and better engineering techniques. I'd estimate both were about equally unsafe. A 1% chance of death is way too high for any sort of civilian transportation. A simpler design (capsule + big dumb booster) with modern engineering and materials would be much safer than both.
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You are right, I hadn't thought of it all the way down. You could still have a code editor/navigator client that remotely accesses code, or locally stores it. But the code is run else where.

This would work fine for say editing a web app's code and then hitting refresh on each save. Until multi-tasking is released in iPhone OS 4.0 this will really require another device with a browser to view the updated code in a browser.

But again, this isn't what I'd call an IDE, it's more of a code editor. No debugging, profiling etc, unless you are connected to a runtime else where. But again this is far less desirable than being able to run/test code without a good networking connection or any connection at all.

Many other interactive environments other than squeak would be possible without these constraints, such as the Code Bubble IDE project:
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm
From what I can tell, the "change" to satisfy them would be removing it entirely. It's not an interface problem, it's the entire concept: it's critical for what Google is doing, but perhaps not at all desired for desktops or servers.
Kept waiting to hear this was a joke, but apparently not. Depressing.
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How would this practically work? Do we need new printers for this?
wakelocks solve a very specific power management concern. Historically power management in Linux hasn't been tightly integrated with apps, which is desirable on a smartphone.
I'm a huge Linux and Open Source fan, but my iPod Touch is the best portable music player I've ever owned. I'd say 50-75% of my coworkers use iPhones as their music players too. And we're not all college kids or fanboys.
Well, I think the failure rate is somewhere around 60% not 5% (I think out of the 5 Falcon 1 launches, only 2 succeeded). But over time, that figure will go down dramatically as they perfect their model (hopefully). Anyways, if you really wanted to catch a flight to space there are other options. It's reported that you can buy a seat on the Russian Soyuz which is very reliable. If you want to go for lower earth orbit, then those distances are easier and cheaper to reach, and I believe there are other commercial craft right now.

One thing that is often overlooked is that I think current aerospace companies have regulated profit margins if they do business with the government. So they don't have the incentive to make cheaper space craft even if they thought it would be a good idea. I'm not sure if SpaceX are subject to those same laws and regulations. But it would be a tragedy if they were able to operate with lower standards.
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Wow, I just realized: The only code you can edit and test locally without a connection will be web code. (Due to being able to run Javascript and use the built-in webkit browser)
The article is about a vertex weighting system Pixar came up with to deform complex polygonal meshes to track simple skeleton meshes, like you need for character animation. The main problem they wanted to solve was limiting the sphere of influence of skeleton vertices in the presence of concavities in the skeleton. An alternate approach was presented here ( http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/11/volumetric-heat-diffusion-sk... ) and discussed on HN some months back. I'm not sure which method produces a better result (heat diffusion certainly is more computationally intensive), but heat diffusion seems like a very natural way to solve the problem. Essentially, to determine a skeleton vertex's influence on a model vertex, you don't want the distance between the two "as the crow flies," but rather the shortest path within the skeleton between the two points. Perhaps a pathfinding algorithm could do the job more efficiently than heat diffusion?
Sounds like the perfect opportunity for Automattic to introduce a BuddyPress.com using the Wordpress.com model.
One of the reasons I enjoy iTunes is that I'm not big into organizing my music and playlists-- iTunes does it for me. Will VLC move my music into an organized directory and let me play an album, or shuffle through all songs from an artist or genre without me having to create playlists?
One problem is what are your criteria for "better"?

As a for instance, I want a music player that handles flac and ogg files and that I can access in a terminal. Low memory usage is important to me also. I use cmus on a Mac, and I like it quite a lot.
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... and despise every minute of it. Ok, so it isn't that bad, but I'm not really surprised a 3rd grader could hack it.
I'm pretty tired of this analogy. It doesn't even make sense! Of course Walmart can decide what to carry in its stores. It owns the store, and the land on which it's built (presumably). The problem is that Apple continues to "own" part of your device even after you've bought it! If I'm Walmart, and I buy some land from XYZ realty to put a store up, I don't have to take orders from XYZ realty about what I can and can't put in my store, or about how I have to produce the goods I want to sell! Now that's a proper analogy.
I don't think it is your responsibility to apologize for bootup labs or on behalf of all vancouverites or canadians for that matter.

Most of us are really sorry about this. A few of us take ourselves far too seriously.

Any entrepreneur considering joining the bootup labs program is better served to keep their day jobs and bootstrap their company without bootup labs.

For what it's worth, I considered Bootup Labs and decided that I was better off continuing to bootstrap -- but I'm not sure that what was best for me is necessarily best for all startup founders.
Oh I guess I can't edit after too long. :) Here are mind kindnesses for today:
- Told an older lady I passed walking my dog in the morning she looked nice today. She seemed to appreciate the compliment (but I ended up feeling a little creepy).
- Alerted everyone in my office about Starbucks giving free coffee to people who bring in travel mugs today. Good for moral, bad for productivity.. :)
- Helped a friend get motivated to start a project he has been thinking of doing for a long time. This probably will have the longest lasting effect.
Didn't they do essentially that by allowing apps for magazines from larger publishers (Sports Illustrated, Playboy, for example) that contained certain content while nixing other apps on the grounds they had exactly that sort of content?

http://www.cooltechzone.com/2010/02/23/apple-loves-playboy-s...
Yep, almost all of these were all registered, some as early as March.
I think the crufty feeling comes from most of the App Store being implemented using a WebView and custom HTML/CSS to mimic Mac-like UI stylings. This makes it very easy for Apple engineers to update the Store but also makes the user experience a little choppy since it's not using native rendering for the interface implementation.
I didn't know Flightcaster offers data on flights outside the US? Was this something recently added?
I would love to downvote this. The title is misleading. You find out it's a thought experiment only at the end of the page.
1) You get to downvote when you have enough karma.

2) Humorous comments do get upvoted here, but they have to be a) funny and b) intelligent. Take, for example, this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1225654

I'm not saying that was terribly intelligent or funny (hence only 3 upvotes), but yeah.

[Edit] Two far better examples would be
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1268430

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1268430

And right in this thread! I am humbled by their wit. :)
Why do you equate the brick-and-mortar store to the device - rather than to, say, the AppStore? Apple doesn't continue to own my device, but it does continue to own its store.
I think DHH (and others) would disagree with you.

At some point you need to stop raising money and start raising revenue.
Agreed, but any Apple software for a PC is horrendous. iTunes/Safari/Quicktime are all colossal memory hogs but worse of all they have so many hidden programs running behind the scenes that they continuously hog memory. I've seen malware infections less intrusive than a single iTunes instance.
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You can't talk about college costs and not also mention the enormous impact the college sports industry has had on transforming colleges from their academic role in society to that of being prestigious "mini-corporations."

Where is all the money going? Who's the top paid guy at university X?
Oh, it's the football coach.
Well why does he get to make $3 million a year while we just raised tuition 8% across the board, and cut financial aid by 20%? And that fat new sports arena which the university board of regents approved and just built for $100 million? Well, it doesn't count, because free market capitalism still applies to academic institutions—our true revenue source is selling and catering to sports fans. Professors, students, research, those are of course net losses, we just pay to keep them around in order to justify the existence of the sports team.

In a way, a University's brand, physical grounds, and costumed staff is a Disneyesque facade for the real money maker: football. Or perhaps I've just been reading too much into my Jean Baudrillard...
No one is forcing you to upgrade your iPhone. If you don't want iPhone OS4 apps and the licensing garbage that entails, then don't use it. Your phone will still have the same functionality as before. It's not like apple is taking away a feature that phones currently have. It's more like walmart opening a brand new store right next to an existing store. Something like an elite walmart (?) and the products in that section were all produced without sweatshop labor. You could still shop at the old store and get the same stuff. Or you could shop at the newer elite walmart next to the old one and get new shinier stuff.
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I can't verify your claim one way or another.

Humourly, Amazon themselves don't seem to have a clue, giving both answer plus lots of spam: http://askville.amazon.com/Bezos-changed-cadabra-amazon-soun...
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Enough said about their attitude towards these individuals. Like they did them some type of favor, business is business and deals fall through all the time, but to then turn it on those guys like they should be grateful for getting screwed is just absurd and then to complain that they did not get anything in return for paying 2 months rent for the guys. Dan's post reeks of a self entitled prick, like he some sort of benevolent god or something and that is why they are getting their just crucifixion, not because a deal fell through.
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Oh -- I completely agree. What blows my mind is the magnitude of the loss, both monetary and human.