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I was interested in this a few years ago, and one of the sites I found back then was Xentonality:

http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/xentone.html

It includes music featuring some really intriguing concepts. For example, "Three Ears" isn't played in a fixed scale at all - instead the tuning is tweaked on the fly "for maximum consonance". The result is weirdly fascinating.
While I think this is cool (and I used to do linux kernel work, before moving to product development, mostly iPhone app dev these days, so you really don't get how cool this is to me), I don't see why you'd want to do this: 99% of the good stuff in the iPhone is the software, not the hardware.
Er, an idea for a soda-powered cell does not a soda-powered cell make. Do these things actually exist, even in a laboratory, or is this some designer having a field day?
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Relatively, clojure wins, and f# fluctuates quite a bit and ends up at where ruby is.

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Absolutely, the graph basically tells a completely inverse story.
I agree with the premise (video games can be art), but I find his arguments unconvincing.

Some games I consider art because of the story, the immersion, and so on. From the top of my head: PlaneScape: Torment, and perhaps The Longest Journey. These games are great because they are great novels, and more.

Other games, such as Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (the one by LucasArts) and Grim Fandango I consider art because they are great movies and more. It's really more of an interactive movie than a game. Watching somebody play games like this is almost as much fun as playing it yourself.

Some games I consider art because they make me stop and think. Sanatarium for instance.

On the other end of the spectrum you can have a game like Super Mario. Mario is reductionist. Everything that can be left out, is left out. You walk, you run, you jump. There is no story, you don't need one. I imagine people will still play and enjoy Super Mario 30 years from now, perhaps a 100 years from now. If a game stands the test of time like that, it almost must be art by definition.

A great game, when you pick it up, can immediately blow you away because it's just that good. In the same way a painting can take your breath away or keep you captivated for hours. Music can do this to you too. Paintings, Music and Games can be art because the artists can decide what to leave in and what to take away. They completely own the medium, and so the artist owns the experience.

With movies, this isn't the case. They're clumsy because there are too many details, too many uncontrollable factors, too many budgetary issues. Movies are never perfect. No matter how great a movie is, there are always jarring imperfections. But if there is a perfect movie, a movie that can't be improved upon, that can be really considered art... you'd probably end up with a movie from Pixar.
The other possibility is that Gizmodo & Gawker would never receive invitations to future Apple product unveilings/announcements. I'm sure they got a decent bit of traffic during the iPhone OS 4.0 live blogging feed. Jobs likes to hold grudges and if you get on his bad side, you'll probably be blacklisted for a few years at least.
Play is not art... why?

Art is static? So fountains, kinetic sculptures, improvisational comedy, and rose gardens are not art? I find your definitions lacking.
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How technically feasible is it to get iPhone OS running on Android HW? I just purchased my Google Phone yesterday. I would think twice now.
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Not those kinds of entertainment games, but dual-n-back might do something. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-n-back and http://www.brainboffin.com/
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I'm not sure I get what this does that a folder of bookmarks doesn't? Or one of the online bookmark services if you don't want to be tied to a specific machine. I assume it does something more but I just can't figure out what...
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Out of curiosity, why is there so much hand-wringing on the Internet about fonts? I agree that typography has importance in design. But the attention given to it seems totally incommensurate with its importance.
One of the things I like about google apps is that I can set up a DNS entry to point mail.mydomain.com at google's servers and it puts me straight at the login prompt. It feels good to use it.

Would it be possible to do this with Cloudmatic(start), so that I could set up basecamp.mydomain.com to point to cloudmatic which would then redirect to the correct url?
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Where's your evidence to support this?
Why is this guy any more trustworthy today after issuing an artfully written apology, that was clealry crafted by a PR professional skilled in crisis management communications?

Don't forget, "actions speak louder than words." Startups do yourself a big favour and steer clear of this underfunded, unprofessional slow motion train wreck.
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My grandmother is 90 and using a computer. I am happy to have set her up with one a couple of years ago, against the recommendations of other family members who thought it would be no good.

It is a standard Windows XP computer. She emails, surfs, writes letters and does online banking.

What is stopping your senior lady - eyesight can't be fixed with glasses anymore?

I admit I keep wondering if I should show my grandmother more interesting things, like social stuff. I am just not sure what - World of Warcraft maybe? I myself don't chat on the internet (except HN and Twitter), so I am not sure what would be a good place to send her to. Maybe just Facebook? (I also don't use Facebook, but maybe other family members do).

What would be a good site for multiplayer games? I myself use Brettspielwelt, but the user interface is not very good.
I don't think it's going to happen, but if they wanted to hurt Gizmodo without going to court they could add Engadget to the short list of media outlets that get early review units.
Ah man - I'm in China, and I've gotten used to Youtube and Blogspot not working, but the BBC is banned? This is bloody ridiculous.

Anyone got a way through it that still works? When I was here five years ago the translate-English-to-English thing worked, but no more. I tried a good 20 or so proxies I knew as well before giving up... probably Hotspot Shield would work, but it slows down everything and there's nothing so important I need to do. Thoughts?
Absolutely outrageous. There was no depiction. They merely suggested that Mohammed was inside the bear costume, this too is ridiculous and the point of this aspect of the episode.

1. It's a cartoon, there is no Mohammed. If I draw a stick figure and suggest it's Mohammed it's unreasonable to suggest that this is a depiction of Mohammed, it's a stick figure.

2. It's a bear costume, just because someone says Mohammed is on the inside no way depicts Mohammed. The only thing that suggests this is dialog, if one mutes the audio there's no more suggestion.

3. It's likely that in the rendering program there is in fact nothing inside the costume, so all this fuss is over the imaginary depiction of Mohammed.

So crazy...
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Human nature makes us want to forgive and forget. Donlt get sucked into this. Keep a lear head and select your incubator and mentors based on facts, not emotions.

Bootup sucked young entrepreneurs into their "cool clubhouse" mystique, when there was no substance or cash. The total funds raised by BUL in 2 years is insufficient for even one decent startup - how are they going to fund 11 or 12 companies in any viable way? Don't get sucked into the hype, stay clear of this bullsh*t.
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I love this game. What they do is hacking on a different format.

If I were them, I'd put an unnamed character in an episode, and have it on television and let it go by. Then I'd refer to that character in a subsequent episode and point out that it had been Mohammed.

Build it up as a three-part who-shot-JR-style episode series with no viable plot conclusion except one where the depicted character is 'the prophet', in order to strongarm the network into putting the revelation episode on TV.
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Too True, and the apology was professionally written/reviewed by a PR expert with crisis management experience. Anyone wanting to start a business here is so naive they can't discern fact from fiction. Given the young age and limited experience of most of the entrepreneurs this is like fishing in a barrel. Be smart, act on facts, not fiction.
Well, even if there was a depiction, so what?

The issue is crazies threatening to kill someone over a cartoon. What the cartoon depicted or did not depict is moot.
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I hoped to see a political argument, and instead saw a technical, unimportant one.

Because I agree with the title: Facebook promoting unnecessary centralization and large scale spying, the answer must be no. We just need a decentralized replacement, so it can be no.
Clealry they didn't do enough. If this happened in the US they'd be on their way to jail by now.
I think yours will be the best comment on this article.

The trouble with this discussion is people keep attempting to define objective attributes of art. But art doesn't have objective attributes; they are all subjective. Art is a feeling we get when we look at something others call art. We see three paintings, all "art", and two of them give you a certain feeling, so you call it "art" and suppose they feel the same about the third painting. And there it is. You now have an idea called "art" to develop.

It is in this way that our idea of art overlaps with each others, appearing to be the same from a distance, but irreconcilable at proximity. This is why this concept is so fuzzy and difficult to sketch out. We really do need to experience art before we can believe it as art. So, Mr. Ebert's right. Video games aren't art - to him.
Perhaps the way to get these stupid and illiberal threats to stop is a massive DDoS attack.

If a large proportion media outlets and content creators make a point of "portraying" Mohammed then there's no way these criminals could make all of them "probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh".
JSON is easier to parse if you have to write your parser from scratch, but there are parsers for nearly all languages so you don't have to.

JSON on the other hand, means you have to write your own parser.

And really, why not do as twitter does and make it available in both xml and json formats?
Is there a JSON deserializer for C#?

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I wonder if this works on a Zune.... ;-)
And I add erlang: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby,+java,+python,+perl,+...
Unless these mice participate mating orgies, this seems to me like a rather useless evolutionary trait.
Set up ssh on a server outside china. Run sshd on port 443. You may be able to just ssh to it. Or you can set putty up to tunnel to over HTTP, and because of the port choice it won't be blocked, unless they've made a specific rule for that IP. Tunnel all your operations through that link.

In time, authoritarians will start profiling internet activity to sniff out people who do this (assuming they're not already). If you're a Chinese citizen then you might want to think about this.

Other readers - what's a good way to set up squid or another proxy to complement this arrangement?
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I feel sad that I simply can not hear this.

I've read about this (temperament) many times, and I still have no idea what they are talking about, and I assume it's because I just can't hear the difference.

I'm not tone deaf, but I guess I'm not very good at tones.
They haven't bought them, because your numbers are wrong. Apple's entire current assets are 33 bilion; their cash & equivalent is 7,5 bilion.

In other words, you are almost order of magnitude off.
Not exactly something I was expecting to find any humor in - but have a look at "Night scene in a trench shelter without light."
Come to think about it, I'm not sure this is actually a good thing for Android.
Gizmodo's actions were equivalent to a tabloid posting topless photos of a "hot" celebrity they obtained via some sleezy paparazzi hiding in the bushes with a telephoto lens. For people who are too obsessed with the idea of celebrity to gauge the morality of their actions, or even the health of and nature of their relationship to those celebrities, this sort of thing can be exciting and can certainly cause a spike in readership.

But simultaneously it represents the self-destruction and denigration of gizmodo's brand. Personally I'm not a fan of the slightly-warmed-over-PR-release and tabloidesque tech journalism that is so common these days. I'd rather have honest personal reviews and hard-hitting technical critiques than gadget porn, gossip, and rumor mongering.
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Could you say that the Mona Lisa is the equivalent to The Seven Samurai? If so in what way is it equivalent? How do you define art?

I for one would say that the Longest Journey, Grim Fandango, the Secret of Monkey Island and Sanitarium are art. But that's according to my definition of Art... I feel that they are games with great stories, great vision and that make me feel emotions.
Microsoft is a special case because of their previous antitrust problems. I'm sure it would be investigated, and with a merger of companies that big I suspect lobbying and politics will have as much effect as the law itself.

But at a very superficial level: MS & Intel are in different markets, so there is no obvious objection.

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The email did not detail, maybe I should interpret it as that she has given up on getting any money back.

Also not sure if paypal was the only way they accepted funds.

It's funny how the guy keeps changing his story and thinks that's perfectly ok, in fact threatens lawsuits left right and center. I still haven't heard from his lawyer, maybe he forgot ;)
Muslim Here - I don't know the full story (a bit late).

Before this gets any hotter - just wanted to say that physical depictions of holy figures in Islam is prohibited [wiki: Aniconism, Idolatry, Islamic Art, ...]. I personally don't watch any episode/movie/play with Jesus, Muhammad, Noah, Moses (PBUT) drawn or acted (I don't feel comfortable - Silly Me).

Religion is the only boundary that some have left. It encapsulates things as simple and beautiful as ethics and manners. What's wrong with a little of these?

freedom-of-expression (which should be held dearly) is not freedom to attack other's values.

I don't like Southpark (but I'll be waiting Futurama) :)
"freedom-of-expression (which should be held dearly) is not freedom to attack other's values."

Actually, it is.

I have read the Qur'an, all of it. Page after page it tells me that people like myself deserve to be tortured for zillions of years. I find it pretty offensive and hateful. But I don't call for it to be banned.
3. It's likely that in the rendering program there is in fact nothing inside the costume, so all this fuss is over the imaginary depiction of Mohammed.

Wait. So you mean you think there's a possibility that they drew Mohammed under that 2D bear costume and that layer of pixels is the only thing preventing us from seeing the Prophet?
Though it does not help Jamie now, it indeed sounds a honest apology (especially #3). Glad to see that Jason.
Checking the referrer (errr, "referer") header seems obvious to me, I wonder why they're not doing it.

Sure, the referrer can be spoofed if you can set arbitrary headers, but you can't set headers on iframe requests anyway (and even XHR explicitly disallows setting Referer)
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Much as I hate to disagree with a Harvard Business School professor, this is glib and untrue: "The only reason a business fails is that it runs out of cash"

In the very early stages, this is often the case. But the longer a business survives, the more likely it is to collapse because of how the owner/s feel. I've seen many successful businesses close their doors and owners walk away because they were over it, even though the money was still coming in the door.

In fact, the OP almost contradicts himself with the second question about "Why are you doing this?" Again, I've seen businesses shut or sell cheaply because the owner just isn't passionate about the area.

Good article overall but... there's more to life than money. And there's more to business than money.
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Probably take a while because the A4 processor is essentially undocumented. Although, It's a Cortex A8 Core with a SGX535 GPU core which is documented by other manufactures
I have never heard it parsed that way, Maktab. Interesting.

So you're admitting that the invasion was illegal under international law, but that the continued occupation is legal. How does that work, exactly? You can illegally break into a house, but legally not have to leave?

It's my impression that while UNSCR 1483 legitimized the governing aspect of US/UK forces, it was essentially a "you broke it, now fix it" resolution that didn't offer any specific language that makes the occupation legal.

rehashing the arguments of 2003

The people of Iraq are rehashing those arguments every day their country is occupied illegally. Iraq, at current oil prices, would be one of the richest countries in the world. They'll never see any of that. Those people in the van (in the Wikileaks video) who were killed and mangled, including the kids, are rehashing 2003. There's no statute of limitations on the suffering there; there's no reason we should forget about it if they can't.
Well, if IQ is so easily changed that I would argue that it is a pretty useless metric for measuring innate capabilities.

I have an older (16 years older) sister who trained as an educational psychologist - I was given all kinds of tests from an early age and I certainly learned how to do them so that later in my childhood I would always get ridiculously high marks on those kinds of tests and it was always pretty clear to me that it was just because I knew the tricks of doing these tests, not that I was particularly bright or that doing the tests increases your actual level of intelligence.
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> "just wanted to say that physical depictions of holy figures in Islam"

Hold on there, don't go speaking for all of Islam,
in Sunni Islam, yes, its considered a sin by all major schools of thought, but thats not really the case in the shia tradition.
Until not that long ago you could buy posters of Mohammed in Tehran (saw it done in a british documentary... Mo looked like he went heavy on the make up).

> "freedom-of-expression (which should be held dearly) is not freedom to attack other's values."

Freedom of speech/expression isn't merely the right of saying what _you_ want, it is also the right for others to hear/see it, so when asking for people not to express their views because some can be offended, you have actually attacked my values, because maybe (and in this case, definitely) I'm very interested.
So I do hope you'll condemn a campaign of whispered threats of horrible violence for people who just want to express themselves, rather than condemning southpark (which granted you didn't, just said you didn't like them).
Should Muslims be upset about this? Probably not.

Muslims themselves have depicted Mohammed in art in the past, although usually covering the face - nobody knows what he looked like so it is not possible to depict his face accurately... so I have always assumed it was just a mark of respect. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Siyer-i_Nebi_151b.jpg

Besides that, I think retaliating with violence is pretty unacceptable if you truly live by the Koran - It says nowhere inside of it that such depictions are forbidden - but it does say in plenty of places that unlawful killing (by the law of the Koran) is forbidden and that it displeases Allah. Since depictions of Mohammed break no law in the Koran, how can murder be justified in retaliation? (Koran 4:29, 5:28-32 etc.)

In his own lifetime, Mohammed offered shelter and guidance to those who had defamed him public, removed him from his home, chased and persecuted him and his people... I wonder what he would think of all this today?
That would be a real pity, the ARM architecture is used in many devices that promote openness and to see apple take control of it could potentially cause real problems.

If they're willing to use weird license terms on their software it stands to reason they'll do the same with the hardware, and plenty of productlines depending on the ARM processor will have to look for a company that is not owned by people hell bent on controlling what happens with the stuff once sold.

Any product competing with iphone, ipad, ipod or some other apple product would do well to avoid that situation, but if they're dependent on the ARM architecture right now a switch could be very problematic.

For now it seems this is just a rumour, but the ARM stock spike shows that there are plenty of people that believe the rumour.

The original article that started all this is here:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-2382...
...which according to the article, they pretty much do.
That'd be a disaster. ARM is running pretty much in everything portable. I don't want to see that in Steves hands!

Ironically, if the worst happens (Apple buying ARM, shutting down licensing), Android would become even more the competition as it is already running on Atom and quite portable to other architectures. Intel would lose a major competitor, too.
That's fine, don't watch it. If it offends you, turn off the television, close the YouTube tab, whatever. It's very simple for you to avoid allowing this to cause you offense.

What offends non-religious people is the expectation that we should censor our statements and cartoons on the threat of murder.

So much for "manners".

I mean really. It's a bear suit. The whole point of this South Park portrayal is to show - as if it needed to be shown again - just how absurd is this lust among certain religious believers for any opportunity to be offended. Is there any point at which you're able to be a little reflective and think "yeah ok, I guess we're being a touch precious here"?
I think you misunderstand depiction - depiction with words is depiction all the same. There is no question that they depicted Mohammed - although I agree that the fuss is completely disproportionate.