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Yeah, that objective-c extensions (and objective-c++ even moreso) thing went so well for FSF too. Apple still ships a forked version of GCC (and binutils for that matter) because FSF never actually took all the patches, so I fail to see what good it really did the community, especially now that there's a non-GCC compiler that is open, and has a mainline that supports ObjC.
Once upon a time, the POTS system used something called 'in-band signaling'. An example of that was really old coin telephones, where the devices would send certain tones to tell the operator which coins you had deposited. John Draper (aka Capt Crunch) exploited this in-band signaling to access the toll network, and make long distance calls as tho he had trunk signaling and origination. I assume that anything Woz was doing was similar to this. Bell Labs responded by moving the toll signaling out-of-band. Out of all this, and for other more important reasons, was born SS7.

edit: from the wiki article on SS7 ...

SS5 and earlier systems used in-band signaling, in which the call-setup information was sent by playing special multi-frequency tones into the telephone lines, known as bearer channels in the parlance of the telecom industry. This led to security problems with blue boxes. Modern designs of telephone equipment that implement out-of-band signaling protocols explicitly keep the end-user's audio path—the so-called speech path—separate from the signaling phase to eliminate the possibility that end users may introduce tones that would be mistaken for those used for signaling.
This has all sorts of implications. For starters, if tweetmeme and the major Twitter clients out there adopted a standard of providing the link as an annotatioon, it would basically destroy the url shortening market in one fell swoop

Another potentially awesome use case involves retweets. Twitter's new retweet system was controversial when it was rolled out because it removed the ability for people to input their own comments on a link they wanted to rewet. The truth is, though, that there was usually a pretty limited space for these comments in the first place. Now, annotations could be used as the main conduit for comments about a particular link. A global, Twitter-wide commenting system could be established if everybody agreed to a standard.

Providing more details about the users posting the tweets would also be quite useful. Imagine if you see an interesting tweet from someone, and embedded in that tweet is also their entire social networking presence and perhaps an extended biography.

The possibilities seem limitless, but as the article mentions there are potential drawbacks. For one, it may take a while to get the big players to agree on standards. Also, the elegance and power of Twitter was the 140 character limit. What happens when a bunch of other garbage starts getting attached to these previously svelte tweets.

Whatever happens it is sure to be interesting, though.
And the phone also would not exist.
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AOL has the internet on home computers now.
Maybe Steve Jobs would respond more often if every little message didn't generate a news article.
I stand corrected :P
Social engineering at it's finest. Almost everybody will take some kind of alcohol.
Some niggling little thing in the back of my mind is saying human remains are one of the few things explicitly prohibited by the US Postal Service.

Like this, perhaps? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1270582
This is rather scary.

historically, activity at Eyjafjallajökull has frequently preceded eruptions at the nearby Katla, which is a much bigger volcano and contains more rhyolitic magma. Karson said that there's evidence that Katla has produced events that covered all of Iceland in ash, and could have what he termed "broad regional to global impact."
High speed rail; high speed ships.

Once humanity is hooked on the fast, easy travel, I'm not convinced there's going back.

(Of course, trains still make noise and there are those who think rail lines are ugly, to say nothing of the seas of asphalt. We aren't going back to nature anytime soon.)
No no I don't mean the feasibility of it I mean the actual accuracy of it: do we have any reason to think the NSA etc. is SAVING every email sent? Beyond sniffing etc.
Hasn't there been a lot of discussion about how people in this culture aren't likely to go for the startup culture? I can't assess it since I know nothing of the former, but the case for this sounded at least plausible to me.

ADDED: And then there's the risk of staying where you are. Some people will realize that their job security isn't great to begin with, which changes the risk side of calculations for those not paralyzed by the situation.
The GCSE essay
Any GCSE essay written in any subject needs to be viewed as a test of knowledge, understanding and application. This is because a GCSE examination is certainly not the same as a secondary school examination in another curriculum.
It doesn't include, for example, Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P for keyword completion.

Do you think those could be integrated?
How about when your coworker is a Linux genius who is younger than Linux!
JWZ and the Powershell designers also make a good point that Unix doesn't separate content from presentation: having to look for text patterns to identify a piece of data isn't good.
The longevity of CVS speaks for itself. It's not perfect, but it has served me and my projects perfectly fine for over 20 years. Anytime I've ventured over to work with some other VCS, it inevitably was a distraction and a waste of time.

Any new VCS goes through these same rants -- not able to distinguish themselves on merit, they simply attack the dominant player. With Git, one learns quickly -- oh, it's all about the Python 'community' and their politics, I see.

When it ain't broke, don't fix it!
I spent at least a minute looking for the "->" button.
Ouch, I'm about to pop back to the US from Saitama... why the hell are you staying in Akiba? There are plenty of nicer places to wait out volcanic doom...
"Flash’s only use is as a naive video player" - ok, well you better tell the millions of people playing web-based games out there as they didn't know that...
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This reminds me of an old joke:

An airplane was flying from LA to New York. About an hour into the flight, the pilot announced, "We have lost an engine, but don't worry, there are three left. However, instead of 5 hours it will take 7 hours to get to New York."

A little later, the pilot announced, "A second engine failed, but we still have two left. However, it will take 10 hours to get to New York."

Somewhat later, the pilot again came on the intercom and announced, "A third engine had died. Never fear, because the plane can fly on a single engine. However, it will now take 18 hours to get to new York."

At this point, one passenger said, "Gee, I hope we don't lose that last engine, or we'll be up here forever!"
Hmmm, many of the arguments for NYC not having a good culture for startups would seem to be even stronger in this sort of period ... but would that be true for other areas, especially ones with a good track record (well, Silicon Valley and Boston)?

Your point about awful times is well taken, but I don't think we're there yet, and it's not clear to me we'll get there anytime soon. E.g. Japan's two Lost Decades aren't necessarily quite "awful times".

E.g. before we get to the Fall of the Roman Empire, where from what I'd read serfdom started for the reason you describe as a means to escape the exactions of the falling Western Empire (e.g. impossible taxation, a law that required people to follow the career of their father (to prevent escaping the former), etc.), we could look at the Great Depression, where at the time the USDA estimated 1/4 of the US was malnourished, which was confirmed by WWII conscription.

We'll see.
Very relevant Louis CK standup bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk&feature=playe...
I'm not sure I agree that code translation is entirely disallowed.

Part of the problem, though, is that the legalese in the iphone 4 revision is maddeningly obscure and unhelpful. We're not even sure if embedded Lua interpreters are really banned. I'm sure Apple is considering that very question.
No, that wasn't my argument at all.

Maybe your habit of describing these things in "good" versus "bad" has stunted your ability to understand this situation.

I'll try just one more time: unless you're independently wealthy, U.S. citizens are subject to much the same wait times for specialized care as British citizens are -- or, I suspect, the citizens of most other first-world nations. And, again, unless you're independently wealthy, the quality of care in the U.S. is not any better than other countries -- and may even be worse, by some measurements. The usual counter-example that gets trotted out here are the various people that travel to the U.S. from abroad for various serious procedures; but, those people tend to be financially resourceful, and we're not talking about health care for the rich here -- we're talking about the level of health care available to most people.

In my technician's case, the "public care option" part of the anecdote merely covered most -- not all -- of the expenses after the fact. Short of having enough money to bribe hospitals and buy doctors, his experiences wouldn't have been any different if he were paying entirely out-of-pocket, or if he were covered by insurance, or if he were in his sixties and on Medicare.

The idiots that keep spreading FUD about "socialized medicine" keep trying to say that the quality of care will go down, or that our wait times for care will become terribly bad -- without bothering to notice that we aren't exactly the envy of the developed world in terms of either quality or speed. They also fail to ever explain exactly why a socialized payment system should have any negative impact on actual treatment; I for one would actually expect the opposite in a well-run system.

I'm pretty sure that all of the arguments against "socialized" health care pretty much boil down to, "the poor don't deserve health care", which stinks.
All great use cases. In the case of a global commenting system, I think that rather than "everybody agreeing on one standard," there's an opportunity for one major player to define the standard simply by announcing support for a specific format, and implementing it into their product. Disqus would be a good candidate.

Anyone who wanted their tweets picked up by the hypothetical Disqus engine would need to annotate accordingly, third parties would build apps to support this annotation, and the cycle would perpetuate with everyone conforming to said standard.
“Pictured: All the proof you need that VP8 is superior to H.264”

I'm really tired of the increasing desperation from people who are now willing to hang their hopes on anything that is not H.264. It's almost like it's dogma at this point: H.264 must not be allowed to succeed because _______.

That is not all we need to see. VP8 may be a better choice than H.264, it may be a worse choice. We're not even sure Google will open the codec yet (I've only seen "inside sources confirm", did I miss an announcement?) so let's not get premature. And PSNR graphs are not the golden standard of video quality, the video is. It's possible to have artifacts that psnr graphs may not represent well, but that make the codec a poor choice.
NPR also had a segment explaining it.
It's interesting that rms objects to SaaS on software freedom grounds. I'd never really considered this before.
From a marketing perspective, you have to wonder what sort of dilution effect this would have on the Apple brand. Apple is (generally) known for producing high quality products with plenty of power underneath the hood. The introduction of cheaper, slower performing chips to create a sub-tier of macbooks, etc., doesn't really gel with the current Apple brand image.
I think the latter item (#3) is from a PBS show on another school district. Which doesn't change the general point of "where's the outrage"?
That has been going on for a while now. I don't agree with him at all on this but...that isn't anything new.
Just getting people to read in general is an accomplishment. I saw some statistics once that are pretty much summed up by this page: http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html
The AGPL makes straightforward commercial sense (we use it for our open source product, Flint).

It keeps your code bona fide open source, so people who want to use and extend it noncommercially can do so without worrying about you at all; the code is genuinely free.

At the same time, it means that people who would attempt to commercialize your code must at least do so on a level playing field with you. They can't take your code, improve it, and withhold those improvements.

AGPL is much better than a "noncommercial" license, because code that can't be used commercially isn't open. "Noncommercial" licenses are deceptive; they suggest that you have an incentive to improve other people's code, but really you can only benefit the owners. And it's better than the BSD license, which fails in exactly the opposite direction.

People who are reflexively anti-GPL tend not to know much about the security software industry, where intense VC funding and rafts of "me-too" products have plagued the major open source projects (Snort, Nessus, etc). If your code is ever going to really be worth something, and you MIT/BSD it, expect someone else to make a lot more money off it than you do.
Self-promotion of mediocre blog posts - it's called spam, isn't it?
The only problem I have with this post is the "at school" part. Schools are not really for life-education like this (sadly). It's not feasible in a place where cultures clash so much in the class room like the US, you risk offending etc., and as stupid as it sounds it's a real issue. Anyone familiar with city public schools can agree...
Windows 7 is an improvement, but I still don't like it. I suppose some of it is personal taste.

I also still consider it ugly from an aesthetic point of view. It's not clean. It's cluttered and counterintuitive.

There's something else too... even with 7, Windows doesn't perform well. NTFS uses a "pessimum" allocation algorithm that seems to achieve maximum conceivable file fragmentation after even moderate use, and I'm still not sure why Windows disk thrashes more than any other OS. With equivalent workloads on Linux and OSX, the disk occasionally blinks. On Windows it thrashes wildly.

"Performance doesn't matter" is a relative of UIs as an afterthought. Performance is a UI issue, and it does matter. It's even more apparently on mobile devices... the iPlatform performs so much better than Windows Mobile. (Android isn't bad either.)

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i24_fallacy.html
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How many companies got AIG to insure there junk mortgages though fully expecting them to default? Wouldn't exactly call them blameless.
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Apple is already running C2D on the MacBookPro (13 inch) and iMac (all but the top tier 27 inch).

They could find great replacements in AMD's line-up for a lot less. Nothing as good as an i7, and I've heard that TPD is a bit high, but AMD chips are fine if you don't want bleeding edge performance.
I can't get past the blue "ThinkVantage" key. It's like a big pimple that says "a douchebag designed this." It also has no purpose once you install a real operating system, since the software that it invokes only runs on that crummy OS they ship it with.
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:D I posted this as a joke. One of my coworker got me searching on google by mistrust. It took me at least 2 minutes before I realize there was no F13 key.
There's only one rule that matters, what a man's insured for, and what he's not.
That fact that you think air travel fails to qualify as fast or easy shows how spoiled we are and is kind of humorous.
To be honest I'd say we (the uk) are doing a reasonable job. Deep packet inspection was roundly beaten here. The continent is probably going to see t first.

No, from this side of the ocean the US seems to be treading dangerous ground. The idea that a school could interfere with home life without serious grounds (ie abuse) would be considered outrageous - though people are trying to bring it in. I mean it in the politest way but it is not national policy that is the danger here. If local policy - such as that in school - gets us used to the idea of being monitored then national policy will emerge faster...
Avoiding mouse use entirely is even better ergonomically. Bonus: it makes you a lot faster.
It's not an issue, but it can be an annoyance. Put many of them together and you've got a reason why projects like Ubuntu's 100 papercuts exist. If you have to work with something that just isn't quite right even if it works in the end, it can affect your work.
You're probably sitting.
True, maybe one of the books should be 'how to be offended and get over it'. Since a lot of people (at least vocal people anyway) seem to think they have a right not to be offended as they travel through life.
Bottom of p.7, 4th edition with preface by Warren Buffett. But note the full quote:'It is commonly accepted today that
the cumulative earnings of the airline industry over its entire history have been negative. The lesson Graham is driving at is not that you should avoid buying airline stocks, but that you should never succumb to the "certainty" that any industry will outperform all others in the future.'
I rarely use it, but it never crashed.
I once moved a project from ClearCase to CVS because the performance of our ClearCase setup was _really_ eating into our time. I didn't have any major complaints from SVN as well.

Some reasons I moved to bzr are:
- repository backups are free due to the distributed nature
- python scripting
- fast local operations

So, yes, I don't really have a big issue with svn (or cvs) but given a choice I would go with bzr (or any other DVCS).
the point was to make you click and then realize it's keyboard nav... i thought it was clever. If they made it clickable nobody would have noticed the keyboard nav.
No, I think it does qualify as fast, at least as far as actual travel is concerned (let's not go into on the ground procedures right now). I meant that high speed rail and ships would soon be created and improved if we really didn't have the airspace anymore.
But that's the problem - most Apple consumers don't need bleeding edge performance, but the brand is known for having high quality components in their products. Perhaps AMD could find a socket in the Mac Mini, which is already positioned as a low-cost starter machine.
The piece definitely has a quaint naivete to it.

Thinking that it's somehow the things we build which are ruining our lives rather than we creators and our priorities in building them.
The WebKit nightly builds are by default.

Chrome can be with a runtime flag.

FireFox has an about:config flag.
Just Objective-C.
One language at a time.
What are the costs for companies with grounded planes? I guess most of the cheap lines don't have to refund - only to rebook. There would be the cost of keeping the planes in the airport hangars of course, but I would imagine that at some point airports will charge only some discount rate if this condition continues (it's probably more profitable in a long run than making some company bankrupt... or is it?) Are there any other costs?

Also, what about bailouts? We had money for banks - why wouldn't we sponsor grounded planes?
He ignores Steve Jobs demonstrating purchasing in the Target mock ad.
Inevitable result:

* Sites start publishing easy how-to guides for entering GWM

* One-click tools to enter GWM are released

* Apps that use private APIs that require GWM are released

* Apple support has to deal with customers who fucked up their devices in GWM

* Apple has to deal with bad press when some malware spreads through GWM devices

* Any new iPhone OS release would have to deal with breaking however many GWM-oriented tools there are that rely on private, changing APIs. More bad press for little reward.

* The App Store is a huge win for end-users, and the benefit of that would go out the window with alternate sources of apps sprinting up. Where do you go to get an app? Where do you get the latest version? What happens if a non-App Store app gets really popular? You're back to having to manage your phone like it's a computer, which is a non-starter. You don't manage an iPhone, you use it.

You end up with a lot of phones that look like your computer-illiterate co-workers Windows XP machine from 5 years ago. But hey, people who like to tinker with their phones would be happy, so it's totally worth it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_and_the_environment
"People who are reflexively anti-GPL tend not to know much about the security software industry, where intense VC funding and rafts of "me-too" products have plagued the major open source projects (Snort, Nessus, etc). If your code is ever going to really be worth something, and you MIT/BSD it, expect someone else to make a lot more money off it than you do."

..and here I thought the GNU was about freedom and helping your fellow man. Instead, it's about preventing someone from "making a lot more money off of it than you do".
To be clear: The FSF has their own reasons for liking the AGPL. They're entirely irrelevant to me. You won't win any arguments with me by holding me to what Stallman says, sorry.
I'd be grateful for a citation. This is something I want to understand.
You almost had a point here, but your unfortunate choice of terms demonstrates a lot of what's wrong with US politics. Rather than referring to the pro-choice movement as such, you've adopted a label, pro-abortion, that is simply misleading. Here we have a debate over women's reproductive health rights, and it gets reduced to misleading soundbites like "pro-abortion."

In the same way, I think much of what is being protested in this thread comes from the false dichotomy between "pro-security" and "anti-security" that ignores how important the ideals of personal rights are to the debate. US politics is well-characterized by a practiced reduction of complex political issues to misleading soundbites.
I think VP6 could be the key. If I was in charge of codec strategy at Google I'd be investigating at least these two things in parallel:

1. Will Adobe join us in introducing a brand new video codec (whether it's VP7, VP8, or something new based on them) to Flash, and if not...

2. What is the theoretical maximum quality you can wring out of VP6 without breaking backwards compatibility with the installed Flash base if you throw unlimited cash at it.

They can start up a skunkworks to build the next big codec to challange H.26_5_ if they want, but the need to do something soon if H.264 isn't going to become entrenched.

Some people will say VP6 is crap and that only better quality can win, but you'll note they only say that when something they like wins. For example, Apple fans point to the quality of iPods and iPhones as why they're successful, but point to idiot consumers, network effects and dodgy dealings to explain why Mac OS has a similar global marketshare to the perennial joke that is desktop linux.

Similarly apparently H.264 won because it's some kind of design-by-committe miracle baby, yet AAC isn't a stand out technically and coasts along on the coattails of it's video codec partners. And it's still not ousted it's inferior older brother mp3 in general usage, even with Apple's help.

Installed base matters. If Google make a video announcement that doesn't involve Adobe, I'll be very disappointed.
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