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"bigger text"

And, see the display of this article's headline on the aggregation page (front page or wherever it drops to)

http://www.livly.org/
Silicon Valley nonprofit startup: "Certain humans appear to possess natural cancer immunity. We attempt to harness this imm

The headline wraps, and the wrapped text is smashed up into the text above it.

So, size and spacing needs some work.
My point is that it's not a single feature -- even if that feature is the whole ecosystem.

Windows never killed MacOS or Linux in the sense that MS Excel killed Lotus 1-2-3 or MS Word killed WordPerfect.

I doubt anything will replace the iPad. I hope that there will be something that would complement it. But I don't think that an Android device would be intriguing for the same sort of people as iPad is now.
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What country are you in? (and what country is your target market in?)

Handango sells out-of-marketplace Android Apps - http://www.handango.com/info/Partner.jsp?storeId=2218 .
I live in a foreign country that I chose to go live in. I don't really feel any great "loyalty" to the one I'm in or the one I was born in. There are good and bad things about both.

Oh, and my current country of residence, Italy, is a very bureaucratic entity;-)
> I think the answer is either that Silhouette has had a number of unusual experiences or he's overstating the case.

My experience, and those I am reporting from other people I know, obviously only represent a small drop in the ocean of all air travel. It's certainly possible that we have collectively been "unlucky" and others have a much better experience.

In any case, I look at this more as a matter of principle. Clearly for at least some people air travel has become very unpleasant, very inefficient, or both, as a result of all the security theatre. This is a purely negative effect on our society. It has absolutely no merit whatsoever, except for politicians who can now say they are "doing something" about "fighting terrorism".

As with much done in the name of fighting terrorism, the measures initially only catch a few people. As long as this represents only a relatively small proportion of travellers, it doesn't cause a huge public outcry and a lot of people carry on oblivious. That doesn't mean those people would be happy with the way they were treated if their number came up.

I'm happy that you have, so far, been one of the lucky ones. I wish everyone was guaranteed the same experience you have had so far. However, as a result of the inconvenience I have experienced and the much nastier things that have happened to other people I know, I am quite sure that I wouldn't like it if my number came up, so I now choose not to fly on routes where that is a significant possibility.
Judging by this article alone, I'd say "prior art".

>However, the plaintiffs came forward with minimal evidence to support their argument of infringement. They also faced abundant evidence showing that the patents were invalid based on prior art. In other words, there was nothing new in these “inventions” sufficient for a patent.
You could also have your ad contain a regular captcha image.

The area around your captcha will be getting eyeballs, it's not a bad idea to use that space to pass a message to your users. Ad blindness is always an issue but that's why changing the way you present your promotional content, every now and then, is a good idea.
>you'll have to convince your customers to punch in their credit card again.

Give them a free month, or 5 free GB, or what have you.
> They also suggested that Red Hat's public criticisms of the U.S. patent system as it relates to software and related calls for legal reform were un-American and indicated a secret fondness for the writings of Karl Marx."

What an ignorant and destructive attitude - systems of free enterprise allow people to build whatever charity they want, whatever church they want, whatever business they want, build a worker's cooperative if they want, or create an open source platform. Marx advocated violence and control, free enterprise is the opposite of that. Free enterprise is not and shouldn't be equated with profit-seeking: For profit businesses are one way to build and better the world, but there are many other ways. Marx would have the government snuff out churches, businesses, private charities, and everything that isn't subordinate to the state. Free enterprise is the opposite of that.
I just use Ctrl+number to change spaces, and Cmd+number to change browser tabs/terminal windows.

Works pretty well actually
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But if that language had EVAL, things would get a little more complicated ..
"Shouldn't we all be using the same CSS?"
You can use the iPhone sausage stylus. http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/sausage-stylus-for-the-ip...
However, there are reasons outside of branding to require an unbroken iPhone 3.2 OS to be on the device. The OS is obviously necessary for the proper functioning of the iPad. Apple doesn't test the iPad with Cydia and various modifications available through jailbreaking. What's more, they are demonstrably less stable. I know this for a fact, because I have a jailbroken iPhone OS device.

Another tack: I am thinking of writing an App which would enable DRM for the user (as opposed to DRM against the user) so that people could share pictures and documents, and be assured that the shared copy is erased at a certain point in time and never present in an unencrypted form, except in RAM at the time the data is being used. This would work fine on non-jailbroken iPads. (Not strong enough for espoinage work, but enough to establish a CYA audit trail with corporate documents with an NDA.) Unfortunately, there can be no expectation of this working for jailbroken devices.

(I'm also going to put in the FAQ, that this is not a safe way to share pictures and assure they won't wind up on the Internet. The iPad's screen is high resolution and people can just photograph it.)
Well, no model of big bang cosmology says something about how energy came to exist in this space as well, and based on the principle of mass-energy equivalence we do not know how stuff came to exist. It is important to keep in mind that the Big Bang cosmology was a theory originally described by a catholic priest (Georges Lemaître), this theory is closer to theism than its direct (academic) competitor in the past, the steady state cosmology, that predicted an eternal universe, basically it says that time and space existed since forever, in which new matter is created every moment.
My only concern about this would be selling lifetime subscriptions for an embryonic service. What if it fails? This may be built into the terms, but it could also sour customers on your future offerings (or hurt your personal brand).

Otherwise, this seems like a good strategy for testing the waters with a new product.
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Yeah, but evidence suggests that isn't true. Studies of people trying to lose weight show that those who exercise and those who don't lose the same amount if you control for eating.

People who cut out calories and exercise lose the same as people who cut out calories and don't. People who exercise without changing eating habits don't lose weight, just like those who do nothing at all.
This is my usage pattern as well, except I am using Chrome, It really highlights (one of) the benefits of having each tab in a separate process: it doesn't need to reload the page saving both time and the keeping the spot I have scrolled to on the page.
This is really a brief history of HTML / XHMTL. Markup goes back long before either. In 1980-81 I used Brian Reid's SCRIBE formatting program (and Emacs as the text editor) to produce the manuscript of my law review note. According to Wikipedia, Brian won the ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award for his dissertation, which was based on SCRIBE -- which itself was based on (and was the first robust version of) RUNOFF. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_(markup_language).
But I'm just giving basic idea
So after playing LoL for awhile, which has a much sloppier matchup algo (it's harder to do accurately in 5 v 5 than 1 v 1) I have to tell you, better is better. The intensity of matches is part of what's made me switch to SC2.

The problem with the sloppy algo is that it's rarely fun. 45% of the time you're crushing the other team so easily that it's kinda boring. 45% of the time you have 0 shot of winning, and know this in a few minutes but it takes a half hour or more. 10% of the time it's close and then it's actually fun.
good.

Patent trolls have abused the system for too long. The whole point of patents was to increase innovation not stifle it
I like HN because it usually doesn't have this sort of drivel.

Also this particular one breaks the guidelines:
If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys."

And yet... this still gets upvotes.
I recently had a conversation with my 16 year old son who was having girl problems. Part of my advice was about playing the field. i.e. "What are the chances the best woman for you, in all the world, lives 1/4 mile away?" Similarly, what are the chances the best job for you is your first, or second, or third? Slim.

Playing the field with employers should be the standard mode of operation. This possibly benefits employers even more than employees. What is worse for an employer than an entrenched employee, who hates his job, doing the bare minimum to stay employed? Surely the answer isn't the guy who was super productive for a year and then moved on.
I think it's reasonable to have Apple to honor its warranty on the hardware if you can restore your jailbroken device to its standard configuration. Unlike running a car with 3rd party components, there are almost no effects on hardware that caused by running 3rd party software. The two exceptions I know about being flash memory and the battery. Software can have a direct effect on these. I would accept a waiver of warranty on these two components for running non-Apple tested jailbroken software.

Oh wait, the baseband has a direct bearing on the functioning of the 3G or mobile telephony hardware. Hmmm. I guess we'd have to waive the hardware warranty on that part too for jailbreaks.
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i see what you did there.
A good problem to have
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Just to correct myself slightly it appear to be (currently) using MPEG4 part 2 (Xvid) for most of its presets, though they tested H.264 encodes for certain phones.

https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/wiki...

I'd be interested in their reasoning for this, though I remember for a while the best quality possible on iPods regardless of time to encode was high bitrate MPEG4. I wonder how big a difference there is at these screen sizes?
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It's not a weird assumption, it's a completely relevant assumption.

Currently, if you want to build iPhone software using anything other than the approved Apple stack, jail-breaking is required by fiat. You have no option. It means the iPhone market isn't truly competitive; the "best" development environments and practices aren't allowed to bubble to the top; instead we're constrained to the Apple backwater (and it IS a backwater; trust me when I say Apple should be so lucky to have something like Haskell or Flash or .NET running on their shitty hardware).

Btw, an MP3 is a data file, not a piece of software. Not an App.
If executed properly, an Android device with both multitouch and a pressure sensitive stylus would be compelling for me. Add a transflective Pixel Qi screen, and this could be an iPad killer. (Depending on price)
Did it kill enough?
Cool, thanks, should make this one much easier to organize then.
Yes, that excuse occurred to me too. Obviously not the real reason for the rule, but arguably a plausible enough excuse.
I think there's probably an interesting overlap between security theatre and increased retail opportunity in airports. If I were a major airport retailer, I'd be lobbying hard for increased security screening - bored people forced to hang around in airports are likely to spend more.

See eg http://www.aerlines.nl/issue_40/40_Beundia_de_Barros.pdf

(and count me as another UK citizen who avoids flying as much as is reasonably possible these days.)
Superb... It interests me that the talk is dated '30th November 2010' ... I thought that somehow he had managed to give a talk from the future and put it on the interwebs backdated a few months...

Of course then I realised that this is the date of the forthcoming talk..
The problem with this line of reasoning is that Jailbreaking does remove a lot of protection built into the phone. I am guessing Apple could successfully (and probably legitimately) argue that jailbreaking has to void warranty - because any damage resulting from installing jailbroken apps is not their responsibility. Say a virus targets jailbroken phones and rips into/destroys the hard drive. Is it reasonable to expect to be Apple responsible for replacing these phones under warranty?

If jailbreaking didn't void your warranty would more people do it? I suspect not a huge amount more.

Also; while this is well argued it is essentially wrangling a legal point - this kind of thing ends up getting stuck in court for years being decided.
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Jobhop yes, but please be careful--you might just hop yourself right out of the market.

My resume resembles Swiss cheese. I have a whole bunch of short-term jobs, and holes where I've taken off a year or more to pursue my own ideas (I'm "freelancing" during that time).

Fortunately I was able to get another job after the last break, but I didn't seem to be getting as many callbacks as I'm used to. This, coupled with my age, tells me I need to stay put for a while. And I hate that.
This has been addressed for car parts. If you use aftermarket parts and your car breaks, they can't void the warranty unless they can show that it was reasonably caused by the non-standard part.

For example, if you "chip" your car and then blow a head gasket, they can justifiably argue that this was caused by running the engine at higher power. If the catalytic converter or the suspension breaks, they can't.

So if they can establish a case that the radio broke because the jailbroken software ran it at too high power or whatnot, then they might have a case. If it just fails, on the other hand, I don't think they can.
There was a lot of 9lessons stuff (posted under 9lessons.blogspot.com) posted a while back - the blogger seemed to be stretching the gentlemans agreement of "it's ok to post your own stuff in moderation" and I thought it had been banned.

Perhaps this is a new account/domain - I don't know. I'm sure a mod will catch it.
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true, jquery is a fantastic library, but none of the stuff done here is actually very complicated or too impressive...
It's up to me as the owner to determine what "proper functioning" means. Clearly you can't ask Apple to fix it if it's crashing because it's jailbroken. But if the display fails, that's not reasonably caused by running another OS.
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Looks like buying slicehost has been good for them.
Heh, just happened to me, too. Have to remember we're in a technical context here. :)
The fact that I'm constantly getting friend requests from facebook accounts which are pretty transparently not real people does not reassure me about the idea of facebook doing identity verification with consequences.

As smartphones become ubiquitous, maybe we can go back to the cypherpunk idea of everyone having a public key.
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I work in Amsterdam and live in the Amsterdam area, so Amsterdam or Utrecht would be no problem for me.

However, for me personally, I'm fully booked every weekend the coming months. But don't let that stop you :-)

Edit: I'd be up for a short talk about a personal/work Javascript/jQuery project I've been working on. Very not exciting, just very practical for our organization.
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And speaking of Starcraft 2 and coding, here is a Raphael.js / jQuery web app that matches up units currently in the Beta against each other: http://scstrategy.com/matchup
I've been deep into building a geocoder the past month. While we may get rid of Solr eventually, it was a great foot in the door to information retrieval. It helps that I have a problem to solve and a deadline, so I'm motivated to read and work through these books. These three texts have been very helpful. The last book is an excellent overview of text processing and some real world problems you may encounter writing your search engine.

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Google is going to makes major wind farm investment
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Then again few journalists are stupid enough to buy stolen property and then reveal their sources or the fact that they've bought it

This is an important fact worth mentioning. Gizmodo should not have said where they got the thing from.
Does warranty case law supersede DMCA?

Nope, didn't think so.

Blame IP law, and blame the DMCA, but don't blame Apple for being diligent.
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I'm not thinking of the radio breaking, but it might well work improperly due to software. This would render a phone unusable. (Can we have a warranty on AT&T?)

In the case of flash RAM or the battery: software can clearly break those.
China is evil and Apple is omg awesome, so clearly this is better. Apple is just so nice to everyone, they didn't deserve to have pictures of their newest telephone published... because now everyone knows the Evo 4G is cooler, and Apple will go out of business as a result.

Does my logic make sense? Let's raid someone's house just to be sure. Nobody would call that over-REACT-ing.
The average cloud customer probably pays less than 5% of the average dedicated customer. But, yeah, it seems like a good buy.
The parts I listed in another thread that I thought could be "broken" by software: the radio, flash RAM, and the battery. And the 1st one wouldn't be physically affected, but wouldn't work correctly. Everything else, AFAIK, Apple should honor the warranty on.

The flash RAM and the li-ion battery can actually be physically harmed by incorrectly functioning software!
I don't really think HIIT is that good of an idea for people who just want to get into better shape. I got much leaner after switching from sprints to distance swimming in high school and had the fastest weight loss of my entire life when getting into distance running after a few years of sedentary computer work. I dropped 50 pounds in 3 months.

I know HITT is a fad amongst body-building circles at the moment but even for them, how many are as lean as Arnold was when he was regularly doing hour-long runs? And how potent are the drugs and supplements they are taking compared to what 70's body-builders had access to?

The way I see it, if you want to be fast in short bursts, train in short, fast bursts; if you want the endurance to handle a huge volume of work, then do a huge volume of work in training. You are what you do.
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Not to mention the eastern sources, namely Buddhism and Hinduism that have said so thousands of years ago.
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Really, really buggy in opera.. They kinda missed the point to jQuery if its not cross browser.
actually the courts have explicitly said that the DMCA can't be used to prevent interoperability. This is a well known case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chamberlain_Group,_Inc._v._....
Maybe not; the battery itself should be tiny.

I think they just never got around to measuring battery life.
More than just an excuse. Software has been an integral part of heat management in devices for over a decade. Also, the li-ion battery and the flash RAM could be physically damaged by incorrectly functioning software.
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I disabled minimise to status bar in outlook as soon as I moved to W7. Trust me you won't miss it. Win+<num> should work with Vista too (in quick access bar) if I'm not wrong.

From what I learn from people at MS, Office team follow their own UI conventions and they dictate Windows not the other way round. So it would always be office does something and windows follows.
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I wonder if this is going to be a paid subscription service, or open? I can't decide which route would best relate to "Do No Evil"
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It is perfectly acceptable to end sentences with a preposition: see Fowler's _Modern Englist Usage_ for a review of this. Some of the great English and American writers have left participles dangling, though certainly prose reads better without the construction.

There is really no substitute for exposure to the correct usage. It was somewhere in junior high that "to" and "too" sorted themselves out for me, in the essentially monoglot midwest. I admire the writer's concern for her nth language.
Sorry, what? Is this guy a crackpot or have I missed some kind of joke?

"The speed of light is created by our minds?" Then why do machines perceive it? Why do we notice no changes in it between minds? Why does all of our simple Physics work (e.g. refraction) assuming a fixed speed?

Just because you want it to be true doesn't make it true.