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You don't have to be part of an existing media organization; there's a fundamental difference between publishing (eg by having your own blog) and just dumping it out there as a comment. With your own blog, you're staking out territory and making a claim to provide something - at least assuming you didn't set it up to disseminate this one thing, in which case it might be wiser to use wikileaks or somesuch. And then, there's a difference between just dumping stuff in public view and acting like an actual journalist by providing supplementary information, context and reaction from involved parties or expert commentators.

I'm a big fan of using the internet for journalism, but to claim that title you've got to demonstrate a commitment to editorial standards and accuracy.
You don't need a wildcard certificate, unless you want to host a lot of subdomains. If you need one just for mysql.yourdomain.com, you can still get a regular certificate, it just won't apply to www.yourdomain.com. Also, you can always get two.

The main difference between GoDaddy's certificates (and similar) and more expensive ones like Thawte and VeriSign is that the former ones are chained. This means browsers don't trust GoDaddy directly. They have to verify their certificate with whatever provider they are using. This is generally not a problem, but does require one extra step from you when setting up the certificate. GoDaddy has instructions.
Many of us use NoScript, and allow JS only after we've grown to trust a site. You should handle JS-disallowed browser behavior, and present a compelling argument to allow JS. Well-designed sites with a clear purpose and draw will in most all cases lead the user to at least temporarily allow it. Then you can win them over to permanently allow it.
I like my ';' - Even in javascript
The book "The How of Happiness" has a some other good evidence-based methods for increasing happiness too: http://bookoutlines.pbworks.com/The-How-of-Happiness
I meant that when you're doing say 987 * 659 you end with an entire page of lines and having to count up 9 groups of cross each > 40, for instance in the case of the middle column: accurately count and add 81, 40, 42.

The method still works fine it just becomes a hassle with a lot of chance for mistake (miscounting mostly) and looks way less elegant.

I like it too though, I just wouldn't teach it to a kid and then tell him to do 98*79.
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That's a fair point. I think that's more or less how Google approaches it even though they are not fans of closed web formats.

I do think there is a world of difference between a big complex closed platform exclusively available from Adobe and H.264 which has a variety of encoders/decoders available from multiple license holders. I seem to recall in the past Adobe has licensed in Flash to Nokia in almost the same way. Nokia ported & optimized the code for some of their handsets (N900 and others) It would be interesting to know if Adobe offered a similar arrangement to Apple. That would completely debunk everything Apple has been saying if they had the flexibility to control the Flash implementation on the iPhone themselves.
To add to jsz0's correct observation, H.264 does not show up at all under the first section discussing proprietary vs. open standards.

H.264 shows up once under the heading Second, there’s the "full web" but not really a primary point.

The main H.264 is in the section Fourth, there’s battery life. Jobs wrote that the benefit of H.264 vs. flash was that there was hardware decryption support for it. The result of hardware decryption support was a doubling of battery life vs. software decryption (e.g. flash).

I see a lot of jumping from Job's discussion of open vs. proprietary to his advocacy of H.264. While there are serious problems with the openness of H.264 (from an OSS POV), Jobs tied battery life to H.264 in his objection of flash codecs, not openness.
Buy it from GoDaddy and be done with it. Purchase as many years as you can afford because renewing certificates is a bitch.
I just don't know what you're trying to get at here. Are there "targets" that are adequately defended? I'm sure. I have no insight, for instance, into theater military communications. Actually, I have very little insight into DoD or the agencies at all.

What I have a fair bit of insight into is the industrial and commercial infrastructure which this article about Clarke is talking about. When Clarke suggests that a foreign actor could cause targeted blackouts, he's simply not wrong. If you want to allude to defenses, I'm going to have to ask you to be specific, because I don't know what you're talking about. Shutting the whole Internet off might not totally remediate the threat.
I would go farther and suggest that GMail was designed with the intention of making the desktop version of email obsolete.

They added in some desktop features primarily (IMHO) to support users who were so ingrained in their usage patterns that they couldn't see that really good search was actually BETTER than putting your email into folders. Desktop apps are only just beginning to catch up with faster search--and they still don't do it as well as Google.
Typically the 3 omni-directional wheels makes direct contact with the ground. Even then, holes and obstacles are a concern.

I didn't read the article, but judging by the video I see this more as a proof of concept. The balancing doesn't so much impress me. I liked what I saw of them being used together. If you scale the design up by any amount and increase the friction/traction between the omni-directional wheels and the ball (possibly by using a hard rubber surface that has some give to it) you would have a hard time finding a more capable form of omni-directional locomotion.
And the music/movie companies wonder why everyone just pirates their shit instead...
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Flash Is No Longer Necessary?  No Flash Support on iPhone and iPad: Example
Despite the great number of horror stories, India is a successful exporter of software; less so for hardware. Has any Indian startup managed to create a consumer device that is used worldwide? If not, ADAM could really be a first. An exciting prospective.
Best of luck from an 8 year paying customer.
Judge: "Seldom have so many trees died for so little."
Perhaps I'm misreading you, but "humble" isn't the first word that springs to mind when I think about Apple.
I think Steve has plenty of confidence in open source. He's just a realist and understands that current software patent law doesn't really allow for completely open video codecs. Even if you create an open implementation of them, you're going to be subject to patent lawsuits, and as we know, most open source projects don't have the funding to withstand the legal battles.
Good point - but I thought IE6 was pretty spiffy at the time too. I like the reliability of current browsers, but agree with the guy that all development feels performance related, and there's not much in the way of new functionality.

Tabs were the last thing that struck me as innovative. I was hoping Google's sidebar idea would take off but it doesn't seem terribly popular. I wish the social internet (not so much facebook, but discussion forums like this or persistent comment communities) were decoupled from content, such that commentary was not siloed on the same page as the content.
I can't be certain but I don't think that was meant literally

This ubiquitous trifecta represents MVC almost perfectly.
Yes, all that, plus readability. I know when something is a variable. Prefixing variables in JS with $ doesn't do this because I still have to look out for things without a $ that are variables as well so it's the worst of all worlds.

> (Aside: $ prefix is handy in JS when holding references to jQuery objects ie $container = $('#container');)

I really really don't want to see that in a project I'm in charge of. It looks terrible to me, and I really don't like $ as an ordinary alphanumeric character. I like $ in jQuery projects to only be used for jQuery calls. (If it doesn't have to co-exist with something else and use noConflict mode.)

> var user = {name: "Foo", dir: "foo"};

I hate that about Javascript, how in object literals the left side is a literal string and the right side is an expression. Except, I really should quote the left side anyway - I think Crockford recommends this - because I might want a hyphen in there, or I might want to use a keyword (like "interface" where it isn't even obvious that it actually is a keyword.)

Also, if I have var key, and var value, I want to be able to pass it into a function that takes a dictionary argument as {key: value}, and not have to do var dict={}; dict[key]=value;

I also think Javascript absolutely begs for a real dictionary type. Objects don't work so well because I have to worry about someone extending them and I have to use hasOwnProperty - never mind someone could override hasOwnProperty. Also the performance characteristics of JS objects are terrible - Did you know that in Firefox a switch statement is one hundred times faster than an object lookup?

PHP's dual purpose variables are ugly as hell (with object -> syntax and array [] syntax) but I actually like being clear on whether I'm using it as an object or a simple array/dictionary.
Keep up the good work guys. I'm loving all the JS/HTML5/CSS games coming out these days. I made another game this week:

http://games.zetabee.com/chains

I hope to make tons more over the next month. I use Raphaeljs and JQuery. The best part about making games in JS/HTML is that you can pick and choose the good parts from each platform. It is easier to do rotations in Raphael so I use its .rotate() function. It is easier to make a navigation menu using ul, li tags in HTML/CSS so I use that and overlay it on top of the Raphael canvas. You can even use JQuery to bind events to nodes created by Raphael.

I can easily include images and backgrounds natively and monitor mouse events. The best part is that the games work in all browsers and iPad/iPhone natively. Also I don't have to worry about loading native fonts etc. because I can just use the default browser fonts for most everything. Testing is also very easy because it's just a single JS file that I work with. I want to create a simple library for others to use but I don't have much idea on how to go about it. I don't expect to create something as complex as http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/ but I think having a good framework for creating browser-based games would help.
You can learn that attention to detail can really pay off. And that's true even if your users are not Mac aficionados.
I get that things should be well presented and that campaign monitor is a designer facing service, but am I the only one that uses and likes gmail's default "never load images" feature? I like pure text emails because pure text emails tend to actually be useful and not marketing spam.

Obviously it depends a lot on your audience, but I would argue technically minded folk are smart enough to be jaded by fantastically designed marketing spam, and non-tech folk may like the pretty pictures but also would take a text-only email to be more credible/personal in that it looks as if someone actually wrote it to you!

This is from a pure marketing perspective though, anyone have any numbers for either side?
The writer seems to think that an open standard must be free of cost but is that actually true? Or is it just what many would like to be true?
What are the Things fall apart essay questions
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Laugh now, puny humans - but you won't be laughing when
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My Clearwire (Clear, Sprint 4G, Comcast 4G) stock is down 50% from when I bought it. There's a Clear store in the city here (Philadelphia is 100% covered by 4G) and in the malls in the area. I've never seen a customer walk inside any of them. They set up tables to demo Clear 4G on netbooks outside, and nobody ever walks up to it. I am not confident WiMax is going to catch on any time soon, unfortunately.
MPEG-4 Systems is not offered any more (since it's effectively dead).
A better question is, how many people get fair trials? The answer is "not very many", because the system is stacked against justice. Seems like even the most minor crimes carry sentences like 10-20 years. When confronted with this possibility, most people will opt to plead guilty for a shorter sentence. But, of course, a condition of pleading guilty is that you agree to never appeal. So there are many innocent people in prison for this reason.

(I'm pretty sure that the death penalty only exists to get people to take plea bargains. Life in prison seems better than being tied to a chair and being injected with drugs that make your lungs stop working.)

Even better is that the government often sizes your assets before trial, so you can't even hire a good defense lawyer.

I'm pretty sure that when the Framers were writing the Constitution, this is not what they had in mind. I'm surprised there's anyone that's not in prison, actually.
If you're going to put 'Who needs Flash' in the title then this is low hanging fruit. :-)

Has anyone got any examples of more complex games in HTML/JS? I'd be interested to see how far people can push performance. The only benchmarks I remember seeing currently put Canvas+JS at a significant disadvantage over Flash but I'd love to be corrected on that.
I don't know about the last part. Are you saying take away pictures of them for the same old, cookie cutter, every websites got 'em, pictures of multicultural business people doing mundane tasks that STILL don't say what the company actually does or what kind of people work there?
Nice to see others in the area. I hope you folks are successful.
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Let's do these guys a favor and crowd source this to something a little less "Corporate Mission Statement", a lot more descriptive, and more about the customer, preferably under 10 words.

I'll go first:

"Raleigh's One Stop Shop for your Whole Web Presence"
You're describing theater with special effects and JIT scene changes. I thing it's a fabulous premise and I've been thinking the same about the supposed destination of 3D movies.
A lot of non-companies sit on patents like this and sue the shit out of bigger companies when they implement stuff like this into their product.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll
Bigger companies patent this stuff to protect themselves. They can also abuse these patents too.
I was about to make the classic "but how often do you switch to another" comment when I realised that every single one of my active projects uses both (MySQL or PostgreSQL) and SQLite.
Things have changed a bit in the UK obviously.

My last contact with the law there was when I parked my car in a bad spot and the local police, 400 yards away from my apartment in Aberdeen, were completely unable to find me.

Hilarious. That was 1991 or so.
My thoughts exactly.

I remember a youtube video I saw recently in which a Lenovo sales guy tells the interviewer (at some trade show) that the software environment for their Skylight ARM-based netbook woulb be entirely proprietary, and that they would even push upgrades to devices in the field. While it doesn't exclude the possibility, I think this attitude makes it less likely that Lenovo will look kindly upon hackers loading their own OSs. Hopefully HP will take a less hacker-hostile approach.

And if anyone could make an ARM netbook with a Pixel Qi screen, that would be out of this world.
Why the Co-Developer of the World Wide Web isn't on Facebook
A monopoly exists when a customer has no alternative then to do business with the monopolizer. Microsoft was/is a monopoly because Dell, HP, etc have no recourse then to agree to MCSFT's terms or look elsewhere for their OS. And considering the general public hasn't embraced Linux, that pretty much locks those manufacturers in place.

Apple on the other hand develops its own hardware and software. I think they have every right to control their environment, even if I don't agree with it.

Developers are not locked into developing for the iPad, iPhone, etc. Don't like Apple? Develop for Android. Apple doesn't owe you a living. If you want to sell on their marketplace, you need to abide by their rules.

I don't disagree that it would nice if Apple was more open, but comparing them to MCSFT is somewhat of a red herring.
Yeah, that's an epic fail of the 'awesome' things this implementation provides. Yeah! more horrible spaghetti code built in to the interpreter.
I know what you're trying to say, but if we are talking about software development, I have very little evidence that "communication with the dead and demons summoned via pentagram" are practices that are any less effective than techniques in widespread use such as attempting to specify the entire program in advance of development, attempting to remove defects during a "bug fix" phase at the end, or attempting to make up for schedule slips with forced overtime and canceling holidays.

;-)
In regards to the actual site:

1. The SWFAddress handling could be extended to encompass more of your site, making it easier for google to index (i.e. individual team member pages)

2. Sub navigation did not always have a hoverable state (i.e. your team members).
How long does it take an expert designer to make a site like this?

I'm wondering if can/should a programmer learn to do this? Because I intend to create a startup and would like to save money there...
Sorry, I deleted my comment because it took me a moment to realise what you were saying.

Yes, you're right. Here's how I avoid the problem.

When I've use this method as an adjunct I've put two lines with a circle around them then labelled the "bundle" with how many lines there are. That way I can "have lots of lines" without actually drawing them all. The diagrams look similar, the method clearly works, and when I have used it, it's led the students to try to work out why it works, occasionally with success.

I've found it to be a useful extra tool for teaching these things.

BTW, I'm not the person in the video, it's just that I know and have used this technique.
Joking?! There are tons of open source projects hosted on that site. As on github. Use the categories to browse them. Use the search engine to search for them.

To answer your question: No.
4G is in the very, very early stages, like mobile phones when they were huge suitcase-size devices.

With that in mind, Clear's options are simply not very compelling. They charge a lot of money for a very tiny coverage area. Clear charges more depending on whether you buy a "home" plan or "mobile" plan. The "mobile" plan is significantly more expensive. But the "home" plan is not guaranteed to work indoors, even though they give you equipment that requires AC power. What a scam.

Sprint's plan is better; their 3G network is everywhere and is included with the 4G plans. (Or rather, 4G is a no-cost add-on for their 3G plans.) This is more compelling because Sprint 3G is everywhere, and their network is pretty solid. I get much faster speeds on Sprint's 3G network compared to what I got on T-Mobile or AT&T. (And like I said, when I do get a good 4G signal, it beats my 6M/768k DSL. In fact, with a bad signal, I usually get something like 1.5M/1.5M, which still beats my DSL in one direction.)

As the wireless carriers move from 3G to 4G to take load off the 3G network, I think 4G will become as popular as 3G. But relying on early-adopters paying $40 for worthless coverage is not a great business model. And relying on people to use wireless broadband when the fine print advises, "not guaranteed to work inside buildings" is also stupid. Why pay more money for a slower connection that's not guaranteed to work like copper?

That's why nobody is in the Clear store. Anyone with $60 month to spend on wireless broadband just uses Sprint, and everyone else just tethers their phone because they only use wireless broadband once a year.
JS/HTML5 games certainly won't replace every Flash game but given enough time, there will be a new ecosystem for these games. When Flash games came out, this is what everyone said and compared them to PC games. But now we have hundreds of thousands of Flash games coexisting with PC/Console games. I think JS games will flourish because they are so easy to make compared to Flash or PC games. Also, they work in almost all the new browsers/devices.

Even though the speed/performance may not be up to par, good games will be made. And I'll do my best to make that happen. It is so much fun making these games. Seriously. Give it a shot. Flash games are a headache to build/deploy compared to plain-JS.
http://noostr.com/download/ :) The version there does have a number of bugs and unfinished features though, it's still beta-quality.
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Why do you need to be "into Ruby" to run a tool written in Ruby? LESS and Sass are both fully usable from the command line.
Apple doesn't 'depend on AT&T'. They're not locked in beyond a short-term contract. They're using AT&T because it makes financial sense - they have a sweetheart deal in the US. Worldwide, they use a whole bunch of providers.

When they decide that sticking to AT&T isn't in their best interest, they will switch to a different provider.
I follow you isleyaardvark. I think one of the challenges of having a discussion about CSS is scope/setting. CSS is used on every different type project. If you're doing client work and building 5 page mini site (I'm not suggesting anything), your thoughts on CSS are based on a completely different use than the developer that maintains 500+ pages.

We both know CSS. But we use them entirely differently.

On a site with 500+ pages, by the time you've implemented all of your !blue to !green, or !light_orange to !dark_orange throughout your stylesheets, management will be considering another redesign.
I have yet to see a game written in Canvas + JS that was anything but explicitly an advocacy demo for Canvas + JS. I don't think anyone is writing games with the main focus being to create something for the game's sake that people want to play. (A good metric would be, how many games or even demos are written in Canvas + JS where the author doesn't think it's important to mention the platform it was written on in the title.)
Don't waste time on this. The easy answer is "choose your names semantically", but that's easier said than done. In the end, your users don't care if your variable is named "blue", "color1", or "color_used_to_represent_user_likes_something"

Semantic markup and CSS is something to strive for, but don't kill yourself trying to get to 100%
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I'm bothered by sentiments such as yours, indicating that selling other people's property for a profit isn't unethical, immoral or criminal.
Some interesting examples there, but why not use EcmaScript 5 instead of PHP?
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Thanks a lot!!
Apple's marketing strategy is better than MSFT, e.g. restriction (i.e. iPhone OS 4.0 ToS) was marketed as a feature.