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1. If one wants to create a world per his imagination why not let him and let him share it? Why listen to the radio when you can read the book or the script and leave your imagination do the rest. Even debates are better on screen as body language tells way more than the grunts and sighs that can only be heard.

2. It adds a lot to the experience. You will be seeing someone else's imagination and that can be different than yours.

4. Yes it can. You still have radio if you experience this. Height can give you nausea too and that's why it needed a bunch of people without these "affections" to erect the first skyscrapers which you can benefit from and marvel at.

6. If no money is being made of a technological advancement then it gets forgotten and abandoned. Radio was a big business too and still is.
Is there a "What is new in 10.4" kind of article?
At least reddit has /r/coding, unlike yc where all I get to read lately is about fights between Apple and Adobe.
I like the general idea of making stuff which makes people spending less time at a computer, not more. Like giving the information they need and can use in daily life.

This approach excludes working on most social network stuff or things built on the top of it just for the sake of being another 'social' thing.

Cmon people, what's 'social' is happening behind the scenes in our lives, not in teh networkz.
Any comments on dev work on older laptops with lightweight Linux distros?

I have a IBM T23 Thinkpad with 384MB of memory. I took Arch for a spin and was happy for awhile, recently made a move to Xubuntu, but neither have been exactly the right thing. I do a little emacs/slime/lisp hacking with this setup, a little Ruby, etc. Works OK, but not great. Xubuntu was a great install, up-and-running with no config needed experience.
It seems more like JavaScript changing more towards PHP than anything else. If that is the goal, then perhaps nodeJS is the solution.

I've been considering using nodeJS for more and more logic as time progresses, but truthfully PHP works 99.9% of the time.
Chris, thanks for posting this!
Well, these guys are touting themslelves as ipad killer..
http://bit.ly/aYhAXY
possibly wrong strategy for a startup?
> But the fact that the main use for Flash on the web these days, beside video and unusable websites, are animated flash ads that use up 40% of my much more powerful Macbook Pro's CPU time means I'm in no hurry to have flash on the phone

In my opinion, this is moot point. Annoying ads aren't going to be limited to Flash. HTML5 ads aren't going to be more fun.
Meta-comment: I don't agree with everything in this post, but it made me think. It's a refreshing change from the echo-chamber posts that simply parrot whatever was last posted and either agree in breathless terms or disagree vociferously.

Suggestion to bloggers: When you read something that makes you excited or angry, resist the impulse to respond on the same terms. Ask yourself what important factor is being ignored in the current debate.
Perhaps 'Own the mobile' in the 2010's will be the precursor to 'Own the experience' in the 2020's?
Interesting , though i would be more interested in an in-depth article from the thought-leaders of the community about "Future of the JVM".
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its a hyperbole :)
check this mockery of steve jobs
http://bit.ly/aYhAXY
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>"Science has determined that less than 25% of a person’s lifespan is determined by genes."

What does that mean? With a change of just 5% of a person's genes, they'd have been born a rat and died within a lifespan that differed from the average human by far more than just 5%. For that matter wheat shares about 50% of its genes with humanity.

I know it would be possible to make 5% alterations in one's food intake that would kill them instantly, so this isn't an argument for genetic determinism. The question is what does "X% of someone's Y comes from genes" mean when it's reported like this?
It's definitely interesting, but I think they should develop this as a separate language - specialised for the web. Inline HTML, JSON and SQL look excellent but to me this should be developed as a "new" language, so it is not bound by restrictions of trying to look like PHP.
Apple v. Adobe is like watching two drunk bus drivers take to the streets. You don't just want off the bus, you want off the road.
> I disagree. Microsoft is a company that is about saying yes, to everyone. Apple is one of the few companies which says no on various subjects to reduce the problem space.

The problem is that Microsoft used to say no as well. The larger the (software) company is the less humble and wise it becomes as its realizations are stretched across multiple divisions.
Why is it relevant that they are sequoia funded? This story is mostly India-centric, so it doesn't look like that has any bearing on what this is all about.

If anything it will at least assure that they'll have pockets deep enough to defend themselves.

Also, does a copyright violation warrant an arrest of the executives of a company?
Anyone tried Grooveshark (http://listen.grooveshark.com)? I know it's in Flash but on first glance it seems to be a combination of Lala and Slacker.
Says a member of the only race in 2 billion years that CAN argue about it...
More importantly they can control how well it does what it does.
I find it interesting that IBM's JVM wasn't even mentioned in the article, yet there's an ad for IBM at the bottom of the page.
> this little attack piece by TC came across as snarky and unprofessional

Yes, it felt like a character assassination with little of value. If someone sent me this link in an email, I might fire back "What's actionable about this?" What decision does this help me make? Not to work there? Not to hire Carol? Not to develop against YHOO's APIs?

And while this really isn't news to any hacker, if we accused every CEO who makes wildly unrealistic criticisms of smoking dope, we'd characterize the entire Fortune 500 as a drug den. Has Ballmer ever publicly said anything realistic about Apple?
> It's as far as I know the first reboot of an existing language :)

What an absolute nonsense. As if nobody has ever re-implemented a language that already existed, it's maybe a first for PHP but it's more the rule than the exception that there are dialects of programming languages.
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You're right about the lack of forced labor camps, but "Stalinist" is how local economists describe the situation.

To give you some idea: if you want to start a company, it will take you a minimum of 40 days to visit various bureaucrats and get permissions.

When you hire employees they will come with union strings and have a Soviet-era worker mindset (i.e., they can do whatever work they want, incompetently or not, and they still expect to get paid, etc.), which is probably where the phrase comes from.

The Calomiris article goes into more detail.
You mean just like the iPad can run web apps for free?

The same web apps that everyone decries for not providing the rich experience of native apps?
That leaves a different taste in your mouth than an acquisition from an indirect competitor, and down-grading your access to the content you've paid for - forcing you back into iTunes which was obviously a conscious decision by the commenter not to do.
I agree with a lot of this, but one point seems to contradict facts:

Even if he's reduced to giving the machines away, as long as he can charge rent for access to data (or apps) he's got a business model.

Hasn't Apple repeatedly stated the case that the App Store runs at break even? The whole idea is to drive sales of machines. Now if it is for some cloud based services in the future that might work - still an iPhone unsubsidized is ~$600 so that is a good deal of cloud service revs that need to make up for that.
> In MacRuby, all Ruby classes and objects are actually Objective-C classes and objects. There is no need to create costly proxies, convert objects, and cache instances. A Ruby object can be cast (toll-free) at the C level as an Objective-C object. The Ruby VM can also handle incoming Objective-C objects without conversion.

> In MacRuby, the primitive Ruby classes (e.g., String, Array, and Hash) have been re-implemented on top of their Cocoa equivalents (respectively, NSString, NSArray, and NSDictionary). As an example, all strings in MacRuby are Cocoa strings, so they can be passed directly to underlying C or Objective-C APIs. It is also possible to call any method of the String interface on any Cocoa string, subclass Objective-C methods, etc.

Interesting. Anyone used macruby, and would like to share experiences.

1. How is the learning curve for a ruby programmer ?

2. Are using the String and other core classes just the same as ruby, or more difficult / cumbersome.

3. Can you reuse code from pure ruby apps, or does this re-implementation cause issues/problems.
The author is a student at Michigan Tech (not sure if/where he has a job). I o_0'd a bit at taking this particular week off, since this week was final exams. Whatever works for him, I guess...
Spineless parents whining about "competing" because they can't stand up to a 3-year-old?
The point would be to remove the need for disgusting amounts of motion blur in films.
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I think in this context, and given the other contenders listed, he means JRuby running on the JVM to make up for the fall in Java.
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Everybody talks about the society in Gattaca as if it's a bad thing, but what was really that bad about it? It kinda sucked for those who were born unenhanced, but give it another fifty years and there probably won't be any of those any more (they'll eventually figure out you can just freeze your sperm and have a vasectomy at puberty).

For everybody else, life might not have been perfect, but it was a lot better in many ways than life is today. It wasn't shown on screen, but they'd presumably gotten rid of an awful lot of horrible genetic diseases, and probably eradicated poverty by ensuring everybody has at least the minimum intelligence level required to make a decent living.

Oh, and also: everyone was pretty.
I'll tell you what's broken: my high-school son's school lunch is 500 calories. He's a growing, athletic kid! He would starve on that. So he scrounges for junk, brings pop-tarts to school etc to survive. Political correctness so often backfires.
>This is a reboot of PHP, like the reboot of Star Trek.

So it's going to be a cotton-candy superficial take on a language with a deep and active user base that basically ends up making it no different from every other language of the month that people promptly forget about?
Microsoft uses power to increase their own reach. Apple uses power to increase their own vision.

No arrow keys on the first Mac KB. No Floppy in the iMac. No BluRay now.

Again, Apple is ok with using power to leave off features that they don't 'see' the point of. Microsoft is ok with using power to leave off competition.
A BSD Java worked on by IBM, Oracle, Google, Apache etc together would be interesting, but it's the politics that'll make or break it.
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Apple's acquisitions are few and mostly (IMHO) strategically well thought-out. Let's look at Apple's lala process for clues to where they're going.

Consider the possibility that the lala-buyout/close-down is prelude to Apple's next quantum leap in streaming service. [remember the huge NC data center that's nearing(?) completion]

The "store he doesn't want to shop at" may soon leap-frog what he lacked at lala. I understand that it's probably aggravating at time point to anyone with a substantial investment in lala service, but... the broader implications for overall media streaming/services may surprise us all.
I'm pretty sure that's going to exceed the $25 budget.
I've been much more interested in what Spotify is doing. I think if they could get into North America before Apple, they'd do quite well.

At the moment I'm stuck with a UK VPN. I've been really happy with the service, it just feels like the future.
i guess i havnt played with the droid enough. I would like to see it work out, especially seeing how it would do as a netbook platform, but im a little skeptical.
Controlling what though? To what end? Microsoft wants to be everything to everyone and is willing to use force to get there. Apple doesn't care what you want. They want a product they would buy; if you buy it too -- all the better.
That's why I'm confused - I agree with you, Apple is way out of line on this. So why are they doing this, when they're not a monopoly? Do they think that having a walled garden of approved apps and the best UI will work forever?

It didn't work for their desktop business 20 years ago, why should it work now?
I am eagerly waiting for JDK 7 with invokedynamic support. I will be good to see the improvements it will bring to dynamic languages like Jython and JRuby.

I wonder if Oracle is going to be conservative or go all out and consider features like tail calls.
Yes, it's all about hardware and that's not going to change, despite the author's arguments otherwise.

PCs aren't going anywhere either. Offices will continue to use PCs even if the consumer market switches to mobile phone/tablet devices.

And Apple isn't going to kill its line of computers with the iPad as they have a very clear and healthy market there. iPads intentionally can't function without a PC/Mac running iTunes. And while every other PC maker has slashed prices and seen downturns, Apple's been growing for a decade. They know what they're doing with their Mac market.
When I'm doing work on my own projects, I prefer to work with a sharpie marker and blank paper. It's the easiest way to get my ideas out as quickly as possible. The downside is that it's not digitized or searchable. Usually when I'm done writing and sketching out a lot of ideas, I'll just put those papers into a manila folder with a descriptive label and file it away. I bought a nice filing cabinet and label maker last year when I started doing GTD, so it works pretty well. Every meaningful thought is documented, and it's pretty easy to find it when I need it.
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The one answer I have is to rain (metaphorical) death and destruction on to Apple... I hereby declare myself, officially, anti-Apple.

Wow, great. I'm sure your bile and vitriol will create lots of value for customers. Who will want to pay for an iPad when they can get (metaphorical) death and destruction for free?

OP is hardly alone with his rage; I see lots of people storming and blustering about how Apple is the devil. But I see very few people making a serious attempt to actually deliver the goods that will make Apple irrelevant. If a mobile platform running Clojure-flavored HaskellLisp is the Silver Bullet, can you show us an example of its unique value? Or if a mobile platform running Flash is the Ultimate Object of customer desire, where can we buy it and try it?

(Personally, I'll put my energy into the standardized web. It's out there, it's ubiquitous. The servers run whatever software you like; the clients run Javascript, which has its troubles but is not the worst of all possible worlds. Steve Jobs himself endorses it and the iPhone platform has supported it nicely from day one. We've spent well over a decade building it.)
That's the "sell", not a business model.
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The author is giving Apple a lot more power than they actually have. Apple controls Apple platforms; OSX, iPhone OS, etc. That's it. That's a small fragment of the market. Yes -- including the iPhone. There are good alternatives to both. What's the problem?
Then why no arrow keys on the first Mac?
When your OS is installed on a billion or so computers worldwide backwards-compatability is pretty important. Vista broke backwards compatability for the driver model (for excellent reasons BTW) and MS got reamed for it. It's easy to be laisse faire about backwards compatability until it is your app or your machine that is being broken.
That's basically what Apache Harmony is today.
As background: Charles Stross is a prolific science-fiction author. He's a smart guy with a lot of interesting things to say about the future of technology.
What's bad about it is that messing with the engine of evolution without fully understanding it risks becoming a mono culture in one form or another, possibly without realizing it.

The blind watchmaker has done a pretty good job so far, my vote is on letting the guy continue without messing with the mechanism until wel really understand how it works.

The whole picture reminds me of guys with hammers that try to 'improve' a jet engine or a computer. If this is an act of reverse engineering a piece of software, and I believe there are enough parallels with the computer world to justify using that term then you're looking at the equivalent of knowing a few interesting peeks and pokes and the basic opcodes but you are still far away from 'grokking' the program as a whole, so any modifications you make can have consequences beyond what you currently understand.
It depends. The volcanic ash might be dark enough to - on balance - absorb heat, like the brown cloud over Southern Asia does. I'm not aware of work that's been done on that.

However, good point - hadn't thought of that. Maybe Gaia is swatting planes. :D
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Maybe they really are trying to get it right the first time 'round but things like SVG have been in other browsers for years. They will only be available to the ordinary IE users next year. This should not have taken so long. I still can't help but feel that Microsoft is dragging their heels and always points at some formality when asked why things are the way they are.
Apologies, I read you wrong. Renewable resource because it's trees, not because you can recycle it. Eeek. Someone slap me.
That is absurd... I've been doing conference since 1996 when I was publishing Silicon Alley Reporter are there are three reasons:

1. I enjoy hosting debates and dialogues with really smart people. I mean, I come in to HN and get my ass kicked by 4/5 posts just to engage the debate.. it's what I do.

2. They make money. Lots of money if you do them right.

3. Open Angel Forum is designed to a) kick the sh@#$%t out of these bastards, b) get me into amazing angel investing deals (i'm doing 10 deals a year.. in fact, I'm almost at 10 deals in 2010 and we're not even half way there... so I might do 15 deals in 2010). c) make modest profit.

Aaron is on a massive jihad against me... which is great. It's only motivated the Mahalo team to get better and better... his attacks on Mahalo got the team focused. At the end of the day the changes he demand we make--and we made--rose revenue 50% while reducing traffic by 15%. That's a deal I would make any day. I'm going to do an epic presentation on Aaron's free advice in another six months. it's going to be sick.
I'd just rip Android out and install a vanilla Ubuntu ARM desktop.

I am more than happy with Ubuntu running on an Intel Atom. I guess I wouldn't be that much disappointed at it running on ARM.
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Please... if you have a sense of humor please get of my internets. No joking on the webs.
Yeah, 32-bit Carbon is still around, but they axed a 64-bit version that was (mostly?) complete.
But once Lala is shutdown, he will have no music to show for that $100 spent. Subscription models to not cost nearly that much, yet you're asserting that his $100 was basically just that ... an opportunity to listen to a select number of albums at a very high cost.
Where did the OP claim that Apple was a monopoly? Maybe it was this: "That is one difference between Apple and Microsoft- Microsoft was (still is) a monopoly, while Apple isn’t." No, that can't be it. Hmmm, I can't find it...
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this is the best demo i have seen of the adam tablet,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQvefuCHZds
Im very excited, i hope it measures up to the iPad and other tablets, it seems to have some very cool features
In the demopit at TC50 for the past three years the people who DIDN'T make it on stage are offered discounted tickets and a table at our costs. This is optional and we do it to give the runners up a chance to draft off the top 50.

If you put someone on stage and say they were one of the "top 100" you really shouldn't charge for that.... unless you're a scam like AlwaysOn, Red Herring or YoungStartups. :)
I found it curious that they omitted J9 too. That said, I haven't kept up with what IBM has being doing with it lately and I've always been under the impression it is a closed project that isn't likely to influence the overall direction of Java.

I wish Microsoft would make the CLR open source and OS agnostic. That would make things really interesting.
I thought it was entertaining to see their website looking very similar to Apple's.

That said, Steve Jobs has pissed me off enough recently that I hope this gains traction.

Apple and Facebook have gotten too uppity with our rights. With all the other sh*t going on in the world at some point people will have had enough and will start pushing back on this crap.
Grooveshark is great (though it occasionally is missing music). But it's only a matter of time before it is shut down.
Considering the focus and shift towards dynamic languages I would love to see more adoption for the parrot VM. There is a lot of innovation there.
Even if you switch off the bloats like Gnome or Kde, I guess the most resource hungry stuff is still your web browser which you inevitably use. Firefox is not lightweight anymore. I wonder what would it be if you used Google Chrome in your setup.
Yaler, a high performance relay server implementing HTTPS with Java non-blocking sockets, hierarchical state machines and design by contract. Written by Marc Frei (Oberon microsystems).

http://hg.yaler.org/yaler/src
I believe they are planning models with 3G and wifi :)
I'm honestly curious as to how they are allowed to do this. You contracted with lala.com for a service, and companies don't get to ignore the contracts they've made with their customers just because they are bought by other companies. Couldn't you demand your money back? Or, in principle, sue them?
I was talking to one of my professors that teaches Flash/ActionScript at the University I just graduated from yesterday, and the main issue at hand is that Adobe in Flash still does not have a good way to handle touch events, nor is there any way to use ActionScript to add any touch events. Flash is dropping the ball in that regard.
Yet another thing to love about the internet: it helps you realise that Roger Ebert is, in some ways, just a person putting his thoughts out there, like the rest of us.

Sure, those thoughts are pretty awesome...
1. I paid for it out of my pocket to start. So, I lost money on the event at the start with the hope to start making money off the angel investing I do in the companies. Basically it was my way to get deal flow.

2. We started getting 2-4 lawyers, accountants, etc. to pay $1,500 to come to the event. Each event cost $2-5k to run.. so this made the events breakeven.

3. WE just got two $50,000 a YEAR national partners (sponsors), and that has helped us hire a General Manager that starts on May 1st. IT will help us get to 10 cities in 2010. Up next: Boston, Seattle, Austin, DC, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv and London (five of those).