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He said mobile flash. Nokia hacked the desktop Flash 9 into Maemo because they were so desperate to get something on their device. I can't find the link right now but an Adobe blogger basically distanced himself from it recently, saying it was Nokia's baby (which makes sense as they're the only one running it) as it wasn't 'real' mobile Flash.
Have to say I love the title.

"So what do you do?"

"I print photos for your mom"
Didn't the Gizmodo article say that he saw the owner's name and Facebook profile while playing around with the phone (before it was bricked remotely)? If so, why didn't he contact him directly?
I couldn't disagree more with this guy.

Maybe he should take a peek at 100 years ago.

It was said that movies are the bane of society.
Instead of the immersive story telling of books. Here, moving pictures replace the imagination and wisdom of stories.

It always takes time to learn how to use a new technology.
And it takes time for the market to be full enough when "just using the new tech" is no longer enough.

I am hopeful that they will learn how to use 3D to add depth to the story, not their pockets.
Essay graphic organizer
An essay graphic organizer is probably the best tool that that one could think of using to get a good essay off the road. You could refer to this tool as an essay template as well.
And of course: "Real artists ship."
The capabilities of Google Earth and Maps would make for a killer travel guide. There's one problem, however. LCDs don't look so great outdoors in the sunlight. The transflective screen would make such a use feasible, comfortable, and possibly slick.
Microsoft weighs in: 'the future of the web is HTML5'
Correct me if I am wrong (I found the links) but didn't adobe sent a DMCA take down notice to some guy for implementing RTMP and doesn't the Adobe EULA prohibit people tha have installed flash from developing competing flash players and that has in part hindered the Gnash(GNU flash) project.

Adobe Uses DMCA On Protocol It Promised To Open
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/22/1254246

How do Gnash developers work with the Adobe/Macromedia EULA?
http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/25#eula

P.S. I only read until the nonsense that flash is OSS.
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I am old enough to remember when our households transitioned from a B&W TV to a colour TV and I absolutely guarantee you that that the reaction was one of unalloyed joy. No "bah-it-looked-better-before" in sight.

The difference is that in B&W you have no idea if the grass is a lush green or a parched brown, whereas in real life you make that determination in an instant.. The problem with 3D is, as Roger Ebert points out, that your brain already derived the 3D based on a 2D image. So the improvement is incremental, if that.

The real issue is whether 3D has a real potential in gaming, where gameplay is frequently first-person, as opposed to movie, where the experience is almost always third-person.

Or, to put it another way, if you can't turn the camera around, you don't need a 3-D environment.
From the announcement (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-April...): "Users of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS may wish to wait for 10.04.1 LTS, due in July 2010, before upgrading."

Anyone know why? Surely we're not adopting the 'wait for service pack 1' approach?
Wow. This is... infuriating. I've purchased ~$100 (~75 albums) worth of streaming albums on Lala and I'm not happy to see them converted into ten albums worth of iTunes credits.

I have to say: so far I've been really unimpressed with the recent efforts to paint Apple as the new "Big Brother". But to purchase a company which is pioneering new methods of music distribution, and almost immediately shut them down and force their purchases to fit your distribution model is anti-innovation, monopolistic, and completely contrary to the kind of "different thinking" that has gotten Apple to where it is today. Utterly depressing.
For a non-chesser like me: what is so remarkable about that game in particular?

(Honestly interested -- was it that Novelty move in the middle?)
Speaking of competition: How is Googles Chrome OS doing? I haven't heard anything about it either.

Is there any competition to Apples iPad anywhere? Apart from dozens indistinguishable Android tablets, there seems to be close to no serious alternatives left on the market today.
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Many countries in Europe do, and some of them really stink, like RAI in Italy. Because if the government's paying for it, it's ultimately responsible to the government. Which in Italy's case means that not only does Berlusconi control his own TV stations, but those of the government. Oh, and I have to pay something like 100 Euro a year in taxes for the privilege:-/
>Adobe is basically saying that Flash will be available on competitor's phones and the market will decide; which is exactly the right response.

Perhaps not.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/29/adobes-ceo-jobs-flash-let...

"There's no official transcript yet, but the Wall Street Journal just live-blogged an interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, in which he responded to the Steve Jobs "Thoughts on Flash" letter posted this morning. Substantively, Narayen didn't offer much we haven't heard Adobe say before, but his frustration with Apple is palpable even in summary form: he called Jobs' points a "smokescreen," said Flash is an "open specification," and further said Apple's restrictions are "cumbersome" to developers and have "nothing to do with technology." What's more, he also said Jobs' claims about Flash affecting battery life are "patently false," and suggested that any Flash-related crashes on OS X have more to do with Apple's operating system than Adobe's software."

Haven't watched the video, but it sounds like Adobe is giving more than just a "market will decide" response.
Lots more about the documentary on this metafilter thread

http://www.metafilter.com/91492/Can-a-person-disappear-in-su...
Are you absolutely sure that is not the same speed that the Chinese make iPods?
Ted Turner.

Oh wait....
I think it's dangerous to ignore "toys", as time and time again they've proven quite capable of taking on superior solutions, and winning, because of other advantages.
Video games are different. For the most part there is no motion blur so your brain perceives juddering. Film doesn't have this problem.
Yeah that sucks, but maybe there's a lesson to be learned here:

Don't purchase streaming services for a one-time cost. Streaming services should be subscription services. Just don't do this. Let the industry know that if you're to purchase something, you should have infinite access to it — otherwise it should be a subscription service.

Btw, Apple probably wouldn't buy a streaming service unless they're planning to offer one themselves. Not that it changes your situation in any way. Just saying that they probably didn't do it just to shut it down.
>And that I think the freedom that enjoy MSR is not exactly related to the creation of future consumer software.

Where do you think the funding for MSR comes from? Who do you think decides to allocate that funding?
Italy is a complete one-off , the exception that proves the rule i think. Someone like Berlusconi would probably never get elected anywhere else in Western Europe.
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Running flash content on a PC bought around 2003 is actually pretty choppy. I installed Windows 7 on an old Athlon 1.6 ghz machine a month ago and tried to watch youtube with it -- the videos looked like they were going around 8 fps. I can watch old divx movies on it, but I can't watch youtube full screen... it's pretty sad.

This machine was fast enough to play Quake 3 and a dozen other gaming titles, but is too slow to play youtube videos. I just don't get it, is the flash vm really that processor intensive?

I can't see how flash could run well on the upcoming android devices if it runs so poorly on the Athlon 1.6ghz.
Usually openings are well studied, and it is difficult to find a good new move. A novelty is a move in the opening which noone has used before. It is usually prepared and studied in advance. The player that plays the novelty will then have some advantage in the game because he is already familiar with the position that arises.
Once upon a time, when Netscape added the BACKGROUND attribute and FONT element, we obtained web graphics of the geocities variety.

Good expressive results for new technologies take some time to be discovered.
The fix for this is to ignore the linux install directions for tokyocabinet and install as a source package (same as the mac install instructions if you're not sure what that means)
I would think this is less to do with HP wanting to just announce "something" to steal iPad thunder, and more about them just having gained a incredible touch OS. To be blunt, while Win7 has made many strides towards being a better touch OS it is no where near where it needs to be yet for someone to use it without a mouse and keyboard. There is just too much heavy lifting left to do.

I see this less as "we where never intending to do this," and more "we have something infinitely better, in house, which is actually built from the ground up for touch controls. Let's just go with that."
Although this does look superficially like anticompetitive douchebaggery, I still think Apple plans to release a similar service but not as "Lala." In those cases, the original products often get shut down a few months before the rebranded version is released. Steve Jobs said Apple had several new products planned this year, and that seems like a pretty obvious one.
Looks interesting. Thanks for the link.

> Agena is based on the ANSI C source code of Lua, a popular and widely used Open Source programming language.

I am curious, what does Agena provide on that Lua does not? I haven't used either.
Whatever, thats a pretty good deal. You paid $100 to listen to music and now you get to re-use that $100 again to get new music (or rebuy some of the old stuff) They're basically giving you your $100 back.
I don't know about that...BBC is notoriously unbalanced in its reporting of events in the Middle East. (You'll note I make no such accusation of al-Jazeera.)
My $0.02
<disclaimer>
I don't use twitter (I have an account, but never tweet, almost never look at the people who I am following) - so maybe I am too old school to have anything interesting to say.
</disclaimer>

This strikes me as severely reducing the S/N of the social networking space - if this gets popular, which I assume is your goal, then a large percentage of tweets will be generated automatically. Now permutate this machine-generated "social" information with all the tools springing up to analyze tweets and derive all kinds of useful crowd-sourced insights. It all becomes that much more diluted with less and less information actually created by a live, thinking human being. This might be the start of a trend - tools which tweet automatically based on incoming tweets, creating that feared endless loop which you cannot detect because you only control one participant. Oops, some kids are out trampling on my lawn, gotta go.
Relevant: http://xkcd.com/732/ (alt text)
So is this a strangely delayed slap at Theora, or an early shutdown on Google's VP8?

Since they do that annoying corporate thing of not naming the competitor I don't really know what to think.

edit: I've been wondering why Flash was getting slammed by both Apple and Microsoft in posts that pit Flash against H.264, which Flash supports with hardware acceleration. Does this mean Apple and Microsoft know, or believe, that Flash will soon support VP8?
The block were I live! I am on a netbook (wiki) with chrome, no GPS.
This article looks crap on my iPhone.
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I would call it "taking the high road". Just my opinion, of course, but I think it's better than a point by point rebuttal when that would obviously make no difference.
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This is completely game changing if:

1) they can do it

2) the price is sub $700

If they can do that, the Slate, iPad, etc. can go home now.
More information about how you structured your learning of this would be interesting to me, should you chose to disclose it.
"Our minds use the principle of perspective to provide the third dimension."

Totally agree with the author. Actually our minds use a whole set of cues besides perspective to estimate the third dimension and stereopsis (used in "3d" movies) is just one of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception
I wonder if there were critics expressing their displeasure with color movies when black-and-white movies were the norm? I could see some of the same arguments working. "When you see a black-and-white film your mind automatically adds color", "It adds nothing to the experience", "It can be a distraction".
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Nice to see it progressing, but sad that we will probably never see it compiling iPhone apps.
I think they sure can do it. They have come so far. My gut feel about the price is ~500$.

What will be interesting to see is the apps. Apart from the browser what apps will the iNotion have?
I disagree. I've definitely seen movies where 3D added to the experience. Was the 3D vital? No. But then neither was the colour - the films would still have been good in black and white, but the colour added to the experience.

Sure, it can be done badly, but that's hardly the fault of the technology.
Maybe most people on this thread are just blind. Blind to he "Treacherous Computing" which is applied to the iPhone and the iPad. Blind to the fact that these devices are fully fledged computers. Blind to the fact they wouldn't like to be locked out of their desktop PC in the same way.

Apple pulled out quite an American dream here: they made a sleek product, and were wildly successful. On top of that, they spurred a new gold rush (the App store lottery).

So, Apple looks great on the short term. On the long term, however, they make steps towards a society few would like. (Did you saw the mention to the "PC era" at the end? This is probably the most dangerous thing in the whole post. Yet it went unnoticed.)

The problem is, few think long term (it is dismissed as "idealism"). Most prefer short term (calling it "practicality"). HN is just no exception. (Opinions like "privacy is worthless" or "the BSD licence is more free than the GPL" are both short term-based, for instance.)
There really isn't a whole lot you can say; quips certainly won't help.

The problem here is a fundamental misunderstanding by your new coworker of exactly how the employer/employee relationship works, as opposed to how he, or really most people, believe it works.

In his understanding, the relationship stops with the employer, and the employer is paying for his time the same way he might pay at a meter for parking his car. What he's doing while his car is parked will vary, but he is expected to pay the same amount at the meter per unit time regardless of how worthwhile being parked there is to him at any point in time. In the same way, an employee is paid for seat time. The service he provides to his employer may vary depending on what the employer has him doing, but he expects the same remuneration regardless.

I suspect by your confusion, you see the same misunderstanding as I do. The relationship chain does not stop with his employer; instead it recurses out one or more levels from there until it reaches a customer paying for the product. This is where the value of the work is realized, when you find the person who will purchase the good or service on behalf of themselves, rather than on behalf of someone else further up the chain. More often that not, this last person in the chain will end up paying based on something other than time. If this customer refuses to pay more than employer is paying for your time, you are not productive enough, regardless of what sort of sense of entitlement to employment you think your diligence and hard work provide for you. You cost more than you produce; thanks for playing.

If you generate enough value for the actual customer that your employer is happy with the cut they get, then it absolutely should not matter how many hours you put in to generate that value.

It really comes down to a question of which is more important in being an employee: the value you produce for your employers customers; or how well you demonstrate your willingness to work hard, be a team player, demonstrate a strong work ethic, be diligent and obedient to the chain of command, or any of a myraid other things that might increase the value you produce to your customers, but are not the same thing as producing value to your customers.

The market is brutal; it couldn't care less how pious and moral you are.
I think the moment we get in-built scanners into laptops, fax machine's days will be numbered. Until then, it will remain super difficult to scan a document at home(when scanner is at work) or struggle with drivers of the scanner etc.
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Considering Topalov is a notorious slow-starter, or more accurately a very strong finisher, it's set up to be a very interesting clash for the rest of the match. Although this is a head-to-head match, so beating the tail-enders to catch up isn't an available strategy.

So far it's been a sublime performance from Anand to come back after the catastrophic first game. Game 2 was a splendid positional win, and game 4 is vintage Anand after a serious mistake from Topalov.

Anand's best games collection shows a number of wonderful examples of king attacks with reduced material, game 4 is another worthy addition.

All this on the backdrop of a psychological war: Topalov's decision to play by Sofia Rules, not talking/communicating with Anand, Topalov on home ground, Danailov's dual role as Topalov's manager and match organiser - for a player to face that and produce the quality Anand has done in games 2 to 4 is even more impressive.
He makes good points though. Avatar did cause dizziness for me, for example. And at times I had a hard time focusing my eyes on the right things to get the 3D effect. I surely hope it's not the future of movies!
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June apparently, which isn't that long after non-US countries get the iPad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_tablet
> "...which movie will it be."

Not which movie, but how to create such a movie. How would 3D effects harmonize with a movie? How would 3D add to the "complex and beautiful" story?

After solving how, we can answer "which".
Thanks for the coverage "there" :-)

Rob
Yeah, I have similar questions. On these kinds of issues, I often have meta-questions more than proper questions about the language. My first question isn't why they made design decision X or Y, but, what was it about existing languages that led you to make a new one? Presumably there was something, and often, knowing what it was may be more useful info than any number of pages of semantics.

It is cool that they have both a free implementation and a full manual, though, which probably somewhere in it contains the answer to my question.
I think the following phrase is unnncessary
"a result that goes against IR common knowledge"

IR aims to retrieve information and not sentiments from the text. This kind of work is related to sentiment analysis, where use of stops words as signal is common.
Thus the whole argument that some holy criteria in IR has been shown to false is clearly incorrect.
Even original authors don't make such assertions.
OK. Apparently, this was silly enough to warrant a down mod. So, let me ask this simple question:

Who here stopped using their desktop, to rely exclusively on an iPhone and an iPad? Who plans to? Why?

If Tablet PCs ever displace conventional ones, they won't have Treacherous Computing build in. Even my mom understands that depending entirely on a single company for much of her work and personal life is not a good deal.
Working long hours on pointless stuff just to cover your 9 to 5 makes you exhausted, demotivated and brunt out?
Spontaneous, fun activities and just taking some time off for yourself recharges your cells and makes you feel fresh, focused and energetic the next day?
Please do tell more of your crazy, new ideas!!

In other breaking news, a sack of rice has tipped over in China!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Whitaker_%28author%29 -- seems like he's OK, though of course it doesn't prove anything.
This kind of law makes my life worse.

From my own past experience of being a business, and of working with businesses, this is largely-unjustified alarmism. You already wanted to 1099 anyone you'd done that much aggregate business with, since it provided an extra form of documentation of your own (deductible!) expenses.
Perhaps FAQbot might be a better name as it might help people grok it faster? It would also give people a hint about what content to populate it with.

Also, could you scan Twitter for the questions most frequently asked of a given account?
> They're basically giving you your $100 back.

No, they're giving him $100 in store credit to a store that he doesn't want to shop at. If they gave him a $100 cash refund, he'd probably have fewer complaints.
Austria elected Haider and his bunch, a while back, who was in his own way worse. I don't think handing over the keys to the TV stations to whoever happens to be in office is necessarily the best way of doing things.
Really you are arguing agaist google because of tracking by Google analytics and AdSense???
Are you nuts??

Both programs are installed on the sites by explicit request of the website owners. If you should have problem with then that should be with the website owners "redtube" and not Google.

Also if you can prove that the TOS (Terms of Services) and Privacy Policy of the website you are visiting are violated by the Analytics or AdSense. Then you can petition in court as violation of policy.
However if you still visit the same website which have set the privacy policy and Tos compliant with AdSense and Analytics, and are crying about google watching you then i offer you a simle solution.

Dont visit those websites!
If you find lot like minded people then the traffic will automatically vanish.

Till then keep your mouth shut.
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The EU isn't really a single market. While Amazon.com, Yahoo, Google, MS and others were able to start with a single product or service for the entire country, they each have many multiple offerings in various EU countries.

You can't just make a quality OS or a website in English and start selling all over Europe. You can do that in the US and be a market leader in every state.
This is like a high-res Sarbanes-Oxley.

No, it's not. Last time I was in business for myself, 1099s were more common than physical handshakes. Hell, I haven't been a "business" (in the sense of deriving most/all of my income from my own ventures as opposed to salary) in about five years and I still chew through at least a handful of 1099s every year. They're good documentation, both for yourself and for the IRS, when trying to figure out and then deduct your expenses.
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