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I don't like Flash for all the stated reasons, but I like Apple's absolute control over what software I run on hardware that I've purchased even less.

If Adobe can convince people to run their software on their iPhones, then they should be able to.
You've been lucky. Every single computer I updated to 9.10 would not boot initially. I had to spend hours on each one resolving the problems.
> The truth is evolution selects the best adaptation for the specific ecosystem.

Evolution is completely random.
The biggest issue here is that most VCs are hesitant to invest in hits-based businesses. This means: they don't want to bet on you creating a hit game, hit show, etc before you have any user traction.

If you have interesting proprietary technology involved in the game or you can figure out a cheap way to acquire users and get some traction, you have a much better chance of securing some investment.
I like your service I just didn't really explain my comment well :/
Except it doesn't actually rebuild the itunes db on the phone when you add new music to it, right?
MSFT has canceled "Courier" tablet — reportedly
So we're back to web apps vs. desktop apps? An iPad app is installed software running against a native OS API, so I'm not sure why it's singled out when it's just another form factor for a desktop.

Browser based software sucks for a few reasons, but I'm not sure the most glaring were mentioned. It's also fantastic for many other reasons some apps are awesome on the web.

You can write a photoshop app for the browser, but why would you want to? Certain apps belong on the desktop, so let's not blame the web for that...unless you're one of those people who thought desktop apps were dead.
Steve Jobs is trumpeting open standards for the web yet supporting closed standards, hence the hypocrisy.
Steve Jobs does not want to use Windows, so he'll continue making computers that he wants to use.

Jobs would sell his own liver if that's what it took to own the market he's playing in. (Actually, that might explain a few things...)

He cannot, and will never, own the PC market with the Mac. Vista was his last chance, I think.

OTOH, the portable music player market is a foregone conclusion at this point, and he can, and may, dominate the smartphone market as well, through the incompetence of his adversaries if nothing else. Most great platform success stories -- certainly Microsoft's -- have come about in exactly that way. MS didn't win their Windows and Office monopolies because their products were awesome, they won because everybody else was a goddamned idiot.

It's way too late to defeat Windows. Jobs knows that, and the prospect of continuing the battle must bore him by now.
Adobe needs a new CEO, they have done nothing since 2008 but bad products. I wrote them a letter asking them to implement hardware rendering/acceleration in 2007 when Silverlight came out and Director 3D was dying. Now HTML5 beats flash as it is equal almost and Unity 3D beats Director 3D. They have failed to innovate since Adobe bought it from Macromedia. I blame the guidance and focus on being the market leader rather than staying fresh.
MS Windows developers aren’t dependent on some third party cross-platform technology to adopt the latest iTunes APIs changes. Whereas, iPhone developers using third party cross-platform tools such as Adobe’s Flash will be at the mercy of Adobe and can only move as fast as it can. http://malnakari.tumblr.com/post/559162861/the-other-thought...
Most aren't. That is why the myth exists. Plenty < Majority.
And commenters are already moaning the loss (of non-existent product) already at http://www.crunchgear.com
Does this page do some funky interpretation of the arrow keys? As soon as I press Cursor Down to advance, the page scrolls down all the way in an uncontrollable, completely non-standard manner, and not what I expect. It makes the site unusable.
Whatever anyone's thoughts on this debate I think it's excellent that we're actually having this debate in public. This is the way the industry should work: open debate amongst industry leaders out in the open. In contrast to the behind the scenes skulduggery that seems to be the norm in business these days.
Jobs implies something when he says that he thinks the web "should" be open. He doesn't say it's better for Apple if it's open. Anyway, what is the point? Shouldn't we all have our own self interest in mind and not Apple's? What do I care if it benefits Apple if it doesn't benefit me? The argument should be about whether we should accept what is happening lying down, or if we should try to resist it. Just because it makes sense for Apple to behave this way, doesn't mean that we should accept it.

Edit: It has nothing to do with morality. It's my own vested self interest that makes me wary of Apple. To bring up morality is a way of minimizing my views.
Hold up let me pull up gmail source code so I can learn from it... Oh crap its minified, and packed. My l33t open web h4x0r attempts have been foiled again.
As another offhand comment, a lot of people believe that algorithms are not patentable.

From http://www.lawtechjournal.com/notes/2003/10_030727_fagerland...

/* "You can't patent an 'algorithm'" */

Not true. An algorithm, even a mathematical algorithm, is patentable unless (1) it is not sufficiently disclosed to overcome the "abstract idea" exception, or (2) it is executed with no useful application in mind.26 This description of just what an "algorithm" is may be helpful: "Although one may devise a computer algorithm for the Pythagorean theorem, it is the step-by-step process which instructs the computer to solve the theorem which is the algorithm, rather than the theorem itself."27 Under Alappat, the algorithm might be patentable. The theorem itself, being an abstract idea, certainly would not.
Flight Delays Demystified
Same here. FF 3.6.3 on XP SP2.
And Gizmo claims that Frank Shaw at MS says:

"At any given time, we're looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It's in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The Courier project is an example of this type of effort. It will be evaluated for use in future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time."
Yup, you (and the author) just made my day. Thanks!
Apart from their keyboard and mice this was the first microsoft device I was looking forward to :). While it might not be a mainstream need, a device with great pen based input and support for math symbols would be great for what I do.
Why does Apple get to define the boundaries in this debate? What entitles them to demand that standards in the domain of competitor's products must be open whereas standards in their own business domain need not?

I agree that the web should be built on open standards but for exactly the same reasons that digital audio and video and mobile computing ecologies should also be open.
It's a javascript extension. i.e. you write javascript in a:

<script type="text/sjs"> ... </script>

block, which is parsed and compiled into native javascript. It allows you to write asynchronous javascript using straight forward syntax. e.g. pause execution (hold), split code into parallel tasks, split code and automatically join when one branch finishes (function @ function - think search), and suspend/resume code using events.

It's very cool and now I'm going to start looking for an excuse to use it.
I stopped reading it a few years ago when the frequency of Thom's rants got too much for me to handle. For example, he was in way over his head when he was trying to describe what his ideal OS of the future would be.

I miss the generally geeky articles on alternative operating systems, but ArsTechnica's open source coverage started to pick up about the time that I stopped reading OSNews that I had pretty much forgotten about it until today. Reading this article made me remember why I stopped going there.
Wait. Isn't Final Cut Studio still written in Carbon? Talk about throwing stones in a glass house! What a strange statement to make given his obvious knowledge of the difficulty of porting such a large suite of applications.
Didn't stop people from writing PHP6 books ;)
Defending Flash overall or for iPhone? I hate every Adobe product except Photoshop, yet I still am upset with Apple's decision on blocking other runtimes and forcing C.
What happened with the UK?
Steve Jobs on Flash: Correcting the Lies
It completely lags any credibility when a hired gun debate with an innovator and founder. Wish he would have waited till he actually had something to say.
Is Guest OS X, on VMs legal? I thought that was the against Apples terms of service.

I never really found out what happened to the whole PsyStar thing.
It's an incredibly simple claim. Apple is engaging in hypocritical policies. Apple forbids actions on its own platform that Apple uses to make money and gain market share on other platforms. I don't see how you can interpret this any other way.
The exception for private placements is not limited as to people or amounts invested. But a lot of lawyers do not like using that exception because it is not entirely certain what constitutes a private placement. So if they are not very close "friends and family" you may get in trouble. Therefore, a lot of lawyers prefer to use other better defined exceptions.

Regarding VCs, they dislike any earlier investors, and they probably dislike laypeople more because they prefer to deal with professionals.

In any event, again please make sure you consult a securities lawyer for your particular situation. I am really an IP attorney, so while I know the securities laws I do not have much experience in that field.
How can you claim that it was to be "a device with great pen based input"...?

I thought it was only at a concept stage?
... like Theora, and unlike H.264.
I posted it here because the app involved is presumably Loopt, which is a YC company.
> The problem is that Sony would have to patch vulnerabilities like that and keep maintaining the OtherOS compatibility.

You don't understand the problems. There really isn't a good way to patch the vulnerability found. That still doesn't mean I'm not pissed sony removed otheros.

> And frankly I don't really care for it,

Good for you? This discussion is for those who do care.
You a projecting modern commodity trading exchange concepts onto history - until the advent of "virtual" trading of gold - there DEFINITELY was fluctuations of the value of gold and silver between countries.
The claim here appears to be that since Apple ships Windows apps that don't use that platform to its fullest, Jobs cannot claim that least-common-denominator middleware is unhealthy for a platform.

There were many good points in the article, and that's only one of them. Thoughts on the others, particularly the 'openness' of H.264 or lack thereof?
IANAL, but as far as I understand, their EULA is sympathetic to running OS X on Apple hardware. So if you're running VirtualBox on OS X already, it might be alright with apple.
HTML5 Audio with Realtime Javascript Low Pass Filter on Vimeo
Yeah it's an interesting battle. I've developed for both but I don't consider myself loyal to either. But this thing is becoming religious. I was a little ticked at first and ranted a bit. But I've accepted their decision and moved on. I will not be developing an app for the iPhone or iPad and it has nothing to do with Flash or 3rd party layers and everything to do with lack of freedom as a developer. As long as my application runs great and adds value, what's the problem? Save the nonsense guised as a technical argument for someone that falls for that (the consumer?).
I'd rather get to a world in which incompetents stop writing software.
This kind of fear mongering sucks. Technology isn't the problem here.

The subtext of that message is that specific groups (homosexuals, girls, etc) shouldn't have the freedom to use the latest technology to communicate in the way others do.

There are bad people out there. The iPhone won't change that.
Depends on the country, as I understand it. Some countries like Germany allow it (prohibit Apple from certain terms in the license) , while other places (USA) it would be against license terms (I won't say illegal as that implies criminality; it would be a civil violation).
I was pretty amused when all it took was a feigned-friendly smile (and boobs?) to some TSA employee at SFO international terminal (flying Virgin America) to skip the nonexistent line for the full-body scan and just walk through the metal detector instead.

Although, then, another TSA guy who seemed to have nothing better to do determined that he wanted to test to see if my contact lens solution was legit. Happened to ignore the rest of my two baggies filled with liquids and aerosols though... I feel so much safer now.
People who express strong opinions about things they don't understand aren't useful to anyone.

OtherOS has many uses. Even excluding ps3 clusters for scientific research, several ps3 developers I know use their ps3s at home to try out code quickly. The linux environment is more convenient at times than even the official dev kit.
It is illegal to run OS X on a hardware not made by Apple, I guess it's fine to run it as a guest in a VM (the old Mac-on-Linux did that), although I can be wrong as well.
> price controls on food (making it uneconomical to ship food to cities) also contributed to food shortages.

You got the boundary on the price controls wrong. They mandated minimum prices, not maximum. The minimum was more than enough to pay for shipping, but it was higher than the amount people could afford.

FDR believed that the depression was caused by excess production. The federal govt destroyed food and other things to reduce supply in an effort to drive up prices.

That didn't stop until WWII was imminent, when it became obvious that the US couldn't be an "arsenal of democracy" if it wasn't producing as much as it could.

This war on production is what made the great depression "great", that is, long an deep.

To be fair, these FDR policies were extensions of what Hoover had done. Interestingly enough, FDR campaigned against them.
Who tried it? How well did it work?
Several PSN games will not work without the PSN, even while playing single-player.

EDIT: Also new games will not work without upgrading.
I must disagree. Microsoft did not fail in the same way RIM did not fail because of 3rd party developers. I will use RIM as an example. RIM just now is coming out with a platform to bring blackberry out of the stone-age. Was it the app developers' fault for not writing wonderful BB apps? Or is the platform so shitty nobody wants a BB unless their job gives it to them? We got WebOS, Symbian, Android, Windows 7 they are all coming out as a competitor to iPhone OS and BlackBerry 2.0. RIM is now finally listening to what their clients want because their business is being stolen from right under their feet, and they just realized that. Had they had the attitude of "lets fix the problems our users are complaining about" 3 years ago, the state of everything would be different. Now http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/29/rim_blackberry_os_6 at the quote in there. Apple is playing catchup slowly to RIM, but that does not matter. Apple has the momentum and is building it, once they implement enough to make enterprises be able to use iphone instead of BB boom rim loses everything, because go up to someone and ask "free blackberry curve, or free iphone (plans included)?" guess the answer.

The point is the same with MS. Until Apple started kicking them in the shin, Windows XP (a piece of shit) was the pinnacle of technology. We see XP NOW as shit, but back in the day I was thinking "wow crashing XP is 100x as hard as BSODing in windows 98, windows xp is awesome!" Remember Windows ME (the unwanted child)?

So Adobe building the "lowest common dinominator" technology for cross platform is BS as well. "features x,y,z are for iphone only until android implements it" which means: a) android better start implementing, b) developers have MOST of their work cut out for them when porting. Maybe take a few different directions when porting to android. It's not like I ever expect to write an iphone app and with no work/testing just port it to android and vuala. And maybe for a developer it means no android app until the feature is implemented. And thus back to (a) which is android now has an incentive for implementing features.
If that's the case, could you recommend anything to help us improve our webapp?
Maybe it's wrong of me to be pointing out votes, but it really irks me that the original comment is at 46 as of this writing, while yours is at 4.

So I want to comment in favor of stressing the above comments, hard. Considering a substantial discussion of the semantics of the word "hypocrisy" followed, with some people taking one side, and some the other, let's make a correction to the original presumption so that even those who didn't believe it to be hypocritical can come into agreement.

"The claim here appears to be that since Apple ships Windows apps that don't use that platform, Jobs cannot claim that least-common-denominator middleware is unhealthy for a platform." is false. The claim is that since Apple ships major OS X apps that don't use Cocoa, it's hypocrisy to attack Adobe on those grounds.

Edit: Actually Jobs's words chide Adobe as "the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X", so the debate might be a little bit more than moot. I still think it's entirely fair, though, to ask of Apple in the same vein, "Hey, why so late for you guys to fully adopt Mac OS X?"
You're legally only allowed to run OS X Server virtualized on Apple hardware. VMware and Parallels have both implemented checks in their products to help Apple enforce this (although I believe they're somewhat trivial to work around).
If Libraries Remove Computers, Will Anyone Come?
Both of which could well happen again.

While price controls of food cause problems, they sound really good to voters when there is a recession, and thus they sound really good to politicians.
It's complicate. I believe each and every of their closed project depends a lot on a number of open ones—just take a look at Settings->About->Legal on iPhone or take a look at http://www.apple.com/opensource/.
On the other hand they do not contribute to all of OSS they use. But http://www.opensource.apple.com/ is still impressive.
"Programmers don’t know what a computer user wants because they spend their days interacting with machines. They hunch over keyboards, pecking out individual lines of code in esoteric programming languages, like medieval monks laboring over illustrated manuscripts."

"programmers are drowning in ignorance, complexity and error."

...to say Your welcome or F@*k off?
As I said in another comment section about this I am happy with my ps3 and I have updated my ps3 completely as I use it for games and bluray, but not Other OS.

But this irks me that a company though fighting piracy or whatever other exploits they are trying to prevent was more important than their customers that they decided to remove existing and functional components from their system that had no risk for the users.
Works fine for me - Chrome on Linux.
I think the point is the "winners" have something in common and this is no accident.

XML and SOAP came out of "let's invent new formats and protocols"-type standardization, while REST and JSON were products of (essentially) one guy looking at a simple, existing, well-known concept (HTTP and js object literals, respectively) and putting a new frame around it.
"but you can be sure that this time the politicians are not only caring about their re-election."

That is all politicians EVER care about. No exceptions.
Getting started with Python development on the Nokia N900
The problem with H.264 is there is a conflict of interest involved. Microsoft and Apple have lots of money riding on the adoption of H.264. If it is the standard, they directly profit.

In the medium to long term, end-user quality is negatively affected by adopting close standards.
Tell that to California.
I am very happy with the Serval (v3) I've been using for about two and a half years.

A great resource for evaluating the available models and gauging customer response is the official support forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=341

Feel free to enter your own call for feedback by posting your requirements and expectations and a request for opinions.
[Speaking about Mr. Jobs's assertion that Adobe is the No. 1 cause of Mac crashes, Mr. Narayan says if Adobe crashes Apple, that actually has something "to do with the Apple operating system."]

Wow. Any support I had for Mr. Narayan and Flash went right out the window with this one snarky remark. He might as well just blame the users for choosing a Mac in the first place...
I believe they're extremely prone to exaggerate any bad parts, and there was room for a lot of weaseling in their descriptions. Especially considering that the bill isn't finished yet.

I'm still waiting to see the death panels. Since they'd never lie, of course.

I didn't criticize Heritage for being conservative. I criticized Heritage for being Republican, regardless of principle or policy.

EDIT: To clarify, it's entirely possible that the provisions in the bill still being written are just as bad as the WSJ says. It's also possible that they're significantly less bad. Regardless of which they are, the WSJ would have written this exact article. Does that make my complaint regarding their worth more clear?
One of the two linked papers (AnnualReview.pdf) discusses formal settings, including those with disparities in power:

'Brown & Levinson’s (1987) polite-ness theory takes into account an individual’s efforts to preserve the “face(s)”
of others with whom one communicates. For example, they propose impersonalizing the speaker and hearer by avoiding
the pronouns I and you, using past tense to create distance and time, diminishing the force of speech by using hedge
words such as perhaps, using slang to convey ingroup membership, and using inclusive forms (we and let’s) to
include speaker and hearer.'
The first of those isn't especially meaningful. Programming languages aren't that hard to understand. What's difficult (right now) for many people is the connection between the code and what happens on the screen.

The second snippet is amusing, given the mention of C++ in the first paragraph.

However, I think software has a problem in general with the fact that one shitty system or API can lead to cruft in other pieces that depend on it, leading to generally poor quality. Abstractions and interfaces are designed to prevent some of this, but the worst programmers always find a way to abuse and violate those.
This is a neat project. It would be great if there was a better explanation of how it actually works. From glancing at the code, here's an example of what it appears to do:

It transforms this:

doSomething();
hold(timeInMs);
doSomethingElse();

Into this:

doSomething();
setTimeout(function() {
doSomethingElse();
}, timeInMs);

Basically, it uses code transformation to transform "synchronous" code into "asynchronous", callback-based code. The previous example isn't too bad, but if one starts adding many more callbacks, code can quickly become much more unreasonable. Worse still, it gets painful to refactor synchronous code into asynchronous code and back. Stratified JavaScript attempts to handle this slow, largely mechanical work for you.

It's not actually this simple, though--the javascript is actually compiled down to a representation that is executed by the Oni (http://www.croczilla.com/oni) runtime.

It also appears to allow one to "suspend" code at the callback breaks, passing it around as a continuation and resuming when required.

I would say this effort is broadly similar to the delimited continuations support in Scala 2.8. See http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2096.
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I really wonder about the personal relationship and history between Jobs and Adobe's current exec. I also wonder if anything that happened during the NeXT years affected his thinking (e.g. Display Postscript).