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I think that, ultimately, Apple have as much ability to define what an Open Standard means as the FSF within the context of what they are saying.

As it happens I think I agree with where Jobs is coming from... or rather I think this letter nit picks at a specific phrase (Open Standard) that SJ's was just using in a different way to how the FSF would.

Ultimately what Jobs meant by Open Standard was reasonably apparent (for the reasons laid out in this letter!) so nit picking over it seems a meta point.
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Seems reasonable to assume it's the big player in video patents, MPEG LA. Apple has contributed patents to their pool.
Is there a specification?

I think "de facto standard" is a more appropriate phrase for Flash.
This article highlights my problem with Apple. They really suck at cloud services. Google on the other hand is the leader and runs amazing cloud services. The reason my next device will be an Android, is because Apple has decided to block Google's excellent cloud services(gVoice). I think Google has the edge in the future described in the article, not Apple. I think it is going to be easier for Google to make a better device, than for Apple to start running the kinds of datacenters that Google does.
The opposite of the U.S. is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a society that rewards creativity, pragmatism, and the entrepreneurial spirit by making it as easy as possible to run a business.

Laws like this do the opposite. They add resistance to independence. There will be people who say, "All this paperwork is a nightmare. It's easier to keep my day job." And they'll make more money in the short term, so this law is counter productive in a capitalist economy.

If capitalism is what made America great, then laws like this are making America not great. The politicians are making lives more difficult for everyone else and that means the business people who make this country great, or have for quite some time, will simply leave.

In a world of free trade, we -- individuals -- are free to do business anywhere. I can easily go to Canada and that's what will start happening if America continues to display this kind of arrogance within the leadership.
But presumably, Apple is going to be a part of it. Remember that Apple does have stake in MPEG-LA.
If youngstartup is so confident that they're adding value by bringing investors and entrepreneurs together in one place, why isn't the financial burden placed on the VCs who attend the conference? After all, they're getting to see all the hottest startups present in one event. Certainly $1500 wouldn't break a startup, but that burden would hurt a VC even less.

I don't think events like these should be money-makers. I think participants should be charged up to the point that the cost of the venue is covered, but anything above this amount seems like it would be deadweight loss to most of the participants involved.
Just watched his video and tried the method, all I know is: now my desk is finally clean!

Thanks for pointing the blog out :)
Considering that 2D movies have almost all the 3D cues needed for our brains to interpret them as 3D, I'm not convinced '3D' movies actually make that much sense. It's certainly not comparable to 'flying' vs 'not flying' anyway IMHO.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of the tutorial (and core team member of Prototype, and the author of scripty2)

You can probably port the ideas and basic functionality very easily to other frameworks. Prototype or scripty2 don't contain anything specific to games, however. It's easy to write the interactions required in plain old JavaScript...

I do like to use Prototype for stuff like this, because it helps clean up the "logic" code a lot (for example the "avoiding stuck cards bit", section 17 in the tutorial.

Note that if you like this style of coding, but prefer jQuery, you can use the Underscore.js library, you might want to look into that.
My best knowledge is that there are tons of mistakes, so I can't sign it. See my point? I know it's almost impossible not to make mistakes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Transformations
He's been doing this for years. I know several people that have gotten terse, 3 or 4 word responses to him. It's only recently that the press and the bloggers have noticed this.
Maybe it just needs simplification. How about a system to save sites as 'Apps' that open in the appropriate browser.
More like "Lala is doing something we want to do, I can't become profitable, let's buy them cheaply for their existing work and engineering team and shut them down so we can offer our own solution that can make money."
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If this is legit, Apple almost certainly owns some of the patents involved, even if they're not the instigator.
> It's not so much the core CPU/ISA, which ends up being a small portion of the chips. It's the expertise in multi-core buses, caches, and all related paraphernalia. Not exactly where ARM have been playing ...

ARM have been playing in this space for many years now. SoC fabric, such as the AMBA bus design, is a central part of the ARM offering.
No, offering a similar service is not prerequisite for anticompetitive douchebaggery. Like, if the RIAA had sued Lala out of existence based on flimsy loopholes, would we have said, "Oh, but the RIAA doesn't offer any service along the lines of what Lala does, so that wasn't anticompetitive in the slightest"? No, we would have said that the RIAA was trying to squash innovation and didn't want to have to keep up with the times, etc.

The point is that the parent seemed to think Apple was just killing off an innovative business model that threatened its own, but I don't think that's the case.
The trend is negative, so it's only a matter of time.
Trivial was probably the wrong choice of word. Regardless of most users' lack of knowledge on the subject, it is a much easier (and cheaper) task to change your browser than to upgrade your phone in mid-contract.

I think the real driving force behind web UI improvements, that isn't being picked up on the article, is the open, shared standard. If there was a cool new piece of functionality in, say, Opera, that allowed users to instantly buy whatever it was they were vaguely thinking of or something genuinely revolutionary, it wouldn't make much of a difference to the web unless it was backed by an open standard. This is largely due to the reason shown by your video - most users wouldn't know how to go about installing a new browser to take advantage of the functionality.

However if the standard behind the new super-fun-happy-wow web technology is shared, then it can spread across a majority of the web-using population comparatively quickly, because other browser makers will include an implementation of it within their browsers. If a browser is open-sourced under a BSD-type licence, this technology spread can happen even faster.
If Apple breaks Flash because they changed their APIs in an incompatible way they would also have broken apps that used the same APIs directly. How about if Apple just stays away from breaking changes as much as possible and, if they are occasioanlly needed, communicates them well in advance so that no one gets broken?
Props to Steve to actually answer to this open letter, but i think he could have put a little more effort into it, sounds like he has no confidence in open source. I wish apple would be a little more involved in open source.
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I don't really like the SQL integration. I would prefer an object layer on top of it.

Making assumptions about an underlying database is a sure way to get burned when you switch to another. And assuming SQL to be the "official" persistence engine makes it hard to migrate to non-relational platforms in case you want to.
Where's the evidence of LaLa's ability to maintain operations?
They should have line-item vetoed that slavery bit and moved forward.
Well, there's his documentary on industry best practices, titled The Jennifer Morgue, featuring "software billionaire Ellis Billington".

(Possibly for legal reasons, it's billed as fiction ;-)
I bet the first color movies looked like little more than a gimmick, too.

Now, I did see Avatar in 3D. I was curious. I was also underwhelmed, and I agree with all of the technical limitations everyone has mentioned. (Particularly the darker picture). But I'm not naive enough to claim I know what will happen in the future.
"A lot of commercial software comes with H.264 encoders and decoders, and some computers arrive with this software preinstalled. This leads a lot of people to believe that they can legally view and create H.264 videos for whatever purpose they like. Unfortunately for them, it ain’t so. Maybe the best example comes from the Final Cut Pro license:"

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So in other words, the money given them creates absolutely no obligation on their part to do anything whatsoever.
So Apple didn't see the point of Google Voice? Um, ok.
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This is probably confusing the (64-bit data capable) NEON SIMD unit with the core ARM ISA.

The 1176 has been in production for several years now, but is a 32-bit part.
yup. this is why i use zune pass. monthly streaming subscription AND 10 free song purchases a month (DRM free)
Also, no Flash means apps have to be iP* specific, which forces people to buy Apple hardware to run them.
But then Apple changes their idea of what's acceptable and removes a gamut of applications, including your own.

To continue your analogy, it's like you were driving the speed limit, then a month later they lower the speed limit and ticket you for your driving speed last month. Unless you're Sports Illustrated.
Yeah but even then, it's not "stalinist", it's "poorly executed social democracy". The government isn't running the farms or producing toilet paper, they just have more bureaucracy than in America, and less well executed than elsewhere in Europe.

PS funny skit
you shouldn't declare your sass variable 'blue'. If it becomes green in the future, you'd have a 'blue = green' assignment. Even 'color1' would be a better name.
"I have been using Linux since I downloaded Slackware over a 2400 baud modem (1991?) and have used most of the major distros over the years. For me, Ubuntu is the "get stuff done with minimal hassles" distro - love it."

Same here.
Java the language is ripe for replacement. Java was a miracle. It was a safe, decently-designed language (thanks to Gosling et al.) that PHBs weren't scared of (thanks to Sun's marketing.) A decent language with modern libraries and no segfaults that your boss will actually let you use is no longer the novelty it once was. Now when people think "Java" they don't think "what a relief, no more C." They compare it to Ruby and C#, which is a little bit tougher standard.
def. a valid point, and my goal isn't to water down the S/N in S/N :) For what you said to happen, this thing would have to take off like wildfire (which it's definitely not at the moment :p). I think if we were ever in danger of that, the platform would probably reach out to me to say "hey!!", which at that point obviously I'll do something.

But the goal is not to create more mess, what's the quote? "Wealth of information creates poverty of attention". There's so much stuff to wade through out there, and I really don't want to contribute to the junk
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XSLT is a parser for XML similar to how a browser is a parser for HTML (and, well, XML). I counter with SVG (see http://www.renater.fr/Video/2001ATHENS/DC-SVG/ALL.HTM for some fun stuff), which, even in an XML format, includes abstractions such as defs that will be handled by the SVG parser.

We can do better with/than HTML. We can do better with/than CSS.
From the article:
"Learning From Bad Things That Happen

Bad things happen to everyone, sometimes because of what we do and sometimes with help from us. We all have bad bosses, bad staffs, impossible and hopeless situations, impossible tasks, and unintended consequences. Aside from the trouble these bad things cause for you, the key is how can you learn from each of them.

Learning From Bad Situations

All of us will find ourselves in bad situations from time to time. Good intentions gone bad. Impossible tasks and goals. Hopeless projects. Even though you probably can’t perform well, the key is to at least take away some lessons and insights. Was there anything ironic, odd, or downright funny in all of this?"

Hmm, the Internet Explorer team wrote this? At least they've proven their "Level 1: Basic" proficiency by being able to laugh at themselves and their hopeless predicament.
I know you are joking and this is something I think about. I heard about a protest at JP Morgan where people where chanting and wanted to deliver a letter to the CEO.

However, I really hope it isn't a violent incident. We don't need a war here anymore than we need a war in the middle east. Civil wars are bloody and costly and horrible.

My suggestion: Vote out all incumbents.
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For a moment I saw "Dalecs" without the armor.
I haven't looked at this package, but it seems running the CSS through a preprocessor like m4 would achieve similar results - for those not into Ruby.
This trackpad isn't all that special. Ubuntu supports it (right down to the two-finger gestures) — it just supports it in a buggy way.

At any rate, I could buy pretty much any laptop and we could make a similar excuse when something goes wrong. "That piece of hardware that isn't working isn't the easiest to support. I don't think the manufacturer is cooperating." It might be true in a given case or it might not, but like all excuses, it doesn't change the fact that I can't use my extremely common model of laptop with Ubuntu.

If Ubuntu wants to rely on that excuse (and that's not too bad — Apple does), it needs to set up a project to provide clear compatibility guidelines. "It works with these computers. It doesn't work with these others. Set your expectations accordingly." Because as it is now, the implicit guideline is, "You can't really expect it work 100% on any mainstream laptop."
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Apple is not only licensee, but also licensor.

Every time you license H.264 (or something other from MPEG-4 pool), a cut goes to Apple (also to Microsoft and Nokia).
Now I see there are certificates even over $500/year for a single domain ...

And I see Dreamhost was offering certificates in the past but now it has canceled ...

This business is looking very shady I think for a very good reason I would like to know
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A death sentence for the "like buttons", if I ever heard one.

(If the 'darkside' SEO turn their attention to it, I'd guess the buttons will be gamed into uselessness in six months flat, with no recourse in sight.)
This shouldn't be that surprising. Lala's deals with record labels weren't transferrable to an acquirer, so the real surprise is how this has ran for so long.
I find it surprising that VCs attend these things (with the exception of something like VanTech angels where they charge each entrepreneur $15 so it covers the cost of renting the space, coffee, etc).

Shouldn't a VC think that if an entrepreneur isn't resourceful enough to get a direct intro for free, then they shouldn't be running a business. Or are businesses throwing away $1500 just to pitch to the VCs who don't have enough deal flow/opportunities that they need to attend these events (I think the big name VCs are invited to these things for free).

Sure, it's nice to get the 'opportunity' to pitch in front of 80 VCs. But hopefully you've already pitched to 1 or 2 in private.

Also, when you're pitching to a large group, assuming that there are 50 other companies pitching, is your opportunity getting lost in the drone? I think it is safe to assume that if you meet a VC during their office hours, they are likely excited to hear about a new opportunity. It should be a refreshing break from their busy day answering emails, going through financials, due-diligence, and other managerial parts of the VC life that most people probably never consider.

Save yourself $1500 (or whatever it costs) pay yourself $100/hour to do some research on a few local VCs or Angels you like (read their blogs, don't aim only for DFJ) select a few and then work on getting intros.
Go through the history of companies they've funded previously, see if there is a connection through a friend who knew the CEO or Marketing person and see if that person will get you an intro, or something like that.
(this is how I met with Jeff Clavier, but I didn't get funded. he had met with the CEO of a company I used to work for, he didn't fund them either)

Be resourceful, show that you're resourceful. You're going to need to do more than throw money at minor twists in the road if you're going to build your startup into a growing concern that real VCs would be interested in.
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How could they feasibly do anything else? What do you think happens to your Facebook gifts if the company goes out of business? I bet their terms of service don't include shipping you physical strips of bacon to replace the virtual ones you lose.
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Yes, there is (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/).

It is even available gratis (H.264 specification is not).
Re: "The $ before all variables is a feature [...] but we think it adds readability."

The argument for the $ sign is not readability. If it were you'd see JavaScripter's prefixing all of their variables with a dollar sign, too. var $foo = 'bar'; is completely valid JavaScript. (Aside: $ prefix is handy in JS when holding references to jQuery objects ie $container = $('#container');)

The argument is for simplified string manipulation with magic quotes and is an homage to unix shell scripting.

Without the $ prefix string manipulation would be reserved to concatenation/printf/replacement/etc. With the $prefix you can do things like:

$base = __DIR__;
$user = (object)array('name'=>'Foo','dir'=>"foo");
$size = "lg";
$image = "$base/users/$user->dir/images/$size.jpg";

vs:

image = base + "/users/" + user.dir + "/images/" + size + ".jpg"

When doing a lot of string manipulation and scripting the $ is quite handy.

The dollar sign also enables variable variables and dynamic property access. i.e.

$foo = 'Hello, world.';
$bar = 'foo';
echo ${$bar}; // 'Hello, world.'

- and -

$user = (object)array('name'=>'Foo','dir'=>"foo");
$prop = 'name';
echo $user->{$prop}; // 'Foo'

The dollar sign for variable variables is weak because variable variables is usually an indication of code gone awry. Dynamic property access, on the other hand, is much more useful in a dynamic language like PHP/JavaScript. That said, I believe JavaScript's solution is much more elegant. i.e.:

var user = {name: "Foo", dir: "foo"};
var prop = "name";
alert(user[prop]); // 'Foo'

By overloading the index operator on objects to accept a string that dereferences to an object's property you get the same benefit in a much more elegant way.

Thus the $'s primary justification is magic strings and string manipulation.
I think many of these events charge the VCs also. But I'd assume the big name VCs don't pay as they become a draw for both VCs and Entrepreneurs.
It wouldn't be that difficult. Lots of states that have sales tax don't tax food. Simply make the essentials untaxed or any product of a particular category under a particular price untaxed. We have these measures in the current system. If you earn under $6,000 you pay no tax.

The benefit is that you take the burden off the individual and leave it all to computers. There's a "Taxable" flag and the equation is simple. IF (item.category == Food or price < (select minprice from categorylimits where categorylimits.category = item.category)) then tax = 0 else tax = 0.25 * item.price

Done. What a beautiful world that would be.
They said about as much as they could, which isn't much. Jobs didn't exactly leave them any wiggle room.
He's been doing short emails for years, and the occasional open letter, but it seems that he's doing it a lot more as of late.

Presumably in response to all the recent Apple controversy.
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The thing is that at least temporarily and at least in certain niche markets they come close to being a monopoly. There is no credible competitor to the Ipad in the tablet market. In the smartphone arena, the Iphone is a run away success with more marketshare than any other by far.

Also, remember there are a lot of people that want a walled garden. It makes them feel safe and shields them from needing to really understand any of the details. I am certainly not one of those people, but that market segment will exist even as new tablets come out and the competing smartphones gain marketshare.
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That was an odd article -- no mention of net neutrality, or taxes etc...AFAIK
I'm in a similar situation, I've got a decent pool of apps running on the same framework that only differ in config and static files. The approach I took is using the ruby gem compass and sass. I moved any sass variables into a skin.sass file and that way each site can just implement its own skin file very easily with only editing a single file and not having to jump into the main css. This has made it relatively painless to create another skin for a new site.

One issue I'm dealing with on this setup is that these skin files are site dependent and outside of the base code repo. They're in their own repo, but the issue is every site has its own files, so to add a new variable to the skin file requires adding it in 5-10 places, and that number is just going to get bigger. I'm curious if you guys have any suggestions.
You should declare your sass variable 'blue', because it's easier to work with than #3bbfce. if you want to change it to green, you would change it in the declaration from border-color = !blue to border-color = !green. (Or add an intermediate variable like !primary_color = !blue.)
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I am all about SASS. SASS feels like someone took CSS and decided to finish it.
And on top of that, I'm pretty sure webkit infringes at least some patents too, which is used as an example of Apple supporting and contributing to open source. So he's using double standards again.
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