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From the article:

"But does the Aigo have what it takes to be an Apple iPad killer? Well, let us take a closer look at the specs."

I think when you go that direction, you've lost already. The iPad's success (or any other Apple product as far as I know) has very little to do with numbers in a hardware spec.

The people who use their products seem to love the experience not the fact that it has such-an-such memory or processor. That fabled Apple experience seems to be combination of great many factors including packaging, marketing, surface design, hardware specs, software design and the brand.

It's not perfect and it's not for everyone, but if someone is to "kill an iPad" they must greatly outperform Apple in all these areas -- not just one.

I have yet to see an iPod killer. I doubt it will happen.
> How about, instead of throwing away your drink, you either finish it before going through security or wait with buying the drink until you've passed through security. That's what most people do and it leads to a lot less waste.

Judging by the vast skip full of soda bottles every time I've been through airport security recently, I'm not sure it is what most poeple do. It's pretty clear that a lot of people don't understand exactly what the rules are, and just wind up with bottles of drink confiscated when they go through: you probably see this happen to several people every time you queue up to go through yourself.

> And about the lines at security, have you tried flying to and from smaller secondary airports?

All my recent flights have been between relatively small airports, but I don't fly much myself so I don't know how representative my personal experience has been. Friends who are more experienced flyers tell me that the queues at our larger airports are usually not as bad as what I've encountered, though, so I'm not sure your characterisation of smaller airports being better is an accurate one.
direct link to video interview

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4177270/wozniak-on-mass-ipad-...
No. I cannot see this appealing to people seriously considering an iPad. It doesn't have the screen size (and presumably quality), it doesn't have the resolution and most importantly it doesn't have the software. I can however seeing this appealing to people who find the iPad too big and/or expensive and who aren't too into the whole Apple experience thing.

For something to be even considered an iPad killer it must offer something significant that the iPad doesn't have (like notion ink's pixelQi screen) and not just be a couple of hundred dollars cheaper.
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First, this is mostly a rehash of an Engadget article - little to no original content here. And second, it doesn't really answer the stated question. It enumerates the specs of the device and comes to the tired old conclusion that based on them "...the number one iPad-Killer seems to be Aigo N700."
That's not a bug, that's strcpy. You are being hysterical.
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W7 provides a rough equivalent of a static ordering by virtue of its taskbar. My browser and IDE are pinned at positions 1 and 2 and I could typically reach them "always" with Win+1 and Win+2.I'm yet to take full advantage of that though. I use alt+tab, release, alt+tab, alt+tab, release, alt+tab most of the times as well.
And death. Biological systems do crash, all the time.
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The Big bang was a highly unlikely event made possible by the fact that time didn't exist before it happened - thus the whole concept of probability over time falls apart. Or maybe of all unlikely events it was the most likely one to occur.

In any case I think it's fascinating that tiny creatures such as ourselves can think thoughts like this. The universe is clearly using us to understand itself.
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Google Mail is becoming Gmail in the UK
"Since "gmail" is 50% fewer characters than "googlemail," we estimate this name change will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day. At about 217 microjoules per keystroke, that's about the energy of 20 bonbons saved every day!"
Actually, there have been people who were held airside for an extended period, and weren't even allowed access to their baggage to get a change of clothes.

And we're not talking about wandering around at their leisure, we're talking about not even being allowed to get a train home. It's not as if someone is a serious risk of becoming an illegal immigrant, if they had no intention of being in the country in the first place. But there seems to be no concept of applying common sense and issuing emergency visas despite the unusual circumstances.
From the post:

"Since "gmail" is 50% fewer characters than "googlemail," we estimate this name change will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day. At about 217 microjoules per keystroke, that's about the energy of 20 bonbons saved every day!"

But seriously, glad this trademark dispute finally got sorted out.
Nice, but I'm still anxiously awaiting the release of SublimeVideo: http://jilion.com/sublime/video
Except, y'know, when he doesn't. For instance, he's been pretty critical of a lot of Apple's rejections from the App Store. Example: http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/ninjawords "Every time I think I’ve seen the most outrageous App Store rejection, I’m soon proven wrong. I can’t imagine what it will take to top this one."

Now, perhaps this is in fact the only sort of Apple action that Gruber is ever critical of. My hazy memory says otherwise, for what it's worth.
From what I think I've noticed...

It tries to match you as evenly as possible to start.

If you get hot, it will find better players.

If you lose a bunch, it will try matching you with worse ones.

(based on ranking)

I play platinum 2v2 and gold 1v1 and that's been what i've noticed. It feels like it's sorta testing out where you belong and fit in at every point in time. It also widens the matching if it can't find anyone rather than waiting... those games can get ugly fast in any direction.

PS - cheesy strats sometimes work on really good players because they forget how silly they are. I cannon rushed a guy sitting in the top of platinum league yesterday and I haven't seen anyone rage that hard in a while.
It could kill me... I thought I played ~40 games since last reset (1-2 weeks ago?) but I actually counted yesterday... somewhere near 100.
Great list! I'm installing some of the apps now.
Something similar happened to me: a few years ago, I downloaded "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", and almost read the whole thing before I realized it was fake (the fake book said that Dudley died, and I remembered reading somewhere that it was another character who was killed off).

There was a fair amount of sex in the book, but I assumed that JK was adjusting for the kids' growing up. I have never actually gotten around to reading the real thing.
This is why I wrote that it indicates "on what dimensions it's supposed to excel". Here's a non-abstract example:

----

Mercedes CLS550: the safe luxury car.

BMW M5: the sporty luxury sedan.

Toyota Camry: the reliable family car.

Hyundai Sonata: inexpensive, practical transportation.

Jeep Wrangler: fun off-road vehicle.

----

Nobody is going to refer to their car as unsafe, not sporty, unreliable, impractical, or not fun, but that doesn't make the brief descriptions unhelpful. It tells me why the creator thinks their car is different than the others.

And while nobody will say "the slow, difficult way", they might well say "the most powerful way", "the fully-customizable way" or "the environmentally responsible way" all of which indicate to me that they are differentiated by something other than speed or ease of use.

Your proposed alternatives tell me absolutely nothing except what market the product is in. You're making me work to discover why your product is different than others in the market, and that can't be a good thing for you.
It means that the DA thought Gizmodo, and the editors in particular, had broken the law in paying for the iphone prototype. Simple as that.
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While I have not used it myself (my projects are either internal or rather write-heavy), I heard a lot of good things about Cache Machine[1] (which is used in Mozilla Addons) and Johnny Cache[2]. Both provides automatic caching and invalidation of Django model.

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> time didn't exist before it happened

Do you see what's wrong here? If there was no time, there could be no "before". Besides, if you are talking about probabilities of something to occur, that means there was some cause of that event, and that in turn implies there was time before time started (?) because causes and effects occur in time.

These things have nothing to do with the Big Bang theory anyway, let alone all this kind of speculations make little or no sense.
You could start with the simple question "who will be hurt if I do not publish this information?" I have a hard time finding anyone who would be hurt if the finder of iphone had handed it over to the bartender, apart from Apple's competitors.

Like it or not, real journalists make these distinctions all the time.
I agree that some sort of pen based solution would be useful. Imagine a screen where we could write anywhere on it then select any area, like a drawing, and paste the text. Being able to compose our own notebooks like Leonardo is the endgame.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
That song sounds like a Xerophonics law suit waiting to happen.
Depends on what you were doing and what your supervisors/colleagues had to say about you. I worked at company Y every summer because my dad is the boss < I worked at EA every summer because they really wanted me back after the first.
The complete MySQL API compatibility is a bold statement.

If they implemented the whole thing themselves (I would say that should take more than 4 years in a couple-of-guys setup) then maintaining that compatibility must be/will be a nightmare. If you sold me a product as MySQL-compatible and I find that some bizarre and undocumented side-effect of MySQL implementation that my code relies on is missing, you will have to emulate that side effect.

If, on the other hand, they based their implementation on MySQL code, then this raises some licensing questions (MySQL is GPL so they will have to make their changes public). They may have separated the code somehow so that this is less of an issue, though it adds a bit of uncertainty to the whole setup.
That's a great tip, that i'm going to start using.

Thanks.
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> Bill Gates has been an unashamed promoter of pen-based computing for the longest time, and it's fun to see that even cold hard facts are insufficient to shake his confidence.

Does "hard facts" simply mean that iPhone doesn't use a stylus and is still sold? That says almost nothing about using pen-based input. iPhone didn't have one, so people didn't use one. App creators knew there's no stylus, so they designed UI accordingly. That's pretty much it...

Now if MS stepped up with their Pad and introduced a high quality handwriting recognition, people would want to use a stylus for it.

PS. I'll give my stylus when you take it from my cold, dead hands. I love using it for web browsing. And I love my task switcher. Not everyone lives S.J.'s dreams.
> Judging by the vast skip full of soda bottles every time I've been through airport security recently, I'm not sure it is what most poeple do.

There are always someone who don't know the rule, think they can finish the water before security, but then can't, forgot about a can of soda in the bag etc. etc. Sometimes I drink a bottle of water in the line, and throw the empty in the bin.

The rule is stupid, agreed, but presumably the bin is only emptied when full, so no matter how many or how few bottles actually goes in, there's always a 50% chance of seeing a bin that's more than half full, so you can't really make any conclusions based on it (other than yes, there is some waste).

By the way, I flew out of Gatwick the other day, and both check-in and security was pretty quick. Perhaps 15-20 minutes between them, and that's been the standard pretty much anywhere in Europe and the US I've flow for the past five years. (Except for low-cost airlines that will allow you to check-in online, tell you to drop your bag at the bag-drop, then don't provide a bag-drop, so you have to stand in the regular line anyway).
Posted several times six months ago.

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None of them got much discussion, none of them got many upvotes.
This device? No, but I'm really hoping to see some quality Android-based options soon. That's what's so exciting. We have the potential of any hardware maker coming along and making a great device that suits your needs.

I strongly disagree with the Apple philosophy and choose to vote with my money and not buy an iPhone or iPad. It's too bad because they make great products in many ways but just fall short for me.
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For those who didn't know, you can pre-order from Amazon, Best Buy, or Gamestop and get a beta key, so that Starcraft II can destroy your life before it even ships.

Last night, at 7 PM, there were 25,000 people on Battle.net, so it's a fairly large beta.
I'm not sure how to explain the Big Bang, but I'm fairly confident we'll now have to do it without using the word 'is'.
This is wonderful, and I want to want this, but this seems like a fine RMS torture device. A 320 pixel screen, divided by 80, is... 4 pixels per character. Time to bring out the old HP-49G mini font. And I find myself thinking, "Oh, I can plug in an external keyboard." But that wouldn't be copyleft hardware. But I want to want this, and I want to get this. Imagine that! My own little copyleft computer, that lives in my pocket and only talks to me, and doesn't talk to any of the bad computers.

Imagine the shock, when you're listening to music on your headphones, and your friend asks, "What are you listening to?" And you pull this thing out of your pocket.

By the way, it's slightly hard to find, so here's a closeup of the keyboard: http://sharism.cc/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/kbd1.png
So true, I actually had to search a little moment for the quoted text even though it isn't placed in a strange place. The brain apparently concludes that ads=noise.
This is probably off topic, but are there any well-known cases of a product labeled "$name killer" having actually become a success? Many (unsuccessful) iPod killers, iPhone killers, and Google killers, to name a few, come to mind from recent years.
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Since this seems to be the thread for beta participants

who wants a game?
Any ideas for comfortable hotkeys that are unlikely to conflict with hotkeys in applications?
I wouldn't exactly call working out 30 minutes/day and avoiding the easy to prepare, cheap, carb-loaded food (implying that you have to cook or spend a lot of money) effortless.
> LLVM is not immature - it simply has a completely different goal than JRE, or .NET.

But it's a virtual machine too, among other things.

> Noone suggests C# in this comment thread

It is suggested in the post as one of the possibilities: We could replace `csharp' with any of the existing open sourced compilers (C#, IronPython, IronRuby and others). Obviously, if we are looking at the possibility of integrating CLI into browsers, C# would be one of the main languages just like with JVM it would be Java, for many reasons.

Re: "will look worse than on Windows" -- I meant in all respects, not just the looks but also performance.
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Unless you have a sure-thing outside investment deal just waiting for your business plan, don't waste your time. If you decide to go ahead anyway, go ahead and "outline the goals of the site" but throw away the long-term vision and financial projections.

I can't think of anything more useless than long-term anything/financial projections for a startup. Both are simply fantasy, with no basis in reality.

I know it's really cliche these days but you need to identify the one, or a maximum of two, goals for the site and just build it (minimum viable product). Trust me on this. I spend 2+ years building something grand that just fell on it's face. I would have liked to have figured that out 2 years earlier. Every "feature" you think is going to make the site great is really just a liability and time sink.

Unless you have a lot of cash, your only asset is time and writing a business plan is wasting it.
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With getting fit, more factors are in your own control than with getting rich where you depend on employees, customers, market etc.
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Nerd note: last I checked Occam's Razor didn't say to look at two choices and simply pick which was more likely. The point is that a possible solution with one reasonable term is probably more likely than one with several reasonable terms. As you add terms, even reasonable ones, the proposed solution becomes less and less likely.
Agreed. The annoying fact is that there is no single method that works for everyone. --Eat less, move more is as close as you can get, but it's still not right.

In my case, no matter how much or little I eat, or how healthy or unhealthy it is, I've not been able to lose (or gain, luckily) weight in several months. And I work out on average 6 times a week, which includes at least 1 hour on the treadmill around 11-12 km/h, and includes strength training some days.

Granted, I'm probably still losing some fat as I build muscle, but I'd prefer to lose the fat faster. And on the bright side, I can run laps around lots of people who are at a "healthy" weight.
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After careful though based on everyone's feedback, I decided to go with jotting down the broad objectives and an informal list of specific objectives and a tentative budget for marketing.

Perhaps once we have the site completed and launched and there is some growth, I can rewrite the plan in a more formal manner based on the usage of the site.
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I'm affected by this -- can't find the page where I can change to @gmail.com though. Any ideas?
I don't think anyone is saying that taking something someone leaves behind in a bar is not morally dubious. My issue is that by calling this 'stealing' your re-defining the concept of stealing and then couching the argument in terms of theft, which makes it really easy to be absolutist about who's right and wrong.

We don't all live in California, so our legal systems classify what happened differently. I would consider the major mistake in this to be Apple's in allowing something they value so much to be in this situation (how many pre-release iPad's were left in bars?) Some people have taken advantage of this but the only impact seems to be some photos on a gadget blog.
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Both Windows NT and Windows 95 were tagged as "OS/2 killer", and that slaughter-job couldn't have turned out better.

Of course it helps to be the original creator of the product that you set out to kill... (In this sense, the iPad could deservedly be called the "Mac killer".)
Maybe the crank wrote the compiler :-)

Some people have never have experienced the joy of compiler bugs. My boss at Ticketmaster wrote our Pascal compiler. I wrote a C compiler.

Programming in an environment with compiler bugs has a profound effect on someone. Permanantly brain dammaged, except when there really are unfixed compiler bugs.

On the plus side you laugh at the people who think it takes gods to write compilers.
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This device has an HDMI port, so presumably "1080p HD compatible" means that it can play out 1080p video to an external display through HDMI.
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It's not becoming available until later this month. I'm sure Google will send UK users an e-mail about it.
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Really, cool! What phone, what site? Gotta try it myself, I am supposed to know this stuff. :)
Oh, man, good article, but the page that the word "win" links to, in the last paragraph, is just ridiculous.
Whatever web app framework you favor, there should be plugins for SOLR and sphinx that make fulltext indexing with reasonable defaults pretty easy. i.e. for rails thinking sphinx. I used to use acts_as_solr (I think a lot of people use sunspot now, and Xapian).

Play with a database or docs in a filesystem, do deltas of SOLR and sphinx, changing parameters like stopwords, token separators, stemmers, UTF-8 and ISO-Latin to ASCII mappings. See if you can get decent precision/recall metrics. There's quite a few degrees of freedom, depending on the database.

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sphinx
I've been using both on my (UK) account without any difficulty, does this only change what's displayed in the upper right corner?