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There are several things that bother me with the current 3D craze.

First - and I'll admit this makes me biased - I'm blind in one eye. This means that it doesn't matter what technology they use, I'm not going to be able to see the movie in 3D.

Second, the only movie I tried to watch in 3D (in the last 10 years), was Coraline. It was a great film, but having to wear the glasses meant the film was very dark.

Third, I've yet to talk to anyone who didn't come out of the film without either a headache or at least a somewhat spacey feeling. The technology strains your eyes, and while I don't believe it causes any lasting damage, it still leaves you worn out after the film. Or maybe my friends and I are just too old.

Still, as far as I'm concerned, as long as you have to wear special glasses, 3D movies aren't likely to be considered a normal part of going to the movies.
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Pixar worked hard to make sure their use of 3D cinematography in UP was properly integrated throughout their creative process so that it would be something that added to the movie experience and not a gimmick.
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And that is the joke itself, isn't it? The fun is in the fact that one can't tell whether it is meant to be serious or not.
Is Operamail (http://operamail.com/) coming back? Those 3MB of storage were just awesome.
I like how Haskell handles operator overloading: You need to conform to some kind of type class, _and_ you can make up your own operators instead of having to reuse bit-shifts for I/O.

Oh, I do not really have an opinion on operator overloading in C++. I just conceded the possibility that "removing operator overloading [...] could turn out to make the language more powerful [...]", because I have heard the opinion being advanced with some good arguments.
I pretty much agree with you. While I can understand their decision to sell to Opera, at the same time, I feel that Opera will probably ruin Fastmail by trying to turn it into just another Hotmail/Yahoo Mail/Gmail competitor.

Then again, who knows? Maybe this will end up being awesome.
I was talking the the Rackspace dudes at PyCon (I'm a Slicehost customer since before they were bought) and apparently the same backend infrastructure is cheaper if you buy it on a 'Rackspace cloud' branded plan rather than a 'Slicehost' plan.
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Key functionality is still missing in the HTML5 stack. E.g. try and write Chatroulette in pure HTML5, CSS and JavaScript; you just can't. That's a justification for the product space Silverlight and Flash are in. And classic MS, they were late to the game.
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As far as I'm concerned, LaLa died when it stopped being the CD Trading community.
It's funny, the same thing happened to anywhere.fm, of which lala is basically an updated version. They made a fun way to listen to all of your own music online, they got bought out, and they disappeared. Maybe YC should fund another anywhere.fm?
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it's actually pretty nice for that--- with vaguely reasonable effort you can make the same app run on .NET on the desktop and Silverlight on the browser
I must disagree.

As much as I dislike its present course, Apple has always pushed the boundaries of what's possible since the day 1 (Apple I, Apple ][, Disk ][) and continued pushing, sometimes crossing that border (certain aspects of the Lisa are more advanced than OSX, for instance, but its 68K wasn't fast enough).

Microsoft started life cloning BASIC for 8-bit computers, gained relevance cloning CP/M for 16-bit computers and became mainstream cloning MacOS for 32-bit PC-compatible computers, by entering shady deals with OEMs, by misleading competitors (Lotus developed 123/G - "the future", acording to MS - for OS/2 while MS developed Excel for Windows) and by hurting genuine innovators by announcing vaporware and half-brained products (like Windows for Pen Computing and its latest descendant, Courier).

No. As much as Apple has been every bit as evil as Microsoft, the two companies share a completely different ethos.
CNN started out this way. 24 hour news coverage of international events. Overtime it became more US-centric until it was the same 1 hour news reported 24 times per day.

CNN International is still fantastic. I watched it while in Singapore and was floored by the integrity of the journalists. Then I got back to the US and it was the same fluff pieces from the week before I left.
I'm surprised they haven't used a PowerPoint presentation.
She presumably knew he was a creative artist when she married him, that's probably even why she found him attractive.
They have a pretty good plan for a startup if you want to go without a mail server for some time.

For mails generated by user interaction, eg. "You have a new answer to your question.", they have the limit of 2000 per hour. Can cover you for the first 2.000 - 3.000 users. And mail from their servers don't trigger spam filters at Google, Hotmail etc.

I hope they keep the Business accounts running. Here's the features and pricing table:

http://www.fastmail.fm/pages/fastmail/docs/pricingtbl.html
The editors' "produces one or two shapes not found in nature" may mean Fig.5a and Fig.6c, which are lacking the '[as] seen in' notes given for all others presented.

I'd say the author was going for showing that the model covered many (all ? ferns, etc.?) natural shapes. But both the issues of exists-in-nature-but-not-in-model and vice-versa should be interesting.

Perhaps the sets of "these parameters do not show up in nature" can give the bio-mechanisms researchers some hints.
> So does this allow me to write apps that have the Mac L&F ?

Yes. MacRuby works well with Interface Builder (the GUI designer for the Mac) and lets you write pretty much anything you could with Obj-C, just quicker :)

There's also the ability to package your MacRuby app as a .app that can be distributed without requiring MacRuby to be installed (MacRuby not required to run the packaged app), but the size of the .app is much larger than an equivalent Obj-C version
Umm... no? Life on Earth started about 4 billion years ago. The universe is about 13 billion years old. Also, earlier stars had lower metallicity, which made it less likely for rocky planets to form. Population I stars (like the sun) are probably the first generation of stars with high enough metallicity to make rocky planets and life likely.
Having different histories does not infer that they won't both end up walking the same path.

I have always liked Apple for the Woz age of hacking and the ethos that produced, but this is not the path that they appear to be walking recently.

I would love to agree with your disagreement, but I find myself agreeing more with the concerns of the article. It may be a far-fetched rant but it makes a few points that presently fall not far from the target.
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> Could you please explain your argument about inflation?

> Couldn't each country decide on its own inflation, without harmonization nor a common currency?

Without a common currency you can handle your own inflation.

But if there are many different moneys in a market, and they fluctuate relative to each other, it's much more difficult to make business. Moreover, when countries have independent monetary policies, they eventually indulge into protectionism (although they try to disguise it into something else). Therefore there's no more common market, with the corresponding economies of scale.

Before the Euro, european countries already had a "monetary snake" system which limited money fluctuation and ability to indulge into protectionism, to favor business inside Europe.

Finally, being known as unable to raise inflation has a positive effect: since lenders are confident that Euro can't be significantly devalued, they consider the loan as less risky, and therefore accept lower interest rates. Look at Greece: people are afraid that the country might go bankrupt, so they only lend at high interest rates, putting Greece into further trouble. Know, imagine that Greece was able to devalue its currency through inflation: lenders would anticipate massive inflation, and protect themselves with outrageous interest rates. The alternative for Greece would be to borrow into a stronger, foreign money, but then if their economy tanks, the debt would explode with soaring exchange rates, and the whole country would default. Given this high risk of default, interest rates would soar even if labelled in a strong currency.

Being tied to a strong currency, with some rules which keep it strong, forces you to drive your economy responsibly. Unfortunately for Greece, the Euro rules weren't strong and enforceable enough to prevent their politicians from acting irresponsibly. Know they're going to pay...
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American news, internationally, isn't bad. Just the schlock they show in the US is bad. A good American company with good international coverage is CNN International. If you were to watch it you wouldn't believe they share the same name.

BTW, CNN International is considered a premium channel that I've only seen carried in major hotels and as a subscription.
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I am not sure if the author is a native English speaker or not, but that article needs some heavy editing to make it legible for publication.
Even infinite depth of field wouldn't completely solve the problem. The point is, your eyes have to physically focus on the far away screen the entire time, or the whole movie becomes blurry (obviously). When you're looking at a "near" object, there's always a mismatch between its apparent distance and the focus point of your eyes. And as you pointed out, you can't turn your head.

However, given these limitations, I've found 3D movies to be a great experience. In the case of Avatar in particular, an important point of the movie was how the protagonist becomes part of the alien world, and I felt that the 3D environment really helped the audience to get the same feeling. YMMV of course.

What's really a rip-off is all those movies now that were converted to 3D in post production. It's a bit like manually coloring a black-and-white photo before color film was available -- it may look kind of okay if you don't look too closely, but it's not the real thing. The flat faces in particular make people look like cardboard cutouts.
Movies are a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Give me a good radioshow any day instead of all this newfangled motion picture business. I may be an old man that's been around forever, but I'm always right, and here's why:

1. IT'S THE WASTE OF A DIMENSION.
When you listen to a good radioshow it'a already a moving picture as far as the mind is concerned. Adding one dimension artificially can make the illusion less convincing.

2. IT ADDS NOTHING TO THE EXPERIENCE.
Recall the greatest radioshow experiences of your lifetime. Did it "need" pictures? A great radioshow completely engages our imaginations.

4. IT CAN CREATE NAUSEA AND HEADACHES.
AS motion picture equipment was being introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Reuters interviewed two leading scientists. "There are a lot of people walking around with very minor eye problems for example, a muscle imbalance which under normal circumstances the brain deals with naturally,"

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These projectors are not selling themselves. There was initial opposition from radiostations to the huge cost of new equipment and the loss of marketingshare they are sure to see.

Now get off my lawn kid.
I would make that argument, especially if I'm personally involved in the building (not sure about the legalities here).

Maintaining a house no one lives in is pretty expensive, so there's every reason to have someone move in as soon as the house can manage weather protection, food storage, and ventilation. Further, if you're personally involved in advancing those concerns, you're already spending at least 10 hours a day in the building. Now, leasing the place out while there are holes in the floor is probably against a law, but there's no reason why buildings couldn't be continuously developed incrementally with user feedback. And occasionally, they are.
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I wish Apple would just change the agreement to say "if your app isn't totally polished to our legendarily exacting concepts of quality, we reserve the right not to bless it with the App Store".

It wouldn't make anyone even sort of happier, but I can't help but feel it's closer to the truth of the matter than questions of language use. I highly doubt Apple would cry if a top notch app was developed in Haskell so long as the developer knew the burden of maintaining the API divide and still delivered. It makes me feel the whole thing is a matter of lacking trust and legalese, and though language restrictions seem dumb I myself can't think of a better way to achieve the goals Apple appears to be aiming at.
You paint Microsoft as an army of cloners, yet within the same argument you provide a compelling example of Microsoft innovation: Excel was a much better product than Lotus 123/G.
I know for a fact that my grandparents would find it a big deal to have to launch different browsers for different sites, and I'd venture to suggest that the majority of web users feel the same.
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B,b,b,but they promised it would be: coming soon, be cheaper than an iPad^, do everything the iPad couldn't.

^at the time experts assumed iPad would be $999, they were caught off guard because HP announced it would be less than $1000.

So what happens to all the people that passed on the iPad because the HP Slate was coming soon? Are they going to get a Joojoo?
Do you typically just go through some tutorials till you get comfortable or do you actually write something in a new language you've been wanting to do ?
How do you go about it?
Some of your languages like lua, and go have been on my list, too.
Perhaps "useless" from the perspective of advancing the state of the art?
It took me longer than it should have to find the course I am interested in within the cloud of courses, maybe there's an easier way of doing this?

Another problem is that if I pick a course and then have to pick a University it is going to be a long time before I find one with the UCAS score I want, or a certain drop-out rate so I wonder whether a table based view of the universities (once I've chosen a course) might allow me to sort by the fields I am interested in and then click on the interesting University.

Great idea though :)
I'll be honest I'm not really into the colour scheme (too much grey), and the list of courses is a bit too messy for my taste. On the other hand, the information provided is excellent!
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Looks like Robert Hodgins, et al, has graduated from the world of Processing. For those of you who aren't familiar with Hodgins/Barbarian Group, he's the guy behind the original Magnetopshere visualization, which was eventually ported over to iTunes.
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exploiting people? r u kidding me? are you a socialist? shoudl lawayers offer their services to startups for free? shoudl a VC offer startups money for no equity? should your landlord offer you free office space?

What a bunch of nonsense! is this Jason CalicANUS?
This is exactly correct.

You only have to look at the criticism of Mi5 not having the resources to track people they knew were potential terrorists when they crossed paths with people they were actively tracking to know that the chances that anything I do all day even being looked at by a human are almost nothing.

Also my experience dealing with HMRC shows me even people in the civil service who are paid to know what I'm doing suffer from such data disorganisation and unconnection that I have no fears at all about it's use.

I'm far more worried about how it is stored and secured, and also how commercial entities that have power over my status in society (read credit agencies) gather and do not verify data that may, through no fault of my own, affect my life. One of my friends from way back had someone elses credit black list applied to her purely based on them having the same name even though they live in completely different areas of the country.
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Wow. I was so mad when they launched. I thought for a while that they had implemented a system I had been working on, and they got 10M in funding. Then I saw how they decided to work it and I laughed. I knew they would fail eventually when they decided to do what everyone else is doing.

I may be slow to get to market, but the entire online music market is still stupid, and nobody is doing what I will.
> So launch a different browser. Not a big deal.

> […]

> As someone who has tried to do both cutting edge native and web iPhone apps, iPhone Safari is a joke compared to iPhone Cocoa

What he is basically saying is developing natively instead of for the web can give a better result, and he would prefer to drop cross-browser compatibility and just have users launch whatever browser he developed the app for.

The question is why develop for the web at all if your apps only run in a certain browser? He seems to make the assumption that while his app can’t run in all browsers, the browser it does run in is available “on all platforms”.

I think he needs to rethink what the purpose is with HTML, semantic markup, and having a standard.
Al-Jazeera English doesn't have ads but Al-Jazeera's Arabic channels do.

Al-Jazeera is about 7-9 TV stations, mobile applications, and websites. I listen to their Arabic podcasts and 90% of them make me fear for their safety. The ungrateful little bastards went on air reporting on the discrepancy between oil exports reported by Qatar (their host nation) and the figures reported by the international markets. Concluding something like 25% was missing from the total!

I was certain I will not see al-Jazeera again, but they went on just fine, back to harassing other governments the very next day.

Their Op-Ed program (in Arabic: "al-itijah al-mu`akis" الاتجاه المعاكس) calls for the overthrow of all the non-democratic regimes in the middle-east, by which it means ALL of them.
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> But you can lower tariffs unilateral.

Let's say we have 10 countries, with an identical GDP of 100 billion, and 10% flat tax rate. Let's say they agree on what's the minimum decent level of public services (health care, education, roads, wars abroad, prisons, car makers and bank bailouts...), and it cost just these 10% GDP raised by taxes.

On day 1, everything goes smooth: everyone needs 10 billions, has 10 billions, spends them. Now, a country decide to lower its tax rate to 5%. Taxable activities move massively to this country, their GDP soars to 300 billions: they've now 15 billions of income tax, that's great for them; but other countries have only got 9.4 billion left, they're below their bare minimum income. They'll have to choose between suppressing some public services, and protect themselves against the dumping countries (i.e. make it artificially impractical for companies of the dumping country to do business in the rest of the union).

Now, if the dumping country is much smaller than the others, it can do some dumping without hurting other, bigger countries too much with the drain. That's why dumping countries are usually small ones: the smaller the country, the more we let it get away with.

The dumping mechanisms encourage to lower taxes, at the expense of reduced public services. In some countries, limiting public services is ideologically considered a Good Thing (and for some reason, people don't realize that wars and prisons are public services). But limited public services are correlated with higher stress, and higher crime rates. That's not the lifestyle most Europeans want: so we have to protect our taxes. Don't forget that there is already a strong control feedback on taxes: voters don't enjoy paying them, so most taxes that can be suppressed or lowered under acceptable conditions are cut ASAP.
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As HN is (presumably) growing, you'd need to normalise this figure using the number of unique visitors at the time the submission was made or something.
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I think this whole situation was summed up for me by a slashdot comment:

Steve Jobs: "We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers."

Yet, it is just fine with Steve Jobs if every iDeveloper is at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when their enhancements will be made available to their customers.
You should familiarize yourself with the technologies.

Adobe has been trying to get Flash on the iPhones since Day 1, and has been unable to do it because of some honestly pretty shitty business practices on Apple's part. Now you may love Flash or hate it, but the bottom line is this: the iPhone can never be considered a best-of-breed gadget when it still provides a second-rate web browsing experience in which about 40% of the Internet is forever closed to you.

The reason that Apple does not, will not, can not support Flash is simply this: it would gut the App Store like a week-old fish.

Kindly remove the blinders from your eyes, then get back to us. :)
Orin Kerr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orin_Kerr) has posted about this. He doesn't take a firm position, but notes that the California law doesn't explicitly carve out such an exception, but the close federal parallel does mostly allow such warrants. He also notes that no court has ruled on this point in CA. He also explains the context around the original passage of the law: "This law was passed in response to Zurcher v. Stanford Daily, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment allowed the government to obtain a warrant to search a news office for evidence of crime that the news source was gathering in the course of reporting the news."

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This part is my own interpretation, but I think it's reasonable: given the lack of direct precedent, the CA court that considers this matter will probably consider the legislative intent behind the law (Gizmodo is out of luck) and look to how similar laws have been interpreted (again, Gizmodo is out of luck).
Funny, I just watched Highlander last night. Hotel clerk to bad guy: "I hope you get your head chopped off, asshole."
the fact is he's not doing this for the startups. he wants to make a name for himself. he wants people to think he's a superhero, but he's gonna fall on his ass. are you guys aware that you used to charge startups when he was running silicon alley reproter before it failed! ask him about it.