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I'm not convinced that they can crank out a webOS tablet before the second generation iPad arrives. At that time it will be too late.

I own a 3G iPhone, but Apple's recent moves and policies around the appstore and their platforms has made me choose Android for my next phone. I simply cannot support a company like Apple and the direction they are taking computing with my money.

For that same reason, whoever comes out first with a more open tablet PC while still having a nice finish will get my money. Whatever happens I'm definitely not getting an iPad.

This, ofcourse is just me and my opinion, but it seems Apple has provoked quite a few people lately and with Android and other alternative platforms catching up (even Winmo!) I see Apple losing momentum here.

It might be unwise to underestimate Apple, but I say it would be unwise of Apple to underestimate the (continuous) PR-disaster the iPhone and AppStore has been to them the last few years.
Empirically, it often is, in many cases.
Except that he's promoting H.264 which is most definitely NOT an open standard (one that Apple has a financial stake in IIRC).
My relationship with Ubuntu is always the same:

1. A release of Ubuntu comes out. Hey, this sounds cool.
2. I download a live CD and try it out.
3. I realize it is in fact pretty cool, really fast, very full-featured.
4. It critically fails to support some essential piece of hardware.
5. I go back to OS X and the cycle repeats a few releases later.

The fatal flaw in this release: My trackpad dies every time I sleep my MacBook Pro.
That was a fantastic game. Bold playing by Anand!
Ask HN: what is this? "hnbannedyou@hushmail.com"?
I got this email: "FYI,

All of your comments have been automatically marked 'dead' for the
last 22 days."

from the above email address... but here's my questions. I dont have an email associated with this account, so how did whoever wrote this know my email? Secondly, is the above address legit? Why from hushmail instead of ycombinator?

And clearly I'm not banned if I can post this right? What is happening? Spam?
Many of them, and over 100k in unsecured credit cards, and just people that I owe money to. It's all related to a housing rental business that I inherited, and it's about to fail. Much of the unsecured debt is in default now, and next month I will see the first missed mortgage payments. I hate real estate.

I am considering just taking all the rent and letting foreclosure happen in order to fund my real startup.
Now he's paying the $5k to retain a lawyer. brutal! haha
I thought about it for 30 seconds and didn't get the light bulb. Could you share your thoughts?
I just wonder how many spies the CIA / whoever has working in media organizations, i.e. folks who didn't take the hard way out of Guantanamo.
I get your point, but Origami did ship, didn't it? They even have a list of hardware: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/umpc/def...

Of course the experiences never match up. In the videos, you get nice clips of some perfect UI. In reality, you get some crappy apps still designed for a mouse and keyboard.
I share your skepticism, but this has nothing to do with Courier.

Courier was a concept video, not a piece of hardware or software. It was never a working demo, or anything close to it.
You can use synergy to share keyboard / mouse between Linux, Windows and OSX. I use it between an Ubuntu desktop and a MacBook Pro. http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
10 years later, and the 2000 Olympics is still a clusterfuck. That was the same Olympics where the vault was set a couple notches two low for the first couple rotations, making just about everyone crash and casting a cloud over all the scores, and where the original gold medalist was stripped of her medal because the team doctor had prescribed her cough syrup the night before.
Apple controls the iPhone's HTML5 renderer and feels much more confident in its performance. "There's nothing stopping advertisers from making crappy canvas ads" is not the same thing as "canvas ads will suck at least as much power on average as Flash ads."
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More people being diagnosed with mental illness doesn't mean there is more mental illness, does it? Social acceptability and understanding has increased since the 50s and 80s, so we should expect to see a lot more mental illness, even if nothing else changed, right?

The other points about psych meds making symptoms worse is true - the rx info for Ritalin and so on clearly list severe issues such as psychosis as a side effect. Perhaps the problem lies in patients not receiving proper care and follow up.
For example, it contains intrinsically weak arguments. e.g. the section headed "Fifth, there's Touch" is equally applicable to HTML5 and infact most of the rest of the internet technologies. If you can fix "Touch" well enough for HTML5 then you must be able to fix it well enough for Flash, the requirements are identical.

Apple's argument is if you have to re-write all of flash to handle touch then why not write HTML 5? When people say "We need flash because we want to play flash games" They're thinking of http://www.defendyourcastle.org/ among other things. Which would simply not work on a touch screen unless it was completely re-done. So arguing that a mobile device should support flash so it can support those games is just wrong.

As for your other arguments I dont have the energy to get into. h.264 IS a silver bullet because of the existing support for it already. Apple CAN choose it because they have a good foothold in the mobile market. I'm not saying its the the best thing for the customer but it definitely IS for apple.

The remaining arguments are the "full web" and "security" arguments, both of which are valid although I am distracted midway through the "full web" argument by this blatant lie - "There are more games and entertainment titles available for iPhone, iPod and iPad than for any other platform in the world.". Maybe he means you can buy more titles - that would be almost believable...

thats not an empty statement. He did the numbers.

you dont make too much of security. security matters.

The 2 most significant points is still what you haven't addressed. Adobe is slow. Their promises to be on mobile devices in 09, then early this year... I dont blame apple for "not holding their breath"
and taking adobe 10 years to catch up with OSX is absolutely true.

The biggest thing happening here and no one seems to get it. FLASH IS NOT AVAILABLE ON ANY PHONE. ANY PHONE. ANYWHERE. NONE. Not just the iphone. Apple has gone and adopted standards like HTML5 which can achieve the same things, why aren't people praising them for embracing something that works like flash but is usable now?! and has been for a while?
I hardly think this problem is unique to the US, media just talks about it more openly.

Despite their "cyber-war" offensive units, I venture that the Chinese are just as vulnerable, if not more so.

At least the military culture in the US allows admission of shortcoming and failure.

Try talking about the weakness of Russia or China against "cyber" attacks in those countries and see how long it is that you get to remain alive and out of jail.

And while I think the US may be initially surprised by the enemy capability were a "cyber" blitzkrieg to eventuate, I think the experience the US has with conducting war and the adaptability of US forces would far outweigh the advantages of initial surprise.

US wars since WWII are no indication of US behavior in an engagement where it matters. Not that Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc did not matter to the people who lived there, far from it.

But they were not really wars where the US felt its very survival under threat, or really had much skin in the game. Things are different in such a war.
The lawyer is going to have to wrest that $5k from the mouths of those orphans in Kenya...you know, the orphans the alleged thief spends his spare time raising money for.
You're talking about the adoption of Cocoa and the fact that iTunes still uses Carbon? It's not really a fair accusation. I think Apple would very much like to be able to rewrite iTunes in Cocoa, but they have a problem - it's a cross-platform application. As a result they have chosen to use an API on the Mac that most closely resembles an API available on Windows. They know that iTunes is not exploiting the features available on both platforms to their fullest - perhaps painfully so. It is precisely this type of experience which makes them wish to avoid cross-platform development on their new platform.

I mean Apple really does care about the user experience, more so than any other company that I can think of. And yet even they have not managed to put together a good user experience for their cross-platform app. On the Mac it isn't hooked up to all of the Cocoa hotness, and on the PC, well, the less said, the better.

It is Apple's firsthand experience with the problems you can have during cross-platform development that is informing their decision to strongly discourage such development on the iPhone platform.
Is there a better way to avoid 'quasi-working' then to work only when you feel like it? I've never been able to figure out a good, sustainable way to do this without really being motivated.
But they do gain a substantial savings for not having to incur any licensing or development costs on the OS.
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I recently came across PJ Eby's work on thinkingthingsdone.com and find his insights very useful.

He's made a study of what mental habits cause us to be either "naturally successful" or "naturally struggling".

I personally have not been making headway on my goals for a while now, so I would say I've been struggling.

One key idea is whether one chooses to focus on what one can gain or on what one might lose as you pursue a goal.

A focus on potential losses makes one fearful, more likely to be paralyzed and ultimately fail.

If you ignore the potential losses and focus on what you can gain, you more naturally just take the actions required to get what you want. Flow is the way to go.
Update: It looks like Joe Hewitt (who made the iPhone Facebook app and Three20 framework, incidentally) created a <xul:canvas> tag even before Webkit created <canvas> (same idea, bitmap drawing canvas), for the chrome (XUL) of Mozilla apps, in 2001. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102285

Note, however, that this did not become the later <canvas> tag and apparently no effort was made for it to become a part of HTML.
I didn't see this so much as "working when I feel it" but more as "wow I sure am productive after a nice relaxing break".

I agree that a nice break from the daily grind can be very good for you. I as well find myself quite productive after being away from the grind for a day or two. But that doesn't mean I despise what I do!
"Come by my desk at 8 PM tomorrow night and I'll be glad to explain."
This sounds like an important book. The key point is this:

[The scientific literature on psychiatric drugs] is remarkably consistent in the story it tells. Although psychiatric medications may be effective over the short term, they increase the likelihood that a person will become chronically ill over the long term.

Most people nowadays think that psychiatry finally established itself on a scientific footing with the biochemical model of mental illness and associated drug treatments. If this guy's right, then the biochemical model and associated drugs are just the latest chapter in a long history of pseudo-scientific barbarism, this time founded on a massive conflict of interest.

This part is positively Orwellian:

At some later point, however, as the chemical imbalance story repeatedly fell apart, psychiatrists in the research community understood that they were telling a “fib.” I can still remember -- this was the summer of 1998 -- when I questioned a prominent academic psychiatrist about whether the chemical imbalance story was really “true” and he replied by stating that it was a “useful metaphor” that “helped patients understand why they needed to take their medication.”
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I've just used Flash on my Nokia smart phone to view a flash-only website. Works out of the box.
I'd have to agree. I've been using CS3 heavily for a few years now, and have installed it on 3 computers during that time. The UI doesn't get in my way, and my install experience has been fine, considering its actually installing 8 programs.
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On the tv show Mad Men, Don Draper described it as "we let our people be unproductive until they're productive". I think this applies to any kind of creative work. If I know exactly what needs to be done and how to do it, I'll just do it. If I have to come up with a solution to a difficult problem, I do whatever until I solve it.
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And I don't think the lawyer will have a problem with this. I've never seen a lawyer with moral obligations :-). You want to chat with this lawyer, that's a $250 fee for the first 5 minutes.
I suspect you'd be embroiled in a civil suit if you purchased someone else's wallet from a 3rd party and then posted in an international news publication about its contents.

That doesn't sound like criminal activity to you?

As for why they busted down Chen's door, specifically? No idea. I'm pretty sure that was not Apple's idea. If it was, we have bigger problems than how to interpret CA theft and shield laws.
You think Adobe software is frustrating? How about proper character encoding on your damn blog?

PS: I assume this was posted to HN by an angry Apple fan boy, upset at all the anti-Apple backlash today from Steve Jobs' bullshit hypocritical post. Color me shocked! (Yes, I realize the actual blog post is from 2008).
If that is the case why did Microsoft and Lionhead opt to show video mock-ups rather than real product demos?

Last I heard Natal doesn't work for children, black people and fat people. People who turn too quickly, people who sit down, people who clap or just touch hands. People with too much hair. People who's arms aren't raised. People in wheelchairs...

In fact the Quiz application, as shown, is completely impossible for Natal.

(I'm not a Microsoft employee)
Dr. Dobb's is certainly closer to being dead than 8-bit microcontrollers are. It ceased publication as a standalone magazine in February 2009; it's now online and a monthly section in InformationWeek called Dr. Dobb's Report.
Were they "bets" or technology choices?

For the first time, Apple choosing "not-Flash" actually has enough weight to force content publishers to choose "not-Flash" more often. This will eventually influence more of the tech industry. Personally, I'm thrilled.
Lol, I'd upvote you twice if I could. Can you send me your commandline args to ab?

To answer how HN handles it: the arc webserver has code to detect abusive crawlers. I should look into why that failed to kick in.

I'm glad readwarp didn't run into you until it had peaked on the front page :)
I can only hope the OS X support will work in Windows 7 x64.

My desktop is a monster of a machine, my 2,1 revision MacBook Pro, not so much.
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> Nope, these are actual guidelines Microsoft uses to make hiring, promotion, and compensation decisions. city41's comment is 100% accurate about how these things are used.

So... it's edgy humor in the form of a terrifying practical joke? Maybe Andy Kaufman didn't die after all.
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This is a very sensible decision. Ultimately, it will be very hard for anything running on x86 to compete with ARM at the moment in power/watt, which is probably the most important metric for these sorts of devices. Inte's working hard to change that, but they haven't managed it yet.

Furthermore, the constant cries for a Windows 7 slate are misguided. There are very few benefits to having windows any many disadvantages. While it's true Window's software will run on such a device, actually using it is a different matter. Just trying to scroll on the tiny scroll bar or tap a target a few pixels wide would be impossible with a capacitive screen and your finger, rendering most desktop applications useless.

If HP is refocusing on a WebOS-based ARM device, they have an actual chance at matching the iPad's usability and specs. I wish them well. WebOS is a wonderful operating system, and I'm glad it's finally getting a chance to flourish.
Instructions on setting up the news site.

http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/how-to-run-news

Question: What kind of server does one need to setup arc on it? Do you need like a total control (as in virtual/dedicated servers)?
:) It's not the absolute top priority yes, but it's amazing how much building the next stumbleUpon is about product and positioning, not recommendations. Thanks for enumerating all those tradeoffs.
IE < 8. Downvoters are missing the point: Graceful degration / progressive enhancement are core parts of the HTML platform, not Flash.
Bleurgh. I rewrote that sentence a few times and ended up posting a mish-mash. s/earnest/jest/ :o)
Absolutely not true that there's no difference. The speed of your desktop comes from using POWER. Today's desktop CPUs alone pull up to 130 WATTS. My desktop CPU bought in 2000 used 30 W. Now even notebook CPUs use more when they're not idle!
Now I can come to a lot of web pages where only Flash ads use 100% of a modern CPU! That translates in 60-70 Watts.
Then compare all this with the goals for device which should work with battery for hours.
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Hence my qualifier "in comparable form." Origami did ship, but when it did it was twice as expensive as promised (initially: "as much as a good mobile phone", when released: $1200+) and was an unusable mess (read some reviews). The devices shipped bore no resemblance to those in the video, either in terms of interface or hardware. So while Microsoft's partners did ship UMPCs, it would be highly misleading to suggest that Microsoft shipped "Origami," at least as presented in the videos.
Depends how enlightened your employer is. We've got a HarborMaster high score whiteboard in my cube, and one of the guys in the next cube over was showing us his Starcraft 2 Beta skillz today. Nobody bats an eyelash when I get into work at 1 PM and leave at 10 PM.

It's an issue if you aren't working at all, but as long as you're getting your work done and your job function doesn't require client contact, why should your employer care?
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Chessbase has my favorite board: http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6288 (search for replay)

Also the best analysis of game 4 IMO - by Anish Giri, currently the world's youngest GM.
I'm a terrible Apple fanboi but I thought that the courier demonstrated some really interesting ideas.

I especially liked that the proposed device seemed to be a digital diary and notebook rather than a general purpose computing device. It was a very different concept to the iPad.

I could see real potential for this kind of "digital filofax".
I've also been thinking about this lately. Flash and related products are only a small part of a not very large company, relatively speaking. Why can't Google or Apple just make a deal for Flash/Flex? It's clear that the web (and mobile web) is critical for both.
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I don't have the exact parameters, but I think it was something like

ab -c 100 -n 10000 http://readwarp.com/<somethinghere>

I don't remember what <somethinghere> was, it was one of the JS fetch links I think. I was trying to flood your site with a bunch of traffic and I did think it might slow down for a bit, but I wasn't expecting to knock it offline. I, too, am glad that everyone else was able to see how your site was supposed to look before I took it down.
... for you. (I ought to have said, "less worrisome for me."). The thought that the operator could just look up from their screen, after "looking in my pants", so to speak, is what feels awkward to me.
> Surely the best argument against Job's position is the iPhone itself. The most important and dominant crossplatform framework in the world is HTML+JS and Apple actually wanted it to take the place of native frameworks. But we all know how that ended and now we have the App Store.

And with this paragraph you exactly proved why Flash doesn't have sense on the iPhone.
Whenever I hear about people making claims against the current psychiatric model, I look closely to see if they are associated with the CCHR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Commission_on_Human_Ri...). They basically believe that psychiatrists are purposefully poisoning us as part of a campaign of eugenics...

Not to say that this guy might not be right, but it triggers my scepticism alarms.
To be fair, all the other pre-90s microcomputer networking standards (NetBIOS, IPX, token ring..) are also dead, Apple Desktop Bus was introduced before the PS/2 port, and IDE was introduced (as a one-vendor proprietary implementation) in the same year that Apple started putting SCSI hard drives into Macs.
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He should have taken a day or two to return the phone (not weeks), and he shouldn't have let Gizmodo disassemble it. But otherwise, to be honest, I don't see what he did wrong.
That was a let down.

This is not: http://www.darylscience.com/downloads/DblSunset.pdf
he practically stole the phone and then sold it. he didn't even try to leave it at the bar, to ask the day later the bar people if somebody asked for it (the guy who was missing it returned more times!) he didn't try to return it directly to Apple (And maybe receiving the current generation phone as the present) he obviously wanted to profit by selling it to somebody else, as he asked more media companies!
Congrats on the launch Guillermo, really nice interface and overall execution.
"And what of the assumption that everyone with access to the Internet or a camera phone will fill the gap? "Citizen journalism," he says, "is like citizen dentistry." Without trained journalists expending the time and resources to find out what is going on, the risk in places such as the United States -- where the news can seem like an endless lunatic carnival in which the outside world doesn’t exist -- is not only of becoming cut off from reality and developing skewed perceptions."

CNN needs to realize that broadcasting random tweets helps no one.
There were no objections to either push notifications nor multitasking. At one point they weren't offered simply because you can't do all things at once, but Apple never made any objections to the technologies, moral or otherwise.
Right. :) Basically, it sounds like they're utilizing the hardware as much as possible. '...more often [than other tablets or than would seem normal]'. I.e., more gpu or more specialized use of the hardware, less general-purpose cpu.

The interesting thing about Steve Jobs' final argument in his letter is that he fully recognizes the importance of this in the embedded space, and he gives that as a reason for avoiding middleware layers. But this is obviously a curious point, considering Flash has been ramping up towards GPU-based things since before the iPad was probably first planned.

Anyway, one can debate all one wants about the colorful histories of Apple, Adobe, and recently tablets, etc. These folks seem focused. Good luck to them all.
Infrastructure costs have to be paid somehow. Though a lot of the money is squandered on crap like 'bridges to nowhere,' there are other more deserving projects that languish (like maintaining our current bridges/infrastructure).
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