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I don't sense ARM as being terrifically disruptive in potential, at least for Intel, but that really hinges on two interrelated things:

How important is it for ARM to develop a 64 bit architecture?

How much will the "big fast higher power consumption CPU market" remain a big thing?

Intel will never beat ARM in the low power, moderate performance, extremely low cost market; what you and I emphasize, the different lower margin business model, is what established firms almost universally fail to negotiate, although Intel is trying with the Atom.

Per the above two questions of mine, I'm just not sure this will be relevant to Intel and its markets. It almost certainly depends on the future limits of the mobile market (where low power is a bit more important than price), which I don't think we're in a position to confidently predict right now. We know it'll be big, we don't know how big, and we don't know how much or when it will displace the existing order.

Final point: microprocessors usually align into one of four categories:

Zero cost (microwaves and dishwashers)

Zero units ($200K rad hard CPUs for space)

Zero power (the mobile market which ARM owns for that reason)

Zero time (to finish a computation)

ARM hasn't even tried to seriously compete in the latter until they came out with the multicore SMP out-of-order superscaler Cortex A9 ... and that's a 32 bit macroarchitecture.

Can they use their existing foundation to directly attack Intel in the Zero Time market? Don't know, but I don't see it happening soon.

Will enough people abandon their 64 bit Intel systems for mobile 32 bit ARM systems, perhaps with the cloud handling the heavy lifting? Time will tell, that's perhaps the more likely short term ARM disruptive outcome.
The distinction between skepticism and denial is found in the process, not the conclusion. Believing vaccines cause autism doesn't make you a "denier", but the reasons why you believe it may.

This is addressed in the article right next door: "Living in denial: When a sceptic isn't a sceptic" (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627606.000-living-in...)

"Denialism is typically driven by ideology or religious belief, where the commitment to the belief takes precedence over the evidence. Belief comes first, reasons for belief follow, and those reasons are winnowed to ensure that the belief survives intact."
My technophobic Mom (she finally gave up the VCR after learning how to use the DVR) is using one. That's what I call a revolution. Once Mom got her hands on the MLB app, it was no longer a "computer". If a good bible program is released, Dad will never see it again. If she gets stuck, she just presses the button and starts over.
I've rolled this out recently as well, we give the user the option of a voice call or SMS. We did this knowing that about 50% of our users sign up by giving us a land line and may not have a cell phone. Twilio provides a code example right on the site for voice based verification where their system will call you and ask you to enter a number you have been presented with on the site. We do the inverse where you get a call/sms with a verification code and then have to enter it on the site.

I would make a couple of points though, we've run into several sites that don't provide a mechanism to have the call retried (answering machine, undelivered cell call, etc) or to go back and enter a verification code if it was captured by voice mail etc. Google lets you enter the code whenever you get it, Twilio lets you initiate a new call with a new number, but many ignore this problem.
you can't measure "intelligence" because there is no common definition for it. its a vague term which doesn't map to a single real world phenomenon directly, (e.g. brightness, heaviness, speed etc.) but its a derived value, which maps to a multitude of other derived values (comprehension, reasoning etc.) which are themselves difficult to define and measure. i don't know if a concrete definition would help anyway... i'm sure people would disagree because whatever it would be would conflict with their personal views of intelligence.
When my cofounder was finishing his Masters thesis and went dark for a week (no IM, limited email), I would use dropbox to communicate vital things to him. I just made a file called "did you remember to sign this", and he would `echo "yes"` into it. Worked amazing well, since it basically gave me a live pipe into his growl notifications.
On the flip side, painting critics with the "denialists" label is an easy way to deflect valid criticism.

In the H1N1 case, there are a lot of critics claiming:

* Press about H1N1 caused a shortage of seasonal flu vaccines. [0]

* H1N1 vaccine supplies were limited during the period leading up to flu season. [1]

* H1N1 vaccine production was not ramped up quickly enough. [1]

* H1N1 vaccine was oversupplied after the 2009/10 flu season, leaving public health agencies with massive surpluses. [2]

So, given that public health agencies massively overstocked their supplies after they could do any good, it's easy to see why politicians might be angry. With oversupply in Germany alone at €53.3 million worth of vaccine [2], a valid concern might be that if there was in fact corporate influence over the WHO decision to declare H1N1 a pandemic, then that would call their credibility into question [3]. Another concern might be that given the supply issues, the world is not able to effectively respond in time to a flu pandemic.

Rather than addressing those issues, it's a lot easier to paint critics as denialists.

Or, it could just be that they're wackos.

Whatever.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/health/05flu.html

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Health/h1n1-vaccine-deliveries-incr...

[2] http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100507-27035.html

[3] http://www.ihsglobalinsight.com/SDA/SDADetail18082.htm
Cloud in a Plug
$ton > $5, I presume!
The military (in the form of the Coast Guard) has already stated that they do not have the capability to deal with this. Thad Allen, the Coast Guard incident commander for this oil spill, has correctly noted that all the technology and capability to address the problem is in the hands of the private sector, specifically BP and their subcontractors in this case.

The federal government has some oversight and regulatory role here but they do NOT have any expertise in this. The military does not know how to cap oil wells.
I've just watched the whole thing. Thanks a lot to whoever posted it, that was really interesting.
I think we have different definitions of "smug" here (to be expected, because it was mostly made up on the spot.) the surgeon gets their thrill not by acting out some form of agression, but rather by directly holding someone's life in their hands—it is not the cut that is made that excites, but the manifold opportunities for mistaken, fatal cuts that aren't made. The pilot and the police officer get the same thrill: the ability to say afterward (even if only internally), that "I could have killed you—in fact, I would have killed you, by default, if I wasn't just so damn good at this."

That's what I mean by "smug." It's not aggression—it's dominance demonstrated via acts of mastery over the world, and thus its inhabitants. Bullying—actual emotional aggression—is the frustrated refuge of the gamist who has no mastery to show off.
Lifeblob is an Indian company, even if they had a patent on this, it won't work against Facebook, which is a US company (until they have a US patent and Facebook is using same technique). Also, copyright infringement won't work until Facebook uses the same code.

Moreover, Lifeblob has shot in their foot with this. Lifeblob's content is hosted in US (Softlayer as host). If Facebook gets a patent on the recommendation engine they and Lifeblob is using, they can issue a takedown notice to Lifeblob from american servers.

Actions like Lifeblob's only end up destroying the web ecosystem.
The key statement, above all others, in your essay is in the last paragraph:

There isn't really anyone locally who understands much about the tech/startup scene; I am very grateful for any advice or perspective

There are some significant psychological benefits to walking into a random coffee shop and overhearing other people talk tech - it's a good reminder that you are not alone.
...which, as anyone has tried to use the "service" will attest, is perhaps the worst possible example of identity verification you could use, from a user's perspective.

I know it's amazing to some, but a good amount of people have no clue the exact amount they paid on their last visa bill.
You took that quote completely out of context, and have argued against that quote out of context, in the classic strawman way, and yet you're currently the highest-rated comment in this thread.

This is embarrassing.
Using C++ doesn't require throwing out almost a quarter decade's worth of code.
Yep the website needs work, it's just something I threw together before I head off to the Consumer Genetics Conference this week. I will add more explanation on the target audience - (which is really more of sequencing and healthcare companies right now)

The data in the program now is not actually a whole genome, it's more of a gene ("exome" if you will) viewer now, but we will be adding whole genome browsing soon. We've been thinking about a 23andMe import tool but haven't built that yet.

Would be interested in how the program runs for you

Thanks!
Thanks for f*cking up GCC!
Tacit knowledge: you don't know how much you know
I disagree with the work ethic point based one a single datum. my work ethic drastically changed at one point in my life - whilst my IQ should have remained constant, and its quite high - 144.5 on the Mensa test I took some 15 years ago.
Interesting. I heard they aren't supporting WebSQL because they teamed up with Mozilla to propose a different local storage called IndexedDB.

Anyone have a clue as to why there is no canvas support in IE9PP? The IE team has been big on pushing the fact that the want to support the standards - is there some controversy around the canvas element like there is around WebSQL?
I've been convinced about tablet computing since I got an IBM X41 several years ago. Sure those computers where far too immature and far too expensive to ever be mainstream, but the potential was there. The iPad manages to bring the usability and price needed to make the concept more mainstream. From here on in we'll seeing tablets just growing and growing. The iPad may not be the device that becomes ubiquitous, but we look back upon it as the device that really started it all.
I am a user case that does not own a phone or has a credit record in the US. However the thing, if you are using payments that always works is PayPals user verification. Put a charge on a users card. Either add a code to the name of the merchant, or if unfeasible, charge 1.xy and ask the user for the xy.
The Challenges of Virtual Hairstyling
We had an iPhone before the app store was created. This let us have some experience and see what worked and what didn't. Almost all developers didn't have an iPad before release. The simulator and videos from Apple are poor substitutes. So, a lot of developers are doing a lot of experimenting with real hardware and seeing what the best way to build things is. Plus, iPad apps have more features and that requires some time.
Do universities in the UK have some sort of quazi-legal powers over the average citizen?

I fail to see why he's actually listening to them at all. He has a successful product and a possible revenue stream, what the uni gonna do, kick him out?
Not necessarily true about NYC. Pre mass-transit, wealthy citizens of Manhattan vacationed on the northern part of the island. During the early 20th century, as the subway system and metro-north were developed, these same people migrated to the north, or what is now referred to as Westchester.

While easterlies may have caused dislocation during a certain time period, most major cities have experienced other events which have also had a significant impact on their demography.
I'm a pessimist in general, about technology, and typically not a big fan of the Apple hype. I make it a point to never watch Steve Jobs hype his latest gadget and get people excited over some rudimentary (and painfully obvious) incremental new feature he's pasting onto his foundation.

I think I'm the _only_ person in the office who refuses to carry his iPad into meetings with him - It's just not the right tool for a highly multi-tasking and textually intense environment.

But, with all those caveats aside, there is just something strangely social and engaging with the iPad that I never really got from a Laptop. A few use cases:

o Walking to Work/Dropping in to a restaurant for breakfast - I would never consider yanking out a laptop to read a newspaper, and the iPhone just never really worked for me in that medium - so I would typically drop some change into the Newspaper Box and read/discard a mound of paper. Now - every morning, I walk to work reading the WSJ, or, if I'm waiting for a friend to show up for breakfast, I can pop it out and get caught up.

o At a restaurant, or Movie Theater, we have a 10-15 minutes - I frequently spend time flipping through photos of events, sharing face book pages, etc.. I guarantee you I never have (and never will) do that with a laptop. And there is something about sharing pictures on a 9" screen that makes is viscerally different from doing so on a iPhone.

It's small enough that I always carry it with me, but large enough that reading on it doesn't feel awkward.

I'm a luddite, in that I don't like change, and I have zero intention in replacing my laptop use with an iPad, but, I have zero doubt that having some time of slate/tablet (whether it be Apple, Android, WEBOS) will be a permanent part of my life going forward.

And yes, future versions will be much better. I would _kill_ for a stylus capable device - and not the crappy capacitance low-resolution stylus that I use with my iPad, but something that I can actually draw, and take notes with. Do you know how silly I feel about taking out pens and napkins to sketch out a drawing while carrying an iPad equipped with SketchBook Pro?

Syncing is still too slow - USB 3 or some other gigabit+ sync would be much appreciated. And, for low-volume syncs, over-the-air syncing would be nice.

It's early, it will get better, but it's definitely here to stay. And it's definitely made my life better. Increased the quality of social interaction. Allows me to dynamically share memories and experiences in a richer, more meaningful form.
Along with lighthouses in storms and collapsing windmills? I'm there.
Not necessarily true about NYC. Pre mass-transit, wealthy citizens of Manhattan vacationed on the northern part of the island. During the early 20th century, as the subway system and metro-north were developed, these same people migrated to the north, or what is now referred to as Westchester.

While westerlies may have caused dislocation during a certain time period, most major cities have experienced other events which have also had a significant impact on their demography.
Perils Of Credentialism - MIT Example
I think the hard part is evaluating up front whether the opportunity to be 10x better exists.
Great article.

The fact that a few extra hours of sleep or a big cup of coffee can completely sway the results renders IQ scores almost irrelevant, IMHO.

Great intelligence can be simple. Like caring for others, making informed decisions, asking why, etc.
The enterprise remote tools will work well for schools (e.g. remote disable). It might be very tempting to start a company to build a library of single topic lessons (audio, video, text, and maybe some simulation) on a variety of subjects. License it to schools for a yearly fee.

Plus, you have the added bonus of no camera so you won't get sued for that :)
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Would Intel's develop and marketing push of the Atom suggest that Intel is doing anything but retreating to higher ground?

The only thing they're not doing is matching ARM's power efficiency or SoC. They are trying there and they might manage the former or get close enough (I don't know) but I don't see them achieving the latter, for the various reasons postulated for their joint venture with TSMC failing so far.

And is there a "high-end of irrelevance" trap here, for a General Purpose Technology like CPUs? When will the market for raw computation be satiated, when will Google have bought "enough" compute motherboards and will then only be replacing the ones that die?
"The flotilla refused to be boarded and inspected by the IDF." er source? because the people on the flotilla are saying they had no problem with inspections. It seems you're justifying the murder of civilians in international waters.
In which we learn what North Korea may really be up to, Marla catches Carl in the act, and Frank experiences an inspirational moment in a blizzard.
There is one other commonality amongst "deniers" that NewScientist missed, and it's one that's especially prevalent on sites like HackerNews and Reddit. Let's call it "transference of expertise".

That is, you get a group of self-described experts together, and then ask them to critically analyze some aspect of a field in which they have no expertise at all, and they'll attempt to apply their expertise in the unrelated field.

For example, "I am a programmer, so I understand systems, and everything is a system..." Well, yes, but only in the most superfluous way: that a "system" is a network of causes and effects. Otherwise, programming has very little to do with, say, quantum mechanics, or with global ecology.

This even happens between sub-fields of expertise; I happen to personally know more physicists than the average person, and they have the same tendency to try to apply their expertise in one particular sub-field of physics to some other field in which they have no specific knowledge.

For yet another example, there's Zed Shaw's "Programmers need to learn statistics or I will fucking kill them" article from sometime back. There you have a field that is only slightly mathematical in nature, and because of that, many of the people with enough expertise in it believe that they know "enough" math. Except, they don't.

It seems to be terribly hard for someone who is an expert at anything to admit that they aren't an expert at everything.
I had to laugh when you mentioned the press the button to start over behavior. For years I've known people who still do that to their PCs. Rather than belittle those users, I've always wondered why so obvious a behavior wasn't built in at the OS level. When I suggest such things at programmer's gatherings I end up getting "the look" from everyone...
Definitely makes life easier in remote teams - I'm working on a project with team members in Aus, UK, US, and Canada and Dropbox works excellently.

We're currently trialling it for corporate templates (Coaching Programs, Project Documents etc). Point their MS Office to a Dropbox folder, and every coach in the world will have the latest templates all of the time.

We would benefit from some permission levels (read, no write etc) to make sharing less of a risk for a bigger team, however. While it can be unwound, one person accidentally changing a template could go unnoticed.
Why not simply have two CSS files? One would show the links in the same style as the main text, one would show the links so they can be explored.

A simple button next to each post and you could choose depending on your wants.

(Note: I am not a 1337 haX0r, so I could also be very dumb.)
It's a very common timing scheme in video. It just makes sense to count frames from the seconds than fractions of a second (that would be a pain to translate into frames).
Thanks for the wealth of information with which to undo my supposed ignorance...

I never said its a choice anyway, just that behaviour can cause it... whether its intentional or not is another story, and I'm not going to claim that all depression is not physiological - I'm sure there are real hormonal/neurological problems which lead to depression. My personal experience however is that change in behaviour solved my own depression... so in at least one case it is true. My doctor prescribed me pills and his attitude towards it was unhelpful, despite being very sympathetic and supportive - a good slap round the face about my attitude would have been much more effective.

I should probably add that I'm pretty fat, bordering on obese perhaps, but I don't consciously over eat...
Sorry if this is off topic, but am just curious -- what does a "good bible program" involve? Surely the Bible is available via some kind of Kindle/iBook thing?
Why go forth with these "futuristic" means of optimizing/compressing current formats, when these said, current formats will with all likeliness be abandoned soon enough in favor of something better? It appears as if this company's business idea is entirely redundant. After all, shedding the past in favor of the future is the exact history of all we've done in computing since... since... since before dinosaurs died.

I fail to see the point of this in the light of a much smarter idea: keep this approach in mind when developing new formats. Maybe I'm just not thinking outside the "boxeola" enough here... (or maybe I am?)
1. No it's not. It's mediocre at best. See my previous post.

2. No you can't, not anymore than you can reuse Java code between client and server with GWT. The difference between a browser and a client environment is just so great. NaCl will hopefully provide a way to bridge that gap, but that will work for every language, not just Javascript.

3. PyPy is starting to catch up to v8. This point is irrelevant for the AppEngine, by the way. I doubt Rhino is any faster than Jython.

4. Ever heard of Jython?

5. Ever heard of Jython?

Certain languages get way over-hyped on HN, and Javascript is one of them.
That sounds like a good proposal on a definition of intelligence, but it doesn't tell you why someone would be good at predicting something, which is what my point was: that when you try to claim that any one thing is the reason for someone's ability to, in this case, predict something, you're ignoring the multitudes of other reasons that are all interrelated.
it sounds like you're talking about authentication? imho nailing down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_protocol can be fairly tricky
I think it looks ok, but I would change a couple of things here and there, in the content and in the display. I would be willing to help/test/advise, but I don't see here as the best place to have this type of talk.
I think wanting to install .NET and IIS is worthy of a WTF. You are installing a database server, not a website. If you want to install a web front-end to the server, you should run its own installer (and, probably, not run it on the same box as the db server itself)

The less you install on the database box, the less stuff you have to upgrade, the less exposure to security critical bugs you have and the less downtime for upgrading you will get.

Mandating .NET framework and IIS is just dumb.
I saw Alexander Osterwalder (author of Business Model Generation) speak at a TEDx event here in Stockholm and I liked his ideas. This looks nice, and I look forward to using it.

Thanks!

[EDIT: Alexander Osterwalder, not Steve Blank...]
For Microsoft, certainly. I wouldn't accept them ;-)
I remember someone mentioning it had to do with accessibility. I can't remember if it was an official reason though.
The world is transformed, and has been in the throes of a major transformation for, what, 20 years? 30 years? 50... Read a little history or talk to your grand parents or parents. Old newspapers on microfilm (or online!) are another clue. Anyone interested in media, communications, and data processing needs to know this stuff.

(I may be a little extra aware of this: my father was born in 1916, my grandfather was born in 1860, and my great grandfather (on my father's mother side) was born in 1795. All left significant documents about their life. And of course my father's still talking...)