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>Such a clause seems to indicate that you would prefer that your code be incorporated into a proprietary project to it being incorporated into another open-source project. Is this the case?

Nope. Please don't put words in my mouth either, thank you.

>If not, why adopt a license that is incredibly hostile to the free-software folks

Spare me. It's hostile to GPL/affero, not to open source in general.

>allows people to incorporate it into proprietary projects freely?

You know this whole web thing we've been doing, where we can take any javascript library we like and use it in professional / day-to-day work?

Yeah, that. I'd kind of like to preserve the usefulness of code for actual work.

Pardon me for having a day job.

>If so, why open source it at all?

Because I want to preserve peoples' right to do anything they want with it. The only way to ensure that is to make certain a GPL fork never happens.

GNUists thought they were being cute with copyleft, claiming it was preserving 'user rights' by using the same tactics as traditional copyright.

It was a perversion that preempted peoples' ability to use any of the code in their actual day to day work, thereby enslaving them to same proprietary code all over again.

Then, the Javascript and other universal web exchanges of code start occurring and BSD takes off because people want to actually use the code, not toy with it on the weekend.

http://jquery.org/license

jQuery's status as an MIT licensed project is pretty much exemplary of what I'm trying to encourage.

Are you then to claim that jQuery is hostile to open source because it'll allow proprietary projects to make use of it?
I bet Apple would try to embed Ruby ;)
I don't normally like Apple, but I like their attitude here. Why should they wear certain clothes to a meeting with AT&T? Who cares what AT&T thinks of Apple!? If AT&T passes on Apple, Verizon or Sprint or T-Mobile would pick them up in a heartbeat. The only reason AT&T is still in business is because of Apple. Fuck wearing a suit!

I'm shocked to hear that AT&T is not showering Apple's execs with expensive champagne and corporate jets every chance they get!
Wait, seriously, they didn't give you a kindle?

Email them back and tell them to send you a kindle when they get serious. In fact, one of each model for testing.

I have no idea what your app does, but they are going to be, if not already, way more androids in the world than kindles.
I agree with you that Apple could not really have feasibly avoided releasing iOS4 on the 3G/3GS, but the author makes a fair point that they do own the whole stack, and either didn't test performance or didn't care enough to tell people that it would perform slower on older hardware. It's not like iOS 4 on 3GS hardware was an unforeseen combination. From what I've seen from friends and on Youtube, the problem isn't minute, either - it's a drastically worse experience. It seems like something like that should have been caught.
The position of the laws being used in this way should be terrifying to you, however. This was waiting in line at an ice cream station, it's been made into a highway at rush hour with automated turrets and trigger-happy assault-rifle-wielding idiots patrolling.
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First off, I am so sorry for your experience that sounds completely terrible.

Second, was there nothing your lawyer could do, such as file an injunction against the DCF? Is there any way you can be compensated (in any way) for your experience? If there was would you take it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Sa...

I always believed that driving on the left-hand side was safer because, a majority of the world's population is right handed. So, you want your good hand on the wheel, when you are changing the radio or using your stick-shift.

Other than for legacy reasons, right hand driving is harder than left hand. The easiest way to illustrate this is to learn to drive the stick-shift: it is easier on a left hand drive car (with your left hand on the stick-shift) rather than a right hand drive car
I wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It seems that Android has Apple rushing to deliver products that are not up to their usual standards. They've had problems before but this seems much more systemic.
Dear god, this, yes.
I read this story, and it's very sad. But I just feel the need to ask... why is this on Hacker News? Surely this is Reddit type content?

I read loads of really interesting and eye-opening posts about all sorts of non-tech subjects... but I don't feel they should be on Hacker News to the detriment of other tech stories that could be on the front page.
You're so right! Let's drop our phones, iPhone apps, and run off to sell Android applications where the soil is fertile and customers just don't know what to do with all of their cash.
It's a bit self-centered, but seems to capture a mood all the same. I'm struck by the contrast between the fevered increase of AAPL prior to the launch and the resigned decline in its price since then. It's rather a shame that all the genuine effort and progress that went into their latest device has been overshadowed by this antenna issue, but so it goes. I'm reminded of the G4 Cube.
Of the devices that have accessed the Marketplace, about 55% run 2.1: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...

I have no idea how many of those devices shipped with 1.x and were upgraded, or shipped with 2.1 installed.
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That's an interesting take and observation. It makes it seem as though the reality distortion field has actually failed in this case.

I say so because, from my perspective (as a barely interested outside observer), the iPhone 4 has nearly doubled the dropped call rate over a phone that already had a really bad reputation for dropped calls. I've heard the argument that that reputation is at least partly due to AT&Ts network, and that may be an entirely valid argument, though not a useful one since AT&T is the only option in the US, so iPhone+AT&T is the user experience you're going to get, and that seemingly includes a lot of dropped calls.

So, in short, from my limited view of the situation it looks like a reasonably serious problem that is going to go uncorrected. And, it looks like an arrogant response from a man who is making tons of money selling what seems to me to be a flawed product. If it actually isn't a serious problem, then I've gotten an unfairly negative view of things from the tech media...which is extremely rare for an Apple product. And kinda funny.
It is deeply terrifying that we should not just self-censor completely innocent acts, but that you think it should be second nature to any "reasonable, non-naive person".

Avoiding completely normal behaviour because of a fear of constant surveillance and being turned in by those around you? This does not strike you as completely f*cked up?
Yup, that's what abstraction does for you. The less policy the caller has to implicitly understand, the more flexibility you have in the underlying representation, and the less code you have to write.
Not at all. I have reasonably high standards for scholars.

This is not about you. It's about the definition in the dictionary. It has as a primary entry for scholar "a distinguished academic".

The definition for "professor" from Wikipedia:

The meaning of the word professor (Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science, teacher of high rank[1]) varies by country. In most English-speaking countries it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair ... etc.

I don't know how you equate "Senior Lecturers regarded as professors" by a university to a 6th grade history teacher who may also be the school gym teacher filling in. That's stretching things a bit.
This kind of story is indicting of our culture.

Outside the US nudity is not so taboo. In my daughter's kindergarten (a nice private school in Southeast Asia) boys and girls share the same bathroom, with no private stalls, and no door on the entrance. Everyone sees everything -- passers-by included. Meanwhile, in the US, nudity is synonymous with sex, and good people have to worry about things like this.
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And that was such cosy begining, with 6502 and a garage....
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Why is it that iPhone fanbois have such trouble understanding metaphors? I chose the word bloatware to imply that trusting the provider was not the best option; sure, carrier ROMs might not support Android 2.2, but what's so good about carrier ROMs anyway. I chose the git example as contrast -- it's the opposite of carrier intervention; it's a guy in his house, talking to nobody, making and Android 2.2 build for his own phone.

In the real world, the perfect balance lies somewhere between the two. For every Android phone I have owned, there is always a middle ground. On one side, is the carrier ROM with their ads removed. On the other side, is a community-supported open-source build, like Cyanogen Mod. These are the sort of possibilities alluded to by my posts, without worrying the reader about concrete problems (like how the first is copyright infringement, and the second can be unstable).

Oh well, next time I will just write a computer program to unambiguously represent the set of possible meanings, so nobody will have to do any thinking on their own.
Strange, might have been the reality distortion field, but as I watched the press conference I though to myself at several occasions "yeah, this will shut the nay-sayers up."

I thought they made a pretty strong case with the data they presented. I myself have never had a dropped call with the iPhone because of the reception issue -- believe me, I have tried. However, the not-so-sensitive proximity sensor has, on several occasions, caused me to inadvertently press the "End call" button with my cheek.
I don't have iPhone 4, and can't say much how is the performance. But according to my experience, it's software issue (memory management). After upgrading my 3GS to iOS, my daily task is to kill all apps in the multitasking bar when it feel sluggish. I can check from iMemGraph, the free memory is increased substantially.
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>Wait until some enterprising district attorney confiscates your hard drive, surmises you frequent HN, subpoenas your voting history from pg, finds this thread and examines which anti-governement/pro-common-sense comments you up voted.

But don't worry, because the web is the future of computing and one day all our information will be stored in giant central databases outside of our control. Isn't the cloud great?

(And by the way, "common sense" is not always the same thing as "good sense".)
> there is someone out there who really thought that trying to bring the case was a good idea.

Really? Sounds more like there's some cynical jerk with no sense of ethics or boundaries who gets their jollies by randomly victimizing normal families with the excessive powers bestowed upon them by paranoid CYA legislation and an army of deranged ideologues who see abuse everywhere.
Thank god for digital cameras. I've avoided film since that Robin Williams movie about the crazy at the 1-hour place.
that we need a subscription to Wall Street Journal?
Right about what? All I did was to ask a question. Take it easy. I'm asking this question as an iPhone developer.
I half expect these stories to end with:

"He loved Big Brother."

We use "Orwellian" a little too loosely but for the victims of this, it seems almost that bad.
They switched the other way in Samoa just last year:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/20099...
Message: AT&T expects to solve user experience problems by removing or restricting features, and this is a bad thing.

This is of course in contrast to Apple's usual product design approach, which is to solve user experience problems by removing or restricting features?
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Yes, I completely agree with the naivity aspect.

As I read this I thought to myself "if you've bought a disposable camera that will need to be professionally developed why are you taking naked photos of your children?". Use a digital camera or skip the nakedness.

It's like me (a pasty faced white geek) taking my sports car out for a cruise around Bay Shore and Hunters Point here in San Francisco (big crime, gang and drug activity). Sure there is nothing illegal for going for a drive in any part of the city, but I'm going to get stopped by a police cruiser on the suspicion of looking to score drugs or prostitutes.

Even if I'm not doing anything illegal whatsoever, it's naive to think it isn't going to raise suspicion and investigation.
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Japan has parts that are left side and other parts are right side.

Saint Thomas VI is all left side driving but all the cars have the driver on the left. As someone said at the rental place, it's so "you can talk to people on the sidewalk!"
We're shaping a society that's cynical and distrustful, and it starts with reasonable people associating behavior like this with phrases like "they should have known better".

The problem is that the cynicism and distrustfulness is directed toward the wrong things. There should be more cynicism toward the busybodies and the wolf-criers. We need more innocent until proven guilty, which means not hassling people just to find something, anything to support a case against them.
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Sounds like the system worked. She was accused of a crime, an investigation was performed, the state realized they had no case and that nothing was wrong, and the charges were dropped.

I guess it's kind of a pain to be the target of an investigation, but nobody's life was ruined.
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How about on a Sony eReader touch? You're saying they have plans for that as well?
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I'm right there with you. At this point, my DODOCase is the prettiest waste of $60 that I've made since I took a cute brunette out for an astonishingly unremarkable day way back in college!
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There is a certain amount of cognitive dissonance evident here.

The whole point of favouring the BSD license over the GPL is that you don't care how people license the code that they incorporate your code into. It makes no sense at all to be happy with someone "stealing" BSD code and putting it into a closed-source product, but not be happy with them putting it into a GPL-licensed product.
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You could use data entry workers to go out and get questions and answer about the city from various sources. Perhaps hire 1 to find questions and another to look for the answers that the first one posts.
The Kindle DRM is pretty easy to strip off. Then you have a mobipocket ebook that can be easily converted to epub, pdf, etc.
I'm in pretty much the same situation as you, fast-forwarded a few weeks. However, I decided to take the plunge into learning iPhone development. Once you start playing with it, you'll realize why the iPhone is such a compelling platform and such a hit in the mobile apps space. Apple made it really hard for anyone to build a crappy experience.

Tangentially, I'm not really enjoying the learning experience since going through the book (the grapefruit book) is pretty much the same as doing a bunch of tutorials. I still don't feel like I understand the overall architecture of an iPhone app and how the various pieces connect. Anyone have good book recommendations?
There's no end to the whining. It's either:

1. Apple didn't put feature X into its product.

or

2. Apple put feature X into its product.

Either way, the same group of people end up crying.
And I'm sure these same people are also complaining about the lack of iOS 4 support on the original iPhone. These same people probably also complained about lack of video recording in the iPhone 3G. In all cases, jailbroken phones have shown that these features simply don't perform on the lower end models.

It seemed like the original author spent an unseemly amount of time complaining about the performance of the iPhone 3G when running iOS 3 and iOS 4. Not to defend Apple, but before the iPhone, you had to buy an entirely new phone in order to get the latest OS. I think it's incredibly impressive that I can "upgrade" the iOS on my phone to a new whole number release. Twice! Even if it doesn't, my phone isn't gonna magically stop working because iPhone 5 or 6 comes out. I don't HAVE to buy a new iPhone just because Apple calls it magical.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle: "Someone who really doesn't understand what his job is does some work in an attempt to get a promotion."
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As an Android user I'd say no. No company can consistently outdo its own hype, let alone Apple; while the new phone/OS has proved anticlimactic (especially after the great launch of the iPad), it's hardly a disaster. The only end I see is to their having the smartphone market largely to themselves. They'll lose a bit of market share over the next year, between increased competition and an indifferent response to the new iPhone.

The biggest challenge I see in the immediate term is how to differentiate their next offering from the competition. Of course they can further reduce size and weight, but this is an area of diminishing returns. The current generation of smartphones are not much more bulky than a wallet, which is Small Enough for most people. Speed is kind of limited by the quality of the carrier, so I think the next gen fight will be all about battery life.
Hacker News AKA anti-apple-circle-jerk. Seriously. Stop beating the long dead anti-apple horse, it's starting to smell like reddit.
(at best they were all "just doing their jobs", just like concentration camp
guards)

Quoted for truth. This is not an invocation of Godwin's law, but the closest possible analogy, as these bureaucrats make the exact same repugnant decisions someone like Eichmann made. They fully well know they ruin the lives of many innocent folks; at least half the cases turn out to have been nothing. The problem is not 'the government' or 'society'. The problem is our neighbors: citizens like you and me, not realizing they have to question what they do in the light of each individual situation, not thinking for themselves or not having the moral fiber to act according to those thoughts.

These horror stories are not solely an American problem: there are plenty of similar European stories. However, the American stories are by far more extreme, as both the punishment and the immediate social consequences are worse. Not only the bureaucrats are like concentration camp guards: the teachers that immediately distrust you and the neighbors that won't let their kid play with yours anymore are equally guilty of 'guilty until proven innocent'.
There are photos of my parents, sister and I when we were little on a beach in the middle of nowhere all in our Birthday suits. Living in a desert environment for the first half of my childhood meant my sibling and I viewed clothing as very much optional.

Nudity isn't inherently sexual, culturally we have made it so.
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America has one of the absurdly strictest set of laws for sex offenses against minors

no sane politician would ever propose a relaxation in these laws

So what did the other countries, that have less-strict laws, do?

(I agree that Americans are very afraid of anything sexual, but I'm not sure how this happened. Not everyone is a Puritan.)
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Sometimes I like stuff like Gas, Deep Chord or Basic Channel (dubby techno) others Post Rock that's been mentioned, but usually like very calm loopy atmospheric stuff like Harold Budd, William Basinski, Tim Hecker, Ryan Teague, the pop ambient series.

I can't listen to anything with words.
Yeah Lua bucks the trend. Maybe it's just a matter of the experience and skill of the team and not the number of man-hours dumped into it?

Maybe it's a little bit like writing graphics drivers, just one of those things that only a small handful of people can really do well.
If you haven't been, and you're in the bay area, you really should go here. Sure, the nostalgia is wonderful, but they take their work seriously. Last time I went I was talking with one of the docents about an effort they were taking to get the original Unix v1.0 source collected and compiling.
Initially I wondered why MacPaint wasn't written in C, but I'm rather grateful it's in Pascal; it's surprisingly easy to read! Although, I suppose Bill Atkinson deserves the credit for that.
Cyberspace: I'd purchase the last 20 songs I bookmarked on Pandora.com.

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Installing iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G made me think back to when I upgraded to Windows XP in 2001. The computer was top of the line when I bought it just 2 years prior, but XP was a total dog on it.

However, a 2 year old PC would run Windows 7 just fine when it came out. It seems like there was a tipping point where PCs became overpowered relative to what most people ask of them. As a result they have more staying power in the face of software updates.

It doesn't look like we've hit that point with smartphones yet, but I wonder when we will...
If you feel so strongly about Facebook's "agreement", perhaps you shouldn't use Facebook.
ESR's got a new post up http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122 about what he calls "Kafkatrapping", making unfalsifiable claims against people as a form of "moral" bullying.
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- Wifi or bluetooth tethering.

Bluetooth tethering is already there (it was available in iPhone OS 3 too).
Lots of hackers are parents. Where else can a discussion of parenting issues from a hacker perspective happen? Or law, for that matter? Just because the OP isn't specifically about tech doesn't mean that there is no value in a hacker-specific conversation.
Seconded. The docents are, IMO, the most amazing thing about the museum. Incredibly knowledgeable, many of them were involved in making the machines on display. It's a truly wonderful place made more wonderful by the people who are involved.
This isn't actually a problem with the 3G being underpowered. Something is buggy with the 3G build.