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I think an Apple purchase would be cool. Lay off just about everyone at Sun that's not directly related to Solaris or the engineering on the boxes, and then make it Apple's Enterprise brand. Probably the worst idea in the history of commerce, but I like it.
Perhaps the big difference between Google now and Yahoo then is: Google has more cash than they know what to do with. They aren't "taking a gamble" on some new markets, think of it more like VC. As long as they monetize a couple things in a pile of ideas, they win.

I think they do a pretty good job of keeping it from diluting their brand, too. Somewhere after GMail and Google docs, they stopped branding stuff outside their search business with a big bright Google logo -- rather, most things keep their own brands (YouTube, Lively, Orkut, etc.) even thought they are Google companies. As a result, if I ask my mom, "What's Google for?" She'll say, "Looking stuff up on the internet."
that free runner neo phone is ugly and obviously far far from being market ready, sorry fsf but your alternative looks lame.
The article didn't give the direct response but quoted another speaker at the conference who said "Over the past 50 years, we've lowered the bar for what we consider AI," -Stephan Nusser, senior manager of the User-Focused Systems research group.
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> The iPhone does not completely block free software. Last time I checked, there was free software available in the App Store. Developers are welcome to release their code I presume.

Yes, there is software in the AppStore that is gratis, and developers can of course share their code. However, I can't recompile it and run it on my iPhone right away without it being distributed through the AppStore. Will Apple reject applications that have only minor tweaks? What if the modifications I want to make are not changes that the original developer wants and they are unwilling to merge them? Where does that leave me? Not with Free Software as it fails to meet the requirements.
Peace! Peace! All of us...

Let's stop here with a smile.

Anyway... Back to the topic. The news thing...

Just a couple of days back I read about SocialBrowse here. The idea was cool(it did sound to me like a live and interactive version of Hacker News). It would be interesting if Yahoo tries to deliver headlines that way... like a popup on my taskbar whenever a 'friend' of mine likes a news headline. I mentioned friend in quotes because I mean in terms of the 'followers', like in twitter. I can then follow the person if I like the news he/she reads.
DRM makes it a no-go for me. I'd love to use an eBook reader but the current lock-in strategy from the major vendors is a huge turn-off.
It's kind of tough to succeed when your workers (with the same skills) get paid 2-3x what competing car companies pay. Profit margins are just as important to a company's success as demand. See Internet math of the late 90's for a perfect example of what 1000000 * 0 equals.
The early reviews I've read seem to indicate that you will need to do that authorization. See:

http://gizmodo.com/5014732/3g-iphone-first-hands-on

"I noticed that the iPhone asked me for permission to give both the maps program and the camera app permission to use my location."
right to read.

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/19/the-future-of-re...

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Actually, I kind of like "thinly described". :)
Booklights are so awkward. Some sort of integrated lighting solution so I can read while curled up under the covers would be great.
GM didn't buy their own SUV's, Americans did. So while we're all quick to blame GM for cashing in on SUV's we all did the dance with GM in the 90's which got them drunk with success and profit.

That being said (and to counter my own point), the first Toyota Prius came out in 1997, and I don't think I need to tell everyone what gas cost then.
Well said.

But is our financial system worth saving?

Here's a way to make sure it doesn't happen again: don't let it happen this time.

Get on the phone to your congresspeople NOW, and don't stop pestering them until they pass law barring the fed from nationalize the GSEs. Fannie and Freddie do have some ability to put back fraudulent securities, so let them do so and make the banks take their medicine.

We're already in a housing depression. Prices will to go back to normal (~3x incomes) regardless of who we bail out. Nationalizing this crap is another misstep that will lead to a long and painful depression, partly because the borrowing costs for the US government have the potential to go through the roof. The government and taxpayers need to save themselves right now, or things could (will?) get much worse.

If the government protects itself and keeps it's own borrowing costs low, then there is a framework to supply new banks with credit. If not, well...
Profit margins are just as important to a company's success as demand.

On what planet?

Wanna buy a buggy whip, a cassette player, or a 5.25" floppy disk drive? All marked up 100%, but still good prices.
It's absolutely the right playground 'game theory' to save the world. The article seems pretty weak with regards conclusions and real observations. Indeed the answers are much further in.

The first observation I would make is that 'diverse' is a missleading or very loose term, actually I believe you can seperate people into about 12 archetypes and 3 sub groups.

The 2 most interesting of the 12 would be the supreme achievers and the tyrannical controllers. Then the 3 subgroups could be summarized as follows: 80% rabbits, 10% rogues, 10% rebels.

Understanding the general nature of 'diverse' groups helps to get a better understanding of how symbiosis is achieved (where game theory is on display at its most elegant).

Richard Dawkings and JMS both strong believers of the 'Evolutionary stable strategy' and this again is a concept that lends much insight into the nature of how complex game theory leads us to symbiosis. (When I say symbiosis I am really talking about a stable and healthy society.)

The main player in this game which is most interesting and has been emulated by Google is Paul Erdos and the concept of the Erdos number, more widely known as the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Once one understands this concept and the nature of a linked network, or a scale free network then it starts to come together.

The main tenets of survival past these emending disasters are relatively simple but will be intolerable to many who currently exploit man and nature for their own gain.

Essentially, understanding game theory and the above other aspects of this 'game' then one can only come to one conclusion, that is that the only game that we can play to get us to a point of stability is 'Nice'. Nice = playing fairly and not exploiting the opponents. As opposed to 'Nasty' cheating to get ahead. Of course a really strong legal system would be needed to be built.

To boil it down to simple bullet points: The following would need to be adopted in order to create the symbiosis that I have referred too:

A) A new legal system built from the ground up, (not the top down) that stated as its main most fundamental laws:
1) thou shall not levy distress upon another/nature in order to achieve success.
2) thou shall not exploit another's distress.

B) a new monetary system that served as a loans / tax / fines / benefits system.

c) a new political system whereby there is no central leaders (no central inland revenue) that dictate according to being granted power based on 'democracy' or trust, rather a sort of stock market for leaders whereby voters had constant ability to change allegiance and are not subject to fixed term contracts of 5 years etc.

These are basic tenets that are needed to achieve an economic stable society and are perfectly possible to implement, of corse in practice there are many powerful players who are too busy exploiting people and the planet who would fight vigorously to avoid such a system.
I'm thinking about starting a subscriber's only website optimized for the iPhone that just shows a blank [white] web page. Why share revenue with Apple on this hot market vertical?

But yea, you're right about underwhelming. I was surprised. I guess I shouldn't have been since half the apps they demoed at the keynote really should have been web pages (MLB, eBay, AP, TypePad, etc). What really surprised me is the UI of a lot of these apps. You can give a developer Interface Builder, but you can't make him a designer.
This article should be written about Chrysler, which many believe are in worse shape than the other "big 2". The bankruptcy watch for me goes like this; Chrysler, Ford then GM.
Doesn't Microsoft Windows kind of do this? You can optionally use these "certified drivers" and software from big vendors, but there are always the long tail of apps, widgets, bleeding edge drivers, smiley faces etc, that people will always download and spoil the user experience.

Point is, it doesn't work for Microsoft. It's a slippery slope, once you open your platform to anyone (which is great), you'll have a nightmare of support.

I agree, the optional policy works fine for power users. I know many geeks who use Vista with no problem because they use the "certified" software.
Hmm, an article about LISP on the JVM that doesn't mention Clojure...

Clojure is awesome, LISP + JAVA-libraries + JVM -> portability
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4 - The present is the best time to enjoy life. You may become a millionaire, but all that money will not buy you more healthy time alive.

Incorrect. A huge fraction of medical expenses are from the last few months of life. That money will keep you alive. It's probably not worth staying alive at that point, of course.

I also think it's a little sad that you're so ambitious, but you've given up on living forever. Accepting even a small chance of not-dying, or of living for 200 years, can radically change some of the calculations you might make.
Damn, beat me to it. That was a hell of a punch line, too.

True pioneer FTW!
Which is long for "not much, but it sounds good".

Maybe they can tack an '-omics' on to the end of it somehow.
From looking at those graphs, I'll take Cancer. What did Cobain/Young say? "It's better to burn out than fade away"
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"So while the unions are certainly a big part of the problem, the responsibility is ultimately with management. It is ALWAYS management's fault."

That is silly. The capital markets are structured in a way that incentivizes short term returns to the detriment of long term growth. Everyone saw this coming. No one cared.

Whether this is a bad thing or a tolerable thing is an open question. What are the consequences of the death of the American auto industry? The management, employees and investors thrived for decades after this deal was made. It was not secret, so investors were able to price auto industry assets fairly over time. Now, pensioners effectively own a good chunk of the company so they will do just fine. There are no big losers.

Except the people of Detroit. The people of Detroit suffered to be sure. It may have been wise for the City of Detroit to acquire a sizable fraction of the companies so it could have a voice in long term planning. It may also have been wise for the city to actively encourage diversification.

It is not reasonable to expect leading companies to retain their position for centuries. Companies are simply machines that output wealth from humans and material. Machines, as a rule, grow obsolete.
It does mention it though, but only briefly (in a 'it's in early beta but looks awesome so keep an eye for once it stabilizes more sort of way)
This matches my reaction too.

To elaborate a little, I don't see any attempts at other markets as a bad sign from google or as behaving yahoo-like as long as they stick to their core principles of simplicity for everyone, including the power users.
Alternate title: "Internet poll won by people who care about internet polls"

I thought we figured this out when Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf won the People Magazine Most Beautiful Person award.
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Remember that 'Black Swan' article from a few days ago?

Minimize your downside extremal risk exposure, and maximize your upside extremal risk exposure (20%, Lively, etc.)?

Well, the writer of this piece apparently didn't. The instant any of these things starts draining resources directly from their core business, then GOOG investors can start panicking. Meanwhile, the GOOG seems to have taken the lessons of the market to heart. Not unlike YCombinator -- lots of little dollops of money into little baskets, most of which will never be seen again, but a handful of which can generate such absurd upside that the foregone dollops are but an afterthought. Google seems to get this.

You'd think their entire business was originally based on probable inference, or something...
Thank you.

I like hearing what the people on this site have to say about those types of issues and if they hold any relation to your businesses and strategies, even if they are 'off-topic'.
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Ning is not a social network.

I believe there is value in being able to create your own social network. I mean ning is in use from several 'not-so-large-but-big' brands such as Singer Natasha Bedingfield [http://www.natashabedingfieldusa.com/], Rawkus records [http://my.rawkus.com/] and even Good Charlotte [http://goodcharlotte.com/]

I personally use Ning to spawn my own social networks, and since it is fairly easy to use it's rss feeds as a form of Content Management I see it's value.

Also, I recall seeing Gina Bianchini on the cover of Fast Company Magazine [http://www.beashowhosttips.com/ginafc.jpg], not Marc.
They could call the combined company Snapple.
But Brooks changed his mind about it because it was assumed that the project would use the flawed waterfall process. So if you're using the right process, you can iterate and move back and forth between different stages (i.e. testing, specification design) easily, thus eliminating the need for re-writing from scratch.
ITunes activation servers down - iPhones stuck half way through update.
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Interesting, what would those calculations be?
I have you beat. Updating my iPhone to the 2.0 software bricked not only my iPhone, but my laptop. After attempting to apply the update I got an error that said "battery is not charging" and now my battery is permanently stuck at 3%. What's more, I didn't know the problems were due to problems with the activation servers so I did a factory restore of my phone. Now I risk losing all my notes and map locations if there is some problem with restoring the data.

To anyone with the original iPhone: Don't update! Since the problem is with the activation server and not the software, the probability of your phone being bricked is 100%. (You need to reactivate your phone before it will work again.)
You're right, the definition of free software they use makes things very sticky. But while there might be restrictions on what applications can be made, Apple hasn't said they will restrict free versions of other people's software. I mean, sure, you can't probably get Firefox on your iphone, but if people wanted to get together and create a free version of an application that someone else is selling, sort of like Open Office vs. MS word, I don't see that being shot down. The author implied that would never be allowed, but I don't see why not.

He is correct though, and I acknowledge, that Apple is a closed system. There probably won't be more than one web browser on the iPhone, or more than one music player. Some applications there won't be open source or free versions of. But as many people have said, they are perfectly fine with that. If you want to play OGG files, buy a different phone.

I think what the author fails to note is that its unlikely there will ever be a completely closed industry again. Apple may not allow some free apps, but someone else will. Gone are the days where every choice in an industry was closed or propriety. So what I say to him is, if you don't like Apple's system, don't buy it. Buy the phone that's better.
Rumors abound that some stores are just going with the #suckit approach and handing over the phones sans activation. Maybe this whole forcing to an in-store activation was a poorly-thought-out plan?
Do you really think downloading from the App Store is the only way to get software onto the phone? If you want load recompiled software, you need the SDK. But then, you need the SDK to recompile the software in the first place, so it's not much of a burden.
"I'm going to live forever or die trying."
I'm curious, what was horrible about it?
At least me.com is finally up.

Glad I manually updated my 1G iPhone yesterday with 2.0 software. The software update simply rocks - THIS IS WHAT THE IPHONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN 1 YEAR AGO. Feels like a brand new phone now (save for the scratched chrome, scuffed back and dingy USB cable). Plus, my AT&T bill is cheaper than all the folks going through the pain of activation today, if they activate at all. But hey, who gets the iPhone for it's phone capabilities, anyway?
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Game theory could destroy the world
To me Google has the core search and advertising down stat. They have that monopoly and will do anything to keep it.

But like someone said they have so much cash and so many employees they can afford to get into every single market on the web. If it succeeds? Great, more money to the bottom line. If it fails? Oh well, we only lost .000001% of our resources trying for it.

And if its really a business they want to get into, one where they'll get a lot of pageviews for their ads, they'll just buy up the competition. Because they can afford to pay 100 million without really flinching.
Remember people, game theory is a model, and "all model's are wrong, but some are useful".
If you expect to die, things like crossing the street, eating unhealthy food, doing drugs, etc., are just going to affect the timing. But if you think there's a chance you won't die, you can think of these things as slightly killing yourself, instead of changing the date of your death. So it makes you more conservative.

But it also makes you more optimistic! Someone who admits to maybe living for a very long time will probably want to invest a lot in having multiple possible careers, not to mention lots of money saved up. This basically amounts to maximizing positive surprises (you can take advantage of more career and investment opportunities) and minimizing negative surprises (losing a job when you have a month's worth of savings is a crisis -- losing your job when you've saved forty years of expenses is a blip).
Anyone who follows auto news knows this is old ... news.

Autoblog.com is a good start for the uninitiated.
The servers went down intermittently last year too at iPhone 1.0 launch - it just wasn't compounded by AT&T trying to thwart unlockers by requiring in-store activation. Kicking myself for not updating yesterday.
I'm fairly young, so hopefully they'll be solutions by the time I get old.

Lets face it, we are in an exponential technological curve, go back 100 years, and probably 90% of stuff in your house didn't even exist back then.

Then take into account that people want to live forever. So hopefully in the next 100 years(I'm 20 now, but chances are the current generation will most likely live to be 150), we'll develop something that can either rejuvenate us, or store our memories, or cloning.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=GM

Revenue (ttm):	180.41B

180 Billion dollars revenue suggests to me that they already understand the basics of the auto industry.
Yes - low gravity and joints definitely sounds like fun.

:-)
Yes. And your idea is neat indeed.
Is it really that different from anywhere else? Female CEOs are pretty rare everywhere, no matter what field. And they have the disadvantage that, most girls don't grow up to want to be CEOs of computer companies, they grow up wanting to be CEOs of fashion magazines
alltop is good, but the problem is it messes up with lots of feeds.. so finally its difficult to get good contents out of it.. i still love smashingfeeds.com as it has limited quality blogs.
I managed to download the PDF... maybe the site is having problems? Anyway, you can get it from:

http://rapidshare.com/files/128927834/nature06940.pdf.html
Mars waits.
It's not different from Apple's usual way of business. Look at their control of apple hardware and the software that controls the hardware. Things "just work", to quote almost everyone, with apple because of their control. I am happy to elaborate if the comparison to their hardware business isn't sufficient.

I don't mind Apple's pursuit of control over their stuff because they have done little to convince me they can't be trusted with the power. On top of this, their control has led to a consistent and smooth experience with their products.

I must state that I'm not an iPhone developer. I speak as a happy consumer only.

I agree that I'm not upset by this.
Click on any other header in iTunes, then back to 'iPhone' to retry. I had to retry for about 30 mins, but now all is good in the world :)
Actaully, you can recompile it and run it on your iphone by getting the SDK and dev tools. How do you think that developers test their programs? I tell xcode to compile the app and if my phone is plugged in it automatically uploads it. The AdHoc distribution model (still be be enabled or explained in much detail) also suggests that you will be able to distribute your app to up to 100 other users.
AMD isn't headed under yet, but their Fusion core better kick some serious ass, similar to the release of the original Athlon64.

Also, some more good news for AMD:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/10/all-nvidia-8400m-8600m-ch...
You wouldn't happen to have better examples? These only reinforce his point -- which alternately worded is: "Demand is just as important to a company's success as profit margins".
"Spending on intensive care, which today comprises 30-40 percent of hospital costs, may go even higher as the population ages, according to a new Mayo Clinic study."

Here is a tough question. If the bulk of a person's lifetime medical costs are incurred in the literal last days of their life (ICU), is that right from a profit (HMO) or ethical (family, loved-ones) perspective?

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/inside.asp?AID=4088&...
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Only a minority of users need to have the inclination to hack their phone for all of them to benefit. Locking out Free Software is ultimately a short-sighted approach to releasing a new software platform.
I got greedy yesterday and manually installed the iPhone 2.0 update. It worked, but since I did it on my work computer (which I was not synced to) all of my data was wiped.

Luckily I had grabbed my photos before I tried that.
This just happened to me too. Though after the update it automatically did a factory restore... is that supposed to happen?

http://thestandard.com/news/2008/07/11/breaking-iphone-purch...

Apple totally blew it today.
> Surprisingly, just because it doesn't have GNU/ tacked on the front of it, a product can be innovative and interesting despite it not being Open Source.

Nobody thinks that only open source (or Free) software can be interesting or innovative. If you think that's the issue, you haven't been reading very carefully.

> I know this comes as a surprise to RMS and his FSF hippies.

Was that sentence really necessary?
I plan to live forever without dying. So far, so good!
Google have always said they had no interest in producing content themselves... some of those products are definitely reversals on that decision. That may be the right thing to do, but it's definitely a change.