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They actually have bird eye view on google maps now! I switched back :p
Someone needs to port this to OSX. This could enable a non-admin install of MacPorts on computers without XCode, which is impossible so far.
Between Canonical shipping unity and Redhat shipping gnome shell with gnome 3, it's going to to be a turbulent spring on the linux desktop. The screams of protest about the gnome shell are already strong on the F15 alpha forums. I've used both and I'm not sure they're so bad, but everything takes some getting used to for people. Then again, I use KDE and am very happy, 4.6 runs and looks great though I do use a dock.
Microsoft, the end of evolution?
One of the concepts that I think ultimately won't be successful is the single executive approving which projects get funded. Google may already do this, but I think a predictive market for choosing ideas might actually work better. Employees get a fixed amount of google dollars and can use them in a futures market to place bets on product ideas. As the products get more fleshed out the market can respond. These predictive markets have been really effective for internal projects but haven't gained a lot of buzz lately.
google tech talk without video = fail
Apple products don't need durability, since they release a new version of a product by the time the current generation is no longer new. Why would you want your ipad or iphone to last more than one year, when the new iphone or ipad will make you look obsolete ? Why cling to those past inferior versions ? Just buy the newest ones !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
I've been setting Firefox's minimum font size to 16 for the past couple of years, and my eyes are very grateful. The web is all about text, the sites whose layouts break when I set the fonts two points higher make me sick. There is no reason whatsoever why I should ever have to strain my eyes when using a computer.
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That is true. And Archos's own AppsLib just does not measure up, from a developer's viewpoint. I've got two apps that have gotten over 100 downloads each in the Market, and only 2 from AppsLib.
Not a bad article, but the layout of the article itself has some flaws (numbered lists are indented negatively, ...). I wouldn't normally complain about that, but I will in an article that tells us how to format text.
apt-get remove unity; apt-get install gnome

Done. What's the problem?
A good thing I am on the LTS release then. Unfortunately if they keep the main menu is separate from the window it belongs to (a huge break with the standard usability rule which says that things which belong together should be physically together) I will have to find a new distro.

It's the worst move Apple made, why did they copy that?
Well, I like change. I would even like Unity and I don't feel it's too much focused on on touch screen devices. After all, there are a lot of useful shortcuts. However, the article is right that Unity in its current state is far from being an improvement. It crashes very frequently and lacks important configuration options.

When those issues are fixed, I'll certainly use it.
Slightly more "enjoyable", yes. 3x no. As long as http://www.useit.com is worse I'm ok ;)

Changing color isn't a "necessary UI improvement".

I was just calling out your language. Saying "3x" and "necessary" when that's not what you mean.
> We don’t want to change our browser settings every time we visit a website!

We don't have to. Using Firefox or Chrome, I simply press Ctrl+ or Ctrl- to make the text bigger or smaller, and the browser remembers my settings for that site.
no, the Swedes
Wealth isn't a fixed pool of stuff. Me having more wealth isn't taking away from someone else.
Looks very nice! Why don't you host the code on github?
GNUStep also has garbage collection (albeit Boehm, not the same as the collector in OS X). Yes, it is missing from the language, but it doesn't make OS X special. And all that needs to come along is a version of GNUStep that fits in with the desktop environment on a platform before people start developing for it.
Sorry I don't speak latin? In any case, of course storage of waste has to factored into the cost? I don't see how it is relevant how easy it is to build a reactor. Guess what, it is even easier to start a fire, which produces a lot of energy, too.
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I wonder if this will get as much media attention as the original assertion ...
Better networking. It still baffles me that I can launch a FTP client and connect to my web server in a fraction of the time it takes Explorer to discover the other systems on my network. Even connectivity to partitions mapped as network drives can be slow. If you launch an application that loads the last file you were working on, and the file is on a mapped drive, it's not uncommon for the load to fail.
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Because by some other standards, such as Fitts' Law, it's a good move - it gives the menu infinite vertical size.

Also, it is an effective way of conserving vertical screen real estate. With the increasing prevalance of widescreen displays, vertical space is (relatively) scarce. This is particularly true on netbooks, and even on full-size laptops. Merging the menu with the top dock gives you an extra 24 pixels or so of vertical space.
* tagging files system wide (all files, not just some formats)

* user friendly hard links.. to be able to have one file in more folders (I know it is possible with NTFS, but it is quite pain to do)
I am quite sure that is done deliberately. I can't find a good resource to point to, but this article by Mark Boulton describes why you would do that with bulleted lists. I would assume that the same applies to ordered lists:

http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-st...

> With the advent of desktop publishing it became suddenly very easy and cost-effective to produce bodies of text. The problem was these bodies of text work within a box. Every character in this box had to be within the box, Hanging Punctuation requires characters to be out of the box. This was a problem for the software and as a result was ignored. An important aspect of typesetting just swept under the carpet like that. It’s a great shame.

And:

> A ranged left body of type is pretty much destroyed, aesthetically, when punctuation isn’t hung. The eye looks for straight lines everywhere, when type is indented in this way, it destroys the flow of text.
The last tsar of Russia and his lot also practiced denial. The ensuing tragedy not only wiped them out, but also caused misery to countless people for almost a 100 years. Lets hope history won't repeat itself.
> The introduction of the UniBody design and manafacturing process has made their MacBook Pro laptops much stronger than previous versions and competing plastic laptops.

I'm not sure about this. I have a white macbook from 2007 that never had a problem and has still great battery life while the early 2009 unibody macbook:

1. adapter for external monitors didn't work right until some point in late 2009.

2. got a dent from a battery charger falling on it from 10 cm high.

3. the battery charging circuit died less than 5 months after I bought it and had to be replaced (along with the logic board).

4. the battery life has been awful ever since.

5. went through 3 battery chargers.

6. LED display connection was coming loose and cleaning the screen with anything but the gentlest of touches would cause it to briefly fail.

7. hard drive died this month.
such peaks of brand interrest are quite common for new and hyped internet brands/startups. now comes the time of constant but slow(er) growth or failure.
I had this problem with the cable going into the Magsafe connector on my last Macbook, still functional but concerningly wires were visible. On the charger of my newer MBP (2009) the cable-plug join is notably bigger/thicker and hasn't given me any problems. I think they've learned and improved.
There's an indicator available for this already, although it lacks the fancy graphs.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/indicator-sysmonitor-simp... (seems to be down atm)
https://launchpad.net/indicator-sysmonitor/+download
There is nothing wrong with indenting lists negatively. In fact some say it is more correct: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-st...
ARPANET dialogues - fictional chat logs
If you still want this style of map and want to go completely analog, sign up for AAA and use their "TripTik" service (I think they still offer this on paper vs. only online.) You get a custom booklet with LineDrive type door to door directions on one side of the paper, and a 25 sq. mile map on the other side to give you context of where you are. The charming thing is you used to have to order this up about a week in advance of your trip, but I remember sitting in the front of the car with my Dad on family trips demanding to hold the TripTik and call out things we'd pass on the map.
My prediction is that, if large swaths of China and India get Internet connectivity, they, or their internet providers, will have to choose between

* NATted IPv4 connectivity (maybe with one IP per city and not one per household) and

* buggy but non-NATted IPv6 connectivity.

with the former being cheaper to implement. Most likely, IPv6 will only see universal adoption after the old gear that has buggy or too-slow IPv6 support has been thrown out.
Then again, if a large government (say, China) puts itself behind IPv6 (say, because having one IP address per citizen is more convenient for keeping tabs on everyone), a fast transition would be more likely.

Don't get me wrong here: I think that the transition to IPv6 will happen eventually, but not as fast as the shrinking number of remaining IPv4 address blocks would suggest.
exDM69 says

"Btw, I've never had a virus scanner or a firewall software installed. Not even on Windows, and not even on the worst Windows XP times around 5 years ago. A simple NAT has kept all the hacking attempts at bay."

How do you know that, if you never scanned for a virus or for spyware? How do you monitor network traffic?

Most Windows system I have examined (Behind NATs, behind corporate firewalls, both with and without A/V and spyware detectors) had spyware or a virus. If the user thought there was a problem, there was almost always some malware involved.
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No source since the "Forbes 40,000" doesn't exist but I can assure you that it's much more common to make $100m on Wall Street than in entrepreneurship. My direct manager when I interned at Lehman Brothers had probably socked away $50m himself.
This works in Chrome 11 as well (some performance issues aside).

Direct link: http://hakim.se/inc/components/slideshow/
I think your experience is the ideal, however I see sometimes 1-2 days before I've gotten the confirmation emails. Probably once every few months I'll sign up for something that offers a confirmation email and then - nothing happens for 5, 10, 30, 45 minutes. Frustrating.
What i don't understand is why there's incongruity between the numbered headers and the numbered lists. Surely if you're going to stick the list numbers in the margins, the header numbers should be in the margins as well?
not sure what your definition of ordinary family home is but i recently bought one for less than half the price you quote in zone 2 of london. a similar place would be much cheaper anywhere else further out in london and the country.
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A couple of years back I switched from Windows to Mac and I can't say I really noticed any downside to the single fixed application menu. The gains due to Fitt's Law however are noticable and I when using a Windows box I find the menus to be annoyingly small click targets.

I do miss the discoverability of Windows ALT+letter menu accelerator key presses though.
Related Zed rant:

http://zedshaw.com/essays/apple_sux.html
What are you paying your accountant each year? Is there a minimum corporate tax in Oregon? In MA I think it is 400 minimum a year.
I tried this and immediately hit three internal compiler errors and one rejection of perfectly valid code. As far as I am concerned, this is not a compiler.
I'm using http://www.keepassx.org/ on GNU/Linux. It's good. And I don't like mono.
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Wow. Those repair prices are ridiculous enough to warrant an article of their own. There's really no point in fixing a broken iPod when it's cheaper to buy a new one.
people said the same thing when they realized unity lacks stability, config options and key features (like supporting drag & drop files between windows), but they never came. I don't think canonical considers it a high priority, if it's not there now, it won't be there at all for this release of ubuntu
Thanks a lot for the feedback, Peter. I will definitely do the changes you suggested.
As a guess: Healthcare. My understanding is that it is largely covered by the government in the UK but consumes somewhere in the neighborhood of 20% of US incomes (figure remembered off the top of my head -- I really want to say about 22% but that implies more accuracy than I feel confident implying). So that one item alone should make a quite large impact on actual outcomes.
yeah I've used Zazzle before to make my #startups tshirts (http://j.mp/eDkNVG) with the tagline "No one ever made a billion dollars collecting a paycheck"
Care to tell me what you think of this post then? ;)

http://journal.martinpannier.fr/the-267-qualities-all-entrep...
Completely disagree.

I've been using Unity for a while now, it's pretty awesome and much much better than anything (classical) gnome could ever be.

This article sounds like "I've just used OS X for the first time and there's no start menu, instead it has a weird thing that's like a dock or something."

So, no more gnome-panel applets. What's the big deal? Most of them were useless and ugly anyway. And yes, there is a weather indicator application that you can install.

On the other hand, you have a global menu that becomes also a title bar when the window is maximized.

So in Ubuntu 10.10 if you maximize Firefox, you have the following taking up vertical space:

- The top gnome panel

- The title bar

- The menu bar

- (by default) a bottom gnome panel.

With unity, there's only one thing:

- The Unity panel.

It's the panel, title bar, and the menu bar combined into one panel. (there's no bottom panel).

I would never want to go back to the classical gnome desktop.

The Ubuntu button at the top-left is like gnome-do[0] on steroids.

There's honestly nothing from classical gnome that I miss.

Btw, you can drag and drops applications onto the launcher. At least it works when you drag them from the desktop. He's right though, the lense view[1] doesn't let you drag/drop. You've gotta keep in mind though that's not a finished product yet.

Having said that, dealing with application icons in (classical) gnome was never a pleasant experience, so in this sense, Unity doesn't really lose you anything.

[0] gnome-do is a quicksilver clone

[1] That's the new fancy thing that pops up when you click the Ubuntu button on the top-left
You might find Cmd+Shift+/ useful then. It allows you type menu commands on keyboard, see where they are in the menu, and discover new functionality.
All cables from all manufacturers break fast for me; doesn't really matter how they were made. I have 100s of cables + headphones, all broken like this. Maybe i'm not very careful!
I unintentionally clicked esc key to fade out at the end of presentation :) It is so fancy that I expected this behavior
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Zipcar going public is going to be a fantastic buy for investors
See the sun at the sky. There is a fusion process going on. We just need to harvest it.
They write with a certainty that doesn't seem warranted.

Your website will be read on screens that range from 3" diagonal to 30" diagonal and with a DPI that ranges from about 100 to 300.

Now, it would potentially be smart to use the default font size so that your site would be consistent with every other site out there, but that isn't the case. MOST sites use smaller text. Browsers aren't optimized for the default text size, they're optimized for what gets used. The default size is a compatibility relic.

That isn't to say that a larger font size is wrong, but that is one of many factors to consider when designing.
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Most of the world's population is in more sunny areas.
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I don't think so. The numbers in the header are more like an outline of items. The numbers in the list are not part of the outline. Hanging the numbers in the gutter is the typographically "proper" treatment there.
First steps toward what you want exist in the next OS X:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/#versions

I don't know if it has diff capabilities though.
So what would that actually mean? If you put everyone on the X axis in order of their income, with the Y axis representing income, what would the curve look like in order for the top 20% to own 30% of the wealth? And if you left this running, what would the total wealth graph look like after say 50 years?
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In case someone is actually looking for a UI guy, here's some shameless self-promotion: http://nylira.com
The customer service in any Apple store is excellent though, I haven't seen similar anywhere else. Not everyone has the luxury of one nearby but the store staff seem to have a lot of personal discretion in replacing things that are out of warranty.

Of course, the huge sales margins help to make this possible. Take advantage of this if you can. I've stood in their flagship store on Oxford Street and told a passing employee that my power supply had caught fire (slight exaggeration - minor scorching around the frayed part when it shorted) and been whisked away quickly and given a replacement.
You don't even need to do that much. Just select the classic desktop at login time.
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I think You are all digging into this a little too Deep. Though We know little about this Fellow, We do know He was a High School drop out turned Bum. Again, I think "penny stock symbols", "compounding intrest and sinking bonds", "new world order conspiracy theories", and even simple mathematical algorithms can be ruled out here. I'll have to agree with the "pig-latin style""phonetic shorthand" idea.
Your second paragraph is very interesting and reminded me of this talk here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmzZ8lCLhlk
Somehow I'm picturing Bill Gates / Steve Ballmer saying "we've got to be more like IBM..."
His advice is definitely for small or medium form writing. Places where you have substantial blocks of text. If you are trying to style headings or a web application then some of the ideas will apply but you should seek advice specific to that. For instance, the "give your text breathing room" is always going to be correct, but how much room you need is different for a small chunk of text in a button vs a large block of text. The context that it is placed in also matters.
I sense some sarcasm in your response but it's basically true, at least for portable devices (and not just Apple). Try to go into the Verizon store and buy a charger, case, or any other accessory for a phone that more than about 12 - 18 months old, they won't have them anymore... they've moved on to the next model. And WHY do device manufactures change the connectors with every generation so the old chargers you had can't be kept as spares... so if you lose your charger you can be pressured to just upgrade your whole phone. At least the Apple products are better in that regard.

The problem with the MagSafe strain relief has been addressed... all companies have these little issues and I certainly don't think you can make a blanket statement that Apple products aren't durable due to this specific issue (typing this on a 12" PowerBook G4, ca 2002).
You have now found out a little bit about the energy density of Uranium. It has little to do with how dangerous mining is and what the consequences are (exposure to Radon, contamination of drinking water, ...).

Fact is, here in Germany we have been mining for coal for decades. It has a lot of negative impacts on nature. It is still going on. But it is slowly phased out against political opposition.

Uranium mining OTOH has been phased out already. Uranium mining has such severe negative effects on the nature that in Germany it is closed with huge monetary investments.

You can read about the closing of the Wismut mine here: http://www.wise-uranium.org/uwis.html

Mining for Uranium is now going on in remote areas or in states with the political structure for it.
Good post Joel. It's really hard to have that mindset, but I think you're right. Promote and gain traction, then refine.
"but really I can't think of how the radioactive iodine levels could possibly remain that high so long"

Erm... the reactors and spent fuel ponds keep leaking radiation and the half-life is way more than a year?
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2402027
If you can read German you find it here:

http://www.uba.de/uba-info-medien-e/3997.html

and here:

http://www.umweltdaten.de/publikationen/fpdf-l/3997.pdf
The R&D costs for those are HUGE, as they are unproven, the countries like mine (Uruguay) that are looking into building new power plants don't want that, we want proven designs.
The candu reactors are thorium. As was AVR... Last I heard there were reactors in india/china using thorium.

All the gen IV reactors I remember are thorium based, however keep in mind that most of the gen IV reactors can be made with uranium, it's just that thorium is a rather nice fuel. Well, if you don't need to build any more nukes, that is.

To be perfectly honest, once you've mined out all of the nuclear materials out of nuclear waste, what you're left with is a fairly standard bundle of heavy metals that we deal with all the time in chemeng. (ie. what do you do to the Cad in Nicads?)

Anything that's fertile can be converted into fuel. Anything that's fissable is fuel. Anything that is usefully radioactive can be used either directly in a reactor or indirectly in betavoltaics and related.

One major problem at the moment is that it's not politically viable to reprocess waste anywhere near completely, and even though waste storage is basically solved in much the same way that the waste storage of garbase is basically solved (Where do you think the toxins go when you throw something else out?), we can't really do either and so you end up with waste just piling up in places where it honestly shouldn't be.
I'd love for Microsoft to have the nerve to make a fresh start. Windows 7 is brilliant for anyone that wants it to continue to use: Windows 8 can be rebuilt from scratch as a new operating system without any concerns for backwards compatibility.
Seriously, this isn't a place for comic strips! How is this related to startups and hacker culture?
Are you referring to "press ctrl-alt-del to login" as NT style login? This style is still in Windows 7 if you set your network up like that.