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Ubuntu is still the most popular Linux distro[1] (and, although I don't have an authorative source, the popularity of Linux is increasing[2]).

Touchscreen, netbook, ARM, tablet... These edge-case platforms aren't what Ubuntu targets. Neither do they target "geeks". Ubuntu targets the average user: just install it on your box and have a look at the software it comes with. It truly is "Linux, for human beings".

It's never been easier to try and install a different OS: not ten years ago you could only get an OS by buying a physical copy.

Have a look at the growth of Google searches for "Ubuntu" alongside other OS[3].

I don't see why Ubuntu won't continue to grow in popularity and users. It has a large and growing community.

[1] http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
[2] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
[3] http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+%22windows+xp%22%2C...
Here's the link to the actual story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8481330/Alarm-ove...
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From iPad to Xoom
Sad really.

Recompile (current XCode).

Resubmit.

Multitasking!
Part of this is the difference between intra-generational progress and inter-generational progress.

intRA-generational: You look at what the 30 year old researchers are doing. Wait twenty years. Look at what the 50 year old researchers are doing. It is mostly the same guys and your concept of progress includes the personal accumulation of knowledge in the field.

intER-generational: You look at what the 30 year old researchers are doing. Wait twenty years. Look at what the 30 year old researchers are doing. It is a new crop of researchers and your concept of progress labours under the burden of human mortality; knowledge has to be transferred to younger researchers before it is lost.

When a field is new, young people come in and pioneer it. We see the intra-generational progress. Fifty years later the age structure has stabilized and the kind of progress that is most visible changes from intra-generational to inter-generational. This is much slower.
Not at all! Multitasking support, even with the VoIP or Audio profiles, does not prevent you from supporting iOS 3: those users just won't get the multitasking features, just like iPhone 3G an iPod 2G users don't on iOS 4.x.
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> All of the antitrust stuff of the last decade has really tamed Microsoft.

That's why discussions like this would no longer happen over e-mail. On a open field, during a social encounter with no witnesses and no lasting evidence it ever happened, I am not so sure.

Microsoft has always used discounts to modulate OEM licensing costs.
I would first suspect some sort of powersaving feature. Try continuously using the phones interface locally (reloading webpages or something of the sort), and I bet you'll notice that your FTP server is always available from other computers.

I say this because I've noticed what seems to be similar behaviour with servers running on my hacked kindle3 (wifi only). They stop responding until you generate traffic from the kindle, which kicks the wifi card up from some sort of lower power level, or something.
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We're prepping our website for launch, and are building our product tour page right now (for a SaaS app). What are some of the best product tours you have seen for conversion?
yes, i was wondering if this is the same thing in a new package? didn't that one sell out like crazy when it was first launched? i suspect this will too.
How much of this would be applicable to OpenGL ES programming?
Not if my karma is at risk...
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Are you welcome even if you cannot hack?
At least three people down-voted skidooer's comment; why? What is going on with the vindictive voting around here lately? A lot of down-voters complain about comments not being sufficiently polite and deferential when disagreeing with fellow commenters, but they fail to see that their petty down-voting is arguably just as anti-social and perhaps more damaging to the community.
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Not all games work well in the free model. You could kill your product by releasing a free version if you have wrong type of game. This, generally, is an advantage for puzzle games with interesting mechanics. It's also better to react with a lite version if you see initial success with your product. If you have something good you'll see a positive reaction, but if you're bouncing around 0-5 sales/day, early in the release, a lite version is probably not going to do much.
Perhaps next Mr. Cohen would care to refute the likelihood of the FBI sending me a pdf to discuss the disposition of my "US$1.5 Million United State Dollars", or whether the mentioned herbal remedy will indeed make me a "MOVING SEX MACHINE".
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The content system that only records novel information
As a successful android dev, I want the window gone. If they want to email me for a refund, fine, I'll refund with no questions asked, but letting people play my paid apps while they wait for the doctor to call them in and just getting a refund sucks.
Legitimacy is actually made out of guns.
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If you absolutely must have some form of TV entertainment in your life, just try a 1-week or 1-month binge on Netflix or AppleTV to soak up any relevant or thought-provoking show/movie/doc you must see, then unsubscribe/stop using those services for a year—preferably more—and repeat.

I stopped watching TV and most films from 2007 onwards… until Netflix finally came to Canada and I gorged on it like an all-you-can eat buffet for a month or two. I couldn’t believe I missed stuff like Mad Men and Slumdog Millionaire and started to kick myself for not having seen them sooner.

But really, I watched those a few years after their release, and they’re still just as great as when they first came out. I may have missed a few water cooler talks about Don Draper’s relationships with his secretaries, but who cares. And while many documentaries I’ve seen during the binge were eye-opening, I didn’t lose big by not being able think critically or apply what I’ve seen immediately after.
You're agreeing with me. The software center is great...anything outside of it?

Furthermore, there is a license applied to open software, and quite a lot of cost free software.

But the Software Center is a walled garden, requiring backwards support of the OS to the application.
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Poker players fighting back against the FBI
Agreed it seems a totally Orwellian path for the authorities to be able to track anyone they want without a warrant. Who watches the watchers? http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_p...
yeh, i went on the site. and it does need some major speed adjustment between pages
Too late... Carnivore, Echelon, etc...
Chain Reactions Reignited At Fukushima After Tsunami
The New Outsiders
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In app billing won't mean shit unless they can get carrier billing working flawlessly for all OR they can fix the checkout process so if they order and their credit card didn't wor it actually tells them and provides a way to update it on the spot.

The infamous red payment declined message has to go away first.
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> Have a look at the growth of Google searches for "Ubuntu" alongside other OS[3].

That's actually a slight decline since its apex in 2008...
Maybe its possible to use that to the networks advantage? If manipulating the data means you need to provide additional computation power/storage... maybe its possible to find a balance?
It is interesting, though, that we've pretty much gone off digital watches since that was written in the early 80s.

I was watching an early 80s James Bond movie recently and shocked to see that even James fricking Bond wore a digital watch in those days.
To clarify on what others have replied to you about it being how The New Yorker does it: a piece like this is a feature, not news. Nobody reads the magazine (or their website) to get the quick facts, they read it because of the high quality writing and editorialising.
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I would not want to work in a place where it's hard to fire poor performers.

My preference would be to make it easy to fire, but provide a sufficient safety net, so that people are not fearful of the temporary disruption.

As it is now, firing someone for poor performance at one large American software company I worked for (WA state) takes 6 month. They have to be told they aren't doing well, then their every step is documented, and they are continuously told how to improve, and only after they fail to heed the warnings they get fired. People who steal or harass others get fired immediately, but otherwise it's a long slog to kick someone out. All this song and dance is done to protect against lawsuits. It's a drag on the business, and probably a deterrent to hiring.
If your everyday activities sufficiently interesting to bother spying on, then someone will find a way to spy on you anyway. If they aren't, then I doubt anyone will ever bother to sift through the data to find precisely when you went to the supermarket.
I wonder if the coder/s would open source what they did. I imagine its purpose is unique enough that releasing the code wouldn't cause any "now we won't potential clients won't need to hire us" issues, and it could be quite interesting.

Edit: Any chance of explanation for the down voting to -1? I mean, I assume it's for thinking my question moronic, but would like to actually hear why that might be...
It's been interesting to see the evolution of Apple apologists over the past few years.

At first, when Android was starting out, the general attitude was that "It's cute you're trying to compete with Apple on this one, but the market is already saturated and dominated by the iPhone."

Then when Android quickly eclipsed the iOS market share, the argument quickly shifted to the size of the app store.

With the app store argument soon to become invalid, they scramble on to the next desperate talking point: app sales. This time around conveniently ignoring ad revenue as a portion of developer income.

Can't we just enjoy our respective amazing phones without having to turn every iOS or Android article posted here into a pissing contest? Android's Market is about to be bigger than the app store? Bravo, good for them. Which will be my exact same reaction when Apple announces good iPad 2 sales numbers.
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Brilliant - thank you. Thank you for the work in creating it, thank you for the work in making it easy to use, thank you for the work in making it easy to install, thank you for the work in sharing it.
Is the source/a paper/a blog post going to be released so that we can look at (read: poke holes in) it?
Frequency and transceiver information are already posted. My guess is that the transmissions aren't encrypted, or are encrypted trivially or encoded (to obfuscate).

Since you said "we should", you should get started on it and post your findings here or better yet on a blog. The iFixit article provides a lot of bases to research from.
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You're pretty much on-the-nose.

You can always make an active choice as to whether you'll be producing or consuming. With TV, you're guaranteed to be consuming.

There is nothing wrong with consuming. Sometimes your brain is fried, and you need to mentally recharge. However if you have the ability to produce, and you are not choosing to produce, you will fail.

For some, removing the consumption device makes it easier to produce since the choice the consume is no longer an option.
tl;dr:
The iPad is still far ahead of the Xoom in most regards.
If you like/use all of Googles, services, the Xoom has better integration than the iPad (much like an Android phone vs. an iPhone). There is a lack of selection of Android tablet apps, and scaled up phone apps are underwhelming.
I've only glanced at it so far but if you're using ES 2.0 then it would be a big help as ES 2.0 has no fixed function pipeline so everything is done in shaders. The only real difference IIRC between OGL 3.0 and ES 2.0 is the unavailability of many extensions OGL users are familiar with.
You can switch jobs on H1B, and you can switch jobs while waiting for the green card. Talk to a lawyer.
That's only the final manuscript---he's got a draft now and the editing process will be ongoing well before November.
I agree, this should be good news, Android has the same
"problem" with the "save in sd card" feature.
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/48744.php

"Android Market Share Surpasses Apple's IOS Globally for First Time"
That's good to hear. Still, for most applications, multitasking is not a big requirement. You don't want Angry Birds to keep running while you browse, or the browser to waste any CPU cycles while you reply to an SMS.
I don't do in-app selling, so that doesn't apply to me at all.

For some reason, one of my apps makes 90% of its revenue from international sales. I think 50% of that revenue comes from countries which Google's payment engine doesn't support.

Until Google adds payment support to all the countries that Apple supports, Android revenues are going to continue to lag for many developers.
I kinda agree with you from the opposite perspective. I wear a watch because watches look cool. But a high-tech watch doesn't look cool, it looks completely naff, and anyone sufficiently unconcerned about looking naff to wear a smartphone-watch won't bother to wear a watch at all.
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Cool.

It's impossible using an unmarked straight-edge and pair of compasses to trisect a general angle.

It's impossible using an unmarked straight-edge and pair of compasses to compute the cube root of 2.

It's impossible using an unmarked straight-edge and pair of compasses to construct two lines whose lengths are in the ratio 1:pi.

It's impossible to show that given Euclid's first four postulates, the fifth must be true.

It's impossible to show that there is no infinity between aleph_0 and 2^aleph_0.

It's impossible to create a Turing machine that can predict if a general Turing machine will halt in finite time.

Do you want some more?
That would probably be true if sifting through these data were a very complicated and thus costly thing to do. But is isn't, especially since you can more or less to it for all of your targets simultaneously. And there is good reason to do it, too: profiles of people are a valuable resource.
When is this ipo?
Wow, the components on the GPS board look like they are hand soldered, which to me means very low volume/specialized production.
Static sites can easily cope with a massive spike in traffic caused by things like being posted to Hacker News.
wow, these guys been pretty busy, on the hunt to get something together using a portfolio of services obviously. Good news for some startups, or in Delicious' case, some left-to-die orhpans
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Yawn. Not sure how daring it is to call-out a spammer.

Overall message is fine, but the preface story...
I have a hard time figuring out how Canonical is going to make money. Most desktop users are not going to pay for support.
They can talk about whatever they like, it doesn't mean it will pass. This working group has no authority on their own.
meh. I think this proposal is bad, but why can't a site that is not screwing others over come forward and be the public face of "championing" it?

Thepiratebay being a large voice against it will just harm the cause, "oh thepiratebay is breaking the law and losing musicians money and they are anti-censorship so censorship must be good to stop that illegal stuff".
I think it's a logical progression. In the future, all UI scripting will likely tend toward JS. After all, it's what the front-end devs know. It's easier to learn for 'artistic types' than C++, Web frontend devs know it, and ActionScript is also JS-ish these days.

Note though, that you don't have to use the scripting framework. You can define your GUI simply in C++ if you want.
Last week at a conference, I spoke briefly to an engineer from one of the large two US telcos on this issue. He indicated they utilized a variety of methods, including utilized fingerprinting of the IP/TCP headers, and protocol analysis to help identify traffic. Specifically, I heard TTL mentioned, as well. He might be a user here.

There are more knowledgeable people than you working on the issue. That said, I haven't gotten an evil text from using PDAnet, yet. Then again, I don't tether that much and when I do it's not a lot of data.
TTLs should not affect PdaNet if it is written like any of the other non-root tethering apps. Mac and Windows update pings are probably a good indicator, however.
Right, is what I said.
Agreed. And who just watches TV anymore anyway? I'm usually coding while I watch, or at least surfing the web/playing an ipad game. I can spend the whole evening writing code for my personal projects and not feel bad about it because I'm doing something to decompress after work.
It's not like there's a "right" or "wrong" answer. It's more art than code, and what really matters is the final result.
So is there an easy way to set this up, preferably server-agnostic?
Reminds me of Ace of Spades[1], another minecraft/voxel like game just like Minecraft that's an FPS as well. Only for Windows though, but really fun. And free unlike Minecraft.

[1]: http://ace-spades.com/
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They're significantly faster, they never break, and they're way more secure.

Pretty much everyone already agrees they're less flexible.
They have Ubuntu One, some kind of Dropbox. https://one.ubuntu.com/
>“The Presidency of the LEWP presented its intention to propose concrete measures towards creating a single secure European cyberspace,” according to brief minutes of the meeting. The secure European cyberspace would have a "virtual Schengen border", it adds, referring to the treaty that allows freedom of movement within the EU but imposes controls on entry to the bloc. There would also be “virtual access points" whereby “the Internet Service Providers would block illicit contents on the basis of the EU ‘black-list’”, the proposal says.

Wow. Not only is it a terrible-sounding idea when heard second hand, it is even worse when heard straight from the horse's mouth. "A single secure cyberspace" sounds an awful lot like "A single secure SOCIETY!" It's as if Emperor Palpatine and the MAFIAA elite got together to determine the most efficient way to deny people of their rights for the sake of greed and power. How can anyone possibly hear what they are saying in these plans and not recoil with horror and disgust? It runs counter to all ideals and freedoms that the West purports to stand for.

Sheer absurdity.
Even now, you need to be aware of cultural differences, as well as timezones.

Examples:
(for some definitions of here and there) It's 1300 here which means that it's 1700 there - do people tend to go home at 1700 or 1800?

Lunchtime in France is typically 1200-1400 (local), whereas in Israel it is 1400-1600. If I'm in France, and I need to call up my Israeli colleagues after lunch, simply adjusting for timezone won't do. If I call at 1430 Israeli time, they will have just gone out.

In these situations you currently have to know two things: what time it is over there, and what the cultural norms for work and mealtimes are. If time were internationally uniform, you'd only need the latter.
No it doesn't include women and children to chuck at soldiers hoping they'd shoot em and get sued for war crimes.

Might have been a funny game.
What I found interesting by component:

-Battery pack
--The device is powered by four lithium-thionyl chloride (Li-SOCl2) D cell batteries
--Each cell is good for 13,000 mAh and are suited for extremely low-draw applications where longevity is needed, making them ideal for powering an always-on transmitter/receiver
--Minimal service life is 10 years.

-GPS antenna
--A quick peek at the antenna board indicates it was manufactured by SIgem, a company that partnered with Tyco in the early 2000s to make GPS components.
--The FBI really did not want anyone tampering with the innards of their tracking devices. The screws were coated with so much threadlocker that we had to break out the power drill and eliminate the screw heads.
--The module providing the GPS signal processing on this device is a µ-blox GPS-MS1 that's sort of ancient in the realm of modern electronics.
--This module was 1st released June 29, 1999 and it features 0.125 MB of SRAM and 1 MB of flash memory.

-Transmitter/receiver ICs
--XEMICS XE1201 Ultra low power single chip transceiver
---The XE1201 allows for data transmission and data reception in half duplex mode.
--RFM RF1172 SAW (surface-acoustic-wave) filter
---The RF1172 provides front-end selectivity (the capability to separate signals in one frequency from all other frequencies) in 433.92 MHz receivers.

[Edit: Please note, much of the text above is c/p'd from the ifixit post.]
I thought it was the Scythians, not the Macedonians, and that they decided once sober and once drunk. But the Macedonians certainly were known as hard drinkers.
"Even so, the first few computer scientists and statisticians the foundation got in touch with said that it couldn’t be done."

Really? Wtf kind of incompetents were arguing that it couldn't be done?

I'm not arguing that it was or should have been easy, of course. It sounds like a fascinating challenge. And I'm also not claiming that any computer scientist, even a good one, could have solved it. But any vaguely competent computer scientist should have been able to say, "that's a cool problem, and you need to talk to a graph drawing expert."

Of course, this could have been a case of the source saying "they said it was hard" and the writer mangling that into "they said it couldn't be done". But still.
Please read my conclusion again:

So to conclude, "This chart only shows correlation" is a useless comment to make unless accompanied by an analysis of the possible probabilistic models that the evidence supports.

I offered more than a simple criticism.
Schneier is Kantian, here. He probably has read the "Critique of practical reason." Let me tell you of the debate between Benjamin Constant and
Immanuel Kant in 1797 IIRC, after the Critique's publication.

Kant affirmed therein that lying, as a general rule, is always wrong. Constant contradicted this idea, asking : how should you manage the case when someone comes to you and ask for protection from some bandits about to kill him, then? Shouldn't you tell the truth to the violent mob, that the guy they're looking for is indeed hidden in your closet?

Kant replies that the right thing to do is to lie to protect the
innocent, but knowing that it's as a constrained exception to the
absolute rule : "you should not lie". The fact that you commit a wrong
for a greater good doesn't entirely excuse the wrong or alter the
rule.

Most people, however, fail to adhere to this subtle analysis. Hence their displeasure with the word "dishonest".