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You didn't finish my quote, and the the part you cut off is not incidental: "you are asking for pain".

Many things at hardware level are indeed asking for pain. That smart people have labored at length to make them work anyhow doesn't mean it wasn't quite painful. I didn't say it was impossible.

For hardware, it can be a sensible tradeoff. For a generalized web application installation method I don't think it is; it writes into the standard that you must know a lot of very subtle things that your average programmer doesn't even see as issues. This is a bad thing to put into a standard. Better to do something stupider-but-easier, and let people get clever if they think they have some compelling need.

Though stepping one "why" back, the real problem here is that the W3C shouldn't be trying to prospectively write a standard this complicated at all. Why they keep doing that and why people care when they do is beyond me, their track record for creating standards de novo is terrible. This really does call for a few browsers to just try some stuff and see what sticks, no matter how "proprietary" it may make the solution, because no group of people is smart enough to solve all the problems that arise here without even a quarter of an implementation in hand somewhere.
Apple has not announced any music streaming service.
There is a TRIM Enabler for Snow Leopard: http://www.groths.org/?p=308
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If I click the link I am being redirected to http://de.justin.tv/, Justin.tv's German site. Is this intended?
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Apple is trying to build a massive moat around their iOS/OSX ecosystem. If they can execute, it will be difficult for competitors to convert iOS users to other platforms.

-Applications synced across multiple devices
-music, photos, calendars, apps in iCloud (including your ripped content)
-Integration with iTouch/iPad/iPhone docks and accessories
-iMessage/Facetime lock in for user accounts
-Gamecenter achievements
-OSX integration and "feel"
-Reduce the need for a PC with wireless updates and sync (probably 75% of iOS users are on Windows)

The average user will have to face the prospect of changing out a lot of their software as they become more integrated into Apple's ecosystem.
True, but if Vista was $29 more people might have done it in the first place.
Why is buying a movie "rofl never" ?

More expensive ($10-$20), and I'm already paying for other services to rent movies from. I also haven't bought a movie in years. The large majority of stuff simply isn't good enough to own, and even if it's good I rarely sit down to watch a movie again (if it's on TV, and I have time, and it was good I may watch it again).

I also don't want to deal with physical media at all. And selling it afterwards? So now to watch a movie that is supposedly out at retail I need to buy it (go to the store or wait for it to be delivered), watch it, and then resell it? Add to the fact that many DVDs still have unskippable previews and the entire process is very high on my personal friction scale. All this and I'm in the US. It's even worse if someone is in another country. And people wonder why so many people pirate movies...
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With the new notifications: http://photos.macrumorslive.com/p/2011-06-06/f1307382511.jpg
You mean in one place that offers very little (if any?) real sport competition? More people in Korea would be watching a successful South Korean soccer team then even the biggest of star craft 2 events. The market is small, the market is tiny. It only seems large because of the internet. In reality the market for spectator e-sports is very small (and beyond star craft it is pretty much non-existent). The only way e-sports will ever become a profitable market beyond niche is to engage it at the casual player with accessible leagues/ladders/ and tournaments for all. Blizzard kind of does it but they don't provide a good interface for it in my opinion. All others who try have failed pretty hard. Beyond sc2 e-sports have been declining and failing left right and center. And absolutely nothing that I see coming from game companies give me faith that this will change. Star craft 2 is a nice niche but it does not represent the e-sports market as a whole. That market is tiny, and largely ignored and at the current time requires real innovation. In my opinion the real money in e-sports (when it finally does get big) will not be spectating at all, it will come from little Johny paying 5$ a month to play in a very well run, exiting, competitive and fun casual league. Someone just needs to build it right.
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Indeed, although giving a discount for paying with cash is often allowed. (Customers generally hate hidden fees more than they hate missing out on a discount.)
They've refunded some people and moved other people's expiration dates to today. It was on macrumors, but their server looks like it's down right now.
If its Solr or Lucene running underneath then you could use phonetic analyzer to get expected results if the spelling is not correct. I got results with'Steve Jobs'but when I tried 'Steve Jbs' I got no results. I would say getting close results is better than no results.
I really doubt we'll see a hardware back button on iOS. That is a misfeature of Android because of its inconsistent behavior -- if you came to one activity from an activity in another app, how do you go to the parent view in the current app? The back button takes you to the activity from which you came, not to the parent view. I think most iOS users are fine with how back works in iOS; personally I would be very much against Apple adding another hardware button of any kind except maybe a camera button.

I agree that a lot of Apple's advantage came from innovating. But a lot of the advantage also comes from taking features that other devices have done and doing them better. For example, Android does not show collated notifications on the home screen by default, and you can't interact with notifications without unlocking the screen and pulling down. iPhone's proposed implementation looks a lot better than what Android has. This happened with copy and paste too, and Android still has not caught up (no universal method for copy-and-paste).

I don't care if Apple copies or innovates. What I care about is that iPhone is still (and after this next release, will to an even greater extent be) the best phone money can buy. How it got that way is immaterial to most of their potential customers.
They said there is 200 new features. That certainly isn't all of them.
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Unless I missed something in the presentation, Lion Server isn't free. It's a separate app that costs $50

https://www.apple.com/macosx/server/
A smart move for Apple would be to make this available to BlackBerry too. With BB in the pipeline for other OS, I'm curious to see how RIM will respond. May it's time for a business model change...
It seems to be using perceptual hashing to match tracks; you'd need to find actual crappy versions of the songs you want.
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Are the mp3s going to be in the cloud? Or on my hard drive?

... because it seems like it would be trivial to "spoof" an mp3 for downloading (take a random mp3, perhaps cut to the correct length, add the correct id3 tags and tell iTunes Match to download it).
Seems to be 25,000 tracks excluding iTunes purchases.
Android is nice if you're OK with 2 hour battery life. Android is OK if you like trusting Samsung with your phone's UI design. Android is fine if you want to choose from 1% of the number of apps available for iPhone.

A friend of mine designs phones for Motorola. He's angry as hell about the Android ecosystem b/c he knows there is some great hardware being built, but it's compromised by greedy companies that ship the phone with a 2 hour battery, etc. Android is full of this sort of short-term thinking.

These are all more salient features than the few areas where Android is actually better (google apps integration, turn by turn navigation).

The notification feature isn't all that necessary. I turned off all notifications on my iPhone and haven't missed anything. Most of the notifications generated by Android apps are equally useless. It's as if we're arguing about the color of Microsoft Bob's glasses.

In terms of the overall customer experience, usability, and app ecosystem, IOS is several years ahead of Android. I say this as someone who got two Android phones free at Google IO last year and still switched to an iPhone 4. It's not about checking off a box on a feature checklist, it's about the quality of the experience of using the features.
A politician's followers are rewriting history to fit what their leader says? How Orwellian.
But I don't care about owning music. I only want access to it. Rdio still seems like the better option for music, despite this being a step in the right direction.
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With all of the LinkedIn and Groupon hype, as well as other companies like Pandora, why can none of them turn profits? These companies seem to hemorrhage money like no tomorrow, with investors only looking at revenue not profit. I'm curious of everyone else's opinions.
> Its all fun and games until you think May 21st is the date the world will end.

... what? That has nothing to do with number theory.

> More seriously, numbers, and number theory, can be quite interesting and often leads to computational insight in algorithm computation or numerical solving. But ultimately, unless you're a numbers geek, it doesn't really teach anything.

There are a number [1] [2] [3] [4] of practical uses of number theory that do teach something. I've only listed the simplest uses with respect to cryptography, because those are the ones with which I am familiar, but I assure you, number theory is one of the more applied branches of mathematics.

Granted, some number theory has very few applications. But you won't ever find something practical if you're always asking "Is this practical? I better not look further if it isn't."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signature_Algorithm

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography
Encryption was mentioned a few times, and there will no doubt be more technical specifications coming to light as it gets closer to launch. Perhaps you're correct and there isn't sufficient security in place. In that case opt out.
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There's an old mathematics joke proving by contradiction that there cannot exist uninteresting integers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Same here. I keep my MusicMatch Jukebox v9. Their synths are so great. Even now, I prefer MusicMatch over iTunes.
Pocket Casts is also very good.

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I'd like to see some martial arts training games for Kinect. That would make a lot of sense. But I'm not sure how accurate Kinect is right now, and it would need to be pretty accurate.
This was the curious bit for me as well. So for $25 all my music 'upgrades' to 256 bit AAC, can I replace the MP3's I ripped with 128bit MusicMatchJukebox in '99 and are sitting on my filer?

And what is this $25 really paying for? Is Apple empowered by the labels to license me a DRM free digital copy?

If I pay the $25 annual fee will it automatically 'upgrade' any songs that come on over a torrent link? Is this really a one time license to every single song in the iTunes store? (Seriously, there is probably an mp3 or ogg file of every song in the iTunes library out there) If I put them all on my machine and then pay my $25 does it go 'ding' and now I own a legitmate digital copy? (if so its a screamin' good deal)

Can I get immunity from prosecution by this? I mean if I've got the insta-legit card in my iTunes and a metallica song comes across the intertubes and metallica comes calling can I just show them the itunes copy?

It's a bold move, and one which I support, but I wonder how its going to look once its put into practice.

My guess, is that if you have a $25 subscription you can put a CD into your Mac and it will 'register' those songs as being available to you. But we will see, could be very very interesting. Or not.
Has anyone seen references to how the server tools will be distributed? The rumor mill had indicated that there would be a mac app store version but I have not seen a confirmation on if these pieces are in the regular 10.7 upgrade or not.

The server edition of 10.6 was $500 and distinct from the $29 regular edition so I am expecting a separate paid download to be required...
Nothing labeled -gate since Watergate has amounted to anything other than media froth.
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I'm guessing that they're going to use an audio hash to look at the file and determine what song it is. It's probably more reliable than using ID3 tags which might get mixed up (especially around remixes, live versions, or just generally missing information).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function#Finding_similar_r...
>The really awful thing, though, is that we live in an age where, on every level, it is considered a sin to be wrong.

This seems to me to be really, really incorrect (and dangerous): we must maintain that it is a 'sin' to be wrong. The reason for this is that there are different sorts of wrong, from willful incompetence to dangerous reality-bending, from good-faith incorrectness to (to borrow the tvtropes phrase) Didn't Do The Research.

The startup mentality that the writer references--embracing failure and being willing to be wrong--comes from understanding hard facts about risk and managing it.

Palin and her ilk _actively distort reality_ to suit their worldview, and that is _wrong_. That's why the battle over the wikipedia page is important (and fear not, the page is now protected).

So the writer misses the point. Palin can't admit she was wrong because that would unmask her 'sin,' which is _why_ her 'renfields' (a term I rather like) are up in arms on Wikipedia.

He also repeats the FUD mantra about Wikipedia. Meh. If you're gonna cover a story on Wikipedia, there are basics I expect.
Really wish this was coming out sooner. I plan on getting the Samsung Chromebook on the 16th, which will be my primary "fun" computer. I'll keep my Macbook for development, but I'm not sure I'll use it in the way that these consumer features are meant for. If it was coming on now I'd go ahead and get it just to play around with. Now I don't know.
I wonder what you think you mean by "technically impossible" since decently good audio matching software already exists (e.g. Shazam).
Fair point well described.
There are ways of distinguishing yourself and building pedigree without spending the first years of your career at megacorp. Education, side projects, introductions, etc. If you can't create one of these distinguishing factors for yourself, you probably don't belong at a startup anyway.

In general, I think the issues of "Where should I work?" and "How do I get noticed/hired?" are very separate issues.
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I've noticed this too.

Many startups focus on getting acquired and moving on the next "big thing" rather than finding a steady revenue stream.
Why does this remind me of sending "You've won a boat!" letters to suspects on outstanding warrants?
The ".net shop" I work for uses MySQL, MongoDB as well. But it's a rarety having done a lot of contract work over the years.
Thanks, but unofficial kext patching would knock me out of my I-can-trust-the-machine groove.
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Yeah, I realize that. I guess I assumed it would be obvious since CDDB works from track spacing and lengths when there's no such thing with MP3 files. For the same reason, iTunes can't magically tag arbitrary MP3 files.
> Fast is nice, but stable is better.

I agree. The graphics system is basically the only part where I'm envious of windows users. As far as I know, since vista the graphics driver can crash without tearing down the rest of the graphical system, i. e. no data loss.
Let's say you fancy yourself as a cryptographer. You come up with a black box, it's a function that takes a number and produces another number. You figure you can use it to build a pseudorandom stream of numbers that will be the source of a cipher.

Your algorithm is to start with a random number (the key) and and feed it to your function, producing another number. Which you feed to your function, producing a third number. And so you go, generating a stream of numbers for your cipher.

After reading how Kaprekar's operation leads to a fixed point for four digit numbers and various cycles for other numbers, you might be nudged into investigating to see if there are inputs for your function that lead to cycles and fixed points. Which would pretty-much break your cipher entirely.

Is this interesting? Yes. Is there computational insight? There is for me. Does it teach anything? I dunno, how is teaching something distinguished from providing insight?
Wow, they're doing very well. As a former delicious user who changed over permanently, and to a premium account, this past December, I wonder how much their growth was affected by Yahoo!'s claim of sunsetting delicious.
I'm actually a little confused by this. Isn't one of the major benefits of Scala, Clojure, JRuby, et al, that it is hosted on the JVM?
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> Android is nice if you're OK with 2 hour battery life.

I get an entire day's battery life out of my Nexus S, and I listen to Pandora and podcasts my entire 8 hour shift every single day, as well as play games, surf the net, and use it heavily for on-the-go text communications.

> Android is OK if you like trusting Samsung with your phone's UI design.

I have a Samsung phone and don't have any of their customized phone UI. My wife has an HTC phone (Nexus One) that also doesn't have any customized UI. Buying a phone with a customized UI is yet another choice that the consumer can make, but it's not even close to being the only way.

> Android is fine if you want to choose from 1% of the number of apps available for iPhone.

It looks a bit closer to 50%, and growing fast...

http://samsungdigital.co.cc/android-market-surpassed-the-app...

Please stop spreading obvious FUD.
They are getting their IPO's too, and I feel sorry for the sad saps who lose money. Second Bubble is coming!
I doubt that there would be many albums that are not available at at least 256kbps from various file-sharing networks. A pirate would have to first search their favourite file sharing network anyway to get the music they then have to pay Apple to listen to.
There's a limit of 25000 songs that come from outside the iTunes store.
I personally think the Fifth Amendment would protect you from being compelled to give up your password. But I really wouldn't want to test that theory in court.
Best of luck, guys. I like super-ambitious projects that make things go fast!
No, one of the constructors for String takes only char[] as a parameter. You can pass in an arbitrary array of chars, even invalid UTF-16.

You're correct that well-written code should never do this. However, there is no guarantee that some library you're using doesn't. You can never assume that 'new String(oldString.getBytes("UTF-8"), "UTF-8").equals(oldString)', which has some unfortunate side-effects if you're doing anything involving serialization and equality.

I agree that Java's String API is generally quite well-designed, but the ability to access the raw UTF-16 is a very big leak in the abstraction.
I do not know what Steve said, but the way you state it, "app files" could be the files in the application itself, not user files made by an app. For performance and robustness, they will have more, but they need only one copy of those on their servers, and it could be the one in the App Store. The costs of storing those are a) peanuts, if you are Apple, and b) possibly recouped by the $99 developer fee.
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Richard Branson had partners when we started Virgin Records. After Virgin Records, he had enough money to hire for all his other businesses right off the bat. Felix Dennis was solo, and strongly believes in holding on to as much equity as possible, but if you read his book, he'll tell you what a miserable time it was. (He often wished he was dead.)

I've bootstrapped a business to significant traction as a single founder. I don't recommend it. It's possible, but morally exhaustive.