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Apparently it uses ext4 [1] and the GPS is markedly improved [2]

[1] http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s2/313715-samsung-ga...

[2] http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/29/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-gps-i...
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No. People said the same about Google and Facebook collection phone-numbers for security purposes, but the truth is, extra authentication methods like these are crucial to recovering accounts in the event of attacks. In any case, security teams at major companies are usually at-a-distance from product teams.

In addition, companies like Facebook and Google have a distinct incentive to keep their product spam-free. This means that, so far as spam and security are concerned, the user's interests are completely aligned with the company.
It is more likely that startups are using gaps in the iOS product offering as a guide for what products to build. There are so many startups and so much interest in mobile that the intersection seems inevitable.
So one of my employees comes to me and says: assuming we can get widget X for a price of $y (or less), and do so consistently for time t, we can use some method to manfacture our frobulators, and still meet our price point, but get more long-term profit, because some TCO concerns. This is perfectly logical, but doesn't make sense given that the price of X this week is $y+1.

More complicated: if we know the price or X varies between $y+2 and $y-1 in a random walk, can we find a way to capitalize on the 50% of states that meet the $y or less requirement. My employee does not know the price characteristics for X, so he presents the idea. I know that we cannot capitalize (from doing analysis of the price of X based on doing the arithmetic). So what my employee suggests is completely logical and reasonable, it just makes no sense, given the result of the arithmetic.
I am getting "Page does not exist"
My Mail window is at most 700px wide. That’s about 400px to 500px for the content. Most of the text-only mails I receive fit comfortable in that space without any scrolling and the line length is just perfect (60 to 80 characters per line).

Why would I want my Mail window to be any bigger? I have all the space I need for comfortable reading and filing and more than half a screen to do something useful with. I don’t really see how the size and resolution of the monitor figures into the size of the window of your mail app at all.

Yes, displaying a list with as many messages as possible and as many mailboxes as possible for comfortable filing might require additional space (beyond the 700px I like) but that seems to be inconsequential for the size with which you display the actual email message (my 400px to 500px), i.e. you don’t have to maximize the window of your mail app to achieve that.

Anyway, why use fixed width layouts at all? Are mail apps so backwards that fluid layouts are not possible?
Poison comes in small bottles...
This is not permitted.
IE7 doesn't support base64-encoded images, and IE8's support is limited.
No. One of Apple's terms is that you must offer the same price.
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You can pay for convenience in some situations, and put in more effort in others.
If Nintendo didn't disdain indie developers so much, this would be a much more exciting announcement. This kind of innovative thinking is wasted on the mega corporations who hardly take advantage of it.
I agree with what you say, except I would take it a step futher – both Apple and Google are moving toward the same place. For Apple, the "rich client" experience starts on the desktop, with cloud-based data stores. For Google, the "rich client" begins in the browser with HTML, then AJAX, then Gears, Android, etc.

Either way, they both end up with a rich client experience that assumes a remote master data store.
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The Gruber quote starts with the words "I don't think...", which fully qualifies if for me. I know exactly what I'm getting, an "opinion".

Claim Chowder tends to be a lot more arrogant than that, and is usually qualified with lines like "trust me" or "I know a thing or two about this or that so I'm right and Apple is dead wrong".
Yeah, and so does chrome (well, it can sync passwords, bookmarks, etc.)

I'm not sure what else the author wants Android and Chrome to sync. Application data? That's up to the authors of the application, just the same as it is with iCloud.
Apple doesn't have a single web service now that MobileMe is gone. Whether they don't "get" the web or they get it and just choose to ignore it is splitting hairs.
Didn't Nintendo opened up to small devs with WiiWare ?
Fluid might work, depending on whether mail clients support max-width. You can cap the maximum amount of character per line like that.
I'm not advocating fuzzy logic, just like the people who believe math is needed to make sense aren't advocating bad statistics.
Poor Copywriting – the UX Problem That Will Never Go Away?
In brief:

http://www.fastlayer.com

* Appliance-like software that can run on as small as a VM

* Dynamic & static object caching with Varnish Cache

* API for demand provisioning

* Goes well with cloud deployments (faster switching / less latency)

* Memory-based pricing structure

* Early beta

* Builds on successful release of the Varnish plugin for cPanel and DirectAdmin (http://www.unixy.net/varnish)
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Google Docs for me on OSX. The no-hassle availability anywhere without an install covers 95% of my document creation needs, the fact that everything's autosaved to the cloud and can be collaborated on, versioned, and exported keeps me coming back, and I don't have to worry about software version compatibility with anyone I share with which is a killer feature.

Anything that requires style or aesthetics gets drafted in Google Docs and then imported into Pages or Keynote for finishing touches, both of which are lightyears ahead of Word or Powerpoint in that regard (at least for 2007/Win 2008/OSX MS Office releases).
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I refuse to do arithmetic in units such as the acre-foot.
No. I use Pages (part of Apple's iWork) for almost everything. If I need Word comparability, I open LibreOffice.

And if you need to do something remotely complex, neither works. Pages is decent for the very baseline word processing; OpenOffice is good for very little of anything.

The overwhelming majority of people use Office because what you call "cruft" is what other people call "important".
The worst part is the intel people have been talking about just dropping support for older chips altogether.
This article is the ramblings of a mad man.
"Browser" itself is an inherently vague concept. Is iTunes as it exists today a browser? How about Twitter clients that render HTML/JS?

When you isolate WebKit and the other rendering engines as OS-level services, it's even fuzzier.
That's exactly what I did. I created bots for every single state. I wanted to scrape as much data as possible so I went for all the data available that every state had. Writing each bot took only a day or two, but running them took much longer. I also did all of this in my spare time on top of a full time job. If I worked on it full time, I probably could have done it in 6 months.
I'm disappointed that you dismiss uranium extraction from seawater as absurd without any argument. There's a recently-tested process which uses a treated polyethylene mesh to absorb uranium from seawater at a cost that would be more expensive than current uranium costs, but still well within the reasonable price range, and its energy inputs are small compared to the amount of energy you can get out of uranium, as it is an exceptionally energy-dense material.

(By the way, regarding the capital costs of building nuclear plants, it's possible to build current-generation nuclear plants in bulk for capital costs comparable to those of coal plants, and there are designs for fourth-generation plants that would have significantly lower capital costs. The issue here is not insurmountable.)
If Apple puts out an SDK for the Apple TV in September, things could get exciting pretty fast.
Try IAX/IAX2, a NAT-transparent VoIP protocol.
But as the amount of people hoarding it goes up, the value of bitcoin will eventually drop. You can't have a market that climbs indefinitely on the basis of speculation alone.
I'm no legal scholar, but I think I see the distinction.

By ex post facto, the US Constitution refers to a law that allows prosecution of offenses that occurred before the law was passed. That allows for all sorts of horrible abuses of power.

I think it's safe to assume that there's a grandfather clause in the US law to comply with the Berne Convention, in order to allow uses of works under copyright that were in public domain at the time. If that's the case, then it wouldn't be considered ex post facto according to the US Constitution. Going forward, however, the work is copyrighted and can't be used without the permission of the author.
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I don't know about that.

Firstly, Gruber recently pulled up "claim chowder" for someone in 2001 who thought that Apple had a tough time to rebuild their company and would fail. Is that such a crazy idea back in 2001? It's only with the bias of what happened since that might make you believe it was crazy. It wasn't crazy though, it was wrong, but not crazy.

edit: I can't find the Gates one changed my example.

I like the real claim chowder by Gruber, not so much the fake stuff.

And he did say, in April 2011, that wifi was too slow for syncing. That's not very long ago, nothing has changed for wifi since then. So he is guilty of it right?

Secondly, it's not just wifi, we're talking about ISPs and broadband syncing to Apple's servers. So that's even more elaborate than Gruber thought was impossible.

Edit: example from 2001
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/20/alsin-claim-chow...
Microsoft has not acquired Skype yet, so it doesn't make sense to try and blame them.
This definitely seems true - which is interesting, since Apple and Google have both been floundering around unsuccessfully trying to create their own community experiences.

Facebook & co are really the prize here - whichever OS company can integrate the most deeply with existing social networks is going to come out on top. If either one of them can let go of the dream of having their own social network, they'll be able to move faster and get the edge.

I suspect that Google are more attached to that dream than Apple. However, they're arguably more capable of pulling it off.
I was thinking of Fils-Amie saying the 3DS "isn't for unproven indies". I suppose it would make sense if the WiiWare model carried over to Wii U.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/37379/Nintendo-3DS-isnt-a...
What's new in iOS 5?
What a load of inflammatory hogwash. iPhone/iPod/iPad + 'Cloud' is so far removed from Microsoft's core market, I can't even imagine how one would come to this conclusion.

As for consumer trends leading corporate trends, I guess that means that in five years we'll all be employed as {whatever}ville click-slaves on Facebook.
You don't have nothing to hide. You just haven't realized that there's something you want hidden about your life.
I also use Facebook for personal and Twitter for work/code. I try to spill over a little of each so that my friends can see my work and my peers can see I'm a human. My blog has a mix of technical and personal, but lately it's mostly technical.

I think the author has a point, but I think it should be up to the user to be able to "subscribe" to different identities rather than having to choose which one you will post under. I think stuff like tags and categories will help with this. Until then, I'll just keep making noise, I think if it's signal to someone, it's worth it.
Okay, after reading that page, I still don't know what Dwolla Grid is.
The instability problems like the major downtime in December, 5 months before Microsoft bought them?
If you run a business, the same point (clarity of focus) is specifically applicable for receiving client referrals as well. I'm in a fairly broad industry (business coaching) and I have colleagues who, variously, work with businesses from solopreneurs to listed multi-nationals, across countless industries, 27 countries (and counting), and on projects that range from cashflow management to cultural purpose and intent. I can, and have, helped businesses with all of that myself.

But if I asked you for a referral and told you I was looking for a business of any size in any industry in any country that needed any guidance, how many would come to mind? Zero, or at least none that you felt were specific enough to refer to me. In fact, you probably wouldn't refer to me because it sounds like I'm saying I can do everything and that's probably (and actually) not true.

Alternatively: "I am looking for young, energetic business owners in London, turning over £2M-£20M per annum and looking to grow by learning from someone else's experience".

How many come to mind now? Probably still none, especially if you're not in London. But for the people who can make the right referral for me, the specific definition of my ideal client makes it easier to understand who I want an introduction to, and for them to make that introduction.

So whether for a job or your next client, I whole-heartedly agree that knowing what you ideally want and being able to articulate that will lead to results.
I want to meet the web developer that isn't already "syncing" data on the server vs. the client.
The concept of hoarding in the original article and in this thread is fundamentally identical to a liquidity trap.
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Speaking of inflammatory hogwash...
http://www.asymco.com/2011/03/13/the-billion-dollar-smart-co...
Estimates 1 billion revenue on smart covers this year alone.
I believe he IS taking advantage of an auto-retained property, which is why he needs the release... because the property setter has issued its own retain, which will be released when the property is set again...
What about designers who can code? I think that's a major consideration in hiring a web designer.

If you get one who can't code, how well do they understand what is possible or easy in the browser? How well will they work with the coder you have to hire?

A lot of times you can get a decent frontend person who designs and codes for less than you can hire a coder and a designer.
But doesn't a rich client need a platform, the browser being one of them? The rest are proprietary platforms like iOS.

If the browser platform is not around in 10 years, I hope that means it has gotten superseded by a more powerful open platform that is not owned by anyone.

But I do not see any potential for a revolutionary change in the way we consume the web. What I expect (or maybe hope for) is just browsers that keep getting more powerful, I expect evolutionary progress in the browser space. And I expect the browser model to remain the dominant web platform, because it is open and it is good enough--there are no other paradigms that blow it away; Adobe Air, Java, and iOS are just more of the same (whether it runs in a browser, on Air, JRE or iOS, it is still an app).

Therefore since all of these platforms are based on the same principles and they all do the same thing, what we need is to improve the web platform to be the best one.

If we find out that there are certain bottlenecks that will make it impossible for the web to be as fast and shiny as the others, we'll need to re-engineer the parts that are causing the bottleneck. What is it that makes iOS apps faster and shinier than web apps? Couldn't we add new technologies or improve the current ones to allow web apps to be just as good if not better?
Marginal utility, marginal utility, marginal utility.

It's true for USD, BTC, EUR, PLN... you name it. The more money you have the less valuable the last unit (coin) is. Or seems. Value is subjective, anyway. So what we have here is just another feedback mechanism which will regulate the level of saving/hoarding according to individual preferences of savers/hoarders. This way, hoarding, it self-regulates.
That's not allowed, but you can charge more for the native app version and give it more features. Charge $6 for the native app, but add offline reading. Charge $4 for the web version.
Nope. Apple's terms are explicit that iTunes price has to be lowest possible option (though others can be equally low). They've offered publishers like Conde Nast a tiny bit of wiggle room, by allowing them to sell print + digital bundles on their own sites; those bundles are more expensive than the all-digital subscription offered on itunes, but you could argue that they effectively discount the digital portion.
Google Docs is Office's closest competitor, but not outside individuals and small organizations, simply BECAUSE it's all stored on "the cloud". BitBucket and GitHub have the same problem. It's not that they're not good products, it's that there are many, many, many very large companies that want to keep their data to themselves.

And by the way, being "encrypted" on the cloud doesn't usually mean what most people seem to think it means. Example: http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/security/2295006...
We use uberprints.com. Very cool that you've seen them in the wild!
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Clicked the TryFree email after registering. 500 error. :/ Tried again a minute ago and it worked.
It's crazy. They found a problem, and solved it in a novel way. This makes having a console possible in my single tv house.

Too bad this won't be out for Christmas or I'd be getting one this year.
As far as I can tell, yesterday’s announcement supports what the OP is quoting from Gartenberg – his point was that “post PC” doesn’t mean no more PCs. The announcement yesterday simply meant that Apple now considers the PC a device on equal footing with the phone and tablet rather than the “hub” of your media collection. That doesn’t mean no PCs, it just means the end of “PC era” where they were the central computing device. Being demoted to a peer isn’t the same as being deprecated as obsolete.
The criticism of Germany's culture of designing well made products that are an excellent value is a bit odd. Germany's economy has done much better than most others during the Great Depression II, and has avoided the problems with crime, fraud and corruption of the US.

The only reasonable explanation for the article is the author is threatened by Germany's success and hoping to confuse them by writing an article advocating they do dumb things instead.
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Now we can identify the child molesting TSA agents, too.
While the WiiWare SDK is a lot cheaper than previous kits, Ninntendo still has you jump through the hoop of being a registered and licensed developer with a business office and a secure facility to store the development kit/hardware. So while it may open the doors to some smaller studios, it's still generally outside of the reach of most "indie" devs compared to the iphone app store.
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For a more general breakdown across technologies, check out http://underthesite.com - it's still very much in development, but it now shows technology reach graphs.

Feedback appreciated.
A valid criticism, I admit. :-)
Apple's bt keyboard works great with the iPad - I use it with mine. So while I agree that there are still apps that are impractical on a tablet (Photoshop with 12MP RAW images, anyone?), needing a keyboard is not a differentiating point.
I doubt that it is a lack of "seriousness" which is keeping Bing, Blekko, DDG, et al. from providing competition to Google. It feels to me that the theme of this year for me has been "the network effect," because it just keeps reappearing in my life.

Further, the very fact that those other search engines exist is cause for you to take your advertising absorption orbs away from Google if you disagree with their business practices. Voting with your dollars is the basis of the free-market economy, as I understand.
This is all just one argument, the same argument others have been making: Bitcoin will inevitably deflate. That is true. Whether the conclusions are true remain to be seen. It's the old Keynsian vs. Austrian argument.

What makes this an especially interesting experiment, is that Bitcoin is far more divisible than any other currency in history. This alleviates many of the typical objections to a fixed currency, and introduces a dynamic that, frankly, I don't think anyone understands yet.

There still remain the question of whether the process of deflation itself makes a currency unviable. Herein lies the actual debate. I for one am going to enjoy watching it, and see how it all works out. There is a lot that we can learn. Let's hope governments don't get in the way and stop the experiment in-vitro.
Indeed. To make your point more explicit: My girlfriend has my old iPhone 3G. Given that iCloud will not be supported on the 3G, she will have to buy a new phone once the MobileMe subscription runs out, to continue to use the handy synchronization features of MobileMe.

Now, it's just calendars and contacts, but as documents, "App state", etc. moves into iCloud, people will feel necessary to update to the latest device more often to be able to use iCloud in its fullest.

Every year you do not upgrade your device, you will miss out on more and more improvements, until your device becomes unsupported (the iPhone 3G was obsoleted well within 2.5 years).

iCloud and comparable offerings will make digital life easier for many people. But it will also be a lot harder to get out of the vendor grip. People will dislike these companies as much as they disliked Microsoft, but will be equally tied to their products.
The attitude in communist and now most ex-communist countries ever since Stalin came to power is "why let a private individual hamstring the government with rules and lawyers when the state has the upper hand in its ability to use violence to get what it wants?".

There's also a tendency toward oligarchy and power cliques. Again, a pattern created by Stalin in which his "dictatorship of the proletariat", or the governing clique rules quasi-divinely in the interest of the people and is not subject to any limits on their power.

You've got to see it in terms of how the ex-communist oligarchy sees it. The airport was not upgraded by the financiers. They merely found the capital and hired the people to do it. It was the workers, the citizens of the Russian federation who made the upgrades to the airport with their hard work. They discount the risk and the ability to persuade capital to focus and instead concentrate on who actually did the physical work to do the upgrade.
I think it's worth observing, since several comments here seem to be assuming otherwise, that I interpret the OP's argument as being "I hope news doesn't get personal" for the purpose of an informed public capable of making critical decisions, as opposed to proclaiming it's a preferable business model.

Of course you will sell more chocolate ice-creams to a chocoholic than if you tried to force them to buy broccoli, but that's not good for their health. And you're likely to be more profitable marketing personalised news, but at what expense to civil conversation and a social middle ground where reasonable debate can be held?
Smaller companies, anyhow. It's not like the Android market where just about anyone can publish a game.