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Hopefully Google learned their lesson with Honeycomb and its futile attempt to beat the iPad 2 to market. The iPhone 5 is going to have massive sales and publicity no matter what; it's not worth rushing ICS.
Ouch. It’s not an obscure device, it’s a freaking PADD. Did you never watch Star Trek?

Anyway, I don’t agree and since we all don’t have any empirical results – only different opinions – we might as well stop here. I only fear that the courts and the politicians who wrote the law also didn’t have any empirical results.
The article mentions that Google and others (Microsoft) got in on the same financing deal granting them similar licenses. RIM licensed the same portfolio this past March.

Anyone know why Google/MS/RIM haven't filed to intervene as well?

Edit:

List of investors: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/05/intellectual-venture...

RIM: http://www.intellectualventures.com/newsroom/pressreleases/1...
A couple blatant problems with your comparison, among others:
* That is not a final-representation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Tab)
* The back and profile sides are nothing alike, for the Tab and Apple iPad.
* The front sides is only comparable in an obvious "shape," "size," and "materials," but all of these are also represented in previous art and even dozens of lines of monitor fabs.

Maybe you ought to be specific on what is so non-obvious about the iPad, because I have a feeling you are simply have not been made aware or fail to recognize previous art.
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Not only were all those start-ups of his extremely difficult technically wise, and also difficult to succeed in those markets, but he was basically running them in the same time! That's incredible. And he's just 40, and I think there's a lot more we'll see from him. His wife said at the end that he's also thinking about making electric jets, fusion reactors, and colonizing the Moon and Mars. After what he's done so far, I wouldn't bet against him.
I was wondering about this. It seems that the netbook has given way to the tablet. Is ChromeOS still relevant or, as with many things Google, just a foray into an area that will become something bigger, later.
Nobody cares kid. Grow up.
Alloy's MacVim fork aims for better OS X integration:
https://github.com/alloy/macvim

You're not going to get a better editor than vim or emacs. If you really refuse to learn either, there's always SublimeText 2, which is in beta right now. It's what most imagine TextMate 2 would have been (and yes, I'm aware that TM2 is being developed, but it's nothing more than vaporware to me at this point).
They're using large buttons in the post contents above their Twitter/email blurb (and do so in previous posts), so yet another large button saying "Follow us on Twitter" would just get lost in the mix.

So, in this case, a smaller link with a nice yellow box around it is likely a better call to action as it's different from the rest of the content.
General McArthur, after the fire bombing of Tokyo and other large cities in Japan said that if the US doesn't win the war, he will be a war criminal. the definers tend to be the winners at least initially. From the longer term historical perspective, not so much, for example, Japanese internment during WW2.
IMHO, too much emphasis is placed on making points. Consider that the success of science is more due to its reliance on the scientific method than the brilliance of its theoreticians. I believe that the process by which a conclusion is reached is more important than the conclusion itself. There is entirely too little attention payed to error management.
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I think non-techies were already quite confused by open applications with no visible Windows. It confused me when I first used a Mac, and I like to think I know what I'm doing.
Let's assume I store base64 encoded versions of encrypted passwords in my database. The key is 128 random bits in a file in the filesystem. How does sqli get you anything useful? Why do you not believe that's "safe"? (let's ignore other attacks or better solutions. Just sqli)

Update: from other posts, I'm guessing you're assuming that anyone with sqli has other problems too, and that's why you don't think it's safe from sqli?
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Ditto with Google and Microsoft.
Pulling data out of thin air, while fun, does not make for an intelligent conversation.
As a practical matter, this would require the enforcement agency to publish the correct price for every asset regulated.

Publishing a formula for this calculation wouldn't be good enough, because then you would be required to value things based on the formula and that leads you back to...accounting.
I've had Comcast at 5 different apartments and only once did my IP address ever change while living at the same address, after a prolonged maintenance period when they ran new physical cables in my neighborhood.

The IPs are semi-static, and I would notice immediately if my IP changed since I have deny requests from any IP but my own to several webpages of mine.

Plus the IP address in the copyright infringement notice had a rdns hostname corresponding to an entirely different state.
The context, if anyone isn't aware of it: http://adainitiative.org/2011/07/oreilly-announces-anti-hara... http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-harassment_policy_re...

It's hard to argue against due process, yet... I foresee abusive people using "I'm the victim" rhetoric to turn such due process against their own victims.
I'm in a similar position: I use Linux (Ubuntu) for my development needs (I'm a computer engineering student), but I'm thinking of getting a Macbook Pro 13'' on a future trip to the U.S. (I'm from Europe, so buying it in the U.S. would save me money due to the current dollar value). However, I'm not sure if it's worth it, as I might work in security when I finish my degree next year, which might mean that I would mostly run Windows...
Any laptops have very similar specs? I've heard that the newest Vaio SB overheats sometimes...
Widgets must also play nice with accessibility features of the OS. I do not know whether doing that is possible on iOS without using native controls.
I don't see how rainbow tables are relevant. How would you use a rainbow table to crack passwords encrypted with an unknown key?
Because the goal of the EU is to create a common market. A EU-wide judiciary is consequently necessary to enforce certain laws (especially those that regulate the common market).
"When single tracks sold on iTunes for 99 cents, they sold on Walmart's MP3 store for 88 cents. When Apple offered popular singles at $1.29, Walmart was able to beat that by five cents, pricing the tunes at $1.24 each."

Seems the convenience of ecosystem integration was worth more than 5-11 cents.
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It also bears repeating that "Lodsys" is a shell company with a vacant office in Marshall, Texas whose sole business is licensing and litigating four patents purchased from IV under (we can only assume) a secret revenue-sharing agreement. For all intents and purposes here, Lodsys is IV.
Thanks for helping spread massive ignorance about how design patents (etc.) work.

If you make a phone with a distinctive design and patent that design, you list out the many features that comprise that design. You do not have a patent on every single one of those features. If someone copies a few of many features they certainly don't violate your patent. OTOH if they copy almost all of them they almost certainly do.

Where that line is varies and I don't know if Samsung is over the line but it's pretty clear that they are way closer to the line then any other major manufacturer.

And as for who this benefits, I'd suggest that HTC, Motorola and other Android vendors will benefit just as much or moreso then Apple.
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But on the other hand, if I write a piece of text and upload it to, say, Google Docs, I can't sue them for theft if they lose that data.
>Anyone know why Google/MS/RIM haven't filed to intervene as well?

Perhaps because, in terms of dollars spent by users, the iOS market is by far the biggest ongoing concern.

I'm sure that, for RIM at least, the cost-benefit analysis is pretty prohibitive.
But adding a layer that helps people measure their progress/achievements is absolutely not bullshit, if done well.

You have an excellent point. While I would not call it "gamifying", I certainly find that I go running more consistently and for longer distances when I make a point of logging more runs. It simply shows me clearly my progress (or lack thereof).
There are two seemingly opposite behaviors in Lion:

1. Application without a process: if an application has one or more open documents but no documents visible on screen, the app may terminate itself when resources are low. The applications still appears to be alive in the dock and command+tab menu, but its process has been terminated and is no longer consuming resources. When you command+tab back to the application it restarts itself and restores its previous state.

2. Process without an application: if an application has no open documents it will appear to quit automatically and is removed from the Dock and command+tab menu. In actuality, it remains running in the background ready to spring into action again.

The question is, why support behavior #2 at all?

Behavior #1 covers the automatic resource management and I think it works well (and unlike iOS, Mac applications can opt-out of this behavior). Behavior #2 seems to be aimed at Windows users who have no concept of "Quit", but it only aggravates long-time Mac users with zero actual benefit with respect to resource management. It has nothing to do with iOS and everything to do with grandma Windows users who just bought their first MacBook.
yes, seems really slow from my end too.
Nice! Then, if all this is correct, your solution should be nicely fast. Cute conversion of the metrics!
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It's been my experience that all the "moms" aren't the ones opening an application, closing all the windows, and then sometime later expecting that application to be there so they can command-tab to it. Instead I see a million apps left running on the dock because they clicked the red button on the window when they were done with the app.
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Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.
I would have imagined that a baseball bat isn't good in a one vs group situation. As you hit one person the others grab you and wrestle the bat off you. Consequently the bat would probably be turned on you.
As one parent commenter further noted: once you get riot mentality the mob/riot is entirely unpredictable. I'd imagine you would be in a perilous situation.

Considering the example:
If you were a shop owner in your shop vs a mob, I'd suggest that if you had to fight tere's a good probability that you were fighting for your life anyway. You would most likely be trying to permanently disable any threat. Perhaps a blow to the knee? I don't know how anyone would react.

The thing you need to consider is this: in the UK you aren't encouraged to buy equipment designed to hurt people (for example there's legislation on knives (length) and for guns you need licenses which are very hard to get). Also the law tends to be unfavaourable if you simply kill an intruder. You really have to be using due force.
Now consider you're home alone and a mob arrives at your door/flat. What do you do to protect yourself? What equipment (that you can easily justify was used in self defence or with appropriate force) should you use that might just persuade them that it's not worth the effort?

Perhaps getting the aluminium one to put them off?
Same domain name, company name necessary?
I have come up with a lot of great names for my company, but common consensus seems to be that before you settle on a name, you need to make sure the domain name is available, the twitter handle is available, etc. There are certain startups like Square (squareup.com) that get away with having a different domain name, when do you think it's appropriate to do this?

Thanks!
Not sure why parent is being down voted. This is exactly the behavior I observe as well.
> The top comment on a post about how to become a better programmer effectively amounts to "Don't try to be a better programmer, instead do X, Y, and Z because that will make more money"?

I read it more as: don't be a better programmer, write better programs.
I've been using Lion since the early DP releases and I've never had auto-termination kick in. I tend to leave apps open for very long periods of time. GarageBand has been running for at least 2 weeks and it's still running. I know it's been at least a week since I used it last. This machine has a lot of RAM so possibly it's working off the amount of free memory available? If so that seems like a smart feature to me. If you have 8-12GB of RAM you'll probably never see auto-termination in action. If you have 4GB you'll see it now and again. If you have 2GB you'll see it a lot but your machine will likely be running much better. On my old MacBook Air with 2GB the first thing I did when it got bogged down was to quit unused applications so...
It's called auto-termination:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Genera...

Only applications that support auto-save AND set NSSupportsAutomaticTermination to YES do quit when there are no open windows.
Okay, as (nearly) the most valuable company in the world, why don't they avoid all the legal maneuvering and resolve the problem with an acquisition?
I think JooJoo (aka CrunchPad) should sue Apple for design infringements. Clearly it came out before the iPad (JooJoo 2009, iPad 2010). When I see an iPad, I think of the JooJoo pad. It is rectangular; it has a bezel; and it's thin!

Clearly these are all traits only for Apple and an iPad to use. Clearly Apple copied these traits just like how Android copied everything of iPhone.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2009/12/main.jpg

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Not just slow, but down completely at times.
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It would need lots and lots and lots of work before I would call it a fantastic teaching tool. For example, it is spectacularly naive at plotting functions. Even a relatively simple function such as 1/sin(x) already brings it to its knees.
Unrelated, but in some of the more recent builds of Chrome, you can have Chrome warn you whenever you hit Cmd+Q to then have you hold the shortcut down to confirm quitting. It's saved me loads of frustration on more than a few occasions.

Screenshot of how to enable it: http://jhn.me/9BDE
Just used this for a phone interview. I knew it was a bit risky to do that on launch day, but decent support for syntax highlighting, indentation, and showing the other user's cursor made me think this was a use case this app was built for.

It was great for 30 mins but after that we started to get connectivity issues and had to move to TitanPad. Once it's more stable I'll switch for sure though.
Was there a beer shortage?

My theory has always been that if there was no beer, everyone would slowly realize "man, baseball is f-ing boring."
Can the JooJoo Pad sue Apple for infringements?

The bezel size, color, texture, and material are all the same.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2009/12/main.jpg
Yeah, but doesn't it take a few days to get your money to one of the exchanges? (Like mtgox?)
They're setting fire to buildings and cars and throwing bricks at people's faces. Arson has historically been considered one of the most serious of crimes because of the frequency with which fires spiral out of control, especially in a densely populated metropolis like London.

Look at the pictures. Still want to contend that the severity of what is going is equivalent to nicking a pack of cigarettes?
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For their MP3 store??
I doubt it. These are specific items, so if they sold 1 the previous month and sold 50 the next, 5000%
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That would probably be on the table if Lodsys weren't just a flunky for a massive consortium of patent trolls.
see also: http://us.pycon.org/2012/codeofconduct/ for PyCon's code of conduct.
I suggest you actually go read through Apple's patents before arguing about them. They didn't file a design patent for the entire device. Instead, as you browse through their collection, you see page after page of patents for tiny features like those I listed. A type of modal window, for example:

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=dLnlAAAAEBAJ&dq=7...

I literally laughed as I read through some of them, because I've definitely unknowingly violated many. It's impossible not to step on the toes of overly broad software patents.
I'm glad to see baseballs in that list too.
More to the point, the company everyone was emailing had a limit on the number of emails in a given inbox. The IT department for the company could have temporarily raised that limit or done other things to prevent disruption in service.

So basically, if you send emails to a company that is incapable of managing their email servers, you will be found guilty of hacking.
I think it's a false choice.

The example of Acorn and Pixelmator is strange. Acorn is not much easier to pick up, it has almost all the buttons. Personally found it harder to use and understand what it's for. If you don't understand it's particular use case and want to do a common task that it doesn't have, it suddenly becomes very hard to use.

In the current app ecosystem pro and consumer apps are indeed divided but there's no reason for this except tradition. You can present a full featured app as a simple consumer app by changing its UI. Then slowly reveal buttons and features if you detect it gets used everyday for example.

You could use a feature search UI, letting people use keywords to find the features they need. Basically a modern skin on the old command line.

Just because apps are done a certain way now doesn't mean you should copy this trend.

Programming languages are a good comparison. A full featured programming language can be easy enough for beginners if it has good tutorials and obviously serve serious users. A limited programming language will become hard in many beginner cases. DSLs usually make it clear what they are, a GUI like Acorn doesn't.

It's possible to make full featured programming languages look easy to beginners. LISP does it in a way, although its syntax looks unpleasant the fundamentals are easy to pick up. The same can be done for GUIs by introducing fundamentals that repeat. That might seem hard because today we have a mishmash of menus and buttons, where the only way to simplify is to have fewer buttons and menus and make them bigger.
A general system expansion slot would make a lot more sense. Think the RAM expansion on the N64. It'd be silly for each new game to have to provide its own extra processors or RAM in its own (expensive) cartridge, and console piracy is close enough to dead already.
I think the time is ripe for doing some civil disobedience about software and design patents.
It seems Apple now feels entitled to dictate the limits of choice not only within its own ecosystem but also without. This news comes in the same week that I finally try Android coding and find it much less scary than many people maintain and much more logical than iOS in many ways. Maybe this kind of bullying will tip the balance for me.

According to Nielsen's most recent survey, 50% of the people buying Android phones are doing it out of active dislike of Apple as a company. Expect this number to grow as the public sees more products blocked like this.

http://www.buzzom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Android-vs-...
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I've also heard this about large maglites. In fact they are often carried by being held near the globe end with the body of the torch resting on the shoulder. This allows the torch to be swung down onto a victim's collarbone breaking it and disabling that arm. (Apologies for the gruesome detail.)
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I was into the Seattle salsa scene and definitely saw a lot of engineers get "really good" at salsa. However, you can almost always tell who's a developer and who isn't, based on how they dance. They dance like they're just trying to solve another problem, just a set of steps to follow, feedback, etc.
They often forget that they are dancing to music with a woman (forgive the stereotype). They forget to smile, to enjoy, to make eye contact with her, or to care about the music they are dancing to. They just keep running through vuelta after vuelta...it's cool to see how they master it, but it still doesn't look like dancing.

Then again, who am I to judge dancing? I learned the basics in Bogota, Colombia and that's how they dance there (music and connection valued above moves) Maybe the engineered dancing truly is dancing, but it sure looks lifeless to me.
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I picked some links from IBM developerworks:

1. Functional Programming in Python 1,2,3:

* part1: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-prog/index.html ,
* part2: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-prog2/index.html
* part3: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-prog3/index.html

2. Decorators make magic easy: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cpdecor/in...

3. Writing plugins pattern: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-cli_plugins...
> convenience

> iTunes

iTunes is not what i associate with convenience. My experience tends to be quite the opposite, in fact.
> An active attacker having access to the DB, may use encryption to his heart contents.

If the encryption is done by the DB layer, which it often isn't.
Is the "magic 10,000 hours" figure pseudo-science? A sports science perspective.
Does anyone know of a site that collects these sorts of stories? I was recently looking to set up an environment to start experimenting with a new language and I have the ability to do it on ubuntu, os x, or windows 7, but I had trouble finding advice on the tradeoffs of them, beyond the stereotypical "use linux!" type stuff.
Does anyone know if they sync your contacts to their server? I know the Facebook app on the iPhone has a button to sync them, but a messaging app that relies on your contact list seems like it might just make that assumption and automatically do it.
A similar (and IMO, better written) story on emulating the TRS-80: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1755886
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Seems to happen to a lot of products that are 'simple'. It happened to Dropbox ("Why would I use this when I can do these other twelve steps to do nowhere near the same thing") and the Ipod ("Why would I need this when I have a CD Burner and a Discman" (srsly)). I think it's safe to ignore claims like it :)
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This is a double-edged sword. On one hand, maybe it has saved you from some memory leaks. On the other hand, maybe it has cleared the infinite undo stack in your 3d modeling program.

Granted, you can always fall back on the argument that if developers support the APIs correctly, this isn't an issue, but that is putting a lot more trust in developers than is warranted based on historical evidence.

IME the Xbox 360/Xbox Live method of just building features into the system always wins out vs the PS3/PSN method of expecting developers to support the available APIs and do the right thing. In that context, I think just allowing virtual memory to do what it has always done is the better way to go.