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Already seeing these out of stock. Not all the surprising, but had they just sold these at, say, $199 (or even $249) they'd have flown off the shelves. People would put up with some flaws/kinks for something with promise.

What would that have done for HP?

Well... they'd likely have lost money on each one. But... they'd have had a much larger market of consumers and developers. Even better, they may have been able to establish some footholds in verticals that android or ipad might be establishing.

"But wait! They can't lose $X on every unit and still be profitable!". In the short term, probably not. But... they've got profits from other divisions that could have propped this up while they established marketshare. Microsoft's done this quite successfully over the years in some markets.

Instead of charging $499, then planning to spend millions in marketing, just cut the price to cost, and let the product do the talking. I wanted one of these, as did several people I know. But $499... was simply too much for a late contender. But rather than overcharging then trying to bolster demand for it via marketing/ads, they could have cut the price.

It's pretty clear that at $99, they're selling out, even without the chance of any future updates/patches or even mass market utility. $199-$249 and pretty much no marketing costs would have still guaranteed a large market for this, and set the stage for HP to be a real contender in this space.

I guess that's thinking way too much outside the box though... Yes, it's speculation, but it would have been a much stronger alternative than how it ended up, and left HP with a chance to grow here. :/
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About the McLovin ID thing, I don't think it's Google's responsability to police which ids are fake and which are not. As far as I know faking an ID is a misdemeanor or a felony in most US states [1] and some other countries (like Brazil), so if there is any complaint against a reporter and he is found to have submitted a fake ID he is in for a fine and maybe jail time. I'm personally ok with requiring a user to commit a crime to cause antisocial behavior, as this ensures that they can be prosecuted in some way (this is the same principle behind DMCA takedown notices, where the person sending the letter is liable for a number of crimes if they are not who they claim to be or if they do not in fact own the right to the media at hand).

[1] http://www.celticfringe.net/teenlife/fakeid.html ) and
They start thinking the whole world revolves around them. They fail to take competition seriously and fail to employ disruptive innovation to create their next generation products. They forget people are buying usefulness and think their clients want their products. The average user doesn't want a computer/PDA/whatever - the average user wants to do the things they once needed computers/PDAs/whatever for.

Will it happen to Apple and Google? Not sure. Possibly.

When companies get big, they start to abhor change. Change is what keeps companies smart.
I put a keyboard shortcut into an operating system once - Action-delete to clear the keyboard buffer. You know, you were compiling on a command line and tried to type in the next command and messed it up and wanted to go home but now you have to either kill the build and start again, or wait half an hour for the build to complete and retype the line?

I never found anybody else, ever, who knew about this one. I used it a dozen times a day.
I was telling you the example is bad because it's not like Microsoft made a complex acquisition of a company with a product line with QDOS. They just bought a couple thousand lines of x86 code any single person could read and understand completely.
I disagree with the sentiments here that MS is a battleship that can force itself into the market.

MS have proven themselves to be very poor at updating Windows Phone. They simply aren't light enough on their feet.

Their battle ship did not help the Zune.

And their ideas on tablet interfaces are STILL centred around matching desktop power and features.... They were arrogant and dismissive towards the iPad, and Windows on tablets will definitely be a bloodied nose for them if they believe they can drop in desktop applications onto curated experiences like tablets.

The only chance I can see, is if they position themselves as a simpler alternative to Android.
Only if I have a Windows license, which I don't.
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The only language I know which actually uses "colour" in its standard library, is Occam, designed in Bristol. Are there any others?

(Nitpick: "socialize" is the original spelling; "socialise" was a change in spelling on our side of the pond.)
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"its consequences will be exacerbated by the sex-selective abortion practised for a generation there."

Or, more likely, it's part of the cause. Maybe women in Asia are delaying marriage in part because they have more leverage, similarly to the black men in the U.S. who aren't in prison.
Ok, so by "gender equality", you merely mean "statistically similar representation of women in assorted reference classes" rather than "equal treatment". (The latter is what I originally thought you meant.)

Of course, I'd be rather hard pressed to see what that has to do with fertility. I'd suggest maybe that there is a simpler explanation for the phenomenon you observed - the countries with gender equality also seem to have lots of subsidies for parenthood. Most likely the subsidies are the cause of fertility.

If the subsidies are the actual cause, we could probably get higher fertility by subsidizing parenthood together with higher societal expectations of maternal activities from women. The carrot of free money for the fertile life path, and the stick of lower social status for the less fertile path.

(Not that I advocate this course of action, but I'm not in favor of encouraging fertility in any case.)
Joke about php devs not being savvy enough to actually go and make these changes in 3... 2... 1...
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I find myself getting genuinely annoyed when having to write things like "color" in CSS.

I wonder, though, as fun as it is to think about these jokes, what serious implications it had. Let's say, for example, it actually had been started with variables using a £ rather than $, would it have made any difference at all?
> in Bangkok, 20% of 40-44-year old women are not married

In Bangkok, 20% of the women you see in couple on streets are part of a woman-woman couple, holding hands - usually one with short hair and a shirt, and one with long hair and a dress - something I've never seen as prevalent anywhere else in the world, and something the locals don't look twice at.
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There's actually many cases where we (Brits) hate on the American version without realising that actually theirs is the version we were using back when we sent people over to America, and it is us we have changed over the years not they. Still annoys me though :)
"there are no marriages, because marriages are nowadays too fast and detrimental for male parties. What we need, is actual equality between the genders."

I'm not sure I follow this logic. By all indications in both the East and West, it's women, not men, who are driving the changes in marriage rates, ages, and trends.

1) Women are entering and succeeding in the workforce, and accordingly, they see less reason to give that all up for traditional marriages and gender roles.

2) Men outnumber women in many Asian countries (especially China, for obvious reasons). Ergo, the women in these countries can afford to be choosey. It's a buyer's market, and they are the buyers. With the power dynamic in the meat market shifted in their favor, they can be more selective and take their time. Unfortunately, they can't wait too long, because eventually, they'll lose out to younger women entering the same market -- and, when that happens, many will have forfeited their marriage prospects altogether.

[For what it's worth, I am a proponent of gender equality. Please don't misconstrue me there. I am not passing judgment on any of these trends, but rather, am simply observing them.]
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What do any of those offer that email doesn't? If you send me an email, it gets pushed to my phone apparently instantly.
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The British dialects of English have undergone far more change than English elsewhere. Some British dialects were heavily influenced by French, or imitated the francophone "upper" classes so much so that they no longer trill their 'r'. [Citation Needed]

Also, India preserves the vocabulary of the old English bureaucracy, now lost in Britain. [Citation Needed]
But why exactly are you doing that? I fail to see how a de-emphasizing of the url-bar helps. Especially from an UX-point of view.

I see only one advantage:

* less screenspace used

But some drawbacks:

* The primary way of navigation is not seeable on start of the thought to go somewhere else anymore (note: maybe not the most common way to go somewhere, given the bookmarks on the startpage and people using only google, but still the primary way when you want to go anywhere now and you understand urls)

* Relying on people understanding tabs

* Introduction of a hidden feature and usage of an already used interaction (double-click on tab)

It seems you want to enforce the opening of a tab when you go somewhere, especially since you have no dedicated and always seeable search-field. And your answer to the comment above implies you maybe want to think about a different navigation concept. Which all is fine in some part, opening tabs when going somewhere fits to my usage-pattern.

But i think that this development (as other browser-vendors try to hide the url too) is aimed at a specific class of users (google-only-users + bookmark-only-users + power-users reconfiguring their browser like they want), letting many other (e.g. all struggling users who just discovered the url) behind.
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"Not only does this result in a zero-remainder."

Not necessarily. You're forgetting that each pixel is made out of three little colors, so with certain color arrangements one can probably get remainder even on a 1x1 pixel rhythmic grid.
Only if you really need outside capital. Then yes. But small businesses are set up all the time with just the owner's resources. Bootstrapped entrepreneurs who build lifestyle businesses rarely make the headlines but they do enjoy an enviable amount of control over their own lives.
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I think p̶e̶a̶c̶e̶f̶u̶l̶ societies self-destruct.
America is a preservation jar for per-Enlightenment Britain.
Are you going to be able to pass data between the phases other than through the DB? It doesn't sound like it from your description, but living without closure equivalent would be painful. Maybe some way to add some data that gets message-passed to the next phase?

Sounds interesting.
really? I'm British and I'm quite amazed at how I can (without ever thinking about it) switch between colour and color. I wonder if maybe some people approach programming as a different language (eg: color isn't colour, it's color, it is a unique thing) and then some approach it as an extension of their own language.
Maybe I just don't code enough to have got used to it.
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I don't think I'd feel comfortable using such a direct clone of someone else's software. From a cursory glance it doesn't seem that Fulcrum brings anything new to the table, so using it would make me feel like I was stealing from Pivotal.

Hopefully over time Fulcrum can differentiate itself and compete on features, not on price.
You are assuming that the patent system as it stands rewards people who have ideas (more than the alternative of having no patents at all would).

I think there is a good chance that this is not true at all.

Some possibilities:

Maybe the system rewards people with the best lawyers? Perhaps the system rewards people who are more worried at shooting the other runners instead of running as fast as he possibly can? It could also be that it rewards large companies (since worrying about patents is mostly outside the radar of small companies), making good people want to join them?

Ideas will not ever become worthless, if only because often it takes a certain mindset to extract value out of them.
If it were truly British then upon an exception it would apologise excessively and offer to dust you off.

Queues would also be ubiquitous. Data could not be accessed in order, but would have to be retrieved from an unordered queue, which would necessarily involve a long wait.

There would also be a congestion charge for drivers at certain hours of the day and interfacing with Rails would cause unexpected delays.
What do you think would be a good solution to that?
As another poster remarked, strong nations adopting a warlike attitude to preserve their vigor is probably not going to work out well in a world full of nukes and bioweapons. If that becomes a popular approach, we're all dead.

It's an interesting claim. I don't think I buy it--the U.S. is entering our period of decline right now, and our belligerence is, if anything, accelerating that--but maybe you'll make a longer argument with examples on your blog.
Only if HP can't sell the Palm assets to someone first. That should be priority number one. If the new buyer wants to open source it let them go through the trouble of due diligence.

If webOS can't be sold, which would be surprising in this environment, then HP could donate the source to Apache or Eclipse and maybe get a write off out of it.
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we could replace the semicolon with "innit!"

$oranges = "lemons" innit!
> The only chance I can see, is if they position themselves as a simpler alternative to Android.

Which is damn hard to do because Android is open-source and you don't want to even talk to Google unless you want to put Google-branded software on your thingie. It's hardly noticeable, but Android powers all Nook devices, including the first dual-screen one.
World War II was indeed the greatest tragedy and mistake in all of human history. The start of the war, the conduct of the war, and the conclusion of the war were all disasters, killing millions, destroying millions of people's lives, and finally delivering millions into the clutches of totalitarianism.

No, no one sane would advocate for another WWII.

However, a nation that implodes is also incredibly unpleasant. The most well-known is going from Rome to the Dark Ages. This path should also be avoided.

Re: resource scarcity, it's counter-mainstream but I'm not sure that's correct... net actionable resources might even be increasing - see, ex, all the energy that can now be gotten out of thorium. If you're a believer in cold fusion being possible (hot fusion already is possible, but isn't economical) then fossil fuels are basically a non-issue. But that's a long conversation. Suffice to say, I think the Earth can prosperously contain many more people than today, and that if it did so, it would be more prosperous. Much moreso, actually, since all gain comes from talented people and groups doing interesting things. But that's a long conversation.

Anyways. My argument is "completely pacifist societies seem to self-destruct" - there are a few rare exceptions that are extremely mountainous or islands or mountainous islands. Even they have some defense forces. But yes, I think a small amount of militarization goes a long ways towards having a more healthy nation that isn't self-destructing, which is important.
I don't see why you think WP7 is a competitor to Google but not Apple. Philosophy-wise, it is somewhere between the iOS and Android platforms. More locked down than Android, less locked down than iOS. Like Android, WP7 is currently distributed by OEMs, independently from Microsoft. But the licensing agreement for those OEMs is much tighter than it is for Android. Like iOS, Microsoft has an established entertainment distribution channel centered around XBox Live and the Zune technology. Even if they think Android is an easier target, I guarantee you they consider Apple a competitor.

In any case, I don't see why you think OEMs are particularly dependent on Google. Google has no direct control over Android -- it's just that Google's fork of the Android source code is the most popular with OEMs for the time being. There is nothing stopping OEMs from building their own CyanogenMod-type customizations (after all, Samsung just hired the creator of this ROM) or even forking Android entirely as apparently some Chinese OEMs are doing: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/07/androids-ascent-.... Hell, there's nothing stopping Microsoft OEMs from releasing their own customization of Android with deep integration with XBox Live, Bing search, and Microsoft's other cloud services.
Well, it's not "colour", but there are actually a few types in the .NET Base Class Library (BCL) which use the British spelling. Example: the StackBehaviour enumeration (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.em...)
Don't forget the G1 was seriously underpowered.
If someone likes marriage as a concept and a form of art, doesn't mean they want to be married themselves, now and with all the implications.

By analogy: many women enjoy and write slash stories about male homosexuality, which they obviously can't participate in. Same for wedding stories, dresses and shots.
Well, lets take the expensive stuff, like Health care, and find out.

Expert systems should be far better in diagnosing problems than a doctor. Which would free doctors to work on other issues. R&D perhaps?
You are assuming that the patent system as it stands rewards people who have ideas

Sorry, I should have been clearer: I am describing the purpose of the patent system, not the current application of the patent system. As I said, the actual application of the patent system is horribly broken. My question was whether or not the underlying assumptions that created the patent system in the first place will still be valid or not once everything becomes bits.
In fact the only MMOG I'm playing regularly only allows people to play two turns a day, preventing actively anyone from spending hours a day on the game, and that's a great idea.
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It's not just browsers. Browsers are pretty sane when it comes to charsets, because they had the time to make it right and the pressure to do so.
(It wasn't like that in times of NN4/IE4, which would interpret your text as whatever they want and won't even let you override)

Facing to something less agamant (like dreaded id3 tags), no such luck.
I agree completely with what you said, but think about why it is blatantly obvious to you. It's obvious because you know the web page is a document with images overlaid with text.

Imagine instead that you are viewing an image in a photo viewer that has some text. Would you think to ctrl+f that? I wouldn't. The end-user you're referring to doesn't know the difference between the two scenarios.
This isn't about liability. They already have common carrier status, which means that they won't be held accountable for what users say. This is about the kind of community they want to have. Unfortunately, by putting restrictions on the kind of community they want, they have also restricted the number of people who will be able to participate. Google+ can never be universal if they limit the interactions people are allowed to have.
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POV-Ray script accepts both spellings.

http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.0/230/
Why would you want them to disappear? I have Flurry installed in my apps to help me identify usage patterns, and see which types of people use my apps. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
BBC BASIC, which does the reputable thing of accepting it both forms equally.
Also a Brit here. I used to get annoyed, but eventually I think it seeped into my system as a different language as you put it. About 2 years ago I had a colleague get very angry with me for writing code analogous to:

Color colour = new Color();

To me, it makes perfect sense, and tbh didn't realise I was even doing it. I definitely endorse everyone standardising on American spelling though, now its been pointed out to me.
I didn’t find it that harsh. He was direct and took pains not to ridicule a thirteen year-old for making an entirely age-appropriate mistake in measuring the results. Instead, he asked the perfectly valid question of how this becomes news without critical thought.

In that, the critique seemed hopelessly ignorant of how the news works. Why should science fair projects be treated any differently than crime, the personal lives of celebrities, politics, or economics? News outlets publish first and ask questions later or not at all. They have gone to court to defend their right to publish things they know to be false.

How did a confused science project become international news? Why, the same way that almost any overnight sensation becomes international news, by being digestible, by being something people want to be true, by appealing to their preconceived biases.

A commenter pointed out that this is the value of a peer-review process. And indeed, this result was published without peer review. So who is the fool here? The journalist for publishing without review? Or the reader who knowingly accepts the result despite it being published without peer review and/or corroboration?
Google's handling is pretty cold. They encountered a critical issue with having a social [human] network, their support isn't human.

They prefer automation over everything. And that aim will keep biting them in the ass.
In BBC basic it was indeed COLOUR, which took me some unlearning.
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Type inference helps with that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference
But on the other hand, people want more and more wealth. For example, I cannot imagine myself living today without a washing machine. Yet 50 years ago it would have been considered a luxury.
Thanks for the link, I'll have to check this out some time. For some reason I always find it hard to imagine how I could write a whole app in a functional language. Probably that's because I've never actually done it..
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The fact that the author refers to the search / find in text functionality by 'CTRL+F' instead of its name, and refers to it as a 'trick' doesn't cast his proficiency in the best of lights.
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