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Investigation and exploration is directly related to imagination and emotion. Because of the great political impact involved, we need to have plans in place to directly image these planets.

Plausible technology might, in our lifetimes, be able to resolve this planet as a dot. But you'll never get more than that.

What is interesting is that it's easier to measure the composition of its atmosphere than to resolve it as a dot. Find me a planet with an oxygen-rich atmosphere and it starts looking very likely that we might have life there.

On your other point, though, I don't think there's much point in having a political will to send people to another star. We're still (at the very least) hundreds of years away from the point where we can even start to think sensibly about how we might want to do it. It's like Columbus wanting to go to the moon.
Wouldn't most of your target group be using a graphics tablet for precision ?
Disagree. It's targeted at professionals. Why sell it cheap? He won't sell that many.
It looks like the switch just happened then. Looking at the SDK 2.5 documents post on the forum, somewhere around 2011-7-29. I'm glad they sorted that out, then.. I'll have to take a peek to see if they cleaned up the experience.
This would probably work better as a poll or an offsite, anonymous survey. I don't think you'll get very accurate results from limiting yourself to the small fraction of developers who:

- don't mind disclosing their salary in public

- don't have any co-workers, employers, or clients who read this site

- have a single fixed rate that they charge everybody

- don't plan to change their rate in the future

- make enough to not feel silly disclosing their rate in public

- don't make so much that they'll feel like they're just bragging

I'd personally be happy to tick a box, but I'm not going to quote my rate here.
It means they're bankrupt.
I'm curious on the poster's behalf; what about $9.99? Would you still buy it right now? Would an extra pound put you off that much?
I really like the menubar popover UI. What did you use to create that?
Just tweeted it out. I've got mostly designer followers so hopefully it boosts you a bit! It got >100 clicks in the first minute so now we'll see if you get some sales :)
What about exceptional individuals? People love to claim they are exceptional superhumans. Particularly young, single men with something to prove.

Is this true?

Lo and behold, they go on to conclude...

No.

They present lots of reasons why you're wrong. They specifically say that you will think you are more productive but you aren't.

You are wrong, but I'm not at all surprised you're the top comment at the moment. All your nonsense about balance is utter misdirection, they never said they sent people home banning them for doing housework, you're making up silly excuses to justify feeling like you're doing something special.

EDIT: Pages 17-21, it specifically deals with the very delusion presented above.
A lack of features is a feature of any Apple product. It's what makes them great, and accessible for the large public. It's the reason I absolutely love to USE my phone and iPad, and love to mess around with an Android device.

It's a lot harder to leave out features than adding. You have to be carefull about what you leave out, make sure you don't touch core-functionality, and make sure the features that are present are done brilliantly, because they will be in the spotlight, all the time. I'm not saying Apple does this flawlessly, I'm not a blind fanboy, they have serious misses (notifications pre-IOS5, Calendar app, IOS folders, ...) - but they do this a lot better than anyone else.

To be honest, I never had problems with "missing" features (except calendar/call overview in the lock screen), but more problems with the implementation of features that were present, but not executed well enough.
This is why you should always carefully consider what features you add to your product. It is always easier to add a feature than to remove it (even if it is only used by 5% of your users).
To improve it. Even IBM's VM could be improved (and was). The trick is trying not to break interfaces.

But even that is something you should do from time to time. I don't think many current versions of Windows support Win16 software.
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I dont know why, but ppk has been super pessimistic on android in all of his posts lately. I think he may have been jaded from the simbian/nokia relationship, and the partners abandoning it.
Yep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
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Some do yes. I am experimenting with making it for for that too.
Actually, 0.39 Lehmans.

Greek debt is around $240 billion and Lehman assets were around $613 billion.

Of course, that number does not even consider that countries only partially and temporarily default, instead of fully and permanently like limited corporations, and that everyone who owns Greek debt has had a generous advance warning. This is really a comparatively minor crisis.
Morin launched Path, a smaller social network, in November, 2010. In December, Google offered him a $100 million buyout, plus a $25 million earn out over four years.

That's quite impressive for such a short time. Does anyone know what they had that was so desirable after so little time?
A lot of time these two options go hand in hand.

That said, a lot of the tools I use at work are built by myself or my team. I trust them, so "making it work" is enough for me, especially because I don't always have the time to understand everything 100%.

If I'm doing something as a hobby, I try to understand it, because time isn't really a factor there, and that's the fun part, right?
It's depressing but it's the reality of the Mac App Store. Huge companies are shipping games for under 10 bucks, so even though it's sad, you have to scale your price with the overall economics.

On the iOS App Store it's even worse. I actually heard a good quote once: "if your app is amazing, make it 99-cents. If it's shit, make it $2.99."
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Breathtaking design. Minor suggestions...

Tighten the headline: "Instantly change your mouse precision."

On the Support page: 1) respell "Suppport" 2) add a space to "FinalTouchsupport" 3) shorten "Adobe CS1 [...]" to "Adobe CS3+" and 4) drop the ".php"
I understand your idea of making the title as less wordy as possible but in terms of SEO it's not always the best strategy (never actually?). Assuming you want to use SEO as a marketing tool, your title shouldn't come from an idea you had but from actual data. You need to go through keywords on https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and see what people are looking for. For the best result, try to use the words with better results on the title and every now and then on the text of the page (the copy if you prefer).
Italy has a whole lot of little manufacturing companies. And some big ones, too, but really an incredibly resilient manufacturing ecology.
Braintree is great:

http://www.braintreepayments.com/

We use them at RapidRollout. They seem to be used by a lot of tech startups.

Braintree offers "transparent" redirects for maximum security. This redirects your users to their site in such a way that they do not ever see Braintree pages like they do with PayPal. The redirect just offers a way to transfer payment data to Braintree servers without going through your servers.

They also expose a RESTful API that you can make calls to from your servers (usually via their open-source client libraries).

http://www.braintreepayments.com/gateway/api

Anyway, looks like you might be able to use AJAX to access the transparent redirect API. See here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1776338/signup-form-using-braintree-transparent-redirect

But I got that from a quick search only.
One big point - Apple supports it's products longer than the rest of the industry, thus they don't end up in landfills as quickly. For example:

- The original iPhone was released in June of 2007, and had the newest iOS (3.x) available until the release of iOS 4 in June 2010.

- The iPhone 3GS was released in June of 2009, and is still getting OS updates, even to iOS 5 released later this year.

How many Android phones are obsolete in 6 months, never receiving another software update? The impetus to upgrade and chuck the old phone is much higher in their case as obsolescence starts nearly immediately because the manufacturers only make money on the hardware itself.

You'll likely get at least 3 years of OS updates out of Apple, whereas you might get one if you're lucky and the manufacturer still likes the product with Android.
I was horribly unclear there.

The moderate, potentially politically feasible inflation would have served to overcome nominal price stickiness and helped Greece transition to a slightly lower standard of living gracefully, one they could actually sustain without borrowing based on their production.

The unfeasible inflation would just be a backdoor default, and not really any worse than a real default except to the extent that the EU laws prevent Greece from actually defaulting. This would also entail adjustment in living standards.

The horrible option that would result in hyperinflation would be continuing to live beyond their means and using inflation to pay off the debts they were continuing to accumulate. I totally agree that that wouldn't end up solving anything.
I dig as deep as necessary to make things work cleanly, and generally no deeper. (The exception is innately fascinating topics, like compilers.) I can't stand kludging around aimlessly until things work, but I can't read the source of every library, either.

At the moment, I'm trying to build a drop-in blog engine for Rails 3.1, which involves reading a fair amount of source code. But I need to wrap this up today and start on a different client project tomorrow, so I can't afford to dive too deeply.
If you start out at $15 for a couple hours (or even a day or two) then shift down to $4.99, your initial customers are going to be FUMING and will rip you apart in the reviews. This is a terrible strategy. Your launch price should be the absolutely lowest you'll ever go, and then increase it from there. You want your early adopters to feel like they got a great deal, not screwed due to price manipulation.
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Depends on how important that 5% of users is to your product and your business. Also depends on whether the feature is a credibility indicator of some sort (i.e., it's seldom used, but people like to know it's there and/or will think less of your product if it's not).

The Pareto Principle comes into effect here. If the 5% of users adopting the feature are your most important customers, or if they're bleeding-edge users or opinion leaders to the other 95%, then it's worth keeping them appeased. On the other hand, if they're users you neither care about nor need, then consider whether the feature is extraneous -- or, worse, whether it's actually annoying the 95%.
Sorry, new around here. Clickable links:

http://www.braintreepayments.com/
http://www.braintreepayments.com/gateway/api
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1776338/signup-form-using...

At least I hope those end up clickable. ;)
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I haven't been able to find any original sources yet (and I'm not about to watch that podcast) but I'm fairly sure that what they have found is a planet in the habitable zone. And that's pretty darn neat in itself. (What was really missing was information about its size and density.)

As for the bits about it being "muggy", I can only assume that this is something the journalists, looking for an angle, tricked the scientists into saying. We can't say anything definitive about chemical composition of these planets at this stage, we can only infer things from their temperature and density.
It's not a game, though. It's a professional utility for gainfully employed designers, who can either expense it to their MegaCorp, or if they're independent, consider it an investment in their career.

Think about how much the Adobe Suite costs. $16 is not too much for this audience.
Keep in mind that "Christian Fundamentalism" didn't even exist until the end of the 19th century. Trying to pin anything that happened in the 17th or 18th century on "fundamentalism" is a mistake.
Would you remove ramps because 95% of your visitors climb the stairs?
"A very easy first step that Apple can take would be to receive old Apple electronics for various use or recycling."

You mean like this? http://www.apple.com/recycling/
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Cool looking app. Passed it on to some designer friends.

I think the price point is probably right - a lot of Apple products are expensive and I believe the Apple owner mindset makes these folks more willing to part with their cash for good things.
Only after testing to determine the issue. Perhaps the other 95% don't know how to use it, how useful it is, or even what it is.

If the issue is truly usefulness, and keeping/maintaining the feature could negatively impact the majority of non-users, then deprecation is warranted.
> Apple makes $2,000,000 per employee.

Most of their employees are not engineers, but work in retail. Which makes it a bit of an odd case among the other tech companies :)
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IE has a similar internal list of popular sites that must be rendered with one of its various compatibility modes to work correctly. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd567845(v=vs.85).as...

I'm sure this has driven developers crazy when they can't figure out why the site works differently in IE on the production domain than on a test one.
The collapse of Lehman brothers was an event that threatened the stability of the global financial system. The default of Greece is a minor nuisance that is mainly relevant because of fear that Italy and Spain might be next.
If the value of your product is not directly tied to the total number of users, charge for it.

If the value of your product is directly tied to the total number of users, charge for it some of the time.
Amen. I mean, creating apps for your phone if you have unique ideas is one thing (and I think you'd want to sell that on the market to your competitor's phones too!) But if you can spend that r&d on making that phone survive a fall from two feet higher, or making the battery last three hours longer? You probably just got me as a customer.
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You should have not implemented it to start with :)
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I've had a strict disconnected bedroom policy for a long time. I even make sure the digital clock which wakes me up is the soft red LDC type, not the green or blue types, the light of their displays is so bright you can almost read by it.

But I've recently put something next to my bed which has ruined my sleep schedule. What? Books. Plain paper books. I blame it all on George R. R. Martin.
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it is in fact also in the top ten exporters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports
If somehow I ended up spending an inordinate amount of time performing ramp maintenance, and if the presence of ramps made it difficult for me to install an escalator or an elevator, I'd yank them in a heartbeat.

Having a bunch of features isn't always good, especially if the features are half-baked, require constant attention, or impede more useful features.
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Another significant element in the rise of global food prices is the devaluation of the USD. The US exports considerable amounts of wheat, and as more money is printed this inflation increases the cost of US wheat for importing nations. Furthermore, USD inflation and monetary policy affects food economics in ways far beyond that of buying wheat from the US: consider that low interest rates make borrowing money for speculation quite easy and with less risk. In addition, there are a number of factors causing shortages in the production of wheat, such as droughts, bad weather, and diseases that were once though gone but are now resurgent due to the lack of genetic diversity in wheat strains.

From June 2010 to January 2011 the cost of wheat increased by 73%, according to the World Bank. The true price of this is not only in the suffering of individual humans and their families, but in the destabilizing of governments and the revolutions seen in the Arab Spring.
Perhaps create a short video or animation that shows the problem, and how FinalTouch solves it. Put a short one on your landing page, and a longer one (with audio) on youtube.
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As for ideas, here are mine:

* If you want to generate traffic, there are some long tail terms that can get you traffic. Try writing some articles on keywords "best mouse for photoshop", "best photoshop mouse", "magic mouse photoshop" or "mouse for photoshop" (Have these terms in title, headline and link them from homepage with this anchor text). Promote your app on these specific articles.

* Contact Smashing Magazine and other design magazines and offer them 3 free licenses to award to their readers.

* Tweet prominent designers to try out your app

* Landing page tip: show a small video demonstrating how to use your app and what results can be gotten.

Good luck with your initiative. Very excited to see this experiment.
According to descriptions of what "rich" seems to mean to most, small businesses are the largest part of that heavily disliked group.

In the recent English riots the prevailing thought seemed to be that simply owning a business meant you were rich.
Great app, but you need to drop the price to below $8 - I think this will help you maximise revenue. (based on my experience of having several top 50 apps on the mac app store over the past few months).
This is a manufacturer issue. You can still install the latest android on the first official Android phone (HTC Dream).
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Prior throwing accusations about Java Code Geeks "stealing" content, please take the time and check the reference at the end of the article! The original author is a JCG (Java Code Geek - http://www.javacodegeeks.com/p/jcg.html) thus is part of a Java developer community that is committed to share their knowledge and experiences so as to help each other. As with all of our JCG members we have granted full privilege to republish and promote every article they write that we believe is valuable to the rest of the JCG community.

Furthermore we (the Java Code Geeks community founders) are Java developers ourselves and have contributed first (and still contributing) with high quality articles. That is the reason that we do not want to simply maintain a link aggregator site but a site that will host the most valuable content for the Java developers community. On top of that by submitting the link pointing to the reposted article (hosted on Java Code Geeks) and not the one pointing to the original author's blog we promote not only the specific author's work but the work of all the Java Code Geeks community; since our site is the entry point for them all. That is our obligation towards all of our JCG members!

As far as content duplication is concerned I just wanted to pinpoint that in the majority of cases we do not just copy and paste content; We perform lexical and syntactical corrections (since many of our JCG partners do not speak English as their prime language) along with article and code snippets formatting so as every article to be as readable as it can be.

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I would buy it at $4.99 with the mouse acceleration disable feature. Right now I use USB Overdrive but it's 32-bit and I'm not sure if it's working properly in Lion.

I have Logitech software for my MX1000 to control everything else, it just doesn't have the ability to control mouse accel.
As a citizen, I would be perfectly ok with hiring a lawyers and tax accountant and disputing the charges using the existing system we have for disputing taxes and/or having unjust laws stricken off the books.
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There are certain risk profiles where it'd make sense. For example, if you think that a default is most likely to happen within the next 6 months or not at all, then the 2-year bond has about the same default risk as the 1-year bond, but locks in the high interest rate for longer, so has more potential upside.
As a designer who develops as well, I agree wholeheartedly.

Although I would say that HTML and basic CSS is easy. Getting creative with complex layouts using CSS can get challenging.
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Re: the claim that groups of pie charts are especially awful, I have a counterexample. How would you express this more clearly without a series of pie charts?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Support_For_Direct_Popular...
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I'd say it's still ambiguous. Liveable for us or liveable for something?

Even on Earth we have hyperthermophiles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthermophile) which can tolerate temperatures of up to 122 celsius.

And before anyone says "water boils at 100C", that's only at Earth-ambient atmospheric pressure.
No price, no sale. If they're not making the price public, they're trying to segregate the market and they're doing it in a nasty way. There's nothing stopping them from listing base prices and providing discounts for volume orders. If I want to have a "relationship" with some sales guy, I know how to place a phone call.

Oh, BTW, you can get all your server needs on NewEgg by just clicking on the buy button. They even carry my favorite brand, Super Micro.
Tufte is simply wrong here. A pie chart implicitly conveys an additional piece of information which a series-style chart like a table or bar chart does not: that the information presented represents some meaningful total. A table listing percentages can achieve the same result, as can a single bar, but both require closer inspection. For a small number of variables, and particularly where there is a large disparity between the values, a pie chart is better. Unfortunately, many people break this contract with the viewer and present a pie chart solely to show the ratios, in which case I would agree that it is poor presentation.