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Law 7 is the most poignant for me.

Some people believe you can get security along with convenience.
This COULD NOT be further from the truth.

Convenient for you = convenient for hackers!

You need to be accountable regarding your passwords and how you choose them.
There is no system that makes passwords magically secure.

You need to just stay away from the commonly abused passwords and go with combinations of characters, numbers and punctuation to increase the possible permutations a hacker would have to exhaust before discovering yours.
Oh, I don't know. Not anti-, exactly, but... I'm typing this on a 13" Macbook Pro. But I have bootcamp installed to play games, and I often use remote desktop to other machines -- I'd certainly be open to buying an ultrabook. I like the more common PC key arrangements better (particularly home, back, and delete keys, rather than just a delete key).

He's right, though, that's it's difficult to even find competitive machines in that space; I've been looking. I'll probably wait a month or two and see what (if anything) develops, then give up and buy a Macbook Air.
Also... renrakuOS https://github.com/daeken/RenrakuOS
My experience lies in consumer events, and there are two simple reasons why booth babes are used.

1.) Visitors like them.
2.) Exhibitors themselves like them.

And reason 2 is the biggest. While number 1 would be enough to justify it in either case, most people base it purely on "hey, I love seeing booth babes, clearly they're a good idea". And it's hard to argue with the success they have.
I believe they stated it's an OS entirely in C#, therefore having it compile to C would contradict their whole vision. As for your other questions, C# is kind of a mess, with all the different .NET versions and Silverlight. I really enjoy using C# and I'm looking forward to what this project comes to be.
The Dell Precisions are, or at least were, huge and ugly, but very very solid performers with ultra hires screens. Think MacBook Pro made by Dell.

I carted one around for ages, and it ran like a tank. Awesome machine.

There's at least one other option not in the ignore pile.
Terrifying? Even if you're anti-tax, those to fail to pay taxes are a big part of the problem. What's the motivation to fight over-taxation if those who wish to opt-out can simply do so with little chance of consequence.

I know of at least two business owners who are flat out stealing from the IRS and their employees. Both of them are more than three years behind on federal withholding tax payments. It's not even their money! This is their employees' withholding tax. I know this because of public filings against them. I can only imagine their personal tax situation.

Everyone I talk to says the same thing: "Ooooooh boy, they've really got it coming." When? When do they have it coming, exactly? Because as far as I can see, they're both still driving cars that are more expensive than mine, live in houses that are bigger than mine, and spend money like it's going out of style.

I have no desire to skip on my taxes, and I'm perfectly happy with the life I live, but it flat out pisses me off to see these people cheat the system and get away with it. It makes me feel like the "big bad IRS" is just some children's fairy tale meant to scare normal people in to compliance. Meanwhile, a whole pack of miscreants run amok with other peoples' money. It's just not right. Frankly, I'd rather see these people in jail than the pot head down the street that is spending 90 days in jail for the joint he had in his pocket while walking home from work. True story.
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I appreciate your comment much more than the original article. The author spends nearly the first half of his piece whining about how the keyboards from Apple aren't to his liking rather than talking about the main point. Your commentary on its own made for a much more succinct and interesting read.
I'm getting the impression from reading the other comments that most of the commenters just skimmed the article (or perhaps didn't read it at all, and drew assumptions from the title). If you need a tl;dr, or if you read it quickly, this is the most important line in the post:

> What you end up with is the situation where you, as a conference goer, walk up to a booth and, because you’re no stranger to how this works, ignore any attractive woman and talk directly to a male at the booth. You assume immediately that any attractive female is there simply for their physical appearance, not for the value that their knowledge brings.

This is not an abstract PC idea of feeling bad about objectifying the booth babe, or wishing to avoid temptation, or whatever. This is a very specific problem that is harmful to the industry and to all the non-booth babes out there. The OP goes on to make some suggestions on how to work towards fixing the problem, but please, if you're going to comment on this, make sure you understand the actual main point first.
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Intel chips do not cost $300 to $400, so not sure how Apple are going to make the 11" Air that much cheaper. I guess they could skimp on the ram as well, since the iPad does not require gigabytes. But most other parts of the machine would not change.
A few nits to pick...

1) PowerPC is pretty alive and well. The Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii (U), and Playstation 3 all use PowerPC chips. There are a lot of these. IBM's Linux/AIX servers are all PowerPC and IBM incidentally makes the chips for the above game consoles as well. Not to mention the number of PowerPC chips in cars and other embedded devices dwarfs all the above in units sold.

2) Intel (probably) got out of the Xscale game not just because of hubris, but because it was necessarily enriching its competitor through licensing fees of the ARM architecture. Unless Intel could buy ARM, which it couldn't due to anti-trust, it should probably seek out a home grown solution instead of sealing its fate as another fab for ARM's designs. I'm not sure Intel didn't see the writing on the wall, it just failed to execute on a solution. Intel was probably very wary of trying to make a new architecture after the failure of the Itanium so it concentrated its efforts on a low powered x86 aka Atom. Unfortunately this was and still is a colossal failure. Intel still has no products for low powered devices and the arguments for an x86 solution are starting to fall apart fast.

3) Apple's success is a culmination of Steve Job's vision and Tim Cook's operational mastery. Apple's products before Tim Cook were beautifully designed, over priced, and under performing. Apple's product line without Steve Jobs was boring and unappealing. These last few years have been a golden age for Apple. To expect things to only get better from here would be to place all the emphasis on the company and ignore people inside it, not to mention history. I expect Tim Cook to keep Apple in a very competitive place while he's around, but companies have a tendency to lose their way. Just ask HP.
Honestly? It's time to dump the "win" part of wintel. Intel simply needs to face facts: The chasm between hardcore gamers and the general computer-buying public is so wide and yawning it may as well be on another planet. Yet that is still where Intel aims with its wintel strategy: More games than on Mac. I mean, seriously, WHO CARES at this point that I can run Crysis on my netbook?

Here's a bold plan that will kill two birds with one stone: Buy Canonical, throw the bulk of your $300 Million at their development, poach/cajole/trade for every UX guru not employed by Apple, and create a killer Linux desktop OS to go along with that ultrabook. It will scream, it will run a battery all night long and beg for more, it will have no "hells" (.dll, dependency, driver, symbol, whatever "hell" is inherent in Windows and Linux), it will run a plethora of online apps and services, and it will host a complement of installed applications that take care of 95% of a mainstream consumers needs.

No need to install flash, it's already there. Need to play an .mkv file? No problem when VLC is installed by default. Netflix on demand? At your fingertip. Amazon mp3 store embedded in banshee? Sure, why not? Writing a term paper or presentation? LibreOffice to the rescue.
Not any disassembler, just x86 disassembly. The Opcode + Mod/Rm + SIB combinations is just insane.
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When I search for "Google tasks" in the Android Market, you're not on the first page of results. If you can't break in that way, and you don't have some spit-take inspiring new feature that would generate special press, you're simply going to get lost in the crowd.
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I am waiting for someone to make a great notebook with detachable keyboard. It's a notebook. It's an ipad. It's a notepad.
That's a good point, and you can get one below $800 (Core i5), although I doubt it's thin enough to meet the ultrabook spec. But some of what they are aiming at is styling, no? Have only seen it in pictures, but it didn't make me think of a MacBook Air. It wasn't beautiful.
Lenovo's Thinkpad T420s does a pretty decent thin-and-light (under 4 lbs.) for Macbook Air prices, with a bigger screen:

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/t-series/t420s
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What was once risque is now corporate and stale, such is the way of things.

Meanwhile innovators are shaking it up, take the Good Old Games parody on booth babes at PAX - grandmas handing out cookies:

http://geekfeminism.org/2011/08/28/booth-grandmas-at-pax-pri...

Good opportunity for startups to get attention - do something interesting and different. That's probably where the "booth babes" concept started to begin with.
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Okay, I'll bite. :-)

It's important to separate the ethical, technical, and business concerns and look at them one by one.

iOS offers me a few things. As a user, it offers me a smooth widget experience, no hard crashes, and a ginormous store full of toys and a few useful widgets. As an appliance, it is sterling. My music player works as reliably as my toaster. Exactly what I want, actually. I have no need to tinker with my appliances; they do exactly what I want, and I free my mental cycles to do things like work on my Master's without fiddling around with configuring my toaster. As a developer, it offers me a simple delivery platform, delivered to people with spare cash who have been trained to purchase software. It's a pretty sweet gig, in my opinion.

Apple really should open up the hood to tinkerers, in the ethical sense. It does us as a society no good to have a society of 'couch potatoes' and spectators. We need doers & thinkers, people who can get the job done and also reflect on their existence. I strongly believe that Apple should incorporate that awareness into product policies: there should be something like a 'enable tinkerer mode' in my iPod system settings. However, their corporate DNA goes against that, from the early 80s on. They really want to provide a unified and 'beautiful' experience for their customers. Tinkerers open up the hood and cause variety and divergence from the norm. (Think all the weird kludges in Windows because it has to support such a variety of hardware).
> Would I pay a 'premium' price for a Lenovo? Possibly, but there's gotta be a bigger faith in the brand, and I don't have that right now.

Maybe you just didn't know, but the ThinkPad brand is highly respected in the business world for its quality and service (the latter of which IBM continues to provide).
Intel should make a single board that does it all. And offer it in 2-3 sizes/varieties. Dell can then just use the Intel Ultraboard and not have to worry about the hardware (CPU, GPU, RAM, Wifi, Ethernet, Audio, SSD, PCI/USB etc.) Let Dell worry about offering Pink and Magenta cases. Let Intel work with Microsoft closely so Windows 8 rocks on Ultraboard. There should be only one driver per Ultraboard and it should include the Chipset, Video, Audio, Network drivers. I never want to install Dell/HP/Asus drivers. Ever. They are all horrible across the board.

Reinstalling Windows should not take more than 15 minutes, it should require no user-interaction, and it should leave the data partition alone. The data partition is where users images/photos/videos/music go. Intel should work with MS to ensure that executables do not run from this partition. If my mom downloads a virus, she shouldn't have to call me to fix it. Hardware DEP hasn't done much to stop viruses. Intel needs to come up with hardware features to remedy root-kits without my assistance.

Intel thinks of itself as one of the hardware makers with competitors. It makes CPUs, like AMD or Samsung. It makes boards like MSI or ASUS. This is red ocean. It needs to make its own blue ocean and of all the companies in the PC industry, it is actually capable of doing that. Instead of offering $300m to others, it should put $3B into creating the single Ultraboard that any PC seller can build a case around and sell tens of millions of these. Dell can't do it. Sony can't do it. Intel can. Just like Apple did.
I would question my choice of platform if I had to develop 90 modules for it.
If that's your philosophy then why bother following the law at all? As long as you don't get caught it's ok right? There's a ton of money in phishing, scams, and money laundering, why not do those?
Possibly. Like WP7 and "XP Tablet Edition" though, is it going to catch on?
Did you all shun Apple when Foxconn employees started jumping to their deaths? I'm guessing not.

Is it possible that you'd be letting your bias get in the way of your business sense? What if those products could have significantly helped your business?
I'm not sure if "forks" is the right word, aren't they just another OEM adding their own skin ala HTC sense or Motoblur?
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I really don't understand why OP has his knickers in a twist. What're the potential consequences of falsely reporting someone? They get audited? The IRS already does random (but infrequent audits).

Given the fact that the IRS would indeed have to investigate and then prosecute whatever fraud may be present, they would have to have a fairly solid and material understanding of the circumstances leading to tax dodging. People who are filing false claims can and probably should be prosecuted for misleading the government officials.

The IRS isn't some inhuman soul sucking beast. It is a bureaucracy, but when you get down to the level of dealing with individuals who have discretion to make decisions, every experience I've had with them so far has been friendly and understanding. As far as i can tell they really do try to err on the side of not screwing individuals at the very least.
I tend to only download apps that are recommended to me, since random downloads have never worked out so great. For instance, the one I use now for task management is called Wunderlist. Google them and see how much effort they put into their marketing and brand. It works!

I'd suggest using them as a template for how to arrange your marketing / user adoption and go from there.

Best of luck!
The thinking goes that, over time, specs of gaming PCs have been a leading indicator of where productivity PCs would be years later. More so than looking at the specs of PC servers.
Yep, I agree, being on the first page would certainly be helpful with people finding the app, but trying to game the keywords system CAN result in the app being suspended so I'd rather not risk it.

While the app doesn't have a revolutionary feature, the design & functionality are exceptional (from customer e-mails, not just my thoughts) and it does what it's meant to do, well, and the feedback I get from customers is overwhelmingly positive.

Another issue: Google still haven't made it possible to submit app reviews on Android tablets (you have to go to the Android Market website) and given this app is for tablets, it means users aren't writing reviews which would certainly be helpful.
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The study sounds dubious. (Though I do agree with the conclusion, but for other reasons).

> For example, subjects had a negative reaction to a running shoe equipped with nanotechnology that adjusted fabric thickness to cool the foot and reduce blisters.

As if no reasonable person could ever have a negative reaction to that? I hope this wasn't their only test.

Personally, I think most people are biased against creative ideas because most people are concrete thinkers (as opposed to abstract thinkers). Their motto in life is "better the evil you know". Now all you have to do is test people on whether they're abstract or concrete thinkers, then correlate that to how they react to new ideas. I think you will find most concrete thinkers will react negatively to creative ideas that haven't been tried before.
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/mixed-response-to...
Not directly related, nor very malicious.
The JailBreakMe exploits still could have been used maliciously on a major site to easily create the worlds largest botnet overnight.
from the article: " as a Scala advocate, many developers complain to me that the immature support for Scala in IDEs is a real blocker for introducing the language in their Java environments. I understand the practical issue of meeting this now-typical expectation of Java shops, but I actually don’t really care. I seldom use IDEs anymore. My Scala code is so compact that I use Emacs for it."

sUnless you happen to be doing greenfield development, this is a dealbreaker -- I like using scala, but it has to call / manipulate the enormous api surface from 1.5mm lines of existing java. And for that, I need tool support.
Would you have preferred them to name it after some river you've never heard of?
Thanks for the advice - I'll definitely take a look at Wunderlist and see what we can learn from them. Much appreciated.
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Wow. This is exactly how I practice Japanese. Edit: Actually, I go a bit further and practice my pronunciation with Audacity. I go over a segment, over and over, trying to copy the speaker's accent exactly.
I have just completed an R&D project for my company on using JQuery Mobile, with knockout.js, so perhaps I am qualified to answer this.

As another commenter pointed out JQuery Mobile (JQM) is following on from JQuery UI, not from straight JQuery. Knockout.js is a databinding and templating system. As such JQM and knockout.js are complementary instead of competing. Our system used knockout for databinding into the JQM UI.

My recommendation coming out of the R&D project was to use knockout for production apps and to continue to watch JQM, but not use it for production just yet. JQM is still evolving rapidly - there were a number of major changes made during our R&D project. We also ran across a number of issues making JQM work with knockout. For example JQM didn't like knockout changing some of the HTML dynamically, after JQM had been initialised. The JQM team are aware of the problems dealing with changing HTML via javascript and we saw a number of fixes committed during the course of our R&D project. One day soon JQM will be very good, but its not quite there yet.

Furthermore not every mobile application will benefit from JQM. Unless you are building an essentially forms and data driven application, it may not be very useful. Depending on your needs you will be able to get very far by using knockout to produce clean semantic markup, then just applying CSS over the top.
One thing--the curved edges feel very iOS'ey, Android is usually characterized by less to no rounding. Probably less for your case. Other than that it looks great.
I do know that. The article didn't seem to be talking about business-level stuff as much as non-business-focused decisions.

I did mention that Dell is used a lot by businesses for service, and I know many companies that go with Dell just because of the service. That's largely out of the realm of most consumer-level experiences with the Dell brand (my grandparents never had a Dell repairman show up to fix the hard drive, and I'm not sure Dell even had an option to pay $$$ to get someone to come out).

Also, I was speaking as an individual consumer - I could have said 'Dell' instead, but in both cases the issue's the same for me. As a consumer, my experiences with HP, Compaq and Dell have been pretty abysmal over the past decade, and I'm not hearing about any fundamental shifts in their businesses that would increase my faith that I'll have a better experience with their products in the future. A spec sheet touting low-power chips, increased wi-fi coverage, lighter screens, etc - none of those will bring me back as a consumer. For businesses, they'll pay a premium for top-notch support (and they do - Dell/Lenovo/others). For consumers, we don't really seem to be given this option.
AAA games on PS3 don't usually make use of OpenGL ES, direct manipulation of the graphics hardware is where it's at (same with the Wii).
Except that Apple's and 3rd-party Mac code is much much more portable. They can switch from x86 down the road in a way that Windows can not.
Football is IMO not much fun to play. Lots and lots of repetitive boredom for any one player. But to watch is amazing. When it's all put together well it is art.
Alas, the Wikipedia article you kindly linked to is an example of the point-of-view pushing that goes on too much on Wikipedia in relation to the topic of human intelligence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/...

It's going to be a long, long, LONG time before Wikipedia will come close to correctly representing what the most reliable sources say about time trends in IQ in national populations, about the relationship of genetic factors to the development of human intelligence, or about most related subjects.

For a reliable source on the subject you are curious about, see Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to THE BELL CURVE

http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Genes-Success-Scientists-...

with articles by several expert statisticians, geneticists, and psychologists.
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