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Are you really arguing that the iPod Touch, smartphones, e-ink readers, netbooks, and iPad-like devices should all be lumped into one category by tech analysts?

No, I'm arguing for categories that lead to enlightening analyses.

Perhaps the industry-standard categorization is perfect: iPad really is unlike all other devices on earth. Well, fine, but then this article is a banal exercise in circular logic: Of course the iPad is the leader of the iPad market. Unenlightening.

Let's hypothesize. Perhaps it would be more interesting to try breaking up the market by end-user goals. What is the iPad's share of the portable music player market? The portable video player market? The non-portable video player market? The web-surfing market? The digital sketchpad market? The digital mixing-console market? The e-reader market? The communications device (SMS, Twitter, voice) market? The GPS navigation market? The casual gaming market? The hardcore gaming market?

Is this the way customers decide what to buy? Is this the way designers approach the problem of making gadgets better? If so, maybe this is a better categorization scheme. If not, we could try something else.

Perhaps it would be more fruitful to ignore the "tablet" nature of the iPad completely. Everyone is focused on the Pad part, but perhaps a real key of the iPad's success is the design of the ecosystem: Minimal variations in hardware to improve reliability, and to make it easier to shop for and easier to support. A brand-new software ecosystem with no need for back-compatibility. A sole-source software installation system that provides leverage for excluding malware and offers generally-seamless automatic upgrades. Categorize systems in this fashion, and suddenly the iPad belongs in a category with the iPhone, a gaming console, the Kindle, and the TiVo, among other things.

Obviously, you can slice the universe into categories in more than one way. You can even slice it in several ways during the same essay.

But the touchstone of a categorization scheme is: Does it lead somewhere? Does it help you discover something interesting or actionable?
This is why I set up a video camera inside all my bathrooms and bedrooms and stream it directly to the government, Facebook/Zuckerberg, my employer and of course my family/friends.
Users find bugs in Facebook app for iPad
so you're arguing that despite doing massive domestic surveillance, solidly supported by the government, they're not going to use the data because of their good moral standing.

or are you being sarcastic?
Only misleading if you try to read things into it.
Anti-piracy company pirates Deus Ex: HR (ostensibly) in the name of research
Hmm could you do anything interesting by making the hollowed out section a vacuum?
Yes, "astounding" is the word.
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The easiest way to do this is to enable imap and run thunderbird locally. You don't have to use Thunderbird for mail, just use it as a local mirror.
It's very much a coincidence; amongst the "top searches" for "hollande", "la hollande" comes third.

"la hollande" is the country Netherlands, and has absolutely nothing to do with the man of the same name.
Are heavy iPhone 4S pre-orders a 'tribute to Steve'?
Backblaze's blog talks about the vibration problem and their solution.
Are you able to type at 120 wpm? Tricks to make it possible.
I am mildly surprised they can dissipate enough heat from the pods--those drives are packed so close together.

I can't tell from the photos: Is there any airflow between them?

(For that matter, do higher temperatures decrease MTTF for hard drives?)
There's already a GWT 2.0; this is more like GWT 9.0. And as someone who has done a lot of work in GWT (and JS, and CS), I can see a lot of potential in Dart. GWT is superior to javascript/coffeescript for a certain set of problems (mostly fat-client-type webapps); a major upgrade to the language and tooling would be welcome.
A while ago I setup the Apple Mail app (forgot whether it was via pop3 or whatnot) to download new gmail messages, which more or less works as a way of replicating your gmail. But I often simply forget to run Mail, since I never have any other reason to use it. This reminds me that I should come up with a more robust solution.

I thought about using something like this: http://www.gmail-backup.com/

But it's unclear to me how trustworthy that is. I don't give away my gmail password lightly, despite claims on the site of being "100% clean."

Anyone have any experience with it, and/or other solutions?
Reminds me of Asimov's "psychohistory". He conceived of a science capable predicting future events with probabilities but two of its foundational principles are that 1) the population sample is sufficiently large 2) the population is unaware that they are being observed or unaware of the variables/mechanisms used to predict their future.

Part of what made his writing interesting was that this science was very believable.
Why your new programming language won't work
I don't particularly care about the spin that this website puts on various browsers. What I do like about it is that it may convince some users to upgrade their browser. Everyone wins when users pick modern browsers, regardless of which one they choose.
The configuration as recommended by the manufacturer? That seems bizarre. Certainly, most Honeycomb tablets identify themselves as such.
Square Announcement disingenuous, or at the very least ambiguous
And pollsters just had their job made easier, until people figure out how to play it.
I would rather speakers upload exactly what they presented, as soon as possible after a presentation, than spend time (and perhaps never actually complete) making a custom version 'tailored for online' or 'reduced to blog post'.

It's great if they want to make other versions, but it's no knock against them for sharing what they've got, in the form they've got it.

TL;DR: Commenters' peeves, in a totally different forum, are not the presenters' problem.
Anyone knows who has replaced Anil as M&A manager for Google EMEA?
I think the best part of it is the car at the top. I can easily play with that for a few minutes. They do say 80% of the gains come from 20% of the effort right? :)
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You're right, but at times, I've found it nearly impossible to log in because I can't seem to get a new login URL. Nothing works except waiting it out. So please look into that if you can. I almost submitted a story like this because I've spent 5+ minutes trying to log in several times now.
The SGS thumb circle is smaller

I would never have noticed that if you hadn't pointed it out, but it is, indeed, smaller.

Not that it matters; my thumb extends usably well beyond the opposite edge of the iPhone. And you know what they say about guys with long thumbs: they can use bigger phones.
Well, space, air conditioning electricity and redundancy comparable to what Amazon offers would add a few thousands per month (I guess $2000-$5000, depending on where you are).

Still, way cheaper than Amazon, but there are nontrivial running costs beyond the purchase and build price.
I remember reading Dan's blog religiously when I was a college student interested in language design and compiler implementation. That's where I learned about CPS and register VMs.

Anyway, I've seen him recently pop up in a professional context. I can't find anything on the Internet about where he's working now, so on the off chance he's deliberately protecting his privacy, I won't say where. But knowing what he's working on, I think he's doing fine.
(You just need 'search' between / and ?)

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:ibm.com%2Fdeveloperworks...
I don't dispute that you're a busy guy.

That said: I come for the community - and the community has obviously noticed that the site occasionally throws up an annoying 'error'. The fact that you've done something cool programatically has no bearing on what I get from HN.
Perhaps there could be a program to synchronize your Google accounts with Dropbox?
Bangladesh unveils $130 'Doel' laptops
This is true, its the infamous "Fifth point" on many different IDs (they had a system internal passports to keep people in check). It was really easy for any official to discriminate if he wanted to and hard not to when its the policy.

The USSR wasn't "politically correct" in the modern Western view of the word. The party line and the state policies were fact in fact sometimes wildly discriminatory.

Those ethnic issues are a big reason USSR broke up.
Not every presentation is (or should be) written with the impatient online info-grazer in mind.
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Which is a fair point. I actually had originally drafted a much longer reply which included additional problems with the figures and comparisons [1].

But after about 10 minutes I realized that the author wasn't making a financial argument from the numbers, he was making an emotional argument with hand-waved numbers for garnish. And that, despite my interest in the issue and agreement with his conclusion, it simply wasn't worth that kind of time.

[1] e.g. $200/20,000 miles for car costs beyond oil/gas/tires is laughably low; ignoring parking/toll costs in the no-commute/used-car case; considering lost time in the commuting case but not lost-personal time in the no-commute case; assuming financing in the commuting case and savings for a used car in the no-commute case; ... generally just considering worst-case for the commuting case and best-case for the no-commute case in almost all things