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Yes, the official W3C recommendation changed to CSS2.1 earlier this year, and they did effectively redefine a CSS pixel at that stage. I'm not sure this did more than swap one problem for another, though: as I read the (current) wording, we shouldn't get fractional physical pixels any more and basic arithmetic still works on pixel lengths, but now you can only scale up by a factor of 2x, 3x, etc.

Given that the point we're debating here is the merits of setting a minimum 16px body text size, that would mean the next alternative was 32 physical pixels on a display of roughly 200dpi resolution. While that might be useful, you could still find that depending on the physical properties of your devices, 16px text needed to render at say 24 physical pixels to look the same size to the reader.

When you've got that kind of uncertainty to work with, I stand by my earlier comments that an arbitrary 16px size without reference to either the specific font or the physical properties of the device isn't a particularly useful guideline. The design considerations for devices with such different physical properties are too complicated to dismiss with a simple scale factor.
No, it's TechCrunch.
Many car manufacturers build and design the entire car themselves, internal and external parts included and sell them at one car brand dealerships and service them at dealerships. They might contract things like tires, audio speakers and stereo systems out, and occasional a part here and there, but by default they build everything else themselves.
I didn't meant it literally, but in case newcomers are tempted to try this new release, they might want some dotemacs files to play along.
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Sorry, I did not, as I am short on time recently. I have done it just now in speeded up way and indeed, session view looks quite interesting and useful for music prototyping (assuming you already clearly know what to play, doesn't look equally good for trial and error method).

Thank you for being stubborn and convincing me about AL usefulness. I won't spend 350EUR on it, though.
No, in the realm of logical necessity, there is nothing necessitating observed phenomena be the product of computations. I could state this in terms of Kolmogorov complexity: there could be specific events with higher KC than the origin of the universe. I don't see anything inherently incoherent about that statement.

It doesn't fit within modern deterministic/stochastic metaphysics, but that's besides the point.
I consider all laptops non-pc embedded systems. It's purely an arbitrary definition; but to me, PC means open, standard hardware.
It doesn't have to be only one chip, or one edition of one chip.
Could you give an example of what he could have said to express the same idea at this time _without_ offending people?
Without a doubt prepared in advance - you'd be incompetent as a news org not to do so. It's still however a fantastically put together thing and to have no ads in there whatsoever is quite a dedication.
I see lots of graphs. These graphs have money on one axis, and time (many years' worth) on another axis. Are these graphs adjusting for inflation, and how? It is impossible to draw a meaningful conclusion from these graphs in the absence of this information.

Does the fact that we're using overpriced union labor for most of our infrastructure projects contribute to this problem? Maybe reducing the costs could be more effective than raising taxes?

I appreciate the "unsustainable spending" angle but it sounds like they're restricting their focus to the suburbs, possibly because they don't like the suburbs. (There is a lot of suburb-hate in urban-planning circles. I don't like suburbs either, but I'm not convinced that this hate leads to sound policy perscriptions.) How about a meaningful comparison to ridiculous wastes of money in urban projects? I'm thinking like New Jersey and the $9 billion tunnel to Manhattan. I'm sure there are plenty of others like this. Or intercity projects (cough high-speed rail cough).
They'll just put their iPads into a keyboard dock, or bring a keyboard attachment like the HP TC1100 had. The keyboard could be something like 100g by itself too.
You might find Paul Borrill's talk given in Stanford's EE380 of interest. http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/permlinks/Borrill.html
When he's censured like that outside the legal system, his rights are being challenged-- e.g. "He shouldn't have said that" is an expression of disapproval that to me suggests "People shouldn't be allowed to say that". It's pathetic to me that some people seem to think that free speech should only apply to people with whom they agree.
Why doesn't it simply stand to reason that software like this exists? Phone taps are far more sinister than trojans.
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Most car manufacturers do not. For instance, how many of them do their own ECUs? And large swaths of the American car industry have long been defined by outsourcing relationships. Remember Delphi?
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I'm not quite sure what point the consultancy is making on the future mobile-data rates. The article says:

However, it claims forthcoming 4G technologies will significantly reduce those costs. "Forward-looking estimates which take account of the transition to LTE [Long Term Evolution], additional spectrum and traffic subscriber growth... puts the cost to the mobile network operators at under €1 per GB,"

Does that include the cost of the 4G licenses? In the UK these haven't been issued yet. If an operator pays £4bn [1] for the license and has 10m customers it needs to charge an extra £1 to every customer every month for 33 years to cover the cost of that license. That's not an inconsiderable amount before we begin talking about data.

[1] Costs based on UK 2000 licenses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/727831.stm
OP is unintentionally superficial, but he's grasping at a greater understanding and he knows. I think this is what he is looking for:

Why is this idea true?

Do I really believe it?

Could I convince someone else that it is true?

Why didn't the author use a different argument?

Do I have a better argument or method of explaining the idea?

Why didn't the author explain it the way that I understand it?

Is my way wrong?

Do I really get the idea?

Am I missing some subtlety?

Did this author miss a subtlety?

If I can't understand the point, perhaps I can understand a similar but simpler idea?

Which simpler idea?

Is it really necessary to understand this idea?

Can I accept this point without understanding the details of why it is true?

Will my understanding of the whole story suffer from not understanding why the point is true?

-- How To Read Mathematics, authors Shai Simonson and Fernando Gouvea [1]

[1]http://web.stonehill.edu/compsci/History_Math/math-read.htm#
Far from conclusive evidence here. And my intuition says something different to me. A controlled experiment would involve showing the mobile UI on the desktop and vice versa. You might also want to control for things like page load time (native mobile apps are often snappier)
I'd be more worried if this was a backdoor in a popular program or operating system that was specified by the government and implemented by the original software author rather than more typical malware/trojan more akin to a wiretap. The former would be widespread and affect millions of users, while this appears to be a tool for use by law enforcement to carry out legitimate surveilance in criminal investigations. Presumably every modern government has such capabilities or they are really asleep at the switch.
BusinessWeek has done some great design since Bloomberg took over, and this issue is no exception. Fitting, simple tribute.
Though it makes sense that 1000 people on one component is an unrealistic estimate, your logic here is a caricature. How many different groups of people are, for instance, involved in a single game title? Similar dynamics in chip production: you have design teams, verification teams, tools teams, and support staff for 3-4 levels of functionality.

And that's before you start picking apart the system-on-a-chip stuff, which involves design and verification for all the components that the processor talks to, and tooling, layout, &c.
Couldn't it work so that the key used to encrypt the files is stored on the disk, encrypted using a password as a key?
The iPod Nano. They even sell 3rd party watch cases for it.
There's a story circulating about Time literally stopping the presses and creating a new issue in 3 hours. Wouldn't surprise me to learn this was done in similar fashion.

Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/06/apple_rivals_p...
I like this. I think there's a common fallacy where people want to think that other people are more selfish and uncaring than they are. Maybe it makes it all seem more explicable?

But it's not true. Humans haven't managed to colonize the whole planet because we're so mean to each other-- that doesn't even make sense. The physical universe is impartial and uncaring; people have succeeded primarily because, most of the time, we aren't.

We have access to such great information sources these days, we hear so much about war, crime, and poverty, it's easy to forget that we actually live in the most peaceful, prosperous times that mankind has ever seen. It's so easy to get ahead for a little while by screwing the other guy, we forget that the only reason any of us exist is because a relatively short time ago, and ever since, some apes realized that if they just put aside their differences and worked together for a little while, they could conquer the world. And they were right.

A little bit of trust, humility, and respect for humanity goes a long way. Have a problem? Tell your mother. She probably can't do much to help, but she'll care, and that is way more important than people think.
They probably don't all work on the same chip even if the final results are worked down into a SOC. They probably have teams working on the graphics side as well as the audio processor.
I immediately thought of Delphi as well, but there are also numerous other counter-examples to the grandparent post. For example, I had a Plymouth in the 90's with an engine built in collaboration with Mitsubishi.
Transcript and video here: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
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Thank you conner_bw and jdietrich for covering topic a bit more deeply here. I am open-minded and I like discussions from various PoV. Even if I am only a guy with casio (somehow it sounded like a really lame thing, is it? :>), I happily get to know more about professional-like stuff, as I am perfectionist deep in my heart. But I also almost always try to find the most effective way of what I am doing (and often this finding part takes more time than doing the job, oh well...), like writing scripts for one-time task that could be done quicker by hand, etc.
> small business owners who are unfairly penalized for selling their business.

If you work for little profit and low salary for 10 years and finally managed to sell your business for $200k gains, I can understand why you don't want to pay 33% just for that one year, especially since you no longer have a source of income until you create another business or get a job. Paying 33% instead of 15% seems unfair. I personally fit into the same dilemma where in 2011 my wife and I will have high income but I won't be making anywhere close in 2012 when I go full-time on my app/startup.

I believe there can be solutions to this such that SMBs are not harmed while at the same time, making sure top 0.01% doesn't qualify for it. Changing the brackets for LTCG can work (15% for < $250k, 20% for < $500k, 33% for < $1m, 35% otherwise). Tax deferment could be another solution.

Problem is that SMBs are used as a shield to defend the ones with Cayman Island and Swiss Bank accounts. It's not about being anti-corporation or anti-government. It's about being pro-fair.
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as long as the code isn't deliberately formatted poorly, i don't care, not even a bit. besides our codebase we have a large set of dependencies, and we read and maintain dependencies all the time. whether their coding style is consistent with mine is irrelevant, I slog through it and stfu and get my job done.
Indeed! The typography in this issue, and the design of cover, specifically, are very fitting!
Sometimes I think the hype around Apple's A4/A5 chips is a bit much. Does anyone know if these chips are significantly different from e.g. Samsung's Exynos chips or for that matter any other chip on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A9_MPCore ?
Wow. I might actually buy this magazine from a newsstand. Way to differentiate!
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I'm so tired of political correctness and "sexism" posts. At times half of this site seems to consist of posts made by people offended by something.
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In this case, the only way I know is that I had the comments page of the old thread loaded. When I refreshed the page, [dead] appeared in the title and replying was disabled. Now, I'm unable to find it, so I'm not sure, and the comments that were there are not here.
It's a personal blog and as such he adds his own notion to the text but it has always been worthwhile for me to check the source articles (which are almost always renowned news agencies). You should always read the sources and make up your own mind, but i found his blog to be very good at finding those sources.
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You are correct. Absent any attempt to address points actually made, it cannot be ad hominem.
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I think the first post may have been deleted because it had "[good!]" in the title and got flagged. It would have been easier to remove the "[good!]", but it's likely that it got killed automatically before an admin could edit it.
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Concurrency alone isn't enough to implement all the features.

Another requirement is shared memory (i.e. threads) or extremely fast IPC.
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That's what I thought. Also, memory chips, LCD display and power controllers, Thunderbolt... those can make a lot of difference in an Apple product.
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You are right, I incorrectly conflated Webkit with KHTML. It is really KHTML that I had in mind.

I seem to recall that OS X ultimately picked up -- sigh, I'm getting old; was/is it the Open variant? -- BSD when Apple's own kernel efforts became too unwieldy. Yes, portions of the "higher" ecosystem are in more significant degree Apple -- and NeXT -- productions, but the root of it all, so to speak, became BSD. Unless I'm wrong -- corrections welcome.

How many of us remember, with the "walled garden", a few years ago a number of... "appeals" reaching Jobs personally, who not entirely infrequently intervened to override a bureaucratic decision made by the organization? That is a significant factor with this walled garden. Whatever else one thinks about him, Steve had really good taste in these matter. The walled garden worked as well as it did, in once sense, because ultimately it was Steve's garden.

With Steve's passing, that oversight passes to a fairly walled off organization. And we all know, or should know, how well organizations do with such decision making, over time. And have at least a nagging intuition about the coincidence of increased secrecy with increasingly bad decisions.

This is one aspect that, I think, bothers a lot of people about Steve's passing, whether consciously or sub-consciously. Steve developed an organization that worked very well for Steve and with Steve at the helm, the ultimate arbiter. With him gone, it's not at all clear that this direction -- and effectiveness -- can continue.
Beyond the fact that they're probably working on multiple chips, a modern CPU is incredibly complicated, and SoC architectures add another level of complexity to the equation. The idea of having 100s of people involved in the design is not at all surprising.
Absolutely. This is one of those cases where you grab a young aspiring designer, and show them what an exceptional example of design and typeography looks like.

This is for sure a collectors item.
A few points to remember:

* Lots of YC companies fail.

* Even more pivot from the idea they're working on now.

* Competitors are not always a bad thing. They help validate your idea and push you to iterate faster.

* Better-funded competitors will always be there, whether it's a YC company, a TS company, a Sequoia-backed company, or Google.

* There is usually room for more than one company in a space.

Just carry on.
Do I go native or web app?
Simple question really, do I go native iOS for the iPad or do I go web based?

Thoughts on this would be much appreciated.
is there any way the peeps outside of US can see it? i really want to read it.
If you work for little profit and low salary for 10 years and finally managed to sell your business for $200k gains, I can understand why you don't want to pay 33% just for that one year, especially since you no longer have a source of income until you create another business or get a job. Paying 33% instead of 15% seems unfair.

Can you elaborate on why this is unfair? From a simplistic point of view, this hypothetical person worked for 10 years and ended up with a gain of 200k (assuming income in other years was negligible). Why is it unfair to tax this gain - which can be thought of as receiving the income for 10 years in one shot - at normal income rates?

Is it because if it was normal income, the 20k/year amount would not be taxed at 33%?
Of course that kind of thing happens. Honda had a V6 engine with mitsubishi in their accord too, but the typical behavior is to do most things in house, not all things all the time.
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I wish I could find the source, but its documented somewhere on The Nets that this is roughly what they make– perhaps a bit less.
All news organisations prepare obituaries and related content for famous figures in advance.

There's a classic piece of BBC lore about this, the story goes that the reason BBC staff are now no longer allowed to browse the library of preprepared obituary pieces is because Margaret Thatcher's tape was getting worn out from being watched and re-watched too many times.
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"Then I think we're a long way from seeing this era"

Agreed, but we're just starting, maybe in a few years, who knows...

IMO, the term post-PC is a nice way to differentiate Android/iOS/WebOS/etc tablets from previous generation tablets that ran Windows or some Desktop version of Linux.
I've been using linux (and GIMP) for three years now, and adjustment layers have been just around the corner this whole time. I haven't read anything recently to have a better understanding of the current timeframe.
Cost of goods sold for an artist are fixed whether their song is streamed 100 times or 100 millions times. After that cost is recouped, it shouldn't matter much what the rate paid to the artist per stream is. Why are we still clinging to this expectation that artists must be multimillionaires to be satisfied with their careers?
Ah! HN doesn't display [dead] when you're the submitter of the story. Now I only wonder _why_ it was killed ...

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Radio doesn't kill the necessity of owning music the same way as a subscription service. You can't listen to your favorite 10 love songs over and over after a break up on radio. Or the band that your peer group has elevated to exaltation. Radio can plant a song in your brain and you then want to hear it more often thus making you more likely to buy your favorites.
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If you can go web app, do it. Over time, piracy is only going to get worse..and you can't pirate a web service.

In addition to this, updates are much easier.
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Does Stanford really own the copyright to the words Steve spoke on that day? I can understand them owning the video itself, but the words too?
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Great points made there.

I feel the one thing that is dragging me to web app over and over again is the update procedure.
True. Being around Detroit you can see the entire industry that supports the "Big Three". There are companies that either supply or assist in the build of nearly every component of a car.
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The author's genes may not behave the same way as Asprey's. George Burns consistently smoked and lived to 100; not everyone's genetic makeup will allow this.

I remember hearing a story of a professor who would throw asbestos into the air during lecture saying they had no evidence it was a health hazard, which was true at the time.

Yes, the health/nutrition industry often has uncertainties and disinformation and it may well turn out harmless, but why gamble with your health?
The possibilities of algorithmic music are different from the possibilities of direct human performance.
Emacs has been able to do that for decades, and it is definitely not what great great great grandparent meant by "multithreading"

You've been talking to the same guy for this entire thread. (i.e. the "great great great grandparent" is the same as the person you just responded to.)

I have ever needed or wanted in Emacs to the best of my recollection -- and when I send an email, search a buffer or look up someone's phone number in my address book, I am using an Emacs command I wrote.

It seems like you've had a lot of experience with Emacs. Can Emacs of today do any of the things that he listed that are things he wants to improve his workflow? i.e. Instead of proving him wrong about 3 things, can you prove him wrong about 1 thing?

I'm curious about the state-of-the-art when it comes to Emacs, so it would be cool to get some solid answers.
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I really like this idea, as well as the others in this thread. One minor problem with them is that you would always see the usb hub, which is pretty weird for a mouse. It makes it go from completely invisible, to suspicious - granted that someone is looking very carefully.

Of course, most monitors and keyboards these days are USB hubs, so sticking the secret drive in there wouldn't raise suspicion. Come to think of it, a keyboard is a great place to put it; you could enter a passphrase on the keyboard to unlock the hidden drive.
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Absolutely!

Don't even hesitate for a moment. Measure and respect your competitor, copy his strong points, study his weaknesses!

But in any condition do not loose your pace or enthusiasm. After all, being a YC backed company does not equal world domination.

The game is on!
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If you'd just like to read the content, most of the writing is on businessweek.com - look in the upper-right-hand corner and you'll see a grey section devoted to it.