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warning: I said the 4s is a great product. Did you read the article? I'm going to pre order two iPhone 4s once they are available here in Italy.

Still it is an unfair marketing strategy from Apple.
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They may well give it to iPhone 4 users too. I wouldn't be surprised if they released it as an iPhone 4 and iPad 2 update some time in the future.

Why not do it now? Because Siri is still beta, causes server load, and they want to limit just how many millions of new users it will have to suddenly serve from one day to the next.
How do you tell the difference between caring about your company and being desperate?
Another solution is a custom style sheet. Opera has had that capability forever, since about 2001. I use Opera for most browsing, with a custom style sheet to force all text to a certain font and style. This varies by device: Calibri 12pt is the most readable at work where I sit close to the screen on a smallish monitor, while Verdana 12pt works better on my home desktop and laptop screens. My stylesheet also forces text color to black-on-white, very useful for some forum sites that seem to like the scary gothic gray-on-dark look.

There won't be any magic bullet solution. Specifying text size in terms of pixels gives you tiny words on super high resolution iDevices or even modern laptop screens. Specifying size as an absolute via points or inches/cm doesn't work for users lacking the visual acuity to see that size. Specifying size relative to a user-settable device default only works for users savvy enough to find that setting. What we've got now is a mixmash of the above, where devices treat an absolutely-specified size as a baseline to scale from via zoom controls.

But hey, web font scaling is still twelve parsecs better than the original option of going out to buy the large print edition of whatever you want to read.
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Exactly. I guess the license doesn't really matter a lot in this case, as long as it's some sort of Open Source license. The benefit the companies have by getting their patches merged back in is that they don't necessarily have to maintain the patches themselves anymore. The GPL, however, should not have any effect on that, as long as the work is used internally only.
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Even if you're not Asian, still use this as reason to join the marrow registry. The registry needs as many people as it can get, and it is just as important for the sick who won't ever get this much attention.
The article definitely needs editing. Much of it was painful to read due to omissions, redundancy and generally bad flow.
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How about two pairs atomic clocks. One paired at the start point, one paired at the end point then a start- and an end-clock being used in both locations? Or use a neutral third frame of reference by timing from a pulsar.

This probably wouldn't work, time dilation under gravity makes my head hurt!
+1 for 'medieval inquisition crew'

Can I have my comment points back now?
Mat Cutts had said that page rank was going to be updated 'in a couple of weeks', a couple of weeks ago. Probably it's being updated right now?
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Yes, and the 3GS ended up being really nice to get at the time, if nothing else than for the extra RAM.
I'm curious to know who your heroes are. Because I agree that we need more, but they need to have the intelligence and vision to see the future and the ability to build it, not just whine about openness, after someone shows them how it's done.
Siri was available in the app store until it was announced as an iPhone 4S "feature".

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/04/the-original-siri-app-gets-...
Amit Gupta is a big reason I moved to New York City and one of the reasons I wanted to be a startup founder. He is talented, giving, and above all, kind to everyone around him.

Most people don't realize that the startup scene in New York City today really started at House 2.0, his apartment in the Garment District. It's where many future founders came to interact, share ideas, and get out of their own homes (and heads). Many many positive people and contributions to the New York Tech scene came out of his initial generosity. Even though he lives in San Francisco now, the New York startup scene wouldn't have been so strong without his initial contributions (including BarCamp).

I e-mailed Amit out of the blue in early 2006 to ask him if I could attend the next Jelly meetup. His response helped change my life:

Hey Jeremy,

Glad to have you aboard! I'll add you to the list.

Be well,
Amit

He is the best kind of entrepreneur and one hell of a human being. I humbly ask that we as a community do all that we can to help him.
"Siri, open Facebook app" (or whatever other non-built-in app)

I think that is a use case that would be pretty popular, unfortunately it does not look like that is something Siri can do yet. Maybe a future release.
Dinner was held at Doerr's home.
Doerr supporting Apple:
http://www.kpcb.com/initiatives/ifund/index.html
Doerr supporting Facebook, Zynga, Amazon:
http://www.kpcb.com/initiatives/sfund/
Doerr supporting green initiative:
http://www.kpcb.com/initiatives/greentech/index.html
Westly supporting clean/green initiative:
http://westlygroup.com/portfolio/

Was this an attempt to get the tech giants of Silicon Valley to work with the green companies for energy programs that Obama was pushing at the time?
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I definitely think the iPhone is the size that it is because the iPod was also around the same size. It's entirely possible they were both part of an overarching plan in the transition from "Apple computer" to Apple, the shiny thingy consumer company. Some considerations for the form factor would have been similar for both - eg, able to be manipulated with one hand, fits in the pocket, consistency and compatibility with third-party ecosystem.
The story of the expedition of Burke and Wills is also part of the History of the camels in Australia - a story which is really something special.

In the year 1860 the ship Chinsurah arrived from Karachi in India at Melbourne. It brought 24 dromedaries (one-humped Arabian camels) to Australia and also some camel herders, called "Afghans". The camels were supposed to be part of the expedition of Burke and Wills, which was financially supported by the Royal Society of Victoria and aimed at crossing the australian continent from south to north.

Two years earlier the Victorian Exploration Committee employed Mr. George James Landells to buy camels for £3000 and recruit also some camel herders.

Six further camels were bought by the Victorian Exploration Committee, imported to Australia on the ship Malta by Mr. White & Co.

On Mr. Landells explicit wishes, 60 gallons of rum were added to the supplies of the expedition - not for himself, but for the camels! Mr. Landells had convinced the Committee, that rum would prevent scurvy and improve the survival of the camels in the desert.

On the 20th of August 1860 the expedition started with much public attention from Melbourne with 26 camels, four camels stayed at home, because they were ill.
Amit is a great guy and was always willing help other startups. Three years back, when we first launched CurdBee we were mailing all sorts people in the industry to get the attention. Amit was one of the few people provide feedback to us.
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> For another thing, these days pixel densities can vary by at least a factor of 3 between devices.

It pains me to point this out, but the solution to this particular problem is that CSS has redefined what "pixel" means, or rather, they've made "px" stand for something slightly different. Specifically, the "px" specifier now is a scaled length unit, and corresponds to whatever length subtends the same arc in a user's field-of-view as would a single pixel on a typical desktop display at about two feet away. So technically, in order to know how many pixels a px is, you need to know the resolution of the display, the size of the display, and the distance from it that the user will be sitting.

(Argh)
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I think Steve said it best himself:

"As for us, we’re just doing what we can to try and make (and preserve) the user experience we envision. You can disagree with us, but our motives are pure.

By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you…just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?"

- Steve Jobs
> Plans: As per official website, UbiSlate will come with an unlimited mobile Internet at Rs.98/month.

That's roughly $2. What am I not understanding here? Is there no coverage? Is this for WiFi? I'm all for cheap, unlimited mobile Internet, and I think American offerings are overpriced and underprovisioned, but I don't think $2 is possible.
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Alan Kay, Linus, RMS, People working hard every day to find a cure for cancer for 1500 euro/month in some dark laboratory.
Even if it works really, really well, I can't help but feel that I'm not going to use it that often unless I'm in the car. Am I the only one who finds it awkward to sit there talking out loud to my phone?
While I don't really agree with the rest of the article, this was very well put:

> After all till yesterday Android was the state of art in voice interaction. But apparently Google is not able to connect the dots: they solve a given problem in a great way, that is, translating speech to text, but they can't translate that into great user experience for their users.

It's true - Apple didn't invent the tablet, touchscreen, mp3 player, etc. but they bring it to the masses with a great user experience (and rabid obsessive fanbase). It's not a guarantee but it's likely that voice interaction will improve and become a larger part of device interaction.
I don't buy that it's automatically inferior if you can't operate it with one hand. Larger carries trade-offs, smaller carries different trade-offs, and those trade-offs are different for everyone. You can't hit 90% with one size. I'd buy that you can make 90% happy, but not if the people you're marketing to have used decent smartphones in the form factor that hits the "sweet spot" for them.
"Second" on the desire for some blog links - or other links to info on your work, process, project info, etc.
I don't actually see it. But, you might want to check out the Awesome Screenshot add-in for Firefox and Chrome. It lets you capture the whole page, as well as crop, annotate and blur.
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Congrats on creating such a nice client. And in C#, no less!

Your title implies that your hand might've been forced here. Was that the case? Would you have preferred to keep it closed?
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"Reason 10: Can Run Multiple Instances in Different Processes"

I'm not sure "open new window in a new process" really belongs in a windows menu. It's just more junk that only a tiny percentage of their users will understand.

I don't think the idea of a process is anywhere in the technical vocabulary of a typical windows user.
Looks like public-domain now, since no license mentioned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
The number of Asians (East and South) registered with the registry is quite low in the US. When it comes to bone marrow matches, race/ethnicity actually matters a lot.

Please consider registering with the registry ( http://marrow.org/Join/Join_the_Registry.aspx ), especially if you're of Asian descent. It could be the easiest way for you to save a life.

Leukemia is the leading form of cancer among young people. It's heart breaking to see young people succumb to it because of all the unrealized potential lost.
With all due respect, Google IS an advising and marketing company.
Did you give the "new" Opera a try in regards to your large email "collection"? I had similar issues in the past, but the new version is surprisingly good in handling large repositories. Just as an idea ;)
This is a sweet story, but I just wanted to point out that this is pretty common for someone with terminal cancer. Jobs was a private, controlling man, for sure, but I feel like this reporter is unfairly stretching the narrative to fit this caricature.

The endless stream of visitors to the house can be absolutely exhausting for a person who already only has enough energy to stay awake and active a few hours each day. A big part of the family's responsibility, and burden, is prioritizing and intercepting visitors.

I'm sure many of you here on this board have had the misfortune to experience this yourself, so you know what I'm talking about.

It's not a big deal; it was a good article. But for once, Jobs' behavior didn't stem from being some larger than life cartoon figure of a business-genius-prophet-dictator.. he was just really sick.
Most churches in America aren't churches in the sense meant here, the traditional church building. Many church services are held in random buildings that have been re-purposed as houses of worship, and even the buildings built as churches are often more modern and pragmatic in their approach and don't necessarily look like traditional churches or follow the traditional 'rules'.
I regret wasting time reading it. It's a rant about if you are rich then you're evil, then it's not a quality of being a hero. It's unfortune that someone with a reputation like him could post such a piece at this timing.
discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083545
Essentially this article is what Salvatore dislikes about the iPhone 4 with two gratuitous paragraphs tacked onto the end about how he prefers to heroise those motivated by democratising access to the best technology rather than financial gain. I can only assume it was a controversial attempt at seeking attention (page views).

Even if you extremely dislike someone, it's best to maybe just keep your feelings to yourself immediately after their passing. Many people are in mourning and it's important to be mindful and respectful of that.

Personally I believe Steve was not motivated by money, he took a token $1 salary and to what extent is unknown, worked until the very end of his life, even though he was acutely aware of his own mortality.

I'm not an Apple fanboy and I don't deify Jobs, but I recognise and am grateful for his contributions. I also disagree with a lot things Apple has done in the past few years, but I think "What's wrong with the iPhone 4s" would have been just fine, and the rest is in slightly poor taste.

My apologies if you think I'm being over-sensitive.
Yes, you could provide multiple bitmaps in a website now, but in a convoluted way (with some custom javascript checking for resize events etc). In the icons case, it happens automatically.

As for SVG, client rendering time would be insignificant for most case (for a desktop machine at least, they have CPU to spare). But currently used IE version (> 6) for one don't support SVG. And the main problem are bitmap assets such as photographs. Those cannot be done as vectors.
Because lack of such free software can hinder people who might be otherwise interested in switching to a free operating system from actually doing so.

A free replacement for Flash is likely to become less useful in this situation, as other non-proprietary solutions are becoming prevalent.
Here's something interesting in the OPERA paper -

>"The high-accuracy time-transfer GPS receiver allows to continuously monitor tiny movements of the Earth’s crust, such as continental drift that shows up as a smooth variation of less than 1 cm/year, and the detection of slightly larger effects due to earthquakes. The April 2009 earthquake in the region of LNGS, in particular, produced a sudden displacement of about 7 cm, as seen in Fig. 7. All mentioned effects are within the accuracy of the baseline determination. Tidal effects are negligible as well." //

Now that's accuracy, allowing for movement of the Earth's crust in your experiment!

Wonder if this can be used for Earthquake prediction.
Another project I would like to be high priority is GIMP.

Photoshop is the misruler and needs to be dethroned. It's a terrible piece of software that, more or less, forces people to use non-free operative systems. It has to be replaced and/or get some real competition that would force Adobe to get their act straight.
Does anyone know if the 4s will have increased RAM over the 4?
Maybe windows power users might find all that stuff awesome, but I worry about having to explain it all to my dad over the phone
This article could really be condensed into one sentence. It seems the main beef is the author thinks Siri should work with the iPhone 4, making this upgrade unnecessary. With Siri system integration as advertised in the keynote, more processing will be done phone side, which will require a hardware upgrade.

As a developer, the enhanced hardware opens up avenues for many interesting app ideas. I'm particularly excited about display mirroring for games.
I thought vboxdrv, which is listed in the bug reports, is the host machine process??

I can certainly be wrong about this...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/hardware/Steve-...
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Ah. Your right anyways. I'm just agreeing with him.
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True! I did use that for 2-3 months over the summer (version 11? 11.5?) , and it worked reasonably well. I eventually moved away, because it had a bunch of locking pauses.. I'm not sure what caused them. My guess is that when checking for mail in account A, account B,C,D would lock up?

I'll give it another shot.
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But it also invited this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083782

So I'm conflicted.
I admire those people too, but they are orthogonal to our discussion. And it's funny you say Alan Kay, because Apple is in many ways an embodiment of his ideas.

Edit: Actually, I have to remove RMS from my list after reading this - http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_20.... Disgusting.
Facebook also has a lot more elements (basically, images) to deal with than an average website with significant lengths of (narrative) body text.
Go is not meant to be a low level systems language... it is meant to be a systems language useful for implementing services... something for which you better be caring about concurrency for.

Erlang really is the best language to point at and say "why do we need this new one", though doing that in the first place is stupid.
I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure public domain is not the default.
It is really odd. I have some old blogs (5y+) which have a decent PR and perform extremely bad, while some newer ones (under 1 year old) that are still N/A and perform excellent.
Best suggestion is probably as always to not care about PR but just focus on the actual performance.
Can anyone with an actual background in thermoelectrical effects tell us why this is not just a consequence of graphene's Seebeck coefficient?

As near as I can tell:

1. They used 850nm to heat one side of the graphene pn junction

2. Photons have an absorption depth, so the side facing the laser heats more than the side away from the laser.

3. Seebeck effect manifests.
Government salary is not necessarily their main source of income...

* They often own businesses, which often benefit significantly from government contracts
* Direct or indirect kickbacks from other business owners/lobbyists in return for more favorable legislation
No license mentioned doesn't mean public domain.
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A free alternative to Oracle Forms? That's a pretty neat idea since in my opinion OF actually serves the developers instead of enslaving them.
Rs 98 / month is for 2 GB of EDGE data per month. That is the normal charge in India for every mobile customer. This is not a special tariff for this tablet.
Under the Berne convention, "all rights reserved" if no license is mentioned. Pretty much every country has signed the Berne convention.
I also wondered about the story. Looks like they made an iPad version instead: http://www.inbox2.com
The piece of software that forces people like me to use non-free operative systems is not Photoshop, but Gimp. And more horribly, Inkscape.
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The large percentage of users that don't know what a process is probably won't click on the right-arrow that takes you to that submenu. And if they accidentally do, they'll either hit escape, or maybe they'll google "open new window in new process" and teach themselves something.
No, that's not how it works. At least in the US, an author has an implicit copyright over his or her work even if he or she does not post a copyright notice. The author would have to explicitly forfeit his or her rights to the work in order for it to be in the public domain.
Worse than that tt's actually an option since windows 2000 and every windows version since then, so it's nothing new he just didn't know about it. Most of the other "power user" things like "open command prompt here" have been available through power toys or such.
Every one have/can express their own opinion being said that but speaking about some one dead recently on the merits of subjective term ('hero') is quite distasteful (IMHO) and makes me sad, makes me even sadder since it came from some one i respect.

I'm not a fan boy ( never owns a Apple made products so far) just that i don't think its going to constructive for any one around here, YMMV
Apple is the modern day equivalent of the Great Pyramids.

All that meticulous design, all that money, all the sweat and tears - and for what? So that, for a price, we may all have beautiful, lickable technical gewgaws to idle away the hours.

Apple revolutionized media distribution, mobile entertainment, phones, and tablet computing - that much is obvious. They may even revolutionize more. People will wax mawkish and claim that Apple has "given" them happiness and wonderment. I suppose not unlike the awe in the eyes of ancient Egyptian commoners as they gazed up at their civilization's most lasting technical achievements.

But at what cost? Eighty billion dollars in the bank and literally the largest market cap in the world and Apple gives a pittance in the way of charitable donations. Their corporate charity pathetically dwarfed by that of peers such as Microsoft or Google. Even more so by their financial equals like Walmart or Exxon Mobil.

All that money, all that energy and potential for humanity and it all goes up on the most finely crafted of altars. Disappearing in nothing more than a nice, tight little cycle of ever obsoleting gadgetry.

I'm over it.
Yes, but you also need to get used to the complete lack of useful file management features in Finder.
Whoops, I guess you're right. Never mind.
D1's compiler was great when D did as little as Go does. Also please stop spreading FUD - the current compiler is eminently usable.
I'm 41 and I've not changed my mind yet. But I guess I've been lucky with my eyesight so far.
without throwing the good parts away.
Lighten up, I was only half-serious. Even if RMS is indeed a psychopath, he's not a very dangerous one.
I went in thinking "Yeah right", and came out thinking "whoa! that's pretty cool!"

Some of these features I regularly add to Ubuntu (Terminal session here, or mounting ISO's, for instance), and others I think are insanely important (what is with OS X having no Up Folder button? I still have such a hard time getting around without it.)