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> However, even if the crisis could temporarily be averted, the problem with food aid is it undermines any possibility of local production. Farmers can't compete with free food dumped on the market, so they stop farming.

Aid like this needs to happen through buying the food locally, or as close to it as possible.

I think you'd get the most long-term benefit from enforcing peace on the roads and at the refugee camps, then giving the refugees money - ever more until it's worth it for independents to deliver food.

Initially this would result in the same rush of foreign food which would otherwise put local farmers out of business, but instead of the aid being foreign food which displaces local food production, it's foreign money - which will buy local food with preference because it's cheaper. Local farmers could command any price - just short of that of shipping food across the world under military convoy, and would make a fortune. This would build local food production, not ruin it.
And I think your interpretation is far more likely. As much as I know everyone wants to believe that Steve was involved until the very end; I've seen people in the final week (and final minutes--my grandfather) of pancreatic cancer. They're not "working" on much of anything other than taking their next breath.

It makes for one hell of a story; but, I think the better story is to think of a man who spent his last 24 hours alive with those closest to him--his family.
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i'm curious, how is it that this business model not sustainable? isn't that being "broker" is always profitable? basically they're just middlemen between merchant and customers right?
> I think that his continuing to work is the most charitable act I've observed in my lifetime.

Really? I doubt he did any of the stuff for our express benefit. Steve had a personal drive to produce good products, to achieve his personal goals, and he did that really well and is rightly admired for pursuing his internal drive and making it such a success.

Was his drive mainly for altruistic reasons? For the benefit of mankind? Come on - I'm all for admiring the guy, but let's not fawn over him. He's not a saint. If he is, I guess all those mega-rich CEOs of the Samsungs, Ford, General Electics of the world are also so admirable because they 'charitably' continue to work when they financially don't need to.
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I wonder what Samsung's long-extant mobile division thought of Samsung's silicon division getting in bed with a competitor?
I'm not a big fan of Michio Kaku and this is a good example of his confused thinking.

Terrorism is not an ideology but a tactic used by the weaker side of a conflict but it is not the only tactic.

As Kaku argues, there are anti-science, anti-reason, anti-civilization ideologies, often derived from religion, that use terrorism. But there are also secular anti-science, anti-reason, anti-civilization ideologies such as Environmentalism, Keynesianism and Marxism that do not use terrorism but use the far more deadly tactic of claiming to be based on science and reason but in fact are rationalizations for confiscating wealth and establishing socialism and ultimately totalitarianism. If Western Civilization (and to be clear, that is what we are talking about) collapses it will be from within, not from the external anti-reason attackers who are just taking advantage of a weakened civilization unwilling or unable to defend itself.

Kaku's argument also exposes the inherent contradiction of the advocates of diversity, toleration, multiculturalism as ultimate social values. He claims the terrorists want to establish a unified "monoculture" based on their ideology. He implies that any such "monoculture" is bad and that ours is superior because we tolerate diversity. But shouldn't the terrorists be welcomed as "diverse" and "tolerated" by our civilization? If pressed Kaku would (hopefully) say no -- some primitive or destructive cultures must not be tolerated. Kaku is advocating a "monoculture" too and any diversity must be within the frame of cultures based on science and reason that do not tolerate irrational, primitive or destructive cultures.

He claims that Type I Civilizations should be commonplace in the universe but I am not convinced. Intelligent life may be exceedingly rare in the universe. See the book "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe"

FWIW, I think mankind will survive.
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I hate touch screen keyboards. The author owned an iPhone then an android phone. If you've never coded on a Nokia e63 keyboard using vim over s2putty you've never lived.

I recently gave into the powers that be and got a new phone with a touch screen keyboard (a galaxy s2).

There are heaps of benefits to this phone over my e72 (although I my last true love was the e63) - not least of which is a vastly superior web browsing and email experience but gosh the keyboard is a frustrating piece of shit.

I would gladly trade the bottom 2 inches of my screen for a permanent hardware keyboard and no screen rotation.

Am I doomed to languish at 10wpm for the rest of my days?!

I'm so pissed off with Nokia for ditching Symbian. They were so close to being good for so many years, then they ditched it because they wanted to be like the iPhone.

Don't they realise that I actively chose NOT to purchase an iPhone? The point of difference is that they're not the same as the iPhone, a single minded unproductive useless piece of eye candy.

Even the multi-tasking on Android doesn't hold a candle to Symbian (for example I can't switch to my SSH client whilst a web page loads in the background).

Nokia, I will hate you for ever. But not as much as I hate this piece of shit touch screen you've relegated me to.
This isn't the only complete asinine quote Rubin's dropped lately [1]:

“I don’t think there should be apps specific to a tablet...if someone makes an ICS app it’s going to run on phones and it’s going to run on tablets.”

What is going on at Google?

[1] http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/19/andy-rubin-i-apps-specifi...
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How about the Europe?
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The "Learn More" should be on the front-page. Or actually, the image on the stats should be. To decide on wether I'd use this, I must follow that extra link, filter some copy I don't care about, then look at the image to figure out "unbearable" means a puny number to me, making the product a bad fit.

20 emails is far from "unbearable" in my mind.

Also, making it obvious that this is based on unread emails would be helpful. My immediate reaction was this was for zero-inbox-nazis, of which I know a few among friends, but the "unbearable mental weight" of seeing a list of read emails just doesn't impact me the way it does them I guess. ;-)

Other than that, yes, clever hack. But honestly I'd be afraid of the impression I'm making by broadcasting to everyone that I'm constantly swamped. "Unbearable" has some pretty overly dramatic connotations.
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I wonder what will die first, desktops or physical media?
I think you're definitely getting ahead of yourself. Once the product is built, you will find a lot if these answers coming from within you. If you don't even have a prototype, then I'd say don't worry about all that. Just build it and see how it goes. I bet you're a better marketer than you think, but your problem is you tried to think of marketing something that doesnt even exist yet, and gave up. Am I right?
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I'm not. Friends and advisors who have gone through it or are otherwise related to the program have very highly recommended it so we're still full speed ahead on the application.

Incidentally, our company is working in technology around video editing. :-p
As someone running a 600MHZ phone running cm7 (coming from an iphone 3GS), I never noticed any lag, in fact it runs better than 3GS and iOS. The dreadful UI you continuously bring up, has never been an issue and never got in the way of doing what I need to do. In fact there are things about Android's UI that are superior to iOS IMO. Most of what you call good UI is probably subjective. I'd rather have google focus on bigger issues than, a marginal improvement in scrolling. What android phone did you use and for how long ?
Oh mit!
This article focused on hardware. The more interesting trend is in desktop software -- nobody is making it anymore.

Microsoft has so succesfully strangled the life out of the software industry that it is now a wasteland. Today, all games are for consoles, all mini-games are iphone games, all enterprise software is moving to the cloud, all productivity software is written as web services....

This is why the PC is dead meat.
If I remember correctly, the last competition there was a team who wrote a bot using genetic programming techniques. So you are definitely not prevented from using those more advanced techniques if you can pull them off.

Food for thought, maybe you could develop an ML program to calculate the optimal heuristic for the basic bot program.
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It was a joke, lighten up. For what it's worth, I'm a .NET developer and think it's awesome.
And they only ship to the US. Meh.
Anonymity as "Anonymous Coward", someone on the internets with zero credibility said you were a bad student. Thanks to google super search powers, I know who you are, I'd certainly never hire you.

Anonimity as "Certain Nickname on g+". Nobody knows his real name, but everybody knows his avatar and nickname and his real religious/political views. He has a certain credibility based on past facts. When I find hin irl, I'll kick his ass for insulting my believes.

No anonimity, as we "know exactly who he is". He always posts about mainstream music and funny catz. He is a joy, always contributing positively in our community.
As a TechStars alum, I can say that this show painted a very distorted view of the real TechStars program. The drama was fabricated by Bloomberg because that's what makes good TV. Don't let this show ruin your view of TechStars. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up regretting doing this show, but of course, hindsight is 20/20. It would have been hard for me to turn down that amount of national exposure too.
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Since betting takes place in the US on major sports, the gov will be very, very involved if a team takes a dive for the good of a story.
I don't get why startups go into acquisition binges, trying to buy their way to the top rather than out-innovating the competition. It is really sad for the poor folks laid off, and this seems like it was run purely on greed rather than any kind of desire to do something awesome. (Sorry, do I sound like a hippie?).
I second Inkscape. I love it. It's so useful and you can really create a lot with it. It helps to be a bit artistic; however, I think with some practice you could still do it sufficiently well to put a decent logo together. For instance, you could find fonts and designs you like and tweak them to fit what you want using Inkscape.

Also, as long as you aren't spending too much time, I think learning a new skill is always helpful. It never hurts to learn.
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How is this news? Most technology is dying slowly to be replaced by the latest and greatest.

Tablets and smartphones will be dying slowly too in a few years to be replaced by some other idea.
I believed they were asking me because they were looking out for me. </quote> from the article

> Oftentimes we think the media is engaged in a search for truth, justice and a real portrayal of how things work </quote>

I'm astonished that there are people who can think that at any age. Kids are either too young even to understand the concepts involved or too old to believe in Santa Claus. It might be culture-dependent.

Maybe I'm too naive in believing that somebody can sincerely write about the presumed right way good media should work.
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I'm worried because I run Debian on my laptop and I'm not certain that I'll be able to just pull-and-push my HD into my next laptop.

But what I'm more worried about: "the growing threat of pre-OS malware". I'm a saavy nerd, but I don't really know what this means. I'm sure that I could Google it, but it feels like we've missed the boat on security: I don't need Fort Knox, but, even as a geek, I need something that isn't confusing and restrictive.
Vodafone also has a product called WebBox, that is basically a keyboard running Android that you plug into your TV screen or old monitor.

I presume this isn't a product designed for the first world.

http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/about/what/devices/web...
Not if you raise $21M, acquire 6 companies and have over 100 employees.
I agree. I think TechStars had nothing but the best of intentions, and they were sold a bill of goods from Bloomberg that the show would be a documentary. I think this is why they were so adamant about each company participating: because they honestly believed the exposure would be good for our companies.
OK. Maybe I was not clear enough but I wanted to say that swipe (http://swipe.nokia.com/) function from MeeGo Harmattan grown into me very fast. I have iPad as well - I have tried to swipe program in iPad naturally one day and that has not worked for me because there is no such function in iPad. My point is that Nokia has done something really cool from usability/user experience perspective.

Or maybe I'm downvoted only because I insulted all iOS device owners by saying that their device is not coolest gadget anymore...
>when speech recognition is good enough that we won't need to type anything

I dread the coming of that day because using public transportation will become an even more unpleasant experience because there will be more people speaking into their phones and that speech will be even more unnatural than ordinary cell-phone conversations.
Look at it this way. With $140 million in 1985, Steve could've invested all of his money in a hedge fund and probably come out ahead of how he did investing in Pixar, Apple, etc. From $140 million to $7 billion over 26 years is about 16.5% return per year, which is less than the annual return of Berkshire Hathaway over the last 20 years (almost 19%).

He's not a guy who took his millions and invested it in the questionably useful products of Wall Street. Instead, he built things that people loved. That doesn't make him a saint, but I think it makes him someone worthy of respect.
What? Let's see what they're going to roll out and then we can discuss surrendering and capitulation. As of now all we have are rumors.
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FWIW, I think mankind will survive.

The interesting thing is IMO not whether it will survive, but in what form, and for how long.

I mean, the human race could survive very, very long under primitive conditions, no big feat. Many animals have done that for hundreds of thousands of years. If the earth was somehow mangled by a big war or disease, it will be somewhat harder, but I think a few will survive.

I think that we should aim for something higher than "survival".
> (OOP) Writing lots of "xxxxxManager" classes that contain all of the methods for manipulating the fields of objects that have little or no methods of their own

How about writing lots of xxxxController classes that manipulate objects that have little methods of their own.
When you love what you do it's not called "work" anymore.
Please, altruism as defined your way does not exist. Altruism is at its core self-serving: We desire to feel better about ourselves, to feel we are good human beings. People admire different things, so their vision of how best to behave leads to different forms of self-satisfaction.

Rather than focus on whether Steve did great things because of his passion for excellence, or because he wanted to have legions of fans, or for whatever other supposedly saintlike or selfish reason, focus on what he accomplished: bringing computing to the masses. That is an amazing thing.
The design of this site is excellent; I'm learning a lot just from looking around.

On the other hand, the dropbox images load slowly enough to be annoying. I doubt there's much views.fm can do about that (it's probably just my local internet connect), but it still hurts the user experience.
I was the 4th guy at Google and back then they were not evil (duh).

I left to do my own thing but I email Larry and Sergey from time to time and so far they have been pretty cool about listening to me (they have a 747 or whatever it is, I have a Dodge Sprinter, sort of establishes the pecking order, I'm way way down on the list, so the fact that they sometimes listen is cool)

I think that Google wants to not be evil but the whole money thing kinda messes that up.

I also think that they listen. If you want Google to not be evil, it's a lot like wanting our government to not be evil. If you sit back and complain when they get evil, oh, well, that's what you might expect. If you apply pressure that says "hey! don't be evil, we liked that part!" you might be pleasantly surprised.

It's passive or not. If you are passive and unhappy with the results, try being more noisy, I think there are a lot of people that want to do the right thing but if the only noise they hear is from money people who want more money, well, they take care of those people. Make some noise.
I'm guessing you're either a very young savvy nerd, or you've forgotten about boot sector viruses.

This has been a problem for 25+ years.
So what, it was just a lame MLM scheme anyway. They weren't doing anything even remotely interesting or innovative.
> That doesn't make him a saint, but I think it makes him someone worthy of respect.

I totally agree about respect - but respect is not charity. Charity refers to noble goals/intentions - Steve 'only' built great products - those products are great - but there is nothing inherently noble about them.

If the OP had said Bill Gates is amazingly charitable - I would be more inclined to agree. Bill Gates has worked to make the world a better place and has self-sacrificed his wealth to help others. Steve did none of that - Steve is incredibly entrepreneurial and deserves boatloads of respect - but don't say his actions where charitable.
While it is illegal to fix sporting events for gambling purposes, evidently you can fix sports for entertainment purposes.

The NFL's lawyers stated the NFL competes in the "entertainment marketplace" (http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?renderfor...) and operates as a single entity, not as 32 teams.
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You just asked the commenter to spell it out in your previous comment. Chastising him/her for doing so really, really doesn't move us forward. His comments about requiring sign-up (particularly on services that don't allow minors under 13) were an excellent explanation.
So is your concern that you can't go past f/2?

This:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/devindotcom/5076642726/sizes/l/...

Was taken at f/3.2 so there is no reason you couldn't get this shot with a f/2 shot from a plenoptic camera with a 35mm lens and a APS-C sized sensor (you would actually have to use some of their software to increase the depth of field to get that picture).

Lytro doesn't give specs on the focal length or sensor size; I think we can assume it's probably closer to a point-and-shoot than an SLR, and everybody already knows it's hard to do shallow depth of field with a point-and-shoot, it's not anything specific to Lytro's camera. The majority of point-and-shoots have a fixed aperture (if you "stop-down" for outdoors shooting they just use an NDF filter).

If they come out with an pro-quality exchangable lens large-sensor plenoptic, you ought to be able to do the same sorts of things you can do with a pro-quality non-plenoptic camera, only you'll be able to do it e.g. with moving subjects that you otherwise would not be able to focus on with such a narrow depth of field (and as a sacrifice you would have many fewer pixels).
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