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1) They make hardly any money from their 30 percent.

2) Why is it obvious that everybody would suddenly switch to not selling through the App Store?

I don’t think alternate app stores on Android are terribly successful. Maybe they are, I don’t know, but I haven’t heard about it. People stick to the defaults and what’s convenient and easily discoverable.

Such a switch would be relevant for very few people. There is no reason Apple couldn’t do it. It just wouldn’t be good or bad for them. They can be lazy.
"cannot be spent in a reasonable way by a few individuals" - again with the socialist claptrap - these people earned the money, they should decide what it's best possible use is.

I'm stopping by your place today to raid your refrigerator, and take those clothes you aren't wearing. That good with you? 'cause that's what you're saying.
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Ahh- then "Knopfler bends" must refer to Dire Straights guitarist Mark Knopfler.
Haha - you mean the handwriting one? =)
Only if it's in a commercial situation.
all these cold fusion schemes use "input/output < 1" energy demonstration as a prove of the fusion. A lot of unaccounted chemical reactions can happen inside - for example, they split water into hydrogen and oxygen and the oxygen would burn with nickel - you'd have energy gain if nickel burns better than hydrogen (i just don't remember what produces better reaction though)

The real scientific approach would be to demonstrate the real indicators of supposed reaction. Be it fast neutrons, alpha or some specific radiation frequency. Because when hydrogen supposedly fuses with nickel (lets forget for a moment that nickel is past the iron in the periodic table and thus isn't expected to produce much of, if at all, a fusion energy gain) the energy is released in some very specific and detectable form - either some particle like alpha or some photon of pretty specific frequency and there is nothing easier to detect than that ... much much easier than to compare input/output energy and trace the heat loses/gains through the piping, etc...

I'm a firm believer in the fusion as a practical energy source. We have upper bound - 10Kt thermonuclear weapons that produce net energy gain, we have lower bound - Z machine (my personal favorite as it is just a miniaturized thermonuclear bomb process, which is well proven at Kt scale, with X-rays produced by electric discharge (at 15% efficiency of electric power to X-rays conversion!) instead of nuclear fission primary), Tokamaks, fusor, polywell, NIF with some of them reaching output levels of tens of percent of the input energy. The sweet spot is somewhere in between. It takes money and time to develop it. ITER or even order of magnitude bigger ITER will get us there. The cold fusion which is unknown (in particular it doesn't have such proven upper/lower bounds) and when presented in such unscientific fashion it just undermines the public support, ie. funding for development of proven (in the sense mentioned above) technologies.
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Maybe pivoting? Deviating from the original idea can be a hard choice, especially if all the work up till now has gone towards the original.

I think pivoting is one of the most difficult obstacles an entrepreneur faces, not just from a technical or conceptual point of view, but also from an emotional one.
NASA did a bad job investigating Toyota unintended acceleration
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Its not perpetual since you put in a smaller energy than you get out, but you still consume a fuel that is extremely plentiful everywhere in the universe.

Perpetual = outputs more energy than it uses while consuming no fuel, so it fuels itself + some output.
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> If that is the logic, why make jailbreaking difficult at all?

Apple pays support costs (facilities, labor, etc.) for everyone who brings in an iOS device to a store, and it's their best interest to allow their personnel to turn problems around quickly. If an in-warranty device is "broken," they can send the customer home with a refurb one within fifteen minutes (I've done this for a screen). An easy jailbreak means more devices will come in broken, they'll have to keep more replacements in stock, and they won't necessarily be able to turn customers away for it because there might not be a good way to detect a jailbreak.

Jailbreaking is also a security problem for enterprises. If a user can run arbitrary un-sandboxed code, there's no way the device's owner can trust it to receive sensitive emails, be wiped remotely, and so on.
Thanks again. Actually, I just looked it, it seems that the Google Docs' textdoc has no save button which is strange for a word-like. Also, I knew that google notebook has a save button but it looks deprecated compared to google docs
It has 192 KB of RAM.
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> 1MW worth of power from fusion would generate enough radiation to kill a stadium full of people in a fraction of a second without a lot of shielding, but cold fusion people never seem to have an fear of radiation...

No, not necessarily. Only if the output is gamma or, to a lesser extent, neutrons. If it's alpha, even a paper sheet would provide adequate protection.
Besides the other links in the comments, you can grab lots of NOAA data here: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/

Of course this isn't as fun as building your own receiver.
I don't understand how they have "1 billion logins a day". They only have 500-600 million accounts (and not all of those are active).

I'm assuming a "login" is the specific act of typing in your username and password into the site to authenticate into a specific account - pertinent here because we're talking about people logging in with compromised credentials.

When I visit Facebook, I'm usually cookied and so to me that isn't a login. If I had compromised the account I wouldn't consider myself 're-compromising it' just by visiting it again with the cookie already in place.

Maybe this is just semantics but seeing as we're making a headline out of a stat, it seems worth drilling down on.
Yes, but you could listen to more music for the same price. Even if there are only 2 new albums I want to listen to a month, it's break-even to get an rdio/mog/spotify subscription vs. buying the albums.
I do this too. I also take off my shoes and do little toe-tap drills with a soccer ball. (Which can become a respectable work-out in 6 square feet.)

They're both non-verbal, I can almost feel myself using a different part of the brain. It's a good little rest, and erases my mental "context" of the problem -- I catch a lot of silly errors when I return to work.
Yeah, Architects Daughter is, well, anyways. It just went up in price, but I've found The Big Book of Font Combinations to provide some good guidance in relation to font picking. http://bonfx.com/the-big-book-of-font-combinations/
Gruber's article makes a lot of sense. TV content providers are already creating iOS apps, so why not pull them altogether into a Newstand-like app folder called iTV. And that would appear on your Apple TV as well.

Apple could also differentiate from Free TV "Channel" apps and Paid ones in the Appstore. Free channels apps would monetize through commercials. The paid ones would be subscription like HBO, etc. The TV channels could monetize even better because there's a direct relationship with the customer/viewer and they can target ads more specifically (location, demographic, age, gender, interests, etc).

In the end, Apple's new TV will be just a screen giving the user access to "channels" which will be apps.

Also, the apps might have two interfaces: one for iPad/iPhone (or separate) and also one for the iTV. The iTV interface will be really simple and will list out all your TV apps and what's playing or what's popular recently.
I also disagree with this assertion - "If you build it one day, user X will be confused. Build it another, user Y will be confused."

I agree that you can never make a product that 100% of people can use with ease, but you can get close, and you can make changes that help User X without alienating User Y.

Case in point: iPads don't come with instruction manuals, and toddlers and old people both use them with ease.
GAE definitely does not deliver more consistent performance. I've done a ton of performance tweaking on GAE as of late and my bottlenecks are now reduced to random points in the code between RPC's where my Python thread is obviously locked out of the CPU it was running on.

I should say that the variation this leads to is at max around two seconds. I believe this is due to App Engine doing some dynamic grouping of slow applications. So if your app has fast response times, it will be grouped with other apps having fast response times, so the maximum downside is limited.
Useful? Not everything needs utility. It can just be cool. This is definitely the latter, although more as a Javascript exercise than a video one.
Zynga's 'ghetto' testing is the same idea, maybe even more radical in details:
http://grattisfaction.com/2010/01/how-zynga-does-customer-de...
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For those who doubted Tesla's ability to turn a profit, this is my anecdote. I used to be one of you. Selling an absurdly priced boutique sports car that can only run 250 miles did not seem like a viable business strategy. The battery packs had their issues. The range was terrible. The car was tiny and cramped, even smaller than some small sports cars.

And then I chanced upon a LivingSocial deal that let me drive a Roadster S for a day. For the record, I've driven a handful of supercars and more than my share of regular sports cars. I have almost never felt what I did in the Tesla (with the exception of the Gallardo), mainly because of the instant thrust available at any RPM. It was not like anything I ever felt before. As I drove, I felt inexplicably that this was the car of the future -- as a tech aficionado, I was finally driving a car that felt like the future. The lack of an engine roar was strangely soothing (and I LOVE engine roars!). The pickup meant that I could smoke most Maseratis on the 0-60. The thrill of pressing down on the accelerator and feeling the thrust in your chest was unparalleled (again, with the exception of the Gallardo). As I drove past clubs in San Francisco with their Porsches and Bentleys outside, I felt above it all in my tiny all-electric sports car. They were stupid flash-mongers; I was one with my machine. There is something pure and beautiful about driving a Tesla Roadster, well beyond the gas-free aspect. This was the thoroughly impractical car that my inner child always wanted from the future.

It thrilled me to drive that car in a way that I cannot fully describe. I am an eminently rational man. I have children, and am not prone to being wild and reckless. But now, as a result of driving that beautiful machine, as soon as my GOOG stocks vest, I will be driving down to Menlo Park, CA with my checkbook in hand to drive out with a Roadster.

That, dear friends, is how Tesla will turn a profit, in the face of ridiculous product shortcomings like range. They enchant, and they delight, and because of that I will gladly open my pocketbook for Elon Musk.
I'm sure it's better now, but Rhapsody lost me by having _the worst web player I've ever experienced_. It's hard to overstate how bad it was. I just can't bring myself to go back, even though I realize they've worked on it. It was so. bad.
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A good book on sketching and it's application as a business communication tool is Dan Roam's The Back of the Napkin.

http://www.amazon.com/Back-Napkin-Expanded-Problems-Pictures...
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the reason there's a law against it is because men (yes, men!) were stupid enough to allow women to vote in the first place.

and now we have a feminine culture takeover: used to be only sticks and stones would hurt me, now it's words that slay me. Get over the obsession already, this is tiresome! Everyone starts out equal, no one person is inherently better than another - but some people perform more valuable services than others. Men and women are different, hence the chromosomal difference. If these guys want an exclusionary company, let them have it! But you don't have to buy their goods/services.

Birds of a feather flock together - people are almost always going to associate with people they feel more comfortable will - and each individual will decide which character trait they most like to identify with, and will seek out people with like traits.
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Except this is a consequence of the device having to be jailbroken in the first place to work properly. You're attacking the symptom, not the cause.
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I had to go to the first part to find out what tool he's using for the drawings. It is InkScape -- a free vector drawing tool. Installing now.

Great job on the tutorial. While I'm a dev and not an artist, I still get a rush of awe when I see how easy he makes it look to draw some of these things.
I was there for this. One of the coolest, inspiring, and creative stories I have heard. I told all my friends to listen to it. Even my dad watched it with my recommendation and thought it was outstanding.

This was my other favorite during Startup School 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvmYGK2Jhck&feature=mfu_i...

I didn't attend (or apply) this year, but I hope to attend again in the future. It was awesome and inspiring (and I have no idea how I got selected).
Thanks for sharing your experience. You actually gave me goosebumps, but I'm not sure why.
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So true. There was one in my office parking lot not too long ago.
http://wheelspotting.com/wheels/nissan-leaf-is-ugly
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Great Story. I think one thing I am realizing with my little daughter is that kids - even at 1.5 years old - are curious and resourceful. My job as a parent is not to make her happy... but to help equip her to fullfil her purpose and passions to the fullest - that's when she'll be happiest.

That's perhaps why my parents stopped giving us an allowance early on.

My dad loves woodworking, and I remember at 5 years old, taking scraps, nailing parts together to make a very crude looking airplane and actually sold (yes, someone actually bought it) it to raise money for something - can't remember what it was. But I do remember the work, I remember getting paid, and I remember the satisfaction and fulfillment in a happy customer (even if he did buy it out of compassion).

If I wanted a toy (birthday/Christmas aside), I had to work for it (not the regular chores). It encouraged me to think... be creative... buy low, sell high. Robert Kiyosaki had similar experiences as a kid in his book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". - As an aside the Cashflow game is really good and although it may be expensive, it is totally worth it. There is a kids version too.

I did the lemonade... I tried selling baseball cards... As I got older, so grew the ideas. In highschool video games were expensive. I started reviewing them through a couple of companies (now owned by IGN) and got my games for free to review them and write an HTML review page.

In university (ah, the advent of eBay), I started going to garage sales/thrift stores/pawn shops and buying selective items. I'd clean and test the items, put them up for sale. All my "toys" (games, computer parts, my Metcal Station, DVDs, etc) were bought through the sale of items on eBay.

Of course, this is all besides running a Computer Consulting/VAR company, creating applications, websites, and study/work.

Ah, the good old days. Forgive me for rambling... I got caught in the nostalgia.
That sounds really interesting. Could you share some more details, or point us to an example that is running? Which plugins work well for you?
Great concept. Entrepreneurs should take this concept and try to make it a reality..
20% of those numbers are iphone Samsung made for Apple due..stop talking out of your ass.. as soon as Apple buys a mobile handset firm it can.
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I still think Apple-brand smart TVs have an inherent problem, in that people won't want to upgrade them very often compared to other devices (they're basically electronic furniture), so there'll be a lot of outdated hardware out in the market.

It's much easier to get people to upgrade a $100 add-on for their current TV.
It's not about whether or not it was serious, it's about the repetition and legitimization of things that are being taken seriously by plenty of people and are a legitimate problem for the people who are disadvantaged as a result.
It's just the first year of production that's sold out... not the entire model. So, you have until 2013 for your breakout success. (At least, I hope that's what they mean... I'm using the same carrot)
Having to use QR codes seems like a real annoyance for marginal benefit for the customer. The advantage for the shop is that it is trivial to implement.

Android has started to implement near field communication, which would be much better than scanning a QR code.
Audiogalaxy is a startup? Haven't you guys been going for, well, surely more than a decade?
Case in point: iPads don't come with instruction manuals, and toddlers and old people both use them with ease.

Although it took me nearly an hour to figure out how to copy some videos I had transcoded to the device.
I work in a very ad-hoc sort of way, but I find the idea of an n-hour work week very useful. If I work _n+d_ hours and feel exhausted, or I work _n-d_ hours and miss a deadline, I have an immediate and intuitive insight into what the problem is (the sign) and how big it is (the delta). Essentially it's a metric that I don't have to think too hard about.

I don't work rigid hours. My n-hours approach is a patch for the otherwise vague system in which I do stuff. And I (at least theoretically) don't beat myself up if d gets too large in either direction; if I'm overworking it's a sign that my planning process is out of whack, and if I'm underworking it's a sign that I need to find a way to get motivated or get out.

I view these "do x" blog posts as interesting things to try based on other people's life experience. It might not work for everyone, but I wouldn't pull the "x sucks" card because it's a pretty subjective problem.
:) It's not rational. You should try to get in one. There's a site called HiGear that will let you drive a Roadster for $500 a day. It's steep, and you only get about 100 miles, but it's an experience that words can't fully describe.
I enjoy intense working binges followed by days of slacking off as much as anyone, but aside from a handful of jobs you can't get much done that way. 40 hours a week gives you eight hours of rest, eight of work and eight to live the rest of your life every workday with two days to recharge. That's probably a fairly sustainable rate.

It's an interesting question what jobs can be done that way. I don't think many programming jobs can--startups don't seem to allow for the slacking, and working for someone else probably doesn't have that much flexibility either. I guess the old days of desktop software were somewhat like that, with intense crunch periods up to release followed by long stretches of time off after release. But now that software is released continuously that's gone away.

It's interesting to think of what jobs you can get done that way, though. Off the top of my head, grad students without assistantship obligations, filmmakers (in fact, anyone in the filmmaking process), writers, in-demand freelancers, proprietors of fairly undemanding online businesses, and actual rock stars all work that way.
Did we read the same blog post? The OP was clearly recalling some of the best memories of his youth, driving around with his father buying sodas for his very own vending machine. I had/have a good relationship with my father and I still wish we'd done something that cool.
Thank god for common sense rulings.
Agreed. Was reading through their "measures" and pretty much everything is standard process/equipment for your typical medium to high end data center. Man traps, batteries, generators, water cooling, avoid corrosion (uhh duh).

The only things I think they have I haven't seen before:

1) The concrete barrier and hair pin turn. Most data centers don't fear James Bond.

2) The air lifted mailroom.
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Apple is definitely actively trying to prevent jailbreaking. The first jailbreak involved hijacking iTunes restore mode commands. They completely redid the protocol to try to thwart this.
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He's also posting these on his blog [1], where you can subscribe and never miss another great tutorial.

[1]: http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/
http://www.ussubmarines.com/submarines/phoenix_1000.php3

(Ok, that might be a BIT more pricey, how about this?)

http://www.brammo.com/enertia/
The number of grandstanding blog posts where people publicly declare why they're not using a particular website is a metric of success.
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We should also add other tile servers like mapserv to the mix, if there is significant demand for it! :-)
I too really wanted to like Spotify. But the Spotify UI always felt like work rather than enjoyment and exploration. Unfortunately, until and unless Grooveshark can solve their legal issues and obtain solid licensing, they're going to remain largely locked out of the iOS market (except for an aging an increasingly incompatible legacy app).
90% of the sites have streaming blocked by Flash ID, not User Agent, which is not changeable.
this is one reason my favorite favorite metric is number of customers: the number of people who have spent money on my product/service during some time period. pretty hard to fudge that number
No, it's noncommercial (really not user-monetized) streaming of video that's free. Shipping H.264 hardware requires paying licenses regardless of whether it's a commercial situation or not. For software, if the patents are enforceable in your jurisdiction, it's the same thing.
The "futuristic technology" in this case is the cold fusion (particularly, the cold fusion being cheap enough that we don't care about electrical costs of anything), not the synthetic oil.
Hmn. All _chemical_ resource considerations, sure. I agree that the oil/plastic thing is a no-brainer, with "enough free energy". What're you going to do about rare elements? Just apply nuclear reactors?

Helium is easy, I guess, since we have no shortage of plans for fusion reactors that run at a loss.

What about "rare earths", though?
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That's simply not true. How much radiation is produced depends entirely on which reaction they are using. Some release bad radiation, others do not.

Obligatory wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
I visited the Tesla store recently, and I can definitely see why it's sold out--the car is gorgeous, it has a 17" touchscreen in place of the dash and, in some ways, it's actually more practical than a comparable normal sedan (it has storage space in the front and the back, for example).

Especially for people who do not drive long distances too often, this really is a great car to have. I would definitely see getting one of these over a 5 series or the like; for daily use, you wouldn't be sacrificing quality by going electric.
Please describe to me the process of joining the wireless network. Mine (and my friends) disconnects every three weeks by itself. It is so bad, it is actually a perfect use case for improving UX.
I've only used Spotify, but it actually has better coverage (from what I've seen) of independent acts. It's very easy to get your music on there. CDBaby will register an album on Spotify, iTunes, etc for $30.