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So your customer is a student, or anyone who sees iOS development as a moneymaking opportunity but does not have the money to jumpstart the activity. Fact is, there are some of us who just don't have the extra cash to jump in (having spent it on an iPad, now irritated we can't do development for an otherwise awesome platform). Sure we could buy an old Mac Mini for a couple hundred bucks (monitor, keyboard, etc aside), but for that price we could be online with this service for 10 months! we also get the chance, for just two digits, to try out iOS development without getting a POS used box for hundreds of dollars which will go unused if maybe iOS isn't our thing after all.

I'm literally selling blood to buy a MacBook Air just for iOS development. It's taking a while...yet for 2% of that cost I can start tonight.
I teach beginning programming. I've hesitated suggesting an iOS class because the hardware isn't there and won't be considering both school and student wallet contents...but with this service, any PC or iP* becomes an iOS development tool.

Awesome that now the entry point for iOS is a $200 iPod, $99 annual deloper fee (when you've got something ready to sell), and ~$20/mo bootstrap fee. Nothing else needed.
Years ago I had Stallman personally demand that I quit Apple in protest of something that he felt strongly about. He was obnoxious to the point that I lost all respect for him.

The OSS community would do better without Stallman.
I guess what I don't understand is the point of buying a faster (and I guess in this case insanely fast) car when you're still bound by the rules of the road. Speed limits are everywhere, and even if you accelerate much quicker than me, more often than not we're just going to meet again at the next red light.
I still haven't gotten the "An engineer disarms a landmine after you spot it" achievement on Brink...
Me three. Much the same reasons.
iOS is a gold mine for 3rd party. Someone needs to look at how well Scribblenauts http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scribblenauts-remix/id4448447... is doing on iOS vs. DS as an example. This affects the casual market for DS. Why spend $250 (can't believe they launched at that heinous console-level price) to play casual games?

Beyond that though, is terrible timing and business decisions on Nintendo's part. Remember the DS Phat? The 3DS actually sold really well initially relative to the DS phat. What did well before were titles like Mario Kart, Tetris, and Jump Superstars in Japan timed during peak season with the release of the aesthetically pleasing DS Lite + the convenience of the r4. Then Nintendo went ahead and released 2 new versions to annoy customers. Now they release a 3DS and expect early adopters? Their main titles come now during the holidays and we'll see how well the system sells before making a firm opinion.

Additionally they're shelling tons of cash on Wii U whose innovation is nowhere near as revolutionary as the Wii. I demo-ed it @ E3 and there's simply nothing but a tech demo to showcase anything worthy of hype.

So, I think they've realized their mistakes. And it's not surprising at all that they've projected an annual loss. Also, 1st party games ported out? Never, I don't know why people keep bringing that idea up.
I had a tough moment deciding between the Shoeboxed and Shoebox logos in the app store.
According to some sources, it looks like iOS 5 adoption is up to 1/3 of eligible devices:
http://www.localytics.com/blog/2011/ios-5-already-powering-1...
Flagged. This is pure speculation.
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Resend after a week, with the first email below.

If that fails, try again a week later with a fresh email.

Lots of profs (myself included) have a crushing inbox overload. We expect to be re-emailed with critical stuff.

Never take radio silence as a sign of malice when it comes to email. Doubly so with profs.
Sounds like they are trying to push their high-bandwidh users to enterprise pricing.

The $10k/yr Enterprise licence works out to $27/day which breaks even with the incremental pricing at 58k visits/day.
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LOL - Again, I don't even focus on quality - our scans are 7¢ each, done in auto-feed scanners. I'm not talking technical at all, if it looks good, if it is a reasonable duplication of the original, then I'm good with it.

I'm saying that from my tests, doing the same photos with DSLR, point and shoot, auto feed, and high quality (epson 10000xl, creo, etc) then viewing on monitor, reprinted, ipad, etc. that there is a significant jump between the scans and the pictures. It is very noticeable, and 9/10 people that I talked to weren't happy with it (after seeing better options as well)

I'm sorry if I'm offending people here - I'm a gadget nerd first and I think it is cool. I've said that like three times. I just don't like how it is positioned as replacement of scans - if a user is expecting something that is better then what the service is able to deliver, they will be disappointed. Maybe I'm in the minority on that thinking
Arguments for/against this service miss one other notable point: development anywhere anytime. Pull out your iPhone or iPad (heck, even a $200 iPod Touch given open WiFi) and work away.
I'm glad it helped!

Honestly, I didn't know what a teaching statement was either.

Fortunately, no one reads them.
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Mhm, how did the Microsoft Courier videos make you feel?
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You shouldn't really be surprised though; especially after Yegge's rant the other week. Software quality at Amazon is pretty mediocre, and pales in comparison to Google's (I worked at both places.)
you should fix the free trial flow. i just signed up to try it out. the first obvious thing is that you ask for my email but the login form asks for a "username", which is my email, but it is confusing.

the important bit, though: after signing up i have to open a support ticket to get started? that's where you lost me.
I'm not a big fan of RMS, but this is a good point, in our current world the freedom to control the software that runs on devices you own is becoming more and more essential, not having that freedom undermines all other freedoms (from privacy to free speech).
It is. But it's in a very beginning state. And wait, I _don't_ wanna live in here. There are many reasons to not live in here. I don't want to explain each of them.

And I don't wanna study at Belarus, because the only thing all the students need in here is degree, but not actually knowledge. It's stupid. (And the quality of local education is very, very low)

I know, but I'm afraid my procrastination and laziness make me degrade from a developer with passion to just another geek, even non-dev.
Every time an article involving Richard Stallman gets posted here I cringe as I read through the comments. There are a range of opinions so I don't want to overgeneralize but there are a large number of people here that seem to almost despise Stallman and the FSF. People make fun of him and make comments about how he has a net negative impact on software and computing. It pains me to see so many people, who quite likely rely on emacs, Xcode with gcc, gnu coreutils, or an operating system that would've never been possible without the Free software movement, sit around and ridicule RMS because he eats toe jam or really, really likes parrots. He's had more of a far reaching and positive impact on software than people with such naive views will probably ever realize.

What I really wanted to comment about though (I couldn't hold back a short rant...) is how these Steve Jobs comments relate to the E-Parasites Act that was discussed yesterday. I read a lot of great comments there about how we're losing our freedoms incrementally and how this will shape the future. In the US we've seen this ratchet effect taking place to a frightening extent in the last decades both inside of computing and in general. If the US ever ends up in a place where there's widespread censorship on the internet then you can bet that it can trace its ancestry back to the DMCA and something like the E-Parasites act which will allow entire sites to get shut down with lots of room for abuse. Every step we take in that direction makes it easier to keep stepping in that direction.

So why don't as many people feel this way about Apple? Because we like their products? Iphones have made it normal to buy a computing device that has artificial restrictions preventing you from running whatever software you want on it. If they had their way then it would have actually been illegal to jailbreak your phone in order to circumvent this. Sure, iphones are really cool but this is a step in a terrifying direction. If it ever becomes illegal to upgrade the RAM in your laptop yourself or to install third party software on it then you can bet that you can trace the ancestry of those laws back to the shifts in public perception of computing freedom caused by companies like Apple. Laws like that might seem laughably extreme now but with every step in that direction they seem less and less so.

Stallman sees this and he has dedicated his life to moving us in the opposite direction. He's been hugely successful at this and he's been almost prophetic in his opinions about what we should be worrying about. He was criticizing Apple for trying to take away peoples' freedoms and Steve Jobs for steering the company in this direction. He wasn't condemning him as a person, as he said "My feelings about Jobs as a person are not strong, since I barely knew him." I don't see expressing this view after Steve Jobs' death as being particularly disrespectful. Steve Jobs is known to the majority of people only for his role at Apple. This role is what he was praised for across the internet and in magazines after his death. This role is what Stallman condemned.
That's highly doubtful. After the source is available the full transition to the new OS by all manufacturers, even the cheap ones, seems to take about 6 months. Gingerbread source was released last December and there were no Froyo devices being sold by summer.
Not only does v3 not require an API key, as of Sept 28 (a couple days before the rate limiting went into effect) sending a v2 API key to v3 will cause the request to fail:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3-notify/...

Sounds like they're laying the ground work for v3 to use API keys again.
How are you finding this out? I can't imagine PIPs would be advertised widely... (I'm immune to all this because I quit between RNCH and the Plus launch.)
The problem surrounding Richard Stallman is that any thread involving him tends to devolve into a Stallman-bashing thread. (I've also noticed this happening whenever someone posts anything that Eric Raymond wrote, on any topic whatsoever.) It's dispiriting.
but asserting that it is true without scientific evidence is also unscientific. It's slightly better than classic Flying Spaghetti Monster territory (or Russell's teapot, if that's more your style), in that the question is presumably falsifiable, but without evidence we're clearly in ideology land.

Considering that they chose this baseless assertion (and not, say, that His noodly appendage prevents women from entering tech, or that sunspots on Betelgeuse are somehow involved, or any of the infinite other possible falsifiable statements), we clearly are in harassment territory, and "would-be sympathizers" are hiding behind crap logic.
This was supposed to be URL submission, not a Ask HN. Not sure how this happened.

Here's the intended URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/how-secure-https-today

Edit: Someone else has submitted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3155753
But isn't the point of RMS to set the example of how the rest of us should only use free software?

That's like Ghandi asking a random passerby to slap someone for him.
Yes, email works the same, but there is a small difference in persistence. Probably the folder you shared with Alice will be used for multiple files in the future, while an email is probably used to mail a single file or just a few files.

Okay, as soon as I note that Alice shared the folder with Bob, I can stop using it.. but what's the point in that?
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There are not many ways to be hypocritical and not be somehow incoherent.
This link has a bit more information.
http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-discloses-technical-de...

I wonder how these two new modes will relate to existing modes like Thumb2?
Entries may only be submitted by a registered participant, who must be a permanent resident or citizen of the United States

Shame - I don't know why they would not want entries from people outside the US.
it takes 15-20 mins to setup. Dunno why, but mine is working now.
What about the situation when professor asks you to write the letter yourself and he will sign it later? Is it a common case in the academic world?

Another case: when it's been a several years after you last contacted your professor or adviser. I would feel somewhat uncomfortable to ask for a letter of recommendation.
4.2.1 did improve things significantly, but it only made the 3G go from "completely unusable" to "slightly painful to use".

The device is still much slower and less smooth than on 3.1 due to higher base memory requirements (as a result, not only are most applications slower to load some will not load at all on 4.2 and will instead crash due to going OOM and not being able to clear out anything upon receiving an OOM signal).
Stallman is way more philosophical than Jobs. Jobs focus was on building insanely great products. Stallman is focused on promoting a philosophy of sharing. I think they are much more different than they are similar.

Both have affected my life in positive ways. Stallman has affected me as a programmer and a thinker. Jobs has affected me through his company's products I would say stallman has had the deeper effect though I type this on an iPhone.

Both are zealots who would prefer everyone adopt their world view. I don't think a single view is possible nor is it preferable.
Most industries in Canada are protected against innovation and competition by a series of public cartels and legislated monopolies that have been erected over decades. Telecom, Banking, Tobacco, Grain, Lumber... and at the provincial level Energy and Alcohol are all carefully protected. Essentially the entire country is a giant syndicate under the guise of free trade.
And now I need some way to keep myself stimulated & interested. Learning something new, contributing to open source. And again, my laziness.
Presumably they had this prepared knowing a woman was coming to interview. I would have gone directly to the police over this incident.
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You don't know why our war department would not want to pay foreign nationals for code that they intend to use in a battle situation? Is it honestly that hard to figure out why that restriction might be in place?
So what's the difference in me just buying a single 50Gb $99/year account with a shared team@whatever email address and have all the team login to it?
ARM is unbeatable in terms of price right now, but that's because they have much smaller parts that are much cheaper to produce. What makes you think that will still be true if they want to approach the performance of mainstream Intel parts?

Historically, low-end parts have managed to kill high-end parts by selling in larger volumes and amortizing their fixed costs over a larger base. ARM sells in huge volumes, but how is selling $1 embedded chips going to help them amortize the cost of their high end stuff? Decades ago, doing that sort of thing would helped Intel fill up their idle fab time while competitors like DEC struggled to pay for their fabs, but ARM has never owned its own fabs, and selling completely different low-end parts doesn't really help amortize the cost of masks, post-silicon debug, etc. of their high end parts.

I'm also skeptical that ARM will retain its power:performance advantage if it tries to scale up performance to match low-end mainstream Intel parts (e.g., core i3). The main reason ARM has better performance:power is that there are diminishing returns to performance. Another is that Atom is a new product line, and Intel doesn't have much experience trying to optimize for low-end parts. That won't be true going forward. Yet another transient advantage ARM has is that Intel uses a high performance process, but they've said that they're going to have both a high performance and a power optimized process in the future. If anything, Intel's process wizardry should give them an advantage there, once they decide to push it. What other inherent advantages does ARM have over x86? It's a PITA to decode x86 instructions, but the ARM instruction set isn't very nice, either (e.g., look at how they ran out of opcode space, and overlayed some of their "new" NEON instructions on top of existing instructions by using unused condition codes for existing opcodes).

I wouldn't bet against ARM but, if they win, it will be because of the usual reasons: better marketing, better business practices, and better engineering, not because there's some inherent advantage that lets them be cheaper than Intel. And, by the way, the configurability advantage you mention actually hurts them in terms of cost, by increasing the fixed cost per part.
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people don't buy phone without contract because they can't. The operators would be fools if they made that a good deal.

In brazil it was like that. everyone bought phones along 2yr contracts "because they need to have a plan anyway".

prices were always rising. it was a joke.

then the regulatory agency said that you had to allow number portability between operators and added limits to contract breach fines. lot's of people would change ships every 2yr. or 1yr. or even sooner if the fine (1month) was worth the change in price.

now in brazil you can buy a SIM card in a newstand for US$5. which includes $4.5 in prepaid credit. put into your cellphone, and use unlimited data for 24h for a mere $.25

that would be unthinkable if the operators still 'owned' everyones phone number and hold them for a minimum of 2yr.

i left there on the first year after this regulation, and i was already paying for unlimited data on FIVE lines the same that i'm paying for AT&T in california for two lines.
Be careful with storing stuff only on CDs. CDs (especially consumer CD-Rs) don't last forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
An old Mac will still take you 6-12 months to price-match this service...and they're running on modern equipment, keeping it updated (hardware and software) for you, and giving you instant access from anywhere, even your iOS device. If you want to use current hardware, you'll have to save money even longer (18-24 months), and you'll have to spend time managing the system & tools configuration.

Sure this all may not be a big deal to most developers. "Most" isn't "all".

Buy an iPod Touch, start writing iOS software. You can be in the black on this within days.
Wow very interesting. Well you were making closed software :)

Did he offer you suggestions on what to do instead?

I recall stallman saying if he couldn't develop free software he'd work at a diner. Will never starve.
Quick is the key here. Less inertia needs to be overcome for someone to use this app than for someone to send their photos off to a scanning service.
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Both Stallman and Phelps are willing to use the deaths of someone they dislike to promote their views. Both consider their own cause to supersede human feeling or basic practicality. Phelps is more extreme and his message less tolerable, but my point is that for both, their mode of expressing their cause hurts their cause.
Is there not room in the world for both paid and free software? Why must all software be free, and why must all devices accommodate free software?

The free software movement needs to make something as interesting and as compelling as what Apple built instead of just complaining about what Apple built. Make something beautiful and easy to use and people will use it.

On a personal level, I don't want free software for my phone. It's too much work for me. I want my phone to just work, I don't want it to have viruses, I don't have the time or inclination to hack around with it and I'm a developer, I don't care as a consumer if that means that "free" software is given the boot from a device to make this happen.

For my $:

Good design + No Viruses > Free Software

That's not true for everyone, and for them Apple isn't the right product.
RMS would still piss certain people off, if he'd instead said :
"I am not the least bit upset SJ is gone. I've always fundamentally disagreed with the movements he spearheaded, to take away the user's freedom."

RMS is supposedly autistic, and the lack of empathy is likely a result of that.

Taking that into account, there hardly seems cause for all this fuss.

Move on.
" iOS devices prevent installation of any GPL software."

In what way? It is the GPL that prevents GPL software from being distributed via the App Store. Frankly, I see no reason why it should be a problem, as the binary distributed that way could easily link to a web page with the source.... but I remember a bunch of "Free" software types raising a stink when someone uploaded a GPLed App.

Apple doesn't care, so long as it isn't using private APIs, or stealing users data, or contain malware, etc.

You guys never seem to give Apple honest credit for what it does. For instance, before the App Store, independant software developers could not get apps on mobile devices, because the carriers controlled the ecosystem. Apple opened it up and made it a level playing field and now there are hundreds of startups targeting the mobile device market. Google didn't do that, Google just copied it. It was Apple that used its clout to force the carriers to accept the AppStore.
> Also note that the graph goes out only three years, conveniently skipping the fact that the original and 3G will never get iOS 5.

Considering no Android device comes even remotely close to three years of support, and three years is well outside the renewal cycles you can generally expect, I don't think that's really cooking anything.

> That chart is terribly cooked. It leaves out important devices like the Nexus S which had good support

The Nexus S is barely 10 months old, and is about phones which had been released as of June 2010, 6 months before the Nexus S appeared...

> That said, the point the post is making is valid and important. But the graphic is sensationalized junk.

It's not ideal in the least, but calling it "sensationalized junk" is pushing it too far by a long shot.
Well, even 32bit x86 can address more than 4GB memory, but at least there you have to use horrible hacks like PAE. When the native data size is smaller than the address space, taking advantage of the full address space and working with large data sets becomes a hassle.
Because you can't read the first sentence of the damn article?
Didn't we hear this with mips, sparc, ppc, transmeta and every other cpu architecture of the moment? Yes, ARM has a place, but it's not going to displace x86. What will slowly displace x86 is the transition to post-pc devices. But these will run whatever has the current sweet spot between cost and power.
"Is it Bayley's position that ISP's should give out information on their users in response to warrantless requests -- from private individuals, no less?"

Of course, because there is no worse crime than harassing women and any and all civil rights are second to all efforts to punish those who do. Let's not forget that the OP is identifying with a movement where it is commonly advocated to reverse the burden of proof in rape cases.