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Right. To some extent, the review is criticizing something Isaacson pretty clearly didn't set out to do—explain technology. Isaacson wants to look at Jobs's contradictions and paradoxes—the kindness and cruelty in a single package, indifference tempered by sudden engagement, a frequently binary worldview, the lack of consistency from the outside, the habits that we'd normally dismiss as bizarre, like dietary ones, that might also be tied to success.

Now, I can understand why someone might not be interested in those things, but to me that doesn't invalidate the book.

BTW, I started it and wrote about the first 50 or so pages here: http://jseliger.com/2011/10/24/the-steve-jobs-biography . Note that the book itself is actually nicely and well-made; it feels like a Jobesian artifact, instead of the usual publishing industry pablum.
We cannot restore the data, but, we'll have the data. We can always mail our new e-mail to contacts, or import docs to say zoho docs.
Most EU Apple online stores have them in stock for €599 with free shipping.

http://store.apple.com/de/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mi...

That's about 850USD. Where are you being charged $1200?
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Great graph.

and to think i switched from a series of Nokia phones (because they loose support every 6mo, to the point you can't even buy a working headset cable or extra charger for them) and bought a nexus one because i thought "spending $700 to buy an OPEN phone directly from google will get updated software for life and consistent use of cables and standards"
The announcement: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-wave-dev/...
Has anybody been able to register? I signed up with my email/password and now it says to use username to login , which wasn't even in the registration form :/
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Do you really call "sweeping the crap under the carpet" "solving" the problem? I call it a workaround, at best. Users will often want the used space back too, not just hide the icon.
See: Mozilla Foundation
You can even develop on an older PowerPC which is what I did years ago when I wasn't sure I was going to like Xcode. It is an amazingly simple change to the installer script and simulator settings. I paid short money for an 04 iBook, did some coding and eventually upgraded. My girl inherited the iBook and its still runs like a champ.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/695558/development-for-ip...
This reminds me a lot of Steve Blanks Peter Pan syndrome he writes about here:

http://steveblank.com/2010/09/20/the-peter-pan-syndrome-%E2%...

Basically, a lot of us just don’t know what we don’t know when we’re first starting out. We’ve got to get out and learn our space, become domain experts, and fail a ton.

Unfortunately, there isn’t any shortcut in sales. If you find one let me know.
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Gimme a break. There's no mystery here. "Tech elite" is a code word for venture capital. VCs pooh-pooh lifestyle and bootstrapped businesses because there's no opportunity for them to profit. VC-backed founders have been successful at raising investment, so of course they're not interested in a business that doesn't require it. Both groups want to define success in terms that give them a business advantage.
This was more reasonable than his first post and he brought up some interesting points. I'm very happy he clarified.
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I want to see a better cable/TV company. Where instead of paying for 500+ channels. You get 10 personalized channels. Where each particular channel learns what you like and suggests content that you might like. So I can program a channel for my kids and using some web based ui preload the channel with content I approve.Think pandora + TV content.

I'd imagine on the business side of things you can collect some of these preferences and then in turn serve ads based on my preferences rather than blindly trying to get someone to look at your ad.

Remove the slow step top boxes the complicated remotes the tv guide channel. Simplify everything to the basics. I think hulu is a nice start but this is what I think are looking for.
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Still nice to hear, thanks very much :-) Notes from happy users make a really big difference.
It's been mentioned elsewhere in this thread but if you are using the client side maps js without an api key how do they track usage? Maybe there is something we are missing?
While I was thinking about it, I also thought how to market the idea#1, basically you have google account login page in the website, when users enter their email and password (for whatever password it, may be), It'll just say, you account is disabled. Then a modal box appears, Say the catch line, "What if this is real? Better safe than sorry!! Signup Here". Easy sell ;)

Technically this may be considered phishing, but I can't come to a conclusion, that its evil or not.
I thought Mozilla gets most of their money from Google searches, which are not powered by OSS.
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Ah, that makes more sense. I would have chosen the word "daily guarantee" over "minimum", but I guess that word choice would irritate some lawyers.
The attackers reported the problem to Amazon and allowed Amazon to fix it prior to their public disclosure.

I don't see how that's FUD. There was a problem, they found it, they let Amazon fix it, then they reported what they'd found.
Well perhaps there's some social responsibility and generally being an adult involved in not offending people?

For instance, I'm no huge fan of Islam (or any religion), however, my beef is with the doctrine and the leaders, not the average day to day Muslim, so I'll actively speak out against Islamophobia and try not to offend the average Muslim. It's called actively not being a jerk.
i've never seen an android device be able to be upgraded that way, and i work on an android rom.

even on the nexus phones which are arguably the most friendly to installing a custom rom, you have to hook the phone up to a computer, install the android sdk for usb drivers and download a fastboot binary, run "fastboot oem unlock", erase all of your phone's data, then install the custom rom and set everything back up.

on nearly every other phone, the process is much more complicated involving hacks to get around a locked bootloader. i remember doing this on my mytouch 3g and the process involved 2 microsd cards, a hex editor, and a strange website where i had to type in some serial number or something from my phone and download a specially crafted binary for it to put on one of the sd cards.
Very interesting technology. The problem I see with this is that the product is directly competing with Macs.

For instance, at the high end of Rent-a-Mac you will be paying $49 a month or around $600 a year. In this case it would make more sense to buy a mac mini for $600 which will no doubt perform much better than a virtualization.

I think there is probably a pricing model for this type of service, however I'm guessing it would be geared toward large groups (companies) that don't want to invest in buying 20-50 new Macs. It would need to be much much cheaper than the current model or most companies will choose to just buy new Macs especially because they can get a tax write off for new equipment.
I just did some quick calculations and you can buy an used mac for the price you would pay for a year of this service. And your analogy is completely wrong, at least for me, I don't watch a movie much more than on time, unless it is already playing for one motive or other.

But you will use the same computer for a time.
They say the premiere service will be cheaper than the overage.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps-compare.html

Unfortunately, they don't list pricing in an obvious way.
There are some incredible Google Maps mashups, but I wonder how many make enough money to pay Google. I sure hope this isn't too tall a hurdle for PadMapper.
You cannot determine that. You can at most determine that the output so far matches a random distribution.
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When she complains about the trolling, there is nothing we can do about that. It's a completely different mindset to just try to empathize without trying to solve the problem.
Glad we (Stormpulse) made the decision to build our own mapping system.
There are some neat cross-sections of the 28 nm process here:
http://www.electroiq.com/blogs/chipworks_real_chips_blog/201...
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> No one is still able to crack the make money while open sourcing something unless the tool is completely tangential to the way the company makes money

That's not entirely true: things like dual licensing, and consulting work, but... it certainly is far more difficult than simply selling a product.
Nice. I had some slightly different solutions in mind, which I have added: http://pastebin.com/TeBPHbb6
Could you also make a chart showing, how long the phone is supported after it stops selling? For example, 3G was being sold up until iPhone 4 introduction, but the iOS4 was the last update it has seen. Similarly, 3GS is still being sold, but that does not mean that it will be supported for next three years.
I don't get your point. OK, a Linux desktop is normally useless to make iPhone apps. But this thread is about a tool that allows you to you use your Linux desktop to make iPhone apps. I was disagreeing with a comment implying that somehow you must have a physical Mac to make iPhone apps.
The genres that ought to really benefit are mostly not out yet. Which is one of the general problems the device has.

I'm going to end up getting one because my DS Lite is biting the dust after 5 years of service, and they've structured the prices so that I have no real reason not to just go for it. (I have a significant enough DS backlog that it isn't economical for me to just abandon it, either.) For me, the touchstone game will actually be Super Mario 3D Land in mid-November. Does 3D solve some of the problems that have plagued 3D platformers since day one, like the extreme difficulty in judging depth that we've just sort of hacked around but is still a problem, or not? If it doesn't add anything to that genre, stick a fork in it, 3D is done, or at least portable 3D. But I'd like to see it before I make that call.

Even Ocarina of Time isn't a good judge, because that was built for 3D-on-2D screens like everything else. SM3DL will have been built for 3D from the beginning. If that doesn't cut it, nothing will.

It's still possible for the 3DS to follow the DS trajectory of recovering from an initial release slump, but only if there's some sort of real benefit to the 3D beyond the first two minutes.
There are several significant problems with this that do impact regular people as well:

1) Developers must invest more time and money in order to support a wider range of firmware revisions, as the user base is more fractured. This leads to less app selection for users, and more buggy behavior on apps that are available. If you're an iOS developer, you can focus on just the last major firmware revision and reach 95%+ of the market, or support the last two major firmware revisions and reach 99%+ of the market, whereas on Android, you're forced to support a few more than that, and the populations stuck at each older revision are much more significant. Read the article for Android stats by revision. Here's an article with a bit more detail on the iOS side:

http://www.marco.org/2011/08/13/instapaper-ios-device-and-ve...

2) Performance and security updates are unavailable, making the user experience sub-optimal, and potentially putting users' personal information at risk.
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Ah finally. I was wondering why not more people would come with this. I need this so often. Thanks guys :)
Good point regarding artificial demand.

My surprise at the announcement has also partly/mostly to do with the actual pricing, which kicks in pretty fast (25k free map loads daily). It seems like a lot of small-to-medium, non-profit sites would fit into that. One example amongst many, many others: http://www.housingmaps.com/
This is a stupid debate and it should stop here. Nobody is beating anyone, no matter what the Internet tough guys say.
After the government changed how things could be accounted for, Apple stopped charging for software updates.
It's a monster chip. I don't see a die area number, but at 6.8G transistors that would place it at about twice the size of the biggest Geforce dies. So yields are going to be lower due to simple scaling constraints (though FPGAs no doubt have lots of redundancy by their nature, so some failures probably don't kill the chip). And it's 28nm, which is a brand new process and won't yield as well. AND big FPGAs are a low volume market.

So yes, I wouldn't expect these to be cheap. They're not consumer SoC parts.
My husband is an engineer. His office couldn't live without their fax machine.
http://www.technobuffalo.com/internet/how-does-the-mozilla-f...

While true, your claim that nobody makes money with open source is false. The classic business model of selling IP doesn't work anymore, but there are other models out there. Mozilla being one of them.
3. Online sellers can include QR code in each physical items they sell, say Books, T-Shirts, Coffe Cup, to its URL on the site. That way, if your friend wants the exact same thing, he just scan the qr code, go the link and buy. It may be even awesome if, each qr code is custom qr code, which has user data in it, that way, if a friend buys a book through the qr code from my book, I get the referal bucks, but, It will be touch to implement a custom qr code in each product.
What's with the 'ohai' in the URL? The link works even without it, so genuinely curious..
The Kindle Fire is going to compete nicely with the iPad at $199. However being an iPad Killer, is just wishful thinking. Being an iPad Competitor is probably more realistic.
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That will happen when web apps will completely replace device-specific apps, and by that I mean that it's one of those predictions I don't think will completely pan out.

OnLive will face several challenges that will make a console-solution innately better due to the unavoidable issue of latency. As a gamer what might seem like insignificant amounts of lag can ruin gameplay. If not are the user's actions subjected to lag, but also their display and other calculations this can really be a deal-breaker for many customers.

I'm sure there are games for which OnLive is perfectly suited, and in those categories OnLive and its successors will dominate. But I also believe there are categories of gaming for which consoles and dedicated devices will continue to dominate. Much like PC gaming hasn't been wiped off the face of the earth.
I thought the same thing, and argued (I felt persuasively!) on behalf of that perspective for many years. Then I watched my wife Erin, who has as many years of experience in this industry as I do, interview for tech jobs. Please take my word for it that this is not a "few bad apples" problem.
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Being a female in a tech industry is legal.
Having a public email address is legal (and understandable if she is a keynote speaker at an open source conferences).

Rockrolling is an acceptable form of trolling.

Sending someone an explicit email from an untraceable email address is not only unacceptable behaviour, but all those trying to justify it by saying, 'he didn't mean it' or 'she was asking for it (in so many words) are just as sociopathic as the original sender.

On what planet is what he did acceptable, appropriate or even funny?
They can and presumably do look at the referer header on the requests for .js files and map tiles.
I don't think or have the mindset that women are living in some sort of separate culture from us or there are stark differences between us. It's the trolls, misogynists, etc that treat them differently only because they are women.
I will be switching.

I quite like the Google Maps API but in my company we're just not able to pay for things with credit cards or in fact to pay for anything we don't know the cost of up-front (i.e. variable billing). We'll happily and routinely pay hundreds of millions to suppliers so long as we have a contract, of course.

This is no doubt more of an indictment of my employer's internal processes and policies rather than Google, but it does mean that the "standard" maps platform I built will have to be re-written to use another source of tile data etc.

But it does seem like this means I have some re-work to do :-(
Does it have a shell? Can you write, compile and run a C app on it? Connect to OpenVPN without breaking warranty? Open few app windows side by side? Run another OS? I did all this on my windows mobile (very closed OS) devices, maemo would also have no problem with that.
800 million users, good lord.
4. Forum Application for Facebook, I used Orkut in the days, It has the best online communities and discussion, ever. There is something to users with similar interest interacting with each other, with real names/identity instead of pseudonyms.
FPGA parts don't model gates, actually. Their unit is a giant array of SRAM lookup table (two bits wide by 5 address bits I think?) plus some interconnect logic that you can "wire up" by setting more bits in other SRAM cells. They translate this into "gates" with some marketing cookery as the number of logic gates that would be required to duplicate the most complicated configuration.

So when they say "20 million gates", they don't actually mean that any 20M-gate circuit can be built. It depends on what you're doing; some things (e.g. big logic functions) work better in FPGA logic than others (e.g. complicated wiring and bus architectures).
Your post is condescending because it assumes that mine is rooted in jealousy or anger, or that your version of affluence is something that haven't already attained.
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Lots of great speakers including:
Mikael Hed
CEO,
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Chris Poole
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John Vechey
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Kevin Rose
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Eric Ly
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I wrote about this a while ago:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2007/02/03/in-thrall-to-scarcity

Open Source Software is not a scarce resource: you cannot sell it.

Therefore, you have to sell something associated with it - developers' time, the right to integrate it with proprietary software, or things like that.
And then you could rent another max from that mac. How deep can you go?
They are talking about client-side APIs, but the limits are not per client IP address. They can look at the referer header to see what site embedded the map.
I can't imagine anyone willing to pay for the service, beyond paying to download the app. cable television has cue marks inserted to indicate where to place the commercials. dvrs know where the commercials are, maybe there's a way to siphon off that info and redirect it.
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"Revenue generation is third on the list. It is really “nice” your balance sheets to have 7 or even better 8 zeros next to Revenue. Profit…"

This is just wrong. Even Google had early minor revenue. Revenue traction is king, it's the best kind of traction. User traction is a higher-risk proxy and thus must be more impressive to result in the same valuation after the risk discount.

Aside: Wanting to start a lifestyle startup does imply, correctly so, less ambition than the swing-for-the-fencers founders. That's why they're easy to pick on, ambition makes for much better stories.
There is some truth to what Dave is saying here. I felt the author made an attempt to romanticize Jobs life to appeal to a wider audience. Starting with the first chapter, where he says 'Abandonment, Special, Chosen' were three words that played a big role in defining Steve's character. And then he goes on to subtly downplay Steve insisting that it actually did not matter.

What is wrong with Steve just making intelligent decisions about products, than attributing it to scars from his childhood? Nothing, except that it isn't as interesting.

In Dave's article, what I really liked was when he said they weren't really all that special. That is so very true. Real life heroes in the tech industry may not be that heroic. They don't need to be, at least to some of us. Sometimes I feel some of the most successful people in our industry (like Steve, Zuck, BillG) are actually peers, who had somewhat better intuition, better timing, better business sense; they certainly did a few things better. But definitely not beyond the comprehension of some people (though, not me) who comment here.

And there are of course people who are actually heroes to me, not merely peers who do a lot better. For example Scott Aaronson, though I understand very little of what he writes. I just know that even if I had chosen a different path in life, that stuff would still be way beyond me.

Don't know if this made any sense. :)
This is mostly nerds wanting to have something to argue about. For reasons I can't put my fingers on, nothing seems to irritate nerds more than the idea that they're oppressing people; it probably has something to do with the fact that so many of them were picked on growing up.

The reality is that the stuff we're talking about here would, for the most part, be a firing offense at most companies.
Not sure how much the devs are paid if any, but the CEO was taking a cool 400K home every year. Their job was to diversify Mozilla so that it wouldn't depend totally on someone that was making a competing product, and utterly failing at that since multiple years.

Last I heard, the IRS was investigating them for claiming deductions as a charitable foundation but funneling money to the Mozilla Corporation.

They've only recently started concentrating on paying developers to reduce the memory leaks, bloat etc after Chrome started eating their lunch in a big way.

How is this a poster child for a good way to develop good and useful software for the masses? In fact, it seems to exemplify the pitfalls and weakness in the model, if nothing else.
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Too bad they don't support Linux as a client. Wonder if they're using VNC?
Trivial. Those are comparatively tiny machines. This is at the level where you could simulate a Pentium or 21064 Alpha or the like.
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It's not going to get any easier for them: iPhone 4S and iPad2 apps that play with Apple TV look to encroach on living room consoles. http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/07/real-racing-2-shows-off-i... Fortunately for them, the iPod Touch can't do the mirroring so they have a year to defend the living room.

Project forward a generation or two, though, with improved and widespread Apple TV and better graphics, and it's hard to see how the Xbox and Playstation won't be affected - the Infinity Blade 2 demo might not be state of the art, but it be enough for functionally similar ports of console games. I think we're at most 3 years away from having iOS be the lead platform for Madden and/or FIFA.
Seems to me like Google has only two dials: free or expensive. For example, in the case of Google Apps, the jump from free to $50 per account / year is rather steep imo. $4 fee for each 1K over seems rather expensive. Anybody know the price range for the subscription?
Is that not what Google Maps Premier is for?

http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps.html
Interesting, but I wonder how they intend to modify the laws of physics required to make some of these devices possible.
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What happened to Dan Kottke? The Wikipedia article doesn't seem to get into it.
Not if your pages are https.
Probably working around a repost filter.