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one thing lossy formats do really bad at: speeding it up and down. (because they remove 'unhearable' sound artifacts -- that become hearable at different speeds)

big slowdowns also sound 'ugly' with lossless formats (a 44kHz sampled track at half the speed is only 22kHz).

but who plays a track at halfspeed..? :)

i dont want to make a case for vinyl -- sjwright has given a nice overview of arguments against it, that i can all underline.

but there is one thing that a physical soundwave, pressed in a disc of vinyl, never needs to do: anti-aliassing. but since the tracks usually get delivered digitally to the vinyl-press; it is the vinyl press that does the anti-aliassing for you :)
And this is why employees hate their IT department. Instead of helping them do their job better they dictate and put up roadblocks so IT guy has an easier job.

1. If business critical data is lost this is your fault because those backups should have been performed regularly, throughout the day.
2. Unknown devices on the network should have automatically been switched to a DMZed network. If they want it on the corporate network they'll email you and ask how to do it and probably tell you why as well. People bring in all types of devices not related to work; cellular hotspots are one example.
3. Going to the user's boss is just an asshole move. If they are causing trouble, yes by all accounts go ahead. But from an outsider it looks petulant.
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The things I want sold are all my zero-cost, spare-time projects - if they don't count as commission-only coding, nothing does.
I was working on something like this last year. Took ages and eventually didn't work out.

How did you do the scraping?

Congratz on launching!
> These laptops would cost a normal human about $600, but for some reason my company leases them instead.

For some reason the corporate world considers money spent in big blocks to be a different kind of money to that spent over an extended period of time. Unless they have a really good interest rate on their bank accounts I have no idea why, but spending more money in smaller amounts over an extended period is the holy grail.
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If they are on ethernet smartswitches can do it for you (you only need to know where it terminates). If they are on the wifi then some devices will display their nmb name (for example "Joe's Awesome iPhone(FE-2A-FE-FE-FE-FF).
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"They set out to make the most money."

It really worries me that there's a new breed of Apple fan that actually believes this.

In reality they set out to build the best device (for affluent, white, middle-aged, American males with a taste for minimalism) and semi-accidentally became fashionable status symbols.

The crowing about making the most money was just fanboy bragging because every other stat they bragged about was slowly being eclipsed by Android. Fanboy rule number one is to make far too big a deal about anything unique about you or your enemy. Some people seem to have latched onto profit margins and run wild with it. This has gotten to the point where I'm half expecting, even here on HN, someone to come along and claim that Samsung "isn't making any money" from selling these phones.
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>their first duty is to their share holders.

Even if this is entirely true, it is quite possible that fighting the law more aggressively may be in their share holders best long-term interest. An excessive focus on the extremely short term has caused many businesses quite a lot of trouble over the last century. For a really interesting analysis of the decline of a machine-tool manufacturing company (the most thorough discussion of the issues I know of) see Max Holland's When the Machine Stopped, about the decline and collapse of Burgmaster, a mid-century "start-up" by an inventor.
Apple has never been on top in market share... I don't think any Apple fan would point to market share as an indicator of success.
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You don't come up with nearly a hundred billion dollars in cash sitting around because you only aimed ay making the best product. They aimed for the best product so as to make the most money. They used marketing to exploit the market place for those whom are easily convinced than items give them status.

How more simple could their model be? Exploit human greed.
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I have NEVER had to drive/fly to fix anything. Never even had to use remote hands for anything. Sure some drives died, but standby drives are in place.

Consider yourself lucky. We thought the same thing, but when a RAID controller died on us recently we really didn't know what hit us. It didn't just stop working, it started by hanging the server every now and then, then after a day slowly corrupting drives, then after a day or two it stopped completely.
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Should you expect abuse? Should you be forced to endure unpleasantries because you expect the same rights as any one else? No, but you will receive it. And if you are really committed to your cause you will stand up for yourself anyway.

Oy. I beg to differ.

I have a medical condition. Doctors told me "people like you don't get well". I got well. Stating that fact is enormously controversial. Since people think you can't get well, stating that you have done so is frequently taken as proof you either don't have the condition or are otherwise a teller of tall tales. I handle controversy fairly well. But being a lightening rod for controversy doesn't get people to think or try new things. I've worked hard at backing away from the controversy and have left a lot of the online forums I used to participate in. I leave my website up and reply privately to some of the questions that come up on the email lists I remain on. Replying publicly makes it about fighting with groupthink and about my ego, when that is not what I want. So it's proven to be mostly counterproductive to take a public stand. Replying privately makes it about trying to help people who are suffering and dying and might be willing to try something new because they are all out of options. One by one, people are trying new things. And this is gradually changing the conversation in group settings.

I plan to win the war. For my cause, the fewer public "heroic" battles, the better. Winning hearts and minds and making real change does not require all kinds of sturm and drang. I'm also a woman and post on Hacker News as very openly female. In my experience, "the battle of the sexes" is equally counterproductive. I'd rather "dance" with men than fight, so to speak. Learning to do this dance without stepping on too many toes is a more humane and productive pursuit in my experience.

I will also add that she is "standing up" for herself in much the same way I am standing up for myself: By looking out for our own best interests and concluding that subjecting ourselves to abuse is not in our best interests.
is the US really the first to get an upgrade? Most of Samsungs phones are launched first elsewhere, and US versions later come with their own carrier specific versions. The plain Galaxy S is not on that chart, and it would have received the upgrade before all the US variants.
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I was expecting this. Apple can't possibly match Samsung with all their smartphone price ranges, and it's only the beginning for Samsung. There are a lot more "units" to be sold in the under $150 level. That's where the biggest volume will come from.

I also expect them to surpass Nokia in all phone shipments, too (they already did in smartphones). But it might take a few more quarters. Nokia will transition too slowly to Windows Phone and Meltemi, and it's yet to be seen if they will even see as big success as they did in the past with Symbian. Many have already moved on from Nokia.
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Once again the media is derelict in its reporting duties by equating "shipped" as "sold". They are not the same thing.
>How would you feel if the car manufacturer attached locks to the hood of your car?

Why would I care? I don't know anything about what's under the hood and I don't want to. You know what would be great about them locking the hood? If they do that they can't expect me to do maintenance things like pouring in oil, windshield wiper fluid or any of that stuff.

The more "freedom" you have on a computer the more maintenance you have to do. Linux is the most "free" OS and it also takes the most effort to administrate. Every second I spend administering a computer is a second I'm spending on something I don't care about and doesn't get me any closer to what my business is about.
With billions, you'll have many options.
Without billions, you've to pick the right option.
What do you mean "had no choice"? They ran out of appeals? The gov sent in storm troopers and held a gun to someone's head?
Never underestimate the power of double-think.

I can't believe that Gruber (for example) would claim with a straight face "Money is how you keep score" after years of attacking Microsoft who massively won on both marketshare and profitshare on the desktop. (They've fallen slightly behind in profit the last year or so, but take any longer period and they murder Apple. By Gruber's own metric this means Apple's computers sucked, and in that case why should we be excited about their phone?)
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I am more interested in the opposite of this: a portable, ruggedized hand-warming device for divers suffering from hypothermia in the water.
Not for most situations.

I work over at orion, and our standard cloud VM's dominate dedicated hardware in IO. There really isn't much competition.

You find most of the 'virtualisation is bad for I/O' is either 'oversold I/O is bad for io' or 'Trying to push all IO for every VM on a box as well as all WAN traffic through one gigE port is bad for io'.
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On Xbox 360, XNA comes with the .NET Compact Framework which indeed includes a pared-down, non-generational GC (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb203912.aspx). (On Windows though you get a full .NET framework.)

As a developer for Xbox 360, I found your best bet is to:

- monitor the amount of memory allocated (print out GC.GetTotalMemory(false))

- allocate everything during loading and force a GC when you're done loading stuff.

- ensure you're not creating any garbage at all during your main loop, which will prevent the GC from kicking in at all.
... and so the pressure builds on Apple to diversify, which is what killed it last time. Really Apple needs to invent and come up with something special, but as SJ would tell you - which idea do you pick?
This is what frustrates me so much with all the rabid "ZOMG, they want to take over the world!!!" fear mongering against Apple. Is is so hard to believe that Apple has just found that most users want their machine to just work as easy as possible? Is it so hard to believe they are just doing what their customers want?
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The issue popped up once in a hundred times, in general people do not notice.

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Let me prefix this rant by saying I Love C# and .Net. I think it's a really good platform to build on, as demonstrated by it's growth outside of the Microsoft world.

This article highlights why (good) C/C++ have such a hard time moving to C#/.Net. In .Net memory management is, 99.9999999999% of the time, fire and forget, whereas a big chunk of learning and programming C/C++ is about memory management.
Most C, and some C++, programmers would have baulked at having a massive object graph in memory - releasing it becomes a massive headache, and that's before you even get into synchronisation issues, and the .Net team have done a really good job of taking this headache away (yes, I realise they 're not the first).
However, we're now at the point where there are a lot of C# programmers who've never heard of a linker (by default, csc compiles and links in one go), have little concept of static vs dynamic linking, and, more importantly, don't have the first clue about memory management.
This manifests itself in things like not using IDisposable properly/consistently, using the string.+ operator rather than using StringBuilder/StringWriter, and developers have no idea about the difference between class and struct, especially when it comes to parameter handling.
Even books like (the excellent) C# in Depth are pretty light on the memory management side of things, deferring this to books about the CLI and DNR. Whereas, the truth is, if you're going to write a big application, you're going to have some concept of this.
You seem to have an extraordinarily comprehensive definition of "legacy".
I work for one of the biggest corporations in the world, and I can see the acceptance of Macs creeping in. There is at least active support for using Macs as terminals for Windows virtual desktops. That said, it's still a long way to go so it would be nice to see these things speeding up.

The quote "For the same reason they wouldn't wear cheap shoes and a bolo tie to meet with Lloyd's of London to insure their cargo ships and cranes" gave me a giggle. Hell is certainly freezing over, because it's now more of a case of Lloyds of London having to rely on the tax payer in jeans to keep them afloat.
Of course most anyone would be against them, but personally I think it's a consequence of how laws work and how word of mouth works. Remember the lady who bought coffee at McDonald's and managed to burn herself? She did that, but McDonald's was held responsible.

The other example is Windows. For years and years it was known as a horribly unstable OS despite the fact that most of the failures were caused by poorly written 3rd party software. By locking things down more, Apple makes it harder for 3rd parties to make them look bad.
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I am personally using Reeder on my Mac. http://reederapp.com/ and planning to buy its iPad app when I get my iPad. It is because it integrates with Google Reader very well.

The reason I use it is, Google is doing RSS aggregation really well. It is robust, fast and gets the pubsubhubbub pushes really quick so that I can see new stuff in seconds.

I think this app can be great with Google Reader integration, because it has a better UI than Reeder for iPad. But I think many people don't trust adding hundreds of RSS feeds to a mobile device instead of a cloud-hosted service (Google Reader).

Good app, you're doing good.
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Samsung smartphones are selling briskly, there is no material difference in the numbers.

The month on month rise in sales, for the last year or so, has been spectacular. You can't just keep shipping phones at that pace without selling them, it's simply not realistic to channel stuff on that scale.
Indeed I did. Tried it again this morning with the same result.
No.

If you make $1B in a free market economy, you have also provided (at least) $1B in value to others. You need not have created it: you might simply have arranged for them to have it rather than other people.

An obvious example would be an extraordinarily effective thief, but one needn't be so blatant. For instance, the main effect of a successful investment advisor's work may be to transfer money from people who haven't taken her advice to people who have. (There may be some benefit to the -- presumably better-than-average -- companies she suggests investing in, but there's no reason why that should be large.)

I think one grievance of the OWS protestors is, roughly, that many of the richest people have got that way simply by arranging for their clients to have money at others' expense, rather than by creating value. Though they probably mostly wouldn't put it that way.
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I suspect that the big news here might be Airplay.

If you put this together with the rumours of an AppleTV there could be something very special here, especially if they are pre-emtively paving the way for open-source, 3rd party developers.
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The 1% are on display! Thanks for your opinion, Mr. 1%.

He can fix this easily: give his money away. Problem solved.

What a troll Mr. Gates!
The problem is that Apple's business model is based upon selling artificially scarce content (music, applications, etc) over closed and restrictive platforms. A couple of open products isn't going to change their fundamental business model.

The argument that "Apple is just a business" doesn't hold weight for me either because there are clearly superior business models out their like Google's which is based upon free software (linux) and intelligent cloud services (search).
Does it? It may not ship the units that Samsung ships but it makes far more money off the smaller number of units it does sell.

The reality is that Apple were the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world for one quarter. It would be more accurate to view the fact that they were (briefly) number one as a blip rather than see it as a major title they lost and something they need to react to.
>Apple machines are a huge timesink for me whenever I try to use them, precisely because I can't customize the things in the UI that drive me batty

Actually, it sounds like either machine is a huge time sink for you. Apple machines because you have to deal with how they're set up and your dream OS because you have to spend a bunch of time tweaking everything to be how you want it. For those of us who find the Apple OSX way just fine, we don't have that time sink.
What percentage of the profits do they take?

Exactly.
What other stats make sense to the company?
It is called "business" for a reason.
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>Super flaggers receive no special powers other than the ability to contribute to the honeypot score of a given article. //

No special powers other than helping to ensure their submissions are not 'honeypotted' and submissions contrary to their view are 'honeypotted'?

Wouldn't that also downgrade those who hold contrary views to them - as the contrarians would be more likely to upvote the stories that the gamers are helping to get marked as honeypots - thus ensuring that the gamers keep those with opposing views from gaining a position in the quality control caucus?

I notice you're in AI, have you run some formalised tests on how such a voting system would play out?

My personal (untested) preference is towards making voting plain and all scores open and then letting users somehow create their own metric for filtering. Perhaps that won't work on the scale of a successful site though.

Are there actually upvoting and flagging cabals in operation on this site now?
>If you screw up, you could anger the wrong people and end up in a court room trying to defend yourself.

From the post, it looks more like an enterprising lawyer seeing an opportunity than RIM "angering" somebody. Which is even scarier for providers, looking into future risks.
26% of the iPhone 4 was manufactured by Samsung:

http://www.economist.com/node/21525685

Samsung have for a long time been a bigger player in the smartphone market than they look from their device sales alone.
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Thanks! When you tap Clear Read, the article's link is sent off to a server, which then returns the article's body in XML + formatting and images.
The FLAC repository havent been updated for two years.. Shouldn't it be called dead?
This is true but it's something both sides are guilty of.

The most vocal Android proponent I know carps on about market share incessantly as a measure of it's superiority despite having spent the best part of two decades reacting to Window's dominance with the old "eat shit, a billion flies can't be wrong".

The truth is that both sides have some interesting challenges ahead.

Google have just bought a device maker (who just posted a significant loss) which could very realistically harm it's relationships with other manufactures (including Samsung). Meanwhile Samsung - the best Android phone manufacturer right now - are also now signed up to provide Windows Phones and are investing in Bada. And pretty much all Android phone manufacturers are operating on pretty thin margins because of the competition.

Plus Kindle and others are starting to fragment what Android means - are app developers going to be held back by having to keep things running on the far older Fire version if they want to access what is likely to be a massive market? Oh, and those pesky little patents suits aren't going anywhere in a hurry and are likely to be, at the very least, expensive. On the upside it now has a mass market advantage and a lot of people betting on it.

Meanwhile Apple's previous unrivalled dominance in terms of product quality has significantly eroded (if not disappeared altogether) and it's iPod -> iPhone upgrade path is dropping away as the iPod ceases to be a big seller (though the Mac is now becoming mass market which at the very least boosts the Apple brand and awareness).

The iPad is still the undisputed king of tablets but that's likely to at the very least come under more sustained pressure than it has so far as further iterations of Android tablets improve. Plus the potential for a post-Jobs psychological hit exists and, those patent suits aren't just running one way.

And both of them are going to be threatened by Nokia and MS getting their shit together with a couple of nice looking phones, a billion dollar marketing budget and a shed load of brand recognition in the mass market space.

Bottom line - I don't think anyone should carp right now, this thing is a long way from playing out.
Jack Welch said something like "I don't care about money, I care about winning. Money is just a way of keeping score."

Indeed, in the game of business, it does seem the most appropriate way to keep score. That doesn't mean business is the only game in town.
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Unfortunately I'm getting more and more biased against Apple these days, but then why they didn't use FLAC from the beginning? The FLAC format was stable from 2001 and Apple introduced ALAC in 2004, was it just as a way to be able to use DRM?
I really like Reeder for iPad - it's certainly one of the best solutions is you want to follow your suscriptions from Google Reader.
But Read is something that is more relaxed - more casual. There's no unread counter, you just pick it up and find interesting content. And there's the fact that their API is still unofficial. I did consider it for a long time, but in the end, I decided against it.