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Apple's claims of "look and feel" were absurd on their face as anyone comparing Windows 3 and MacOS can plainly see.

I'm not going to engage you on this, because I don't know what it has to do with anything I wrote. You seem to have just jumped on the idea that I'm trying to have some kind of stupid fanboy argument with you. I wasn't. I was trying to point out that your description omitted a relevant fact: saying "Nobody but Apple sued another company..." has a different interpretation when the actual basis of the suit is considered.

Any an all existing licensing agreement were immaterial...

The existing licensing agreement was why they sued in the first place and one of the main reasons the courts cited in the rulings. It can't possibly be immaterial: it's central to their case! You make it sound like they just came out of nowhere and claimed to own all GUIs or something, but the actual case revolved around the existing licensing agreement and the (then untested) claim that "look and feel" as a whole was subject to copyright.

*...as the technology wasn't owned by Apple in the first place. That's what the courts found..."

That's not what the court found, though! Yes, Apple lost the case (rightly), but it was on the basis that most of what they claimed was subject to the prior licensing agreement and that the broader "look and feel" wasn't copyright-able at all, by anybody. Not even Xerox.
I've found that, using keyboard shortcuts (and with a decent Internet connection), Gmail becomes about as efficient as Pine/Alpine (I've never used mutt).

I don't love the redesign (I think the placement/appearance of the "important" and "starred" markers is terrible), but since they didn't change keyboard shortcuts at all, I can still plow through reading/replying/labeling messages.
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Ask HN: Anybody heard back from HP/Palm on the $149 Touchpad?
This came across HN a few days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3199739

I (and many other HNers, I suspect) jumped through the hoops and emailed HP. I haven't heard a peep. Has anyone else?
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There is some good WinMo hardware available now... just not on Verizon. I picked up a Samsung Focus S and I'm very happy with it. Not jailbreaking yet as I can't see any really useful apps that require it. I'm sure that will come with time, though.
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I also dislike that the email toolbar's buttons are now modal. (I don't believe they were modal before.) If select an email from a list, then new buttons appear and move the previous buttons to a different position on the page. This breaks users' muscle memory for clicking buttons quickly.

I guess I should learn the gmail keyboard shortcuts..
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Yes, I think computer vision is a common term for the area (at least, among academics and researchers), and CV is a common abbreviation.

Examples include Intel's OpenCV and the CVPR conference.

(I actually thought that it was weird that they called themselves "machine vision" rather than computer vision in the title.)
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* write a plugin for photoshop or gimp that will select the arbitrary shreds.

Does that exist already?
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Although I'm happy MS is doing it, I'm absolutely positive that the only reason for it is to attract more developers to their platform and try to compete with Apple in one of the few areas they are widely regarded as deficient.

I don't think it's a sign of sea change at all, sadly.
Flash deals with this issue by cacheing any object that has a complex filter (like a drop shadow) applied to it as a bitmap. This works pretty well, but can lead to serious memory hogging.

Effects like drop-shadows and blurs are notoriously CPU-intensive (and we don't even have arbitrarily-shaped drop shadows yet!). There's no way to do them very effectively without moving onto the GPU.

Hopefully that'll happen soon. Or the CSS filters spec gets broad support, in which case there will be a built-in drop-shadow shader.
> I never thought that I'd read about Microsoft allowing something like this.

Microsoft can be surprisingly open and user-friendly when it feels threatened. Right now they are fully aware of the disaster that awaits them in the long run if WP7 fails in the market - Win8 seems like a stopgap measure, aimed more towards running legacy corporate desktop applications than being a true citizen of this brave new world of simplified user experiences. It's no culture change - it's adaptation for survival.
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> To be clear, "oh well this is an XSS but it doesn't matter" is not something I ever said. I only ever said that most of the screenshots in the article don't by themselves demonstrate a vulnerability on Apple's web sites.

True, they may require some clever hacking to really exploit.

But experience has shown me that (way) more often than not, even though an XSS might not be directly exploitable, there will be further (perhaps not so critical) security problems that will lead to an exploit, given an at-first-sight-not-so-exploitable XSS.

So it's always a better idea to make sure the XSS is not there in the first place, because if someone figures out a way to leverage it, they'll have full control over a visitor's browser on that domain.

Maybe the innocent flaw that allows the exploit isn't even there yet at first, but gets added accidentally with later development. It's still the XSS that is the most critical problem.
In France, over 50% of the working population are fonctionnaires (civil servants), if the unions and labour laws weren't as inflexible as they are, this figure would be a lot less and the unemployment numbers would rise accordingly. You might say that the current state of affairs is preferable to that but the problem is that France is slowly choking to death and faces huge structural problemls in the near future.

The public sector has massive unfunded pension liabilities (because virtually all of France works partly or fully on the "black" due to the crippling tax regime) and the young working population are shut out from the majority of higher paying professional jobs as these are all occupied by unsackable (often unionised) career workers that still expect a job for life. Meritocracy plays second fiddle to who you know and what connections your family has.
You'd probably need a good spamming system to get it past the spam checkers. They're going to spam-bin short duplicate emails sent to a large multitude of users I'd expect.
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Although we now have observed the particular Dell XPS 15 L502X ahead of the P11F can be a somewhat diverse ?laptop that is included with the touchscreen. As an entertainment-focused laptop the actual touchscreen display offers an additional way to watch Dvd disks, as an example, letting you pick alternatives on-screen rather than use the touchpad, producing the experience ever-so-slightly simpler. However, when moving around Windows it isn't a lot of an edge.
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Agree with the sentiment. I work in a room full of developers on one side and admin staff on the other. The admin staff are talkative and have a laugh. The developers are deadly silent and bizarrely averse to a bit of pleasant chat. Even just letting on is difficult.

People should respect you're busy, but you don't need to use some API to manufacture an excuse to not talk to someone. How about a, "sorry mate I'm a bit busy at the mo, can you put it in an email and I'll get to it as soon as I can?"

You don't need to be a dick about it, and there's nothing at all wrong with being firm and polite with someone. If the other person trying to talk to you wants to be a dick about that, you are then well within your rights to call them out on it.

Someone will say this is naïve because office politics trump civility or some shit. I think that's a lazy excuse, much like the API.
It seems to me that the dynamic is, you can gain marketshare at the cost of profit per customer by being more open. So it's the competitors who aren't in first place in a given market that would consider it.
Yes that font is much better over the cursive one, both in terms of readability and cleanliness.

If you do use any cursive fonts, please do not bold the letters as everything looks mashed together.

Other than that, everything looks great and the offer sounds generous! Good luck!
There should be a publication archiving the superficially thoughtful, hate-filled tirades that occur in reaction to every change that happens to public facing things.

Then, when we create something, we can look through the archives and see the volume of ire directed at what we've come to love, and draw a relaxed breath realizing you really can't please everyone.
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Isn't what he's done more like war-dialing than actual cracking in real terms though.

I'll agree that in legal terms he's almost certainly the wrong side of the tracks.
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That kind of post doesn't work as well when the text isn't green.
If you feel brave enough, you can port MeeGo to the Nokia WP7 handsets and boot it with this tool. Their C/C++ toolchain is excellent. ;-)
Isn't this like the bunny slope of Darpas shredder challenge?
WP7 is the acronym used instead of WinMo
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Though the apparent ease of the latter could potentially inspire some brilliant approach that ends up being the basis for a solution to the former.
there don't seem to be a large number of reservists/national guard in the tech community;

Why do you/others think this is?

I'm not a US citizen, so that counts me out. But even so I wouldn't become a reservest because I feel I have a lot of unique and valuable skills (engineering, thought leadership in platforms, and media technology) that wouldn't be capitalizable by the military - certainly not as a reservist. I wouldn't feel I was utilizing my skills if I was a regular solider or even reservest officer.

It's similar to volunteering for charity: rather than volunteer to work a day in a soup kitchen I would be able to bring far more value to a charity by just work for a day doing my normal job and then donating that day's pay to them. (yes you personally learn some good life skills volunteering but I'm talking about which is better for the charity)

EDIT: perhaps folks who have downvoted me would like to leave a comment to help me understand where the skill capitalization for a tech founder/software engineer is in the reservists, seeing as they clearly feel I'm wrong.
I'd never sell the idea of investing in a startup. It's an area that should be left to sophisticated investors. It's not like investing in a laundromat or an apartment building.
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Dude, you're getting a fair amount of hate on this thread and I commend you for the way you handle it. Every time someone comes along knocking you, you just respond with "Thanks for your thoughts" then go on to explain yourself. You can't say you don't practice what you preach.

In all honesty, this is the only post of yours I've ever read. I might dig in further and decide that I think you really are a douche. I don't know. But so far I like your style. Especially how you handle all the negativity.
To further complicate matters: other newspapers covering the story back in the day spelled the man's name as "Adolph Schopf", "Adolph Schuep" and "Adolph Schüp".

He's described as "a real German baron, a graduate of three German universities, one of which is the famous Heidelberg, the hero of five duels and the suitor of a beautiful young widow who has been making her home in Meriden during the past three months. His full name is Adolph Schopf, baron of Bottleburg, New Weissensee, province of Kieden Barden, Prussia."[1]

[1] http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Cg9JAAAAIBAJ&sjid=k...
Folders are created as is. Encryption is done on each file.

I tried to capture a how a typical working session might look like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-uRQtT49U
I wonder why he doesn't try the basic interface. It still has text buttons and all the "information density" you could need.
I'm a heavy user, and I still have no idea what the buttons do because I exclusively use the keyboard shortcuts. I'd assume most really heavy Gmail users avoid using the mouse.
At first glance, it looks like a good library for starting out with Vision. It's a very Pythonic library. I especially like some of the blatant honesty in their docstrings.

https://github.com/ingenuitas/SimpleCV/blob/master/SimpleCV/...

> def _makeCodebook(self,data,ncodes=128):

> """

> Do the k-means ... this is slow as as shit

> """

It certainly looks easier than starting with OpenCV alone.

Moreover, Ingenuitas looks like an interesting company. Open source solutions for manufacturing is certainly nothing I've heard of before. Definitely something to keep an eye on.
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Is "to attract more developers to their platform and try to compete with Apple" not a good enough reason?
But this is simply pushing the question further up the food chain.

That is, the question becomes: Why did Jobs find it acceptable to have iOS games on the iPhone that kill the battery within an hour, but found it unacceptable to have Flash that kills the battery within an hour?
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I felt this was pretty fairly articulated critique of the changes to Gmail. And the author admits that some of their issue may be part of a resistance to change meme. I've gone on record with my issues about too much white space. And even in 'compact' mode it is less useful to me.

Overall its the down side of G+ which has the effect of opening up things to change which perhaps shouldn't be changed.

But on the positive side it creates opportunity for folks like Mailgunner to get in. Its the tech version of the circle of life.
"In Linux Mint 12 and upcoming releases we’re hoping to provide users with the following commercial search engines: Ask.com, Google, Amazon, eBay, and the non-commercial Wikipedia."

And I was all set to install Mint tonight.

I don't begrudge them the right to manage their distro how they want, but I really hate a distro messing with my browser and search like that.

So no, I guess.

Damn.
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They always allowed it on the old WinMo -- and they never tried to shut down the OS hackers making custom versions. Even Google tried to shut down Cyanogen, before finding a compromise and backing off.

And Microsoft has always allowed you to load whatever you want on Windows, even if they've worked really, really hard to make sure that what most people want installed is their own software, often by bundling and such. (The Windows 8 Marketplace will be a departure from this, but there are already loopholes and there will likely be more.)

They even let you load your own stuff on XBox -- and on the Zune HD -- using their free dev tools. Now that Sony has backed off their Linux for PS3 support, Microsoft is the only console maker to support this.

Microsoft knows that power users and early adopters are a crucial market for them if they're going to grow their tiny phone share at all. Power users and early adopters often like to do things that are outside the box. So if they can offer enough of the openness of Android (not nearly all of course, but enough), maybe more people will come on board for a sort of best-of-both-worlds thing: a locked down platform for the overwhelming majority that cares more about security, and an override for the enthusiasts who want to homebrew apps.
I actually rather like the new design. It looks better and is more consistent than before.

Unlike the poster, I actually really like the simple geometric style it now uses. It's a nice break from the incessant rounded corners and gradients that so many other web sites seem to favor (HN's design is similarly refreshing).

The icons are a major change and take getting used to, but I think they improve the experience overall. The one think I find really stupid are the gear icons--one in the top righthand corner for the Google+ style bar and one gmail-specific. Having two identical icons that do the same thing is bad. Apart from that, I think it's a good design.

However, while I like the new design, I really dislike the default theme. Some of the gripes about separating content from the UI are addressed the other themes. I particularly like the "dusk" and "dark" ones.

Overall, with a few reservations, I like where they're taking the design and hope to see more web apps follow suit.
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Because the rest of the EU is much worse off. How do you think Italy and Greece got their crippling debt burdens?
I apologize for what i said last night. I went to the Rock Health event with an open bar and had too much wine, and one should never internet under the influence :)

Sorry about that. I am, however, still passionate that the actions of Pincus and other executives like him are deplorable and in no way should they be seen as OK - even if "everyone else is doing it".
No, his responsibility is the operation of the service. The operation of the hardware it runs on is not the primary duty, it is a... side effect? Not sure how to put that. It's like saying a building manager should be a carpenter or a plumber. It might be an unsurprising de facto situation, but the primary duty is not to be a carpenter or plumber.

I should mention I was briefly working for him at this company, but ran away screaming for reasons not really related to him or the hardware, so I'm fairly familiar with what the deal is. It's not just grunt-level operations, it's operations engineering, complete with in-depth troubleshooting of application problems. This is what Google calls SRE.

And they're not buying systems one at a time, they buy them by the truckload from Rackable/SGI, and do have dedicated staff for the things you're talking about. That's the whole problem. The dedicated staff together with the other costs I mentioned end up being more than they would spend being a major customer of a dedicated "cloud" provider.
Not only that, but there will always be more critics than people who like it. I enjoy the new design but don't have the urge to constantly rave about it.
I would accept the battery life argument if Apple did not allow games in the App Store that drained the battery very quickly. Why is it acceptable (for users/Apple/Steve Jobs) for iOS games to drain the battery but not acceptable for Flash to drain the battery.

If there was a draconian 'thou shalt not drain the battery' rule in place, I can see how Flash would violate that. But there is no such rule in place, since other apps are allowed to drain the battery very quickly.
No. ChevronWP7 does not "root" your device; it seems to simply unlock developer access. The result is actually still quite limited: it would be nice to have "root".

"""Provided unlocks are equivalent to those provided by Microsoft’s App Hub. That means 10 side-loaded applications. That also means no “Interop access”."""

-- http://www.chevronwp7.com/post/12369366007/chevronwp7-labs-l...
Well, it suggests that if they ever became competitive with Apple they would lose all interest in providing open access to their platform.
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My bad. Noted. I did like "WinMo" quite a bit though.
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By 'sea change' I'm not just referring to this instance, I'm thinking also of Silverlight and of Adobe's recent announcement about dropping Flash for mobile devices. There's also the fact that HTML5 is now a new focus for both companies (Windows 8, Adobe's authoring toolset).
As a relative newbie to WP7, is there actually anything of interest to do with it right now? I get that there is a ton of potential for the future, but I haven't seen any interesting root apps yet.
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I'm currently using a setup where I can see incoming mail in a taskbar (unread count and subject), press Win-o to spawn mutt, enter to open first unread, z to archive, and qq<enter> to close mutt. With this, a lot of email is dealt with in six keystrokes and under two seconds total (no interruption in workflow).

I'm not saying that you wouldn't be able to do this with a web-based mail client, but I think that the machinery to do that would be less natural. (My sense of what is natural might be warped, though.)

Also, there is much to be said about the ability to customize your mail client to suit your needs. The very fact that people are complaining about Gmail's new design shows that a lot of people are relying on Google to tell them how they should manage their email, and try to adapt their needs to the tool rather than the other way around. This is not a technical limitation of web-based mail clients, but most webmails I know aren't really hackable.
I never like it when people compare the digital world to the real world.

It's like the whole "would you download a pizza" statement.

The answer is always, yes, yes I would.

I hope our politicians and law enforcement officials do not treat the digital world like its the real world. Things are just not the same... We need separate rules and separate code of ethics for each.