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PDFs technically "work" on the Fire (and the Playbook, another 7" I've used recently), the issue is just that of shoving a letter/A4-sized page into half the space. You can scroll and zoom, but it's still nowhere near as comfortable as reading them at their intended size. It'd be nice to have a "smart" PDF reader that can auto-detect columns and such; but it'd never be a replacement for a proper reflowable doc format (such as ePub/mobi)
It seems to me that people also tend to severely underestimate the amount of embedded systems in their life. The tech savvy sometimes think about systems in their car or their office elevator. Most people dont know and dont care. And we arent even talking about the electronics/software that runs the fancy coffee machine or that thermostat.

As a tinkerer I had like to have (secure) access to some of these things. But as you said most people don't really care. And manufacturers have little incentive to open it up.
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I keep hearing the idea that the Nook is B&N's last great hope, but I don't buy it.

Every time I go in to a B&N physical store, it's packed. They're one of the few stores I'll go to just for the experience of going in there. They're relaxing. They're pleasant places to be.

Certainly, book sales face stiff online competition, but I find it hard to believe that a company with 705 physical locations that people want to be in, (plus 636 college book stores), can't find a way to make a profit even if the Nook should fail.
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yeah - that was way too small for me. I had to zoom a lot. For a small project like this it's sort of a "who cares" decision, but I'd hate for that size to be a design "norm".
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If I were ucla.edu I wouldn't be too worried about it since ucla.xxx isn't a threat to me. On the other hand if I were the owner of hotmangoatporn.com then I'd be annoyed, since hotmangoatporn.xxx is a threat to me, and I'm now obliged to go and buy it because people could quite reasonably get my existing site confused with whatever shows up on the .xxx version.
This comment made me very, very happy. Hopefully you and many other first time callers will continue to make your voices heard in the political process. Despite what the cynics may say, calling your legislators really does make a difference.

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Images: usually client provided, or none. Stock photography is awful in general.

Layout: Content is divided into columns. Twelve colums, six colums, and three columns are the usual suspects.

Preparing HTML for a designer: Use semantic HTML. For anything that's even vaguely list-related, use <ul>. Do not put links in a div by themselves, but sort them into a structured list. Do not use <br> for paragraphs.
While SOPA and PROTECT-IP deserve to burn for all the obvious reasons, this ‘infographic’ is appalling. It’s rare to see propaganda as brazenly deceitful as the “self-censorship diagram” and “startup chart”.

Using fake data to scare the masses is beyond shameful — it’s exactly the kind of tactic employed by the RIAA and every other evil corporate lobby in existence. It’s like Batman trying to catch a bad guy by stealing his gun and shooting at him.

A legitimate cause deserves better.
I did the same thing, costed me about 15 Euros to max out my referral bonus. For the first 15 signups, the conversion rate was above 40%.
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I still think if I listed every category of electronics, you could not find a dominant player in the majority of them.

I find it interesting that you ignore Apple's behavior with the iPod. Apple was more than willing to provide a low cost product. I really don't see why people think that trend won't be repeated.
I'd guess it's because the pricing doesn't work out in the aggregate. If more people would downgrade to 25GB from 50GB than would be motivated to pull out their credit-card by the inclusion of a 25GB plan, the thing would be a net loss for Dropbox.

And, honestly, I can't imagine there are many people willing to pay $5/mo but unwilling to go to $10/mo. $5/mo is such a minor difference compared to the costs implicit in even having a multiple-machine sync-ing problem to solve.
Mr. Torvalds is confusing market freedom with the freedom to install other software on your devices. Market freedom is the ability to choose those products which suit your needs. Given the growth of apple in the last few years, it is quite obviously the case that the "free" market is working. I'm also not entirely sure what he means by "losing in the end". Apple and Micorosft have no responsibility other than to return value to their shareholders. They are, most decidedly, winning in this regard. If he means, losing simply based on adoption of a technology than only time will tell, but even if Apple and Microsoft fall in the long term it will still be an example of the free market at work.
I think the NDA requirement before revealing the infringing patents is a telling sign. They know they were weak and stand on shaky ground.

I had thought that if some entity was to properly assert their patent rights, they had to make the specific patent claims known to the parties concerned which gives a period of time for the potentially infringing company to rectify, or to progress further into arbitration. Microsoft seems to be playing it like a organized crime protection scheme.
Absolutely lovely design, great job!

One point: it wasn't immediately obvious to me that the right hand logo was a clickable logo back to the homepage.

.net as TLD for a webapp feels a bit odd too but it's probably fine for beta.
I would like to hear stories about what goes through the head of some of the law enforcement officers who are ordered to disband a protest, when at the same time they agree with some of the protesters' viewpoints.

That must be a tough job, emotionally... I would not like to have it.
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Of course, neither of those are considered math themselves. The concepts behind them are certainly math. But these algorithms are more like models that only imperfectly match the concepts. Long division only applies to a very small subset of the things you can divide. Euclid's algorithm is only useful for the trivial natural number case in N (whereas the real fun these days is to be had in Zn, where Euclid fails to function correctly. It has false positives)

Btw: there's a few dozen ways to do what people call "long-division".
While developing web applications and doing every part of it myself(design, coding, everything), I have noticed that I design my web apps in three stages:

1. Interaction Design: In this stage I design my web app's UX - mainly wireframes. The focus is on usability and not on look and feel. For this the only useful tools are paper, pen, whiteboard and an open, creative mind. Knowledge of html,css,js will help you in determining what is feasible and what is not.

2. Illustration(optional):In this stage I take wireframes as input and create a design that will look exactly like final desired product. I use vector graphics tools to create design and then export it into png files. If some heavy graphics is needed I also use raster graphics programs. Tools recommended:

1. Vector : Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape(open source)

2. Raster : Adobe Photoshop or GIMP(open source)

I don't use anything else.

3. Web Design : In this stage, I do actual front end development. I take png mockups created in previous stage and make webpages by coding html,css,js in my editor. Tools used :

a good editor(vim/emacs)

css reset(http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/)

jquery library(and some plugins)

Browser(Chrome/firefox for development/testing. IE8+ and Safari for testing)

Some browser plugins - Firebug, Color Pick, Resolution Test, etc.

Some sites - 0to255.com, kuler.adobe.com, ui-patterns.com,
smashingmagazine.com

That's it. Anything else isn't really necessary.

One more advice. Get inspired. Find sites that inspire you, sites with good design. Learn from those designs. Keep learning. Keep improving and keep designing.

Some recommended sites :
http://www.cssmania.com/
http://dribbble.com/
http://www.awwwards.coam/
http://themeforest.net/
Thanks much for the tip, this is exactly what I was looking for!!
I don't own a playbook, but did play around with it in a best buy. I don't think it beats iPad either and the price tag back then was not justified.

Also, agreed the hardware is not exactly same, though my reference was more to the processor, RAM, etc that contribute to performance. But am definitely sure those 2 cameras and a microphone are not worth the extra $300
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Sigh, I know, but non-technical product managers can be very adamant about certain things. =(
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Thinking about it more, I wonder if Dropbox's mistake here wasn't in having too-high an initial price, but in being too-generous with the storage attached to that price.

50GB is more than most people need to sync. It feels almost wasteful to have that much unused storage on a 50GB plan. Perhaps 25GB should have been $10, 50GB $15 and 100GB $20.

Paying for 25GB when you only need 15GB might not feel as wasteful as paying for 50GB when you only need 15GB. Even if the net cost is the same.
I would suggest that when making a window "fullscreen" to make it position (absolute|fixed) with top, left, bottom, right at zero. You'll get "Free" resizing when the browser changes size.
Any system to erase all users ability to visit a Web site would be a breach of security. Someone could then shut down the entire internet. Every packet, byte and bit between any two points from a central location. Sounds like the plan maybe 6 months ago with the whole "internet off switch" legislation. The govt is just itching to put a shocky collar around tcp/IP. Its about gaining a foothold to tax the bytes between devices.

I demand that the freedom of bytes to travel down an internet connection should be as free as my freedom to shout any word I want from my front yard. A police officer may arrest me, fine. the officer stops the offending person, not the offending ideas.
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Python version is definetely written in perl style (pragmatic and write-only). I've rewritten it to make it readable:

https://gist.github.com/1377187
Sure, right now. But I've stopped lugging my laptop around when visiting friends or offices, because on the browser I have gmail, text editors, gdocs, ssh terminals .. almost everything I do outside of media editing I can do anywhere as long as I have my access credentials with me (thanks dropbox) and the internet. I think there'll be a place for a long time for dedicated professional machines - just like there's a place for dedicated servers but many services run great on a VPS. While we'll carry laptops/netbooks with us for some time to come I won't be surprised the day my kids come home with something that doesn't require ownership of their very own hardware, just some kind of authorization module.

I'm sure many of us have been in the position before when an emergency comes up and you ssh in remotely. All I really need to work is a smartphone, screen and input device and I'm comfortably working anywhere.
That's basically what I was going to say. If you're paying $10/month for 50GB and only using a fraction of it, it feels like you're wasting money. Even if that's objectively "good value", it doesn't really matter.

It's the same basic problem subscription MMOs are facing, and why so many are going free-to-play. It's also easier to convince people to pay a bunch of small one-time fees rather than a recurring monthly or yearly fee.
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They say they connected with Mobile Commons to build the app, so my immediate guess was Mobile Commons provided them with the API and statistics, and tumblr just designed around those stats for the visual styling.
Yeah, that sounds like good advice, chris.

What if you could streamline the process and cover both the wireframing and mockup phases? The tool I'm thinking about building is very similar to other prototyping tools (like Balsamiq), but would basically take your wires and "upgrade them" to a more pro-looking mockup (after all, it's just a matter of switching out images).
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I would also recommend the book Consider Your Options at http://www.fairmark.com/books/consider.htm . It costs <$25 and will take a few hours to read, but can save you from making very expensive mistakes.

I bought this book back in the early days of Google to make sure I was doing everything right. It's boring but clear and helpful, which is about as much as you can expect from a book about stock options.
According to http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6134/135/, IP addresses issued by American Registry for Internet Numbers (the US regional IP issuing agency) is under the SOPA's jurisdiction. The problem is that they give out the IPs for US, Canada, and a bunch of the Carribean.
Here's the thing: I remember that folks spent years and years trying to develop a useable technology for e-ink. "It reflects light just like paper", they said, "so it'll be much easier to read for hours without getting eyestrain". Then a few years ago, we finally got decent e-ink and could finally get e-readers.

But it seems like the latest generation of e-readers is just giving up on the e-ink idea altogether and going straight back to backlit LCD. What's the deal? Is e-ink not as good as we were hoping, or has LCD technology got that much better?

(fwiw I'm a big fan of my original-recipe Nook)
Totally agree. I think it's also about ill-informed legislators being pushed by rich lobbyists.
The form is used in some popular-ish web apps (in their desktop mode), e.g. Solve360 CRM at http://norada.com/ , but admittedly not many.

A library like the OP's could be useful if looking to do something similar.
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They may be packed, but that doesn't mean much by itself, because their book sales are in decline. The stores are relaxing but according to a friend who works there -- many people go there just to browse it like a library, read for a few minutes and then go buy their stuff on Amazon.
Who said it was dying? The other article only said there was some apparent fading interest after some noticeable spikes. It didn't say it was dying.

This article is a non-sequitour to the other one. A: "It looks like the clouds are gathering and it's going to rain". B: "The sky is not falling".
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This is a story about a hateful woman whose primary intention is to be arrested. Her ideals are irrelevant because her intention isn't to be arrested for her protest, but to just be arrested while protesting. The difference is profound, and shouldn't be ignored by the reader.
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Of course, if this could be used for large portions of the structure, that really changes the equations a lot. You don't need nearly as much lift for a given weight of cargo.

The Hindenburg used 200,000m^3 of hydrogen (generating a lifting force of approx. 215,000kg. Net useful load was only 10,000kg.
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I didn't know this was possible:

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That's really handy. Also, this part made me smile:

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I agree. You really should look into SOPA though. The bill is dangerous in that it can be abused to shut down legit sites with hardly any evidence for infringement at all.

That said, I agree with your sentiment about the piracy supporters. A lot of people like to rant about freedom this and freedom that but it just doesn't hold up when you talk about piracy. There are a plethora of sites that do just blatantly rip off content producers, often times bragging about it (looking your way, Pirate Bay), while at the same time hiding behind the ideals of freedom.

No one will argue that the net is powerful and it's the freedom of the Internet that's a huge part of its power to empower people but we cannot sit and pretend that these sites should be left alone because that would hurt freedom. Yes, we do need to protect freedom for and on the Internet but using the freedom defense to argue for some of these sites is just ridiculous.

If I produce a piece of data that I charge for and it gets distributed freely on these sites without my authorization that is just plain wrong. No one is entitled to free music, movies, software, etc. they're just not unless it was the original intent of the author to give it away freely. This is real simple stuff and I can't see how people defend piracy like this. "oh but the corporations are evil, they lock me in, restrict my freedom, whine whine, moan, moan". Well you don't have to purposely hurt them or "take them down" just because you believe software, audio, video, whatever should be free. What you do is either use the alternatives made by like minded folks or create your own. Why force an agenda on the rest of us? That's extremism.

SOPA is a bad law and I'm ardently oppossed to it but let's not frame this issue like the poor underdog torrent/file sharing sites are championing freedom and good while the evil corporations are trying to enslave us all. It's just not so (at least in those terms, arguably). Piracy is illegal and has been since before the Internet. What part of distributing paid content on a worldwide scale for free is okay? This isn't about your belief that you're entitled to x, y, and z free. Its about this big "evil" corporations wanting to get paid when you use their product. They obviously are making things people want and enjoy otherwise it wouldn't be piracy that put them out of business, it'd be lack of sales and no one would even want to pirate their product, whatever the product may be.

There's too much talk about the obviously unethical file sharing sites. They're no angels themselves. So instead of framing it in their terms we should be framing it like this:

In an effort to stop piracy (which is not a bad thing) these large corporations and government officials are supporting a bill that has obvious potential for abuse and can hurt legit business owners or content providers in the process. The bill is over-reaching and can hurt future innovation.

Let's talk in those terms instead of defending known violators of existing laws.
ARIN assignments aren't enforced by any kind of automated means. If ARIN tells some Canadian company, "Sorry, SOPA says we have to kill your assignment", and the Canadian company says "Thanks, but we'll keep using 123.89.12.0/24 anyway", it's all up to the canadian company's routing peers whether they want to enforce ARIN's edict.

If these peers choose to ignore ARIN's edict, it raises a number of troubling questions, mind you - so we don't really want to go that route if we don't have to. But the point is, Canadian ISPs could very well take a stand against the US using ARIN to enforce SOPA overseas.
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We are talking ubiquity here. And relative openness. Windows 7/Vista/XP are ubiquitous OSes that are more open (put it on any piece of hardware you want as long as it is x86{_64} etc.). Mac OS and OS X were open - but locked down to hardware. Both Mac OS and OS X were and are less ubiquitous (i.e. 5% market share vs. 95% for Windows for a long time now) than any version of Windows. Apple making more money or Steve Ballmer's whims are not the contentions here - ubiquity of products is.
Can I suggest changing the font size and/or background? It was extremely difficult to read. Awesome project however - ran really smoothly here in Chrome on OSX.
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Relevant former discussion (with some great poitns from Grellas) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2623182
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I'm very nearly certain that the first half-dozen or so of his examples quite neatly fit the definition of irony.

His ultimate point may be valid, but his lexicon isn't.
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he missed the killer feature: price tag.

Recalls a radio ad that ended "...sure you could go somewhere else and get a burger for fifty cents, but then you'd have to eat it."

I keep seeing people get non-iPad tablets because of the price tag, and then discover "oh, now I have to use it" and soon don't. Would that a tablet come out true to its own goals and limits.
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Dunno about others, but even awesome readability just doesn't trump that slow weird-flickery page transition.
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The main reason Linux is not prevalent on the desktop has nothing to do with openness--it is just basically impossible to buy a new computer with Linux.

The reason it is impossible to buy a computer with Linux is largely Mircorosfts wildly anti-competitive behavior in the past. Note how much work and marketing it took Apple to carve out a non-trivial market share--there are no companies pushing Linux adoption nearly as heavily.

There are too many confounding factors affecting Linux on the desktop to use it to judge open technology in general.