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Apple's patent in 2005 was for a device that didn't exist.
Moral Relativism is nothing new.

Reminds me of the quote by Orwell:
All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by 'our' side.
It seems very unlikely that any truly useful jQuery plugins are lost from this though, it seems likely that any that are unrecoverable (or extremely difficult to recover) meet the description he is making.
As some say, procrastination may be a symptom not an actual problem I think the less "tools" you have to procrastinate with the better. My top recommendation that I think has helped me become more productive within the past month is deleting all bookmarks and apps involving Reddit. Yes, it is just one site and you can easily replace it with another time filler but it is easy to get lost on that site for quite some time each day. Replace "Reddit time" with work and you can gain back some time to complete tasks each day. It's working for me and I don't really miss it.
In this case the standard would be largely implemented by 4 or 5 organizations, all but one of which are based in the US (Mozilla, Opera, Apple, Google, Microsoft, if you count Google and Apple separately).

I can't speak for the validity of the patents involved in Norway or whether Apple could pursue Opera for distributing a browser infringing on their patents in the US. But for the others, the patent situation is very relevant.

So it wouldn't matter if the standard just decided to standardize something that Apple claims patents on, if Microsoft and Mozilla then couldn't implement the standard due to those patents....
If only it were easier to find the blog comments of the 65-year-old smokers who died of lung cancer at age 57.
Article from 2007
The only difference to me is that I'm reading a book in my kindle, and I use the e.ggtimer.com/pomodoro to work.

Feels bad man.
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HP's decision means webOS could end up more open than Android
Here's a realization that scared me to death that I don't procrastinate any more: The whole life only exists in the current moment. The reason being that the past doesn't exist any more, and the future has yet to come into existence. Hence all my life exists only in the current moment.

This leads to the conclusion that if I procrastinate for even a bit moment, I'm wasting away all my life. This is the most scary conclusion I've ever had and it works wonders to drag me back to work.
Does that mean we will see webos on iPad at one point?
No, it really isn't. The UI itself is totally different, with the TNG consoles using a fairly static button-based UI. Most of the PADD's had extraneous hardware buttons, and most of the touchscreens on the ship were not mounted on brushed aluminum roundrects, but rather spread across walls or mounted on consoles that certainly did not resemble the iPad. There weren't any obvious bezels, and the UI was completely different.

Mr. Worf's tactical consoles were mounted on a curved, wooden surface: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XNPD380IpBQ/S8aEN8erVEI/AAAAAAAAJo...

The conn and ops consoles were a solid piece of glass, and while the glass surface was a roundrect and there was a margin around the displayed interface, there wasn't any physical bezel, and the housing was triangular rather than iPad shaped: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XNPD380IpBQ/S8aD98o3EII/AAAAAAAAJn... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XNPD380IpBQ/S8aD9MMAf3I/AAAAAAAAJn...

And the consoles in the back of the bridge were also dissimilar: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XNPD380IpBQ/S8aDvkLoPSI/AAAAAAAAJm...

The transporter consoles had triangular housings similar to the conn and ops consoles: http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/850/850252/chi...

The only real similarity is that the TNG consoles were touchscreens. Everything else, software and hardware, is different.
There are other licenses besides the GPL. And you can even make your own license. It's not at all uncommon for open source projects to have a "not for profit" clause attached to their copyright.
You are right, there IS a line between culture and politics.

But thats the thing. You should count politics as part of your requirements too, or thats what the theory states anyway.

For example, lets say you digitized an inventory form for a sales dept of a plastic company. By doing this, you effectively removed use of a pen from the 'system'. Now what politics could you possibly be affecting by eliminating use of a pen? Well, you could cause an uproar between the finance dept and the sales dept. Finance says that the organization's major stock holder is a pen company and the sales department must use pens (for whatever reason...lets pick advertising and promotion).

Now your system made the world efficient but it failed to account the current work practices of your client. You, sir, just screwed up.
The Archimedes had the ARM2. Same instruction set as an iPhone... in 1988. I shipped a game on it. 100% Assembly.

Just out of curiosity, which game was this?

(Just Another Archie programmer)
I'm with the "it's ok to procrastinate sometimes" camp. Lot's of exercise plans include a "junk day" where you're allowing yourself to eat whatever you want without guilt. The reason is because it's good to reward yourself with something you like, and because it's near impossible to continue at something forever without little breaks.

From the sounds of it, maybe your "junk day" breaks aren't regular enough to keep you balanced, and you've reached an overloaded point.

Take regular breaks, don't feel guilty, and your net productivity will benefit.
Just to offer a condensed version of mbrubeck's detailed information: Apple have played this strategically in the W3C so they could make this patent disclosure as late as possible, despite the fact that they have been shipping these supposedly patented APIs in Safari since 2007 and encouraging developers to use them, and despite the fact that this proposed standard was first published back in May.

The deadline was not sooner only because Apple strategically avoided joining the relevant working group, which would have forced an earlier disclosure.
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Without any source whatsoever other than what I can dream up (which is better than some unnamed chief executive), I think this is bullshit. Bill Gates is now looking at building a reputation worthy of Mother Teresa PLUS Andrew Carnegie; why does he need to be CEO of Microsoft again.

Maybe if the stock price was going to completely tank, which would affect his foundation, he would consider coming back. But the stock shouldn't do that; the company is still remarkably profitable.
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Google deploys IPv6 for internal network
I'm shocked nobody's interested in this. The design is cutting edge, and the platform could provide some true depth and substance in our increasingly facebook-ed world...
HP’s Whitman: We’ll Make WebOS-Powered Tablets In 2013
Microsoft is probably paying for that, even if it's only by reducing their Android extortion fees.
Eh. Microsoft might not be as dominant in the post-Gates era, but their products are more user-friendly without his narrow focus, their developer relations are more cordial, their platform choices are more standards-conscious.
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There are so many tools, websites and books out there at the moment. Firstly, I would recommend your start on HTML5/CSS3 instead of looking at older stuff.

A very cool, high level site:
http://diveintohtml5.info/

Smashing Magazine's website is pretty cool too and they have some good ebooks and printed books on HTML5/CSS3.

Look at http://www.html5rocks.com/en/ for sample code and tutorials.

Some tutorials on tripwire:
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2010/07/30-very-useful-html5...

There are tons, too many to list. You should also look at Meetup for local HTML, front-end, web dev meetups. They've been super useful for me, especially meeting some of the dev community...

Have fun!
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I have to say that reading HN does not give me the impression that its posters tend to be anti-Apple.
I agreed with you right up to the last sentence.

> It could happen if we stop chasing foolish "green" energy windmills and solar panels.

What? How are the two things even related at all? How are solar panels foolish? Why put "green" in quotes?

The reason that nuclear power isn't getting the attention it deserves is not that other 'alternative energy' projects get the attention. It's much more that governments and corporations are locked in to dirty energy and are having a tough time getting out.

Don't blame nuclear's current failures on solar panels.
They would get the same benefit at a lower cost. They want their apps (& advertising and data collection) to be ubiquitous.
That has a red case, the screen is physically depressed from the bezel, and there are extraneous white rectangular design elements on the bezel. That would actually not violate Apple's claims were it a real product.
Yes. The hypocrisy has me questioning her authenticity. Has she had a change of heart or is she just playing a game to increase popularity and gain votes?
I couldn't imagine anything more depressing for Gates. I believe he has moved on and found something more rewarding to do with his time.
My trick is mindful meditation, even two or three minutes is often enough to get me back on track.
The reason you don't understand the issue is because it is implemented correctly, which is why I kept pointing out the responses to the rant that indicated he was wrong about how it actually worked (to make clear I understood this, apparently failing ;P), and kept adding the parenthetical hedges about the documentation. Really: you nailed it, and the PayPal IPN mechanism works great (seriously: no sarcasm).

The rant really was just about how he perceived it working based on what I do feel is a reasonable reading of the documentation (and in fact I think I originally had that interpretation myself until I actually tried it in practice): that the documentation lists the "response" as the verification process, and does not seem to have any provisions for "500 error": again, though, the way it works is fine.
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Works in Chrome 15 without content but Firefox requires content.
> I've still no clue why humans procastrinate.

I've still no clue why people consider doing stuff so important.
I never used the "plugins" site; it was impossible to know which "plugins" were truly careful and well-designed libraries, and which were just extractions from some web designer's last portfolio site.
So what do your competitors do? I know it's an obvious question... but it's probably also the answer to your problem.
or lionizing protesters in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, etc as freedom fighters while marginalizing domestic protesters as quasi-criminal homeless hippies.
Word on the street was Facebook (http://zd.net/psW2NP) and Amazon (http://bit.ly/uSFTVz) were interested.
Lots of spices do that. Cinnamon is pretty good too. Ginger. Horseradish. Garlic. Goes on and on.
I did not point you to the definition of copyleft or the definition of GPL, but to the definition of Free Software. If you read the definition of "Open Source" by OSI, or the DFSG by Debian, they're very similar and clear: the (royalty-free) license includes the right to make derivative work and publish/distribute the modifications.

None of the definitions above include "not for profit" clause as valid. If you have not for profit clause or non commercial or alike, it's NOT free software or "open source". (It's "freeware" or "shareware" or whatever.)

If you make your own license with such a clause, no one will consider it free or "open source." You can call it that way, but you'll just look foolish believe me.
I love the fact that the software engineers basically deliver UML diagrams to the coders. I'd shoot myself if that were all there was to my job.
I would argue that ethanol subsidies are currently a barrier to wiser energy policies, however.
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Last year, I needed a backpack for travel/multi-use/etc. Something that would fit my laptop, a small video camera, and misc other stuff.

I went to Best Buy to see what they had, and it wasn't much. They had one bag that looked nice though and the salesman told me how amazing it was.

It's Best Buy. Of course I didn't believe him. So I pulled up the iPhone Amazon app, scanned the product barcode, and saw what the reviews were. Turns out, the salesman was right - this bag was very well reviewed.

And Amazon had it for $20 less. So I left Best Buy, went home, and bought the backpack off Amazon.

There will always be a place for local, brick-and-mortar stores. As others have mentioned here, Amazon can't fulfill instant gratification.

But I think instant gratification is a small percentage of the overall buying experience. Amazon can help with the rest.

(If anybody's interested in the kick ass backpack I got, here's the Amazon link. Looks like it's more expensive now: http://www.amazon.com/Lowepro-CompuDaypack-Camera-Bag-Slate/...)
It seems to me that working away all your life isn't any better that "wasting away" all your life.
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Ask HN: know of any successful app in Google marketplace?
So, my procrastination won't stop until I resolve the reasons for my procrastination. Thanks!
Less laborious but us java devs are not really a scripting language audience.
Cool. Just post to HN. I'll upvote it and post a thank you note for the release.

My email shall remain hidden for now.

> We're releasing a cross-platform low-level OS, threading, and math library for C under either the WTFPL or BSD license around New Years.

Great. I will keenly be following your responses to contributed code to see how you believe it should be done.
If you are interested in assisting an open source mobile project, why not to give a hand to Mer and Nemo Mobile?

http://merproject.org/

http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo
Consider that she was addicted to nicotine, and she felt less anxious when she had nicotine. It's difficult to separate the "got what she was addicted to" from the "reduced anxiety."
Gates' recent initiatives in energy, education and health are interesting. We need more leaders who can envision and execute projects that will make a positive impact.

The software industry doesn't need fixing - I hope Gates continues to focus his energy in these other areas.
I have been fighting somewhat winning battle with procrastination and it sums up to a few things, key ones are:
- get a good nights sleep, having less then 8 hours of sleep lowers your IQ and therefore doing complex and rewarding work its a catch 22, you go home feeling bad fret go to bed late.
- make a plan before you go to sleep for the next day, visualize, conceptualize results in your head - feel the accomplished goal.
- when you wake up focus and tell yourself that you trust that you can be reach each one of those goals. goals can be .. being focused and productive and feeling great!
- few pushups crunches goes a long way at the beginning of the day. if you feel a bit tired - i take a shot of double espresso before morning excerize, it all falls into place.

Procrastination can be good if it is deliberate, like when you are stuck and you can't move you can deliberately switch focus, take a nap read a book.

My 2c.
But given how the U.S. is supposed to be orders of magnitude more "free" than China, the fact that this SOPA is even a possibility seems to render that point moot.
QNX is the underlying RTOS. Application UI is done in Adobe AIR, which is a dead platform. JS/HTML5 on top of QNX would capitalize on their strengths (more responsiveness over Android) and patch over their weaknesses.
Yes! Excellent point. We all have to admit that there's only so much you can do to differentiate a tablet but when the thing looks identical to the naked eye then you've got a case. The only problem is having to sell that in a court. There are tons of tablets out there that are very obviously not the iPad but this one from Samsung looks exactly the same on first glance especially to the average person.
It seems to me to be a function of how the machines are spaced. People need a certain amount of personal space. The single line is the only way to provide it given how tightly the self-checkout machines are packed.
Ha! I wrote memepool a million years ago.

I wish I knew what to do with it. Everything I design in my head ends up being either delicious or reddit.
That is silly.

The store makes it free to see the items and so forth because they believe the customers are more likely to buy then.

Nobody is free-riding anything here. The offer is to view the merc for free. The offer is taken. That is the end of it.

If the stores don't make money this way they will have to change. Maybe they should charge for shoppers who don't buy anything, mayby they should charge for people coming in the door (like a museum or a zoo or a gallary of modern art).

There is no free-riding here.

And please in the future don't use such loaded terms. It does generally not lead to an improved debate and will make some here (me at least) suspect you of astro-turfing.
Or even more softer/friendlier sounding "Schedule gifts for women" (gifts are usually sent or given and can be assumed as so, and it's assumed they are for women in your life and not random women in the universe).
It feeds into teaching me about people...I'm currently trying figure out how to work with really smart people and how to build and sustain high performance teams.

Yeah yeah yeah...but I did come bearing gifts!
So what could Best Buy have done for you that this salesman couldn't? He apparently gave you good advice, and you had a chance to touch and feel the product.

I will admit that $20 out of $100 is not an insignificant discount...but how much less of a mark-up would Best Buy have to have so that you would purchase its product?
You don't need to work every minute. All you need to do is to not waste it away. So go skiing for a full day is still considered making good use of the current moment than reading reddit. For me, I think not wasting my life away means I'm either contributing to the society by working or I'm making my self a better person by working out, skiing, reading books etc.
He should run for President instead.
>What on earth are you talking about? Nokia sued Apple first after it became clear they weren't going to be able to compete with the things Apple was doing.

That's not exactly how it happened -- every other major player pays Nokia licensing fees. Apple refused to purchase a license on the terms Nokia offered (mostly, Nokia wanted a cross-licensing agreement for Apple UI patents. Nokia actually cares about patents, and tries to not infringe on them.), so Nokia sued them to force it.
Don't pretend you know everything.

Get your pitch down and be concise.
[AnyBrowser] Sandboxing will make it a very secure browser.
There is a program on Windows, called "SandBoxie". You can tell it to run IE in a sandbox, and what it does is intercept any of the apps drive I/O and creates a cache containing the delta of changes, but never actually allowing write to the real files.
This way, if some kind of malware goes crazy in IE, simply shutting down IE is equiv to reverting to a snapshot in VMware/Virtualbox. Whatever changes were done, are definitely undone.
It's funny, if you try to download a file it's kinda tricky. You have to retrieve it from the sanboxie cache because the browser can't actually write to your filesystem with sandboxie intercepting all calls.
Sandboxie is also very good for those crack/keygen programs out there that turn out to be malware. If it works, you get your key... if it turns out it's malware, shutdown sandboxie and whatever it thinks it did to your machine... gone.
Thanks, I should probably add those links. That is a pretty easy one.
"Then why not try Groovy?"

Or Xtend, or Kotlin or Ceylon (though the second two haven't yet been widely released).
I will pay $5-$10 more for something immediately at a B&M store vs waiting for Amazon, but no more.
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* Red case

* Screen physically depressed from bezel

* Extraneous white rectangular design elements on the bezel

DS9's dark cinematography, combined with a device that doesn't really look like an iPad, makes for a device that at first glance looks like a black iPad. Well, at least if you've seen a black iPad before. If it was better illuminated it would look more like a metallic etch-a-sketch.
I'm having one of those days today and I need help! The while week has been that way. It sucks. I know much of my procrastination is due to burnout. I totally burned myself out and now I need to recover. But sometimes recovery isn't an option when you've got deadlines to meet. Sometimes you've got no choice. So now it's off to try to force myself to finish and hope to God I end up with just enough time to take a long enough break to recover.
I wouldn't say the UK gaming law is vague but it is complicated.

Basically unless you're a charity you'll need to be licensed.
Hello, thanks for the reply.

Yes, I was a bit snarky in mine, but didn't intend to troll.

I was just an user, when the canvas tag appeared. I remember, that it was available for Safari and Dashboard on OSX, and then later in other browsers. I also remember, that at the time, Apple started to assert patents on it.

Dart's imlementation is harder, I also agree. However, what I see from Google at this stage is call for cooperation to shape the language, not something that is done and the others have to accept as-is. The call may be considered even more public than whatwg mailing list. And yes, I agree that the complexity of integrating another VM into existing engines may kill it in the end.

I actually do not like some design goals of Dart, but I understand, that there is demand for Java-like language in browser and that there is impedance mismatch between Java/GWT on one hand and JS in browsers on the other, that Dart intends to solve.
http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/astra/ModRef10/papers/Chr...

Is a preliminary paper, we have a longer one in the works.
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My favorite thing like this for a purely technical topic was a project where there was a mandatory requirement to NOT support ethernet auto-negotiation.

Why? The company had a long-standing policy of manually setting speed and duplex to ensure that there were no duplex mismatches. The was a team of 6-7 people who would audit servers and check switchports, and they produced a report was issued every week, and reviewed by the CIO and other luminaries. People would be shamed for errant configurations, as only the auto-negotiation team could configure NICs.

The director who controlled the auto-negotiate squad was politically powerful, and got all sorts of power out of it -- including banning GigE. As late as 2010, this org was deploying dozens of 100MB NICs to ESX hosts to get sufficient bandwidth. They also purchased 100MB NICs for desktops.
So, why should I contribute statistical data (or even visit the site), just to be told I'm not unique? I can do that by myself, sitting here. In fact, I just did!
What you described is not sandboxing by any definition I've heard. For me to consider something "sandboxing," the thing being sandboxed must be executed with restricted privileges so that it cannot modify the surrounding system, and it cannot interact with other things being sandboxed.