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> The carriers lock things down

I don't believe there are any carriers any more that stop the user installing from non-market sources. Many offer ways to unlock the boot loader so you can completely control the device. You can always buy a Nexus device. These are all forms of openness (although I would tend to call it "freedom" since that more accurately describes it).

> it's just not true

As I point out above, it's very true. What I think iOS advocates point out is that it's not practical: no regular consumer uses these things in practice (although the Amazon Appstore might be an example). What matters in practice is how the device comes out of the box because 99% of people just use it like that. I acknowledge this, which is why I say it's an intangible feature of Android. You only value it and benefit from it indirectly. I guess my only point is, if the Sieglers and Gruber's of the world want to claim intangible things as assets for iOS then they should be acknowledged for Android too.
Don't forget Lebayg integration.
Great point, that's a whole other discussion about what makes a 'great product person', that's almost more of a opaque term...
I've read in various new acts saying "such and such section in this act does not apply/ is void/ etc". It's a purely cultural problem preventing this, not anything written in law as far as I know.
Maybe I'm alone, but I won't be getting the Galaxy Nexus because it's too damn big. My current phone is 4.3", and it annoys me because it's a struggle to reach the top of the screen with my thumb (i.e. one-handed operation). I tried a 4.5" Galaxy SII and it was just too much for me.

That said, my old Nexus One feels tiny once I've gotten used to a larger phone. I think 4" is the sweet-spot for me- I just hope that phones don't keep climbing ever higher and ignoring the smaller form factor.
Have an upvote: you're absolutely right, and I shouldn't have hammered out a response during class.

Forgive me though--it's finals time, and I only caught this through HN (and not my RSS feed).
I mentioned this in a reply to another post, but I think Siegler's point was that he believes there's a select portion of society that can appreciate the difference between the Mercedes and Honda (price aside). That's why Topolsky interprets it(correctly IMO) as a class thing. The riff raff according to Seigler and Gruber 'don't get it' < insert snooty tone.
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I'd be interested to know who, other than Iranians, considers Iran the "good guys."
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I wouldn't call Scott a blowhard - he definitely likes to stir the pot however, and you can't argue with his success to date.

I would say Howard is a good pick, but I don't know him too well. Also Ryan Sohmer, who runs a rapidly growing media company in addition to his several comics is another great example.
As pretty much a nobody with zero artistic talent I managed to create a web-comic as a side project which in it's first year of existence managed to get over 250k+ unique visitors and almost 1000 Facebook fans. It's not that hard.
The update will still be delivered via Windows Update, it just won't prompt you like it previously did.
What do you think about Bionicle? I can't even consider that stuff to be LEGO.
Does Howard Taylor actually make more money than Scott does, though? PVP is much higher up on the traffic charts, and I've seen Howard occasionally post about his family's financial struggles while Scott certainly doesn't seem to have any.

Not having a single late update is a very different skillset from knowing how to market effectively. If I had to pick one person as a marketing consultant it would be the one who has a better marketing track record, not the one who doesn't keep to a perfect schedule.
How is this different from public election funding? In Australia political parties receive several dollars per vote over a minimum threshold. It doesn't seem to improve their behaviour all that much.
> Imagine what he would have done if he had lived to 40?

Sorry, can't. Marriage alone is a major productivity killer, then there are also kids and general life problems. There was a study that basically built a histogram of mathematicians' (?) productivity vs age. The peak was around 25 years old, followed by a very steep decline.
MG responds... http://parislemon.com/post/14286785030/horseshit
Has IEEE become a spammer?
I had a little sneak peak at this site, and still think it's very cool. One of the cool things is that after this was pushed live, the jQuery team announced that they were updating the plugins.jquery.com site and many of the features were very similar.

Continue to market it as library agnostic - I think that is one of the key differentiators of this site. The idea of a CDN is very cool as well, although I'd worry about bandwidth costs doing something like that. Maybe that is the premium version in a freemium model? (No idea if you plan to make this a commercial venture at some point.)
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But that case has nothing to do with communications, and congress lost the case.
Those 'five days' and 'another day or two' could easily include time spent waiting on a queue, of course. In which case, it could be only a few tens of minutes of actual time would be spent on the report.
Iran is being made out to be the "bad guy" for stuff totally unrelated to this drone; I haven't seen anyone labeling the drone's capture itself as wrong. (Then again, this might be because I don't watch any TV news - maybe they're crazier.)
When I was learning Galois Theory, I found Keith Conrad's notes really helpful for understanding the details -- http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/. The subject of this post is mostly covered by the paper titled "Galois correspondence" (For anyone whose interests were piqued by this post.)
I liked when phones were getting smaller. I don't like this getting bigger trend. I'd like an iPhone sized Android that doesn't suck.
I lived through the the dot-com bubble, and the environment today is nothing like it was then. No one is claiming now that there is a "new economy." Investors are not afraid to put their money in bonds, for fear they'll miss out on a new, transformative sort of growth in equities. LP money isn't flooding into new VC funds. VCs aren't funding MBAs with business plans.

dmix's instincts are right; saying it's 1999 all over again is just a facile put-down.
Strawman. Every other suggestion on this page is more reasonable than the one Ubuntu is choosing, whether it be replacing the package with one that is 90% functionally equivalent (openjdk) to printing giant warnings during the package upgrade process. The decision made by Ubuntu is so uncaring for its user community that this reads like comedy.
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But in the US, one is not held to be responsible just because something bad happens. It has to be negligence at least.

So the idea here is that if the car crashes, people find out that an algorithm didn't handle a situation very well, and they sue the manufacturer over negligence regarding product safety.
If Freemium Is In, Then Why Do Paid Apps Still Reign Supreme?
"Google products are machine-driven"
Re #1 got it, agree all founders should but great designers should be amazing at understanding human needs that's what they should be trained in and one of their primary jobs to focus on, hear a lot about empathy, so hopefully a designer co-founder will increase your probability of that critical mass of skill in house among other tangible skills...but why don't you agree with this one: "First, as the the consumer tech market becomes more crowded, differentiated brand and experience design is becoming critical to both short-term and long-term success."?...I didn't really write it as an "argument" but more as a research statement, hence why we're interviewing a lot of http://designerfounders.com not for profit- I'm passionate about intersection of design, tech entrepreneurship and education....and how we can better collaborate radically to create positive social impact, part of that is bringing folks together with seats at the table...
That spying on people is wrong and you don't believe it should be done is a laudable moral position and quite reasonable to expect out of the vast majority of the world's population.

That doesn't change the fact that it'd be an absolutely disastrous approach to running a county.
Not to be pedantic, but there has already been an initial stab at the problem. There have been many. The current government is just one step in a very long history of attempting to find an ideal structure to manage humans in large societies. As with most aspirations to perfection, we'll probably never reach the ideal. But every step is worth considering, and some of them are worth taking, and some of them will even be improvements.
how did forrst get $225k of funding?

and for that matter, what does forrst need $225k for, other than hookers and blow? it's basically a blog with a shiny template and no authors.
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There is a campaign underway to raise funding for the next round of drone development. These stories are hitting the press to help drum up support for spending on drone R&D and production.

There are also stories that are intended to pave the way for drones being used on American soil.
I was a member for 13 years and I quit the IEEE because of this last year. The list given in this post doesn't even cover the 3rd party stuff like insurance companies that obviously received your information from the IEEE. There is also spam that addresses me as "Tech Professional" or some other term as if that would make me twice as interested in whatever they're selling.
I've been extremely sad the past 5 years with lego. I graduated college in 2006 and when I got a real job I thought that for Christmas I would be getting my niece and nephew legos. I loved them growing up (technic for the win!) and wanted to get them started on this obsession as well. But try as I might the trend that I saw start when I was 10 or 12 has continued to almost completely corrupt what I recall lego as being. No longer is it a where you get to imagine and design, and then play, all the "work" of design and imagination has been removed leaving only the "play". That's all kids want right, to play? Aw well, at least I got to have some good times.
I have seen on some IRCs people writing 'sudo rm -rf /*" etc. (not as advice, but as a joke,) but that person is always promptly kicked out and everyone in the channel tries to warn others.

The author's view is definitely too pessimistic. Most people on IRCs like Freenode aren't evil 'hackers' out to 'hack' you (this reminds me of an episode of Numb3rs.) Other smaller IRC servers can get rowdy, but I've yet to see that on Freenode et al.

I think much better advice would be to not randomly execute crap you see online without knowing what the program is and does, especially in root.
Yes, I know how to work around this. No, I do think it is reasonable that I might be forced to work around this while I'm in the middle of doing what should have been a routine security upgrade; remember: the original package is gone, and Ubuntu's Java packages have extra supporting material (such as dpkg-alternatives logic) that is missing from Sun's.

It should also be noted/realized that many Ubuntu users even use the "unattended-updates" package that is provided by the distribution, which means that at some point in the middle of the night all of their software is just going to stop working with no notice. Apple isn't even this insane, and people give them all sorts of flak for theoretically having the ability to remotely wipe apps from peoples' phones.
I'm going to buy a Galaxy Ace: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_ace_s5830-3724.php.

Admittedly it has a weaker CPU and worse screen than the Nexus or the SII, but it should be the right size :) the same as an iPhone, and Android, which is what you ask for, and much cheaper :) (U$ 150 with a 20 dollar contract over here).
Or more accurately, it's not financially viable for a company to support a 10 year old OS.
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I just wrote to Zed:

I haven't read past section 0 yet, but I do have a suggestion for people who want to learn how to memorize things faster: use SuperMemo or a modern equivalent, like http://ankisrs.net/ . Such programs use spaced repetition techniques to improve memory speed. I used Anki for improving my French and recommend it. If you'd like to learn more, see http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia... .

Cheers,
A sort of myopia seems to be rife through all the specialist fields - STEM, medicine, law, and politics all host individuals with a nasty combination of elitism and borderline-religious opinions. Whether or not they've actually studied the subject is irrelevant - everyone from the least educated bumpkin to the foremost authority may speak on it, and everyone else will take their opinions with a grain of salt and continue with their existing ideology, rather than try to dissect the logic.

Worse yet, it's possible for people to study the subject and still exhibit strong myopic symptoms. This is the origin of cargo-cult programming(to name one example).
Fake IP poisoning from the tracker? Unless "YouHaveDownloaded.com" actually connected to this IP as part of that torrent, this seems highly unlikely to be real.
>Why do we need more girl scientists and geeks?

You are only considering a symptom of the problem. It isn't just a question of more women as geeks or scientists. It's how women are treated in society. Things like getting catcalled while walking to class. Being called a slut for wearing a skirt, a prude for wearing a dress, manly for dressing in slacks, or sexy rather than professional.

No, we don't need more women as scientists, or doing math, or building things, or designing video games, or writing books, or plays or tv scripts. And we don't need women collecting garbage, serving in combat roles in the military or elected to government.

But the sum total of a person's experiences add up.

When someone in a video games says "You got raped, bitch." Or a little girl feels shamed into playing with bratz dolls rather than legos. Or while walking down the street a stranger demands she smile because she's so pretty, ignoring she might have her own feelings. Or she plays a video game where the female characters all have impossibly giant breasts spilling out of impractical armor. Or when watching block buster movies where no two main character women (if there even are) talk to each other about something other than a man. Or every time she steps out side someone helpfully reminds her that she could be raped at any moment; she better accept a man's offer to chaperon her. Oh, and why hasn't she married a nice man yet and had some children? She's not getting any younger you know. It all shapes who a woman is.

So no, we don't need more women working as scientists. But if you work to build and maintain a culture where women are guilted, shamed, and literally forced into stereotypically feminine roles because that's the way it is and you're content with that then you certainly help to guarantee she won't be curing cancer, building a better engine, developing a faster computer, or a creating a realistic lead woman character in the next blockbuster game or movie.
Multiple times in this discussion thread you have talked about the plugin, but the comment about forcibly removing (as opposed to just disabling) has to do with the JDK, not the plugin. Yes: interactive systems where a user is staring at a web browser designed to download and install plugins is a simple situation to handle. However, servers that are running mail processing backends or websites are entirely different animals.
You speak as if 'the public' were unable to be shaped by offer, advertising, the consumption of peers, as if, in the end, consumption wasn't part of culture, and part of a grand feedback loop all of it.
I personally think this is an awesome idea, I hope it gains some traction, it really is niche that needs to be filled.
It's tragic what is being lost in this race to the bottom for increased pageviews/audience share.

I really want to believe that people like Gruber (who I, at least used to, have a great deal of respect for) are above it, but watching things change over the past few years does make me wonder…
It's what you buy second-hand from your local used media store so you can legally watch the video contained thereon, while giving the finger to the MPAA.

Enjoy it while it lasts.
No program is going to take their long dwell time drones that need every ounce for batteries and pack them full of explosives.
I wouldn't downplay Iran's technological capability as this anonymous analyst seems to. By Middle Eastern (and developing world) standards, it's a fairly technologically advanced society - GDP per capita 4 times that of Egypt, 3 times that of Iraq - and this is a country where (unlike, say, Iraq in the 80s or Syria in the 2000s) its nuclear development program and missiles are indigenous.

That said, I'm sure China and Russia would also pay very well in both cash and political favors to get a look at the drone, which might end up being more worthwhile to the Iranians than pulling it apart themselves.
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Yes. CSM is actually a very good newspaper.
"based on" doesn't mean they are on par by any means.
Search for "channels of commerce." Congress can regulate things such as roadways, waterways, etc, where commerce flows.
So. GoComics.

I'm friends with the woman who won the first Amazon/Universal/GoComics contest back in '09. Her strip, "Girl", still hasn't appeared anywhere on the net - it's basically been in development hell for the entire last two years. Last I asked her about it she was like, yeah, they ask for changes, I send off a new batch of strips, they send me money, it still hasn't gone anywhere, it helps pay the bills.

Honestly, after two years, I basically figure this is never going to happen.

And her other projects have been suffering for this, too. It eats up a lot of her time, and nobody but her editors at Universal are seeing the results.

Like Kurtz, she's a webcomics pioneer who worked in the daily four-panel mode because she loves it. Getting into the syndicates was a lifelong dream. But it's too little, too late - have you looked at the comics page of a newspaper in the past few years? I sure haven't, not on a regular basis. I see one maybe twice a year, and it's the same old zombie strips that were old when I was a kid, printed at about half the size they used to run. The syndicates are dying because they're tied to the newspapers.

Winning any "talent search" put on by the syndicates, if Dana's experience is any guide, is a monkey's paw kind of win.

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I would be all for Kurtz putting his money where his mouth is and starting a post-newspaper comics syndicate. IMHO there are three things the syndicates did in the old days:

1. They got your comics distributed by making them available to the newspapers. Nowadays? Wordpress + Comicpress = RSS feed for your comics. Stick it in your feed-reader and bam, there you go. Obsolete.

1.5 Of course you still need to find a way to get new readers, now that "selling your strip to the editors of newspapers" is dead. Project Wonderful works pretty damn well - it's an ad network that's very easy to buy space on, reaches a lot of people who are already INTERESTED in reading comics (most of the ad space available on PW is on comics sites), and can be pretty cheap. I got a heck of a lot of clickthroughs for just a couple bucks when I recently bought a campaign there for my webcomic. And these were people who read the entire archive.

2. They managed making the merch happen. Talked to toy companies, mug-makers, book-printers, etc. Nowadays? Well, you can DIY a lot easier, but honestly that takes time away from the real work of drawing the comic. Better to get in touch with someone like Topatoco. (Whose bar for entry is basically 'have a similar reach to a syndicated comic in the glory days of the newspapers'.)

3. They deal with TV and movie licensing. This is the big one that nobody's really duplicated on the web yet - "dying" though they they may be, TV and movie studios still have a lot of reach, and a lot of money floating around to advertise the hell out of the adaptations that happen. I know Kurtz has dabbled with web animated series, but animation costs an insane amount of money, even when you do tons of cheats.
And how much time do they spend on the more plausible ones? You sound like you know this.
I recently started reading now algebra book with a goal of understanding the Galois theoretical proof of his understanding unsolvability of the Quintic. This is generally considered the capstone of a complete 2-semester undergraduate study of algebra for a math major who is not pursuing graduate level pure math.

The interesting part IMO is the analysis of those normal subgroup chains and understanding the isomorphism to splitting fields.

Definitions and theorems without proofs or examples or illustrations is like the box without the gift inside. That post built up a pile of terminology but then ended before showing any content. It shows where to look out find the solutions at least.
I cant help but think that there are a lot of other personal grudges at play here instead of just an honest discussion about iPhone 4S vs Galaxy Nexus
Tis the season for peace on Earth, or at least some good sportsmanship.

If they hacked it as described, the engineers who pulled it off deserve our congratulations on a hack well played.

If it's all some elaborate ruse for the sake of internal PR, well, good to know those exist outside the U.S. also. :)
Don't think so. I use a fair number of web apps and can't think of a single one that I wouldn't prefer to have a well designed desktop version of. Gmail, google reader, google calendar, twitter etc I use desktop apps.
Ha! All those people who don't understand this are ignorant fools!
Actually you got autobanned for including a link to a site that spammers had been promoting in comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3350300

Someone just sent me an email pointing out your account had been banned, presumably by mistake, and I just unbanned it. Sorry about that.
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Yeah, but it's always couched in some sort of snark. Yesterday, he posted something offhand about wondering how many people were going to line up for the Nexus release, clearly worded in a way intended to mean "we all know it will be none". So today, people sent him images of lines outside a Verizon store, and his one line reply (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/12/15/galaxy-nexus) was, "Quite chivalrous of them to let all the women in first", which again, is intended to be read as, "look at all the nerdy guys".

Now do a google image search for "iPhone 4S lines" -- just pick the first few hits (here's the first one: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2011/10/iphone-4s-lines.html) -- and count the ratio of men and women. I'll save you the trouble and tell you up front there are a lot of men in those lines. But Gruber literally wouldn't think of commenting on that, because to him, people line up for the iPhone because it's wonderful, and they line for an Android phone because they're abnormal in some way, and that's simply how he processes the information. Whether or not its a conscious strategy is mostly irrelevant to me as the reader: if my choices are dishonest or incompetent, I'm going to look elsewhere. Which is a shame because he's a good writer.
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Blog post somewhere that shares the tale? I've had a little side project that I did a few strips for but then never posted because I figured I'd have to be willing to dedicate way more time than it would be worth to build an audience. Sounds like you may have "cracked the nut"?