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The one problem I have with eBooks is the lack of transferability that is inherent with print books. I've read a number of books I'd love to lend to my friends, but because I bought the kindle copy I cannot do that.

With a physical book the only hoop I have to jump through is meeting up with them and giving them the book. I've done this a number of times through university with textbooks and it saved me and several colleagues hundreds of dollars.
I agree about Dr. Carter. It's by far the best song on that album. It's got such a great feel to it.
> whether he still uses it or not is of very minor importance to MS next to whether or not he pays for it.

What's more important than whether he pays for it is whether everybody else will still pay for it.

If everyone around you use Windows, you probably have to still use Windows in order to be able to collaborate with them. And you don't even have to think about open standard.

The more people around you use other OS, the more you are likely to think about using platform-independent technology. Then the more likely you are to be able to move to other platform since there are less and less fraction of people holding you on Windows.

The author using Windows gives everyone around him the inertia of moving to other platform. He is part of the reason why most people knows how to use only Windows.

And then when big company wants to buy a platform they will chose Windows because most people use it. And big company will pay. And big company will buy more expensive software and extra support.
Yeah! Lets all just accept that the same old crew keeps getting elected, and instead complain and ineffectively "protest" the things we don't like (but keep happening anyway) instead. We should stop everyone who thinks about actually trying to effect a change, telling them to instead stop aspiring. Just like we do with startups (given that most fail and whatnot)!

Or maybe, we could look at the fact that Reddit has become something of a social powerhouse, having wide reaching impact on the world pretty regularly. We can try to help out, maybe break down the traditional barriers to election, and actually do what the internet has been promising for years: to reduce the entrenched BS surrounding everything.
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I agree on software : alternative exists and the real way to say "fuck off" is to use the corresponding free software alternative or to develop it. This is true to the extent where Microsoft plays the rules of competition and IT correctly. If a government or a provider gives me a document in a format that Microsoft does not publish, they are effectively trying to make competition impossible and I feel entitled to pirate their software.

On music, I could not disagree more : there is a lack of a solution to pay artists directly. 90% of the artists I know today, I know from friends or web radio. I would like to repay them directly. I have no way of doing that. The alternative is just not there. Some artists accept direct donations but majors try to prevent that. This anti-competitive behavior makes it totally OK in my opinion to pirate music.

Oh, and don't tell me I am rationalising. I stopped being part of this game several years ago. I don't buy music, I don't download tunes (unless it is authorised by the band like Partition 36). I decided this whole show was stupid when I got my first DRMed CD and that I didn't want to fight on it or break any law. Nowadays the situation is such that this conflict can't be ignored anymore. "Piracy" is used as a pretext to put forward net filtering, restrictive laws, and tools of censorship.

I don't give a fuck about music and musicians. I can do without. I respect them and they deserve a pay, but the current system is completely FUBAR and its insanity is creeping in other domains. It should be stopped before it is too late.
Is there a chance he was a spy? I ask because there are other Iranians who have been arrested (and sentenced to death) for espionage when visiting Iran from overseas.
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This has little to do with religion and more to do with power. There are secular regimes that have done equivalent (or worse).
That's not the only thing they're doing...

http://nerdr.com/quora-needs-to-die/

Seems they're going down the annoying search visitors by hiding information route (similar to what expertsexchange was riled on for, although not quite as bad yet).
Most laptops have a way to use the numpad equivalent by holding down the function key, though I don't have a laptop in front of my to verify that it will still bypass the screen locker with the command.
Is it the religion itself though, or is it about tying the law execution and religion?
I think Apple has the potential to change the way we handle information in both schools and hospitals (and of course private practices). Both of these are usually still using outdated Hardware/Software from ~2000 so they will have to be replaced in the near future.

I just don't know if it's good for a school to buy into a closed environment, like the one Apple provides.
I don't have a Kindle Fire, but I imagine it isn't very useful for textbooks. Thinking back to my school days, textbooks were huge and closer to the size of an iPad than to a Fire. The Fire's screen is great for blocks of text, but it's way too small to clearly display charts and tables.
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You can't keep a movie on your hard drive and watch it too? Are you sure?
By downloading the product you're telling the company you want their offerings but are too lazy or greedy or whatever.

In most cases it says, "I want your content, but you are failing to provide it to me."

Look at Napster. People used it not because it was free, it was because there was no other choice. Once the music industry finally got around to approving iTunes, it became a huge and successful business for not only Apple, but the music industry too. If iTunes was available from day one, Napster would have never rose to fame.

Now look at the movie industry. I know of a lot of people who happily pay for Netflix and pirate content that is not on Netflix. If that content was on Netflix in the first place, the content owner would have received their money no questions asked.

There are some pirates who are plain cheap. But in most cases, it is just a power struggle. If you do not respect others, they will not respect you.
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and have X.Org 1.10.4; the vulnerability only exists from 1.10.99.902
>the abolition of the death penalty - a policy which most Britons still oppose.

I don't think this is entirely accurate. If by "most Britons" you mean "most Daily Mail readers" then maybe...
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Probably by trying to do something like Ctrl+Alt+F1, or Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, or similar stuff, and hitting the wrong key.

Or, by holding Ctrl+Alt and trying out all keys, out of pure curiosity.
> this person needs software that is Windows-only

Frankly, when I first migrated I spent a long time making Wine to work properly with various pieces of software, and I finally never actually used it because there are alternatives to about everything. Maybe they're not always as good as their counterparts, but in the end they get the job done. I've shared word documents with OpenOffice, I've drawn billboards and websites with Inkscape and GIMP, and it's good enough.
I love Apple, but the Kindle is so much better as a reader. It can't play Angry Birds, and the slow refresh rate makes it harder to flick back and forwards, forcing you to focus.
If you look at the linked post, the vulnerability was introduced in 1.10.99.902, any earlier versions of X.Org are not affected.
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Writing a paper would be an enormous pain. Typing text is fine, but editing is frustrating. Selecting text with your finger is imprecise, pasting is finicky, and jumping around a document quickly is pretty tough.
Cool, appreciate the follow up. We'll take that back to the designers and see what they can conjure up.
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I'm not sure the need to re-sell a 15 dollar eBook.

Damaging the iPad is a concern, so is theft. But there are too many scenarios there to analyze the economics of each. For instance, say an iPad + eBooks replaces a laptop with textbooks, the iPad is cheaper to replace than a laptop. What if you lose your book bag full of 5 new 80 dollar text books, then it's a wash. The cost of 8 semesters worth of textbooks might be more expensive than the cost of 3 499 iPads + eBooks. So forth.

Textbooks + iPad versions. More of a problem in college than high school where the schools often have long term contracts with the publishers.

All in all, it seems like a step in the right direction. Also, one can imagine that Apple is going to keep the iPad 2 on the market at a reduced cost when the iPad 3 comes out, similarly to what they've done with the iPhone. So over time it'll become even more cost effective.
Well, congresspeople can admit to "not understanding the law", but that is just bollocks. You really believe highly educated guys in Washington, with a lot of lawyers among them for good measure, don't understand a law and it's consequences?

It's not about them not understanding some obscure technical details of how the internet works. It's about what the intent and spirit of the law is, and that they understand all too well.

"You're not willing to die for Reddit", you say. Irony aside, is that what internet freedom and SOPA amount to you, the closing (or not) of Reddit?
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This, IMO, is one of the real problems with both Amazon and B&N branding their LCD tablet devices under the same brand as their eInk ones.

People don't seem to "get" it. The Fire/Tablet is more expensive, and so, must be the "best". If all you want to do is read, the LCD devices are actually worse in both readability and battery life. But I don't see either manufacturer doing a great job at explaining that.
I guess we became too spoiled with the freemium model for that to work.
The problem I have is reaching the audience with my project since I come from Slovenia I can't get it out of Slovenia - to the world.
So the web app store as sort of a fair would be nice, but the problem is that it'd become overcrowded in a sec.
So you just have to hustle :)
I agree with this.

iPad 3 499

iPad 2 399

Refurbed iPad 1 $99-$299
For reading a new book, the physical form can be replaced by e-reader without problem.

But just in case, if you reread a book 20 years later. You may found the margin notes you left 20 years ago "romantic". Of course probably most books don't deserve reread every 20 years.

I don't have any notes that I kept on computer 20 years ago, they are either lost in disk crash or server meltdown. I still have some note books from then.
"We use a really excellent async library"

Does anyone happen to know if this is an open source or in house library?
Our pricing page is yet to come, but to answer the question:

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Yes, there are fewer requests that way, but the cost is an increase in the total data size. Using a single sprite sheet for all the images would probably be faster in most cases. However, there is the matter of convenience (it's nice being able to have just a single file with no dependencies).
With printed books:

1) You easily lend them out to anybody at all.
2) You can save a ton of money by purchasing used books.
3) Once you buy it, the store you bought it from can't just delete it from your bookshelf like Amazon has done in the past and I'm sure Apple will do in the future.
He isn't necessarily saying that the yellow ones are the ones to target, just that they're easiest to boycott. I am boycotting all of them right now, for instance, purely coincidentally, since I don't buy makeup or watch sports on TV.
Perhaps iBooks 2 is a continuing step towards the bringing the fictional Young Lady's Illustrated Primer of Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" towards reality.

The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is an adaptive AI tutor. To realize TYLIP, hard AI problems will need to be solved. Yet, it is possible the iPad 3/iBooks 2 is a step towards a simpler Primer.

"TYLIP is...a book that is powered by a computer so advanced it’s almost magical, and it teaches children everything. It does this through a fully interactive story. It teaches you how to read, how to do maths, it teaches you morals, ethics, even self-defense."

http://mssv.net/2006/05/01/the-young-ladys-illustrated-prime...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cU8NFy0sa_Y/TuWAj8ZBMVI/AAAAAAAABl...
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Here is the commit. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=7d2543a3...
Being a "bad country" is not relative.

Denial of due process is an abomination of human rights, regardless of the number of countries committing it.
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Just tried it on Ubuntu 11.10. Did not work.
It's open-source: https://github.com/caolan/async
In landscape mode it should be able to fit a decent sized chart or table on screen.
Thanks for the comment and link but, out of curiosity, why not?
it's called creative destruction.
Are you one of the speculated pro-Iran bots sent to communities like ours who try to subvert public opinion on that backwards country?
The action was "bottom-up", not top down. Pressure came from users, not (solely, principally?) from sites' management. This has been totally mis-represented in the "mainstream media".

Here's a comment I submitted to some friends after seeing and hearing some of the "mainstream" broadcast press coverage, last night:

Caught some of the "mainstream media" reporting on the SOPA/PIPA blackout (including public radio and TV). Universally terrible. Minimally reported, with most of the language making it sound as if the sites are supporting piracy. They aren't defending piracy; they're opposing horribly formulated legislation that lends itself to abuse and censorship, places enormous legal and management burdens on them, and undermines the technical infrastructure and attendant security of the Internet.

(And, to boot, cogent analysis makes good arguments that the legislation won't even accomplish what it ostensibly sets out to do.)

Finally, I'd say that the "tech community" has been seeking dialog and participation. They've found a cold-shoulder. In the face of this -- being ignored and disrespected -- escalation to the "blackout" protest became their one avenue to attempting to gain a seat at the table.

Also, if there's any investigative journalism left at ABC and the like, they should spend some time really looking into the financial claims and mis-representations that have been made.

Tim O'Reilly is owner/CEO of a major publishing house that has a different perspective. He's eloquent and quite tied into the "progressive" technical community. They should talk to him (if they can reach a format he's comfortable with, e.g. not editing his words into a mis-representation -- that's my take on what the mainstream media often do, these days).
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Even if Google could determine which businesses, products, and services were 'best', it wouldn't matter to spammers. Presumably most of the participants in Blackhat SEO don't offer the 'best'. The driving motive is that they want their stuff to appear in people's search results, not some altruistic goal of providing people access to their high quality offerings.
In short:

"In my day, our protest marches were up hill, both ways!"
I meant to link that. Now it's linked in the post, and it's here: https://github.com/caolan/async
When I saw the front page of Grovo, I wondered why the Grovo logo was linking to Dropbox. They're a bit similar, no?
Don't most schools already buy into Microsoft's closed environment?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Apple actively manufactures or sells the first generation iPad.
You can do it on regular laptop keyboard too..

Usually the "numpad" is available via "Fn" key - so make sure that Num lock is on and press `Ctrl+Alt+Fn+*`
I don't understand the point of this comment. Can you elaborate?
Half were gifts. This is a crossover device, at least in grandma's opinion, and she chose it over other pads. Even if its worse than a 'real Kindle', the point is the Fire got a sale that probably would have been lost to a nook etc.
I think they weren't strictly talking about digital formats. From vinyl to cassette to CD to 128kbps MP3 isn't a strictly increasing curve in terms of quality, though one could argue that in terms of convenience the formats did improve.
Funny story, I found this particular lib the same day as Daniel wrote some code that was an exact drop-in replacement for its 'parallel' function. So he says 'Yes, let's use that one, as I understand and approve of its approach.'
Our bookkeeper and accountant both run that in a VM.

Adobe will cross-license Mac Photoshop for you. Have to talk to a person, deactivate PS, and fill out a destruction form.
Love this challenge! Just wish I could pass one...
I can testify to that. When I worked in SFUSD they had just adopted a new Algebra 1 text book that was probably four times as big as the books in our days. The book was full of random full-page images of things like giraffes. I remember telling my students to be careful with the books as the replacement cost was listed at $120.
However, as much as I see the current textbook industry as predatory racketeering that needs to go, I also oppose IPADs in schools and consistently advise schools against purchasing them. As far as k-12 education goes, netbooks are vastly superior technologies at a fraction of the cost.
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As users we should, wherever possible, purchase media from the easier, safer and more reliable LEGITIMATE sources, and carry on pirating wherever the opposite is true ("locked down" content such as DRM, rootkits, cumbersome convoluted registrations and ages-long anti-piracy messages on legal media!)

To put it another way, it seems we need a "carrot" (legally purchasing) approach to the 'good guys' creators/developers and "stick" (illegally downloading) approach to the arseholes who put rootkits on music CD's etc.

...thats my humble opinion anyway
It doesn't work for keyboard access in the sense that you don't insert the redirect, but at least the link still takes them to the right place.

Seems like the original link following the `url=` should be processed by encodeURIComponent or else any original urls with chars like ""&" will break.
Shouldn't he check the divisibility by both 3 AND 5 first?
Good point. Done. We'll link it now.
Sorry if this is rubbing salt in a wound... but, that protest really didn't have any effect. Did it? I agree with Maddox here that both protests (while impressively sizable and passionate) were equally ineffective.
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argh - hackers/founders and tridug tonight - not sure which I can make it too. is there a place to meet up afterwards?
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You're correct. Edited.
I'm going through a similar transition right now. I just left academic neurobiology (MIT) for freelance web development. I don't have any advice since I'm still in the thick of it myself, but feel free to send me an email if you want to touch base and keep in contact.

Email is in my profile. I'll be periodically updating my blog with "life on the outside" type posts too.

As an aside, I'm a strong believer in micropreneurial projects as espoused by Rob Walling. One of his big points is deciding if you want to be a web entrepeneur, or a web developer. If you want to be an entrepeneur, it may be a better use of time/money to outsource development instead of taking the time to learn coding yourself.

With all that said, I absolutely adore programming itself. But not everyone does, and if your ultimate goal isn't to write code as a living, it may be better to sidestep that part of the process.
For reference, I was talking about the Dr. Carter song as some people below mentioned.

I get sampling, and there is no doubt that Swizz (or the people he works with) has a great ear for samples. I still think there is a big difference between the effort put in the Dr. Carter beat and the Dead Presidents beat--he didn't even layer drums on top, just chopped the original song. The Dr. Carter beat works perfectly, so I'm not hating!
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No it's not. The person you're replying to didn't say why he mourned the death of physical publishing, he just said that he mourned it.

Paper books come along with a certain amount of convenience and freedom. Digital books, while convenient in some ways, are inconvenient in other ways (like DRM). So, I really don't think that his statement must be sentimental.
Oh, IOPs, absolutely. Throughput, though, not so much.
They don't manufacture them anymore, but they do sell leftover stock as refurbs (http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/ipad). The only first generation model they currently have is a 64 GB WiFi going for $499, or $200 off of original retail.

I don't see them firing up iPad 1 production in order to hit the $299 price point, but I can see them keeping the iPad 2 around at $299 when the iPad 4 hits, similar to the current 3GS/4/4S phone lineup. The economies of scale of extending a year-long manufacturing cycle to three years is too great to be ignored and it gives Apple the added benefit of being able to hit lower prices without sacrificing the quality of their product.
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Project managers say "no"?
And this is the reason that I as a Mac fanboi still don't have an iPad. However, I have no trouble reading the Kindle on my iPhone when I forget my real Kindle, leading me to believe I'm going to enjoy reading on an iPad 3, a lot, especially NYT and The Economist, which suck on Kindles.
For some reason, I read 'Android' when I scanned this headline. But since Android is a linux variant, would this be possible? My phone doesn't have a physical keyboard, but maybe the Asus Transformer with the attachable keyboard, for example?
Um, that was in the fall?

I have a hard time understanding his problems anyway. I have no trouble getting programmers to write for me. I wave money at them; they respond.
We, the human race, made up property. And we made up intellectual property. So if you want to argue to me about morality and legality, save it. Those aren't arguments, those are superstitions and/or conventions.

Tell me why a convention should be observed. If content creators don't get paid, perhaps less content will get generated. Perhaps there will be legal consequences like getting sued by the MPAA or RIAA.

But, again, give me actual reasons, not superstition and/or convention.
I think this is the best write-up I've seen of a full Javascript/CoffeeScript stack.

I've always been hesitant to get too far away from my LAPP(ython) stack, but I'll almost certainly be hacking something together with these components to see how I like writing everything in CoffeeScript.
Yes I remember that massive worldwide protest against the impending invasion of Iraq. But the US was still able to get 20+ countries to go with them into war. Based on the "get off your ass and actually do something" theory of the OP, why didn't this have any effect?