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But, you see, it's not an opinion.

"Still seems true to me today."

Seems true? Is it true, or is it not true? The claims levied in that review are as follows:

1) The iPad is not a transformative device

2) It won't turn all the content industries upside down

3) It won't be your primary computer

4) It's not even a bigger, better iPhone

I'm not sure how anyone could claim that the iPad is not a transformative device with a straight face. Name a single tablet I can think of sold even one quarter the number of devices. Plenty of similar devices came before the iPad, but none of them were the iPad, and none of them were accepted by consumers. That's transformative.

The upheaval in item 2 was already well under way when the iPad showed up, so I imagine this is somewhat provable. The iPad hasn't turned "all content industries" (a high bar, btw) up-end. However, we're not long in to the race at this point. Plenty of media companies are producing content for the iPad, and Apple is continuing to collect their vig, which many said would not stand the test of time.

Item 3 isn't true for the majority, but Apple never intended the iPad to be your primary computer. The graphic they used at the original iPad presentation showed the iPad right between an iPhone and a MacBook; not displacing them. This is like saying, "The Mini Cooper won't haul a palette of sod." Well no kidding?

Item 4 is similar nonsense. The iPad isn't a phone. It's not intended to fit in your pocket. It has its own set of applications. It's not a bigger, better iPhone. It was never meant to be.
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@dissident: He doesn't sound like he's joking when he talks about this situation placing us in danger. If he's kidding, the presentation is quite poor and he needs to make that clearer. If this video is essentially a persuasive argument that he clearly hopes will turn the tide against these scanners, preposterously subtle sarcasm is one tool he can leave in the toolbox.
Well more than that CulturalNgineer, if you do this in multiple locations thanks the congestion caused by the TSA you can get similiar death counts as the original attacks. Atleast low thousands.
I've seen some of those before. I always get the same impression. Somehow the drawings are more Starwars-like than Starwars.
Not only were they drawn prior to the movie, most of them (in the case of the first Star Wars) were drawn to help Lucas sell the movie to studio executives.
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I'm working on my very first Android application; and, I've been considering talking through the different parts of my design; and how and where my code is growing organically to support the different ideas that I have.

Since I'd basically be explaining every feature and design decision I make from here on out, this leads me to a question. Would I lose sales from my application? I'm very interested in selling it.

It's an active wallpaper that plays the Game of Life. I know the market already has one, but I was going to be adding more features to it that would make it more interesting and perhaps a good wallpaper.
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Allow me to contribute exactly as much to the conversation as you have: The iPad 2 is my aunt's first and only computing device.

When you don't say anything, chastising others for not saying anything is pretty hypocritical, don't you think?
It's good to remember Jeff Raskin's theorem "intuitive = familiar". If you come from the C++ world, Objective-C is going to look weird. If you come from the Smalltalk world, not all that weird.

Also, syntax is the worst place to start learning Objective-C imho 'cos there can be a lot of it to learn if you come from a non-smalltalk world. The best place I've found is to dive straight into the core runtime function objc_msgSend. Once you grok that, and see that you could write down the core runtime in a handful of C functions in an hour or so, everything else -- classes, categories, protocols, delayed invocation, remote invocation, proxies, posing, key-value coding -- finds a "natural" slot in your brain. As a bonus, as you get to the more "advanced" features unique to the system (relative to, say, C++) such as key-value coding, you see how the dynamism of the language plays to support all of that. (Disclaimer: Yes, this is how I got it, but I don't know whether it is generally good way to approach it, though I'd recommend it. Maybe I should write a tutorial on it.)

If you start by looking at the syntax and going "ugh", you'll be missing all the neat ideas in the system ... including, imo, the older memory management system that many complain about. I've, for example, used the "auto release pool" idea in C++ to relieve colleagues of the need to think about ownership and lifetime in relatively isolated corners of a system while considerably simplify api design and staying performant. If you're looking for "predictable performant garbage collection", this is a reasonable design candidate.
This will not happen, and it is a poor avenue for "disruption".

There are plenty of good lawyers from middle tier firms, solo outfits, and boutique (i.e., specialty) firms. These practitioners already service the vast majority of people needing legal assistance (including small-to-medium businesses).

Corporations choose BigLaw not because they're the best (boutiques and specialized mid-tier firms generally produce higher-quality results in any given area of law), but because BigLaw firms have the resources and capabilities to handle anything that a large corporation can throw at them. When you're dealing with dozens or hundreds of litigation cases across the country in a dozen or more areas of the law, you go with a BigLaw firm b/c that one firm can handle all of your legal matters, reducing complexity and cost.
Google does have reference designs; if you use the same chips as the latest Nexus then you don't have to do any porting to get the latest Android release. This was especially apparent with Honeycomb where all the tablets used Tegra 2 (despite its tablet-unfriendly low fill rate). But unlike Microsoft's "chassis" concept, Google won't force anyone. It is open source after all. Also, Google likes to rotate their favor among all the chip and phone vendors, using a different vendor for each generation. Phone makers who are loyal to one SoC line find themselves advantaged with one release but disadvantaged with the next. As much as Android would benefit from Microsoft/Apple-style tighter control, Google seems philosophically opposed to it.
Fans of the platform seem to hammer on about market share an awful lot.

Stockholm Syndrome?

I really cannot fathom why a consumer, assuming they have no stock in the platform outside their own purchase should be so concerned about something as trivial as market share.

Were the platform in danger of disappearing due to low market share (WebOS) I'd understand that but puffing up your chest because the OS on your smartphone has the best market share seems very strange to me. It's really not a feature of the device.
The usual response is that the volume is different from an airport like LAX.
I think it goes beyond that. It is harder to write a review when you cannot just write one paragraph about each line of the tech specs. Writing about how the new design works is harder and requires some thought. The standard cookie cutter PC review doesn't work.

I wish I still had the link, but I remember a review for a Dell laptop that was a poor cut-and-paste job of the HP they reviewed a week before. They missed some pastes.
You know what; education is changing.

Khan Academy is only getting stronger, MIT, Stanford and others are offering free courses online.

There seems to be an opportunity here for a "startup business college" -- a service which you attend, and maybe pay a MUCH smaller fee which would cover the curation, organization and guidance/tutorship/mentorship through the amazing resources available.

I am not sure I agree 100% with "skip college, start a company" -- but "seek out and devour all the amazing free teachings from stellar sources".
There's also the ones that actually have morality and integrity and thus find honor in serving one's country.

This doesn't mean that everything the Government does is beneficial to society, but people seem to forget that many government employees have good intentions.
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The only relationship between the version of the OS and fragmentation is that a new OS rev usually introduces an additional API level. So if you write an app to API level 15 (4.0 IIRC) that will be available and work on subsequent revs.
He's not calling everyone who buys a samsung device "unsuspecting public". He's specifically referring to those who wouldn't mind buying a 2.2 phone when 2.3 and 4.0 are out.
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AFAIK, iPad doesn't support Hindi for its UI. And for PC, it was hard for us to explain the concept of 'mouse' to my mom. It is not intuitive to her why moving this thing on desk, moves an arrow on computer. The whole notion of 'Start','Programs', 'Window' is very difficult to explain to someone who has never used computer in their life. Yes, she could learn it if someone spends a lot of time. But why should she need to spend a lot of time when she doesn't need to?
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You mean like Lexis, Westlaw, LoisLaw, LegalZoom, and RocketLawyer have been doing for the past decade or so?

The problem is that at some point, you're paying a premium for a lawyer's skill in knowing what to do and for taking on the risk of being wrong, since you can sue the lawyer for malpractice if they fuck up.

Think of it like programmers: with all that open source code out there and all those GUIs, programmer's rates should be going down. Instead they're going up (at least for the good-to-great programmers): once the market has corrected for reduced costs, it readjusts upwards to correct for increased competition for talent.
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The irony is that BigLaw was the disruption -- the standard legal model until the 1960s was to have small, local firms. What we think of today as mid-tier firms would have been considered behemoths in those days.
The TSA _are_ deterring crimes. Drug related crimes (possession) has gone up substantially at airports, and there are known cases of credit card fraud, animal smuggling and child porn being found while searching belongings of travelers.

Whether or not you think that the TSA should be involved in anything past securing the ability for persons to travel is the question.
Chances are any one or two syllable word means something bad in some language. Wonder if a search can be built that given a word will try to detect if is sounds like or means something derogatory in all the known languages.

There are plenty of examples from history where products had to be renamed when localized for a region because of unexpected meaning. One recent such naming fiasco is Nigaz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigaz). You'd think someone would do some checks before naming a $2.5B venture...
As with coding sweatshops, the outsourced legal sweatshops really are an example of getting even less than you paid for.
Yes, but you don't see anyone referring to HTC phones as 'forks'.
I cannot speak to the CIA training but I've received some concealed weapon scenario training mostly developed from lessons learned at penitentiaries. It is a terrible thing to be impressed by but inmate ingenuity staggers the mind. You've likely had several items in your carry on that could do much worse than the pen to eye (which I don't think would be fatal). In the attack tree, a shiv smuggled past the checkpoint would need to have the potential to coerce the cockpit before it would factor in to a risk matrix for the plane.

I served in Special Forces before and after 9/11. The 'security theater' points that many of you make are valid. I don't, however, believe the reactionary measures were to calm the fears of the American people. The severe restriction placed on travelers is similar to a trend of restrictions placed upon soldiers following 9/11. The reaction is CYA for senior leadership/command.

Accountability became a tremendous focus following the early campaigns following 9/11. A single casualty was regarded as a devastating loss. Clearing buildings early in the bloodshed of Iraq taught many commanders that the peacetime tactics largely learned from SWAT were not as effective in combat. The procedure was too slow for such a dynamic and hostile environment. Too many soldiers died because the common procedure for clearing a building broke down in structures of irregular layout and in cities crawling with hostiles. Before commanders and NCOs were prepared to blame the procedures, however, they were taking accountability for the loss.

An after action review (AAR) follows every mission and leaders are encouraged to highlight their mistakes before someone else must do it for them. An atmosphere of blame settled in while civilians back CONUS were tiring of the involvement. Casualties were frequent enough that many ODAs had suffered through a few. For most, it was their first time facing a grieving widow with a young child hugging her leg. Those stories, coupled with the blame, changed the landscape of command. CONOPS that were once routinely approved were rejected for increasingly vague reasons. Ultimately, the tone was that the risk was too great compared with the operational gain- almost like the soldier was too valuable to put in harm's way. But we signed up for that. The truth, I suspect, was that the appetite for risk taking at the senior levels was shrinking. If an ODA lost a man, the mission's CONOP would be scrutinized for evidence that all of the risks were accounted for, that the courses of action reflected sound decision making when assuming risk, that the operational gain justified the risk, and that good faith efforts were made to mitigate perceived risks. The AAR became a trial. While I was working through these challenges during deployments, I believe something similar was happening with security measures and leadership back home.

Creating an illusion of safety seems less likely the hope than creating an exemption from accountability. Negligence would be too likely the charge if tight restrictions were not put in place.
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Why? Because I'm liable for malpractice if I get it wrong. Unless I'm willing to religiously follow the legal developments of X other nations, I would not be willing to take the risk of the law having changed since I last check it. And if I were the kind of person anal enough to follow legal developments in other countries, my skills would be in such demand that only megacorporations could afford my services.
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> A primary issue is women being prescribed contraceptives for medical conditions other than preventing pregnancy.

A "primary issue"? No. Most contraceptives are used for preventing pregnancy.

However, the "other conditions" case IS covered, and this wasn't about that.

> The particular one that works for that use is prescribed, which most certainly can be 1000USD/year.

The question is never "how much can you get someone to pay" but "how little can be paid".

Walmart sells multiple varieties, so citation needed that $1k/year is at all reasonable.
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I love Pandora, I use it a lot - but I don't pay for it. :(

I hope they do well - but this is a service I don't have a budget for, even though they are one of my favorite startups.
> While I don't consider missed optimisations bugs as such, they are easy to find. Simply compile some non-trivial function and look at the output.

Perhaps you'll give me a little credit :) if I mention that I found missed optimization bugs in extremely trivial functions. One of them involved gcc generating several completely useless stores even at -O3: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44194
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Chrome is a beta released three weeks ago. And while I like it, it's a long way from being production quality. Are there any other examples of ICS-only software? Anywhere? Really the only serious bump in the Android API has been Froyo. There are lots of apps that require Froyo. Honestly I can't think of a single one (other than trial stuff like Chrome or niche things like handset-specific root tools, etc...) that requires even Gingerbread, much less ICS.
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Claiming that Klout is "meaningless" is a misleading way to convey his point. The author really means to say that measuring influence in more than one area would be better in some situations than a single score. However, given that a large number of people use Klout, and some people get free stuff just for using Klout, it certainly has meaning.

While knowing the horsepower, dimensions, top speed, and durability of a car would certainly be better for some people than a simple "car score", that "car score" might in fact be useful to a large number of people.
Since I know that I'm going to get sick at some point, just as I know that my car is going to need repair, I do my shopping in advance.

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Has the iPad really turned many industries upside down? Has it replaced desktops or laptops? Has it become essential for any particular task?

It's a device, that is fun, and has its value. It's a successful product, no question about that.

I know a few people who have one, though they don't actually see much use. There are a few niches for which it's particularly useful, but they are still niches. Most of the value seems to be novelty value, which will wear off soon enough.

I've seen a few people try to use iPads and other tablets as a regular device. I've seen iPads at conferences; they wind up being a lot more of a pain to type on than a laptop. A coworker tried an Asus Transformer for a while instead of a laptop; he wound up giving up and buying a MacBook Air. Most people I know who have iPads wind up leaving them sitting around the living room, and when guests are over, they might pick it up, poke at it for a bit as a novelty, and then forget about it.

It reminds me a bit of back when Microsoft was pushing its Windows XP tablet software. They had the convertible laptops with the swivel displays, that you could use a stylus on. I knew a few people who really liked those. There were definitely some uses for them; for instance, when taking notes in class, you could use it to draw diagrams. But they never really caught on; they didn't revolutionize the industry. They wound up being a niche product.

Now, almost everyone I know who's into technology has a smartphone. Those really are revolutionary. You have access to the phone network, the internet, GPS, applications, a phone and video camera, media, and so on from wherever you go. The amount that a smartphone allows you to do, that was just science fiction 20 years ago, is staggering.

Tablets, on the other hand, are in an awkward space. They are bulky enough that you have to think about carrying them around, just like a laptop. You can't do much in the way of real work on them. They don't have a keyboard, so they're clumsy for text input. They're good for consuming media, with light touch based interaction, and lightweight games, but they're not really all that compelling for video, for music you want a smaller and more portable form factor, and for text ebook readers have a lot of advantages (I certainly see more ebook readers on the train than I do tablets).

There are certainly people who get plenty of value out of the iPad. It is a successful product, and has really given life to what seemed before to be a pretty much dead category. But as the grandparent said, it's not a "transformational device."
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If there exists a system of rating a lawyer's performance (e.g., distill their success rate to a %), then comparisons can be made between lawyers even if the layman don't understand the law.
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Handset vendors and carriers push security patches routinely (though not commonly, the sandbox architecture makes it a lot less needed than on a desktop OS). It's OS upgrades that are slow. Holes get closed.
There is no standard for this. Beyond that, why would you want to be standard - the point of an interview is to come across as exception. Figure out each individual person, and send as many as you can remember/find/track a hand-written, mailed thank you letter.

The whole point of the post-interview thank you is to be remembered, so if your tactic isn't memorable it isn't worth doing.
Hindi is a supported language

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