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Indeed, this is huge. Passbook seems like prime commercial real-estate on iDevices.
iPad 1 does have a microphone.

The processor has to wavelet compress the audio and ship it off to Siri for processing. Apple might not be happy with the performance on the original iPad.

I recall that someone got it running on a jailbroken device. I don't remember how well it worked.
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That's quite the market analysis. What "school market" are you referring to?

I've worked with a K-12 book publisher since 2001, so I've spent a lot of time understanding what kind of devices they need to support. The vast majority of schools switched to Windows PCs ages ago. Those that still use Macs don't use MacBook Pros; they use aging eMacs or iMacs (mostly private schools).
Look at the iPad.

Tablets never took off before Apple did it right, with a similar look and feel as other apple products.

It's all about the experience.
>I would think it'd be far better to take the middle 80% of Americans and find an average wealth value (lop off the top 10% and bottom 10%). That would give you a perspective on how most of the nation is doing, especially since the very top radically skews the data upward.

How does the enormous wealth of the top 1% skew the median wealth upwards or downwards? I think you might be confusing median with average.
When I'm doing armchair economic analysis I use the 2% growth rate as its one that pretty much everyone agrees is the 'floor' of all estimates. So if you read my comment and did the math, and 15 to 20 years from now looked at your house value, you may find I exactly called it, but you may find that it was a bit under as the economy grew better than that. The chance that you would see lower than 2% growth is small (but non-zero!). There was a time (pre-2000 btw) when I would use the more optimistic numbers when planning ahead :-)
The Affero license sounds closer to what you want. It doesn't stop someone from using the code internally without releasing improvements, but it does stop a company from building a network-based product on top of your code without releasing their improvements.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

Beyond that, though, it sounds like what you want is actually a bunch of mandatory process bureaucracy. You seem to want everyone to be required to contribute to the original repository, but that's a maintenance nightmare. This would pretty much prohibit forks (pushing changes upstream from a heavily modified fork is non-trivial), and add senseless work to lots of derivatives (e.g. some project B uses a tiny piece from A, but now has to attempt to send all changes upstream, no matter how irrelevant).
A house that was purchased with $250k of debt, that is now only worth $150k, has cost the buyer $100k, for nothing. That is $100k of lost wealth to the buyer. The buyer purchased $250k worth of house, using future earnings, and now only owns $150k worth of house (but still owes $250k of future earnings). That is a devastating economic blow to a middle class family, and to dismiss it as "they haven't really lost anything" is simplistic and cruel.
quietly? how's that quiet if they sold out 8000 tickets for their "quiet announcement" and it was covered by the tech blogs and their uncles?
If you have all your wealth in cash and there's inflation...did you ever really possess it?
I'm wondering who is upvoting this article. This is the first time I heard of the language ... is it popular and I somehow missed it?
thunderbolt display?
You can just barely see the tip of a finger coming in from the right in that one.
Got the official word from Apple: nope, only one external display.
If browsers didn't do it then some other software would fill the niche. Having general purpose computers to run code written by other people is something everyone wants. Your attitude above seems to be that Javascript is a bad thing, which IMHO is just insane.

And the bit about "security be damned" is just flat wrong, as evidenced by the linked article. They're working very hard at getting the sandbox architecture right, and have been so successful that it takes a hack of this magnitude to actually break it.
Time to give apple your money
> It wasn't $99 at bestbuy, it was $300 when it was released

It was also $99 at Best Buy. It wasn't successful at that price either. Today's iPhone sales aren't determined by its initial pricing in 2007.

> Also it's still not $99, it's going for $150

That's a 3rd party seller listing because Amazon is sold out. Amazon has it refurbished for $99, which is probably just old stock stores sent back to Logitech, which they sent back out for sale with "Now with Android 3.0" stickers added to the boxes.

Even if it's not, it's essentially the same price as pre-ordering this mystery box, yet comes with and does much more.
Indeed. Makes me happy that I was unable to book with Airbnb and had to go with a motel for my trip to SF.
I've been an early user and I think it's a genius idea, I love the fact that it is integrated with my OS, the memory footprint is a little high in my opinion but that's it! Loved it!
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Try configuring an old style 15" MBP and new Retina 15" MBP with the same specs, 8 gig ram, 256mb ssd. The Retina one is $200 _cheaper_.

It looks like the big difference in price is not the display, but the hard drive.
This looks more like "we couldn't keep buying the old processor" than a real upgrade.
There's already a thunderbolt gigabit ethernet dongle called the "thunderbolt display", although it's probably too big for people to carry around with them.
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The owners might also have to pay the piper with regards to their mortgage holder unless they own the property outright - I'm pretty sure my mortgage prohibits commercial activity like this without prior approval, similar to what a lease agreement would say. (Of course, a bank is far less likely to find out than a landlord.)
what cpu model did you chose to price it a 260$?

six cores nehalem start around 1000$ according to wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture)#Ser...

While probably far from "best bang for the buck", the 2 2.4GHz is probably closer to the real cost than the other models.

Best 6 cores for the buck seems to be this baby right now, although it doesn't seem to support multiple processors as it is not a Xeon DP.
http://ark.intel.com/products/63697
User Agent Switcher on Firefox works for me.
Anyone got the link to the HTTP live streaming URL? It's watchable in VLC but I don't have a Mac handy to circumvent the browser sniffing.. It's possible to get to the URL via the inspector I think.

EDIT: Assuming this keynote uses the same technology the previous keynotes have been using, of course.
Totally. I would go so far as to say it's the most important new feature of iOS 6 - I do a lot of apps work with retail clients, and some of the things passbook provides (alerts when you enter a store, etc) are in high demand. Centralising all your coupons, tickets, and loyalty cards means people are going to be more likely to use them (since you don't have to faff around in individual apps or sites). Very much looking forward to learning more about it!
This is useful, thank you.

Starting a separate company to go after some of these market opportunities is a good idea; and one that I've thought about as well. I should have made it more clear that I wasn't trying to negotiate for them to give me their company, but to negotiate significant ownership interest in it.

Since I've left, they've asked me to come back and offered significantly higher salary, shown interest in licensing software from me that would take care of some of their business problems, and "would consider any other option" that I brought to them in order to come back and take the reins again.

I do have a track record of generating results for them, and their growth has completely stalled since I left.

Approaching this as a separate company in which I'd ask them to invest, I don't see much difference in the end result. I'd still want to hold significant ownership interest in the new company, I'd still be asking them for money to fund the venture, the risk appears to be similar to me. I am certain that I can significantly improve the value of the company because I already have paying customers lined up for this new functionality.

I agree that even asking for 50% after 10 years is ludicrous, but I want to consider ludicrous options.

The proposition that I'm making to them is to consider the value of holding 100% of the company as things go today, versus holding half (10%? 20%?) of the company at whatever value can be created between now and then.

I suppose a better way of approaching the question would be this: A client has been actively recruiting me to return and take over management of their software company. How can I maximise the outcome / what is possible via aggressive negotiation?

When I left their employ and they became a consulting client again, I was able to negotiate a pretty ridiculous seeming consulting arrangement with them and they have been very happy with it thus far. But it left me feeling like I wasn't aggressive enough in negotiations.
I believe they didn't actually announce it at WWDC, also they only changed the processor from 2.8Ghz to 3.2Ghz.
"Generally, a teacher making $100,000 teaches about 125."

Only if you count all the classes they teach every day. However, kids don't come to school for just one class a day. Each teacher gets 15 to 30 kids 8 times a day for 1/8th of the day (assuming 8 classes a day). Not that that's really the important point here...

"My point in all of this is that free is not free and that those who are willing to build courses and content at this scale need to be compensated somehow for their time."

He is getting compensated though. At $29.00 a pop. The fact that he puts free material out there will almost definitely raise his compensation, not lower it.

"More instructors, more classes"

You don't necessarily need or want this. If one teacher can teach xx,000 people in a given subject, the teaching market will start to resemble a more 'winner take most' market, allowing those who aren't as good at teaching to find use elsewhere.

It will also allow everyone to learn from the best instead of only 125 people who happen to be in the right school district.
Why would it not be? Sounds about right. Even post-bubble, the median house is still worth a couple of hundred grand, and people do pay off their mortgages eventually.

The scary part is how little other wealth people have socked away for their retirement. I was brought up to believe that you'll need at least a few million dollars in investments (in today's money) in order to retire comfortably, so you damn well better start socking that away as early as possible.
this article was super valuable to me. clearly not in depth enough to convince a believer to change allegiances, but good enough for the uninitiated.
Slightly off topic, but I just completed the online learning from data course offered by Cal Tech (for free), and am pleased to say that 1) I understand this thread, and 2) have implemented an SVM starting with a quadratic programming package (not quite from scratch!). I highly recommend the class for anyone interested, a re-run of the course is starting soon: http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html
The @2x.png thing is already a kind of annoying work-around. Lack of fragmentation is Apple's pridepoint, but I guess this situation is going to get worse before it gets better..
They didn't announce it at the keynote. They just updated their site with the new specs.
It's quiet because the Mac Pro upgrade was not announced in their big announcement, but only with a little "New" sign on their webstore after the show.
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And we will see whether Apple will allow such app in their store. I would imagine they will not, because they would rather have people using their own maps, but perhaps they will be benevolent this time.
If we had something like BitCoin working in a global scale, this thing could fly very high.
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I actually argued against the Windowsification of all of the classes in my college and pushed back at every opportunity. I don't think it makes sense for a college that is teaching computer science to dedicate all of their resources and tools on Windows only software. C++ is used outside of Microsoft Visual Studio, and the code that works in VS will most likely not even compile due to not being standards compliant (Although VS2010 has gotten MUCH better at it than older versions).

Many of my teachers eventually would relent and realise that yes I was right. TCP/IP is one of the classes I took in which Windows was required. TCP/IP is a network protocol, it is available in all major OS's. I turned in entire assignments with a simple note "Windows required, don't have Windows." Luckily I didn't end up getting docked points because they realised I already knew all of the information in the course.

One thing that was really nice, and I am surprised none of the teachers used it against me was the fact that with MSDNAA I as a student had access to thousands of dollars worth of Microsoft software. You name it I could download a free legal copy of it for use during my tenure at college as a student. Microsoft seems to have that on lock. What better way to get students to play with your platform than to have them use all your tools and software free of charge. Windows 7, Visual Studio, SQL, SharePoint, Exchange and others.
Except there's a 200ms delay on the Capslock key to prevent accidental activations. Because this is built into the hardware, it means that even if you remap, if you press the second key really quickly after the first, the character ends up getting inserted into your document. It's ridiculously annoying.
> it would create demand they're not prepared to meet.

So what you're saying is carriers are not "technically" prepared to handle it? I wonder if 4g has any new technologies to handle making more efficient use of resources?

From my understanding of LTE, there's a lot of cool things being prepared in the specifications for 4G that make this scenario less burdensome. For instance femtocells are likely to become more common. I personally know of a specific carrier that's working on a technology so you can share resources between two sectors. OFDM in particular is good for minimizing interference which should allow networks to become more dense, I believe as technology evolves there's a lot of benefits to even the carriers to allow users to use 4G from their laptop.
My guess would be, it would be hard to continue with the same vision as the original cofounders. I think this rings true even more in a startup because the focus and vision are constantly being refined versus an already established company. So that being said, it would be hard for a team to come in and just resume development on the technical side and product development side whilst keeping the same vision and focus as the original founders. It's definitely possible but it just seems like it would be a lot of hassle and time on the founders side to go through that process.
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Maps in iOS6 look great, but will moving away from Google break legacy apps for <5.1? I'm sure main stuff will integrate pretty seamlessly, but what about the little stuff? (e.g. in a UIWebView, if I make a link to google maps, when the user clicks it, they are taken to the Map app). In the long run, it's the right decision, I'm just eager to test some of our MapKit apps on iOS6, to see what breaks
Consider how having stuff behind a login requirement limits your readership. Maybe you don't care about the people who just click away, but be aware that some do.

Do you know how many? An interesting question.

Not only that, but less that 1/3 of the screen is actually showing the text. Completely unusable.
While this (click-through) tactics may have some cost implication, I doubt that (even as a community) we could make a dent in the marketing budget.

In general, we severely underestimate how companies waste budget without blinking an eye.
I don't believe in down-voting without an explanation. Here's mine:

These Mac vx. PC arguments now beyond ridiculous. To those of us for whom computers are tools and not just a way to get on Facebook the metric should not be emotion or fan-boy-ism but rather applicability, efficiency, utility, cost and other factors.

I have a roughly equal number of PC's and Macs. I use both. I enjoy both. I get angry at both. There are good things with both OS's and there are thorn-in-my-ass problems with both. Welcome to having choices. As tools they are both fantastic. I love having unix behind the scenes with MacOS. Brilliant decision on their part. On the PC side, I have come to appreciate the non-nonsense cost-effectiveness of the platform. I have very powerful workstations setup for FEA fluid and heat simulation that cost a fraction of what our nicely-equipped Mac Pro's cost. And they rock.

I could say more but have to get back to work. There you go, a downvote with an explanation.
Presumably because the € price includes VAT (which is usually 20%+ in the EU), and the US$ price does not. The real US price would vary by state, and they usually don't show the amount of sales tax on the purchase price. This is a tax thing, not an apple thing.
tokenadult, this might be your best post ever and shows that you are aware of the literature on IQ, its predictive validity, and the legal difficulties around using it explicitly (though implicitly everyone is looking for smart people). Admit to being puzzled as to how this squares with the general thrust of your comments on other topics, which seem to skew more nurturist than naturist.
It looks like Chrome is firing the "mousemove" event when it shouldn't.

One way to make it work is to right click where you want it inside the square it and then left click anywhere outside the square.

In the Javascript looks like the error could be patched in Flasher.js line 72; save the last event.clientX and event.clientY and then check if the mouse coordinates have actually changed.
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I'm still using a couple of ancient 15.6" Windows laptops (the cool kids all laugh at me) because they have 1920x1080 and 1920x1200 displays -- and I'm in my fifties, finding that my arms get shorter and shorter every year (that is, creeping presbyopia -- combined with myopia -- means that I need different glasses for everything now). Apart from text-based activity (development and such), I do a considerable amount of image manipulation using Photoshop and plugins. Current-model affordable machines tend to have resolutions that are far too small for my day-to-day use, making me choose between UI elements and what I'm working on. 1600x900 is far too restrictive (and yes, I own a machine with that resolution), and I'd really like the option of taking my work with me without carting around a separate monitor (the reason I use laptops in the first place).
I suspect the reason that they did this quietly was that these are not new Mac Pros at all. Rather, they are same as the "Mid 2010" models they replaced, with minor bumps to the CPUs and memory. They continue to use the same generation CPUs that were available in 2010 (and same chipset, I presume), despite the fact that newer generation Sandy Bridge CPUs have been available for months now.

IMHO, the RAM bump wasn't even that good -- the base config now includes only 6GB, which is still laughable for a professional machine costing $2500.

Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
Take a look at the 3rd party (HP) Facebook app on WebOS.
I'd love to hear any stories about people's experiences or thoughts on Storm - it looks great for some tasks, but is anyone actually using it?
Comparison with the previous models: http://www.macstories.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Mac-Pro...
@Mondras - thanks for the quick response!

You're right the desktop app is definitely a little memory intensive, something we're working on but really appreciate your feedback.
Anything else is really appreciated.
That's the point of removing the top 10% and bottom 10% from the equation. Which I noted in the comment you replied to. The top 10% radically skews the picture.

Calculating wealth by a median, in a nation of 300 million people, only barely kinda-sorta works if you have a very large number of data points, otherwise you get a completely useless data point. Also, medians don't work very well due to population bunches when it comes to wealth, it's not smooth. So if your middle numerical just misses a wealth spike a few points up above the median how useful is your information? If it just misses a big wealth plunge a few points down, what does it tell you about the health of the people in the bottom 40%?
The OS integration is really interesting and compelling - sort of a Dropbox + eCommerce. I wonder if more services will start to look like this (at least those that involve files).

Do you have data on desktop vs web engagement of the product?
If I remember my macro-economics course 2% (or was it 3%) is a natural growth rate for a mature economy. We of course never see this rate since we always go for booms until we bust.

3% may appear low but it means that your economy will double in ~23 years, or about one generation.
It's probably easier to automate the picture harvesting here via an intensity filter. I'm still stumped about how the finger-recognition was accomplished in the OP.
http://images.apple.com/macbook-pro/performance/13-and-15-in...
you can double-tap with one finger or two fingers to do stepped zoom in or zoom out
It's part of Akamai AFAIK.
Anyone able to download the beta yet, or is everyone getting "Access Denied" like I am?
The purpose of Apple software is to sell Apple hardware. In this sense, forced obsolescence works wonderfully... for them.
Calling someone a "fanatic" and pointing out the fact that they don't fit in or that they make some people uncomfortable or angry does not in fact make them wrong. Raymond has no actual argument, so it comes across as a petty personal attack on RMS.
It's hard to get excited when there is no mention of how well it is supported in the UK. I don't know how well Siri will do in the UK with the updates and if we will get the map support for turn by turn.

We still can't search for businesses in the UK
No, you should NOT use strncpy instead. It can create broken strings that are not NULL terminated.

I would suggest using strlcpy.
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I'm pretty sure I was able to get one of these yesterday. Or did they just rev the specs?
Seeing http://www.pointerpointer.com/gridPositions.json really took away some of the magic for me. Still, very clever and shows that web magic can be in the eye of the mouse-holder!
Good "point" -- the right question posted to mturk/crowdflower/etc. could have knocked out that json file for relatively minimum time/cost. Oh, the things we humans engage in.
Looks like time for a Hackintosh. I wonder what the best platform for an E5-based hackintosh would be. Like, pretend you want more than 16GB (or 32GB maybe) of RAM, in something vaguely current, and ideally with ECC.
The OP of this thread said that a ready-to-go box selling @ $50 would sell like pancakes. You mentioned the Logitech Revue as having already been that, but you are completely wrong, it was never $99 at bestbuy, it was $299, then $249 and then discontinued.

More proof here that Logitech didn't get that ~$300 was too high a price point for something like this http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/29/logitechs-disappointing-q...

The Logitech Revue never retailed at $99 like you are trying to pass off as being true, sure now that they are discontinued you can find them refurbished on Amazon at that price but it's not the same thing and doesn't rebut the OPs point.