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At
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A29FL26O...
it shows that the delivery charge in the UK for a 18.2MB book is $2.82.

That rate is actually pretty good. According to this page,
http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/roaming/affo...
AT&T sells a 120-MB international roaming data package for $30/month. That implies an effective download charge of $4.55 for an 18.2-MB file.

Now if Amazon's data charge is $2.82 in the UK, where they do significant volume and the wireless market is competitive, imagine how much higher it must be in less developed countries where the company has less pull. I got charged approximately $800 for 40 megabytes of data usage in Lithuania last year, where AT&T did not have a partnership with any local carrier. I talked AT&T down to about $400 but they would not budge beyond that.

And think about the target audience for this book. Probably a lot of people spread out all over the world. It might not take all that many downloads in places like Lithuania to push the average delivery fee up to $2.48.

The only problem I see is that, arguably, Amazon should give authors the ability to opt out of paying for international downloads, or let them set different prices in different countries.

But it seems that the current delivery charge is pretty good - certainly it's not the enormous markup the headline claimed.
OMG the physical size of the title bar might be taller than the skinny nonsense it currently is? EATING ALONE CRYING INTO MY FOOD DOES NOT CONVEY MY DISAPPOINTMENT

Does anyone remember 9" 72 DPI screens? The title bar was 20px high on a screen that was 333px tall. That's 6% of the screen for those of you without a calculator. The current menubar is 22px, or 2.4% of my 15" screen, and 2.1% of the author's. When pixel doubled, the retina menubar will be 2.4% of the screen, or basically what I have been subsisting on for years. Except that between the bottom of the menu bar and the bottom of the screen will be TWICE AS MANY PIXELS AS BEFORE. And you can use those however you like.

To be fair, the author's menubar will have bloated 10%. Personally, I think that this is an acceptable tradeoff in this situation, but not everyone will have the same opinion. So, if you don't, just... could you just give it a second? It's going to space.
you said that amazon is offering deals to authors. my point is that amazon doesn't interact with well-known authors, they interact with those author's publishers. if any author receives better royalties than the kindle price of their books, it may be because their publisher is receiving even more money from amazon, or it may be the publisher that is taking the loss.
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an even closer psychological analogy would be the ticketmaster fees layered atop the face price of a concert ticket. (how it actually works, apparently, is that ticketmaster provides the service of being the "bad guy" so that venues/artists can hike their prices without alienating their customers, but they invent a bunch of crappy itemisations of their fee, leaving people feeling even more ripped off because the charges are transparent bullshit)
The only reason I use OSX is because it's on a Macbook. I would never use this OS anywhere else.

Please, someone give me a replacement for this damn hardware already.
Just in case you didn't know, this is really easy to do: System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard tab > Modifier Keys.
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I don't believe it is disingenuous at all. It could have been lumped in with the other charges, but they are explicity stating this is how much it costs you as the publisher if you wish to use their infrastructure to publish your content digitally.

I think it is disingenuous to assume that $2.58 is some number pulled out of the air to rip the author off. The current meme right now is to assume all digital content delivery is essentially 'free', but this is untrue.
But then you have a corporation like Google adopting "Don't be evil" as its value statement.

It's obvious that software nerds do have some concept of "evil" as it applies to software, and they like to label things as "evil" or not.

Nerds believe the potential for "evil" exists through software. Even if they are not fanatics.
The 17" MBP no longer shows up on the apple website.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4096509
What you're arguing now is essentially the same theory back then: clones would benefit them by increasing the marketshare for their OS.

That's not what OP is saying:

If the Apple hardware ecosystem were open like that of Windows you'd have major companies all over the world evolving the platform in wonderful ways. Performance would go up and prices would come down.

This isn't "moar market share," it's "the end user would benefit greatly if Apple hardware opened up."

Today is much different than the Mac clone era for two reasons:

(1) Apple clearly has no intention of offering a high-end desktop solution. Instead of losing those users to high-end Windows or Linux machines, they could keep them in the ecosystem by licensing OS X for use in boutique-style desktops.

(2) Apple holds much more power now. In the 1990s they licensed Mac OS from a point of weakness; today they could license to high-end, boutique manufacturers who meet their design standards.

Is this the right way forward? Maybe, maybe not. But OP's suggestion does not necessarily lead to the Mac clone days of the 90s.
and what is amazon's percentage cut of the price for?
The article does not say that downloading it over your wi-fi connection will result in $2.58 in delivery fees. It says that the average delivery fee for the book was $2.58.
Scaling will be configurable: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5996/how-the-retina-display-ma...
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You can't do science without speculation.

Science often models things it has never seen in the real world. Sometimes, when it becomes possible to make a measurement, the model is found to be accurate. Like in the classic xkcd "Science. It Works, Bitches." cartoon about the microwave background radiation. - http://xkcd.com/54/

Models do not just do whatever you want. Many unexpected behaviours turn up in models and some of them can be almost impossible to know the future behaviour of in advance of running them, even when you know all the input states.

In science, models are often what you use when the science isn't known, as you can use them as a guide to pick up on interesting things to go and look at. Engineering is usually where you use models when the science is known. [edit] And economics is where you use models when the science isn't known, and then you worship them and hope that money falls out.
Their laptop line has been competitive enough in pricing that I'm willing to spend for the ergonomics - I don't expect a powerhouse machine as a portable. (My last 3 laptops have been either MB Pro or MB Air)

But where's the benefit - and who's the customer - for a desktop machine at these prices? Unless you absolutely need OS X with a higher powered machine, why not just use Ubuntu in that desktop / server application?
If you did anything with media you'd have a different view.
Hardly. None of the following look very similar to each other.

- http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/aspire-timelinex

- http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-l702x/pd

- http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisp...

- http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/
Voice commands have been in Android for a long time (2.2?). They're not quite as smart as Siri (natural language processing, witty responses), though in my personal experience far more accurate (maybe that's because my phone has been trained to my voice over time and when I've seen Siri in action it's usually someone who just got the 4S).
Man, I wish I had more time to spend at the local hackerspace, and start learning a bit about aeronautics... I dream of creating a DIY drone that can go up and shoot down these stupid (Gestapo|Stasi|KGB|$WHATEVER) drones that our governments are sending up.
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I haven't used a Mac with a retina display yet, but I have noticed that when I went from an iPhone 3GS (non-retina) to a 4 (retina), suddenly tons of websites that I previously had to zoom to read were easily readable as-is — lots of text that had been literally illegible at "100%" was now pretty readable and text that was bigger but still small enough to be fuzzy was now crystal clear.

I don't know how much that will translate over to a computer, but it wouldn't surprise me if people who work with text a lot (including programmers) are able to comfortably use significantly smaller font sizes than they ever were able to before.
Cool project and wonderful writeup.
Please, don't let the code die. Try to open source it. That way at least, some one would learn something from your effort would be more worth. Or someone might just take the project to a next level.
For a guy with 90s clip-art on his letterhead, he's had more experience than I expected http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carreon
In that exact situation, videos are usually use an Image Authentication System. A method of digitally signing them to prevent forgery.

But basically, no. There is a burden of proof on the prosecution to show the evidence has not been tampered with after taken from an official source, but recreating the same thing wouldn't change anything - unless you were able to prove the IAS was flawed and could be duplicated (Nikon had this problem a year or two ago).
The differences between ESR and RMS are:

* RMS is technically competent. ESR is technically clueless.
* ESR is more charismatic. He manages to convince people he's important. RMS has on charisma.
* ESR will do everything he can do undermine RMS. It's a way of building himself up. RMS will do whatever he believes will further free software. They're both often wrong.
* RMS's writings from the late nineties are prophetic. ESR's writings from the same period are, in retrospect, idiotic.
* RMS created the whole movement. ESR did little bits of damage to it.
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That kind of money isn't consistent, though - raising that much money from one case where people clearly want to side with him, even if he wasn't donating the money to two charities, is much easier than doing it every week to pay off legal expenses.
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No, it doesn't, but the quality of the "opposite" is rarely a relevant indicator – if you tried to recruit people into the pro-choice movement, you'd have a far harder time if you called it the "anti-life" movement.
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What kind do they need? I'd wager they got quite a bit of traffic over this incident, and if the court case comes to nothing, they'll be able to show advertisers their numbers.
What's even more worrying for Microsoft is that the iPad costs at least twice as much and was never sold at a loss.

If I was working on the development team for the next generation Xbox I would be wearing diapers to work.

When you take out the expensive high-DPI touch-screen and the expensive battery, you're basically left with an AppleTV. Those sell for about third of the price of the current generation of the Xbox. If the next generation AppleTV had a nice Bluetooth controller and installable apps, it's very bad news for both Microsoft and Sony.
Let's be honest with ourselves here. True, it's not the aluminum case they're after. But it also isn't the ease of use; The ease of use paradigm is yet another clever Apple marketing tactic to give people something to talk about when trying to explain to their friends why they made the decision to buy. The real reasons people buy Macintosh (and I'm talking about the general public here, because admittedly, the personal preferences on this board are likely to be skewed) are subconscious: People's brains notice that Apple products don't make the typical creaking/squeaking sound typical of tightly screwed together plastic parts when you touch them / pick them up. People notice things like magnetic power cords on laptops and cases and accessories designed to flawlessly fit their products without a centimeter to spare. People are influenced by what they see around them. People want to fit in, and do what's relevant. But most of all--and this is the one that a lot of us have trouble accepting--people care about style EVEN MORE than they do about function. Don't believe me? Take a look at how people dress. If people cared most about function, every single person on this planet would be walking around in New Balance trainers (or maybe Crocs), basketball shorts/track pants, and a Wallmart t-shirt. But instead, people pay hundreds of dollars for jeans that are far from functional. And sure, you might argue that not everyone does that, but a lot of the people who are buying Apple's products do.

My theory on why they don't care about the Mac Pro? They're phasing it out because Apple as a company is sustained by sexy, identifiable gadgets that are fun to flash and look at, and no matter what you do to the Mac Pro, it's still a computer tower. You're never going to bring it on vacation. You're never going to see it at a party. You can't even take it out into your living room to show your friends when they come over. The Mac Pro is a purely functional product, and Apple is about as much a functional company as C is a functional language.
um. i guess you have not read "Why Captain Higgins is my favorite parasitic worm"

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/captain_higgins

Still think its banal and not funny? does everyone hate parasites that can turn ants into zombies?
Man this discussion would have been so much better had the phrase "You clearly don't understand" not been uttered.
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Apple is forcing app and web designers to make 2 versions of a desktop app or website (discounting mobile and tablet versions).

One for normal resolution, the other for Retinal displays, with @2x images and ability to reduce icon sizes on toolbars, etc for more real estate.
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If you view source of the webpage, you will see links for the iPad and iPhone as well. Search for "_350".

Alas, getting actual links to video is not always so easy.

Thank you Adobe, Brightcove and others for making video such a PITA.
In case you're wondering why it's 451...
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Matt Iman (guy behind TheOatmeal), was co-founder & original CTO of SEOMoz and left after his side project (Mingle2) blew up in popularity and was acquired.

He mentions in his departing SEOMoz blog post that the company that acquired Mingle2 wanted "to leverage my viral marketing and linkbait abilities" - back in 2007.

Fun to look at this through understanding that he's a SEO guru and viral-marketing genius.

Perfect David vs. Goliath headline, tons raised for charity so he comes out looking flawless, 3220 new inbound links for theoatmeal, etc.

Wow.

via http://www.seomoz.org/blog/my-departure-from-seomoz

https://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=15&sourc...
No I am exactly in the same place. I missed the programming activities (I was going to use numpy instead of octave and it turned out to be too much of an effort). I have re-enrolled in the course going on now so I am also going to do the assignments now.

Also thanks for mentioning Tom Mitchell's course, I didn't know about it. I will be sure to check it out.

And yes I agree Andrew is a great teacher. It became even more obvious when I tried to read up on areas he had not covered in the course.
Reply via text was a key feature on Palm Treo a decade ago. I believe Blackberry too.

The reminder looks very cool. I use iOS reminders every day. Often with location info too.
> But the fact that [RMS] falls prey to this common error is not very relevant when we ask whether it is indeed "evil" to make proprietary software, or any other current issue that RMS rants about.

I believe it is relevant when discussing RMS views. What you call "romanticism" of a group is only one of several possible romanticisms. There is also the romanticism of an individual, the romanticism of a family, the romanticism of a partnership etc. The point is that RMS was guided by a romanticism at the moment he was starting the GNU project as he himself described in the copy included with every Emacs install, and moreover his romanticism was of a very specific, (I believe) noninclusive and dysfunctional kind. This is rarely discussed for some reason, when even people who deep down disagree with RMS put on a guilty face and speak of the man as if he was just one of those rare idealists whom the world badly needs, and as if they do not dare to question his supposed integrity. This breeds orthodoxy besides other things because of which this thread is here.
Most definitely can research this on my own, but I'm curious if its possible to run this on iPhone hardware? i.e. replace the native OS?
and what would they do if they cannot use this functionality, for example debugging something embedded, or something that cannot be debugged the way you pointed out
Just view the source of the webpage. Links to the .mov file are there for Safari, iPhone, iPad and Windows. Search for "_350".
Actually, you're mostly wrong on that last point. We are an enterprise customer of Lenovo's for both laptops & desktops and they are quite good about maintaining stability within a model range for at least 9-12mo, and they always tell us at least a quarter in advance of any changes... and they provide imaging services if a customer wants to pay for it (Windows or Linux). There's still enough IBM alive at Lenovo for them to care about engineers.
What are the chances of this being "accepted" and existing?

Also further to this how frequently are new HTTP Status Codes proposed like this and what percentage are/aren't "accepted"? Not sure if I should add it to http://httpstatus.es or not (with some sort of "proposed" signal)
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My guess is FJ and Oatmeal are both getting massive traffic thanks to this little battle.
The separation of "service fee" and "delivery fee" is disingenuous, you are basically paying amazon 50% for the use of the marketplace. If you think it's an unfair price, don't put your book in the marketplace. If you think it's fair but deceptive, say so, don't pretend like it's deceptive and unfair at the same time.

Complaining about a 50% margin for Amazon when they have basically created the entire ecosystem for ebooks feels a bit like complaining about the large markups on pharmaceuticals to make up for the millions are poured into R&D.
I use those international plug adapters for lots of stuff, most notably Canon battery chargers. From a power board, it's much neater than cables.
Industrial design covers both the appearance and the utilitarian aspects, IIRC. What Apple does is usually qualified as industrial design. That's not to say that they are perfect, but there is greater attention to detail (and not just visible detail) than other manufacturers.
Aha perhaps it wasn't so obvious from the videos I viewed. I did notice that a few people were quite desperate to turn off the unity scroll bar while on my travels looking.
Have you never changed the font size in any application, ever? Really?

If you want to use smaller fonts, use smaller fonts.

Is this really hard to figure out?

It's a bigger screen physically. It has, by any definition, more real-estate. That it is smaller in terms of relative pixels is absolutely meaningless.

Once you get >200DPI the whole idea of "pixels" becomes meaningless. It's simply about screen area. The limiting factor for small text on most screens is pixels because below a certain size they become unreadable. This is why people generally buy bigger screens: more pixels, more readable text.

At 220DPI it's pretty much always readable until it's too small to discern any more.
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Ironically, those "copyists" Samsung and HTC had "reject call with text" in their Gingerbread editions of TouchWiz and Sense (I'm not sure about earlier skins since I haven't used them), even before Google added it to ICS. I'm sure both are kicking themselves that they didn't try to patent it (though I suppose patents move slowly, so maybe they have).
>Man, those were some shitty experiences.

I did IT at the time for a Mac-friendly company and had no issues with the clones of the day.
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Yes, they messed up the title. It is a 15" Ultrabook. I've seen it in person and it's fantastic. Obviously, it is more like a 15" MBA than a 15" MBP, but my point in posting the link is that Samsung seems to be doing some cool stuff.
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I'm sure 15 year old girls talk about zombie-creating parasites all the time. Everyone is bored of it ;)
I've already attempted that. I've replaced the inverter and even the CCFL itself. Neither did help.

Apparently there is a fuse next to the Bluetooth model on the mainboard itself that can blow. In that case the only option is to either solder in a new one or replace the mainboard as a whole. None of them are really options for me.

I currently keep on working on the laptop using the docking station and have an eye out for a possible replacement.
I guess that's also part of my current frustration with the new Thinkpad lineup.
Thanks also to Ray Bradbury.

How very, very appropriate. I suspect Mr. Bradbury would approve, and this will stand a nice tribute to his influence.
Right away! Will see whether I can change it. You should start too definitely if you haven't already.
http://images.anandtech.com/galleries/2078/Screen%20Shot%202...

It appears that the "Scaled" as "More Space" setting merely renders everything in HiDPI mode (2x widget size) with a canvas render resolution of 3840x2400 and then scales it down on the 2880x1800 display.

Just download the image linked above and display at as "Full Screen" and "Zoom to Fit" under Preview on an existing 15" MBP—it'll give ya an idea of what the "More Space" setting scales visual elements as.