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The scary part is they have unintentionally interweaved the fate of all their different platforms together

Scary, but completely intentional.

Windows 8 is Microsoft's last chance to effectively leverage their large PC marketshare into the "post-PC" world of smartphones and tablets. They must aggressively push Metro onto their Desktop users, and hope that once Windows users make a significant investment in the Metro environment on their desktop, they'll naturally choose Metro Tablets and eventually Metro Phones.

And they obviously feel that they do not have the luxury of time. We've never seen them push so much change in so little time.

But if Windows users hate Metro, the word "Metro" will become as toxic as Vista and Zune in the minds of the public. And as we saw with Vista, it really doesn't take much for Microsoft's traditionally conservative Windows users to turn hostile. The transition from XP to Vista was a baby step compared to Metro.

Windows 8 is a crossroads for Microsoft. Do they follow Apple and become an important force in consumer computing and technology, or do they follow IBM and become a profitable but largely invisible business software vendor?
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It needs a keyboard to play however I could not find a way to bring up my iPad keyboard so it does not seem to be iPad compatible?
Omitting to mention that he tried to sell them an app, and failing to mention the other party's offer of 100k. Just throws out any sympathy I have for Brian.

Clearly this is just mud-slinging and a good play at eliciting the developer and HN community's tendency to white-knight oppressed "davids" without hearing both sides of the story.
Sometimes, I'll log out so the next time I go visit the site, I have the buffer period of login time where I can change my mind before being subject to the content that makes it so attractive.
In Quebec's french, we will replace nearly any word by a swear word (criss/osti/tabarnak/caliss), which can be used as a noun, a verb, an adverb, and adjective, etc. Basically, like smurf-talk.

Also there's a one-to-one relationship between english's use of "like" as a filler by our use of "genre". In this case, "genre" means "similar to". So one could say "J'ai genre... mangé une criss de grosse poutine" in the same way an english speaker would say "I have like.. eaten a fucking huge cheese-and-gravy covered bowl of french-fries".
Do you actually believe that he's being honest? Sounds like he's puffing up to try and discourage them. When you're up against people who bring you into the legal ring, it might be a bad idea to show them that you're penniless.
Because they are rights, and shouldn't be violated? That's why they're called rights. Now, you can work on changing them if you like
I believe we're talking ethically, not legally. I don't believe there are technicalities in ethics like there are in law.
It is in some circles.
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Those quotes from his mail made me immediately picture Ignatius Reilly.
The link works great, thanks. But now the "!" is colored orange. It's hard to identify the "!" symbol in dark orange on gray. I think it should be white again or light gray.

Also, it would help to temporarily highlight the exact linked question on the page when you visit the link, so we can easily spot it among the other questions on that part of the page. I'm thinking of something like Stack Overflow's anchor link highlighting, seen on links like http://stackoverflow.com/q/10720420/578288#comment13941533_1.... But this is not that important, and perhaps one day browsers will do this highlighting for us - I think Opera already does.
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But it's still dirty and cumbersome and error-prone and they have to assign some staff to this thing... In Steve Jobs's word: "Yuch"!

That is not to say I wouldn't want this. I think it would be wonderful, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Putting it in Settings is a bit odd, but I would point out that the whole first three and a half sentences of those instructions become one quick continuous motion once you've done it a few times. (It's more like "swing the mouse pointer around a right hand corner and click Settings")
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Yes, that would work. That's actually how I sometimes shut down my Linux machine, although it doesn't even require sudo.

I was talking from the UI/mouse-driven perspective. I'm not entirely sure where the shutdown option/menu on OS X is. Of course, I regularly don't use macs, so it shouldn't be a surprise--it's not like I have a computer which I just don't know how to shut down!
I think it's a great idea.

As a caveat to this I'd also like to see support added for hosting multiple versions of an app on the store at any given time.
BTW, in case you see this: I solved the problem for a large subset of macros. Details: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=16378
And that's exactly why I think Windows 8 will fail to get traction. In my opinion it's worse than Vista for "normal PC users". It's even worse than Ubuntu for that matter, UI and UX wise, for a Windows user that is used to the Windows XP-7 UI paradigm.

This is the author's video on Windows 8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIMuJTrxuhQ
Why? Because of exposure app store gives you app, and far more people would buy it from app store, as it doesn't require you to enter your credit card number in some random, no-name developer' website.
Because they did before they could pirate (Before they figured out Limewire and now torrents) and other reasons such as wanting to fit in.

It's really not all that complex. Piracy also isn't divorced from other things people do.
Depending on how its Clojure support is implemented, LightTable may be usable for ClojureScript projects, and thus allow developers to target browsers and NodeJS (and other JS runtimes).

Do a search for "Pluggable Backend Infrastructure for ClojureScript, and Development of a Lua backend" and you should turn up a Google Summer of Code 2012 project which seeks to broaden the scope of the ClojureScript compiler. If that project is successful, and if LightTable supports ClojureScript, the IDE's reach may be greatly expanded in the relatively near term.
Not intelligent ones.
Happily I'm on Linux and everything makes sense :)

Unless you're running Gnome 3, where you have to log out then shut down, since there's no shutdown button while logged in. That's one thing Unity has over Gnome 3.
Good read, but there's so much more to the story.

His book "What do you care what other people think" is a
homage to Arlene, partly because Feynman made the fatal mistake of trusting the doctor's judgement
to disregard the blatantly obvious diagnosis. He wrote about his experience in much more detail here:

Part 1: http://i.imgur.com/CSNop.png

Part 2: http://i.imgur.com/7mDTW.png

He was depressed for a while but eventually his love for physics helped him recover. Feynman is the most logical and happiest human I have ever seen. Hans Bethe once said, "Feynman depressed is just a little more cheerful then any other person when he is exuberant."

Feynman's magnificent exuberance and puzzle solving enthusiasm remained up until his last days, where his coworker Christopher Sykes remarked "Look at this man.
He faces the abyss. He doesn't know whether he is going to live through this week. But he was consumed by it, and he worked on it all day long...."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw#t=1h11m33s

A few days before his second operation, Feynman sang a bongos song about orange juice, an amusing take of Linus Pauling's advice to possibly cure his cancer. Just look at his smile at the end of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKTSaezB4p8

I would also like to add that on Feynman's last days at the hospital, his last words to his artist friend Jirayr was "Don't worry about anything, go out and have a good time!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw#t=1h32m15s

Anyone who thinks of Feynman as a cold-hearted scientist is incredibly mistaken.
As an Australian any kind of expected tip is odd.
If they bothered to remove the Start button, why are they still keeping the same UX paradigm...especially in Metro? It makes no sense. The whole UI and UX actually looks like a mess to me, and it's very inconsistent and much more complex than it should be.
I am curious if there are any numbers comparing revenue from direct sales vs MAS sales.

I sell a Mac App exclusively via the MAS and have occasionally considered adding a direct sales option to our website, but the extra overhead of adding a secondary licensing scheme to the app, a web store front, processing payments, and dealing with sales support doesn't seem like it would be worth it.
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yup. i made an iphone app named WhosAround a few years ago and got sued by the WhosHere guys. Just Google "myRete lawsuit" (myRete is their corporate name)
The use of JS is unfortunate. I view it as a tradeoff for convenience and interop between platforms. It's easy to encrypt a tidbit as a link, send it to others, and have them simply clicked on it to decrypt it.

Thanks for the feedback.
You can hold down Alt and then the Suspend button magically becomes Shutdown in the GNOME 3 shell's menu.

Yes, it's not a very discoverable feature. You basically have to find out about it on the Internet somewhere.
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I'm actually on KDE. Because KDE is awesome.

Also, I was being a little bit facetious. The reason everything makes sense is because I've customized everything, so I'm the one who placed the shutdown button where it is.

Even so, I'm lazy so I use reboot/halt from the command line instead of the buttons anyhow.
If the Tamil Tigers do it (Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project), then it is soliciting assistance for terrorist acts, but if the KKK does the same thing (Brandenburg v. Ohio) it is protected speech. I really don't know that there is more to say about it then that.

As Justice Potter Stewart said in his concurrence in Jacobellis v. Ohio, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." (that's his complete concurrence)

The same could be true for terrorism. We know it when we see it. No objective definition necessary, so we will make do with it as a political label.
Ok, fine, it's hypocritical. There are worse things in the world than hypocrisy. I smoke cigarettes, yet I would advise others not to. I may be a hypocrit, but I'm not wrong. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Which is the best text editor do you prefer?
I have switched from gedit to redcar to finally Sublime text 2. And I am pretty much happy with it. At my office I use to code on textmate on OS X and I like it, but I have decided to leave it due to lack of its presence in other platforms.
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Just made one named Who's Near Here. Expect to hear from my lawyer.
History repeats itself.

MS really screwed up with vista and hardware, now they will do the same damn thing with software, which will piss people off IMMENSELY and cause people to stay with win 7 or xp. There are still quite a few small businesses who are running XP and office 2003 or 7 and office 2007. What is Joe in accounting going to do when he is confronted with metro and its shocking minimalism, office is undoubtedly re-designed AGAIN, there isn't any start menu, and when he is used to old style MS office and XP or in the first place...

There are many, many people out there who stare at excel/word/outlook/powerpoint all day as the main function of their job. Not having to re-learn any of the interface is a damn good thing, and OSX is not too widely used in most places outside the usa/1st world. If MS keeps at it we might actually see a worthwhile migration to LibreOffice. IMO Office and enterprise-consulting and possibly gaming are the pillars holding MS up these days. With Metro they are doing a good job of trying to royally piss off business customers/it. Remember that most users are too lazy or stupid to go to addons in firefox or chrome and type in "adblock plus" or similar to completely remove ads, which would destroy the vast majority of web companies including Google/FB/Yahoo.

The only other avenue is college students and younger getting hooked on new MS Metro offerings and deciding that MS cloud office of MS metro office will be the new standard that the expect when they get jobs. This isn't going to happen tho, because appple already has the non-ms market and actually has MS office on the Mac already.

_______

If MS rolls out Metro in its full swiss design-language glory it will actually be more different and more difficult to use than OS X or kde/xfce. It doesn't just warp the desktop metaphor like gnome and unity are trying to do, it throws it in the trash and replaces it with a smarthphones home screen. This is unbelievably stupid and we may still see the year of the linux desktop xD. Or more likely is that they will realize that their largest customers including the government/military/accounting firms/everything that actually builds things (coders included) want the desktop metaphor to remain for another ten years, and pull a "downgrade" option.

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A couple of points.

Whenever you put the word 'government' and 'innovation' into the same sentence, you need to check your working. Government is, by and large, terrible at technical innovation. And innovation by mandate will, predictable, be a non-starter.

That said, there are areas where it is appropriate - see my earlier examples (tranit bus feeds are another one) - where the relevant government agency has found a niche that (a) only they can provide the data, and (b) it is a very easily defined problem that they're solving.

Finally, I really take issue with this statement:

> "giving hackers platforms to innovate will definitely yield better results than just throwing gobs of data at the general public."

Utter rubbish. The "general public" is not stupid. The general public includes huge numbers of people with the domain knowledge and wherewithal to analyse the data. To claim that open and transparent government is better served through an elite technical class, instead of directly to individuals is simply false.
If you don't take legal action to protect your copyright / trademark, you will lose it. That's part of why big companies are such jerks all the time. If they weren't, they'd be out of luck when it really mattered.

Edit: whoops, should have read the other replies first.
Yes. They should have saved the start button and tried to keep familiar concepts that they could then later slowly phase out in future releases.

One way that they could have gradually introduced Metro in a way that would keep familiarity of use to old users and almost total backwards compatibility would have been to replace the desktop with Metro (i.e. the wallpaper and desktop icons). They could have then kept the start menu and panel[1] at the bottom (and perhaps default it to have auto-hide on). They could have even allowed windows to open up over the metro tiles, and then the familiar 'Show Desktop' button on the panel would be how you get back to the full metro screen.

There wouldn't be two modes and they'd still have a very similar appearance to what Windows 8 actually looks like today without having to confuse people used to the old way of doing things. The tablet and mobile version would then not have the start menu and panel, but everything else would look and feel the same.

They could even have implemented it in a similar way to their ancient 'Active Desktop' technology, except fullscreen and without the traditional icons.[2]

[1] I'm using the Linux term here. I really have no clue what they call the bar at the bottom because I haven't used Windows regularly for many years.

[2] http://i.technet.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC193546.gif
nano , use it on windows also
The numbers I've heard here in China are three weeks from the factory door to a warehouse on the West Coast of the USA (don't forget loading/unloading and time clearing customs). Typically, factories require you to complete payment and take possession before the product leaves their factory doors. There is often an inspection of completed goods at the factory before payment is made, and the buyer takes possession.

Perhaps Apple has told their manufacturing partners they will only take possession once the product arrives at their warehouse in the US, moving this time window from Apple's books to their supplier's books.
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So we should believe what he says in public instead of what he says in private? Lets be honest here. He's lying. It doesn't matter which statement is a lie. That is a massive statement of his character.
I think that you decided to join the Internet Hate Machine before you knew all the facts, and now you're finding it difficult to admit to yourself that you were taken by a good story.
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It seems like the best outcome here would be if both companies chose better, more accurate names. I was thinking maybe "WhosAnOverLitigiousFounder" and "WhosAHyperAggressiveConcernTroll."
In a large (but shrinking, year by year) part of the country, it most definitely is.

Those aren't places most people want to go, though.
How about we let a court decide whether or not this is Trademark infringement instead.
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Usually, if I want to share pictures or whatever, I am in the application that makes it easiest to navigate or search the content I want to send. Then I tap the share button. In fact I do a similar thing in Mac OSX. The iOS email client has only annoyed me a few times.

What they need is something like Intents on Android or maybe something like Services on Mac OS X.
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The justification for this 15% is that government assumes that customers give tip to waitress/er, and thus take taxes off the waitress/er pay-check according to this 15% supposition. So basically, when you don't pay the 15% tip, the waitress/er is paying extra taxes because of you. Unless the service is bad, the normal would thus be to pay the 15% tip, unless its a tip-less kind of job.

Some jobs are identified by governments as being tip-supported. Thus, the minimal wage for these jobs is lower than the normal minimum-wage, assumed that the real revenue comes from tip (which is actually true). To get their taxes share, they use the waitress/er sales to compute how much is due in taxes. Basically, governments have destroyed the whole purpose of tipping, which is to recognize good service. However, they make it cheaper for restaurant owner to hire new employees (the minimum wages is lower).
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> Selling alcohol to minors is unethical. Do I need to
> get into that?

Let's.

Example: The legal drinking age in Detroit, Michigan, USA is 21 years of age. The legal drinking age in Windsor, Ontario, Canada (right across the river from Detroit) is 19 years old. A 19 year old US citizen drives across the Detroit River and buys a drink at a bar.

Is the bar acting unethically? If not, how is it any different (ethically) to sell alcohol to the same 19 year old while in Detroit?

Discuss.
Suggestion: supplement or replace the Rotten Tomatoes percentage text with a graphic. It would be easier to skim the movies and compare them by glancing at a representative graphic than by trying to parse the numbers - graphics are less abstract. There are few enough possible values that we will usually not need the precision of a number. Perhaps the exact number could be available on hover, or in a tooltip.

I'm not sure what kind of graphic would be best. A meter like the Tomatometer would be the most accurate, but it might be too big or too long and narrow to fit well within the space you have for each movie. Other possibilities are a square that fills from the bottom up, a circle that fills in radially, and a circle that fills in with a smaller circle. (If you go with something 2D instead of 1D, like a circle filling with a circle, make sure to avoid a classic mistake by scaling the area of the sub-shape, not the width or radius.)
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When you start a search it should search the server as well, it doesn't just search the emails it has stored locally. I have over 15 GB's of email and the iPhone uses server side searching and finds emails back to 2002 with ease. And I am pretty damn sure those are not local on the device.
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I can't believe I was about to type in a response to this. How do I delete a HN account?
You can add nicknames for your contacts which will be used by Siri.

I've never had Siri dial the wrong number when I have asked the device to call someone...
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It was totally useful for debugging. In addition to connection speed, you could also tell if your desired protocol was accepted by the computer you called. If it didn't support ZMODEM you could tell immediately by the sound of the test packets, and you wouldn't waste your time on a slow-protocol connection. That mattered when you had precious few hours in the middle of the night to download important stuff.