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> It sucks, but its more like "you know what your house will be worth in another 15 to 20 years when it would have gotten there based on a reasonable fiscal policy and a 2% economic growth rate.

Any reason for using 2% growth instead of something closer to the US average (which is around 4%)?

http://visualizingeconomics.com/2010/11/04/log-scale-long-te...
Yeah, I can confirm this works on Mac Safari despite having given me the "unavailable" message in Chrome.
http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Docs+Home
Also worth noting that the identically-spec'd (sans phone bits) 3rd gen iPod touch will not be supported. Unless every single iOS 6 feature was phone and camera related, I can't see any good reason that one should get it and the other won't.
Well yes, notifications existed hundreds of years ago. Its obviously about the implementation in Android.

Also, Google were first to offer free turn-by-turn navigation on Android with a better feature set than established companies like TomTom that charged you a premium price. Google disrupted the market back then.
I'm really getting sick of this "throw-away hardware" culture that Apple is enforcing.

Just because iPad 1 can't run iOS 6 doesn't mean it's suddenly "trash".

Also, the first iPad is woefully underpowered – thanks to the display, it's quite memory and graphics constrained. It's entirely possible Apple wasn't willing get new iOS features working well on that hardware, especially considering iPad 1's install base is a rapidly decreasing percentage of the overall iPad market.
Just think of it as an extra-sharp 1440x900 resolution screen. All menubars and buttons will be the same physical size on the 2880x1800 mbp and the 1440x900 mbp. Anything that's not zoomable in an application will actually take up more screen real estate on the 2880x1800 mbp than on the 1680x1050 mbp.
I hadn't seen that note from him, thanks for the link. I think J solves a lot of the problems he makes of APL. It can be taught without a J interpreter, it doesn't require a special keyboard, and it offers abstraction capabilities. Also it's an answer to some positive things he talks about in this 1985 interview and elsewhere: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/misc/vanVlissingenIntervi... It supports both functional and imperative styles and it's deeply rooted with mathematics. It's also "hard" and isn't made for the layman developer. It encourages a very logical thought-process. I would guess he'd think Haskell was superior, but I still think he'd at least consider J in higher regards to APL even if he didn't like it.
The Fed tags American wealth at around $58 trillion total, last I recall. I suspect the median is a bizarre way to calculate American wealth.

That includes equities, real estate, precious metals, homes, bonds, etc.

The stock market rebounding back upward nearly 100% added trillions to that no doubt.

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States

Interesting data point on the top 1% wealth wise:

"They [the 1%] controlled nearly a third of the nation’s financial assets (investment holdings) and about 28 percent of nonfinancial assets (the value of property, cars, jewelry, etc.). These measures will be particularly interesting to revisit when the new, post-recession data arrives."

"The Times had estimated the threshold for being in the top 1 percent in household income at about $380,000, 7.5 times median household income, using census data from 2008 through 2010. But for net worth, the 1 percent threshold for net worth in the Fed data was nearly $8.4 million, or 69 times the median household’s net holdings of $121,000."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-t...
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1. One of my friends (who I worked with at the time) wrote an OSS software package in his free time and leased its installation to our at the time employer. At my current workplace, one of the owners worked his way into his ownership stake in the company, but he is a minority owner (and the only owner who is also an employee).

2. You are very unlikely to be given any consideration for ownership whatsoever. They've already compensated you for all of the growth you've created, and unless you are CTO material ownership is probably not on the table.

3. I would suggest you start a company, with the client having a stake and you having a stake (you'll probably have the minority stake). Then you're on a bit more even terms, the client is reducing their exposure, and limiting their responsibility to you. They'll bring the capital to the table and you can bring the ideas. There are a lot of different ways to structure source licensing that greatly reduce the risk of getting fucked, for lack of a better word.

4. Maybe. From the amount of information you've given you sound delusional. You expect them to take on risk, give you ridiculous equity in return, and then walk away after ten years. You'd be greedy to ask for a 30% stake. 50% of the company is ludicrous.
Supposedly Apple is using "faster" flash memory now... we'll see soon when the first reviews come out.
That is great point. Enforcing the enrollment qualifications can increase the quality of the content.
But then, why do I get a picture of some garden when I move my pointer in the top right corner?
Unlike all those 2010 Android devices that are all running ICS... er ...

So far the main reason Apple has not supported new OS updates on old hardware is due to hardware requirements, usually memory. I agree it seems odd as the 4th gen touch is basically the same spec as the iPad 1, but in general their record in this area is unmatched by any of their competition. Nobody else even comes close.
Eric Raymond's working definition of a fanatic is, "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim".

RMS is to me the exact antithesis of this definition. He has always had a complete focus on his end objective and everything he does is geared towards it (and scraping out a meagre living so he can continue it). One could argue that the path he has chosen to his objective is incorrect but to say that he is now acting having lost sight of his objective is wrong.

RMS to me has always been very conscious of his ethical position and has been pragmatic to the extent that being so does not put him in the position of being a complete hypocrite. For example, his position of the use of the LGPL. This has never seemed to be to be the behaviour of a fanatic of any variety.

I think offering the suggestion that religious language is detrimental to his message is perfectly reasonable. I have always viewed RMS real audience as hackers, and since the hacker culture is one of using religious language tongue-in-cheek I think the language fits the audience.
Smart Cases for iPads quietly released - a case with a smart cover
When it looks like this, yes: http://images.apple.com/ios/ios6/images/maps_gallery_turnbyt...
Wow. How many photons that bounce of the planet, travel a few lightyears and get caught in this 40m mirror are we talking about here? 1 million per night? Are we close to the limits of detection or what else is possible?
The report they are attempting to summarize covers the period from 2007 to 2010. It was just released by the Fed yesterday. It's publicly available, so I'm puzzled as to why they didn't link directly to the source material from the article.

Here it is anyway: http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2012/PDF/scf12.p...
This isn't so bad for the underwater homeowner. He or she can strategically default and the bank will likely choose not to foreclose so that it can continue to claim that the mortgage is worth its full value.
Yes, you can do both, but if consumers aren't demanding you do so, why do it? Ultimately it costs more to deliver that experience, so from a business perspective it doesn't make sense to do it if you're not losing a material number of product sales without it.
Agreed - the iPad 2 is also still being sold, so there's incentive to support that too (over the iPad 1).
Remember how you were surprised I was accusing you of being a troll a while back? And you were adamant that you aren't, and that I had you all wrong? (Amusing, given your bio.)

Now step back and read this comment, as well as your PowerShell response below, then rethink why I'd say that.
I'm sure it does. But most debt is taken in order to acquire an asset. If you take out a loan for $20,000 to buy a car and $300,000 to buy a house, you've got $320,000 in debt, but you've also got assets in the same amount, meaning that your net worth is unchanged. Fluctuations in the market value of your assets can still drive your net worth down (or up), of course.
Who said anything about unlimited? 3 or 5 GBs of backup data for when you can't find or can't be bothered to find an open wifi network could still be quite nice. It won't replace your stream-HD-movies-all-day-wireless-N but it doesn't have to.
I forgot about the display. It's likely it increases memory requirements relative to the 4th gen touch enough to be a problem.
FunnyJunk is threatening lawsuit unless I pay $20,000 in damages
I'm kind of amazed that the pro is only that much heavier than the air. It feels like it's like it's at least twice as heavy.
If you look at other values (total assets in US, household net worth, etc) then a median wealth of $77k is in line with all of the other measures.

It is not difficult to accumulate a net worth of $77k in the US. You can do it on a pretty mediocre income with a modicum of discipline. My net worth continuously increased (very modestly) even when I was poor.
I currently have a 3GS and am planning on getting the new iPhone when it's released, and will give my 3GS to a family member when that times comes. I'm excited about the new features for iOS6, but I'm a little wary of the performance. Upgrading from iOS4 to iOS5 was quite nice, but it caused a large number of performance hits when it came to app loading and switching between apps. Even bringing up my Messages would cause delays in which I could count to "10-Mississippi" before finally being able to let me interact with it. I don't expect it to perform the same was at an iPhone 4(s)/(new one), but it does make me grit my teeth a little sometimes :)
This is an interesting topic but I'm not sure it has much to do with the fluctuations of nominal wealth. The trouble isn't people realizing that they're less wealthy in a philosophical sense, it's that they're realizing they're less wealthy in the ordinary dollar sense.
Hey we have homebrew nowadays :P

And microsoft is actually really generous towards students, I can get basically any software except for office for free.
When people think they have more money, they spend more money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_effect
"For some strange reason Apple has managed to put retina displays in their laptops before LG or Samsung"

There's nothing strange about this. Apple has been pushing very high resolution as a differentiator for 2 years now. They've made huge investments in new factories for Toshiba, Sharp and likely other display makers. They've signed huge contracts taking almost all the production from other vendors. It's not like tomorrow Samsung Mobile can say "shit tear up that $3 bln deal with Apple we want to make a 2880x1800 laptop now"

"Samsung really has the potential to be an industry leader."

The fast follower strategy has been ingrained into Samsung for what, decades? I don't see how it's frustrating to watch them execute the strategy they've been very successful with and I don't expect them to turn around and bet the farm on a new market leading approach.
I wonder if we are best served by a democracy when, with perhaps the most important political issue there is, common sense and anecdotes provide little value and a higher education in a particular field is required to make an informed decision.
I bought Air in January, with 4GB RAM and 265GB SSD. They have upgraded only things that would need an upgrade, machine form factor is perfect (especially if you're on the go nonstop) and battery life extraordinary for that size.
Does anyone know if the new MacBook Air can drive more than one external display?
FunnyJunk threatens to file suit against The Oatmeal; demands $20,000 in damages
"Breaking that agreement for profit is unethical."

Of course it is. There was another story about a tenant in NY getting sued after his landlord started renting out apartments.

But it is also true that your lease could allow you to sublet with an AirBnB type arrangement, so for AirBnB they probably have you sign up saying "Yes, I am allowed to do this." and leave it up to the participants to be legal and if they aren't having the landlord deal with it.

A number of stories we have yet to hear are "AirBnB got me kicked out of my apartment." or "I was arrested sued by a hotel chain." kinds of stories. I think of them as the sounds of disruption. Basically they have created a market, very much like eBay created a market, or Craigslist, and suddenly there are commerce opportunities that didn't exist before, combined with a tight economy and poof, disruption.
This came up just a few days ago on HN [1]. The conclusion there, based on a response from GoToMeeting's marketing department, was that they were using Google's dynamic keyword insertion to replace words in the ad copy with the user's search terms [2], and at the same time, bidding on their competitor's name. So, if you'd entered "online meeting", it would've come up with "Online Meeting Software" in the GoToMeeting ad; the technique seems to have backfired in this case.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4086757

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4086860
I think you're underestimating how much of an obstacle a traditional filesystem is to most people. The cloud integration and appification that seems so restricting to you is sweet, sweet relief for a great deal of people.

By catering to them, Apple doesn't take anything away from you; though they do eventually entrap you as well with all that shiny and convenience, which I can understand being resentful about. It's a bit disempowering when a company thinks it knows what's good for you better than you do, and ends up being kinda right about it.

Disclosure: I own AAPL shares
I don't care about new iOS features, or any of their iCloud nonsense, I know it won't support Siri (ipad1 lacked a microphone).

What I do care about is the web browser on my iPad not receiving any software updates... ever. That's a serious problem. Without any software upgrades ever, the iPad will become the future IE. In fact, this is worse because of Apple's closed system they also won't allow 3rd parties to upgrade the software either. That means no new web browsers, audio players, or any other new type of software which might threaten their platform.

Apple wants to pretend that software can't be upgraded because you're using old hardware, which not only is completely retarded, it defeats the purpose of software.
It's likely still a memory issue though rather than anything to do with the CPU. As with the 4th gen touch, it's smaller display on the 3G likely means it has enough memory for enough of iOS 6 features compared to the iPad 1.
And their early adopter mindset! Ugh, I don't see why anyone would want to target them at all.
Their examples almost always use an Apple ID with the name "Johnny Appleseed"
Agreed on the "perceived" quality. Based on my experiences, I'd bet money that if you compared a 3-year-old Thinkpad to a 3-year-old Mac, the Thinkpad would be in far better shape.
I have been very surprised at how much more I use mobile data on my iPad now that it is built in - it just seems like too many steps to activate a hotspot or dongle, whereas if "it just works" I love it.
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That would be a hang-up for me. I'm pretty dependent on Maps for busing around to random destinations in SF...
There are certainly very strategic ways to deal with it, but you're going to take a large hit on credit with any default. That can be a very expensive price to pay over time.
Did Apple "Fix" Full Screen Apps in Mountain Lion
I made a big switch from Mac based video editing to PC centric one in December last year. I'm kind of glad and sad there are no new Mac Pros. PCs took over big time in our industry (now video, CG was never Macs domain anyhow). Still, Macbook Air and Pros are best laptops there are, regardless of OS on it.
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I have been considering UC Berkeley for online course for credit. I like UC Berkeley because it is reasonably priced, <US $1000, has 'Anytime Access' and the professors have a decent rating on 'Rate my Prof...' I also need online because I am east coast US.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for Universities with good/cheap online courses.
And suggestions on what to look for?
If you like the Air, keep your eye on the market. intel and AMD are both trying to partner with OEM's to finally get some Air competitors out. I cannot recall the marketing name though.
Siri in iOS 6
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Any information on when they update the iMac line?
I really don't need a new laptop but want to switch to MacOS :(
$60k seems kind of cheap after reading all that.
One of my greatest points of irritation with the old Maps app is that there are no scale bars. People working on Google Maps have told me it's Apple's problem, and Apple employees (though granted not people directly involved with iOS) have told me it's Google's problem. Maybe now that it's all under one roof, someone can figure out how to put them in...
I think it already has? That's why I had to finally bite the bullet and upgrade to Lion. My reluctance wasn't unfounded, it turns out.
I haven't read the referenced, Techcrunch article, but I can't get from A to B on the competitor claim. From dmor's article, she wants me to try her product, but when I did, I would have no idea they are competing in the same space as bitly. I was presented a registration wall to what sounds like a text-based Pinterest; not at all a link-shortening nor analytics product.
Its the fragility of the retina display that has me has hesitating. I'm still using an iPad 1; I decided not to upgrade after reading that the retina screen on the iPad 3 cracks on drops that have yet to put a dent in my 1st-gen. If my gf gets the new MBP, the warranty will be absolutely necessary (she drops her laptop constantly, SSD's were a godsend for her).
CS students are among some of the most hostile, sophomoric people you will ever encounter in software development. They all have something to prove, even though they've barely started themselves, so putdowns are common.

Grain of salt. Experiment. Do what works.
it doesn't have Cut, but it now (as of Lion, I think), Move Here as an alternative to Paste, use it with Cmd-Opt-V.
On a wider note, I feel myself... drifting away from all of this.

That happens. In my case, it's the "seen it all before" effect.

It would be exciting if something really noteworthy was happening, but a bump in resolution or a new I/O interface are not groundbreaking changes in computing.
FunnyJunk is threatening to file a lawsuit unless TheOatmeal pays $20,000
Safari on PC doesn't seem to work.
Same problem windows 7 x64 Chrome 19.0.1084.52
Navy drone crashes in Maryland
Siri needs to learn R-R-Russian :).
New Patent Law Means Trouble For Tech Entrepreneurs
I can believe the 80% number. I don't know any formal studies (surely there have been some by now?) but I've heard and read a lot of anecdotes (like the one in this thread) from technical interviewers about how a high percentage of their applicants can't write code or are in some other way incompetent for the job; I have yet to hear from one about how almost all their applicants are awesome and they wished they could hire them all. If you haven't seen the accounts about the FizzBuzz problem alone (and the hilarious failures of people online with no stress or time constraints pasting their incorrect solutions in blog comments to prove their skillz) it's worth half an hour of your time to read about it.
I'd have to agree.

I really don't believe a company like Apple would be more than five years away from being able to do something like this, either... Provided they wanted to, of course.

It still may be too soon, and I'm certainly not thinking the device in the linked article is the solution, but there are a lot of possibilities here.
Its possible.
More generally, its also possible the human graders were doing a bad job; the ML system can only learn 'essay quality' to the extent that the training data reflects it.

However, the kaggle supplied 'straw-man' benchmark, which worked solely based on the count of characters and words in the essay, had an score of .647 with the training data. (The score metric used isnt trivial to interpret - it was 'Weighted Mean Quadratic Weighted Kappa' - but for reference the best entries had a score of ~.8 at the end)

The score of .647, just using length, is quite high.
For length to have this powerful a causal predictive effect, the human graders would have to be weighting for length, as a feature, very heavily.

I can't rule that out; but I think its highly likely a major component of the predictive effect of length was correlative, rather than causal.
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A million photons would be overkill for a solid detection. A standard CCD saturates at about 65,000 counts (or about that many photons, assuming the efficiency is high). A source that is detected well enough to do interesting measurements usually has a ~1000 - 20,000 photons per pixel. Spread out over ~15 pixels, a good detection could require as few as ~15,000 photons.

In this particular application it would be more difficult since you not only have to detect the source on its own, you have to block out the glare from the parent star. Usually the main problem in this sort of work is making sure that the source you are detecting is actually a real thing and is not just an artifact from the way you block out the light from the parent star.
Still doesn't work on Windows. It does on iOS, though.
It will work just like the iPad. GUI elements will stay the same size, only at a much higher resolution. Old apps will "see" a 1440x900 display and just look more blurry.
Now I'm aware of Zapier, pretty slick app. I'm sure I can find many uses for this...
The 1% has a very limited ability to drive change in the median wealth. The average wealth is very likely much much higher (probably closer to a half million) than the median, signaling vast income inequality.

The median is a much more useful statistic when dealing with this kind of distribution, as it applies to a much larger population than the average, which is useless for ~80% of the population as an indicator.
I don't think apps need to be updated, the OS will just send two separate screen redraws to the app. If you put a window half on an 8-bit color screen and half on a 16-bit color screen it works fine too, I don't see why this would be different.
There were 99$ Windows Mobile navigators years ago that offered a display as seen on the linked screenshot. This wireframe-esque display is hardly GPU intensive.

(Not to mention that all of this is probably limited to few select regions, just like with the 99$ GPS..)
The more apps catch up with 10.7, the more they all do that unbearable fullscreen-on-some-weird-new-unexpected-virtual-desktop thing, yuck.