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I completely missed that, actually- good call!
Cubase VST was doing 32 track audio flawlessly on Windows back in the late 90s on an original Pentium. Seriously weird seeing people demanding more power for audio work.
Isn't that just bigotry?
See the article I linked to above: "Meanwhile, San Francisco—one of the most expensive cities in the United States—added just 418 new housing units in 2011, the fewest since 1993. What’s more, 149 existing units were removed, leading to a nearly nonexistent increase in housing supply."

So: No.
Alternately, use the Google CDN.
According to arstechnica, there's a more serious update that's being worked on by Apple:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/mac-pro-gets-minor-upda...
Just to clarify, it is only 25% of this particular book. Sounded to me like the delivery charge was fairly independent of the cost of the book.
When you own the platform, you can dictate the default apps ...

"Apple yanked Google maps from all its mobile devices, and took that function in house."

"Put simply, Siri is becoming Apple's search engine."

"Apple's move to integrate Facebook into iOS isn't a direct hit at Google, but it unites two companies against a common enemy. The new features let iOS 6 users post right to Facebook from within apps, as well as sync up their Facebook lives to their phone. Things like contacts and calendars get automatically ferried between the two companies."
But if you had gone through gumroad, you wouldn't have done the same volume. If they renamed the "delivery fee" as "hosting and market placement" would you feel okay about it?
Why prolong the conflict? The Oatmeal wants to move past all this. Emailing FJ is just going to cause them to be agitated and therefore continue to pursue their action, prolonging the headache. It might even be counterproductive if they can use the mass of emails as "proof" that their reputation has been damaged.

Let's not take a funny/clever retort by TheOatmeal and ruin it by being jackasses.
It's sarcasm. (viz. George Carlin, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGOBm2J4tn0 at about 2:20 in; the whole thing is classic Carlin at his most abrasive.)
While this is a great story likely to go down in Internet history, it seems a risky strategy. Sure he raised $20k but seems like this will just fuel the fire of the FunnyJunk lawyers. There have been more trivial legal cases than this one - that could go on for a long time.
I predict that HTML5 + JavaScript is the future of desktop and mobile apps.

This is probably the most widely known technology to people.
Apart from Boot2Gecko you can develop HTML/JS apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8 (metro style)
Danielle - everyone supposed to email you if they need "more than $10" from Referly to cash out?

Seriously, you are damn too smart of a businesswoman not to know that by not putting this disclaimer on, you will get much less signups. At its best, I take it as deceiving marketing strategy.
I have 2008, 8 times 2.8 GHz core, 32 GB of RAM Mac Pro with SSD for boot drive. That thing is still faster than latest and greatest 17'' Macbook Pro when it comes to doing actual work, like compiling, transcoding video etc (rather than running benchmarks, where newer CPU in the laptop gets about 15% higher score). And the Mac Pro does all this without breaking a sweat. The cooling solution in the large case with huge slow rotating fans means Mac Pro stays quiet and cool under serious multi-hour load.

17'' Macbook Pro gets all huffy and puffy after just a minute of actual work and stays pretty loud and too hot to hold on lap during entire compiling/transcoding session.

So, no currently, you can't replace Mac Pro with a laptop, nor with iMac (I have a couple of latest 27'' iMacs as well, and it's pretty much the same story).

I don't think this will change any time soon. The box size of Mac Pro will always be able to contain more cool, quiet computing power than any laptop.

True, not everyone needs this kind of computing power. It seems Apple's target audience most certainly does not. Majority of them need an appliance running on a phone/tablet it seems.
'part of me thinks that it will just turn consumer computing into a boring homogeneous set of devices across all manufacturers.'

Isn't that where the PC world is now?
Not for me - I've had two Macbooks in the last two years for work, and both of them suffered this problem, which makes developing in Vim super annoying (I remap Caps_Lock to Esc).
This post is ridiculous. Amazon has spent billions upon billions of dollars building and maintaining a ridiculously efficient delivery system for electronic content. THAT is what the markup is paying for.

And from a common sense standpoint, if Amazon were really charging the crazy markup this guy claims, then some other company would mark up a mere 1000% or whatever and massively undercut Amazon's offering. Given that this hasn't happened, it is pretty safe to assume that the true costs are much higher than his math suggests. Either that or other companies have just ceded massive eBook profits to Amazon out of the goodness of their hearts. I'm going to guess it's the former.
I would argue the expectation of a home to give "a good return" is the core of the problem.
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T60ps were built by Lenovo and some outright carried the Lenovo badge. You could claim the design has gone downhill, but the build quality is Lenovo's.

Looking at the IPS-equipped X220 for my next laptop :)
Haha. We need a Hacker News version of intrade: prediction markets for the speculative hacker.
Chrome is designed to guarantee that web content never cohabitates in a process with chrome:// URLs. Unfortunately, in this case that code was buggy.

There's nothing fundamentally different about Chrome's approach here than what you are advocating.

At some level, these policies have to be implemented with code, and that code can have bugs.
If I were to buy the author's book and download it to my non-3G Kindle over my own wi-fi connection, the author would still be charged $2.85 for it.

Surely the 3G Kindle owners should be paying for it - and only then if they use whispernet. Or rather, I always thought they were because the 3G Kindle touch is $50 more expensive. A cellular radio only costs a dollar or two, I always figured that most of the $50 price difference represented average download costs over the expected lifetime.
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one of the most striking examples of this is rms's objection to a modular gcc. modularity is a technically superior solution, and would have been supremely useful in supporting a larger ecosystem of development and analysis tools (e.g. ides, automated refactoring, source-to-source translators, etc), but would also have made it easy to build proprietary systems that could remain closed while using modules from gcc.

the current groundswell of clang adoption has revealed just how many people wanted a good, free, modular c++ compiler, but by rms's principles, making gcc serve their purposes would have come at too high a cost.
Vile. `pvarangot' didn't exaggerate.
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Regarding other manufacturers putting retina displays. While not quite retina level, ASUS did fire a preemptive strike against the MacBook Air, by releasing their UX21A and UX31A ultrabooks with 1920x1080 IPS displays. The UX21A 11.6" ppi is 189, not far from the new MacBook Pro 220 and perhaps more interestingly, now ASUS' ultrabooks have much better displays than the airs, with the 11.6" air being stuck at a measly 1366x768.
The laptops are also getting physically larger. I checked the other day and the 14" T420/430 are ever so slightly larger than my several year old 15" T61, with the 15" T520/530 being quite a bit bigger. This matters because the T61 fits perfectly (just) in my favourite bag.

A few years ago I also bought what were probably the last 1920x1200 desktop monitors.

> sadly with a broken display backlight

Check out the sticky post on notebookreview:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo-ibm/638662-thinkpad-s...

You can enter you serial number and get the exact part numbers in order to get more, and then there are the hardware maintenance manuals which will tell you how to take everything apart. I've known people repair Lenovos very successfully this way. Your manual is here:

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guides-and-manuals/detail.pa...

Or you could turn your laptop into a sunlight readable model like Tridge did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cp5EpoVrLs
The Microsoft Network blogger is highlighting this issue because Microsoft itself faces headwinds with cellular carriers because it owns Skype - which carriers hate as they make a lot of revenue from voice calls and SMS text messages today.

"In short: With iOS 6, we'll be using more carrier bandwidth than ever, but will require fewer and fewer carrier services."
There are Craigslist apps out there that work great. I used Craigslist Mobile last week (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/craigslist-mobile-photo-previ...) to post a bunch of stuff without leaving my phone. Was super easy to use and fast.
I found it particularly funny because it's not exactly a great drawing of a bear, so claiming that it's a kodiak bear is pretty absurd.
Dell announced this last week [1]:

"New initiative targets startup debt capital needs, connects firms with scalable technology solutions, markets and networks for growth"

"[It] provides entrepreneurs up to $100M in the financial and scalable technology resources they need to maximize potential for innovation, speed to market and job creation..."

This is a small change for the company and a great way to tap into innovation; plus support new businesses. May also get them early access to some new technology.

Good news for Dell and startups.

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http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/secure/2012-06-07-dell-...
Thank you for your reply! We worked hard on the UI/UX so I am glad that you like it.

To answer your points:

1. Yes - you are right that we need to make it clearer how integration works. We are working on a page right now which explains everything in detail. Hopefully it should go up within a few hours.

2. We are .NET developers so targeting ASP.NET seemed natural but we definitely have plans to target ruby, python, node, php, java, etc.... We are going to open source the integration module and allow others to build new ones in different languages. It would be amazing if we got some help from the community with this.

Thanks again!
Currently for one of my sites we have the web server and MySQL database on one medium instance. I assume performance would be a lot worse on a micro rds and same web box?
I've always called it 'wearing blinders'.
I ordered two RPi boards on February 29th or whatever day they became available for pre-order. The first one shipped from Newark/Element14 about 2-3 weeks ago, and the second one arrived this past Friday. Did I just get lucky, timing-wise?
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I'm in love with this project. Any news on a timeline for a usable(ish) release?
$3 to transmit 15 megabytes is fucking absurd, regardless of the delivery medium. Full stop, end of story.
I really hope this is not the case. The upgrades to the 15" and 17" Macbook Pro's were really incremental. I don't think it would be surprising to see an updated 17" at some point in the future.
I moved to Austin about a year ago from Atlanta.

1) Yes, one weather is absolutely true. It's apparently fantastic if you own a convertible or motorcycle. Yes, you have to drink water, but I've never found it that big of a deal. It's possible to bike in Austin, but you have to have some serious nerves to get on some of the highways.

2) Depending on where you live, everything is only a 10-15 minute drive. I can go downtown, to the airport, or up to the university in that amount of time. However, if you live up in Round Rock or something you'll be driving a long way. And Austin traffic sucks.

Plus side though, we're getting an 85 mph freeway. When you drive, you drive fast. Speed limits range from 55-75 around Austin on the highways.

3) I don't know, I've found the trailer food to be unique. I didn't get to spend a lot of time SF though; I was only there for a day or two on business.

4) There's not as much art, but there is a lot of history in Texas. Austin probably isn't that great, but it's only about an hour or so to San Antonio. You could also go to Houston or Dallas with only a ~3 hour drive.

For the non-liberal crowd, there's a lot of red blooded Texans.
a) Didn't downvote. Downvoting ones discussion partner seems rude.

b) It is possible that I'm being dumb: where in http://www.stanford.edu/group/hadlylab/pdfs/Barnoskyetal2012... is the quote?

Edit: can't find it in the SFU press release either.
Edit again: Ah. Quote one of the authors. Still doesn't seem worth getting mad about.
Of course, it is probably too early to be sure, but this model might very well take 32 gigs while Apple just doesn't sell that config for some reason.
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Doesn't work in Chrome but the 'right mouse click' hack works.

There are likely some good opportunities for this code however speed of response may be a problem? Runs a little slow on my PC.
Apparently, about 80% of Dell revenue comes from product(PCs, peripherals, servers, and some consumer electronics.) The remaining 20% or so comes from services (including software.)

What I was trying to say is that I don't really see what incentive Dell Inc. would have to go private.

I don't see why Micheal Dell would assume so much risk, and I don't really see the immediate benefit for any party (Micheal, the board, shareholders, PE firms) to privatize at the moment.

They should focus on their transition instead of burning up so much cash on hand and assuming a lot of risk.

I think the best bet would be to stay public and try to scale their enterprise segment through venture investment.
I find it strange, but perhaps I'm just missing some crucial, that it appears as if this update is really just app updates for ios? I do not own any ios device but I normally expect some updates to the OS itself in some capacity. Am I reading this list wrong?
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So... you're advocating that we roll back the last decade or so of web development.

Good luck with that.
3,174 sales to be exact.
The total is now $57K with 15 days left. Matthew is in the position of being able to use the internet as a money spigot if FunnyJunk really wants to escalate.
You want to sell more monitors than your competitors. Do you a) advertise a higher resolution and DPI than them or b) advertise a larger screen? B has been winning out nearly every time, as most consumers will either not care/understand about the DPI, or will understand the resolution but subconsciously think better of the monitor which is larger.

However, with laptops, you can only keep making them so big (and indeed, it seems that the 17″ MacBooks are getting axed). Similar to phones, the only innovation that makes sense in this market is to increase DPI.
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I sure wish they would allow the slaving of RDS instances to non-RDS instances (aka CHANGE MASTER TO). I would love to host a MySQL slave at Amazon AWS.

Sure, I can get this done with an EC2 instance but how killer would a "DR slave" with rollbacks and automatic backup features be? Besides feature-sets I could eliminate quite a few delayed replication nodes and dedicated DR servers at hosted providers if they would offer this feature.
If this works like the old AirPort Express, shouldn't you be able to turn the WAN port into LAN for a WAN-to-LAN bridge of sort? I used to do that to connect device without Wireless in another floor, it was pretty handy.

Also, no more "5 users limit" BS. This is nice.
After taking a look at Xcode in an Air Display window on a new iPad (2048x1536 across 10"), I don't think I'd even want to use the MBP retina display at native res - I was having trouble reading the text at > 12" away.
FunnyJunk's lawyers seem like a huge joke, and I think that the oatmeal has been successful enough to afford adequate representation.
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As a strangely pertinent anecdote: I've been a Windows "poweruser" for a long time, and have never used much of Linux. I never had a real need for it. But I've been doing rails development lately and Windows kept getting in the way, and so many people are using OSX and I can't afford a Mac... so I tried Ubuntu.

I'm using 12.04, and it's the first significant amount of time I've used spent with Ubuntu. I can say that a month in, I'm digging it. It beats Windows for me in a number of ways but I actually like the level of ui polish -- it's smoother than Windows. (That and it renders fonts far better than Windows, for some reason).

Rails on Ubuntu is also far, far easier. Terminal beats every pretend version on Windows, rvm and bundler work the way they're supposed to, and I really like gedit more than Notepad++.
I wrote a CGI in C around 2005. The C code produced only a small about of XML. All the presentation layers were done using client-side XSLT, CSS, and a bit of javascript. The result was very portable and efficient: we had to support serving from z/OS mainframes that used EBCDIC, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows.
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With audio, it is seriously child's play. Compression is about as CPU intensive as you can get with audio outside of voice recognition, and it just isn't there.

No offense, but that's not even wrong.
You can still use IPv6 when you install the old Airport utility.
It's soldered on :(
Well, if you are banking on OS X as your platform for scientific computing, it seems you have chosen very poorly. I still don't understand why an organization would choose Mac Pros for workstations. That seems to me to be a class of machines where price/performance is very important, and Apple hasn't been very competitive in that area.

I think Apple has done a pretty good thing today. They've politely signaled to the market that they want you to f' off and buy someone else's product in this segment, because you aren't worth the effort anymore.

The money is in iOS and the laptops. And you don't need more than an iMac to develop for iOS or the laptops, so they just can't be bothered to make a workstation anymore. If you are pissed off about this you should investigate Linux or Windows.
If you want non-Apple hardware, go buy it. There's nothing stopping you (or anyone else) from doing so. I think Apple fills an obviously valuable niche (several niches, really) and I don't see any incentive for them to open up like you suggest. A lot of us do like to pay for design, reliability, and the end-to-end experience, and I'm glad there is a company like Apple to provide for customers like myself.
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I prefered the original, less designed version - perhaps because it's more "programmer-ish" than the current one:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110710194634/http://programming...

but I can understand why it got changed :)
Ah. My refusal to read press releases about scientific papers when the original is available bites me again. The press release is definitely less useful, and the quoted coauthor's quote less measured, than the original paper.
Funnily enough, Peak has just become a dead product as BIAS are out of business: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/06/bias-makers-of-peak-ce...
It's not $3 to transmit a file. It's $3 to:

Design a great UX

Handle Credit Cards safely

Give you access to a robust infrastructure that won't crash

Market the site

Build and research a top quality e-Reader

Build data centers all around the world

etc etc etc

Bottom line is the guy made WAY more selling with Kindle/Amazon than with any other format, even given their large cut. That didn't just happen by magic. He is free to sell only with other vendors and make less money if Amazon's fees upset him so much.
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Yes, I was a little surprised when I reached the charity step: 'well, what do you plan to do if they actually do sue you? Go ask your fans for another 40k to pay for your defense & appeal and/or damages?'
I disagree with your disdain for IDEs... I hope that you are not totally misleading the people who will learn from your book because learning how to use the capabilities of Visual Studio or any decent IDE is very valuable. How are they going to debug complex graph data structures in their CS class if they don't have a great debugger? How are they going to understand the power of intellisense in modern programming? How are they going to learn about compiler flags without getting a headache? How much time are they going to waste compiling and linking with the commandline?

I like the no-copy-paste and straight notepad approach trust me. It works for everyone, it's a solid way to get these things into your brain. You need to write code, there's no way around it. But to tell people to never use IDEs because they are bad and they make you a bad programmer is BULLSHIT.
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It is also in part funny as it matches the classic immature, over the top, but skillfully delivered tone and scope.
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The iPad 1 is more than two years old, so is not supported in upcoming OS versions. Every iOS devices has been updated only two major OS versions so far; it looks like the 3GS will be the first to beat this trend with three major OS updates from iOS 3, but has the advantage of a rather low resolution screen needing less memory for graphics.
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Super quick site. I've got assloads of Hardcore gold and need to dump it to the RMAH.... hmmmm
I was thinking about something very similar to this.

Given the possibility for high quality fake picture/videos, has anyone ever tried to use fake evidence in order in order to throw out real ones?

Let's assume this scenario: Jeff got pulled over for running a red light. There is video recording of this being used as evidence in court. If Jeff is able to produce the exact same video with same timestamp, except this time it has the prosecutor sitting in the car, can he argue that since they both look real, and obviously can't both be real, both would have to be thrown out?

It seems to me once this happens, all evidence of the same type would have a higher bar of being acceptable as real.
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This is just an ad for some run of the mill laptops.
Some of the ideas behind passport are available in other apps or on other platforms. Windows Phone 7.5 has something very similar for boarding passes/departure information via live tiles.

The downsides to the Windows Phone approach is that it's for specific apps and specific airlines.

What do you mean by "Android apps can't easily fill that space, because they'll all have different standards." ?

Passport looks very similar to part of the features already available in things like Google Wallet and Square's Card Case.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that this doesn't have the potential to be great for Apple, iPhone users, retailers, and iOS app developers ....
clean and straight to the point site. looking forward to its progress
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Wait, the RAM on a $2200 professional model laptop is fucking soldered on???

Apple continues to disappoint. This kills any desire I had to buy one of these. If I can't keep upgrading it over the next few years as I need it, what is the point of buying this over an Air?
1080p @ 32bpps is 8MB/frame. That's 7FPS max, so anything that moves a lot of pixels is totally out of the question.

Even with just Visual Studio and normal office usage, I found it very frustrating using a 1080p screen over USB. Very choppy and annoying.