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Interesting that the new Maps makes no mention of public transit support. Is that gone completely now? It looks like your app can register as a "router" to support different types of navigation routing, but it would suck if that is no longer built in.
I'm really happy for platform-specific development, and I'm gonna let it finish, but cross-platform development is the most cross-platform development of all time.. of all time!
Because that's confusing as hell.
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tl;dr Eric explains reasonably well why he thinks RMS is a fanatic, but fails utterly to explain why his opinion (on that or any other subject) matters.
iOS devices are best in class, or near the top at their price point. Apple laptops and desktops are pricey (although I would argue not outrageously so, especially if you're using them for work), but lower priced alternatives sacrifice a lot in terms of fit & finish.
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Some general advice / what I would do, without knowing too much specifics about your situation:

If you're in Europe, take a www.Hetzner.de/en dedicated server, 49 EUR/month is a small fee to pay to avoid embarrassment on the launch day.

If you're in US, try to use one of the high-end Amazon EC2's boxes as a dedicated server on launch day. Don't buy many of them, just 1, don't code scalability, don't be trapped in proprietary APIs, just rent a medium-to-high-end EC2 box for launch day. It's peanuts to have it for 24 hours, just use it as your launch-day dedicated server. You can see afterwards what happens with the traffic and adapt.

Having said that, be careful with configuration and stuff like that. Most of the bottle-necks are with limits set too low or too high (too few MySQL connections, too many Apache workers that swap the box to the death and so on). If you tweak them right, 90% of the preparation is done.

Be proactive, be available, logged in, monitor the service latency's periodically on launch day and good luck!
Mind blowing. And so great you publish it all to improve the product.
Yep, me too. Those SocialCam videos are so enticing! I click but when prompted to install I resist.

It's so f'ing annoying that you can't even follow a link (like anything on Yahoo) without installing the app. I just do a separate Google search for the story title instead of installing the app. At some point there is less sharing going on. I'm more likely NOT to check out what my friend read because of this.
I don't know how much economic sense that statement makes exactly; it's a little simplistic. Consider:

Some people bought new homes for the first time at the top of the bubble, trading real dollars and real future liabilities for a house. The fact that the house can no longer be sold for nearly as much materially impacts what they will be able to do with their future: they have lost wealth.

And at any time, many individuals could have sold their home to another person, in exchange for real tangible wealth which could have been put in a lasting form. That's an opportunity cost and represents a tangible loss as well. It's true that not every individual could have done this, though, yes.

It's a complicated picture, really, and we oughtn't simplify it too far in either direction.
It would be far more interesting to see this technology on wallboards (TVs), car devices (de-coupling of interface devices with processing devices such as GPSs), and supplemental processing units.
> That second screenshot is most troubling, as the title does not match the query (i.e. that copy was built.)

Did you mean to say that the first screenshot was more troubling? That is the one where the user searched "meetingburner" and the ad copy says "Meeting Burner Software | GoToMeeting.com"
Linux + webapps will be the only way to combat the locked-down, run-only-what-we-allow-and-give-us-30% mentality eventually. iOS has proven that regular customers can have their computing freedom trampled on as long as you give them pretty buttons to press while it's happening. Insert other assorted not-far-off-doomsday-conspiracies-here.
If you look at the Passbook preview (http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/#passbook), the example is 'John's card' with Starbucks. Johnathan's card anyone?
Server-side and in command-line tools there is tons of software that need not explicitly call into the lower level stuff. The code you call will eventually do that, but as far as the programmer is concerned, that is of no importance.

GUIs may still be a different matter, but I haven't programmed them in .NET/Java in years.
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In Part 1 it's mentioned that they held up publishing this issue as it affects many other products:

"While these issues are already fixed in Chrome, some of them impact a much broader array of products from a range of companies. So, we won’t be posting that part until we’re comfortable that all affected products have had an adequate time to push fixes to their users."

Presumably this is referring to other webkit browsers and the wordpad.exe exploit. Does anyone know if these problems have been fixed yet?
>As others have noted, it was wealth Americans never really possessed

This is one thing that definitely rings true to me. I grew up in a wealthy community that abutted many, many poorer ones. I would often ride my bike through all of these places, especially the most impoverished ones and lament to myself "So this is the richest country in the world?"

Later, after I graduated college and started looking for places to live it was amazing to me how much wealth was caught up in places I don't think I'd ever want to live. Nearly identical tract housing for 10s of miles in all directions. Nothing walkable at all, even sidewalks were just an afterthought. "So, is this is what wealth looks like?" I thought to myself. Obviously it wasn't wealth. That money never existed, but the debt people signed contracts for is real.
The objection is that this isn't mutually exclusive. You can provide all the niceties, and make it so that there are still ways in to the simplified UI so that a nine-year-old can set out on their own and learn things about how the machine works. The companies are using this paradigm shift as an excuse to lock us in a box, they are not locking us in a box because the tech or the experience is only available if they do so.

They're eating the seed corn, but they don't really care since they won't feel the effect for 15 years or more. I personally don't care much either, unless they manage to fully legislate their locked boxes as the only option... which they are trying to do whenever we aren't looking, by the way, the most recent being with Microsoft locking out other OSes on their ARM boxes.
With a quad-core CPU and an NVidia 650M and that beast of a screen, will heat be an issue? They've put a lot of powerful components in a relatively small package.
Yes, that's for sure. It's just unclear if I need any of those improvements except for games (which I'd happily sacrifice on my laptop).
Vladd, thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely look ito Amazon EC2. I did not know that you could rent it for a day.
Yes, I barely used it. The only thing I used the bay for was a secondary 1TB disk alongside with a primary SSD - which makes a good combination for data intensive development. Guess this option is now gone as well ...
I wrote an Instagram #wwdc wall last year while waiting in the WWDC line (5hours of waiting used in a meaningful way). The result is was InstaWWDC, still online and working

http://instawwdc.appspot.com/
Microsoft has a very strong technology evangelizing program targeted at upper education. They almost pay colleges to offer Windows-centric courses and Windows-only labs.

<tongue-in-cheek>

The Linux users generally consider OSX a nice Linux-like OS that lacks a decent package manager ;-)

Much like Microsoft, the hardware is great.

</tongue-in-cheek>

Disclaimer: I am mostly a Linux user who also uses Macs for certain tasks.
Pretty much yes.

Best wayto image rocky planets is in the mid-IR where they are brighter and their parent star is less bright.

Mid-IR detectors weren't very good 30years ago when todays large telescopes were planed and the mid IR telescopes that have been built were based around poor detectors from 30years earlier and so are small.

Of course what you claim a telescope is for and what is the fashionable topic once it's running can be different. That's the nice thing about telescopes compared to say an LHC - decades after they open they are finding new unusual things with new instruments.
Since it was Google's data, Apple will probably build it back in at some other point since it's what they've done previously.
How do you defend an anonymous user in court?

See this specific example: http://www.aclu.org/national-security/doe-v-holder

More generally, groups like EFF can represent the interests of groups of users without naming them individually.
I agree.

It won't just be what you do in the office either. Modularity like this would help speed up iterations in car nav technology. (Why should GPS units be so tightly coupled with the display tech? Why did it take several years after the first iphone before we saw multi-touch GPSs? Shouldn't I be able to upgrade the voice command module in an older-generation car?)

I like what Peter F. Hamilton imagined in his Commonwealth Saga. Your personal computer expands out to available resources as you move from place to place.
Have you considered using Parallels or VMware Fusion? Both are good options. I use Parallels daily for all my Windows development.

It took some time to relearn my windows modifier keys (CMD = Windows Key; ALT is where the Windows key normally is), but after that expense I run Mac and Windows app in the same session, and more importantly, without switching hardware.
"Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later"

Welcome to iOS fragmentation.
What "Unix friendly features" has Apple locked away?
That may also be because the 3GS is still on sale now. Not many Android phones from 2009 are still available for purchase.
Really? That's actually quite surprising to me. I'd say at this point in my undergrad the majority of people in my class use Linux, followed by OS X, followed by Windows (as their development machine, I'm confident that a good number of those Linux users also have Windows installed).
Have you seen performance benchmarks for the 2010 air vs just the 2011 (which i own btw)?

Personally, i think the 2011 Air is a great machine and offering 8GB on it now is all that needed to be done to keep it a great machine for another year.

But definitely, certainly, the 2010 to 2011 update was important in terms of performance.
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still in favor of a self-hosted solution and don't mind to pay for that, with that you can compete against the legacy video conference guys, e.g. cisco, polycom(where you set up your private system with their offering, though you now use PC to replace the hardware part).
Needed them in BOS when I flew a few weeks ago. At least there was a sign that said you did--I didn't tempt it by going through with just my phone.
Could you be more specific about what restrictions are in Snow Lion that aren't in past versions of OSX?
To me, says "Available shortly". http://i.imgur.com/CbjlY.png

But thanks for the link.

EDIT: As other's have pointed out, you need to be using Safari. I can confirm I can watch it when I open it up there.
Yeah, their prices are actually per hour :-).

The instance types are at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ (you probably want Medium or Large)

The hourly prices are at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ (you want the "On-Demand" section)
Isn't effective government a system which can maximise the following function?

almost certainly not.

For example, many people think that "effective govt" involves some notion of "justice" and/or "fairness".

One concrete example is Obama's position wrt capital gains taxes. He wants higher rates even if that results in less revenue. (Higher rates with less revenue means that there's less capital gain, which means less wealth produced, aka less total stuff. Since there's less tax revenue, there's less govt spending.)

A significant number think that "effective govt" propagates certain values/behaviors and discourages others.

Yes, there is disagreement on what "justice" and "fairness" mean and there's also disagreement as to the values/behaviors to be encouraged/discouraged.
Does the "iOS 6" image seem blurry to someone else or is it just me? That's not very Apple-like.
I like this "Good developer will never feel his code is good enough, and will always continue to clean and fix."
You'll be able to replace the entire main board most likely, but that's it. The chips are not able to simply be re-soldered.

But if you're going to do that, just sell your existing Air and buy a new one..
Hopefully Google will produce (and be allowed) a Google Maps app for iOS.
$30 for the ThunderBolt GigE adapter. It's possible people will lose them but you do have to physically disconnect the RJ45 from it before you can leave (unless you have a very long cable) so it's not a big problem really. Easier to lose your untethered car keys, wallet, etc.
make sure you're using Safari
I don't think that really holds. I had a cheap 2048x1152 23" monitor in 2009. Excepting very rare 2048x1536 15" laptop displays, it was comparable in pixel count to the previously-top 1920x1200 laptop resolution. The iMacs have had a 2560x1440 27" option since 2009 and I'd expect the next update to go higher. There have been 2560x1440 or similar 30" displays for a while, my boss was using one in early 2009 or so, 2880x1880 or higher can't be far off.

Since you're comparing with "most desktop rigs", you should also remember that most 15" laptops are 1280x800 or 1440x900.
Well, once scaled, the retina screen comes to be about the same resolution as that of the W series Thinkpads (1080p), which is probably how you'd be using it until apps start supporting the resolution bump natively anyway. I just ordered a W530 with that display, 2.7ghz i7 quad core, and their most powerful graphics card for under $1,900. It's not a 'Retina' macbook, but still seems like a good deal to me.
2880x1800 pixels on a 15.4 inch display? That's pretty impressive from a technical stand point, but I can't see how it's going to be useful in real life - I find 1680x1050 to be at the threshold of usability for me.

1600x900 is perfect on a 15.6, and 1920x1080 is the maximum I'd go for on a 17 inch display. Any higher and I'd just connect a bigger external display...

Can anyone give me an idea of what this resolution can actually be useful for?
That is what I suspected. It is a shame as I doubt the built in SSD has the performance of the Intel SSDs :(
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I think even if you are not a fan of macs or even this laptop you should still love it. Because of this new release we should expect to see releases from every other competitor by the end of the year to match the same screen resolution. Hopefully this will jumpstart the tv resolution from HD 1080 to something bigger like 4k and once this happens the next gen game consoles will surely follow on with greater amounts of details.
2. Openness – digital citizens have a right to an open, unobstructed Internet

10. Property – digital citizens have a right to benefit from what they create, and be secure in their intellectual property on the Internet

It seems to me that 10. would often times conflict with 1., 2. and 6. How would these conflicts be solved?
It'd be interesting to read about how Glazunov & Pinkie Pie figured all this out. What did they try that worked, what didn't work, how long did they spend on this, what tools did they use?
you always have to reach for the escape key

Nonsense. Map caps lock to control regardless of whether you're an emacs or vim user. If you use vim, control+c does the same as escape and since vim does still use control sometimes, it makes sense to keep control easy to access and just use that (IMHO very easy to press) key combo instead.
It looks great. But I think I'm waiting to see how hot this machine gets. It's more compact and still has an 85W power adapter. Because of the higher DPI, it's pushing a lot more pixels even doing menial stuff.

For perspective: my (larger) 2010 MBP 15" w/SSD gets very warm even when not doing anything with the GPU. Compiling in IntelliJ will get it to burn your lap off. When I've tried to use it to play games, it practically melts itself.
This. Won't show up on Chrome or other browsers. Historically true initially.
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Interesting. I love Macs and I have one for work, but for home I use Windows because Macs are so bad for gaming. Way I see it, Windows is close enough to being as good as Macs that it doesn't bother me too much to use it, but to my taste Macs are somewhat superior.
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I am going to simply go by what ESR himself says, which is that his wife is a lawyer and so she goes and works every day which funds his ability to stay at home and write blog posts about the intellectual inferiority of black people and how the poor deserve no government help. No I am not making this up.
> rings true to me

The problem with complex macroeconomics and popular politics summarized in one phrase.
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I'm very curious about the Passbook app. This seems to be the beginning of Apple's payments platform, and not just that; coupons, location based alerts, and - why not - P2P payments.
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Agreed. The next version we're working on will be able to suppress RTs and other stuff.
While the new laptops seem very nice, the Mac Pro is a blatant attempt to insult the customer's intelligence. A video card from 2009, seriously? A quick search of newegg.com revealed that this card is so old and obsolete that they don't even sell it anymore. I understand that graphics cards aren't the most important thing in the world to many of Apple's customers, but there is absolutely no reason that they don't at least have a 6990 or even the new 7990 available as an option.
Seagate has a $99 ThunderBolt dock available but figure an extra $50 for a cable to go with it. It's designed for their GoFlex enclosures but I think it works fine with a bare drive too.
Seems to be a year ago or more.
When you hear economists advocate monetary stimulus, this is part of the reason why. Being over your head in interest not only sucks, it has real consequences for economic supply and demand. This is true both for consumers and "job creators".
I question whether revenue is the right metric given that Microsoft's profit from software sales over the last 20 years probably exceeds the profits from consulting of the other 9 companies.

Also, I question whether the 10 largest companies are representative of the industry as a whole.
Do oter manufacturers except Panasonic cover spills?
How is the machine milled MacBooks designed to fail at the first sign of trouble?

The batteries are actually designed to last for many years and pretty easy to replace with a screwdriver.

My MBP from 2008 is still going strong, and that's the less solidly built pre-unibody. Unlike many others, Apple extended the warranty because of the nVidia chipset bug.
You should give Braid another go if you have the time, I played it on and off for months before finishing. In terms of games that make you actually think about what they're saying, I've yet to find a better one. "Art games" excluded because they usually aren't fun.
Oscar Wilde said, "Everything in moderation, including moderation." This is a very elequent way of expressing that you shouldn't focus too much on living a "moderate" lifestyle.

Rejecting air conditioning is a fundamentalist viewpoint. It's no better or worse than a Wall Street trader who has billions of dollars but no meaningful relationships. If the pursuit of your chosen ideology blots out the meaningful relationships in your life, then what's the point of the ideology?
You should check AnyMeeting. The feature set for a free account doesn't come close in comparison with what you have suggested above.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I think these meeting services are one of those businesses which are apparently raking dough off of Ads via general public adoption. These are no longer just a business services.
I have modeled this article after some great developers I've always wanted to learn from, this is how they've treated their work.
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These slides really need more exposure in my opinion.
The move toward integrated, worry-free, easy to use products for consumers is a good thing.

In order to keep such things being developed, Apple will need to provide an adequate development environment.

Thus, Apple has an incentive to keep both worlds alive.

The only thing to worry about is that, because they only have the incentive to keep their development ecosystem merely adequate, we won't see much improvement in developer tools – just slow, linear change. Fortunately Xcode has competition from Visual Studio to keep it going, but whether they will continue offering a competitive BSD development environment is a legitimate question. Most Linux distributions already provide a better experience in this respect, having package managers and user communities and such.

Ultimately, I find the attitude you present here to be a bit overreactive. Lion and Mountain Lion introduce a number of iOS-like features and integration, but as far as I know, the developer tools were not crippled in any way, only improved, a bit.
The difference between RMS and ESR is one of kind, not one of degree

Yes.

RMS is concerned with morality, ESR with practicality.

Also yes, for some definition of “practicality.”

The open source movement is just as ardent, just as committed and just as "extreme" as the free software movement, but more successful.

I don’t know how to measure commitment, but I agree that the open source movement is more successful in the sense that it is more popular.

But what else should we expect? If you take two groups with similar ideas, but one thinks of moral arguments as a way to achieve practical goals, while the other thinks that practical arguments are a way to achieve moral goals, you should almost always expect to see the “practical” group be more successful than the moral group.

I see this in school, where students who study how to pass tests get higher marks than students who study the material to learn. I see this in business. I see this in politics. Why would we expect to see anything else in software?

no, we don't need RMS

I think that’s a fine statement to make if you qualify who “we” are. If you mean people concerned with practical objectives, you may be right. I caution against rhetoric that might be mistaken for suggesting that your point of view encompasses everyone reading your arguments.
Holy crap 2880x1800. I've been buying 15" 1920x1200 laptops for last 10 years because I love resolution, but this is just absurdly awesome.

I only use Linux, but if no one else competes with this LCD I'll buy a Macbook Pro for sure.
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Google has changed the relationship between exploiters and themselves into something symbiotic and fun.

How refreshing it is to hear excitement and admiration when a large tech company speaks about an exploit made in one of its products.

Super awesome.

[ See http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/expanding-chromium-security... ]
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