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Many atheists I know don't know nearly enough about evolution to have a belief in it. They mostly don't know or care who planted those bones.

The issue is that we have the tendency to consider as atheist only the people who self-identify as such, while there's a lot of atheists who don't know they are one, they just don't have a belief in god(s).

As someone who lives in an increasingly less religious place - where even the majority of self-identified Christians is pro-choice - that describes almost everyone of my age that I know of.
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I'm not sure I follow Gruber's post here, which ironically points out how Microsoft's presentation this week for a tablet was incoherent and all over the map (kind of like this post.) I guess he's trying to assess Microsoft's position in the market by comparing their product announcement presentation skills to Apple's.

Really, when will the likes of Gruber learn that consumers will decide if they like those products, and they'll do so with their wallets. Surely he doesn't believe that Apple's success with i{whatever} is due to slick, coherent stories told onstage at some event they couldn't get into.

The truth is that the masses who buy these devices could care less about product announcements, Apple included. Apple customers will line up for the next item, no matter what it is. Microsoft customers -- well, not quite sure what floats their boat, but they'll do their thing.

These announcements are for lighting up the third-parties who like to consider themselves quasi-insiders. Like Gruber, for instance.
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Interesting that these Sony TVs run Linux. The Panasonic Viera line runs a version of FreeBSD.

I wonder if its possible to run programs such as XBMC on these embedded systems and make it output the picture to the TV screen. I mean its one thing to runs some command line binaries, another thing to actually share the screen with the other software on the TV, like its menus.

Maybe connecting a HDMI cable from a port on the TV back to itself, on another port would work?
I misread you. Sorry. We are in total agreement.
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I agree (about too much choice). Opinions make great products (think Apple, python, 37 Signals), but Microsoft appears to be trying to hedge their bets in every regard. Unfortunately, that rarely (if ever) works out.

That said, if it can do what they claimed and the price isn't stupid, I'll have one (then replace my MacBook Air with a MBPro). I'm not holding my breath, though. I've lost all faith in "product announcements" that don't actually have the product.

MS has all of the engineering talent to make this happen. I'm far from convinced that they have the leadership talent to make Surface a true success[1].

1. In this case, true success means taking an appreciative percentage of the market and inspiring changes in competitors' products (meaning they are thought leaders). MS is so large in the enterprise space that they may be able to turn this into many sales, but that doesn't mean they will be the ones pulling us into the future.
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I'm there to listen! One of the few times thus far in my life where I'll be in a room with a combined attendee net worth probably exceeding $ 1 Billion USD. And, to think that I'm decreasing that value when factoring in student loans. . .
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To be literal, the only thing that a shareholder 'controls' are the votes that their own shares provide. They may be able to influence the votes of others, but that by definition is not control.

What you've defined in the second paragraph is 'the likelihood that the shareholder decides the outcome of a vote'. You can call it control if you like, but don't make the mistake of assuming it's a very intuitive description of what the metric describes.
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I think what you're trying to illustrate is the systematic risk many of these companies fail to recognize. Or they recognize them and its in the best interest not to do anything about it.

This is the same thing as pointing to the banks for selling CDOs. Risky for the banks? No. Risky for the whole system to collapse? Yes. Since systematic risks are largely not direct risks they never get counted as risks to begin with, and therefore do not impact decision making.
It crashing during the presentation was a disaster and you could see it in the presenter's face. Man was that uncomfortable to watch. To me, it kind of summed the whole presentation; this is a hugely important moment for Microsoft, and they have a lot riding on the success of this tablet, yet they're rushing it to market. It's clearly not ready for primetime. It'll be interesting to see how the next few months play out.
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> So Microsoft faces a dilemma. Their business model of expensive software on cheap hardware is not sustainable. The future is nearly free software integrated into moderately priced hardware.

Apple, for all that's said about their software being excellent (and maybe it is) is a hardware maker. As such, they try to commoditize software: make complements to their own products as cheap as possible, so that the overall cost of buying Apple is as low as possible (while keeping their part of the profits as high as possible).

They have been immensely successful at this, obviously; but that doesn't mean "the future is nearly free software"! It means, Apple is trying to commoditize software and is doing a fantastic job at it. (Much better than what Sun tried to do for example).

But the answer to this, is that software makers should try to commoditize hardware. Of course, this is much harder, since the marginal price of a piece of hardware is non-zero. It may even be impossible, but that's still what Microsoft is trying to do -- it's not trying to jump into hardware making because "that's where profits are", it's trying to attack the hardware value proposition.

> the radical shift in Microsoft’s strategy is about the fight over the profits that remain after Apple’s

No, it really isn't. (Profits are the whole point, yes -- but the question is, what kind of profits are we talking about). Microsoft wants to bring the whole value of hardware down -- it doesn't want to take hardware profits for itself, it wants to make hardware profits disappear for everybody.

(It should give the Surface away for free.)
Rubbish. As an Aussie who has tried both, I have not noticed the difference. I deliberately tried the ones in the US to see if they were better, as people had said. They were the same tasteless garbage.
Hi. I work at PayPal. Really good feedback from everyone, so thanks for that. This redesign has been a long time coming, and the team that launched it are some of the most brilliant I've ever been lucky enough to work with.

As for the internal UI, that's changing soon too. If you're interested in checking out the beta, activate in-store checkout with your PayPal account at paypal.com/anywhere and you'll see the new account design. Still have work to do but it's getting much better. I'm an employee so I have a bias, but I'm also a customer that's been bitching about the UI for the last 8 years as well. I'm really happy with the direction the site (and the company) is headed.
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Wee bit OT...

I might be weird in this regard, but I've got a Samsung SMART TV, and well, the interface reminds me so much of what the Internet used to be like in the late 90s, early 000s... I've been waiting for the day someone comes and changes it all.

Perhaps it'll be a hacker, hacking their TV, putting on their own firmware. That's the best kind of success.
I disagree. If you can't tell a coherent story to people who are actively trying to fill in the gaps mentally, how will you tell it to the average Joe?

The disconnects imply that MS doesn't understand how to communicate with the non-technical, "buy stuff because it feels right" crowd. Instead, they try to market to everyone, and when you try to market to everyone, you succeed in marketing to nobody.
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I clicked on this story expecting the usual blatantly biased and totally pointless drivel from this guy. I wasn't disappointed. He keeps raising the bar for embarrassing tech commentary and that's why I will keep reading him knowing full well I shouldn't waste my time on that kind of trolling.

Now I'm even wasting your time by commenting on it. Please vote me down to -10 or I'll have to fagellate myself for an entire week!
Have you thought about installing VirtualBox and then compiling it on a proper Linux VM? That might be the easiest way to go...
Yes, it really looks like Microsoft wants to be Apple. Based on what Elop does in Nokia I believe that Microsoft wants to buy Nokia as well. There are lot of steps that makes Nokia unattractive company for other companies (e.g. "patent trolling" accuses from Google to Nokia), other steps (MeeGo and Meltemi termination, Symbian support moved to Accenture) that leaves Nokia only with WP and outdated feature phones (what makes Nokia unattractive target again unless you are Microsoft).

Other companies might consider buying Nokia only to prevent Microsoft doing that what would be quite fun to watch actually.
"Food stylists" have a fascinating but somewhat tedious job. I have watched one insert a cocktail stick into thousands of flakes of individual oatmeal in order to "plump them up" for a video shoot.

Food in commercials is treated like an actor. It is styled, staged, and post-produced to show it at its best. Food stylists are just as talented as traditional cosmetic artists, but few people seem to know they exist. It was good to see McDonald's revealing a little of their work here.
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There is an implicit assumption that OEM's are just lining up waiting for Microsoft to release an OS for them. But with Android being both free and successful, OEMs have little reason to risk building top of the line devices for Microsoft. I suspect very few people could name off any of the dozen Windows Phone's other than the Lumina.
I would find it strange that something like this is legal in a country like the USA. Then again, I would find it strange if something like that were illegal in a country like the USA.
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I've got no time for bitching but I think serious attempts to study the pros and cons of different approaches are both welcome and needed in our profession.
And if that were the end of the story, I think we'd be able to call it a day. But everyone has this funny expectation that that old code should keep getting faster with newer GPUs, in spite of the fact that GPUs don't work the way those programs were designed to use them.

Getting modern GPU performance, or anything close to it, through the crufty old immediate-mode API code is like drawing blood from a stone. Eventually developers need to take some responsibility for the code they're maintaining and migrate to a more modern API. Even on the desktop they'll have to do this - when their customers ask for modern GPU features, they'll have to move to OpenGL 3, which doesn't have immediate-mode either.
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That depends. Most of the projects I'm thinking about had Solve A Hard Problem at their core.

Granted, there might be a better way to solve it than devise some technology to do so that I never thought of.
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> Fixing stuff that isn't broken.

I haven't looked at this new UI much, but I always found the old one to be pretty horrible, finding the right place for various tasks/settings was a pain in the ass.

So while I don't know if this update does "fix" it, I certainly disagree that it wasn't broken.
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Most people probably watch the ads on TV or somesuch and don't bother with keynotes.

Also, keynotes are hit-and-miss for everyone (including apple) and as such nobody has the time to sit and watch 45 mins of random people talking.
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The problem with your scenario is quite obvious.

Consumers do not see profit, they see price tag. Hardware comes with a price tag, so the options are sell at cost or find a way to subside the hardware.

With Apple pushing for ever so cheap App Store software so much so it is willing to drastically cut its own premium software's price. The potential for a software subsided hardware business is diminishing fast. While Apple may forever lost the ability to sell hardware at 100% markup, Microsoft in the mean time is losing the ability to sell software for $100 and more . It is already reality in consumer space, and the price structure is collapsing too in the business world.

Microsoft has the money to give millions of Surfaces away for free, then what? It kills all its OEM in the process and can not make the money back on 30% software sales cut. And next year Apple brings out fucking iPad 4... Genius plan then?
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I think they did rush the demo, but they needed to.

They'd revealed Windows 8 and had mixed reactions about teh touch interface, and both users and developers were skeptical about it. They needed to show off this hardware for everything to make sense. When I saw the presentation, I had this 'Ohhhhh....' moment where it all made sense - the interface, the hardware, their strategy.

They pushed this launch forward to show they actually had a plan.
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"Actually, when placing a piece in greater context, mentioning the source and the tendencies of a source, is not an ad hominem fallacy. (It is ad hominem, just not fallaciously so)."

I hope you will agree with me that saying false things about the source of a piece is a fallacy, whether or not context would be relevant. The claims that Cato is a "Cato is a Koch Bros. group" or that it has a "very very far right bent" are pretty clearly false, and only a person who doesn't know much about Cato could make such claims. Context from someone who is either not very knowledgable or willfully misrepresenting the situation is not actually something anyone should pay attention to. If such statements have value, it is only by accident.
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Guys, US is a fantastic country for anyone who actually _wants_ something. Put some creativity here and there and it works flawlessly. I laugh when I talk to US citizens (or read them online) who go on endless whining on how police state this country has become, how much burden you have to put up with to open the business, how the school system is in the toilet, etc, etc. They just don't know what they're talking about. Any US system could be ridiculed and laughed upon, and sometimes it deserves it. But it's fucking efficient.

Go open the debit card, bank account, business, whatever in, lets say France (I love this country, I've been there like 30 times and it's never enough). If you succeed you can come back to the US and apply for National Interest Waiver for being a person with extraordinary abilities in science AND arts AND business. Haha.
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My 26ex320 got a software update last night. I reckon that it's a fix for this exploit.

The annoying thing is that this update pops up and yet we can't get 4od un the UK still and Sony just don't seem to care about the users.
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Dan, just make sure you don't buy too much into the other side of things.

There's no glory in being "holed up in an office in Philly for $650 a month working 14-hours a day this summer."

You don't get any special reward for doing things the hard way. Maybe you know this. I sure wish I did when I decided to bootstrap in Chicago 4 years ago. I made things really hard on myself thinking there was some special reward that would come from it. Other than raising my tolerance for suffering and comfort with extreme poverty, there really wasn't. And living on $1200/month made it really hard to do good work. Again, this might not be your situation. But I hear stuff like this from people when they explain why they're staying in place X and bootstrapping what they say will be a big world-changing company, and I wonder...
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Couldn't link to the actual list of documentation manuals?

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It is a nice list of documentation/references to have.
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"Surface is a bold move, and classic Microsoft. If the OEMs don’t like it — and they do not — what are they going to do? Turn to Linux (which no one wants) ... ?"

I want Linux over Mac OSX and Windows 7. Imagine how fast Linux would grow if they got the OEMs's support.
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