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OK, I see the downvote brigade is in.

Let's analyze this for a second.

The resolution by the OS is ostensibly 1920x1200. This is what apps see and what they render bitmaps for.

This is then upscaled twice in each direction to 3840x2400.

Then, this finally somehow gets put on 2880x1800. As I understand it, it gets downscaled from 3840x2400 directly to 2880x1800.

LOL, it just dawned on me. You guys have been taken for such a fucking ride. I've just checked the numbers, I hadn't noticed it before.

The physical resolution of the monitor is 2880x1800. This is exactly 1.5x more in each direction than 1920x1200, which is the original input format.

Now you must understand two things:
1. scaling is a DSP process.
2. You never use floating point operations in digital signal processing if you can get away with integers, because integer operations are so much cheaper and because the result is always more precise. (The only reason to use floats is to get more headroom, but that's a detail you don't need to worry with because it is in no way applicable to resolution scaling. You could use floats for pixel colour, and many systems do that already)

So what does this mean? How do you multiply by 1.5 if you can only use integers?

--> YOU MULTIPLY BY THREE AND DIVIDE BY TWO. <--

The intermediate resolution of 3840x2400 exists solely as a tiny step in the rescaling algorithm, a step which in itself does not add any information that wasn't there in the original 1920x1200 image. Similarly, some of you audio people may realize that most of your VST or AU plugins have 64x oversampling. Does this mean that your project is working at 12 MHz sampling rate? NO!!! Your recorded material is still at 192k, and your project still does not contain any useful information above 96 kHz. Don't be silly. There's being tricked when not knowing, but given that a majority of the people commenting on mac hardware here seem to have some idea of audio processing, that's just fundamentalist hypocrisy.

You've fallen prey to sensationalist marketing and measurement of e-penis. Except your e-penis is completely made up and never actually happened.

Wow, some people in this thread are so, extremely, gullible. I had really come to expect more from HN, and am truly disappointed and dismayed.
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That is definitely a good idea, but what about the patents that are so blatantly vague or obvious, that many people are unknowingly violating them. It seems it's easier to prove non-infringement rather than prior art with most software patents.
Views hasn't increased at all in last 5 mins. It probably gets re-indexed infrequently
It is the definition of a tautology: you're both saying the same thing but from different directions. AWS is trying to avoid room for equivalent services, not services which do less: they don't want a customer who's sensitive to $2/month but they do want people to say “ops is expensive, let's save our people for non-commodity jobs”

Also, those cost comparisons almost universally compare spot pricing rather than reserved. If you run the numbers seriously AWS is not the bargain basement leader but it's a lot more even than the contrarian blog echo chamber would have you believe, particularly if you have bursty workloads, use some of their other offerings and/or need servers outside of the US/Europe.
I would have posted this to the other thread but it's 14 hours old and it would probably get buried under all the comments there.
Right, the situation that just a single letter was changed was what confused me.
I think what he's saying is "we bill in full day increments. If I work an hour for you I cannot work a full day for anyone else." No?
If the goal is to get a working app in the hands of people that need it. Have an android app created that can be easily sideloaded (this could be done on iOS will more burden). You have a portable computer, treat it like one. There are no rules when your children's well being is at stake.

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The ipad should be a) backed up, b) put in airplane mode.
They are both DRM free. You can find the mp4 in your Steam directory.
Clearly Apple is a hardware manufacturer according to the common business definition. Samsung is doing very, very well in the mobile device market - second only to Apple. Hardly anyone else makes a profit!

Really it is quite simple to analyse the confounding situation Microsoft finds itself in with regard to pricing its mobile OS bundle. They can either price it high or they can price it low. I consider why they priced it high.

iPad in the current reality is the high end of popular mobile tablet devices. One need only look at tablets for sale at Amazon.

You say that "Microsoft needs to make a product that people want". OK. But Microsoft sells software - and does not have direct control over what actually gets sold to tablet customers. This software approach worked for the commodity PC market for decades - thus the chasm.

I agree with your arguments about Microsoft's bet on Windows 8.
When the housing bubble started, everyone was like, "We just had a bubble. This can't be another one. Nobody sees TWO bubbles in one lifetime."

But then it became clear that there had, indeed, been two bubbles.

Now everyone sees bubbles everywhere.
I think this comment is one reason: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103596

I could really use one now. I'd buy one of the existing ones, but man... I really feel like a sucker paying so much for a system that's clearly lacking in a lot of spots, to know that I'll be upgrading in a year.

Buying electronics is always a gamble of buy now or buy later. Announcing there is an update coming can poach some sales of the current model. I'm sure there is more to it than that. but it can happen.
This is correct, and YouTube has been like that for years.
Why's that? What makes it a nightmare?
Do you pounce?
Smaller, self-contained teams like Bing and Xbox are/were allegedly insular enough to foster such a spirit.
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I love it though when people point it out.

OH MY GOD THE NUMBERS ON THIS VIDEO ABOUT CATS DONT MATCH UP, WHAT A CONSPIRACY
One example: when Heroku/Mongo/Apigee/etc rescinded their support from the Sqoot API Jam after women were offered as one of the perks alongside beer.

There are many things to do, but a solid first step is not tacitly condoning hateful speech or deeds.

The next step is to create a welcoming environment. It's not obvious how to do it (for example, avoid employees taking a dark unsupervised walk to their mode of transit to go home), but would you want to be somewhere where random anonymous strangers could verbally assault you, and you had no legal recourse? That's the social environment that YouTube has made.
Is there an android app for this? Software that allows people to speak shouldn't be patented. Or if it is, it should be licensed for $1.
Around here (university town) you can find students and unemployed graduates who are more than willing to do web work for $20 - $30 an hour.
New Macbook Pro does NOT render at 3840x2400
I think the main problem is that the length of protection is far too long for the IT industry - something more like three to five years would be more appropriate in my opinion given how fast it changes. And then there is also the problem that most software patents should fail the prior art or obviousness tests, but it costs so much to fight them that most companies settle...
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Wouldn't transporting humans at 2,500 - 4,000 mph kill them? It seems like the body would not react well to beginning or ending transit at such velocities.
I don't know exactly how patents work for drugs, but I don't believe that you can patent an already existing (generic) drug, but in pills colored red and blue, for example. And another patent for yellow pills. And another and another. Alas, in the software industry this is very much possible (and being done every day).
I agree with alot of what Cringely is implying, because current VC funding at every level (including YC) has been very cliquey. You simply can not with a straight face say that the only insanely great technology business ideas come out of four places (Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley) and basically nowhere else. For example, two cities that have the highest concentrations of baccalaureate degree holders in the US are Seattle, WA and Raleigh, NC. Now pop quiz: Name a YCombinator company in either of those cities.

Oh, I know, it doesn't really mean anything. I just find it interesting that two otherwise academically talented areas are burgeoning hotbeds of neither startups nor even talent for said startups. I guess we can further break down what kind of degrees the citizens of these two Rodney Dangerfield of academic and tech hubs have. I mean, for all we know, they could be in philosophy or advanced basket weaving or, worse, gasp, English.

But the rise of crowdfunding couldn't come at a better time, in my opinion. It's high time the silo gets drained for a more swampy, organic, bubbling ooze sort of scattershot approach of crowdfunding. It'll be spendy, it'll be risky, it'll make outside observers think it's all at best a big gamble and at worst a big liberal boondoggle that will further weaken our country like everything else democrats come up with that dilutes and distributes power into the hands of "the masses".

Further, it'll make professional VCs cringe when successes actually start coming out of these crowdsourced ventures, as they talk of "amateur hour" money crowding out their world of term sheets and share dilution calculations over tapas in Menlo off Sand Hill Rd.

Whatever is going to happen, things like kickstarter and indiegogo and JOBS et al. are going to shake the status quo up big time. In my neohippie indie-and-proud idealistic head, it's not only exciting, it's necessary.
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Oh, it's definitely true that many composers reacted and "innovated" away from harmony, and that rock was developed around the same time. But there was a great proliferation in styles in the beginning of the 20th century. During that same period, you have guys like Rachmaninoff, Holst, and Orff -- different points in the musical space, and still popular today. And then you have Ralph Vaughan Williams, who went back to the time before harmony by creating new modal music.

Popular music and art music have coexisted for a long time. There are a lot of trends happening at once in music, and you've hardly made a case that Schoenberg and Cage are strongly connected to the rise of rock. I don't see why your reasoning can't be used to argue that the overwhelming complexity of the Romantics destroyed art music and handed control over to Jazz.

(And, no, John Williams is just an acknowledgement that anyone I call a descendant of Beethoven is going to sound a bit like Beethoven. I can think of several names innovating in the big orchestral space, all of which sound quite a bit different, and most of which you've never heard of.)
so did i, but i pretty much always eliminated everyone else early on, or went for the alpha centauri victory. never tried playing out the total war scenario with balanced empires and nuclear weapons. but from the op, the problem is not winning from a clean state, it's that he's gotten himself into a bad situation and needs to get out.
An awesome interview. In his views on "selfishness", trust and gpl2 as ingredients in the success of Linux, Linus reveals a masterful understanding of human nature. He deserves every dollar of the Millennium technology prize, and more.
The same reason why having a girlfriend that fucks you for your wallet makes it a nightmare. Sell-outs are never good work.
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Perhaps you missed the smiley. In any case, you can drop the low root and add the high one and it still only takes 3 fingers. I generally leave out the high note and play the middle triad and the bass with the thumb Hendrix style as it feels the most comfortable.

But your main point was that the F was the most difficult to play, when what you really mean is your favorite 4 note version of the F is more difficult to play. A simple F triad, or even the triad with the bass is trivial to play, certainly no harder than any other first position chord except perhaps Em.
Right.

Its interesting to consider the choices available to the incumbents given their respective legacies.

Is Microsoft making a mistake by pricing its mobile OS bundle at a high $85? To what extent is that decision forced by their existing Windows franchise?

I think that Microsoft is making a locally optimal decision, and cannot yet fully come to grips with the post-PC era.
Slave labour was used sometimes, e.g. the Thailand-Burma railway.

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

Five hundred men died for every mile of track laid, but hey, they had too many prisoners anyway!
He is clearly asking how the article gets those prices.
You mean something like Planetarion or Orion's Belt?

To be clear, your phrasing seems to present this as a novel approach, though it is not. Regardless, it's all about the particular game design that makes or breaks a game so I wish you success, it just struck me that maybe you were not aware of this fairly large genre based on how your text sounded.
Enterprise users I know already bring their iPads to work and especially to business travel. Enterprise IT departments already accommodate them.
Don't know if this is what you're looking for, or if it counts as scientific or Buddhist, but:

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That's exactly my feeling as well. Looks like MSFT's PR people shadow-wrote this piece.
A bit like Amie Street? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amie_Street
"It was highly rational of Nixon to start the Vietnam War."

Either you're making some deep meta-quip that I don't get, or...
Definitely. But a major trend in art music relatively recently has been the mix of foreign and other forms with Western styles (and certainly true of the music I'm familiar with). I could hardly call Karl Jenkins or Tan Dun musical descendants of Beethoven. Perhaps I picked a name based on the wrong criteria.
In the 1990's I led an electric utility project team that deployed hundreds of Compac brand Windows NT tablets for field work in Florida, USA. No real problem with sunlight - who would stand in the sun there anyway?
"... The glory years of venture investing are over, or threaten to be, unless new blood, new values, and new ideas make their way in. That’s the value of crowdfunding, which promises to bring vast amounts of new capital to bear, not just on the same old ideas but on a broad array of ideas and business types that could never get through a door right now on Sand Hill Road. ..."

Tech startups are the seeds of new corporations. The disconnect between VC's and the market continues. Founders are gaining power over investors ~ http://paulgraham.com/future.html
I've co-authored a couple of tech books, published by Wrox and Apress. I don't think your age matters at all for this kind of thing, I think I got my first deal when I was your age.

The biggest thing to understand that isn't obvious for a first-time author is that as soon as you sign the dotted line, you'll be on the publisher's schedule. They have to plan out when to release and sell your book months in advance.

All of those chapter deadlines are also for the other people involved - tech reviewers, copy editors, production, etc. So if you run late, it squeezes them. I've done tech reviewing for a couple of programming books, and when the author gets behind, the editor pushes the tech reviewer to get the chapter turned around extremely quickly. Guess what that can do to the quality of your book!

Another thing to know is that the "control" of your book is very strange, especially if its successful and the publisher wants 2nd and 3rd editions - check your contract, but they may have the right to assign another author to the book and release an update if you refuse to do the update. What this means in practice is that you end up having to do the update yourself whether you have the time scheduled or not to keep someone else from doing a crummy job updating your book.
Its worth whatever people are willing to pay for it. It's a perception that you need Windows, and that's going to last a while. That's why there's such a huge market in silly things that you don't need(like Winzip for example), the price has nothing to do with how much engineering went into it, or how much it cost.

And also, from TFA the actual source of the article is hearsay at best. Pricing is more likely to be based around individual agreements with suppliers. They have a real incentive to get units out (to drive more App store revenue), But for smaller players they will continue to milk the Windows brand for as much as people are willing to pay for it.
Microsoft had a monopoly, >95% market share at the time of the anti-trust suit. They deliberately blocked other OSes from manufacturers' PCs (BeOS, for instance, from Compaq's lineup). Apple may have the largest single share, but they are not in a monopoly position.
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There was a post about how Google pause the count at 300 to verify the views.

Cant seem to find it but this is pretty close
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090821112609AA...
The Apple website says you have to download Mountain Lion through the App Store, which means you need a Mac (with OS X already installed) to get it. That's an update.
"The most ideal implementations would be between cities separated by dry, flat unpopulated terrain that doesn’t freeze, he notes, adding that China and India hold the most promise."

It doesn't make sense. terrain between China and India is completely opposite, Not Flat, Populated and Freeze (himalayas)
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My plan to defeat the other armies is:
1. Get the game: http://www.amazon.com/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-II-Pc/dp/B0000...
2. Defeat the other armies
This was an interesting article, but it's really sad to see that the comments here have devolved into the predictable "all pop music is garbage because they only use 4 chords" argument. It's exactly the same thing as someone looking at a Jackson Pollock and determining that it's garbage because "how much talent does it take to throw a bucket of paint on a canvas?".

The point of music, or any art, is to evoke an emotive response from the audience. To equate the "quality" of art to the technical abilities of its creator is essentially to reduce it to something more akin to juggling knives or spinning plates. Art isn't about virtuosity, it's about emotion.

But hey, if that's your thing, there are a ton of Dream Theater records available on iTunes.
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Haven't you just proven that your initial post above is irrelevant to an undersea rail system?

I'm not saying an undersea rail system is practical or smart. I'm just asking the relevance of your comparisons to US urban construction costs to begin with.

As a suggestion, a different tone might make your post seem more useful and less trollish. For example "An undersea tunnel will require serious construction breakthroughs to be practical. As a comparison, today's costs...". That would be a lot more constructive than attacking the people behind the article.
>I am much more disturbed by the prospect of a tyrannical or even "Friendly" AI some of them seem to be fond of.

Same. Even if such a thing is possible, the probability that it's done right the first time is close to nil. And since a recursively improving singularity A.I can be assumed to irreversibly take control of the balance of power, it's not really something that you could afford to screw up.

Of course, Yudowsky (To the extent that he's doing anything.) seems to be working off the assumption that if he doesn't do it someone else will.
My girlfriend is not much into video games at all, but she loved the movie. She was able to relate to the devs as she felt her experience getting her PhD was very similar.
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"Company valuations as defined by VC" won't float free of stock market performance for very long. I'm specifically referring to the last few big-name tech IPOs, none of which have been even remotely performing like a bubble surfer.
Adding to sources of grumpiness, my personal pet peeve is being expected to remember everything about the way a particular piece of software works.

Yes, I have worked on it. I may even have worked on it just last week. But unless I worked on that particular piece of functionality in the last 48 hours then I probably have no clue about what the code is doing under the hood. Give me a minute to read the source before you start demanding answers.
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Intel and Microsoft are very jealous of the high profit margins obtained by Apple on gross sales.

The Ultrabook is an Intel marketing scheme to make a commodity category out of the MacBook Air. Otherwise small form factor commodity laptops use less expensive Intel CPUs & low-end versions of MS Windows OS bundles.
I'd also like to add:

"What kind of business model is that, extorting companies for using Linux?"

I still get a very ant-competitive and anti-free-culture vibe from the place.
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I think there should also be an RSS tag somewhere in the markup to let Google Reader et al find your feed automagically.
I am a developer who has had a company maliciously file a patent claim against one of my apps, simply to try to take it out of competition from their own. They have never filed a case or intend to (since they don't even have one) but Apple has gone along with them and removed my app.

If you want to get rid of a competing app, all you have to do is make up lies about your competitor, threaten that you'll sue then and tell Apple. The iTunes store will take care of the rest.
Crowdfunding would have worked for many of the best startups. Dropbox absolutely could have been funded by HN/Digg/Reddit users.
WebRTC is available in developer versions of Google Chrome. There are some demos listed here: http://www.webrtc.org/running-the-demos
You've made a strong allegation. Can you explain it, considering this statement at the end of the article?

> (Reporting by Bill Rigby in Seattle; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Richard Chang)
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