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> Why are they faking the resolution?

Because bitmap-based applications (which is all of them) designed for 110 DPI are unusable at 220 dpi, you can barely click the buttons.

> I hope they are not rescaling stuff like photoshop to something other than actual screen res

From the keynote, I would guess they are unless the application "opts in" to HiDPI support, as with iOS. HiDPI applications would be rendered in "true resolution" (2880x1800), non-HiDPI ones are automatically scaled to the specified global setting (for non-native controls, native controls probably use native rendering in all cases)

> I have read this sentence three times and it still makes no sense unless the word 'resolution' has been completely mauled by marketing idiots.

It scales bitmaps, but text is rendered at native resolution (or so I'd guess), so the text and "native" UI elements are going to be extremely crisp, because they'll be rendered with 4 times the usual amounts of pixels for the same physical size.
I am sure with some configuration the site will look gorgeous! Looks good on my iPad currently.
Yes, but those 40 feet through US customs all too often turns out to be a long trip indeed.
The GPL only states you have to release the source to people you distribute the code to, not directly make it publicly available. If the missiles work well enough when "delivered", there will be no one left eligible to demand access to the source!

Assuming that they are not selling them to someone rather than firing them at someone, of course.
> So the current existing version of photoshop can't access all the pixels then?

It can if you set the global resolution to 2880x1800, but because most UI elements are likely bitmapped it'll be unusable: a 30px button will remain 30px, but will be a quarter the physical surface.
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In IE8 (WinXP) I get an error in the certificate (CN = *.apphb.com), but the page looks fine.

In IE9 I don't get any error, but the page look horrible (don't use the css?).

In Chrome it works without problems.
Do you mean http://vizibility.com/?
The european regulations are cheap compared to the legal risks of operating in the states. So, thats not it.

You would need to provide some evidence of this since it is completely counter intuitive. Just look at where US treasuries compared with European bonds to compare which countries/continents are viewed as having less legal risks.

Exchange rate? You keep assuming prices are based on costs. They are not. They are based on profit.

You are correct, if French people will pay more for an Apple product and Apple can price discriminate, they will.

So, when the population in a country has more money to spent, or better but, there where the median, rather than the average, income is the highest, the prices will be too.

Well, median income is not the deciding factor for willingness to pay, but would certainly be a contributing factor. Supply and demand equations could be more complex or less complex depending on the situation.

So, its cheap in the US because americans are generally more poor, except for a few that throw the average. Off course, "poor" is a very relative concept in this regard.

This is untrue, proven by the other person's link to wiki.

Income inequality leads to lower prices, and lower margins.

This is untrue also. The price of gold watches and private jet flights are not affected by income inequality, but rather the size of the target segment (wealthy people). A highly polorized economy with 50% really rich vs 50% really poor would by far more jet rides than a country with a distribution toward the center.
> UI can scale perfectly

I've yet to see any platform where this is the case.
Well, this is kind of vague, but generally speaking the best approach is neither apologize or joke about it. Just acknowledge it simply and keep moving. Don't go down a rat-hole of trying to fix it on the spot.

The best response is also often a matter of the product demographic/audience and maturity cycle. I would handle a tech demo of a failed pacemaker differently than I would handle a failed demo of a just-announced Instagram competitor.
Theft of 44K credit cards is tip of the iceberg, police say
Top features of iOS 6
So compete by doing something innovative on the phone hardware. Who was the first to have a self-portrait mirror on the back of the phone? (Palm I think.) Who had the first forward-facing camera on a phone? (Not sure.) Things like that sell a lot of phones to Joe and Jill Sixpack. Put a dedicated flashlight LED and button on the phone. Make it waterproof and/or drop-proof.

But the number one way to sell more Nokia Windows Phones? Get on the other U.S. networks besides AT&T. AT&T is still the king for iPhone but Sprint and Verizon combined sell about as many iPhones as AT&T does, so Windows Phone is missing half the market by only really being on AT&T. (Yes, there are other Windows Phones, but no serious handsets outside of AT&T.)
I thought the big thing was that flame found itself into a network locked out from the outside world. So the intrigue lies in how it made it into this network ?
One concern would be about the confidentiality of the data. You say it is govt approved, but perhaps you can add some explanation/commitment that there will not be any compromise with the data which is very important for the users.
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I'd upvote for humour.
Nanotechnology Used To Reproduce Synaptic Function In The Brain
> The use of the 451 status code implies neither the existence nor non-existence of the resource named in the request.

If something didn't exist at all, why would I send a 451?

> The 451 status code is optional; clients cannot rely upon its use

So... everybody can ignore 451?
That's an odd way to restate what the original poster said. Your argument appears to be the tautology that AWS is expensive when compared to different services which do less.
It would be interesting to talk with you about what you actually want from the on-instance key store...
Comedy Copyright Battle Raises Seriously Funny Issues
The search thing is really interesting to me.

I'm no lawyer but couldn't this theoretically be used in court by Inman since FunnyJunk apparently makes it extra hard for content creators like Inman, the Cyanide & Happiness guys et cetera to find their content and issue takedown requests?

Thinking a bit further: by filtering search they are implicitly saying that they know they are hosting content by Inman aren't they? In that case they shouldn't be able to hide behind the DMCA safe harbor provisions since one of the requirements of the DMCA is that the Online Service Provider has no knowledge about any infringing material on their servers (Section 512(c) http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512)
So a Form 16 is an employee end of year payment summary from an employer?
How come do they get access to MS code?
I'm probably alone on this, but 'lame' is such a lazy word to use. Saying it repeatedly just made me stop reading.
> For example if I got out with my phone , I can give the laptop to someone else to use.

That someone else has a smartphone, or will have one soon. Why would you want them to have a device with your data on it, and without their apps and their data, when they could otherwise just press a button and get up their desktop the exact way they left it.

> Or what if I want to use my phone at the same time as I want to use the laptop? In this case you will be stretching the hardware to run 2 displays at once (with different apps, as well as having 2 complete UI systems loaded into memory)

So what? Current generation phones can do that. Some Android devices can operate their main device and feed a 2160p display at the same time.

> as well as the physical docking being an issue. For example what if I am talking on my phone and I want to walk to the other side of the room without dragging the laptop along or undocking it?

Why? "Wireless HDMI" (in quotes because there's not yet a single standard) is here. Docking, via standard cables is optional, with the main benefit being charging, which you can do via micro-usb on my devices. I have about 10 micro-USB charging slots at home and 4 at work already, because it's trivially cheap and convenient.

I already walk upstairs while listening to music on my bluetooth headset and not bothering to bring my phone with me, or indeed because I'm charging it. Why would this change?

> Having everything dependent on a small , easily lose able device is a biggie too.

Why? We have cloud services and small, cheap NAS devices, don't we? So surely it's all sync'd and the only issue is the replacement cost.

> Replacing your phone is likely to be expensive (since it has a display etc) and essentially losing access to computing because you are too broke to replace your phone until your next payday is a big issue.

Those who can't afford a low level smartphone or tablet are not more likely to be able to afford it if you split it into a phone and an actual laptop.

As for being "expensive" that is of course subjective, but there are a tone of sub $100 Android devices out there that are already more than capable enough for a lot of users.
Plenty of people commenting on that G+ post verified the issue, really what are the odds that of all things false positives would happen on Google+....
It can if you set the global resolution to 2880x1800

According to the article, you can only set a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 within the UI and it resamples that up.
Currently sat at my w520 and it's a brilliant piece of kit. I've always been a thinkpad fan - although I can appreciate the draw of the MBP.

It's little touches like the spill-proof keyboard, carbon fibre reinforced plastics, trackpoint, and amazing thermal management (even with an i7 in there the bottom never gets hot, only mildly warm).
One more thing, when I am browsing your site on the iPad, the social integration is not working perfectly, e.g. Can't scroll your tweets..etc
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… which changes little because actual web developers have to support the worst-case browser for all of the millions of people who don't install a modern browser. For most of us who aren't running something like a Mac or browser nerd website, that means the latest version of IE available to Windows XP users.
Not in the UK from it tech and engineeing jobs our pay is much lower compared to SV and housing costs a lot more. The only advatage we have is only paying 12% for NHS etc instead of 20%+ just for health insurance.
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I hadn't heard about that (so please excuse my ignorance), but surely it's just a case of somebody accidentally/intentionally bringing it in on removable storage, like a USB drive, and plugging it in.
You could still let people type in the year, as that is less ambiguous, but have dropdowns for day and month. Or just have a dropdown for month.
That's a nice theory. But so far I haven't seen a single demo of B2G running on "low-end hardware". I've only seen it running on last year's high-end Galaxy S2 phone, which still costs like $500 unlocked.

I also don't know how Javascript can possibly run any faster than Java apps, especially on low-end hardware. Unless all you're showing is a webpage with text?

Show me B2G on a 600 Mhz ARM11 CPU phone, that's faster than Android, and then I'll buy it.
It is if your version of creativity requires rendering large amounts of media. You could render it on a Macbook Pro in 5 days, or on a Mac Pro in a few hours (actual time may vary).

Powerful machines, servers, and rendering farms exist for a reason. A Macbook Pro is not powerful on the same scale of what the Mac Pro should be.
It didn't look like you could set it to 2880x1800 (1:1), unless I missed something.
But that's not a "delivery fee", which makes it kind of dishonest. Amazon already take a fixed 30% cut, which ought to include any subsidy on the devices.
OSX UIs are generally bitmap - they actually don't scale well at all to high pixel density.
> It annoys me to no end having a full screen advertisement to download an application appear every time I go to a lot of sites

Some french news sites manage to do worse: they display a javascript alert suggesting downloading their shitty application.
There has recently been a few high profile cases of trolling gone bad. Anonymity has it's benefits, hence why certain communities work better than others. Although the trends towards transparency has seen sites like sprouter, quora, fb, stack exchange excel.

One troll was sentenced today for online threats however he didn't show up to court....

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4098274
Agreed - it seems once a week or so, someone says this on HN, but I don't see any references to a source.

It presents an odd, and totally unscientific, conundrum: I see people on HN claiming it's very legally risky to do business in the US, and many of the people I work with and socialize with who are in leadership positions here see doing business in the EU as overly regulated and difficult to make a profit at. I suspect both of them have missed the mark. Largely, I suspect that both groups have built their opinions out of news articles or other fractional views - which tend to focus on the most sensational, rather than the most common.

That being said, there are some interesting contrasts to be made, and at least some scholars have indicated a growing convergence between the nature of the two legal systems, at least in some regards.[1]

[1] http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/legal_theory/pape...
HP EliteBook Mobile Workstation can also use 32GB of RAM. We have a few of them at work and we're happy with them.
FWIW (I didn't realize this either until the end), the article is actually pointing out that flame isn't lame for one very specific reason: the cutting edge cryptography research that went into it.
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That's it, I've finally lost.
Is it possible to run a completely automated Civ game (all players computer players)? Should be a quicker way to simulate the future. Perhaps the AI could learn "War Games" style that nuclear war is not the way to go...

Or maybe it would be a depressing result if the AIs would not nuke around without a human in the mix?
Paper wins Apple Design Award
I can't tell you how many blogging platforms I've hopped through. I've got posts on a trillion domains and twice as many engines. Reading lists like these make me want to try them all now! What is it about site generators and blogging engines that makes people so fickle?
Is this a joke or something?

Day 20: This padlock was too small for my locker. I'll wrap a metal cable around it and lock the cable.

Day 24: Wet socks. I stuck a towel under the door. It failed.

Is this really representative of what "designers" do? Just looks like jury-rigging to me. Slap some duct-tape on it and get on with your life.
yes, the article says that it will put itself onto USB sticks so that it can be transferred out of a walled garden, therefore it can enter the same way.
How about a bluescreen while demonstrating plug and play? Then you just laugh a little, and say "that must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxzYJXn4MFY
I have a few questions, in case anyone knows - I wasn't able to find answers: Does it run Android itself, and can I therefore put my own apps on it easily enough? (This point is not clear - could it be an 'accessory' to Android, somehow?) Does it have an accelerometer?
I've long wondered what Apple's plan for that. They still haven't added a way to specify an @2x splash screen for fullscreen web apps, so it feels pretty abandoned.
Without seeming flippant, your number one priority should be to make sure it doesn't. The only reliable approach to this (at least with an immature product) is a 100% scripted demo that you have run through multiple times both in your office, and ideally where you are going to do the demo.

Ideally you also want to avoid using any sort of live/ad-hoc data if you can (you can trust that this is when an edge case is going to turn up!).

Script it, run through it multiple times and this will minimize the chances of anything unforseen going wrong. If you are not technical make sure you check off your demo with your technical guys so there's nothing they're uncomfortable with on there.

Make sure you're not demoing on either a dev or a live system if possible. You should have an environment just for demos which no-one else touches. Last thing you want is someone doing a release in the middle of it. Make sure the dev team know there's a demo planned in any case.

That said- inevitably things still go wrong, and most people accept this. Smile, and move on.
Never heard of that but I don't doubt you.

In the (public) school my son goes to, people do get held back.
Looking for legal options ... getting duped by iTunes descriptions ... forced to look for pirate options.

Hosting somebody else's images without arbitration. Then fall to name-calling when the owner asks for them to be taken down.

I fail to see the connection here. Care to explain?
Yes, its more like a tax document issued by employer at the end of the year.

- It talks about the Salary + perks + allowances the employer gave the employee.

- It mentions the Tax Deducted at source by the employer for depositing to the government.
This sounds preferable to me - at the moment the websites are strangely viewed as if they directly authorised the content to be published, which obviously isn't the case.

It will be interesting if a system comes about that content can be removed on a self-serve basis, a la YouTube.
> There are some roundabout ways to try to measure this, but it seems much easier to just charge people for driving at peak hours.

Agreed: there's no reason why they shouldn't say that e.g. key bridges, interchanges, etc. are EZ-Pass only with a toll during rush hour. These days, we should have the infrastructure to simply have a camera record license plates and mail a monthly bill to you.

Around here (Washington DC) it'd be a huge win if all of the suburban commuters stopped their commute at a subway / bus station rather than attempting to drive the last 3 miles into the very congested downtown (my walking speed is higher than the average traffic speed at 8am). Simply putting a toll point at the bridge would be a great way to encourage that last step not to be a single-occupant vehicle.

The other, major win would be to stop subsidizing parking below market rates: city parking is usually cheaper than the commercial lots, which means a significant amount of congestion is caused by drivers slowing looking around for cheaper parking. Making that savings less dramatic would encourage people to simply park at the first available space.
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No. The article is pointing out that Flame isn't lame in lots of different ways, and saying that the naysayers kept calling it lame until one single spectacular bit of non-lameness came to light. It's suggesting that they should have cottoned on sooner. At least, that's my reading of it.
This is true. They have practically everything on you right from your full name to company you work for, to PAN card info and your salary and investments.

Even if I trust _you_ how sure can I be that you won't get hacked. May we ask you how good is your security? Do you store anything? Encrypted? More details would be awesome.

I'm the security nerd in my group, and if it passes my eyes, I'll DEFINITELY recommend this to everyone I know.
To be clear, this is a guy that has been playing a single game of Civ II for 10 years. When I first saw this I thought, isn't Civ II older than 10 years? (came out in 1996)

I love Civ and still go back and play Civ II at times. I spent a lot of time with Civ III and IV as well (and a little with V), but it's nice to go back to my first experience with the genre (Civ 1 was before my time, sadly).
I imagine it goes something like this:

US Govt: we want source code access

MS: That is propiatory information

US Govt: give us access or we wont allow MS products to be used by govt. departments

MS: how quick do you want that access?
Ref Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx

Enterprises w/ 10k+ seats, OEMs, MVPs and governments can get access to Windows source these days. Microsoft launched the program in 2006 or so to dampen the "Linux is more secure because we can see the source!!" FUD.
I would assume Amazon can negotiate with local carriers in each region, rather than paying through a US carrier for data sent to Australia.
I wrote a very simple one called MCMS that runs on Node.js and RingoJS (Rhino on the JVM): https://github.com/olegp/mcms
Can you tell us more about using sites like Elance? Once you got a regular client did you have to tripe (or more) your rate? If so was the client ok with that?

It seems like the rates on Elance wouldn't be sustainable.
http://www.microsoft.com/government/en-gb/initiatives/Pages/...

Government Security Program: Addressing the unique security requirements of governments worldwide by helping government actively participate in ensuring the security of their critical systems. We help enhance system security by providing access to Microsoft Windows and Office source code, prescriptive and authoritative security guidance, technical training, security information, and Microsoft security experts.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx
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They are scaling them, is just they are scaling everything rather than allowing user control. I like scaling of stuff, as long as any window that I choose to push to native resolution goes to native resolution, especially on a machine that expensive. And I don't expect to have to go out and rebuy lots of software to enable that.
What's more disturbing is that you seem to think there's content which should be banned from being published.

What a perfect idea, let's start doing that right now. I'll let you decide what's bad for me! BTW, just bought some baby food, can you please spoon feed it to me? Also: change my diaper.

Whether an idea should or should not be made available to the masses should never be in the hands of a process, even a democratic process. Attempts at doing so are terribly misguided.

If you get offended at drive-by trolling by stupid people then you need to seek the issue in yourself, not in the website that was the playground to such behaviour. Grow up. No one's going to play nanny for the world, and if the UK wants to start doing that, then you can be sure as hell it'll see backlash.
"It seems to me that Apple keep you buying the next iPhone by making you really happy with your current one, whereas Android manufacturers seem intent on getting you to upgrade phones by making you really unhappy with your existing one."

I figured that it was by making the latest version of iOS run very poorly on the old models, so you have to upgrade.
I buy a new MacBook Pro every year, and the dilemma here is similar to Anand's. I bought the high-resolution display on my current 15.4" MBP at 1680x1050. The resolution can be scaled to 1680x1050 or 1920x1200, but I'd like to know how blurry that is as opposed to native resolution. I've flipped my current MBP to 1440x852 to get a feel for the same effective real estate as the Retina Display's native resolution. Will try it out for a few days before pulling the trigger on upgrading.
Ah well, that would be sad. Though maybe not surprising either (after reading the article, it looks like the "emulated" resolutions are limited but games get access to the native resolution).
You have to supply the code used in products that you distribute - hence the whole Tivo issue.

So the argument is - have you distributed the missile to the firers or to the target?

That's what the AGPL sorts out. Is being hit by a missil a 'service'