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Firstly, I have little to no experience in this field so all my arguments may mostly be gibberish. But,

1. Microsoft had initially asked for $15 per Android device sold [1]. For some devices, this was as much as 7%. I am not sure how related these cases are. It seems as if it is hard to find if the involved patents [2] are FRAND.

2. The definition of fair is relative. I see less absurdity in 2.25% than you do, probably because of my biases. Given that some of these patents are primary to connectivity (wireless patents), their licencing to competitors (especially when competitors have charged upto 7% on your phones) is going to be high. In fact, it seems that Apple and Microsoft have an upper hand here.

3. And yes, Apple has asked for a ban on sales based on "Universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system". In other threads, it was pointed out that not only was it obvious but prior art might be available. Now, I am not commenting on the validity of the patent, I am trying to see how such a feature about search interface becomes so paramount to the success of Samsung Galaxy Nexus device? And how will it cause irreparable damage to Apple, for that is what they have claimed? I don't see it at all. To me it is the least defensible argument of all.

4. Morality - it is a strange concept. Apple going all guns blazing over Android, was immoral to me. Worse was the case when Microsoft did so to much smaller OEMs. Apple is considered to be a pioneer in technology, and they have argued that Android is nothing but a copy of their designs. What it has also done is to patent the hell out of every design - moral or not (deliberately not seeing the obviousness of some of the patents also seem immoral to me). They used this against Android and they have every legal right to do so. And while they do so, they have copied some features from Android, Notification System is often given as the only example. I don't own an iPhone so I cannot comment on this. They could copy it because it was not patented. It makes it legal but not moral according to their own standards. Having double standards, is least moral to me.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/06/us-samsung-microsoft-idUSTRE7651DB20110706
[2] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070611-microsoft-android.html

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I've never driven a car with more than 60HP and they did everything cars are supposed to do, including accelerating quickly enough to safely enter the autobahn. Can someone please explain to me why people need 150HP engines unless they're pulling a trailer?
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"Just focus on building your product"

That's what we call design.
Spoken like a true PR person.

Telling every bootstrapped startup to get a professional PR person is silly. The whole purpose of articles like this is so that they can make due without one in the beginning.
And flying cars. There will be flying cars, right? See also: http://xkcd.com/678/
> They then earn a steady stream of licensing money off the ensuing trillion dollar industry.

Isn't what this about? Motorola is not looking for a third option - it is pressing on the first itself.
> Microsoft bought aQuantive as a knee-jerk reaction to Google's acquisition of Doubleclick.

Sometimes blindly copying your competitor isn't the best idea.
Form factor is generally insignificant; there's a big difference between a laptop or a workstation but you would still call them both PCs, even though the working patterns with each are quite different.

The important difference is 'internet/media consumption device' (iPad) vs. 'general computing and productivity device' (PC, Surface?). I believe the growth and shrinkage of their respective markets indicate the typical consumer's desires.
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I don't want to continue being, "that guy" but what you actually mean is not a "TELL" it is how frustrated or emotionally charged a person is, or in poker parlance, how "tilted" or "steamed" he is.

And you don't need sentiment analysis to tell if someone is tilted, you can literally look at the player across the way and figure it out.
You must be the only person still amazed by shitty Google UX
I, too, assume that this is related to preventing in-game cheaters and not DRM or security.
If there were, and not for other search engines; we would have been complaining about Google being anti-competitive :)
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using postgres 8.4? seriously? as has been said by fdr, the new extension support is far superior!

(there are many other reasons to target newer postgres as well)
There is the product life-cycle which has the phases: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.

The point is that facebook needs to understand that "Move fast, and break things" is an appropriate approach in the earlier phases, but it is quite incompatible with later phases, when people start to rely on a service.
You need more than 150HP if you're pulling a trailer. You actually need more torque than anything. That said, more than 60HP gives you acceleration when you need to do that to avoid an accident (sometimes acceleration is better than deceleration). Other times include passing in difficult situations. 0-60 in 7-9 seconds is far, far less than 0-60 in 12 or 15. You can do a lot more with that.

Also, I live in a very mountainous part of the world (Washington), and I fear that a 60hp sedan that can actually hold 4 or 5 adults would have a great deal of difficulty climbing some of the hills in Seattle; and if not in Seattle, than over in the mountains where I like to snowboard.

In short, the extra power can provide you with extra options so you can be safer; and is sometimes required in the more ... aggressive hills that can be found in some parts of the world.

And yes, you can claim that you can climb the hills in Seattle, but wearing your engine at 6000rpms just so that you can have all 60 of your alleged horses (actual horses degrade over time) damages the engine; whereas for my car to have 60 horses (Saturn Ion), it's probably something like 3500 rpm.... muuuch better on the engine so it lasts longer, fewer repair costs, etc.
If I"m reading it right, it's a failure of grid power and two or more generator banks: "each generator independently failed to provide stable voltage".
I completely believe Blizzard, but are you seriously suggesting that any time anyone is critical of that company, if the company says "not true" they must be correct?
The title is plain wrong - they are launching a sounding rocket to observe the sun - observation time ~7 mins.
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Because it's fun? Because they have free will? Because they choose to? Because they don't live in a fascist state?
This times 9000. I've noticed a trend amongst developers to jump at patterns and spend all their time trying to shoehorn their project into it because someone vaguely respected mentioned it on Twitter.

Patterns are great, but slavishly following them, and not understanding that there's often multiple patterns for different circumstances can lead to coding dragons.
I'm surprised the top comment isn't more along the lines of "wtf went wrong" rather than a +1 me too.

Seriously, it seems this is a huge fuck up that probably costed millions and millions of hits worth of traffic. 1 hr of time when users got redirected to blank.html?

What happened?
I dunno about the last part.

I think any logic inherently tied to the data should be in the model. The controller shouldn't have to worry about internals of the model any more than necessary.

Here's an example. Suppose I create an i18n framework for handling numbers. I certainly am going to include in it a function for converting the number into the current user's localized format, and another one for converting the number from the current user's localized format. I will probably also have functions to convert to/from db formats and to/from arbitrary formats. Not all of these will be called by the controller (in most cases, just the ones to/from the user's localized format and maybe an arbitrary format on rare occasions).

This way the controller script can just call something like $number->to_output; and get the localized string back. Other model objects can call $number->to_db and get a string suitable for entry into the db.

Interestingly in LedgerSMB 1.4 where we have done this, the number of cases where the model calls number i18n functions are remarkably small. These are usually called in the model or in the view simply because the controller probably shouldn't have to worry about this, and the view gets to worry about display logic.
A relic from Diablo 2 perhaps? My Amiga was still kicking around at that time, though my x86 compatibility option was putting a Windows PC in the same tower as the Amiga!
I don't think that Google Voice is any kind of competitor to Skype because of its incredibly limited global availability.
With regard to the "is dead" proclamation in this title, this comment from a previous commenter sums up my feeling perfectly:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554397

Once I see "X is dead" in a article title, I stop reading.
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This is appalling pabulum. It has no more to do with pitching a journalist successfully than wearing nice clothing to the interview has to do with getting a job.

Every pitch should have dual goals:

1. Ideally, you'd like to get covered.
2. Absent that, you'd like to increase the likelihood of getting covered in the future.

So you should think of your pitch as being more about making your company look worth writing about. In particular, don't breathlessly oversell a minor piece of news.

If you're a native English speaker, you should strongly consider going without a PR firm altogether. They're the sort of outfit who follow the cookie-cutter advice in the post linked here and think they're adding value. They also are very bad, with few exceptions, at finding credible ways to make you sound unique.
The article about MVC on Wikipedia wasn't just slightly off. For a long time, it was completely overrun by people who seemed to think MVC is an architecture for web apps. Real MVC, as the term had been used for decades before the web apps abused it and still is in interactive GUIs today, was all but relegated to a footnote.

"Touching up the Wikipedia article" has little value in cases like this. Usually the only remedy at that point is to delete the entire thing and start again, which somebody finally did not long ago.
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The 60HP cars that I've driven have their maximum output at 4200rpm which is something like 100km/h in fourth gear. That worked for all the mountains that I encountered, but I admit that I haven't been in the very mountainous parts of the world.

I wonder whether there are any statistics about accidents prevented by quick acceleration. Somehow I have the feeling that the average driver won't be able to make use of their cars abilities in these split-second decisions.

With regard to overtaking in difficult situations, my driving instructor taught me not to do that. If you can't safely overtake you'll have to wait a bit until you can. But I see how a more powerful engines would make more situations safe for overtaking.
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Err, 30% market share (potentially more based on methodology) and remaining the second most widely installed OS (or even the first based on methodology) sounds like an awful lot of "people not having left XP."
Exactly. Users are stupid. Not because they cant read minds and find hidden features, but because they take it.

Its the same thing with things like internet censorship. Every one bleats on and on, and they just do it any way.
Please support the TORO, CDMA variant of the Galaxy Nexus. I think you'd find a lot of interested Verizon users.
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Microsoft for all its many faults is very good at listening to customer feedback. Once you consider that their main customers are enterprise and government you begin to understand how many of their decisions get made.
Hopefully with fewer rare earth metals too :)
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They don't see it as a mistake.
Google and Mozilla are not enemies. They are both allies towards an open web. Sure there's the media-hyped browser wars, but Mozilla is about freedom of choice on the web. They are a non-profit who uses Firefox as a playing card in order to further the web. That's how it all started. Microsoft halted development of IE because they saw the web as a threat and Mozilla stepped in. It's never been about the money.

Besides, taking on Google, who accounts for over 90% of Mozilla's cash flow is foolish, especially when Mozilla is a team of 650 and Google is a giant of 30,000 (not to mention in a totally different product). But that's besides the point.
Im simply saying that blizzard wouldnt lie when they say that playing on linux will not get you banned. I did say "in this case" specifically, because im not going to claim that they never ever would lie.
I'd venture to say that it's only hard because you're not used to it. When I look at Clojure source code I don't find it at all difficult to read.

In fact, now that I think about it, I don't think there's any language I'd prefer to read over Clojure.
Nice idea...especially what is happening around here...does twitter / news trends partly your question...but its not in one place!
Here's a link with some of the reasons for my opinion:

http://www.strategicmessaging.com/five-kinds-of-public-relat...

(First time I've posted a link to Hacker News. I'm curious to see what happens ...)
Not everyone gets around exclusively on the autobahn. I used to live in New Zealand and most of the inter-city roads there are small twisty roads with hills, not flat multi-lane autobahns. I would suggest that 60HP is not really adequate to get a family of people up the Brynderwyns.

Granted though that many people (myself included) have/had a car with more power than they really need, although I am not convinced that it's so wrong to want to enjoy the act of driving a bit.
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The controller in MVC does have a bit of a dual nature, firstly it acts as glue code between models and views, allowing the two to be effectively de-coupled. The second task is a little more complex - views take user input eg mouse-clicks and key presses, and translates it into semantic events "OK button clicked", "Open File selected", which are then acted on by the controller.

Your post explicitly identifies these two roles and formally seperates them. This is perhaps not a bad thing, but I don't know that it justifies the title. Something like "The two faces of an MVC controller" might have been a better description...
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Your fist paragraph is good. The second one, as stated in my own comment to the main, I vigorously disagree with.
It makes life much, much easier. I live in a rural part of the UK, where I often get stuck behind caravans / tractors and that sort of thing. I have a 225HP car and it means I can quickly and safely overtake other vehicles on the road. Plus because it has plenty of power I rarely have to put the engine under strain.

Most importantly, it's fun.
Asking it here instead of commenting in the blog for more eyeballs:

1. The (only) media covering startups for my target market happens to be funded by the same investor and in the same company group with the startup I'm competing with. How to deal with this?

2. How to deal the case where you get reply from more than one media near simultaneously (after you BCC-spam them). Promising each of them "exclusive info" seems weird right? Should you honestly reply the rest, "Sorry folks, one media already replied."?
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You can do an after action report tomorrow. I would like to see it, especially if it doesn't involve 10k hits. I think only the crazy stuff gets reported and it skews public perception of what it means to post a link here. My links never get anywhere near the traffic that gets reported around here until people seem to think that kind of hype is the norm.
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Of course, they do thoroughly test their new ad options, limiting them to region first, then measuring impact.
I installed Win8 last night on an old PC (Core 2 Duo 2.5GHz, 4GB RAM) with mouse and keyboard. I'm an OS X user and hate Windows with a passion, but I honestly, really wanted to enjoy Windows 8 and wanted it to be good (not that I would ever use it; but it would stop OS X from going more mainstream which is a good thing cause Apple can still "innovate" if not 95% of PCs are running Lion).

It was bad. So bad I can't articulate its dreadfulness...

Animations were jumpy, to open an app that's not in the "start screen" you have to right click and press some button to go to another screen, to switch apps you have to hover your mouse on top-left corner and wait 400ms for the list of open apps, there's no way to "search" for apps.

If you're in the (classic) desktop mode, you have to click on bottom-left to go back to start screen, then right click on the screen and click on "more" and manually select the app you want to open.

It took me 3 minutes to find a way to turn off the damn thing (you must hover on top-right, wait for a kinda contextual menu, go to "Settings -> Power -> Turn Off".

I played an AVI movie, and the default player (I don't know what it was, but didn't look like Windows Media Player) was sooo bad it's not even funny. Whenever you move the mouse, on-screen controls appear and you have to right click two times to get rid of them, and I think there were no volume controls either. And by on-screen controls, I mean on-screen, in the sense that it dims your movie, places a gigantic status bar and some buttons in the center of the screen, and doesn't respond to keyboard commands.

The PowerShell is a joke. I accidentally right clicked on it and for exactly 2 minutes, it was displaying errors. Even simple commands like "ls" were slow (like you're using telnet on a dial-up modem).

Internet Explorer was very nice.

The Finder (don't remember what it's called on Windows) was much better, but that Microsoft Office 2007-like bar on top was a little buggy and confusing (You click on items to open it, but if you want to close it, you can't click on the same items again. You have to click on a button that's appeared in the right side).

I'm an Apple fan, but I can assure you, I really, really did want Win 8 to be good, even though I would never use it. But it was worse than what I expected, and now I'm certain that it'll be worse than Vista for MS. After all, when someone like me (who was an advanced Windows user up until 4-5 years ago, and is very comfortable with computers) was confused by the changes and the stupid UI (with many mistakes is usability), how would average users react to it?
1. One journalist at a time. Journalists often have very different integrity and biases than their employers.

2. I don't understand why you think you need to offer exclusives at all. So I don't really understand the question.
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I'd love to know what the list of cars are that you've driven where 60HP was the ceiling. About the only car on sale these days that's down in those ranges might be a used smart -- I think even all of the new ones make at least 70hp (52kw). Even the Ka I think bottomed out at 70hp and every time I saw one of those on the autobahn drivers seemed to spend more time trying not to collide with it than it did maintaining any kind of decent speed.

I can attest to having driven several cars at several HP ratings on the autobahn and felt terrified in cars that spent 13-15 seconds getting up to 100kph let alone the kinds of speeds most of the traffic was going. It wasn't until I picked up an Audi A3 that felt even remotely safe in day-to-day autobahn driving. At least Germans tend to drive better than Americans on those kinds of roads and do a good job of maintaining the appropriate lane for traffic going their speed. But still, top end of 60HP on the autobahn? shudder

edit: For reference, here's a 60HP Peugeot with the engine absolutely pegged on the Autobahn doing about 160kph (about 100mph) and getting passed like it's standing still a couple of times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ut11emid94
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On win7/64, you don't get permission to load unsigned drivers even with administrator (or at least, that's how it is supposed to be). So, once the system is up -- how did the worm modify the boot loader in the first place?

While it's true that with a trusted computing base (and tower), you could turtle all the way down to the boot, but unless something is already wrong (which can and will go wrong the same way even if you have a trusted base), UEFI secure boot should ONLY ever save you from pre-boot INFECTIONS, which I suspect are non-existent.

The best it could do for you for higher level attacks is make it harder for the malware to hide.
It's more important to be good than to be first. Otherwise Microsoft would be the king of tablets right now.
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That's not inconsistent. A view is just an interface layer. Whether it's interfacing to a human or not is irrelevant.
Being first is about as useful as saying "first!" and there is zero value in "coming out of nowhere". What matters is creating something great.

The iPhone turned the industry on its head. Palm did not.
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