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It definitely seemed like an arbitrary example; a better one would have been the move to the "fat" Nanos (which was a bold design shift, and not particularly well received), or the shift of the Nano brand into primarily the exercise+watch niches (including the removal of video, the signature feature of the previous iteration), or the redefinition of the iPod from music player to generalized pocket computer.

But the overall point stands; many other companies would have kept selling the successful iteration with only minor changes for as long as they could, and only made a bold shift when sales dropped or competition started nipping their heels.
But that belies the point that someone managed to make HTML5 webview work reasonably well in mobile. From a technical point of view that represents an interesting data point.
Perfect replacement for what you usually have in game dev studios - lots of small loose files (we have about 380,000 of those) - materials, textures, shaders, models, animations, etc.

No easier format than just reusing SQLite.
The problem with this argument is that we don't have any more extreme strides in mobile performance in the next 5 years. We already have phones that can effectively run any intensity of "eye candy" with spiff - by the time such a policy came to market in 2 years, it would be 2014 - unless we have a revolution in tech that lets us crank up the ghz without dramatically increasing the voltage to match, any arm based device for Android will be able to run any degree of eye candy they can add in in the "short term".

Back in 2008, we could easily see that the 500mhz single core ARM chip was going to be short lived. We had tremendous strides in performance available to us in just upping core clocks, and then we had the mobile multicore revolution.

We are done with both the main vein and the secondary digs of the mobile CPU goldmine (in reference to Herb here) and we are already pretty deep into heterogeneous computing. Remote processing is next, when the telecom monopoly is torn down so we can get the data speeds we are actually capable of today without paying monopoly rates.

The hardware WILL get significantly better between 2014 and 2019 - a 2019 smartphone will almost assuredly be as powerful as the 2014 consoles that will be coming out for gaming - but we can actually predict that. A 2014 console will have approximately a GCN 7850 graphics card and quad core 3.5 ghz cpu of some sort. So expect the mobile chip of 2019 to operate at ~4ghz with some number of cores and a lot of compute nodes approximately equivalent to modern mainstream desktop graphics at similar wattages to what we have now.

If the version of Android in 2019 can't run on an Android device of 2014, then that isn't the hardware not keeping up with software - that is just terrible design. Just like how desktop hardware peaked in 2006, mobile hardware will peak soon as well, after which performance is "good enough" for average joe consumer, and the UX won't change.

Another good example is how Google can keep pumping out new versions of Chrome without hesitation that the last version's user can run the new version. The browser is not getting exponentially more power or resource hungry, and in many ways they optimize its performance as much as they sacrifice it each release for better experience (of course things like webgl are pressuring browsers upwards with new usage in an environment without resource contraints) but the basic device, or in this case application, is not growing more and more computationally intensive by large jumps each release, or they would not be able to push out silent updates like they do.

Same thing with Android. Once it plateaus, there is no excuse not to use the silent continuous always backwards compatble update model, because the device is now "good enough". Just like how a dual core 3ghz pc from 2005 with 4gb of ram is still good enough today for 95% of use cases.
>advertising rates were/are incredibly high

How did you learn this?
Not all of us are prudish Americans.

Fuck is a useful word.
Yep, he sure has some wacky ideas about history. Still, gotta give him credit for the fact that his wacky ideas are at least unusual -- he seems to have developed his stupid belief system for himself rather than acquiring it wholesale from someone else.

Also, he sure is good at chess.
>>On the other hand, what are the odds we're still using them in 100 years?

Firstly you are not going to live for the coming 100 years. So lets not worry about impossible scenarios.

Secondly next generation tools for the next hundred years need to be designed such.
To give you the GoDaddy Story - they tweeted me this link...
http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/26/go-daddy-says-request-t...

But I can't forget about 2007 and what they did to seclists.org...
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there are a lot of legal fees to set up the kind of employee equity plan that can cost a few thousand dollars in the US.
we're talking 10-30 times as expensive.
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"One thing I’ve noticed about myself is that a lot of things interest me.

I’m not entriely sure this is a thing that can be taught."

All kids have this curiosity; the parents are the ones that kill it ("don't do that!", "behave!", "you are not allowed!")
<quote>I am expecting some resources to be spent on porting my phone to an OS that was announced and available to OEMs when my phone was released.</quote>

Why didn't you just buy a phone which already had the latest OS on it at the time if having the latest OS is important to you? Are there no custom ROMS for the phone you have?
The original code for vi was written by Bill Joy in 1976. So, if we applied Gott's Principle and estimated the maximum upside of how long we'll be using Vi or Vi-like editors:

36 years × 39 = 1482 more years of Vi.
Do you believe that Google doesn't want all Android users to have the latest and greatest? The more people happy with Android, the more people using Android, the more people seeing Google provided ads, which was the whole point of starting Android in the first place.
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They work for me fine in Melbourne (frequently) and Madrid (though I have used it sparsely there).
No.

Anyone who has ever run a MPD server and turned on the Avahi advertisement has run a social streaming media server.

DLNA and AirPlay come close, except they don't have editable playlists (just, loadable ones).
> Yes it's an email account, but they come in different flavors and some flavors are associated with the early adopter (cool kids) crowd (@gmail.com), and some are associated with their parents (@hotmail.com)

Unfortunately, the "cool kids" part gives you away. Like so many things in life, you win by opting not to play the [horribly broken] game.

Being secure in your identity means you don't have to partake in idiotic status signaling like this. Why? Because you just don't care about all the things you're told you should be doing in order to be 'relevant.' You're happy just to be you, and to do what you need to do. Culture still weighs on you, but it doesn't have to dictate your life. And you know what happens? Over time, people become more interested in you because of this. They may question you, but they may also envy you.

The path to discover one's true self is a lifelong journey, and I bid you good luck on it.
I didn't know what you were talking about until I went back and accidentally kudos'd the post myself. The creators "defense" sounds more like an FU or maybe that the whole thing is really more of a joke. In the end, I'm not upset that I accidentally kudos'd since to me it's pretty clear that the whole feature is meaningless anyway.
I was disappointed that during the Google Glass free-fall, the Moscone Center didn't have one of those Google Maps pins on top of it to demonstrate the obvious augmented reality capabilities.
How would they even know how many lines of code is in Facebook?
True.

But I would hope that when many are taking TAXPAYER money that they would think about something more than short term money. After all it is in their best interest to have successful Australian startups.
The Nexus Q maintains a playlist that can be collaboratively edited.

What this thing is not any different than is MPD, Music Playing Daemon. Which, btw, is nine year old software.

Photo I took tonight of my 'social media streaming' output-only hardware:
https://plus.google.com/113218107235105855584/posts/dgit2hfs...
This game is runs really smoothly on my iPhone 4s. I never thought that a html 5 game would run this well on a handheld device! I wonder if this poses a threat to the closed apple ecosystem as the mobile browser evolves. I wouldn't mind using an html5 app that runs this smoothly.
The harm is it often comes with a bad attitude, whether on purpose or not.
Sounds difficult -- the oil wells of Saudi Arabia can only produce so much oil per day
Quite possibly, but not on my Android! When I get back in the market for a new phone though, I'm open to an iPhone.
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I loved this thread. I am beginning to hate Google. I don't care about words and explanations: I remember updating my iPhone "1" a little while after the Apple event, While just updating my Samsung Galaxi SII to ICS a few weeks ago with shitty Movistar stuff bundled and where they even removed the "native" browser and you must go to the search option tocopen it. Sure I can now install Chrome but I discovered that Opera works better than Firefox and Chrome! (hilarious? I can't submit to HN with these last two). And everyday I trigger vlingo shit because I pressed two times the home button and can't be disabled! (vlingo posted a solution that don't work on their websites).

I don't want a Ferrari that is not leaving its potential.
Billionaire? Nerd? Building secret lair? Googlers have decided he's Batman.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-25/tech/30319310...
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AirPlay offends my delicate palate with the odor of closed pricey unnecessarily locked down technology. Use UPnP or DLNA for your interoperable "high-quality" streaming needs please.

DLNA MediaRenderer AV devices, aka televisions, have been pretty popular for a while. We're just seeing DLNA speakers showing up, now that AirPlay is on the scene.

There is one missing DLNA capability I think Airfoil might have, which is whole house synced audio.
I think the US regulations about car seats might be entirely different, but I haven't looked into the details.
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This is a ubicomp play, pure and simple, and they kept it bare bones. A) Less chance of confusing people with "apps" or anything fancy. B) Locked down to the Play Googlesphere.
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It's a Google device to me, Joe Average Consumer.

And Joe Average Consumer doesn't care what OS version his phone is running, as long as he can play Angry Birds and get email and Facebook. I wish that wasn't true, because then carriers and manufacturers who fail to provide updates would be punished by the market, but it is.
> A form factor that looks like hipster glasses with lenses that dynamically darken would do very well.

My startup is making exactly this. We're taking pre-orders for $189 that ship in December, with a form factor of hipster glasses, wifi link to stream through your smartphone, and electric sunglass lenses!

http://indiegogo.com/socialvideoglasses
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My grandfather co-founded an engineering company. One of the things he had to do was sales. His trick was that the first time he visited the company, he'd ask to get a company directory. The second time, he'd review that directory (which in those days typically had pictures), and when he walked in he'd greet everyone by name.

He was a very effective salesman.

(BTW the company still exists, http://cmtengr.com/ is their website. My grandfather was Ray Tilly.)
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So the web doesn't work.

And it will never work in the future.

Despite the fact mobile devices are getting more and more powerful.

And mobile browsers and getting faster and faster javascript and rendering engines.

Just do everything native. Build it for Android. Then for iOS. Then for Windows Phone. Spend lots of money doing that. Because everything must be native.

The web is dead. Cross platform web content is a dead end. It never worked!

Really.
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Anyone have a quick summary of this?
I upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy Note from an iPhone 3GS not long ago, and my father upgraded to an Asus Padfone (ICS) at the same time. I was utterly dismayed at how wonderfully responsive the Padfone was compared to my touch-laggy Note. The Note became significantly smoother after upgrading it to ICS, but it was still slightly laggier than the Padfone, which is really smooth to use. Also the Padfone has a really nice default look overall, pretty glowing-blue notification icons, it feels good in the hand, etc.

It still irritates me that I bought a Samsung specifically because I heard they were easy to root compared to other vendors, but didn't realise that had changed in recent months -- or that they were laggy. I should've gone for a new-gen ICS device instead; an S3 perhaps.

I'm still enjoying the Note's screen size and the Android app ecosystem, though. There are some great apps out there to play with.
I'm in Perth at the moment.

Perth is not that expensive if you're prepared to put up with a 40 minute commute (O horrors).

The town I grew up in, Darwin, is now regularly amongst the most expensive capitals in the world for rent. And food, petrol etc is a helluva lot more expensive there than it is here in Perth.

Getting investment in Perth is tricky though. Investors in Perth understand the mining lifecycle. If you see something interesting on a map, you can round up some geologists and drillers and raise $10 million in a few weeks. It's basically the Silicon Valley of mining.

But god help you if you want to launch a software business. There's one venture fund and so far they've invested in one (1) software venture -- and that was Filter Squad, after Discovr was successful.

All the Australian action is happening over east. And there's nothing much there either.

If I could up stumps, right now, and move to the US, I would.
Is this really a Google project?
Considering how easy it is for Australians in particular to live and work in the US, I don't think it's an idle complaint.
See http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/dotcom-search-warrants-declared... or http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1206/S00201/court-dotcom-wa... or an image of the judgement http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/1206/CIV201240419282806201...

To quote @yakmoose: I am glad our (New Zealand's) judiciary still functions. even if our police don't.
Hi Tautologistics,

There's a good chance you won't ever see this response since the thread has aged off the front page, but I figured I'd respond to it anyway, just in case.

We've actually addressed this behavior in the beta release recently by introducing local revision history. Unfortunately we haven't exposed this through the UI yet, but if this happens again in the near future I'd be happy to help you recover.
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One thing I'm hoping for with Glass: the ability to connect to a bike computer and show speed, heart rate, cadence, etc. in a HUD. Would be awesome compared to having to look down at the handlebars all the time.
I'm sorry for your loss but to some degree the premise seems a bit idealistic. I have a hard time believing the myth that there are people who truly enjoy every aspect of a job. If one is lucky they enjoy a portion of it. For example I love programming most of the time but sometimes I simply do not feel like doing work that needs to be done.

The true ideal in my mind is semi-retirement. Work less, less often, and if you don't feel like working simply don't. Adjust your schedule so it is absolutely to your liking - show up at 10 AM leave at 3 PM, etc. Peoples careers should degrade gracefully, not come to a crashing halt like we've come to embrace in our society
I think Glass is not a consumer device,there will be market for it in future but only among makers/publishers.I do not see people wearing it out on street look at other wearable devices watch,cell phone they are non intrusive and utility devices.
Hope You like it ;)
On the flipside, a lot of things may excite your passions in the abstract but make for really shitty business experiences.

For example, I care about music more than just about anything else, but spending the last year trying to write & sell music software has not only eaten up all my music making time but also worn me out on the whole music business.

In hindsight I would have been better off working halftime on boring but well-paid consulting gigs writing business software and spending the rest of the time travelling, relaxing and doing what I really enjoy.
Quoting from the NBR (http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/dotcom-search-warrants-declared...):

"The main points from Justice Winkelmann's judgment:

- The search warrants used under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act were unlawful.
- The FBI's removal of "clones", or copies, of computer data offshore was unlawful.
- Any clones remaining in New Zealand must stay here.
- The attorney-general must provide Mr Dotcom with any clones currently held by New Zealand police."
For tech geeks, maybe. For the majority of the population? I doubt it. There are still people who aren't sure what version of Windows or OS X they're running on their laptops. Now they need to know which version of Android their phone is on?
A lovely tribute, and a view of retirement that matches mine completely. One might also add simply that, Calvinistic though this may be, work is good for us. My father retired at 59 for reasons that are still unclear to me (he loved his job) and died a year later.
Of course, the conclusions are only as good as the data.

Take the issue of over-clocking as an example. Do they have data on cooling? Component quality? Component selection? Component handling during the build of the OC system?

An over-clocked system with inadequate cooling is definitely more likely to fail. We have several over-clocked systems for FEA/CFD that have been rock-solid since they were built (about three years ago). They generally run nearly 18 to 20 hours per day for weeks and weeks when we have such projects on the table.

All of the machines were built by us (I guess they call this "white box" now?). Every single one of them was built in a static-controlled environment. Every single one of them underwent full-load testing when built before being put into service. In most cases this led to identifying memory that failed prematurely. In other cases we've rejected motherboards and CPU's.

After a successful two week burn-in period the machines were officially deemed qualified for service. Oh, yes, all of them had fluid-based cooling systems installed and oversized external radiators. I forget what we aimed for in terms of CPU/Memory temperature, but it was definitely nice and cool compared to a normal heatsink setup.

Component selection, handling, build quality and burn-in testing are of paramount importance when trying to push the limits. My guess is that most hobbyists don't do any of this and simply go for the shiny new object on the shelf and expect it to work. That being the case, failure rates are sure to suffer.

The same applies to non-OC self-built systems. I don't think that I have ever bought a factory built (Dell, HP, Compaq, etc.) system save laptops. I can't remember ever having any hardware failures in, say, the last twenty years, save maybe one case of a hard drive that refused to spin after a few months of service (backups are golden!). Again, component selection, handling, testing, etc. are of paramount importance when building your own system.

The other part of this study that I think needs data is the "quality", for lack of a better word, of the user. How many of these users are Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Fester? How many of these are hackers and computer enthusiast? I, for one, have never enabled the "share crash data" functionality on any of our machines in, again, about twenty years. That's data from a group of users that are smarter than the average bear that MS simply does not have.

The data from factory-built systems is probably far more reliable because, well, they are a relatively known quantity. There are still issues to consider, such as the operating environment (air-conditioning, temperature, humidity), air filter condition (full of dust or cleaned every few months), user cabinet incursions (did they install more memory and zap the MB with static?) and more.

I did not read the entire report. I don't know if any of these points were covered or not.

The conclusions might provide a good approximation of what the average user might experience. Without more data I would be careful about placing excessive weight on these findings.
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She deserves every penny of her wealth.
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Is this any worse in online dating than in real life dating?

If anything, women seem to benefit from sexism in online dating - they take advantage of the fact that men are expected to initiate by rarely doing so themselves. It's much easier and faster to sit back and read personalized messages than to write them.
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nah, you should pretend that your response was even more subtle satire and that nobody else got it ;-)
Actually he acquired it wholesale and then elaborated. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko) for more on the ideas that he has.

And yes, he's amazing at chess. However that is not necessarily an endorsement of his abilities at anything else. Paranoid delusions seem to be a significant occupational hazard at top levels of play. (See Bobby Fischer for a significant example.)