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FTA -

"Apple’s participation in this new unholy trinity is especially hypocritical. In litigation before the International Trade Commission earlier this year, the company alleged, and convinced the ITC, that various patents in the Kodak portfolio are invalid. Now, despite its past representations, Apple wants to acquire these patents to attack the Android ecosystem."
There was a time when "patent troll" ment some entity with no product…
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Light heartedly off topic, but at a decelerators conference last year I had a chance to talk to one of the JPL Entry Descent and Landing peeps, and he mentioned that in Q&As, no single audience utterance carried more foreboding than 'Why don't you just...'

To answer your question more helpfully, having closed loop machine vision stuff is quite computationally intensive, though there is already some on the rover (to help negotiating obstacles or stop if it sees something like a trench (MERs would famously stop at the same time every day, thinking that their now-infront shadow was a pit)) but it's power intensive and expensive (both mass and cost of a dedicated odometry camera, for example) and the lighting conditions are very variable. The MERs developed a technique whereby they would 'shimmy' their steering every so many meters, and then with the rear facing camera snap a photo of their tracks (with shimmies) and infer distance travelled and slippage and so on. This stuff is often easier with humans in the loop as the terrain still throws up unknown unknowns when driving. Here's a pic of the tracks:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA14129.jpg

I guess another point is that while it might be a perfectly sensible suggestion technically, there's only so much 'new' they want to risk per mission (the Entry Descent and Landing phase contained a whole lot of 'new' as we know) and they maybe just wanted to carry on doing it in a way they know works ok from before.
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I made the post informationally -- it seemed worth it for anyone who runs into a problem and is looking for validation from the community that "it isn't just them".

I was using wikipedia at the time and went to IRC to find out what's up, but not everyone will go that far or think to look at the status page. I don't know what downforeveryoneorjustme would return in this case -- I did not think to check the headers being returned.

If there were a karma-donation mechanism, I'd give you the 20 points or so I've gotten out of this for making a good point. :)
Soooo.. Can you possibly write up how to do this??
But most architecticts were artistic sketchers at a youndlge age. For programming, something like math or logic or Latin would br analogous.
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I got a GoPro for my NYC bicycle commute earlier this year. I am extremely happy with it. What I am not happy with is their mounting equipment, or at least the handlebar mount.

It broke after a few months. I got a free replacement. Then it broke again in a matter of days. This time my camera was also destroyed. The best they would offer me was a new camera at 50% off. Didn't have much choice. Got an overpriced third party mount made of metal, but this one is definitely not breaking.
I noticed one bullet point:

"increased memory security that guarantees that an application cannot read or write outside its own buffers into another application’s data"

I don't know much about OpenGL, but would this address some of the WebGL security concerns?
For those who missed it, here's a VOD: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/24512027

Landing starts at about 19:00 minutes.
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I cite the following "complete nonsense":

http://www.lighthouseinvestmentmanagement.com/2012/01/05/the...

You might also find this eight part series "complete nonsense":

http://theconversation.edu.au/why-australias-trade-relations...
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I agree with this, however I do feel compelled to expand upon it.

A level types really only like to hang around A level types. Being a B or C player in a room full of high achievers can at times be downright (if not outright) unpleasant.

If I had my druthers, I'd choose to be the 2nd dumbest person in a given room. Being an order of magnitude or two behind the mean is more demotivating than educational.
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Whilst Apple removing an application without informing the user is bad, them not shipping things that are less used is a good thing. RSS I'm sure had at least 10 users, but it was an unneeded overhead in two applications.

X11 on OS X has always been, well, not that great and I use it fairly regularly for remote session testing and a few other bits and bobs. Apple wants someone else to keep it up to date for the people who need it to download it? Fine. Lets go down that route.

Apple is as committed to the terminal as they've ever been, which is to say it'll be there as long as there's developers and 'power users' on the system. If they do decide no longer to ship a terminal? There'll be other packages to do it. They can't rip the UNIX underpinnings out overnight.
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For context: This means that the infamous ?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 won't work anymore ;)
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You sound like you've got a "production line" mindset. "This is my narrowly defined job, I'm not interested in learning new things, I just wanna do what I'm paid to do and get out."

That's fine and all, but I want to work with craftsmen. People who give a shit about their trade, love their tools and relish in the oportunity to learn something that will help them do their job better. I wouldn't hire you.
Absolutely not true, I live in Alberta and my experience is the same as joedrew. I also lived in Saskatchewan for a year and found that it was the same: Kijiji is by far the dominant online classifieds site.
Stupid Reddit. Don't read.
In Finland cheques are pretty much completely unused. Domestic bank transfers are pretty much free for all private people and almost everyone pays all their invoices electronically via their online bank.

To transfer money from person to person, the only information you need is their bank account number and name. As far I can tell, there's no way that you could use the account number in a malicious way (which is why charities and companies can publish their's with no repercussions). With the introduction of SEPA and IBANs, this now applies to the entire EU.

What's more, credit and debit cards are accepted almost universally (with a few exceptions), which means that I hardly ever carry cash with me.

I think you can get a cashier’s cheque if you really need to, but I think cheque books have completely disappeared (I don't even know if I could get one if I really wanted to).
I rather see this:

@supports (vendor-prefix)

then apply vendor prefixes to all css rules not understood by the browser.

End of nightmare.
Look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij33yhdGn_g

it's about the landing of the spirit rover. You can see the same people that were in the room today talking about it!
In the UK, as in so many things, we're half way between Europe and the US. Cheques (spelled like that) are rarely used, but most people have a cheque book in a drawer somewhere.

Bank transfers here are free, but the recipient has to give you their account number & sort code, so you might use a cheque to give money to a friend. Private landlords might require the rent as postdated cheques. If you send a membership form by post, you might be able to enclose a cheque to pay for it, though it's more common to set up a direct debit.
I had a simmilar experience with Ubuntu a few week ago, when I updated from 10.04 to 12.10. I was already using Awesome as my window manager so I wasn't exposed to most of there UI overhaul, but somewhere during the update they removed the battery indicator applet.
That pathfinder bug was a priority inversion caused by failing to enable priority inheritance when creating mutexes, not quite as simple as setting the priorities wrong. VxWorks wasn't entirely at fault, although the priority inheritance feature was not obvious. Concurrency is hard. See http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/mbj/mars_pathf... for details.
That sounds very similar to my plan on Tesco mobile although my data is limited to 1.5GBs. What is your experience of 3? I've heard bad things about them and worry about the quality of their coverage. Would you recommend them? And if you don't mind me asking: where in the UK are you located?
Correct. And you can always run it using xcrun (e.g. xcrun clang).
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Excellent project! If I understand this right, it's an addition/replacement for StatsD that adds the graphing normally done in Graphite. I've tried to get the whole Graphite/StatsD stack setup before, and I could never get Graphite together quite right.
At least where I am, in the US, hosting your own services at home is all well and good until you become frustrated with the piddly upload bandwidth you get from your ISP and the potential of running afoul of transfer caps. Consumer acceptance of "personal clouds" isn't going to happen if using traditional "cloud services" is cheaper, faster, and more reliable. I don't see that story getting better anytime soon.
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Right, because the limitations of paper are largely an arbitrary software implementation detail.

(I do think it is arbitrary; It would cost Apple very little to offer some mechanism to turn off the safety of only running apps from the app store; the small impact of jailbreaks on the ecosystem suggests it wouldn't introduce many new problems)
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First of all, these patent purchase articles pinning Apple and Microsoft as the bad guy and Google and Android as the good guy are getting ridiculous.

Google spent $12 billion dollars to buy Motorola for their patents. Google did NOT invent anything Motorola has done. They BOUGHT Moto and their patents.

So, now Microsoft and Apple are buying patents and they're the bad guys for doing so?

Just because Google talks about how evil the patent system is doesn't mean their some kind of white knight for buying "defensive" patents.

None of this would be a problem if Google actually had been building and inventing their own stuff for the last decade in the mobile space, instead they bought Android and got a bunch of handset makers to use it. Then they bought Moto for patents. Google refused to license Java from Sun, they didn't patent their own innovations early enough and they took good ideas from Apple and Apple happens to have patents on some of them.

Google has enough money to survive this so called "patent war", but most of this could easily be avoided if Google just invented and patented their own stuff instead of trying to copy and use other people's ideas an inventions without paying a reasonable fee to use them. It's not like Google couldn't afford to license Java and various patents from Apple, Microsoft, Kodak, Nortel, etc...

I realize as an engineer spending millions on a patent or license agreement seems ridiculous, but when your company has billions, you look like a cheapskate by trying to weasel out of licensing technology.
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I know, it's a shame http://en.wikipedia.org/?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001... will stop working someday in a few years :)
> He's also losing fat, but not as efficiently as he would in a normal diet.

Keto diets are faster in all reports I have read than 'normal' diets.
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Ok. You think China is a dictatorship. It is not. The merit of US elections needs to be demonstrated. Not much changed after the last one. Their judiciary is not 'independent'. Judges are not appointed for life so feather their post judicial nest with pro-corporate rulings. It does indeed lock up dissidents. It has the highest incarceration rate per capita of any nation.

I'll give you the infanticide point.

I mean does it really come down to which country is less rotten? We can be friends with both. I just don't think we'll be given the chance to.
Same here in Uruguay, for prepaid phone use, you just buy a SIM (2 dollars), then you have to either buy a prepaid card or go to a store where you can "fill" your SIM.

Then you can text the name the plan you want, I pay 5 dollars for one month's worth of data (384 megabytes). You can also get one gigabyte for U$S 5, but expires after 5 days.

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It's the same as 'lactic acid is poison', some day the good science will win and the textbooks will be updated.
I hear this a lot. Why is the iPad such a great device for making music compared to say...a laptop?
Or exactly what you expected, and at least you can say "told you so" :)

But I've meant that the worst I could imagine when I had tried was't really that bad to be so scared of it. So I realized I'm scared without sufficient reasons, and that I have much more to win, than to lose, so I just went for it. YMMV.
It addresses a lot of concerns. A proper GL implementation should already do this correctly, Khronos is just mandating it as a requirement just to punish the few who don't get this correct.
Well said. Also there is a prevailing myth that the average user cannot secure his/her data and often one hear statements that what if your laptop goes under truck? So we can protect your data better than you do. I honestly say this notion is an insult to an average end user intelligence. The fact is if you can change the light bulbs you can run a personal server. If you find it difficult put the data in an flash disk and connect to your key chain. That will be much safer than cloud services.

Powerful vested interests working to amplify this myth because in the end you get a indentured customer base that you can fleece for years.
Sometimes the dam just breaks. If you are so good as to be able to predict such an instance, you can see the future and should BE trading stocks, not working on the systems that facilitate trades.

If you are very good at building the systems that facilitiate trades, you should be paid well, but you will be paid for building stable, reliable systems and not for predicting one off gotchas. That is impossible to do consistently.

No amount of money can prevent the one off events. You can only hedge. As a result, is $1000/hr worth a hedge? Likely not.

Now, is a guy worth $1000/hr if there's a crisis, he can come it and make it better and we are talking millions of dollars. Likely so.

All of these things to say: no, he's not worth $1000 on any given hour, but might be on a very particular hour.
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Yup. aka Clean room design. Alas, not a defense for patent IP.
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So basically the iPad is only a device for consumption because the touch keyboard technology is not good enough yet?
Thanks for posting! The existing answer had almost no detail, so I wrote another: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/159687/61021
It probably has more to do with the fact that Infogami's other founder has said since the beginning that he was a sole founder, and never once mentioned a co-founder.
One element that I feel is quite important in the post you mentioned (Sam charging 1k per hour) is that Sam has actually shipped something, though I don't know how successful his app is. I'm guessing that a lot of devs don't have this experience (A - Z participation in shipping something.) Even a lot of small start-up devs are likely shielded from many of the headaches that go into doing something like this. The experience he has picked up is very valuable and could probably sell a lot of hours in client work.
They have since day 1 - check out MPW, Macintosh Programmers Workshop. And I mean, since MacOS pre-1.0.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Worksh...
It works out for me. Because 70% of my access happens within my home from different devices and i get to use my gigabit connection in the LAN. I think for many users it is the right setup (Unless otherwise you are a traveling salesperson).
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What I find disturbing here is the expectation that they would include it.

I was speaking to a Microsoft evangelist two years ago and asked him why it took them so long to release a new version of Windows. He essentially told me that Microsoft does the best legacy support in the world and wanted to ensure that every single piece of important software could still be installed and work with the new version. He also explained to me that Microsoft was not in the business of pushing new technology but that they were in the business of bringing it to the masses. It was his excuse for why IE was so much worse than Firefox or Chrome.

X11 missing from my computer was a simple google search away from a fix. It's not essential for 99.9% of Mac users and only developers and system admins would want it installed. They know how to use google.

To a company like Apple pushing technology is more important and supporting a fraction of users with something they can get on their own is spending time in the wrong place.
Suggestion, try the XFCE battery indicator: might bring a panel with it, I don't use Awesome.
Ok, his link baiting articles start to get ridiculous.
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TL;DR Linkbait/Apple is evil because they removed old software.

The article and some of his comments show a very narrow mindset. Thinking on how evil is every corporation, just for being a corporation.

Apple didn't include X11 in order to not tie the releases to certification and QA. In the other hand, many engineers on apple still work on XQuartz. Releasing more fast via the XQuartz

Everyone that really depended on it, has known for the last couple of years. And even beforehand talked about on the last rc's for Mountain Lion was a topic very active discussed with documentation readily available on Apple support site (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5293).

And the same narrow-minded people replying with comments "my TASCAM (any hardware really) doesn't work on ML", blame the hardware vendors, they did have many months to do testing and porting of software to the latest release or at least inform your customers. It wasnt like ML was a surprise release and the same will happen with Windows 8.

Years of blaming that could be solved by RTFM.
For me, OS X has increasingly become too difficult for use in development. For a while there, it was the best, especially with tools like homebrew. But, it's just become too much of a headache. Too often, I find myself wasting hours trying to get over small OSS compatibility hurdles.

More and more, I've been finding myself picking up my 'other' laptop, firing up VirtualBox, and running Linux straight. I do miss the build quality of my MBP, though.
This is a very rational decision for Apple to make. 99% of their customers don't even know what X11 is, yet most of them will be downloading Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store. Not bundling X11 saves most users 70MB of unnecessary download.
Heh, sounds like it started out as something in between an ego-trip and a way to shoo customers away which has taken a life of its own and is now hotly being debated by the HN community. Now I'm following him on twitter to see what he's doing right :-)
Did all the config go as well? The dotfiles? Did the author try installing the recommended X11 over the top to see if the old configs were picked up?