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You're aggregating up over all the possible degrees at all US colleges, in which case you're right, but come on. You know that in departments like computer science and pure math and various engineering disciplines and even physics the gender ratio is still heavily in favor of men. That's what's being addressed by scholarships. At many US colleges the female-only scholarships are typically conditional on entering one of the degrees with a predominantly male population and completing it.
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The juxtaposition of the "Record Your Life. Store it Forever." slogan with the now-trendy-tomorrow-not website makes me cringe.

The word "Forever" is loaded with so much meaning.

The cursive font, the .me URL, the tired-ass layout with those obligatory three boxes at the bottom... all of these things reflect aesthetic sensibilities that may as well belong to fruitflies.

Maybe this app will be great and genuinely add meaning to people's lives but it makes me want to buy a notebook, some picture frames and a sturdy old chest that I can bury underground.
Apple did still innovate (the Newton, anyone?), just... pathetically.
You can't take a bad policy (in this case a passive-aggressive, reactionary attempt at micro-management due to the inability to have effective conversations with individuals directly) and transform it into a good policy just by making the words more soothing and less distressing.

I've seen this thing a lot in businesses and this way of doing this is always the worst way of handling things. One person makes a mistake or misbehaves and the result is a new policy or a mass email that dances around the issue and makes everyone's lives more difficult.

You can't engineer a functional workplace through crafting just the right rules, you have to interact with human beings as individuals in order to make sure everyone is getting along, working well, etc.
> I honestly don't understand how this can be legal.

Are you serious? It's mandatorily configurable. Are you suggesting that Secure Boot just not be implemented by motherboard manufacturers? Or rather that Microsoft should just pretend it doesn't exist?

Secure Boot is quite a useful part of the UEFI specification, albeit maybe not in the average case. I should hope it doesn't get ignored just to satisfy conspiracy theorists.
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Well, yes, so what? That precise RGB value might be a great color! Good artists copy, great artists steal, etc. It's certainly not enough to warrant legal action. If they stole actual media, that would be different.
I don't buy it. That's not what I've seen.

If you're fixing software, you're either fixing your own bugs or someone else's bugs. There's bug tracking software; these metrics are visible. If you're fixing your own code, you're also adding functionality (presumably you wrote the code you're fixing). If you're helping to fix other people's code, they will notice. People talk.

I've personally seen almost an entire team disbanded, the work outsourced. The people kept? The guys who fixed things, who made sure it shipped at the end.
How does that make his statement misguided?

Even if I accept your premise that every single other print publication has declined as well, that doesn't make his statement any less true. The statement was only about Time.

And I certainly don't accept your premise.
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> I certainly was surprised by how monocultural the US appeared to be when I visited. Most noticeable was the relative absence of people from Africa (I don't mean African-Americans), the Middle East and south Asia.

That says more about what you visited than it does about the US.

Within walking distance of my house, there are communities where Portugese, Thai, and Cambodian are the dominant languages. (Yes, separate communities.) If I was more "sensitive", I'd could identify the lines between the Mexican and Guatamalan communities.

And my area is considered "white San Jose".

I understand that there are "Iranian bars" in Mountain View.

There are relatively huge Humong communities in various places in the midwest. (No, not just the cities.)
"Is the idea that most of those students won't be there in 2-4 years a big hindrance to this approach?"

Yes. That's always the excuse in my experience, even when it doesn't make any sense. At my previous university job, my department used an ancient—and I really mean ancient—shopping cart system. This thing had been written in ColdFusion during the mid-90s and they were still running it in 2009. It required all kinds of hand-holding and manual labor that should've otherwise been automated. Even though the original (outsourced) developer had long since disappeared, management refused to consider a new shopping cart. Why?

"Because we can't risk losing the person who sets it up."

There are no words. I chalk up the attitude to extreme, unhealthy risk-aversion.
I totally understand that and it lines up with what I thought when I first saw the story in the front page.

I think a good way to mitigate that fear is for this guys to open source the server side of this app, allow people to easily and securely transfer their data out and expose a setting in the app to change the server it uses.
This wouldn't be a good idea for either service, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effects

I doubt that this is related to making money.
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> I guess, because Microsoft now realized that they lost the age of internet, they lost the browser war, the search engine war, and the mobile phone war. They know that Windows 8 sucks that much, that people want to install Windows 7 or Linux, and they need to prevent us doing this

Then why did they make it so that to get your x86 hardware certified and allowed to use the Windows 8 logo, you are REQUIRED to provide a UEFI setting to turn off secure boot and to allow the user to remove and add keys?

If they are trying to prevent people from running Linux or Windows 7, you'd expect them to leave it up to the OEM whether or not secure boot can be disabled or the keys can be modified--knowing that many OEMs would not bother, rather than explicitly requiring the OEMs to allow that.
> San Francisco and Los Angeles are in different states

Only San Franciscans think that. The folks in the rest of Northern CA know better.

The real dividing line in CA runs north/south. SF and LA are on the same side of that line.
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Secure Boot might be a useful part, if everybody could add his own keys to his own board, and delete existing keys for Microsoft and others. But one has to pay to get his key signed by Microsoft. This is comparable to install own software on an iPhone, where one has to pay Apple to unlock a devices.

The most dangerous malware is now produced by states.

If RedHat and Ubuntu can pay their us$99, I guess NSA, BND, CIA, Mossad and others can also. So secure boot is not adding any security, imho. There was already the case that Microsoft implemented a backdoor in NT export versions for NSA 13 years ago.
So would male-only scholarships be appropriate in all the other female-dominated majors? And, because of the overall undergraduate imbalance, offering more male-only scholarships than female-only scholarships when netted over all fields? Simply to achieve gender balance, of course.
http://m.engadget.com/2012/06/11/apple-magsafe-vs-magsafe-2-...

Only a very slight difference to the connecting surface itself.
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Or more like a basketball player who swishes 100 free throws in a row, makes the next one but catches a little rim...
The Verizon Factor:

Assume that if a user walks into a store he has an equally likely chance of buying the HTC One and Galaxy S3 if both are present. If neither is present give half the missing sales to the other.

Assume Verizon, ATT, Sprint and T-Mobile have 40%, 34%, 14% and 10% of the US market respectively.

Observe that HTC One is not available at Verizon.

Now in our admittedly simplified marketplace we find the HTC phone is outsold by a 2 to 1 margin.
> But in Germany, those things are reality, which shows that those groups take these matters seriously.

NASCAR and NFL/College football fans also take such things seriously.
> If we want to associate their account with a username,
> we can already deduce that from the email address -
> simply take everything before the '@'.

The concept of a "username" as a special entity is long obsolete.

If accounts are uniquely identified by an email address, let users sign in with their email address. If users object to showing their address publicly, add a free-form text field so they can tell you which name they want to use.

> We're a quickly growing young startup - we really just
> want as many interested people to enroll as possible.
> If we have to slightly uglify our 'settings' page or
> burn a bit of energy on support for the percentage of
> users who don't want to use their email address name
> as their username, we can manage that.

The problem is that you're not just spending your own mental energy, you're spending that of every other person who signs up. You're forcing every registree to think of, type in, and remember another string if they want to use your site.

> What do you think? Have you seen any better examples
> in the wild? Do you have any better ideas that I
> haven't addressed here? As a user, how would you
> prefer to approach this problem?

IMO, the best login form supports OpenID, OAuth, and nothing else. Put up a couple big buttons up for the major providers (Facebook, Yahoo, Google, AOL, etc), plus the generic OpenID logo to handle any alpha-nerds.

Then the registration flow takes two steps (click button, click "yes send my info", user is signed in), and the re-login flow takes only one (click button, user is signed in). The user doesn't have to fill out a form, or remember a new password, or wait for a validation email to arrive.
I'm young (just a recent University graduate), so I expect my viewpoint to change over the next few years after I get into the shit and start getting run down by large companies grinding away at me (it's happened a couple times already - had to decompress for a few weeks after finishing my contract on both occasions).

I cannot think of anything more rewarding than what I'm currently doing though. I'm quite literally creating things that people will be using. It's quite possibly the most amazing form of artwork because users will actually be interacting with systems I'm creating.

The only analogy I can think of is that it's like combining a Monet with a can opener. A can opener is something that's incredibly useful, used by everyone, with many thinking "why didn't I think of that". A Monet on the other hand is respected as an art that most believe is far outside the realm of their possibilities of ever creating. Programming is quite literally being the impasse between the two - something that not everyone can do, but is useful to everyone.
They just closed the NC office, too. Rather abruptly to my surprise friend employed there.
Well fwiw, the same guy (Armin Ronacher) wrote both flask and jinja2 so there is a strong link between the two projects by way of him.
The monetization angle sounds like the only real problem with the entire situation.
Zimmerman, obviously!

On a more serious note, it appears that the Nobel Prize can be awarded to organizations, which would make CERN the most likely recipient. This said, as far as I can say only the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded in such a way in the past.
At Berkeley, couple of students built a web app for generating schedules automatically (Ninja Courses[1]). Now, this isn't entirely analogous to this app: they didn't charge students for using the program and it only plans your schedule; you have to actually register yourself. However, it does access very similar information like how full classes and sections are.

Instead of shutting them down, the university licensed the technology and now provide a Berkeley-branded version [2].

[1]: http://ninjacourses.com
[2]: http://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu
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" Store it Forever. " till they got bought out and shut down, acquihired or go out of business.
So tedious.

Apple is extremely well positioned in front of almost every mass trend happening in consumer electronics. They are sitting on a tenth of a trillion dollars in cash. They have content deals with more companies in more places than almost anyone else on Earth. They are ending investment in unfruitful markets. They have a rapidly converging consumer platform that has essentially no identifiable competitive weaknesses. Investor confidence is thunderingly high. They're headquartered in an extremely pro-business nation and feted as the last great American wonder business with all that implies politically. They have a global retail arm that defies everything known about retail. Their manufacturing pipeline shames former industry leaders. Their litigation is top-notch. Their customer goodwill is limitless and serves to smooth over many failures in execution and experience.

They are, even if all goes dark tomorrow, one of the greatest successes in our industry that we will see in our lives. So as someone put above: if Apple can survive iPod Socks and the G4 Cube, they can probably survive whatever some stringer for Time is reading in the tea leaves.

Does anyone have any actual concerns about actual Apple as it pertains to the actual real world? I'll start:

- Their push for a tax holiday is going to go over extremely poorly in an election year

- Their extremely slow iPhone hardware update cycle leaves them vulnerable to fast-evolving competitors and a single bad product will poison the well for years

- The colossal amount of value stored nowadays in a single Apple ID means the damage from a security breach or intrusion is astronomical

- Apple has nothing interesting or heartening to say about their law enforcement policies vis a vis the data they collect

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I actually wrote a tool to do this very same thing at my own university. Worked great and got me the classes I wanted as soon as they became available. I only shared the service with a few people though because I knew the administration would do something like this if I made it public. It's wrong, but it wouldn't have been worth my time to deal with.
I'm a paid user of WorkFlowy, love it. The hash tags and @person references are really useful for working on shared workflowys. What we really need next though, is a way to transform the nested "mind map" (which is useful for getting stuff out of your head) to a flat time-series of tasks. Two different steps in the process: dumping your thoughts and then executing the tasks.
Maybe.

We should also consider that maybe the smart phone trend thing is starting to slow down. Since most of the possibles innovations are already done it's harder to think of new features except maybe more power.
Why do you assume that the problem is the definition of "long time" and not the definition of "lust after." It seems that you think everyone is lusting after the iPad? I know I am not lusting after the iPad, but I'm not a mac lover. The iPad has certainly not matched the lust inducing levels of the iphone or ipod or osx.
Actually, the Logo requirements specify that you must be able to add your own keys:

> It shall be possible for a physically present user to use the Custom Mode firmware setup option to modify the contents of the Secure Boot signature databases and the PK.
We have a huge malware problem and these folks are worried that there's one more setting that a user might need to change before installing Linux? You know, apart from changing the boot order of the devices, partitioning the hard disk, installing into the right partitions, configuring dual boot etc. ?

>This is most easy from Germany, where we have a law that allows us to send back any mail order, internet order or things that had been sold at the door or on phone within 14 days, and charge our money back. So my suggesting is doing this at the moment the first computers ship that are locked to boot only Microsoft systems. Order them, unpack them, ruin the paper and cardboards, and send them back with a note: Can not install Linux.

>The same can be done by people who have an American Express credit card, within 30 days worldwide, I think.

Please think twice before doing that, this will just make the OEMs think that a section of Linux users are mean and just too costly to support. I prefer that some other way of indicating support for Linux is used, like buying hardware with preinstalled Linux.

>It also won't help much if major distributions like Ubuntu or RedHat get a signed key into the boot loader, because UEFI will prevent any normal Linux system programmer from installing his own self compiled operating system.

Huh what? Doesn't Microsoft mandate(to the extent they can, because of antitrust laws) that secure boot be able to be turned off and users be able to add their own keys? Or is the author talking about the slippery slope of the mysterious future?
The apple comparison can't really be made on the android side because the apple brand is a very strong one. iPhones can sell based on brand alone whereas HTC can't really rely on that.

I think for the first in a series like the HTC One to really take off, it has to appeal to the early adopters and those are the geeks surely. And then if they like it, they'll recommend it to their friends. If you build up some diehard fans, surely it will be better to iterate ensuring the relative success of a HTC One X successor.
Much heavier paper, less bleed-through. If they don't feather fountain pen ink badly, I may have to invest in some.
It's a big detector with a lot of parts.

Standard procedure is to list all the researchers involved in the project. Not everyone will be directly involved in the specific analysis to find the Higgs.
Those are sufficiently different that you likely don't have the problem. The 6870 uses a different framebuffer personality than the 6850, and likely the fact that it's a different manufacturer might ameliorate the problem altogether.
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They did successfully block his requests. The issue is that he was charging for the service, and that was against their policy. That's why he was disciplined (though I find their response laughable and misguided).
You mean like the the iPhone 4 in 2010, the iPad 3 earlier in the year, or the Retina Macbook a couple weeks ago? Sure, nobody lusted after those.
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>Secure Boot might be a useful part, if everybody could add his own keys to his own board, and delete existing keys for Microsoft and others. But one has to pay to get his key signed by Microsoft.

That is exactly what Microsoft mandates for secure boot for Windows 8 certification. Please stop spreading misinformation.
That's the most worrisome of the list.
I agree.

Kevin Kelly wrote a great post about the inevitability of life logging back in 2007:
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2007/02/lifelogging_a...
The administration's reaction is clearly politically motivated. They're basically trying to hide their own incompetence in having a crap system.

It's incredibly stupid and frustrating for anyone who has an ounce of common sense, or cares about technology.

Hopefully this generates enough negative publicity to change the administration's point of view, because frankly, political pressure is the only kind of argument that toxic bureaucracies understand.
I find programming very intellectually satisfying, and have for many years. I now find myself in competition with people from all over the world, making it much more difficult to maintain the income I came to depend on. I have some anecdotal evidence that many of these "programmers" don't really like the job, and view it only as a stepping stone in their careers. I wish only Programmers programmed; as software users, we might all be better off.
You can not change the boot loader on ARM for Windows 8.
And you likely can not change it for Intel for next Windows version.
What does "Store it forever" mean?

Would it automatically send me a formatted archive of my entries (say every week or month)?

Send me a file that is automatically uploaded to Google Drive or DropBox or even just email it to me regularly.
There seems to be an odd notion that B2B must be about accounting and such. Most B2B stuff I've been involved with the past few years has all been "social".

Because, like soylent green, companies mostly consist of people...
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An evolving trend in OS X and iOS is to rework various applications into little faux leatherette items - Contacts and Calendars have both received this treatment.

Reaction is almost universally negative, even among tech uninvolved customers. It appears unprofessional and unbusinesslike to them and tarnishes the image of Apple software as being elegant and industry-best. Apple's made small retreats lately but the idiom is still riding high.
My carry-everywhere notebooks are Moleskines, mostly because I have a ton of them I got for a song on a good sale a while back. When that stash runs out I'll look for something with an equally-or-more indestructible cover and better paper inside.

At my desk, I have a pretty extensive collection of papers, but my go-to for quick brainstorming or hashing things out is a couple of Arc notebooks (Staples' in-house brand). It's easy to move the pages around, and the paper is very fountain-pen-friendly.
I can see how a "life recorder" sounds appealing, and even genuinely useful. But shouldn't we also think about how much mischief and damage could be done to your life if someone decided to comb through your "life record"?

Real-life cases of people who made extensive audio recordings of their day-to-day lives and what happened to them:

(a) High-profile private investigator Anthony Pellicano recorded all his conversations with his clients, including Sylvester Stallone and Hollywood producer Aaron Russo ("Trading Places"). Details about the tapes were leaked by the police after his office was raided on an unrelated matter.

(b) Tax-shelter promoter Gary Kornman, in his bankruptcy proceeding, was forced to reveal and turn over 8000 secret recordings he made of conversations with clients.

(c) Former U.S. President Richard Nixon installed hidden microphones in his own office so that his advisers could not claim to have disagreed with his decisions. Nixon felt that such a record was very important but the taping system trapped himself.

It's unfortunate that each of the examples above involve wrongdoing--they're the most readily found because they get the most publicity.

But I think that anyone with a continuous record of their life will be vulnerable to being screwed over in some way.
It could be as simple finding instances where you said or did anything that was contradictory to your current opinions and beliefs.

Putting the data in the cloud, and under the control of a third party, makes it that much worse to being exposed.

A "life recorder" that was completely and utterly under your own control would make more sense.
I wish more people were required to take a logic course before getting to work at a university.

They've already lost the person who set it up - there's zero "risk" involved - it already happened. The world didn't end. But life is painful for many people because of the current system.

"Unhealthy" is an understatement.
The time gap stands (1973-2002/2003).