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Completely agree. Either buy OUYA, and improve the product if you can, and get even more partnerships for launch day, or build something similar (also for $99 - very important!), and release it a few months later at the next Google I/O with Tegra 4. Boom - crazy buzz around it.

The price is essential though. Screw everything else. Just make sure it's $99. And using a beefed up Tegra 4 (no regard for energy efficiency in a console), or some other next-gen GPU architecture with OpenGL ES 3.0 support (like Exynos 6/Mali T658), coupled with Cortex A15 CPU's, would be a huge bonus over OUYA, even if it arrives a few months later compared to OUYA.

But please - please - stop buying into that theory that says early adopter products need to be more expensive or whatever makes Google release such products at prices that everyone thinks are insane.

Just a few examples:

Xoom - $800

Google TV - $300

Chromebook $450

Nexus Q - $300

Google still hasn't learned that they need to introduce these new products at a "sweet spot" pricing point - much like the Nexus 7 actually! But it took Amazon to teach them that, so I don't have much faith in them repeating this, especially after seeing the Nexus Q pricing.

Google's problem regarding pricing is also that they keep putting components that are too expensive in those products, without receiving an equivalent value from it.

The Xoom was this expensive because of the 3g/4G chips and high MP cameras. The Chromebooks and Google TV were this expensive because of Intel's Atom chips. Nexus Q was too expensive because it had an amplifier (did anyone actually care about that?), and because it was "built in US". They need to stop making these kind of mistakes once and for all, if they want to be successful selling hardware.

Apple puts only the essential components in their products that 80% of the people would use, and make sure they are high quality. For example, the original iPad had a high-quality display, but had no cameras, and not even a GPS. This kind of thinking made the iPad cost "only" $500 at the time, when people thought it would be significantly more - maybe not $1000, but perhaps more expensive than an unlocked iPhone, thanks to the expected bigger screen, bigger battery, etc. Google needs to learn to do that as well.
Uh, I guess. Why bother using javascript at all if you need some non-javascript tool to verify it everytime you use it? Might as well just use GPG along with any existing mail service.
I'm going to take a guess here and say the posts that were notorious enough so that you found them were all done by app developers with a heavy investment in the App Store, so they couldn't just ignore what happened, and chose to try to fix their problem with publicity.

To protect their investment, "bending over" may have been the most sensible, if painful, option.

If you're a new developer choosing whether to target Android, iOS, or both, your perspective may be different. But people won't care about your blog posts.
It's largely intended for the retina MacBook pro, which has two thunderbolt ports, but I do agree -- many of the early peripherals seem to lack support for daisy chaining. As for the USB version... the thunderbolt one is much faster. File transfers at over 900 Mbps from the one testing report I've read so far.

I'm not fully convinced that there's much advantage to the USB one over just using wifi, except where the latter is unavailable.
They aren't doing that. They're asking for an exclusive license. You retain the copyright, you just can't use it anywhere else.
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We had very many guns per capita by the end of apartheid and people were predicting exactly what you're predicting. Nothing like that happened. The guns were largely destroyed. Now I don't even know anyone that owns one. I don't even know anyone that would argue that a gun would make them safer. But are we at least on the same page that your 300 million guns IS the problem? Potential civil war and all.

There are frequent stories of people being killed using their own guns. Guns just escalate situations and they aren't very helpful when your attackers have the initiative. I have been mugged by someone carrying a pistol and I am absolutely sure that the situation wouldn't have played out any different even if I could replay it 100 times and even if I had years of training and even if I carried my own concealed weapon: Walk home in the dark in a bad neighborhood, guy jumps out of nowhere and sticks a pistol in your face, you hand him your wallet that has no cash in it anyway, everyone walks away. Oh I suppose afterwards I could have shot him in the back (if he didn't find my hypothetical concealed weapon) and go to jail for the rest of my life. Yes I agree - it would play out exactly the same if he held a knife against my throat.
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Check your figures man, the C64 sold much more than the Apple computers of that era. Commodore made the computers mainstream way before Apple.
The perception that they're overvalued, or poorly managed, or what have you, hurts their ability to sell big advertisers on big-ticket advertising deals. These have been their bread and butter all along.

Over the last few years, many Fortune 500 companies signed $20MM+ yearly deals to advertise on Facebook, develop fan pages, etc. Some -- most infamously, GM -- are starting to pull back (or pull out altogether).

In very basic terms, Facebook makes the majority of its money from advertising. It makes the majority of its advertising money from a relatively small handful of very big advertisers. Shaken confidence in Facebook, for whatever reason, shakes the confidence of these advertisers, which jeopardizes Facebook's ability to make money.

All of this is leaving aside the financial damages associated with declining market cap. In a weird way, that's actually less relevant than the effect the busted IPO is having on Facebook's position in the ad sales business.
I'm skeptical of the idea that watching a video is an efficient way to learn how to write code. This seems like a clear case where "youtubing" is a procrastination technique. Watching a video is not a substitute for solving an exercise problem.
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>But we don't have people regularly shooting up schools, malls and cinemas.

That's the point--we don't either. The number of American's killed in mass shootings is statistically insignificant. You don't base public policy on a few dozen people killed per year.

There has to be some threshold before you start banning things. If for instance banning M rated video games would save 20 people per year should we do it?

If you want to talk about gun control a mass shooting that killed a dozen people is completely insignificant. No one would even bat an eyelash if 3 gangbangers killed 5 people each that same day.
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>Just because it was the most common reason for a return doesn't tell us how significant it was. What was the overall return rate?

Big. It was a huge fiasco at the time.
Add to that the old rss feeds are broken, so all those rss readers apps have stop working with digg.

I also really don't understand what was the decision behind breaking all older stories, it seems ludicrous they do not take advantage of that.

Even worse you now have to login with facebook! they did not bring back the old accounts, this seems like a very frustrating issue. Unless they want a completely new userbase...

I think they just threw the last remaining digger to reddit.
I don't understand why you think utilising RAID across EBS volumes is insane. For years, if people needed more IOPs than a single drive could deliver, they utilised RAID to acheive it. How is this any different?
Look if the question of the day was "What should be ban?". Based on the data I'd have to say: handguns. They are being used in homicides four to six times more than anything else. This, regardless of how effective or not a specific weapon might be or how many there might exist across the US. Those are the facts.
Apple should indeed be free to offer only the products they want to in their store.

The problem is: the store is mandatory. Side loading is the OS equivalent of net neutrality.

This is like car companies deciding which supermarkets you may shop at, and then suggesting only their own.

Unfortunately, Mircosft and Amazon are going to do, or are already doing, the same thing.

They want to be the new cable companies. Extorting content producers, by selling or blocking access to consumers.
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Does anyone know anything about storage limits? Is it counting towards Skydrive bytes, or this is very first large scale webmail for free and without any space limitations?

Edit

Found on http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/31/outlook-preview-email-ser...:

The service is open to the public as of today and you get virtually unlimited storage, along with 7GB of SkyDrive space if you create a new Microsoft account. ((Microsoft uses the word "virtually" to hedge itself against spammers who might otherwise use limitless storage to game the system.*)
Let's not forget to add that the Amiga was the only computer in the mid 85 with an OS as advanced as it was (multitask, windows manager). It took years before the PC and Mac could catch up on its overall capabilities.

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Apparently getting banned from FB for 2 years is more noteworthy than getting 6 months in jail ...
Apart from all the old pages being 404 (which is a huge mishap). Nitpicking on html is a fun and amusing pastime, but unless the page is deformed in some way, it falls into the "shit nobody cares about" category.
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I think you meant that as a hypothetical, but actually it's not uncommon -- Google "restrictive covenant." If you don't want to be restricted in what you can do with your house then don't buy one that has restrictions.
>You could have said the same thing about unix-like operating systems in 1991 - yet, somebody wrote one from scratch without a full-time team

Err, at 1991 he just wrote a rudimentary OS from scratch. To make it more unix-like, stable and feature full took hundreds of people, including tens of full time company employees (IBM, RedHat, etc).
John Kay's piece today about the same issue is quite pertinent: http://www.johnkay.com/2012/08/01/8684

He's looking at how a media frenzy affects perception and laws disproportionally.
I'd very much like to see this in place, personally I have not watched TV in a long time (I am in the minority of course), but there really is no need to clutter up the RF spectrum with what is obsolete technology.
Measures and facts like these only come in to place long after people stop using them however, so this isn't going to be implemented any time soon.
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Statistically don't these things happen way more in the US than anywhere else though? Or is that just a media bias?
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I don't think any company would sue their users. PR in at least remotely sane companies trumps legal.
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'Your password can't be longer than 16 characters.'

The password requirement description only shows '8-character minimum; case sensitive'.

Disappointing. And apparently no 2-factor authentication either … :(
This was my exact issue.
It's not a product. It's a problem they paid way too much for.
I think you are trying to read more into my post that I actually say. Scorn means contempt. I don't have contempt for anyone on HN. How could I? Most are probably far smarter than I am.

What I could have contempt for is the act of arguing a matter from an ideological or emotional perspective while choosing to ignore the data and the facts. Note that I didn't say that I have contempt for the people who do this but for the "act" or process itself.

BTW, it's not "my" data, it's the FBI's and the US Department of Justice, both far more reputable than I am in these matters.

I have yet to see one post truly address the facts as reflected by the data.
I can understand wanting one for sports and leisure.

I too live in a country with tight weapon control; if I went on holiday to America and had a chance to go to a gun range and fire an AK-47 you bet I'd do it.

Of course, I'd also like to fire one of those stinger missiles, and the deck guns on a battleship. I can understand there being other considerations that conflict with my desires.
Craigslist is gigantic in big US metro areas.

It's pretty much the standard way to find a place to live, to find an employee or a job, to buy and sell used cars, etc... etc...

It's also known for having 3 times higher revenue-per-employee than Google even though the vast majority of activity on the site is free.
When I landed on the page I though "Nice, they made a responsive layout, like bostonglobe.com." So I resized the window, and... not. It just happened that my window was originally sized to their fixed width.
That's exactly what http://www.yourpane.com does. I thought it was pretty convenient, but it turns out most users expect a username/password.

However, it fits the service's model well, so it works out in the end for YourPane.
It is. What «api» has been proposing is literally, "I want a no-censorship network which I can censor."

That it is paradoxical does not necessarily make it impossible, though. The goals are certainly contrary but I am not certain that they are contradictory.

If you think about community-based censorship, this could probably be arranged even in an anonymity community, as long as it had active-enough participation. A popular search engine like Google can have tremendous ability to censor others even on a network like Tor where people cannot easily be censored.

The chief problem is that «api» faces is that his/her aspirations are too individualistic and unimaginative. You could always put the to-be-censored material in an encrypted archive and distribute the link to the material with the password to it -- this sometimes happens with BitTorrent (and then you'd have to click on ads to get the password and it becomes a nightmare). Then nodes cannot inspect the content. So what are you going to do, limit content-types? This was done by Napster, where only MP3s would be shared -- but a piece of software quickly came out called Wrapster which "wrapped" other files in MP3s. There exist JPEG steganography tools as well, both hiding files within the least-significant bits of the image data as well as in parts of the JPEG which do not get interpreted by a normal JPEG reader (e.g. appending a RAR archive to the end of the JPEG image).

I say "too individualistic" as well because any sort of relay net where the nodes themselves inspect the content that they trade is going to expose itself to a possibility of systematic censorship. "I know that you know what you were sending me" is a horrible way to start your cryptosystem.

Nonetheless, there might be hope for a sort of global data-store which the nodes collectively take responsibility for, which nodes collectively trade and where nodes can vote to "veto" certain indexed files. The idea would be that you can't take down the data store by taking down individual nodes, you can't prove which node "uploaded" a file, and you can't necessarily fault the nodes for failing to down-vote a file tracked by the community since hosting the file is a collective decision, not an individual one. It would have to use central aspects of the design of BitCoin alongside central aspects of anonymity networks, but I don't see why it would be impossible.
And when Apple does there own drivers for laptops they're often worse than the vendors own, as can be shown by rebooting into Windows.
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Seems like a simple problem for Facebook to deal with:

User clicks more than one ad per [pick some time threshold -- hour] on average ==> probably bot.

User clicks more than one ad per [pick some time threshold -- minute] ==> probably bot.

User clicked more than [pick threshold -- 20] ads in a month ==> probably bot.

FB doesn't even need to get these numbers right, it just needs to set the values so that false positives cost it an insignificant amount of money.
I would assume it's per-volume as 2 10GB 100IOPS volumes would be 200 IOPS, while a single 20GB volume would only be 100 IOPS.
I'd be really interested in hearing more details about your experience.
That's all well and good, but there's no irony there. As statictype I believe was suggesting.

It only would have been ironic had jwz elected to develop for iOS because he thought the Android app store policy sucked, to find that the Apple app store policy sucked more. Which is not the case here.

[Edited to include clarification]
Yes, you've got it wrong. This is the baseball card view of the stock market, and it is incorrect. When you own shares in a company, you own part of the company - part of the money on the company's bank accounts and part of the company's assets belong to you.

The board, which is chosen by the shareholders, decides how to allocate these resources. Whether the profits are paid out to your bank account or stays in the company is irrelevant with regards to ownership. Part of the assets belong to you regardless.

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I can definitely see this happening but not for a while. We are only just completing the switchover from analog to digital this year (and if I remember correctly that process started around 4 years ago).
Perhaps. The fact still stands that with less guns you'll have less gun-related violence. If you have 300 million guns now, how many will you have in a generation? No one can argue against there being a correlation between number of guns and number of gun related crimes. America obviously needs gun control and I don't particularly care if it takes talking about massacres or gangbangers to get there. Clearly people don't care as much about dead gangbangers..
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1.8 billion dollars in cost. And the better driver is going to return how much of that investment?
Clearly that's what they want to do or at least have the ability to threaten suit with this in their TOS.
I like the fact that they incorporate fb likes and tweets to the score.

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The irony is: That which attracted him is now hurting him.
> changing the name does not solve the problem that people searching for "xscreensaver" in the app store will not find it if it is released under something-that-is-not-its-name.

With the recent App Store search result changes, this may be of little help anyway. If you search for the name of my app, for instance, it comes up near the bottom of the results where nobody looks. I went from averaging multiple downloads per day to just two sales since the changes were put into effect.