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You're right about one thing: evaluation of audio qualities is incredibly subjective. In a word, it comes down to "preferences".

If I really want to "hear things I've never heard before" in recordings I've heard countless times in countless environments, I choose loudspeakers and headphones with a flat frequency response. I've come to prefer a set of near-field studio monitors over "audiophile" brands, without hesitation. This shifts the subjectiity to the sound engineers who produced the recording, instead of the "hifi" manufacturer targeting "audiophiles".

If these recordings need to be "fixed" to adjust to my preferred perception of the audio - and needless to say, there's a lot that needs to be fixed these days - then that needs to be done at the recording and mastering stages ("the input"), by recording and mastering engineers, not at the reproduction stage ("the output"), by those who design and manufacture "audiophile" stereo components. This is the conclusion I reached many years ago.

Of course, it is subjective conclusion. Audio qualities will alwys be a matter of preference.

Sincerely,

A Former Audiophile
If you're on a torrent site, why would you download the demo instead of the full game? Even if you were planning on paying for the game if it didn't suck, there's no advantage to neither you or the developer in downloading the demo instead.
Much more information on the AGC at Wikipedia, including the instruction set: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_guidance_computer
I suspect there is little time spent on fear once you're actually in the flow. You deal with that on the ground.
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Totally anecdotal (but then again, so's the post we're all talking about here), but from talking to various non-technical people around the office a lot of people seem to think Samsung 'had it coming'. And let's not forget the jury found Samsung guilty, a jury that supposedly represents the common person.

So while we're all aghast at what's going on here it could be quite likely that a lot of people have sympathy with Apple...rightly or wrongly.
I'm not sure if you're trolling, or just don't like the Samsung devices, but either way... no they won't. At least not all of them. I'm sure there's going to be a group not satisfied with Samsung. There are also groups not satisfied with Apple. Some of those people will say - hey, this was always annoying me in i$DEVICE, but here's it's better.

Why would you think everyone will hate it? (or even that they will have the same opinion, whatever it may be)
I wonder if you could send them a resume like

Your Name
United States

Education:
Really relevant degree from a top rated university

Experience:
5 years doing excellent work at a company that has
a strong reputation for this kind of work. I used
skills that are in the most demand by top companies.
Responsibilities included delivering really innovative
products on time and under budget. Received many
awards from peers and management.

3 years as a rockstar engineer with a company that
made the cover of a widely read technical journal.
Papers that I wrote were given best paper awards at
some of the best industry conferences.

Interned with one of the leading Internet companies
that reach out to a significant portion of the billions
of people that use the Internet. Applied the latest
software development tools and methodologies to the
companies most profitable product.
I found myself amazed when reading the captivating advertisement copy-write. Not to self, look at published advertising from yester-year when looking for inspiration.
I'm no audiophile, yet I've been using a ~50€ Sennheiser for some time, and ever since I tried my girlfriend's ~250€ Beyerdynamics ("really, there can't be such a difference?") I can attest there's actually a world of difference between them, so much so that I consider ~100€ entry level now (the Sennheiser really sounds like crap).
I think it's Intel, although Qualcomm chips are being used in their CDMA variants of the iPhone. Apple uses Infineon baseband chips, however the company (Infineon) was bought out by Intel, hence it is Intel who supplies the offending chips.

Apple tried to pay Samsung for the license after Samsung revoked it (probably to get more money from Apple), but Samsung turned down the license fee claiming they wanted more.

To me, this sounded like Samsung wanted Apple to violate some of their patents for some ammunition in the case.

I don't think Apple willfully infringed anything here. They just bought chips from a manufacturer, assuming that they can use the chips they paid for in their products. It seems crazy someone could sell you chips, and then sue you if you happen to use them in your products.
There are some things that are better about PCs and some things that are better about Macs. Same with Android and iOS. To put it bluntly if you think otherwise you are an uninformed, brainwashed idiot.
>To be one of the only 3 people for a quarter million miles.

That would also have been true during their flight there.
Are you considering IP part of the free-market system? Because it is very much NOT a part of it. It's a government-granted monopoly, after all.
It's not zero risk; startups pay less than market rates and make up (hopefully more than) the difference with equity. The gamble (risk) is that you'll end up with less after 3-5 yeas than if you had just stayed at a BigCo and invested well.
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somebody made a mindmapping application with this yet?
You must have missed the part where I wrote as long as you have a sustainable position.

In the case of Apple vs Samsung, the smart phone market is at a different level of maturity that lack of market share is not going drive developers away from iOS, but if we were much earlier in the market then it would be a significant issue for them.

What's Samsung's story?

I don't know what sort of margins Samsung is making on their devices, but they don't have to make as much per device as Apple to still be a success.
Did 16x16 (and then 32x32, and etc etc) icons get patents? Because someone, somewhere, lost a lot of money - and I got consistently sized icons for many years.

EDIT: This isn't as ridiculous as it sounds. See this 2002 article. BT registered a patent in 1976 for "double clicking hyperlinks" (or somesuch), and then in 2000 they realised that they owned this patent, and a bunch of people were clicking hyperlinks on the WWW, and they started suing people. They lost.

(http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/BT-patent-case-raises-...)

(http://eupat.ffii.org/pikta/xrani/hyperlink/)
Perhaps this is a good experience for all developers to have at one point or another. I'm sure the majority of everyday users feel like this all the time. It's good to gain some perspective once a decade.
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Nice catch, so I was actually referencing to the input quality of the FLAC. I will correct it, thanks.
Yes, I know that. Samsung is one company among many. For example, in the first iPods (which kicked off this insane run Apple is having), they relied on Toshiba for the drives.

I also know that thinking Apple would be able to stay afloat if they did not use manufacturers in Asia, such as Samsung, is "utter delusion". Is that what you're suggesting?
"For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind."

RIP Neil.
The Legendary Moonwatch
Fascinating, thank you! I wasn't even aware this existed.
From a jurisprudence POV, you can't depend on your jury having personal experience in anything, and so the whole system is built with the expectation that they don't.
Misunderstanding both ways, obviously. I'm old enough to have seen Apollo flights live on TV, so his interpretation of my post makes absolutely no sense at all to me (except as a contemptuous insult). "Return to the moon" can only mean "a new post-Apollo mission".
Also, he shows off a "OS/X" [sic] virtual machine to convince laymen that Apple's overcharging because you can run OSX in a VM. This is clearly a guy fabricating a story.
Anyone who's ever virtualized OSX outside of VMWare Fusion will tell you this line is bullshit and would never offer that as a legitimate substitute for the real OSX desktop experience. Even legit OSX VMs on Fusion perform worse than their natively installed counterparts (GPU drivers just aren't very robust).
Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer for more information.

The strangest feature was its core rope memory. In order to save weight only the 1 bits had a core. Whenever a code change was made the memory had to be rewoven by hand by little old ladies, hence the name LOL memory.

This appears to be an earlier version, not the one that was used in the manned missions, the BLOCK II.
I chuckled when I read the part about starting the OSX virtual machine inside the Windows 7 host on the Samsung machine:

"And it really is just the same. See, it even runs OS X!"
Apparently NASA wrote over the only high quality video of the first moon landing. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1200161/Apoll...

With recent talk of video/images from Mars, I'm wondering what is the highest quality that we have for the moon. (The above link includes a high quality photo for Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon and doesn't talk about other moon missions.)
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I am already considering to drop OS X after the lawsuit, but I only read 2 paragraphs before I decided to look for this comment in HN before reading further.
This probably a better articulation of what I mean, though I'm not convinced it's different.
Oh, good, a lynch mob to attack the foreman's professional work.
> There are many parts of the desktop experience which require more than cursory integration and that becomes a much harder problem to make generic and plugable.

Do you mind mentioning some examples. My desktop runs Awesome, but I make extensive use of Gnome widgets and programs. The fact that these work out of the box without issue, despite the fact that they were developed to be part of the Gnome desktop, seems to suggest that the standards work fine.

Besides, thinking back to when I used Windows, I cannot think of an application/desktop integration that does not work on Linux.

I always imagined that OS X had a "better" experience because it had teams of developers whose job it was to make it have a better experience for the user. Also, never liked the OS X experience, icons don't automatically un-clutter in folders, it is difficult to tell the difference between what is and isn't running, and I still cannot figure out how to reliably rename a file without using the terminal.
I would have thought that he may have rights under Swedish law. I think EU consumer law should allow it to be raised with Apple in Sweden.

Practically a proxy in Sweden might be the easiest temporary workaround.
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The Soviet Mars-2 and Mars-3 missions were quite successful (orbiting and landing). Here is a gallery of mars images 1971-1974[1]

The soviets were also the first to land on Luna in 1966 [2] and on Venus in 1975[3]

[1]http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMars.htm

[2]http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMoon.htm

[3]http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
You _don't_ need to wear a suit to be well dressed. A nice, properly fitting shirt (find a store that fits you best, or try online made-to-measure) and fitting jeans (I love Levi's, personally) can go a really long way. Get a blazer or two, a couple of cool ties if you really want, and you'll be miles ahead than the rest.

(disclaimer: co-founder of Dolbeau, Canadian mens accessory maker)
Fun result. It reminds me of the stories Dr. Feynman would tell about what he learned by watching ants.
I forgot to mention SHOES. Shoe quality is not to be overlooked. People will judge you by your shoes.
Engineers don't often build great products on their own. You also need great industrial design, great user interface design etc. In some ways I can relate to your view - as a software engineer myself I often fall into the trap of thinking everything I do is 'obvious' and that any other right thinking engineer would have probably made the same decisions. For any one decision this might even be true, but for large, complex systems it certainly isn't. Everything is obvious with hindsight, as they say.

Your certainty that the innovations brought to the table by the original iPhone were inevitable needs to be justified I'm afraid. Of course it's true that there are many hardware components in all modern smartphones for which the development of which had nothing to do with Apple. However as with the original Mac, to dismiss Apple's contribution is rather to miss the point.
I still have a special edition of one of the leading Brazilian magazines of the time dedicated to first lunar landing. I've lost count of how many times I've read it.

I now understand why we went there and why we never went back. I feel betrayed and disappointed. Our species has proved itself worthy and our leaders reduced it to a pissing contest.
Very cool. Does anybody here know how the forager traffic is actually regulated? Is it centrally managed by the queen, or is there some sort of chemical signal that individual ants can produce to spread the word?
You also can't use a CC address outside of the country you opened the iTunes account in, and they periodically re-validate that information so when you do give your bank your new address, as of course you will, you're in for even more fun.
Transcript, videos, pictures, discussion of all the little details, etc here: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/a11.step....
I don't think case is about anything technical. If you look deep into Samsung's history, you'll see they make a business out of copying other company's successful products by mimicking the product's form factor or appearance. For example, Samsung copied Motorola's RAZR with their own SYNC model.
I wonder if the whole reason IAP is winning...

is because trial periods aren't being done? Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to make Angry Birds free, have only the first 20 levels be playable, then pay $9.99 for the remaining 80 levels? (I'm making these numbers up BTW.)

Obviously IAP makes a lot of sense for Farmville-style games that are all about "objects", but when tacked onto Angry Birds Space, or most games really, it feels like the company is just trying to take advantage of you.

Why don't we see any "free trials" like this in the App Store? Is it against Apple TOS or something? Or have studies shown it just doesn't work? (And I don't mean the free "lite" versions of games -- those are annoying because you lose all your progress and have to start the full version from zero.)
Do you really think the best selling Android phones must be those looking closest to the iPhone? Maybe Samsung became the most successful Android vendor by making the best Android phones?
I really wish - or anything better than JPG - would get some traction. I know that JPG is good enough for most uses, but considering how many JPG files exist in the world and how much bandwidth it takes to move them around, a 30% improvement in size would make a pretty big absolute difference, and as more HiDPI/'retina' images pop up, the difference should be even bigger.
I successfully installed OS X on virtual box.
You cannot update it. It is therefore useless for developing iPhone Applications since XCode cannot be updated unless OS is updated.

Agreed that it's not the same experience. Very slow/laggy.
Oh tell me about it. I used to split my time between the US and Brazil, and had credit cards and bank accounts in both. Sometimes apps I'd want would only be on one store, and sometimes only on the other.

But Apple simply doesn't allow for people who reside in multiple countries, and have credit cards in multiple countries. I guess that lifestyle doesn't fit the "Apple way" -- it's thinking too different.

It's absolutely infuriating, above all because you're talking about stuff you paid for.
"It's ugly but it gets you there."

Who says a German's PR company doesn't have a sense of humour?
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Is there a way to restart via the keyboard? From what I can tell, you need to play the game using the arrow keys on the keyboard so it loses addictiveness when you have to reach for the mouse every time you want to restart.
Can we dream for sideloading unsigned apps for all user that desire it?
Funny thing I've found myself doing recently, when I'm hooked in to one of these horrible, grindy, submarine IAP games which I should know better than to keep loading up but hey I'm only human. Since my iPad is jailbroken I just SSH in, find the game directory and more often than not find my stats sitting there in a simple .plist file (maybe a binary plist, but then you just use the appropriate editor), make myself an in-game millionaire, load it back up and enjoy the game at max power for a few minutes before turning it off and never thinking about it again, a 'weight' lifted off my shoulders. It shocks me, how when the grind is suddenly removed, my interest in such a game that minutes before I had been feverishly, morosely addicted to, /completely evaporates/.

It's funny how me doing this is quite comparable to piracy, but - rightly or wrongly - I feel almost no guilt about doing this because by the time I've got to this point I've lost all respect for the game anyway.

It's ironic how Apple's locking down of the device is enough for most developers not to bother obfuscating their game save files so that if you have taken the trouble just for that jailbreak step, you're unlikely to meet much further resistance.

And finally when I do run into a game which has apparently taken cursory defensive steps such that my crude hackery only succeeds in stuffing everything up and losing whatever progress I did have, this too turns out to be funny. As I have no impulse to start playing from the beginning again, I breathe that very same sigh of relief, and forget all about it. Win-win.
I once read on this very website that start-ups aren't really "fully baked" until they're bringing in at least $200,000 revenue per employee per year. With those kinds of productivity levels for generic start-up quality (ie: good, but not too good) software engineers, I'd say salaries could stand to rise some more.
No, it's not a blow to innovation. The only reason Apple went after Samsung and not HTC or other Android handset manufacturers is because Samsung has gone into detail copying every small feature from Apple. If you look into Samsung's prior history, you'll see they do this for every popular product on the market -- it's part of their business model, and it's not focused specifically on copying Apple. They copied Motorola products before the iPhone came on the scene. The details of the blatant copying are addressed in that 127 page "smoking gun" that was released recently.

I think businesses that focus on cloning other people's successful products actually reduce innovation because the innovation comes from the initial product inception, not from a copy. If cloning actually increased innovation, we should be seeing lots of innovative products come out of china since they're so good at making copies of other people's products.
Even if this is a true story, it isn't the lawsuit that made people think this. What makes people think that Apple products and Samsung products are the same is the fact that Samsung intentionally ripped them off to get exactly that. Apple did not do this. Samsung did and the lawsuit was so they could stop it. If this story is true, which it kind of sounds like it isn't, then the only reason people are being vocal about it is because of the news. They're now comparing the two side by side and saying "hey, they look the same so they must be like the same thing". Up until about two months ago I was dirt poor (as in I only ate once a day, if that) and my experience with Apple products has been then you definitely get what you pay for in a good way which is why I have bought so many despite my door poor-ness. Samsung making their products look like Apple's was meant so people like me (minus the tech savviness) would buy them thinking they'll get the same thing. You really don't.

But I digress. This post has it wrong. What he supposedly overheard in a Starbucks wasn't caused by the Apple v. Samsung ruling but was a direct result of what Samsung had been trying to do all along.
Totally disagree on the "zero risk" of being a startup employee. Startups have some benefits for employees but they have a host of negatives as well. Your typical startup employee is going to work more and get paid less than your typical big company employee. In the highly unlikely event that a startup does have a big liquidation event (IPO or a big acquisition), employees get their often diluted equity converted to cash after everyone else- if at all. Then let's think about the risk of going into work and finding that the doors of your unprofitable employer are locked for good because the VCs pulled their remaining cash. You can learn a lot at a startup (I certainly have) but you can also get stuck in your employer's technological niche with knowledge and skills that aren't all that transferable. Then let's cover the fact that being an employee at a startup is often a lot more stressful. Zero risk? No way.
Wow, and downvoted too?

Sigh, I quit. I'm done posting to HN. The graybeards are right, it's just not the same. Snark and dogma get upvoted, and there's no point trying to fight it.

This isn't meant as a reply so much as a final comment so that anyone who stumbles upon my profile knows why I never post.

Edit: Hate to edit my last post but I replied to the wrong comment and meant to post it here.
You are using the term bottleneck incorrectly, and it's a very common error.

A bottleneck is something you get when you have multiple concurrent actions and one of them is slowing down the actions of the others. No matter how fast the other actions get, the slowest one is the bottleneck.

Framework overhead is not a bottleneck at all, it's just overhead. If your framework takes 10ms to load, it doesn't matter if your database is taking 200ms or 2ms to return it's result, you still pay the extra 10ms for the framework loading. This is because the 10ms is not concurrent with anything, you just pay it at the start regardless.

Now you can argue that the 10ms is not significant when compared to the 200ms your spending in your database, but this is an entirely different kind of argument.
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