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Kottke uploaded the CBS news coverage of the landing to youtube. The photo is taken after the flag was raised, about seven minutes into this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZPLfFcYoA&feature

Due to a glitch in the video it's not clear which astronaut is which leading up to the photograph, but if you watch them afterward when they talk through what they're doing, it's clear that Aldrin was the one posing next to the flag.
The LG Prada pre-dates the iPhone and was actually the first phone to have a capacitive touch screen. It had as many buttons as the infringing Samsung devices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
). This was noticed at the time of the iPhone launch too: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separ...

This is all silly though, Apple wasn't making the argument based on Samsung making a touch based phone. The arguments were on very small "inventions" like the rubber band effect and double tap to zoom. The design patent wasn't based on the fact that it was touch based, but that it looked like the iPhone (in shape and color). A weird thing to be able to patent if you ask me, but hey.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57500273-37/apple-v-samsun...
I've always found this argument so odd.

Look at articles about the Surface tablet. When they talk about possible pricing it's always "Do they dare price it more expensive than an iPad or do they undercut the iPad and lose money?"

Clearly the iPad price isn't inflated.

Look at the on-contract and off-contract prices of iPhones. Compare to say, Galaxy S3. Or the new Droid. Or the new Evo.

Clearly the iPhone price isn't inflated.

Want a consumer-line notebook? Apples consumer notebooks are the Air line. Find a good competitor, say the ASUS Zenbook UX31E. It's about $950, vs $1200 for the Air. That is a big price difference. And the machines look an awful lot alike.

But the Air has a faster processer, faster RAM, faster SSD and faster graphics (3000 series vs 4000 series Intel). The Asus has 1600x900 vs the Air's 1440x900.

The Air also comes bundled with software that's all written by Apple as first-class companions to OSX. The bundled software on PCs is almost universally mocked and either ignored or uninstalled.

Their Pro line is more expensive, yes. But the products I listed above make a large majority of Apple's sales and profits. And the people that actually have bought a Pro line seldom complain. They seldom think they didn't get value, that they didn't get their monies worth.

I get it, there are certain people who see a Mercedes as a car, like any other. They see, well, the Mercedes has a 2.5L engine, a Kia has a 2.5L engine. The Mercedes has 8 air bags, so does a Ford Focus. The Mercedes has.... you get my point. For those people, certainly, a Mercedes doesn't sound right for you.

But you're ignorant if you don't see the value others see in it, and it's not just vanity or shallow brand obsession. You may not weigh that value as heavily in your life as they do, but any honest person has to at least acknowledge it.
I know, the thing is that my boss is a fan of .net and all of those technologies, and I'm not, even when I'm the one that will develop the apps, I know that saying that I don't like the language is a good reason to not use it, so I'm looking for cons and pros so that can make him or me change our minds
Few buttons, PDA.

Tablet with news, Knight Ridder tablet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBEtPQDQNcI

Icons finger sized in a grid. Well given we already had desktops, and given it's a handheld device, then it's insanely obvious to have fewer icons in a grid at finger size. Low resolution screen compared to our desktops, hey maybe we should have fullscreen as the default.

Pinch to zoom, multiple sci-fi movies.

Slide to unlock. Phones already had something called "unlock', and physical bolt locks already slide... So we make a visualisation of what amounts to a sliding latch when when have the touch screen, pure genius, nobody besides Apple could have thought of that, right?

"Trade Dress" to stop competitors should also be entirely illegal unless there is no branding or logo on the phone, or the name is too similar or in some insanely small font. If it has "Samsung" written on it it's insane to argue that anyone would confuse these things. What if these rules applied to TVs, cars or bottles of perfume? Perhaps technically they do, but people have had such things for so long they don't think about them in that way. It's farcical that anything clearly identified as a different product on the box can be subject to such rules.

Apple products are like a good classy restaurant or hotel chain. They take ingredients everyone has and put a lot of work into fit and finish, they make the customer feel special for a slightly higher price. And they have a dress code that permits only a certain crowd in there (app store approvals vs. more free entrance policy of other application stores, and by the way apt-get and various frontends to it pre-date the app store). All due respect to them for doing a good job, but Steve Jobs' entitlement complex knew no bounds and there is no moral or logical merit to their claims only a slice of legal merit on the back of stupid laws.
You can solve the problem with the parent's memoization by writing the original fib using open recursion and closing it with a fixed-point operator. Doesn't help for library functions or things like that, though.
I kind of feel like a lot of programs add complexity for complexity's sake. Looking up Ron Jeffries, I see he's an expert at programming (invented extreme programming, worked on the Agile manifesto) -- someone who's been doing it for a long time and is MUCH better than I am.

So it confuses me that he adds so much structure and goes about solving a simple problem in such a weird way. I wrote a Sudoku solver when I was in high school in less lines of C than the tests in his example. He did state that he hadn't played Sudoku first, and that could be a big part of it. If I wrote a program to play checkers, I imagine it would be a lot longer than it needs to be. But still, someone of his caliber... I am surprised. Maybe he wanted to make it extensible in the future; I guess my solver would be a little harder to extend than his.
>> It was not obvious in 2007 that such a device (full touchscreen, no physical keyboard) would succeed.

Yes. All my Blackberry toting friends were pooh-poohing the notion of a virtual keyboard, and now, the loudest critics among my peers have totally jumped ship, singing a different tune.

Regarding PDAs being that "weird uncle"...

I've had just about every PDA form-factor going back to the clamshell Sharp Wizards (which had these weird touch panels) in the late 80s to the Newton Messagepad to Windows CE, Palm and eventually Windows Mobile. The iPhone is the first "PDA" that I actually consistently use. The way you used the core features of the phone (contacts and calendar) were vastly better than anything I used prior.

Of course, I would have no problem using any "post-iOS" phone OS, which would include Windows Phone, Android and Web OS, but there really is something about the first iPhone UI that made it special. Is it as special today? Not really, but in 2007, yeah, it was pretty revolutionary.
This one has been moving since 2005, slowly but steadily. Oddly the US isn't an original signatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economi...
Some very recent studies released on Autism and Immunity:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120717141010.ht...
http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13534
All other issues aside, because of how insecure the e-mail protocol is, with one exception described below, including passwords in e-mails is very bad practice.

I've seen this practice too, but it arises only because inexperienced system administrators don't understand how vulnerable the e-mail system is.

The single exception is an e-mail that says, "Here is the temporary password for your new account -- click the link and change your password at once." This kind of message is only meant to verify that an e-mail address is working and is associated with the applicant, nothing else. And the temporary password expires as soon as the applicant logs on and changes to a password of his own choosing. This limits the security risk inherent in putting a password in an e-mail.

All reasonably secure systems retain passwords only as hashes (secure encryptions of the original passwords), not as plain-text. This is not to say that the hash itself might represent a security vulnerability, because it can be attacked -- only that a plain-text password obviates the need for the attack by giving away the prize.
Well I appreciate you providing an alternate point of view, but I'm afraid I don't agree that reading a few sketchy websites doesn't mean you "did your research" at all.

I'm mainly commenting to apologize that some of your comments are now dead- while I could understand if this one were, your grandchild comments expressing interest in other peoples' (non-conspiracy) arguments are dead which I think goes against the whole point of commenting here, especially when child comments saying "your an idiot" get upvoted.
Yup, good point.

I'm reminded of this: http://nowdothis.com/

(I believe this is a Jakob Lodwick creation.)
And the Atari Jaguar was both the first 64-bit videogame console and the first videogame console with a GPU. But history is written by the victors...

And never mind the Atari STylus demoed in 1991... Never happened...
This entire trial was a farce. The jury foreman admitted that they "skipped" prior art because "It was bogging us down."

They later went back to it.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044427040457761...
If autism was something we had genetic or biological tests for, this would be a valid concern. Presently, however, we don't have a biomarker for autism - the studies determine whether children have autism by looking at their symptoms. If vaccines did cause a significant increase in symptoms, we should expect it to move some number of individuals from "undetectable" to "detectable" and we'd see that in the numbers.

There is the narrow possibility, which may well have been looked at but hasn't been discussed, that vaccines could make autism worse only when it is significant to begin with, so nothing is crossing the threshold between not-quite-autism to autism, but I don't think we have any more evidence cause us to expect that relative to the simpler hypothesis that vaccines have roughly the same impact at any degree of autism: none.
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The autoimmune hypothesis is yet another autism hypothesis that is advanced primarily by parents, because it offers more hope than a neurological etiology. A lot of people hold strongly to the hope that autism is just a set of symptoms that are triggered by something tangible and readily treatable like a nutritional deficiency or a food allergy, rather than a permanent difference in brain structure. The available evidence points very clearly in one direction - genetics.

It also bears repeating that what we call "severe autism" is really "some amount of autism comorbid with very low IQ". Autism is routinely overdiagnosed in preference to a more accurate diagnosis of intellectual disability because parents prefer it, again because it offers more hope, largely due to the popular trope of the autistic savant.

Parents of severely disabled children naturally hold out for any source of hope and I don't judge them for that in any way, but we can't let that get in the way of the science that really is their child's best hope. There is no evidence for the hygiene hypothesis.
Not vouching one way or the other for the AMA, but he claims that Armstrong is in the "astronaut saluting the flag" picture (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Buzz_salu...), not the one where you can see the "E Aldrin" name tag.
- start a blog -> blog about your experience, hits & misses while working on your 2 projects.
- share your codes via github. lookout at the monthly hiring thread for job offers.

most importantly look around you to find issues/problems that people are willingly to pay a tiny $5-$20 to get it solve. build mvp, reiterate...
Full text? I'm getting the paywall.
How do you spell "blah blah blah"?
Not only the reviews of the people who had tried the device were glowing, even of those who turned into Apple haters lately (either because of the trial or because of app store policies), but the opinion of those who had NOT tried the device is even more interesting, as 99% of those who had never tried a device that had an actually working touchscreen, with the right software inside, thought that the iPhone could only fail ! Everyone was predicting the failure of the iPhone because they couldn't imagine a device without a keyboard nor a stylus could work.

This is the kind of drivel that was shared around the internet at the time of the iPhone's release :
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
One of the first lines : "First of all, the E70 has a full keyboard, not some shitty stripped down, tap-and-pray smudgy piece of shit."

I wonder what the author and the people who spread that link all over the internet at the time think of most Android handsets, Windows Phone, since they hated so much the idea of a phone without a keyboard.

When you look at the criticism from those who had not tried the device you really have to stop and ask : was the iPhone obvious ? The answer itself is obvious, and it's no, it wasn't. They couldn't imagine a phone that could be usable without a keyboard until they tried it with their own hands. "Tap and pray" ? hahaha.
I don't dismiss Apple's contribution. On the contrary, I think Apple dismisses the contributions of scientists and engineers that allowed them to build their iPhone. They want to take all the credit, when in fact, only a relatively minuscule amount of credit properly goes to Apple. Do they deserve this minuscule credit? Sure. I don't dismiss that. But the contribution by those who created the technology that go into the iPhone is far greater.

It's as if someone created the most cool looking web page on the planet, and then wanted to claim they invented the Internet. That's how I see Apple. They merely rearranged existing technology in a nifty way, they didn't create all of it. They deserve credit for what they did, not more.
If you read the jury comments though, they made a single decision based on the overall look and feel of the device, and then applied that decision to all the arguments. Essentially, they felt like Samsung had broadly copied apple's look and feel, therefore apple deserved exclusive ownership of things like rubber band, whether they invented it or not.
16-year-old builds his own home.
Is this implementation open to all developer accounts? Anyone have more information about it?
The groklaw quotes were taken out of context. As far as I can tell, there's no evidence from those quotes that they skipped prior art, so much as skipped the task to move forward on others before circling back around to it.

> I don't like to think of Apple as a pure innovator - I think of them more as an assembler. When they see a market in which all the hardware pieces are available and waiting to be put together, they do that in such a way that the final product appeals to the end-user, particularly through the design of appropriate software.

Really? All Apple does is pick up the legos and put them together?

Sigh. I'm sick and tired of people twisting reality to fit an Apple anti-hero narrative.
This is silly, touch screen technology, faster ARM cpus and the rest make these things possible and came from elsewhere. My first computer with a GUI was 100mhz. As soon as smartphones got 600mhz+ and as soon as people get touch screens (foreshadowed endlessly in sci-fi) are you seriously suggesting that if you took a room of fresh graduates from a design school (which is a bar lower than "ordinary skill in the art" as most UI designers have years of experience) and brainstormed for an afternoon that you couldn't come up with all this? There is clear prior art on almost every aspect, it was just a new blend. And that which didn't have prior art was logical evolution (as I said in an earlier comment about phones unlocking + physical slide latch locks + touchscreen... slide to unlock, wow I don't think any designer could have thought of that /s).

I'm pretty sure there were mouse-gesture plugins for a couple of browsers before the iphone, forgetting the sci-fi prior art. So you are suggesting someone with a degree in UI design with knowledge of mouse gestures and presented with the problem of making a touch interface with a mobile would not find this obvious?
I think the trial had a normal result given the legal framework. Sometimes trials like this might go a bit this or that way, but in general they will have results like this.

My own position on this is very simple: All (yes, all) patents should be abolished. The current law is the problem, not Apple or Samsung or the Jury or the judge.

I also think what Samsung did was – in part – morally reprehensible, but should have no legal consequences.
How to create user habbits
Step 1: Build an app. Step 2: Get users hooked to it. Step 3: Profit. It sounds simple and, given our umbilical ties to cell phones, social media, and email inboxes, it may even sound plausible
Lexing and Parsing with Marpa
Wow, can you two get over yourselves please. This is so awkward, pedantic and embarrassing.
I have a friend who did the same.

It worked. He has now gone a year and a half without medication, and is in massively better shape than he was on the (expensive and only marginally effective) medications.
The point is, you should ask someone how much they'd be willing to pay. Even nontarget customers will give you some sort of ballpark value that's better than guessing in a vacuum.

But of course, target customers are better. I have a feeling most people when starting out, don't even ask those, but just take the "expenses plus a bit of margin = price" formula.
I think the individual pieces of the first iPhone didn't seem innovative to many.

The camera was "meh" and didn't do video, the screen wasn't nearly as nice as the VGA screen on my e800, the OS didn't support 3rd party apps, where was 3G?, etc. etc.

The thing was that the gestalt of the iPhone was vastly superior to any of its predecessors.

They prioritized the right things -- anyone who had a Windows phone who had their phone crash during a call or forgot to quit the camera app and saw their battery die in a hour can attest to that.
Most of the agent-bearing talent are performers (recorded or not)-actors, directors, speakers, musicians, models, athletes- who negotiate and set compensation ahead of time. These circumstances are what lend themselves to an agent middle-man.

If you are a lawyer, architect, accountant, engineer-a professional billing to the client on an hourly basis-an agent doesn't want to work for you. Cf below-the-line Hollywood professionals, like colorists, sound engineers, cinematographers, these guys don't get agents.
Oh hey, I almost bought that book a few days ago when it first surfaced on HN!

Shame my credit card is kaput until the end of the month. There's a high chance I'll forget the intended purchase by then :(
You seem to be missing that the value is in combinators. See the PDF trick above for an example of something not covered in the man page.
> if it's not Linux or open source, it bad/wrong/etc.

It's ideological.

There is a trend in these objections in articles like this and across hacker news. They simply ignore what was unique about the iPhone and trivialize it completely and then pretend like it was obvious all along. Notice the repeated comparisons to stylus based devices as prior art for multi-touch. They don't care about the differences, as long as it takes some sort of touch imput, they can rationalize that Apple never invented anything.

I see this as an admission that they know the iPhone was revolutionary but they are making arguments from an ideological, rather than rational perspective.

If the iPhone wasn't revolutionary, how did Apple go from selling no phones to the selling the most popular phone in just a few years?

They say it was "marketing" and a "slick package" and the "Advantage" of charging "twice the price" --- as if charging more ever was the path to easy sales volume!
> All Apple does it pick up the legos and put them together?

That's how I think of them, and it's what I have great respect to them for. It can be worded to sound like a putdown, but in my opinion it should be considered a compliment.
http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/dherman/memoize...
Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties
The LG Prada was a feature-phone with a nicer display. If Samsung had released the Prada in 2008, they would have been at zero risk from retaliation by Apple.
For any living system that has had sufficient time to adapt to its environment, it can generally be assumed that the system has reached (or nearly reached) a local optimum for that environment, for the same reason that if you let a marble roll around on a surface for a long enough time, you can generally assume that it will come to rest at a local minimum. Of course, just as the local minimum of the marble is defined by the surface, the local optimum in the evolution of a trait is defined relative to the current environment. If the environment is rapidly changing, then you cannot assume near-optimality, just like you cannot assume the marble will come to rest on a constantly undulating surface.
If it was so obvious then why did it take a company that had NO history in making cell phones to make a good one with a usable touchscreen and gestures ?

Nokia couldn't do it. RIM couldn't do it. Samsung couldn't do it. LG couldn't do it. (LG did make a touchscreen, and I owned one before I bought an iPhone, and it sucked hardcore)

And they were on that market way before Apple.

Cry me a river if it hurts your feelings that Apple goes to defend their innovation.
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"Intellectual property" is an oxymoron and the laws are a farce. Information is not property. Property has no objective foundation if you decouple it from tangible or economic scarcity.

Samsung stole no property from Apple. Samsung was providing value to the market by responding to the market's demands that were exposed by Apple. The existence of patents distorts economic incentives to divert activity towards patentable inventions.
It's so scary to see how many people refuse to open their minds to possibilities outside their preconceived notions.

Here is a good video about skepticism and minds, closed and open. Highly recommended!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI
I LOVE recruiters. They are working hard to get ME a job. Do I talk to them? All the time.

I got some of my best jobs through recruiters.

The recruiter "spam" is not to try to con you out of money. They are trying to get you more money.

Seriously what is wrong with you people.