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Which points to the real problem with the F35 and all next generation fighter planes.

It's not software, relationships, rivalries, cost, or maintenance. It's obsolescence.

By the time there's a full wing of F-35s in regular service, there will be drones capable of routinely shooting them down. The advantage of not needing to coddle a pilot and having all possible G-forces available will make even cheap drones distributed by corrupt Chinese or Russian backchannels superior to the best fighter jets in the world within ten years.

And a whole wing of such drones will soon come cheaper than a single F35.

Obama should do the same to the F-35 as he did to the F-22 and cancel it before it wastes more money.
As has been mentioned in other posts above, it seems doubtful that ad companies (at least large ones) want these ads to be deliberately misleading.

If you click on an ad that isn't relevant to you, there are three major harms caused. One, your time is wasted closing it and going back. Two, the advertiser may have to pay extra for a useless click. Three, Google (for instance) has to consider the likelihood that this is a useless or fradulent click, and possibly reimburse the advertiser if so.[1]

All of these are bad for Google (for example). The offset gained by a few dollars in revenue is probably not going to counter that, because what they really want is users to continue using their search engine and they want advertisers to be happy with the clicks they pay for. Those are really important for them to keep. Tricking you into clicking useless links is bad, bad, bad. (Adwords hosted on someone's website is another story; that person might not feel the same way.)

But if, on the other hand, the ad actually is relevant to you, then it's great for all three parties if you click it. So I'd hesitate to attribute these UI choices to trying to fool people.

Disclaimer: I can't remember the last time I clicked on an ad anywhere on the internet, except by accident. But that doesn't happen to me on Google or other reputable advertising-based sites.

[1] see e.g. http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
"I just don't see Apple under Jobs compromising on screen size just because it'll make for a more popular phone, but perhaps I'm wrong."

We're not quite in the post-Jobs Apple era yet. Jobs was certainly involved in the iPhone 5 design and direction.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/17/steve-jobs-worked-closel...
Curious what everyone is interested in at the moment, design wise.
last challenge?
Is this open to the public, or only open to people from Harvard and MIT?
Well here's a list of directions, with the caveat that you'd actually have to try some of these to see what worked. Improving safari with smart 'readability'-esque relayout engine. Safari performance for webkit. Widgets. Lock screen apps. Built in speech-to-text api. Flutter like non-touching gestures and interaction. Augmented reality api - with maps data. A todo app and api/data store (ok you'd make a million app developers cry with that one). iCloud for data.

Of course some of these are available as third-party apps and apis. Some would suck (widgets for one probably). But I don't believe we're anywhere near running out of things to innovate on to make mobile computing worthwhile/suck-less.
Are you all working on different projects/features? That's usually a symptom of teams that aren't really teams. They sit together, but work in completely different worlds and do not really need to communicate together.

Teams have a shared goal that they're trying to accomplish together. If you have a team, you are very concerned about what everyone else is working on and struggling with since it will affect where you can help and what you should be working on.

That's why Agile teams are small teams. If you're team is too large then you'll end up fragmenting and forming sub teams and not caring what the others are working on since it won't affect you.
It is my understanding that university employees are not civil servants. According to Wikipedia, public universities in the US on average receive only 43% of funding frOm government, the rest is made up for by student fees and endowments. Also according to Wikipedia, UVA has the biggest endowment of any public university in the US.

All of which is to say that universities, even public universities, are not government entities in the same way that public schools are. It is far from clear to me that libertarians would support the idea of a private citizen working for a non-government organisation being compelled to hand over private communications by the government.

Of course I might be wrong about UVAs status, but I did a fair amount of searching, and could not find anything that would indicate that university employees were in fact government employees, and the information that I did find tended to support the idea that they were not. If I'm wrong about this, then the OP's position is easier to understand...
his is the review we look for to give us that dopamine rush of reinforced sense of self worth from using Apple products. [...] I've been hitting refresh every five minutes on daringfireball since 7:00.

Just so that we're clear- I'm not reading The Onion right now?
It's interesting to note how, unless I've missed it, the verge has been left out of the party. I enjoy reading Joshua's reviews, which are critical when appropriate, although somewhat verbose.
I'm sure the iPhone 5 is solid, I'll probably be ordering it, but it seems like the product is intentionally kept away from more critical reviewers.
I wish they'd go further, though: how much battery life could Apple get out of an iPhone if they kept their great minimization and efficiency-maximization of the electronics going, but pulled back from the thinner-and-lighter-every-time mantra and devoted all the saved space to a bigger battery?

An iPhone that's smaller than my still-pocketable non-Apple phone isn't that appealing to me (yay for having above-average-sized hands!). An iPhone that could go a week easily on a single charge would make me sit up and take notice, though.
if we take a moment, and divide 1.5 trillion by 170 billion, we see that we could afford over 8 complete Apollo programs with 1.5 trillion dollars.
I just learned that Ada has higher performance benchmarks than C in many cases, for whatever that is worth.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang...
> Even though about 8% of our users are on <iOS4.3, we would be fine when Apple drops them

I see that this is a no-brainer for new apps.

But anyone writing (typically free) iOS apps as a service will have a hard time telling their clients "this is your app maintainer, I'll lock 8% of your existing users out, ok?".

This is a huge PITA in the making. :(
An F-16 can turn fast enough to make the pilot black out of suffer severe injuries; one of the things the software does is restrict G-forces to acceptable levels. As potentially terrible as this bug was I've never seen any indication of where in the development life cycle it happened; it could have happened early on when it wasn't meant to be working yet (i.e.: working enough to fly, but with no handling of edge conditions worked on) or it could have happened in final testing of a release candidate.
I agree somewhat but I think it's more than that. Apple made a specific choice to concentrate first and foremost on experience. On the PC we sacrifice speed and fluidity for running numerous applications at once unless you're running a high end machine.

All of us have experienced how much you want to tear your hair out over lag (especially in iTunes). I think iOS eases that experience because there only is so much you can do at once and you always feel like you're in control in an environment that Apple actually controls.
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Here's how it's done, in simple terms. This is not some new thing. IBM was doing this before there was a Microsoft and before there was a WWW.

If you amass enough vague patents, any one of which on its own isn't worth the paper it's printed on, then automagically they no longer remain worthless. Suddenly you have something valuable: a patent portfolio! This is because it costs a significant sum to pay someone (e.g. a patent attorney) to go through your wonderful portfolio of junk and determine which ones are worthless. And that is in turn because patent law firms charge very high fees to do that work. And that is in turn because not every lawyer is permitted to become a patent lawyer - so there's only a limited number of patent lawyers - hence they have less competition to drive prices down. The uncertain validity of a bundle of patent claims that I can allege others are infringing is the value. Threat == value.

Therefore if I have several hundred vague patents of which a definitely large proportion are worthless and I sue you alleging you have infringed a significant number of them, you are screwed. Because it is going to cost you a lot of time and money to have someone go through each and every claim and convince me you are not infringing. So you just concede it's not worth it to fight me and my deep portfolio of junk software patents. And we start negotiations. Needless to say everyone at the negotiating table is not going to be in a happy mood going into this given that we had to start the whole process off with threatened or actual litigation. This is "business", American-style. A model for the world to follow.
Even if you don't believe the link. It's just common sense. Jobs died a year ago, and he basically worked right up until he died. This phone was certainly on the drawing board for more than one year.
In an ideal world, perhaps Apple would offer two iPhone sizes — like they do
with products such as MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and iMacs. A smaller one with
the classic 3.5-inch display, and a larger (say, 4.5-inch?) one for people who
want that.

Isn't this exactly what Apple's doing? The iPhone 4 and 4S aren't going away, people now have a choice which size they want.
There's not much stopping Apple from enabling this right now but maybe they see the developer market as a way of generating more Mac sales? Look at the $35 Raspberry Pi - it has a HDMI port and runs Linux, with a fraction of the power of the iPhone 5.
MIT's campus is almost completely open (including the room this event is in) so I'd imagine anyone could go.
Actually Google's transit directions are horrible in Japan, so the Japanese will probably be the least affected by this.
Good thing they are selling a phone, not entertainment.

The mobile revolution has settled already. The next wave will be pervasive computing and/or AR in about 5 years.
I am pretty sure that if you update an app on device and sync it with iTunes, iTunes will also put the old app in the trash.

I love to update apps on the iPad - it makes it the easiest to see all changes at a glance.

And I don't love how I cannot get rid of the update badge on the App Store app. Now I have to remember how many of these are updates I don't want...
Not to be a stickler, but the map data comes from the server, not from the Maps app itself. Thus, even though you have the GM Maps app, you do not necessarily know whether the user experience will still suck on the final release day, tomorrow. They could push out some final massive improvement to the server data before then. :) (No, I have no special knowledge of this, and if I did I wouldn't say.)

Full disclosure: I am biased. I worked on Apple's maps team, last year, so naturally I want the app to be good.
DaringFireball is my Fox News. I recognize it for what it is.
Gruber says that "none of the competing phones on the market are made of metal".

So what about the Lumia 800 (1)? Or the One S (2)?

1) http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/3/2534861/nokia-lumia-800-re...

2) http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/2/2916098/htc-one-s-review
"The California High-Speed Rail Authority’s new CEO, Jeff Morales, arrived at the agency after a stint as senior vice present at Parsons Brinckerhoff."

This is how corruption works here in USA. Cheaters move between government management positions and overpaid contractor positions. This happens all throughout the country, from local governments up to the vice president.
First and most importantly lets highlight an exceptionally important issue that well equipped web developers _always_ seem to forget: 2.X was 84% of Android market share as recently as a month ago. ICS and Jellybean are tiny by comparison.

Leaving that aside, Android's stock browser and Chrome still has serious issues with CSS based transformations and animations on non-trivial pages which mobile safari has handled with aplomb for the last 2 _major_ versions. This is not ICS, I'm talking about Jelly Bean. Even the newest flagship devices from HTC, the One X, can barely handle complex content animations. Again, toy examples have worked for a very long time but anything exceeding the compositing engines tile size just falls over completely.

Unrelated to animations, here's a bug that I logged myself against 4.0:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=27959&...

Wherein a full width position fixed element fails to reflow on orientation change.

https://github.com/scottjehl/Device-Bugs/issues

If you look at the issues we've recorded over time you'll see there are plenty of iOS issues there too, but the degree of pain caused by them is vanishingly small when weighed against those we've dealt with from Android.
Good answer. Nice to see the original questioner accepted it. To take it a bit further, so-called "answer set solvers" like clasp (http://potassco.sourceforge.net/) provide a fast way to run these kinds of logic programs.
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In all honesty, I have no idea for what reason Apple hands out their phones for reviews but the most intriguing reviews of Apple devices are from Mossberg, Gruber and Anand in no particular order.

I do give credit to The Verge in having the best video reviews on any given topic. I find that The Verge can get too verbose in reviews. I don't mean that it contains too many words but much are used in waste.
There is something a little crass about this angle of iPhone marketing.

But marketing the iPhone as a luxury status symbol could be a little dangerous for them since they really only make one flagship phone. Even here in Vietnam I see iPhones all over the place and it just isn't a very effective signal of wealth anymore. But when I pull out my S3 people always want to look at it and play with it.
I've been pretty happy with RubyMonk.com and CodeSchool thus far. Also, Coursera and EdX have open programming courses taught by professors from Cal, MIT, Stanford, etc.

Also, Why's Guide to Ruby has been good to me so far if you want to get into Ruby.
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Maybe phones are becoming feature complete? If they add to much to quickly, they'll have nothing to put out for the next model :D

If you could magically ship something with the iPhone 5, what would it be?
It's easy to dismiss Teller because he works in Vegas in a rather quirky profession. But his is a peculiarly deep, sensitive and beautiful mind. I tend to love everything he writes, and most things written about him.
Then again I've heard that the Japanese have this magical invention called an "app" which someone can install on their phone to add new functionality.

I've even heard that there are some ones already for say the Tokyo subway.
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That's a good name for a Culture ship from Iain M. Banks novels.
No, you just admit publicly to violating Apple's copyright in order to disparage them. Good play.
Good Point - TheVerge is getting a reputation for rock solid technology reporting. I don't see anything here on the iPhone yet - http://www.theverge.com/reviews/categories/cellphones/3
Not sure if russ is still reading this thread, but AFAIK, yes, he, or one of the many secret rsc clones is the primary author of fontsrv.
> it seems like the product is intentionally kept away from more critical reviewers.

Macworld didn't get one either, and they're not exactly known for their critical reviews of Apple products: https://twitter.com/jsnell/status/248233492650020864
One that I can't get out of my mind - but it's more enterprise-y and not very 'sexy':

Enterprise software selection is a mess - often involving a team that doesn't know much about technology, the landscape of vendors, how to go about actually selecting the best vendor for the requirements, contract negotiations, etc. I've run several of these for a bunch of organizations from Fortune 10 to small non profits, and generally the steps are the same. Create a high level scope, create a 'long list', gather and prioritize requirements, allow vendors to respond, score and rank responses, demonstrations, short list, negotiations, selection. The details may vary a bit, but to me that seems like something that could be automated, with an app that would guide the team through the process relatively easily. Over time you could even build a library of requirements, vendors, and vendor responses (assuming you could manage the ownership of these artifacts).
Waiting for Anand to be honest. Though with the technical depth of his reviews, I can understand why it might take a wee bit longer.
I don't know if you sleep on a mattress filled with hundred dollar bills, but even engaging a lawyer to fend of a possible lawsuit can cost thousands with costs escalating quickly from there if you need to do more prep-work before you even show up at court.

Even getting a case dismissed can cost a small firm more money than it can afford. A fifty thousand dollar dent in the cash-flow of a small business is not an easy thing to weather. Good luck collecting on damages from a wrongful suit, too.

You say it chills litigation against big corporations? It tempers it. Where you cite examples of lawsuits against companies promoting the greater good, I see ambulance chasers trying to siphon extraordinary class-action settlements. Very little of that money goes towards consumers and instead of making companies more responsible it simply paralyzes them with paranoia.

It may sound rather peculiar, but in some countries the government plays the role of advocate for the voters. It doesn't necessitate suing anyone and everyone to send a message. Too many things that used to be taken for granted have been completely eliminated because one individual decided to press ahead with a lawsuit over something that, in many cases, was either a random act of bad luck or a case of irresponsible behavior that can be blamed on another on a technicality.
seems like the product is intentionally kept away from more critical reviewers.

As another data point, Macworld.com didn't get one either (they have in the past).
No it isnt. Apple will not produce more 4's. The ones on sell now are production lot's remainings. The only reason "apple can offer them" is because it wiser to sell them than to throw away.

And people don't have a choice in size. They have a choice in sie that goes MANDATORY with other specs, such as slower CPU, less advanced OS, less functionality, heavier/thicker device, have they decide to go with smaller screen.
> The thing about Apple is they iterate quickly on things like this

do they? I don't doubt their ability to solve hard problems elegantly (if a problem happens to be one they want to solve), but I can't think of any strong parallels to this that would suggest that. Their other services seem to iterate on much the same time scales as their major app and OS releases (especially in the last 5 years).
Google maps on Android have been vector maps for more than a year.
It's probably just to pass on entrepreneurship good-will and generate interest in Y Combinator so more people apply. Most of the speakers are MIT alums.
From theVerge review on the Lumia800: "What you see and feel in your hand is a seamless piece of soft-touch plastic"

From the Wikipedia Article:
"A trough-colored unibody shell is made from polycarbonate plastic."

And, Gruber had a demo-unit of the Lumia 800:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/04/03/
Even with the engraving, I still miss with microUSB upwards of 60% of the time in the dark, and upwards of 30% of the time in the light (I also miss with regular USB connectors). See also this proof that USB connectors/cables exist in 4D space: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388

Strong reversible or universal connections are the way to go—and none of the USB standards are it. By universal, I mean like the nearly-ubiquitous circular plugs, but not the circular plugs—as I have yet to find one that is quality on both sides of the equation. I had a laptop die because of one of those plugs, and it wasn't the male part of the plug, but the female part. The female receptacle was slowly but surely pushed off the motherboard.
Seconded. I can't think of any huge, groundbreaking features that have been included in, say, new laptops over the last 10 years. Faster, thinner, lighter, better battery life, nicer displays, what more do you want? It's turning into a software game.
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While this is a valid issue, it does demonstrate how strict a gate-keeper the FDA is. You can't sell anything with a purely medical purpose to anyone without the right certifications. I'm sure there's a lock on something as simple as tongue-depressors that can't be broken because getting your product certified is non-trivial. There isn't even an invention involved here.
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Don't know about the One X, but the Lumia is made out of strong polycarbonate(not metal), and actually feels very good in the hand, unlike the iPhone 4/4S metal glass seam that felt somewhat sharp to my hand. Also, if the polycarbonate scratches, it's the same color inside, so scratches are not very visible.
They only has choice for the 3.5" if they are willing to accept old version of the product. Apple did not update the spec for 4 & 4S. And when iPhone 5S and 6 comes out, I don't think Apple is still going to sell any 3.5" iPhone any more.
"And compared to the 4/4S’s glass back, it should prove far more durable...this is a phone that was meant to be used without a case."

I won't be holding my breath on that one. iPhones have always been more fragile than most comparable high end phones.

Anecdotally, I rarely see uncased iPhones in the wild - and I don't expect this to change anytime soon.
Apple do produce more 4 and 4s.
And by author, BGR meant Android Columnist:

Dan joins the BGR team as the Android Editor, covering all things relating to Google’s premiere operating system
Designing software's easy; writing it is hard and has edge cases and all that fun stuff. ;)

I see things like 'moocow01: free duplication isn't the same thing as it costing $0 to manufacture software. Software is "manufactured" almost exclusively on a one-off basis.

However, there are still similarities. New languages, frameworks, tools, etc, basically do the same thing to software as the $35 tablet represents in hardware. There are a lot of new tools in the past five or ten years that will let you quickly create something that's now seen as basic, but would've taken much more work to duplicate in the past.
The biggest problem with iOS is the siloing of apps. A task-centric UI just makes so much more sense and sharing information and functionality among different apps is so incredibly awkward for the user and developer.

Both Android and WP are much better in this regard but there's still a lot of room for improvement.
Does it support embedding images in tickets? For screenshots? If not, this is a kick-non-starter.
Sorry, misread the review for the Lumia 800. I'd always been under the impression that the Lumia phones were anodized aluminum; turns out they're polycarbonate.

Still, there's the One S, for... one. And that was just a quick find among the current crop of recommended phones; I wouldn't be surprised if there are others.
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