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For the time being, yes, you are 100% right. But let's look at it on a more basic level.

Content creators are looking for rents (recurrent economic gain) on intellectual property. In their eyes, they've manufactured a property, and now they're looking to make a return by way of charging people (not always customers directly, but somebody) to use it. At its simplest, this is no different from how a real estate developer builds a property, then seeks ROI by leasing the office space or apartment buildings.

Putting aside the age-old debate about whether IP is actually something tangible, or whether the system is worthwhile, we can certainly agree that studios and networks are clinging violently to their current ways of earning those economic rents on IP.

What would it take to get them to overturn the current model? What would it take to get them to see the value in an "open ecosystem"? Well, we'd need to convince TV studios and production companies that there's more money to be made in open distribution than there is in direct distribution to TV networks.

TV networks are relatively safe, cash-rich (sometimes cash-stupid, even) places to "lay off" a property. They're willing, one-stop buyers for the IP the studios have been investing in and developing. Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, Google, et al., will need, collectively or individually, to represent a distributed market for content that is at least as economically attractive as the TV networks, if not moreso, before we'll see a lot of movement.

I am fairly confident that that will happen. And relatively soon. I work in the entertainment business, on the creative and production side. I can't tell you how many big names in talent, writing, producing, etc., are f-ing sick of the network system. Or how many big and small production companies are sick of it, and realize how much richer the open ecosystem could be. But nobody's doing anything major about it -- not yet, at any rate -- because the current cash cow (sale to networks) is still the best and easiest in town.

I don't necessarily believe that Apple will, or should, get into the content development game. It's a crapshoot, and it's not suited to Apple's business model. But I do believe that production companies will, increasingly, start selling their content to everyone, and not just the networks.

Conversely, I don't think the networks will change their tune. Not willingly. They will not be the first to change, at any rate. They'll resist, kicking and screaming, because their business models are inherently predicated on maintaining very tight control over distribution of the properties they've acquired. Unfortunately for them, they're stuck holding a piece of the overall content value chain that is increasingly outdated.
I'm waiting impatiently to see these tips implemented.
I'd be interested to read on your blog about what APC problems you've encountered - we have many wp installs with APC and the only problem is it will segfault once in a blue moon but we can automatically restart when that happens.
Most people don't speak English in Brazil, or do so very poorly.
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Yes, but does it WORK?
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The dude is in Europe. Most people in Europe don't even have credit cards, really. Credit card infrastruture is way less developed in Europe. (Let alone 'less developed' parts of the world, which still have developers). The whole world is not the US.
Remember tablets are still not a mass market phenomenon, despite record sales of iPads. Sub $100 pricing might just be what the doctor ordered. I'm rooting for either Google's new Nexus or Apple's new iPad mini to saturate the low end.
on the internet.. using a mobile device!
I would appreciate any suggestions and feedback!
I hope all Android OEMs are fully aware that Google has tricked them all into a race to the bottom. That's pretty much been Google's strategy against all its competitors to date.
I think he (the primary developer) did a crazy push to put out Sublime Text 2, and is now taking a break.

That's the idea behind making a product: passive income. You don't expect him to work his ass out day in, day out, do you?

That said, I'm fairly certain, after some time development will pick up pace again, for Sublime Text 3 or 2.x.
Another great tool I use on Firefox is the extension Character Identifier by L. David Baron

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/character-ide...

You just highlight any characters on the page, right click and it gives you a breakdown.
Also known as free market competition at its finest.
I prefer it as well. In the old system I opened each item and looked at the screenshot, then went back to the list, lather rinse, repeat.

In the new system I just swipe swipe buy.
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It's still with Steve...

(RIP)
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How to Ombre Dye Your Hair Temporarily
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"In the past you'd have to tap every single one of them - nobody did that."

Sure they did. On their first search for a topic at least. And it wasn't painful. It was nice and quick.

The thing about search is, we go back and search for the same thing many times, usually to find apps related to our areas of interest, and Apple seems to have completely neglected this notion.

They seem to think that our search is ALWAYS to find something "new".

I would search for "platformers" and "platform games" about once every week or two. I KNEW the ones I had checked out previously. I wouldn't click them again, but it was 2 quick swipes to see what's new. Job done. This is now dead. When I search, I have to look at the same stuff, and have to flip slowly through each and every app I've already decided I don't want to download, again, and again, and again. And THIS is something I won't do. Hence, "discovery" is dead.

Now, from a smaller developer's perspective, as I have apps in this store...

Discovery was critical. Search and the "New" section were important to me.

The release-date section under each category was CRITICAL to getting those first downloads.

On day 1, with nothing more than a tweet to a handful of followers, my app would see a significant number of first-time downloads from being in this section. It got the ball rolling.

Here's my idea/wish:

App stores should have an "Introductions" category, and when we submit our apps, we should be able to write a description of our app just for this purpose. We get 1 day in the "Introductions" category, and after that, we're gone. People can feel free to go to this category at any time to see everything that has been released, so they get to see new stuff, and developers get an opportunity to get some initial users.
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That is what I said. My point being removing/adding Apple Maps isn't the hard part, it was merely to point out that there is more to the mapping api's than an application. And if legally Apple cannot do turn by turn using Google apis, then they cannot provide one to one compatible api's with both. So they just dropped the Google api backended MapKit.
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I see it is on the TODO list:

> Work left to do

> CSS/JS asset change detection and reload
Where does Bing gets its streetview data? Does Microsoft also have streetview cars or do they license it from Google?
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I do believe that all this kurfuffle originates from a 'false package deal' composed by: factual data (we store passwords), your assumptions about our incompetence (we're bound to lose them), and your subjective valuation of risk vs. convenience. You should not feel bad about other people breaking down the argument in the different topics. I am a Dropmyemail employee who works hands on with the security of the site, although I'm replying on my personal capacity. We don't practice security through obscurity so we can discuss the technicalities of our security measures here. I would appreciate not being treated as an incompetent goon though, to keep things friendlier. I see on this thread you accuse someone of being sent by the company I work for to discredit you personally: They did not, furthermore, I personally see your article as a valuable service, you will see in our site that we try to be as transparent as possible, and there's nothing that I could want more than for people to actually know and understand what Dropmyemail is about. Thanks for your article.
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Precisely. The biggest mistake newbie freelancers do is go for fixed prices projects and then allow feature creep.
I just picked up a Nexus 7 today :| May have been a bad time to buy. Any thoughts on whether I should sell it? It's still completely packaged, haven't opened it yet.
Probably shitty battery which is the thing that kills viability of a device.
Since I quit I haven't really paid much attention to Best Buy to be honest so I didn't know the proper spelling.
Wow! What an innovation. I would never have thought of doing this. Its a shame I won't be able to do this myself now.

Hang on? Isn't everyone already doing this for just about every other online venture? Someone registered via Facebook -> Post to wall. Hmmm. Maybe I should copy and paste their patent application and switch out "domain name registration" for any other service name.

I think it is silly for 2 reason's. Firstly this is not an innovation in any shape or form. People have been doing this for years with everything. It shouldn't have been approved. Secondly, GoDaddy have spent time and money gaining a patent which they can't enforce. Seems silly. I feel they just wanted to add "using patented technology" in their advertising.
Coinbase bent the rules to do this - they had a fundraising, but failed to achieve their target before their deadline. So they just added a few weeks. And failed to reach their target again. I guess the third time is the charm. IANAL so changing the dates for crowdfunding may not be illegal but is not a company I want to trust my money to.
See http://nosql.com/2012/08/23/crowdfunding-cheating/ for the full story
Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind
From the article: "The game industry spends all its computational time trying to render a scene, leaving almost nothing left for the AI routines, forcing them to rely on techniques from 1968. Think about that - we are approaching the point where AI in games comes down to a 50-year old technique that was considered hopelessly outdated before I was even born."

This can hardly be considered a problem of ray tracing specifically. And the A* algorithm is a perfectly decent algorithm for path-finding. The notion that an algorithm that does its job should be disregarded just because it is old is ridiculous.
There's an entire field of research around realism in computer simulation and graphics. Raytracing is but one tool to solve the problems in this field. And there's at least one company who has monetized its efforts in this field: Pixar has been solving these problems for years. For quite some time, they've solved a handful of problems with each movie they made. Then, they release that knowledge in the newest version of Renderman. Now their products aren't cheap, nor is the educational material related to it, so I guess that complete "freedom" in the CGI space is quite a few years out, but I digress...
"The App Store should be treated like a supermarket, after a fashion."

OK, but what if you wanted to find a new healthy cereal, but they first made you slowly look through each and every box of cereal that has ever existed until you find the new one you want to try?

The App Store USED to be like a Super Market, where all the cereal was facing out, and you could just glance at everything and pick what you wanted to learn more about.

Now it is not.
Oh iTunes, you are hilarious.
Amazing tool. This is the kind of thing you've always dreamed of finding.
I'm surprised this was not patented already.
Re: raytracing stars, the obvious answer is to use a lower detail representation when the stars are far away. In this case all the photons from the faraway galaxy will be arriving from almost exactly the same direction, so there won't be any noticeable loss of accuracy. This fits in pretty naturally with the hierarchical data structure you'll already be using (in practice) to hold the scene.

Regarding the data structure: the types of hierarchical structure commonly used to hold scene data for ray tracing actually lend themselves pretty well to level-of-detail, caching and streaming from disk; so it can be a help rather than a hindrance for managing memory. There's been some really promising work in the last few years on Sparse Voxel Octrees, for example.
You can find proof in numerous publications from related fields like cognitive psychology and pedagogy. But don't expect the author to gather them for you. He already did amazing job.
He is not into client side javascript yet.
https://twitter.com/agd108/status/211115804882763776

I was asking him about http://joosy.ws. I was excited about their approach of tying the client side javascript UI into rails. Not just using another generic javascript UI framework and using REST models, but tying into the models of Rails and then making an intelligent linkup to the javascript front end. I think the approach could be the future.
Android OEMs were never really in the race. They all tried, for sure, but they all fell flat on their faces. At this point, I think it is fair to say that the only competitors in the space are Apple and companies that view tablets as a portal to their real business (Amazon/B&N/Google).
I do not believe you have built a windmill- you have built a proper wind turbine.

Very cool project- there are a good number of residential scale manufacturers out there, but I believe this is the first homebrew wind turbine I've seen.
So where is the picture?
''It might seem that we would need only to run a conventional ray tracer "backward" from the light sources to the eye to achieve these effects. This concept has been called backward ray tracing, to indicate that it runs in the reverse direction from regular ray tracing, but it is also known as forward ray tracing to stress that it follows the actual path from the lights to the eye. We call it ray tracing from the light sources to avoid confusion!''

Foley et al., Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, p. 792.
Most of the registrars top up the time your domain has with the current registrar at the point of transfer. At least Namcheap does.

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I think a $99 tablet could open access to new markets.. for example, those who don't care to replace their laptop with a tablet but wouldn't mind one sitting around in their family room and/or kitchen for quick browsing on a bigger screen than a phone.
I will patent announcing patents on social websites.
nah the nexus 7 is a great device..i love mine..when the 99$ one comes out make it a repackaged holiday gift :D
You're right, samsung is not making any money; I think they just filed for chapter 11.
There are a LOT of companies monetising their efforts at making realistic computer graphics - including the one I work for. It's not just Pixar. :-)
For me, the tablet clearly does not replace a laptop for serious emailing and browsing. However, it's perfect as a window to the internets. I read my RSS feeds on it, check my facebook, browse some hacker news (although I still find clients lacking). That's about all I do with it, but that sums up to a good 1-2 hours per day so I would hardly call it a waste.
look up on ebay. Many tablets under 100 are available with decent specs. Availability of low priced tablets is not what is keeping the market from exploding. It's the utility.
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You have got to be kidding!
I don't think Apple will be unhappy to see this at all.

The most recent figures I've seen have the iPad at around 70% market share. There's no chance that will survive after this kind of device appears, but I would guess Apple would be very happy to own, say, the top 40% of the market while the Android OEMs bleed each other dry at tiny margins.

Witness Apple's killer execution in the laptop market - and there they've fought there way upwards from virtually nothing, whereas with tablets they're starting with the dominant ecosystem.
> This is similar to someone caught in video robbing a store but beating the charge because of a technicality

It is more like someone being _accused_ of robbing a video store and then it turned out the only evidence against them was acquired when the police broke into his home to steal his dairy.
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Picture as in general understanding, not as in photo. I believe.
What's the noise level like?

I've read the circular ones are far more quiet?
That's a really clever solution! A side benefit is you also get to leave the reporting method and report hosting to Instagram
"In the meantime, both NIST and the NSA have some explaining to do."

Not happening. Hasn't yet, nor will it. NSA just keeps quite and watches for someone to use their particular algorithm. We should assume malicious intent and take Schneier's advice: "My recommendation, if you're in need of a random-number generator, is not to use Dual_EC_DRBG under any circumstances."

And if you "don't have anything to hide," then I propose you've given up already and cryptography is useless to you.
Great.. another low budget tablet that I'm going to need to support when developing android applications.

why didn't I just stick to iOS?
Not because a cheaper one is coming, that is always the case, but because pretty soon you will find out that there is not much utility to it... IMO
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I love this because it's from an educator, not a programmer.
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my wild guess is the $199 will get 4g, while the $99 will be wifi only like the current nexus7. and obviously less storage.
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Good point and interesting blog you got. I have a long term project doing a N.E.A.R. balloon myself :-)
Java's documentation, while allowing to document each parameter, still doesn't make the actual result of changing a parameter obvious to a program.

In Bret's video, where hovering over a parameter would show what exactly would change – that requires either machine-readable metadata (i.e. x position of top-left corner of the shape) or additional programming to make available. Javadoc as it exists is just a semi-structured and very thin wrapper around HTML. Not really much a computer could do anything with.

The general problem I see with Bret's approach, while it works very well for restricted programming environments intended for beginners and learners, it falls short for more complex things. But then again, those of us who know half the language framework by heart anyway won't probably need as much guidance or fiddling around. Still, it requires augmenting each and every function with a piece of visualisation code or enough metadata so a development environment can apply the visualisation itself.
Even after the merger, the company still basically makes 2 things: Desktop/laptop CPUs, and desktop/laptop GPUs. While these processor types are merging, they aren't merging fast enough in the desktop space to make the merger's syngeries valuable anymore.

A better way to say it is that smartphone/tablet form factors are really driving that merging, and the desktop/laptop space is just benefiting from it. Yet AMD isn't near any real tablets - they aren't in any Windows tablets, and they aren't making ARM CPUs.

The low-budget PC market really is being subsumed by tablets and smartphones - checking email, fb, twitter, websites, getting directions, and most common computing tasks are handled more easily by these low-power appliances than by an underpowered stationary desktop PC.

Even nVidia has Tegra processors running many popular tablets, and nVidia didn't even make general-purpose CPUs when AMD and ATI merged. Strangely enough, nVidia may be doing better in the mobile space than Intel.
> I'd like to see a "Learn to code" website really focus on "warping" the average mind into a coder's mind. Attention to detail, thinking holistically, and iterative problem solving should be the teaching goals for any resource that wants to teach beginning coding.

Introductionary university-level mathematics does that to. Just take a random university's, say, Linear Algebra course.
if some politician would get rid of "business process patents", we would be 90% of the way there.
"at least one..."

At most ... indefinite.
> Materials, Physics, Content and AI have nothing to do with computer graphics AT ALL.

What do you mean by computer graphics? If you restrict the job of a computer graphics programmer to purely a function of how many polygons can be rendered at once at 60fps, you may be right... But such a programmer would ignore information about the scene at his or her peril.

Materials: what should this object look like when it interacts with other objects? Does dirt stick, what does it look like inside if it gets cut in two, would a smooth cut even be possible, what about just trying to make a dent with a blunt object? If a flashlight is shined at the material, how does the material react?

Physics: help define how materials behave. (Indeed if we could model everything on the level of real-life quarks the need for explicitly defined materials goes away.) What's fluid supposed to look like? What about when a player character is swimming? Can we sacrifice polygon counts for distant objects, or are distant objects important in the game's physical world? What does wind do to the grass polygons? Could we use less polygons to represent quickly-moving things where the level of detail is going to be poor anyway?

Content: Does an artist need to create two copies of Tree so we can model-swap the low-poly one when appropriate? Do we need to cut content to be able to render at reasonable speeds? Do we need more content to render something worth rendering? Do we have any content to put on the screen at all?

AI: Depends if you consider procedural generation of content AI or not. Also depends if you consider a subroutine that helps optimize your graphics pipeline during runtime AI or not. Then there's the problem of many and nice animations, which you may or may not consider important to "computer graphics".
"Justice is getting punished for crimes actually committed."

A government's complete disregard for due process is a far greater crime than piracy.

The punishment for this crime is "[c]riminals winning cases on technicalities".
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Are you shitting me?
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I'm curious as to what you mean by lack of utility? Could you explain please
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