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Well yes, if I loaded up Android on there, I'd be running Linux from a OS design standpoint, but there are some pretty important practical differences in what apps run on Android and what apps run on Ubuntu or Debian for ARM.

People have ported useful Linux tools to Android, but so far, it's not nearly as comprehensive as having a full-on Linux package management system. So I gues my question is whether there more Linuxy versions of Linux -- distros that run XWindows apps, and where you can pull full-blown versions of things like Octave, Emacs, gcc, and so on out of a package library -- with touchscreen support in the same class as Android?
Steve Jobs at D8: ‘PCs are going to be like trucks’

Yep. Not dead, not by any stretch of the imagination, but certainly not as ubiquitous as other devices.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2010/06/02/steve-jobs-at...
I think the general lesson is "don't be a idiot."

I know several people working quite happily at gaming companies (doing, from what I can see, some pretty cool stuff), and those game companies who are the most abusive generally have well-known reputations as such.

I suppose it might not be the best industry to go into straight out of college, when you have little leverage and lack industry smarts...
Yet, the market for non-technical employee's is not nearly as supply-centric as demand.
That's a weird dude. That's all.
KeyPass all the way. Truecrypt over it for when I back it up somewhere online
"Today they debuted a clone which is inferior to the vast majority of products it’s attempting to copy."

Most consumers would disagree however... because its an Apple product. Like it or not, people instantly judge Apple products to be of higher quality than others, and are willing to pay for it.
That is the sharing icon and it matches the meaning of Ubuntu:

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I found a bigger version of the image as it is easier to make out the differences :- http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcdbzv1yet1rz307wo1_1280.j...

Though to me it does whilst increased in the Antarctic covering it may be, that it still combined show a fall in coverage. But we are comparing over a small period of time, so it is hard to get too excited.
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@tesseractive - Canonical has been working on multitouch in Ubuntu for a while now. Unity (the main Ubuntu desktop environment) was built for this very purpose. Canonical has been conceptualizing and building the environment for this very purpose - if you have a look at their current direction, they're trying to pull this same interface across desktops, TVs, phones and tablets. It still remains to be seen how well they do, but it has already made good progress.
On a typical HHD, under typical circumstances, all writes go to the SSD, and are copied to the HDD later on. So far so good; Apple's solution will do the same thing. And stuff being read gets copied to the SSD in both cases. Also great.

That's an assumption we've yet to see confirmed, and I suspect is incorrect. I doubt every single file that's read will migrate to the SDD. Rather, I expect only files frequently read will migrate to the SDD. Effectively, the SDD will largely be a write cache (but likely only for files written atomically) and a read cache for frequently accessed files.

That behavior would largely sidestep your concerns.

(And, actually, files that are readily streamed, like videos, aren't necessarily files you'd want to store on the SDD. Those can often – though, yes, not always – be read quite quickly from the HDD. Unless you're dealing with truly huge files, or actively editing a video, you don't need SDD throughput.)
I want no local storage anywhere near me other than maybe caches. No disks, no state, my world entirely in the network. Storage needs to be backed up and maintained, which should be someone else's problem, one I'm happy to pay to have them solve. Also, storage on one machine means that machine is different from another machine.

I'm always shocked that this hasn't happened faster. I've expected Dropbox, Amazon, Google and Apple to move into this space more aggressively, but at best they've all only just scraped the surface of what's possible.
The main reason I bought an iPad was... the musical apps (and the fact you can read ebooks with the Kindle app).
The iPad is a revolution in the musical scene.

Musical apps is something you won't get in the Android Eco-system basically because the OS itself sucks at it(although 4.1 seems to have improved a bit on that side).

With this in mind(musical apps), I will always favor the iPad (mini) over an Android tablet.
I am just glad YC is realising the potential of HW companies. Being a Hardware Engineer, I have been feeling out of place in Silicon Valley Startup Scenes.

Hope that trend changes soon.
Hiding information is worse than spreading information, yes.
No, they're saying, "assume we're biased."
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i will +1 his love for the 11" MacBook Air ... people are always skeptical that i can do pretty much all of my work on it (yes, even some coding), but after almost two years, i still haven't found its small size to be too limiting.
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Agree so much. Apple ID hell is a Real World Problem and I suspect making real changes to how it all works would take some herculean efforts - daunting even for Apple.
Its cynical to say, but every single one of those hard working folks knew they were working hard for Zynga.
But Google has moved into that space! The general populace just didn't care too much.[1]

Chromebooks do exactly what he's describing right off the bat.

Every Chromebook you own dies in a fire? Unbox a new one, boot up, everything is identical.

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[1] I think part of the reason for this is that just as nobody wants to think about things like death, NOBODY wants to think about data loss and prevention. It's like death, but harder to understand and to the common folk most people aren't even aware that there are options in this sphere.

Even though a lot of people just use Facebook, email, IM and word processing, its going to be hard to convince them that something like a chromebook is a really good idea because the reasons its technically sweet are lost on them.
It looks nice, but for all I know the conference I was booking was using that. My primary pain points were Paypal and the separate search, booking and payments for flights and hotels, which lilregie doesn't solve.
I do remember the lament of Fohr on investment (re: social web startups vs hardware / (non vaporware)), and though I can't find the relevant thread, I am glad Fohr is still kicking around in the last two years since I last read about your troubles :)
Me too. The trend towards bloat-phones is very frustrating, because they seem to be replacing smaller phones rather than being offered as an alternative...
He plants a couple of nice flags:

"This is 2012 and we're still stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh and calling it revolutionary."

and

"In summary, it used to be that phones worked without you having to carry them around, but computers only worked if you did carry one around with you. The solution to this inconsistency was to break the way phones worked rather than fix the way computers work."
I think it would. Then Amazon would need to be competitive about ebook delivery fees to encourage authors to lower their ebook prices.
I want no local storage anywhere near me other than maybe caches. No disks, no state, my world entirely in the network. Storage needs to be backed up and maintained, which should be someone else's problem, one I'm happy to pay to have them solve. Also, storage on one machine means that machine is different from another machine. At Bell Labs we worked in the Unix Room, which had a bunch of machines we called "terminals". Latterly these were mostly PCs, but the key point is that we didn't use their disks for anything except caching. The terminal was a computer but we didn't compute on it; computing was done in the computer center. The terminal, even though it had a nice color screen and mouse and network and all that, was just a portal to the real computers in the back. When I left work and went home, I could pick up where I left off, pretty much. My dream setup would drop the "pretty much" qualification from that.

Interesting that someone so steeped in the "old ways" of Unix dumb terminals is also, seemingly, such a good matchup for the "far future" vision of Chrome OS. What's old is new again?
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It is interesting that regarding productivity tools (email and office) their competitor is not iPad or Android but Blackberry PlayBook. iPad and Android can be made competitive here as well (you just need to spend extra $) but PlayBook has everything preinstalled already.
I always wonder, how do people like this justify their level of trust for cloud providers and the government?

It's as if a majority of the hardcore hackers have gone "Fuck it, I'm being watched anyway, they might as well be backing up my stuff as well."

Are we past the point of it being a topic of debate except by people like me who have the illusion of choice?
His dream setup:
"... carry a computer screen around, as long as it rolled up and fit inside something the size of a pen and had touch input when unrolled. As long as it had no local storage."

How last century. I thought he would have at least suggested a hologram projection screen combined with some bio implants. ;-)
(And, actually, files that are readily streamed, like videos, aren't necessarily files you'd want to store on the SDD. Those can often – though, yes, not always – be read quite quickly from the HDD. Unless you're dealing with truly huge files, or actively editing a video, you don't need SDD throughput.)

Hmm, I hadn't noticed that they're only doing this on desktops, so I was thinking there in terms of energy efficiency. On a laptop, you definitely want that video to get copied over to the SSD so that the HDD can spin down and stop draining your battery. On a desktop, I guess you wouldn't care as much.
Wait... 1) Who said PC is dead? 2) Who cares?
Any thoughts without any sort of backlash?
The joke back in the 80s was that what we really wanted was to buy 4x8 sheets of monitor at the store and cut and panel as needed. Then one day my brother said that he simply wanted a can of monitor paint ...

For an interesting short animated science fiction film that gives you a glimpse of ubiquitous computer displays check out Pale Cocoon:

http://www.crunchyroll.com/pale-cocoon/episode-1-ova-1-20698
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It's a far more interesting ecosystem. There are Android phones which are waterproof, there are high-spec devices in Japan, there are phones which accept pressure-sensitive stylus input, and there's even an e-ink based phone in development.
Has the small size affected your vision?

I've briefly tried working on a small screen with high DPI and it really hurt my eyes. Maybe I'm getting old-man's eyes. ;)
Can you provide more details? Assuming I have some random AZW3 book and calibre - how to correctly upload it back to Kindle and not lose that unique ID along the way?
I had a netbook that size. I liked everything about the form factor, it was just cripplingly slow.
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> The first time Microsoft tried to do a 'tablet' aka the 'tablet pc' too much 'pc' and not enough 'tablet'. This seems to have moved in the spectrum closer to 'tablet' but the PC roots are still showing.

Basically, they've gone and perfected the OQO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OQO

Pretty soon, we'll have 512GB flash drives in these things. Most of us won't have a reason for an old fashioned PC. We'll just have different interface form factors.
"Anyway, I'm glad they didn't make it retina."

Why? Seems like a step backwards. iPhone, MacBook Pro, iPad... Apple pushes the need for Retina and then produces a new product that doesn't have it?
I second jaredtking on 99 Designs for logos and other work.

Elance (http://elance.com) is a good option generally for finding contractors.

While they are spendy, design-focused recruiters like Creative Circle and Creative Group can help you find both contractors and full-time employees. They do a decent job of screening so you only see qualified applicants, unlike Elance and 99 Designs.
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I may well be misremrembering a comment in a class that I took over 20 years ago.

Wikipedia lists a number of alternatives to general relativity. But I can't find any that look linear. There may not have been a linear theory, just a set of heuristics that any linear theory would be likely to support. In particular when I took general relativity, my professor made the following points.

Let's model a concrete photon coming out of a gravitational potential well. We can calculate exactly how much mass it should lose. Apply the particle wave duality to that energy loss we get GR's gravitational redshift to first order. Based on the wave interpretation, you can predict, to first order, the amount that time slows in a gravitational well.

To model Mercury, assume that the Sun creates a potential well. At all points in its orbit, assume that Mercury moves as Special Relativity says that a body with fixed angular momentum and the appropriate kinetic energy for that radius should move. (I forget whether you need to toss in the aforementioned time dilation.) To first order, you recover the GR correction to the precession of Mercury.

I forget the argument for the bending of light (maybe just throw gravitational time dilation into the mix?), but there is a first-order heuristic that can give the correct figure there as well.

The point is that if a series of heuristic arguments pull out the correct prediction for the original 3 tests, then any theory that tries to reasonably combine QM, special relativity, and gravity, is likely to give similar predictions to first order.

That professor claimed that the first test which he did not have a heuristic explanation for involved the actual time that light took to get from one point to another. Looking on Wikipedia, I think he's talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro_delay.
Well, he does work for a cloud provider. Also, he might just have a lot of faith in encryption (although he doesn't mention it).
I don't mean this in an insulting way, but you're wrong here. You don't think a product tour that potentially hundreds if not thousands of people use and can significantly increase your customers' ROI is worth more than a Big Mac a month?

Come on now, don't fall into the trendy startup blackhole of improper pricing. Charge.For.This. Make a lot of money. Build in analytics. Prove your value.
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>> Success that is not sustainable is not success.

You're confusing the product and the company. iPod in your definition is not a success, and neither is Sony Walkman.
All that i can say to this post is "?"
Refreshing to see some legitimate criticisms of an Apple product in the mainstream press. I'm a fanboy too, but they don't ALWAYS get it right.
No offense taken. Everybody here is completely right. We're going to change our pricing as soon as we step out of our closed beta.
Do you spend much time commuting? If you drive, could you take public transport instead? If so (and I know this doesn't apply to everyone), you could take a laptop with you and use that travelling time. Having a bit of public transport time each day can add up to a surprising amount of time to get things done.

I find working on the train or bus also helps me to focus - I've got nothing else to do there, and only a fixed amount of time to do stuff.
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These are the points that most held my attention. I think too we're going in the wrong direction breaking up things and stitching them up again with technologies that weren't made for that.

Although I think this strategy fits well the planned obsolescence policies we have widely deployed in the tech industry nowadays.
KDE working actively on their Plasma for touch devices. Here is 8 month old demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h41yVOS6fao

Could not find anything newer and do not have spare table to install it. But work is definitely done.
I lasted almost two months on my 11" MacBook Air before hooking it up to a 27" Thunderbolt Display in a fit of desperation. As my traveling machine it's fantastic, but I prefer my iMac as a full time dev machine.

(I mostly do Cocoa dev in Xcode these days.)
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> There was a guy at Sun whom I helped manage out of the organization, he landed a job at a start up that two months later got bought with a full vesting of everyone. He walked away with several million dollars. It took a lot of thinking about that series of events to let it sit in my head without pissing me off.

Why did that piss you off? Sounds like it was a win-win situation for you and that guy.
Why use a sledgehammer to crack a peanut? If all you want to do is surf the web, use services like Twitter and Facebook and send emails the a tablet is ideal. They quite handy for simple content creation too. Most desktops and laptops are overkill - in much the same way an SUV is overkill for the school run.
If you haven't seen acme in action, it is pretty crazy and interesting. Basically it makes heavy use of the mouse, and any typed word can be invoked like a command.

Here is a tutorial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
I think its funny how Apple tries to solve its file system issues with SSDs. No other popular file system will get quite as unbearably slow when in heavy use as HFS+. No other file system will just randomly create errors and little corruptions here and there in regular use. No other popular OS will come to a complete halt as soon as it starts swapping because its file system can't handle it.

And instead of fixing that stuff, Apple is pushing SSDs to everyone. Way of the future.
Some very interesting stuff here. Everyone should look at this screencast about the acme text editor: http://research.swtch.com/acme. This thing is wild and crazy in a way that's totally unexpected. I have no idea if the ideas are actually good, but they sure are different.
Not sure, sourceforge was already on its way out I think.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=sourceforge%2C%20gith...
I'm on 13", simply because I don't see the benefits of the 11" as that significant. General principle is very much the same, though.
If you're doing something approaching consumer hardware, no, one person can't do this (until someone does, of course). Being good at the quadrant of hard/soft and design/engineering takes a da Vinci, and he didn't mass produce any of it. Apple still had to hire an industrial designer to put a case on Woz's work. But two people, yes. :)
What's old is always new, especially on the Internet. I'm constantly reminded of the "Simpsons' did it" South Park episode whenever I'm reading press briefs about new startups.
Every photo on apple's site is a bit deceptive. Here's the real profile: http://images.apple.com/imac/design/images/evolution_today.j...
"The terminal was a computer but we didn't compute on it; computing was done in the computer center. The terminal, even though it had a nice color screen and mouse and network and all that, was just a portal to the real computers in the back. When I left work and went home, I could pick up where I left off, pretty much. My dream setup would drop the "pretty much" qualification from that."

It exists! It's called a sunray

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray
... and after customer service has blown you off saying that from their perspective, the case has been closed and you have no avenues of appeal, then try to make the story go viral....
> And if you compare working with a mouse versus working with a touch screen, again there's no comparison of speed.

If you're comparing touchscreens on the desktop with mice on the desktop, this is certainly true. But touchscreen input on a tablet device holds up pretty well against a mouse on a desktop. Maybe beats it.
There are a couple of block-level cache systems in development, but that haven't yet been accepted into the mainline kernel. The one most suited for desktop SSD+HDD use right now is bcache, which is aiming to hit the kernel staging area next year. Facebook's flashcache is the other main contender. Both offer writeback and writethrough caching, but they differ in their policies for what kind of I/O skips the cache. Bcache tries to detect sequential I/O and send that straight to the backing disk, and organizes the I/Os sent to the SSD in a manner that tries to go easy on the SSD's wear leveling and garbage collection algorithms. Flashcache, on the other hand, tries to use the SSD to cache chunks of information that fit the SSD's page size - smaller I/Os skip the cache, which is probably the exact wrong thing for desktop workloads.
Same here. I currently have an older (mid 2009) 15" mbp. Wondering if I can get by on a 13" though...
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My transformer infinity has a better screen (the review even has an entire page that actually reinforced my happiness in getting my tf700) and it has an unlocked bootloader, so if I wanted a productivity notebook (with the dock... which the infinity also has... and it has a micro hdmi port rather than some proprietary thing, but the power dongle is proprietary so its a wash) I could just put an arm compiled Linux distro on it. It actually isn't even bad for typing with the dock in stock android, since home -> icon clicks and alt-tab works like on a desktop OS it works fine for me.
So how long until someone makes such a cover/touch-keyboard, with bluetooth, for the iPad?
I can't get behind the idea of every computer I interact with being a dumb terminal. I don't want to assume I'll always have a connection to the mother machine. Even in some ideal world where I always have a high speed connection that never fails, can you guarantee that the server itself won't go down? Not really.

I would like to see a nice balance: I basically work locally, and anything I do is synced ASAP to "the cloud" and thence to other devices (and other people). But if I'm in the hills or the server goes down, hey, I still have a perfectly good computer in my pocket.
Could be. But right now it's possible to get a very decent setup for basic tasks for $200 - $300, monitor and all, and it's possible to buy used but functional PCs for $50 - $200 from Craigslist and eBay. I'm not about to trade in my iMac for a $300 Dell, but if I was more financially constrained, I wouldn't have an iMac. I don't have and wouldn't have an iPad. I'd probably have a $300 Dell.
at the Dublin websummit an hardware startup (smartthings) won the competition, confirming the tendency.
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What a remarkably easy to read article.