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I am not in any way arguing that people should do "original research"; can you point out where I have done so?

You also seem to be taking a non-Wikipedia view of the definitions of these various varieties of "source".

o Wikipedia makes it clear that articles should be based on secondary sources, using primary sources only sparingly and preferably only when backed up by secondary sources.

o Wikipedia makes it clear that research in a field, such as the results of an experiment or the proof of a theorem in a field such as mathematics, is a primary source.

o Wikipedia makes it clear that for their purposes a newspaper article is a secondary source (not a primary one), and in fact is an example of "the most reliable sources" available.

o Wikipedia also, at least, makes it clear that a summary article written in an academic journal is a secondary source. This is really not that bad, but I demonstrate in another thread how summary articles are a painful limitation.

Yes: in the field of history, these are defined differently, and even Wikipedia drops their notion of "secondary source" and instead comes up with something different. However, I am not talking about scrounging up ancient newspapers when I say "primary source": I mean either bypassing the error-laden filter of the New York Times or citing the actual experiments when discussing those experiments, rather than citing summaries or even journalism.
The iPad Mini's far from impressive DPI is no doubt the result of Apple not wanting to introduce another resolution into the iOS ecosystem (the Mini's resolution previously appeared on iPad 1 and 2). I don't think they were cutting costs with this panel, rather, you are seeing the non-resolution-independent iOS chickens coming home to roost as software limitations begin to hold back hardware innovation.

Apple needs to bite the bullet and implement true resolution independence in iOS and OS X otherwise every new device form factor (or Retina display, in OS X's case) is going to make things more and more painful.
Three plausible answers:

1. Remove the barriers. Drop import and export restrictions, drop punitive tariffs, reduce taxes; at the same time, make restrictive DRM and equivalents (copyright controlling imports, in the instant case) illegal. This will reduce production costs and reduce selling prices. Overall, standard of living will rise slightly where production costs are low and sink more dramatically where production was formerly located. Eventually, the markets should reallocate themselves efficiently, but it can be a long and painful process and lots of people will get hurt.

2. Enforce all the barriers more rigorously. Apply import tariffs on everything, support local producers by mandating price floors, don't allow reimportation at all. Smuggling becomes much more lucrative, as does the black market. Advances in miniaturization mean that we can track fractional ownership of everything; instead of buying a coffee machine, you rent one, along with the mugs and spoons. (Clearly we need to reduce frictional costs immensely, or else the inertia drags us to a halt.)

3. We continue to muddle through, with incremental improvements when we (as a society, not we as hackers) recognize the need. Markets get regulated, but not very well or efficiently. Perhaps biases toward the established parties are corrected, perhaps not. If a sufficiently large proportion of the population is enraged, revolution ensues and all bets are off. Otherwise, business as usual.
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> Epilepsy Foundation was widely speculated to be a Church of Scientology false-flag operation.

A curious thought: are false-flag operations even possible with Anonymous, which is a label anyone can take, not an organisation?

If Church of Scientology decides to hack Epilepsy foundation and call themselves Anonymous, then they are Anonymous. And hacking to troll and upset some group of people is certainly within the usual motivations of Anonymous activity.
>> The offshore competitor may write less efficient code that's much harder to maintain – but this client doesn't know, or care. They care that the software meets requirements and was delivered on-time and in-budget.

Everything hinges on that "may", doesn't it? Either the code is worse, or it isn't. If so, the client will suffer for it, and smart companies will learn not to go with the lowest bidder. If not, congrats to the offshore company for outcompeting me.

I think I'm producing high-quality software, but ultimately, I have to prove that in the market. The market is healthy when everyone has maximum freedom about what to produce or provide.

I wouldn't engage in a bidding war to make software because I'm convinced that I don't have to do so in this market. If things change, maybe I'll become desperate enough to do that, or maybe I'll find another line of work. The invisible hand will keep allocating workers as needed.
When you're a Microsoft, an Apple or a Google you have the money to create something truly epic - and none of them have.

The Surface has great design, as do all of Apple's products. However the Surface, while having the potential for great software, comes with something not quite finished. So while it's eminently usable as it is, it falls short of greatness.

The iPad Mini, similarly, has the quality one expects from Apple, and yet the features, such as the display resolution and lack of GPS, give it a feel of mediocrity. And iOS itself feels a little long in the tooth these days. Not what you'd expect from Apple.

Google of course have an OS that outsells any other. And yet that's plagued by patent infringements, operators and manufacturers that aren't incentivised to update the OS, and the subsequent slew of (real or perceived) security holes. Android could be truly open, but isn't.

All three companies have the resources to create something earth-shatteringly innovative, usable and beautiful. And yet they don't. Nokia with the 920 is the only one that seems to get close. This really surprises me, given the importance we're placing on the mobile market.
You're quite right.

I've been far from happy with the way this case has been covered in the tech press; the sky is not falling, you can still resell your iPod when you're done with it. What you can't do is start a side business where you become a company's competitor by finding another country where prices are low enough that you can buy bulk and import into the US for less than the US price.

Which should surprise practically nobody, so I guess that's why everybody is rushing to sensationalize the hell out of this.

(and the fact that a sensationalized version of this appears and gets highly upvoted on HN about once a week is a depressing indicator of not just the press, but the state of the community they're feeding)
Usually I propose a weak maltose, protein and hop-acid solution in a base of ~5% ethanol to 95% water...

I don't know, it's a hugely complex area. All I can say is it sticks in my craw when things like the Lik-Sang debacle happen in Europe, but at the same time we see industry disappearing abroad. At the moment the big interests seem to be having their cake and eating it too.
It absolutely is that "narrow". Goods you buy from an authorized distributor are fair game for resale.
Dysfunction follows form.

You're assuming the primary function of a yacht is to travel quickly and gracefully through a wide variety of waters. While some hold that view, other believe the primary function of yacht is to be an awesome office, apartment and party space that can be moved between the St. Tropez and Monaco harbors. This boat seems to fulfill latter function perfectly.
I knew this was going to be an issue when they decided on a fixed resolution as well as a fixed DPI - they are very limited in what size devices they can now produce.

It has been of great short term benefit to them though, as it has been much easier for people to develop great looking apps for it.

I'm really curious to see if they do eventually go for resolution independence and lose the advantages that comes with it, in order to gain the flexibility of making a broader (or even just different) set of devices.

I wonder if even they have decided with certainty which way they are going to go.
Attacking Apple with technical specifications?

See how well Nokia is doing with that...
If that's the direction you go, how do they handle resolution independence of raster images? Sure, you can implement scaling, but you'll still need developers to provide a massive range of assets to satisfy every potential resolution, or suffer the consequences of blurry and/or jagged images as a result of their scaling artifacts.
HD video resolution is 1280x720.

iPad mini only has a 1024x768 screen. That makes 780 000 pixels instead of 920 000 pixels, which is a significant difference. Also, iPad mini has a 4:3 screen which means the user will see black bars on top and the bottom while watching an HD movie.
Looks nice. But, how about not executing any JS content that is injected by plugins or theme other than what is required(like jQuery etc.)? I am talking about the "Tweet" link. Is that possible?
My big question, and my big unsolved question, for all distributed, scalable systems, is managing internal authorisation and authentication.

If you are calling across HTTP what do you use to both ensure the calling server/service is one of your own, and to ensure the call originates from a user authorised to do what you are asking.

Does OAuth cut it? Do all these folks run their own internal OAuth networks, and just not mention it? SSL client certificates? Kerberos? I have never found a satisfactory "framework" for this for myself.

Anyone?
Let me be nitpicky: the price of gold has gone up recently, it's now over 50$/g.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28400+%24%2Fg%29+%2F%2...
There's so much about this which is disingenuous. I'm not surprised by this, but it's worth pointing out some of the tricks Amazon are employing here:

1. Much More for Much Less. Much More is obviously the kindle fire HD, and Much Less is the iPad Mini. Heck, if you remove the 'f' of 'for' you get to the central point here which is to turn the choice into 'Much More or Much Less'.

2. Kindle Fire HD branding is used (sexy typeface, orange gradient), iPad mini has some weird typeface which a cynic might argue has been deliberately spaced to make it look antiquated and unprofessional.

3. The Kindle Fire is "stunning" and the iPad Mini is "standard".

4. Just because the iPad Mini display is high definition and has 30% more pixels than the iPad Mini, it doesn't mean that the iPad Mini is a "low resolution" display.

5. Because the iPad Mini has a bigger screen in the same overall form factor, they make the same point a different way ("30% more pixels than the Mini" => "216 pixels per inch"). If the Kindle had a bigger screen but lower PPI they'd put the screen size in here.

6. "Watch HD movies and TV" "No HD movies or TV". The phrasing here is very clever. To a technically competent individual it parses as "no HD content on iPad Mini, only standard definition". But the "and TV"/"or TV" phrasing means that an average consumer might assume that you can't get any TV shows on iPad Mini.

7. The screen of the Kindle Fire is odd looking. The iPad Mini behind it is on its default home screen. I'm guessing that the Kindle Fire has deliberately been shown all in black (with the bg the same colour as the bezel) because it makes it unclear where the bezel ends and the screen begins. (I don't know if this is the default setting of the Kindle Fire HD or not).

8. The iPad Mini has been photoshopped horribly. For a start I have no idea which iOS that is, but it's not the one which ships with the iPad Mini or the one which Apple are using in any of their promotional shots. If you overlay one of Apple's promotional shots on top and adjust the size and opacity, you'll see that the iPad Mini has been warped so that the icons seem slightly smaller and the positioning is off.

8. Ultra-fast MIMO Wi-Fi vs. A BLANK SPACE. Not even trashing the fact that there is Wifi in the iPad but it's not as fast. It looks like they just gave up at this point.

Again, I'm not blaming Amazon for any of this. It's just interesting to see how much thought has gone into basically attempting to deceive consumers.
> Why ? to put it in the next model to double the sales?

Yes, apple has a long history of only releasing the stuff it needs to (arguably favouring stuff like battery life over these features-- iPhone without 3G, 4S with no LTE, etc), and then release an 'amazing' new version later. All the retina items (which doesn't include MBA, fyi), all had a non-retina alternative on launch, too.

> To make it cheaper? It is not.

It is. For apple. There was no way they were going to compete on price in the 7" space. I'm confident the margins on the mini are no better than those on the regular one, too.
"Force non-standard behaviour"?

If I connect using a protocol to a site, it should work! If said protocol is poorly configured, it shouldn't be available!
Best two reasons for not being retina:

• panel availability at volume and price

• power availability. Retina means about four times the power draw for rendering.

Both of these will improve with time. Eventually retina will come.
If I had to guess, I would say that the resolution dependence has been a major contributing factor to the high UI/UX quality in iOS applications. Yes, there are other aspects to consider, but this single design decision has a lot of benefits to developers.
For areas like DRM and region locking, the answer is quite simple. Actually enforce ownership and property law for consumers.

If I buy a car, I should be able to decide what I want to do with it. Where I want to drive. Who I allow in it. Where I want to buy gas. Where I want to repair it. Where I want to buy parts. If I want to sell it. and so on and so on.

Once sold, the new owner should have complete control, and all rights should belong to him. If an actor (in this case, the manufacture) can exercise control over the product after its been sold, then the manufacture has illegally taken possession of the product.

In this view, disabling "other os" in playstation was an act of sabotage. Deleting books from the kindle was stealing. It really become simple if one would just accept that the owner is the one that should be in full control of his own property.
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how does it work?
There's a VintageEx bundle that extends Vintage mode with more vim-ness. It still lacks vim-surround which is a no-go for me, and there are a few differences in behavior (off-by-one mostly) that constantly throw me off.
If only the kindle fire shipped to countries where most people live.
I think they are all epic in their own way.

Especially in the case of the Surface - it's the first version of the product! The original iOS and Android devices all had crappy or non-existant app stores when they were launched, and were plagued with problems and limitations.

Similarly, for the right use-cases iPad Mini and the Nexus tablets are epic, and many people adore them.
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Re: Retina display ...

I would guess it's battery. My iPad 3 is heavy yet the battery life is significantly lower than my iPad 1 (and it takes ages to charge).
yeah, so all the idiots ran to the next apple store to replace their one year old iPad mini FINALLY!!11 with a Retina one. I HUGE INNOVATION IN DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY!

I was an Apple "Fanboy" for years, and all my computers are macs, but from time to time i get the feeling i need to switch to Unix or something else...
The problem is attracting a large enough group of users and contributors. If you have only a handful people working on it then it will quickly fade away. I've seen this with several open source projects. One maintainer finishes college, the other changes jobs, the one guy who thought he could make a living out of it realises he's broke, the biggest contributor becomes father and all of the sudden there are too few people left. And although everybody loves the new ideas behind the project it quickly turns into an unmaintained mess and because there are so many alternatives available they'll eventually move on.

Let's face it the editor market is really really crowded. And there are tons of great editors out there. You really have to be innovative to get a foothold there. And can HappyEdit really provide that by simply being a vim-like in-browser editor with some sublime features? It is incompatible to all the existing vim plugins and has to reimplement everything vim does. The majority of vim users are probably not interested in fancy guis or even leaving the terminal ("it's not the UNIX way"(tm)). And the $10,000 he asks for will only get him 1-2 month of development. Oh and the indiegogo campaign has less than 3days left and currently only a bit more than $1,000 of the $10,000 he asks for.

So yeah I doubt that this will be a huge success.
>Please read what economists have written before you add your opinion.

You're either being obnoxious or are not as informed as you think you are when characterizing all economists' opinions on "at-will" employment as monolithic enough, and the IMF's economists as representative enough of that monolithic opinion that making a statement that disagrees with them should disqualify you from having an opinion.

Please stop arguing from authority.
You are correct that 326 dpi would also have been an option, but while we've seen lots of, say, 1280x800 panels in the wild at the Mini's price point or lower, I have no idea what the pricing of a 2048x1536 panel would look like. As you note it would probably be substantially more expensive.

This just highlights why dpi independence is important - if your only option to raise dpi is to double it, that's not particularly helpful unless you only plan on improving the dpi every other year when costs have fallen sufficiently.
Note that the type punning is only actually useful on systems where memory addresses are 64 bits wide, hence we include that code conditionally for environments with the LP64 data model, which incudes most Unix-like systems.

The first statement seems false. I was not previously aware of an association between the number of address lines and the size of the data bus on computing systems? I know I've had 32-bit processors with at least 64-bit memory buses, and the SheevaPlug has a 32-bit processor with a 16-bit memory bus.

Also, the code above this paragraph will only use wide accesses on 64-bit architectures ("#ifdef __LP64__"), even though there are benefits available on 32-bit systems.
Just typing a quote (single or double) in the usual way works fine for me.
* why isn't that thing Retina. I mean, they have putted it on everything, iPhone, iPad and Air, why not this?

Air does not have Retina.
You start by having internal sources talk to each other on an internal network that isn't accessible to the outside.
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It's probably battery life. The Retina iPad has a battery that's nearly twice as big as the iPad 2 and iPad mini and it's mostly to drive that screen.

I believe that the power requirements are down to the number of pixels more than the size.
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It's definitely a major contributor to the simple fact that iOS apps, on average, look a whole lot better than Android apps. That being said, it's a burden on Apple hardware designers that will only increase with time.

It's a tough decision if there is an elegant solution out there, I can only hope that Apple is already working on it.
It's an interesting model that makes them a real threat to both Apple and Android/WinRT based manufacturers. Cheap high quality tablets sold at cost with a great ecosystem behind it.

Of their competitors, only Apple both makes the hardware and has the ecosystem, and they will never beat Amazon on price.

They aren't going to take over the whole market, but I can see them getting a good sized chunk of it.
I'd like to echo the best point of your comment, "Strategies for selling a design to a committee of decision makers who can't agree". I think that many of these design by committee or contests
fail greatly in part of the solicitors, not the designers.

In most instances, a bad design is a bad design and won't be chosen. But, it's up to the client to have enough sense to choose the correct design.
Read yourself again, you wrote it. Hint: It's not a sort on points.
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If anyone has the domain knowledge, I'd be interested to hear how you'd go about marketing a new Windows application. We have a submission out to the Microsoft store, as well as submissions out to be reviewed by CNet, Appstorm, Softpedia and Tucows. Any advice is appreciated.
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I recently moved from a metro area to the rural countryside and I really hate it. Miss those conveniences, nearby places to go hang out, social interaction, user group meetings/meetups, and conferences. Never felt more lonely when I moved out of the big city. Friends help some.

Getting out late at night is a pain (even in midsize cities). Places close too early and too many road blocks.

There's also (in some places) this "conservative, religious mentality" and risk avoidance (no fun) that's awful. At times, I feel like I'm working among 18th/19th century Amish or fundamentalists that think only witches/warlocks use computers! Thinking about moving out of there before I'm burned at the stake! ;)
Here's the thing: I think salary alone is a better indicator than salary adjusted by cost of living.

The reason is that there is also quality of life, which is hard to measure. I think that in the absence of a dedicated measure for quality of life, rent levels are a relatively reasonable proxy, and those are one of the biggest factors in the cost of living.

So, as indicators go Salary&Cost of Living&Quality of Living > Salary alone > Salary&Cost of Living.

(Obviously this logic also doesn't necessarily hold across continents, or even in a market as fragmented as Europe, because people rarely move between different countries in Europe, whereas people move between states all the time in the US.)
Don't tell us about "false marketing" on amazons side.

Did you notice how Phil Schiller showed the iMac on Stage? He always talked about how thin it is and how incredible but he never showed the thicker part of the iMac.

Also noticed that Apple ALWAYS showed every iMac from the side on there website? Since the new iMac, there is only a 20° angle to the iMac, so you can only see the thin border, but not the thicker part behind it.

Oh, btw: have fun with your iPad mini.
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They forgot to mention app numbers..
> but you seriously need $10,000 ?

That's not a lot of money. He says it will only get him 1-2 month of development time. Depending on where you are it might get you a few more month but achieving what he wants to achieve would take several years.