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I think it is, I didn't even click on the link to gmail and my chrome crashed just a seconds ago. Looks like a sync issue maybe?
Chrome just crashed over here as well.
I think you are wrong about the importance of the current TV platforms to many people. TV is less important to single and certainly childless people who have more opportunity and desire to go out and socialise rather than stay at home.

I don't really see anything in the list that really needs Apple's help.

* Had a beautiful display

Have you looked at the mid/high end Sony or Samsung TVs recently? I would be interested in how you think they could be significantly improved.

* Seamlessly plays movies and TV shows from computer

DLNA does this pretty well these days. If you mean specifically from DRM protected iTunes videos it might be a narrower question that only Apple can really answer. Sony TVs (probably others too) can act as DLNA renderers so if you have a DLNA controller app on your phone it can push content from the PC/NAS/server to the TV without having to go through the TV UI.

* Was good enough, without obvious flaws, that it eliminates

Not sure what this means. Most TVs (if you ignore the small size super cheap ones) handle HD very well and many especially at the mid/high end from major brands also upconvert pretty well. Certainly beyond the average viewers ability to see the problems in most cases.

* the anguishing 'which HD TV do I buy?' decision.

That is all about you but I don't think you would go that far wrong with a mid/high Sony/Samsung.

* Can be put in a part of the house separate from the computer, for social events

Put it where you want it!

* Can also easily play music, for social gatherings.

Most now support this. Either from DLNA or USB device. Having said that the capability of the speakers in slim stylish devices is distinctly limited. Apple will also have this issue. Of course if you have a separate (possibly surround) amp and speakers there is no problem but that solution lacks elegance and style.
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pop.gmail.com is not, and that's how I get my mail.
I seem to still be able to send & receive mail via my sync on iPhone, and it seems Outlook Sync for Biz Apps is running fine. gmail.com only?
"or that this whole wet towel thing is even a treatment used by homeopaths."

Sympathetic magic is the basis for homeopathy. Like produces like is a fundamental essence of the practice.
Honest question - what can you do with bytecode that you can't do with javascript? Modern javascript is fast and ubiquitous and is clearly not going away anytime soon. Isn't the human readable nature of javascript more suitable for debugging anyway?
It crashed for me too.
For example, ESPN is earning around $6 per subscriber (roughly 100 million people) from the cable/sat companies. If Apple sold channels a la carte, even at a $10/mo subscription, ESPN (Disney) would lose tens of millions of dollars per month and they definitely couldn’t demand the same premium they’re currently getting from traditional TV services.

I've said it before, Apple should take their cash and buy Disney. There's synergy - a word I rarely use - between the two halo brands.
I love google products (and I'm not worried about my email for a second), but their explanation is really bad:

"The problem with Google Mail should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better."

It sounds like something an airline might say after bumping you to another flight!

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...

EDIT: Thanks @mpeg for pointing out that this is a different outage. Still yucky copy though.
zombie day is upon us.
Play store is down for me too, crashed hard on my phone about 5 minutes ago
Chrome didn't crash, but gmail is down for me
For those interested in a non-signup-for-something solution, I've been tracking album releases for a long time with http://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/new-rel... (I believe there is an RSS feed, but I don't use it).

There is also the New Releases tab on Last.fm if you already use that.
google drive also same issue
Me too... going to disable any gmail/gtalk extension to see if it would be more stable
Yeah PG wrote an essay about this, he compared the RIAA and MPAA to a restaurant owner trying to charge for smells. Recommended read:
http://www.paulgraham.com/property.html
Oddly enough I was on Gmail and Chrome kept crashing. Did all the usual stuff, cleared everything, restarted etc. Turns out, for me at least, the only time it crashes is when I go to Gmail.com.

I'd really love to investigate and find out why these two related products behave this way but honestly I'm way too lazy.
Gmail for Business works from my imap client (postbox) but not from the web site. So I guess their web interface is down - not the backend mail engine.
A VM is still a specific language, it just has a binary syntax. All VM's make tradeoffs which means they are a better fit for some languages than others. The fully language neutral VM does not exist. Given that, we might as well consider JavaScript a VM which just happen to have a text-based rater than binary source.

A VM is therefore not necessarily an improvement on JavaScript - it has to be a better VM than JavaScript, and nobody have designed that yet.
It's back up now.
EDIT: went down again...
It crashed for me also. I wonder if it's because I have the offline gmail app for Chrome installed?
Error 502
That was exactly my point. RHEL is free, profitable, and you can have your privacy ;).
Yup. I'm entirely too reliant on Google products myself. My business not so much but personally I am pretty reliant on them.
Thanks for your feedback. The home page has a brief overview of the benefits and calls you to click through to the features page to "Find out more". Did you see this copy on the home page, or did you go immediately to the Features page? I'd love to understand this more as I think you're right - that this is an area we can improve - I'm just trying to figure out how.

Again, thanks for your feedback.
You summarized very well exactly how I feel about IP!

Before our century the word for IP was "Monopoly Privileges". It is funny and scary how a simple change in wording: adding "property", is slowly brainwashing people in a very unnatural way of thinking.
It's even crashing on iOS! Guess its a "never" situation there right now.
> several people I know were without power for 2 weeks, and we got through it

Yes, but there are many people who are not young and healthy.

The worst impact would be on hospitals, nursing homes, the homes of elderly, etc, who require electricity for something other than productivity and comfort.
I'm having trouble too... the plain HTML version works though: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html
Thanks for that tip, I'll try it. I actually reasearched it a bit more, and see that it is possible to have in-ceiling radiant that isn't crap, it's just that mine is crap. Supposedly it responds faster than forced air, but mine takes about an hour before I feel its effects. Also one room has 12' ceilings, which is stupid.
Its fixed for me now.
and... they're back.
Chrome crashed for the first time for me, when i tried refreshing the gmail.com page multiple times.
I think predictions overdo the 'physical' improvements like hover cars.

I mean, it's almost 2013 and a majority of the population has general computers connected to the internet in their pockets, through which we can watch almost any movie or listen to any song. Try explaining that to someone from the early 80's.

Too bad the head of wired is a pessimist when it comes to the singularity; I think he's just as deluded as everyone else when it comes to accepting what exponential means.
Up and running now
I have both a school account and my regular gmail account open continually; they still appear to be working fine.
Apple's glitch-filled Maps app could get someone killed
lol, happy bday!
> I would be stunned if Apple released an actual "Apple TV" display. It's a super-low margin, commodity business, with very low turnover (how often does someone shell out a grand for a TV?)

You could say the exact same thing about computers, but look at what has happened.
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Well, it's 16 times the picture resolution at the same temporal resolution, and you can do a damn fine job with 10Mb/s high profile H.264 at 2K, so … yeah, I guess that's about the right order of magnitude.

But holy diminishing returns, Batman.
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Everything has downtime, folks. Everything.
I don't know, if there's one thing that seems more ignorant/oblivious than the idea that HN will somehow magically DDoS GMail, it's complaining about downvotes on HN. :P

(P.S. Poe's Law)
Chrome is now trending on Twitter lol
Again, though, Apple has been making computers since before computers were a commodity business. They didn't look at the HP/Dell/&c. market and decide to get into it.
The question is whether or not the games were changing the participants' nature/personality (long-term). It seems self-obvious that playing violent games would inspire a short-term effect.
Me too, but it's working for me here.
I've just reloaded chrome twice as well as gmail and it's working fine here in Australia.
Absolutely no problems with any Google services (Drive, Mail, Calendar, Search) for me (Northwest UK).
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I run my own mail server, but it's far from justifiable on a pure uptime basis. I don't have HA configured, so my mail (which serves <10 users on a box in colo) goes down for 2-3 minutes ~4-10 times per year when I reboot. Even worse, I don't really announce downtimes, but just randomly reboot it late at night if I've upgraded something important.
Also crashed for me.
Won't your own server also have downtime?
Here's the problem.

There's nothing in it for the Cable companies outside of getting rid of the cable box - which is at the cost of giving up control of the software ecosystem.

Second point if this type of deal was possible, Microsoft would have already done it. Microsoft has 30 Million Xboxes in peoples homes already, they've been working closely with cable companies on this initiative trying to make them happy. The Xfinity Xbox app has streaming already, but its not replacing your cable box anytime soon.

Also, side note, if this did happen (which it won't) a DVR solution would just be a cloud based DVR. The cable operators are doing this already.
Crashed for me too, twice.

EDIT: A colleague is seeing it too.
Both Chromium and mobile Chome are crashing for me. The Play Store is also unavailable to get a different browser.

Edit: I had Chrome Sync enabled on both. Seems more stable with syncing disabled.
True, UT had reasonable AI but it did always seem to perform much better on deathmatch where it could just run around shooting things than on CTF maps where you could quite easily camp outside of your base and just snipe it when it tried to come in.

Of course AI is getting better now that we can offload stuff onto other cores without tying up the game loop so much.
Personally, I'd be OK if someone "refers" me something through an affiliate link, but I wouldn't be so sure that my friends / everyone else thinks the same way. Pinterest got away with it, though.

It sounds a little like http://refer.ly/ and I'd recommend to take a look at them if you haven't done it already. They have a neat product, although the name can potentially turn off some people (see above).

And don't get me wrong, I think there's always room in the market if you do your job extremely well. :)
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Gmail is working for me in FireFox. In Chrome, it is still crashing.
Meh, I've had my Gmail for a little over 6 years now. This is the first time I ever remember having this problem. (My Gmail is back up now, by the way.) I'll take this frequency over the effort it takes to maintain my own mail server any day.
"It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing"

It should be noted there IS a somewhat large group of book authors who protest that library's are just government sanctioned piracy. Which I think is a fair enough stance to take.
These were cool and useful when javascript was hard to learn and each browser had a different version of it.

Now it's one of the most widespread programming language in the world and there are thousands of great tutorials to learn it.

Take the time to do vanilla JS, it's not that hard and it's a very decent language to use daily.
Gmail.com is up
...and it's back up here now - must've been down 10 minutes or so!
Chrome is also crashing for me. It gives this error - Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library/ Runtime Error! / Program: C:\User... "This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way" / "Please contact the application's support team for more information."
Sure, but you have 8-30 minutes of annual downtime, all planned by you:) Not too bad;)
I doubt any self-hosted service is going to be more reliable than gmail.
At times like these, it seems like having the ability to stick a user poll in a reply post like this would be a useful feature.
...and it's back up here now - must've only been down 10 minutes or so! (But Chrome just crashed again)
Try disabling account syncing in preferences. Its crashing in Crashed Thread: 21 Chrome_SyncThread
It has not crashed for me after disabling that.
Hey, I'll be happy if this changes anything for the better. I feel I'm setting my expectations reasonably low.

He's best known for bluster and charisma and promises unfulfilled, after all. I'd happily eat these words if anything positive comes from this.
Very nice, accessible examples and documentation. Can't wait to try it out (after exams)
chrome crashed...
“Playing video games could be compared to smoking cigarettes. A single cigarette won’t cause lung cancer, but smoking over weeks or months or years greatly increases the risk. In the same way, repeated exposure to violent video games may have a cumulative effect on aggression.”

When are these bullshit sensationalist comparisons going to end?!
So who is the pidgeon and who is the catfish in that situation?
Crashing here with Gapps.
>> [..] which in my personal opinion is just weird and probably unnecessary most of the time.

If an alternative language that compiles down to JavaScript is much cleaner and safer, and isn't compromised by the myriad of idiosyncrasies that bug JavaScript, then I think it definitely has its merits.

I really, honestly and adamantly despise JavaScript, probably because I used to write lots of JavaScript years ago in the IE4 age. Back then, nobody would even think about using JavaScript for anything but simple scripts embedded on webpages, that was what the language was designed for, and about the only thing it was capable of. It was slow, badly documented, lacking in features and it promoted terrible program design. A lot has changed in the mean time and while I haven't been writing any JavaScript since somewhere around the year 2000, I recognize that the language is now pretty capable and fast. But it still lugs around a hideous legacy that -as far as I'm concerned- can't die soon enough to be replaced by something better, running on the same VM.

Any alternative that hides the ugly wart that modern JavaScript grew out of, while we're waiting for a real and native replacement, is more than welcome.
Very nice idea and it's something I'd definitely want to use.

Just one issue: it would be great if the service allowed me to accumulate credit by reviewing other sites, and have my site reviewed by many people when I launch it (using my credit).
Yes. Chrome crashed for me too.
"The worst-case situation envisions a stalling of economic globalization that would preclude any advancement of financial well-being around the world. That would be a likely outcome after an outbreak of a health pandemic that, even if short-lived, would result in closed borders and economic isolationism."

If a reduction in globalization is the worst case scenario the authors envision in the next 20 years, I think they may be lacking somewhat in imagination.
yes it seems to be - I disabled syncing in prefs and it seems to have stopped crashing.

Crashed Thread: 21 Chrome_SyncThread

was on the crash log.
and they're back down again.
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Antihistamines alleviate the symptoms. They do not resolve the underlying problem. Allergies indicate some overload on the system. Removing other (chemical/biological) stressors on the system can help. So can nutritional support for the adrenals and thyroid. And if you need nutritional support, that is a weakness in the system, not evidence of an overly strong immune system. An allergy is a reaction to an outside source. I do not see how it makes sense to call reaction to an outside source an auto-immune disease. I think that is a bad mental model for the problem and actively interferes with finding real solutions which do more than merely alleviate the symptoms.

I am sorry that I don't know how to make my case in the format you feel it needs to be made in. That is a problem space I am working on resolving. But I did not get well in order to impress anyone or prove anything. I did it to get my life back. Being good at doing something does not automatically make one good at explaining it.
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Got an email 5 minutes ago, just sent one to another gmail account a minute ago and just got a reply.
Aye! 2 times in a row!
For what it's worth, I haven't had any crashes with either Chromium or Chrome on Ubuntu, but I'm not signed into my Google account via either.

It looks like mail.google.com is back though. I guess I opened them after the issue was fixed.
Full disclosure: yanw works for Google.
Hospitals usually have private generators and are first to receive help from the government in times of crises.
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I'm sure Outlook.com will never, ever have an outage.
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My biggest non-purchase regret was when a friend going off to college offered to sell me his SNES and ~150 games for $150 (about 50 games were Japanese superfamicom carts, including all the DBZ, DQ, and FF RPGs).

I have my old NES, and my wife has her old Sega Genesis, and we spend almost as much time playing those as our newer games.
Yes, Chrome is crashing every two minutes or so for me as well. I think it has to do with Gmail being open in one tab while Gmail is down.

This is very bad.
Chromium crash on Arch Linux with this message: http://pastebin.com/f9JMsPzT

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
what(): bitset::set
[1] 4934 abort (core dumped) chromium

singing out of sync for now..

Edit: no crashes since I signed out of sync

Edit2: found a more complete stack trace by somebody else: https://gist.github.com/4251938

Bug Report: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=165171
>Those taxes are hard to avoid, but they are bourne by workers/consumers, regardless of who you collect them from (i.e. the economic incidence of a tax is not the same as the legal incidence).

Yes and no. Nominally imposing the tax on the seller or employer is better for the buyer or employee -- it doesn't necessarily mean the seller won't be able to pass the tax on, but it helps. For example, if the employee is making minimum wage, the employer can't reduce their compensation by law, so imposing a labor tax on the employer will force them to eat it because they're not allowed to take it out of the employee's compensation. If the tax was nominally on the employee then it would instead come right out of their minimum wage paycheck. And the same goes for any other mechanism that tends to prevent employers from lowering wages: If you have an employment contract that specifies your compensation, you keep getting paid what you were agreed to be paid even if your employer now has to pay more taxes instead of you. If you have a trade union, the union is going to have a better shot at preventing a wage reduction than demanding raises to counteract a new tax, etc.

In the longer term, as employers have time to hire new employees with new contracts or refuse raises etc., the free market catches up with the tax changes. But that doesn't mean the tax is paid entirely by consumers and employees. If sellers could raise the price of their goods by the amount of a newly imposed VAT without reducing their sales then they would have done it already regardless. When the VAT is imposed industry-wide it allows some cover for price increases, but not by 100% of the tax amount except for in rare cases (such as where the profits in that industry were already legitimately non-existent and passing on the full tax is the only alternative to going out of business). In non-collusive markets the existing players will be fighting to keep prices close to where they were in order to retain as much of their existing sales volume as possible to keep their sunk cost infrastructure utilized, which will require them to eat a sizable chunk of the tax burden.

More to the point, how is that possibly worse than it is now, with international corporations nominally paying a tax on profits but then arranging to not have any profits in jurisdictions where taxes are high, and then subjecting local small businesses to the taxes avoided by their larger competitors?
I really hate when the browser crash in the middle of a
This was my thought as well. Competitive video games cause aggressive behavior, not violent video games. It's the adrenaline. It's something you get from a high level competition, but something you don't get slaughtering thousands of zombies with a virtual chainsaw.
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What do you use for webmail?
Chrome just crashed for me with gmail open as well. OS X 10.8.2. Chrome 23.0.1271.95.
But this doesn't apply to splices that need data at runtime, like say pulled from a database right? Isn't that typically going to be 95% of your splices? The performance increase seems a bit overstated if it only applies to splices that are just simple substitutions.
No crash here, using Chromium ver 22.0.1190.0, compiled from source. However, GMail is extremely slow. Have been able to refresh (and access) it 3 times in the past 5 minutes.
To be fair, Microsoft is doing it with UVerse in the US and Optik in Canada. Because they use Mediaroom IPTV, you can use your Xbox as a full blown receiver.
it does. When I want it to, not when I don't want it to.
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Still not working for me!
How long until we start seeing anglers using pigeons (hopefully decoys) for bait?
Wow. One web service goes down and you can't even use your browser.

Maybe this is a sign that they're too tightly integrated.
Not sure about relevancy for HN, but I wonder what a RPG would do to this contraption.
I couldn't get into Google Docs either. Must be something going on.
fwiw, gmail's imap servers seem fine -- I'm still getting emails in sparrow.
I don't really understand it.
Crashed for me, too. I thought it was just because of a flash-heavy site, but maybe not.
I wonder if folks with Chromebooks(and running Chrome OS, not Ubuntu) are able to use them at all now? Can anyone chime in?
Error 502 (Server Error)!!1

Is the 1 intentional?
IMAP works for me also with Thunderbird.
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Hey guise I'm in Chrome right now, and it's working just (&$(&#(*&# )#
Fair enough, I stand corrected. It'll be interesting to see how it works out for you, I hope it has the desired effect!
Seems to be up again for me (connecting from Europe).