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Patent law exploitation? They are going after people who take their products, sit down with a drawing board, and copy them feature by feature, logo by logo, and interaction by interaction. It's exactly what the patent system is designed to make legally actionable.

This isn't a case of Amazon suing every online shopping cart with a "click to buy" button.

(Fifthly, why does a game of multi-hundred-billion-dollar corporate chicken impact your life at all? They aren't going after a kid on the street corner -- they are going after themselves dressed in different clothing. This does not change anything in your world except an extreme branching narrative in your mind which you think the world cares about.)
It sounds like the problem boils down to the difference between understanding a scalar (speed) and a vector (velocity). So economics would need a way to represent economic forces similar to the way a free body diagram is used in engineering and physics. And in order to do that, you would need an economics coordinate system. And therein lies the problem of economists building models without known or absolute reference points. Economics != Physics, QED.
Incidentally, most of the traffic comes from Queen's Drive, Drove Road, and Fleming Way (Shrivenham road has been closed to through traffic for many years).
Having ridden across it on a bicycle regularly as a teenager, it works surprisingly well.
Sure, Apple spent billions of dollars acquiring companies and developing Apple Maps just so Google would come in and plunk theirs down...
Possibly technically, but ZFS's hashes IIRC are more nontrivial to collide than CRC32 by default [for the data checksum/metadata checksum, fletcher/sha256/[etc]]. I can't even guess about the pathology of the dedup code. I want to say that the equivalent filename lookups/creation are fundamentally different in ZFS, but I genuinely don't recall how that sausage is made.
My first thought was along the same lines. What if this was a long con to get Google to release what Apple wanted for free? Any bets on if Apple Maps is gone in iOS 7 and google maps becomes the system mapping provider again?
For Google, yes.
I like how they imply that the desktop is dead, imply tablets and smartphones are the future cause the new generations buys them and then backs Smart TVs..... which I'm guessing is a generational dead-end.
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That might indeed make drive/sit-on-the-left better -- but I think it's not where it originated from, the drive-on right/left distinction has existed since the days of horse and carriage, before there were gear shifts or steering wheels!

Although apparently the origins DO have to do with keeping your dominant hand free for various tasks!

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/634/why-do-the-brit...
The level of discourse in policy-oriented economics papers is shockingly low. My pet policy issue is spectrum management (allocation of radio frequency ranges). Its a subject that lends itself to "neat" economic arguments. Ronald Coase wrote an instrumental paper in 1959 suggesting we should propertize spectrum and allow trading, which would lead to efficient allocations. It saddens me how many policy papers I see from "think tanks" that completely ignore the second part of that paper, as well as Coase's earlier work: the efficient allocation assumes that trading spectrum has negligible transaction costs. This works for say big TV stations in a city, not so much for say allocating spectrum for personal wireless devices. In my research for a seminar paper, I came across people who really should know better who ignored crucial features of the problem domain, ignored transaction costs, ignored considerations of lock-in, etc.

I'm tremendously skeptical of economics-based policy papers. A biologist works on a paper for years, and concludes that this kind of gene expression might be linked to this kind of nutrient deficiency. An economist at a "think tank" works on a paper for a fraction of that time and gives advice on how to structure a tens of billions of $ industry...
No doubt this will be publicized greatly in NK but without the details.
I have been there once. It was the scariest roundabout I have traversed. The contra rotating flow (inside goes one way, outside goes the other) makes it extra exciting.
They took the map caching feature out of Labs in one of the recent updates a few months ago, so you can simply select My Places from the navigation dropdown and then swipe to the offline section to cache some maps. It is still a little wonky though since Google Maps is so dependent on network connectivity for everything, so I tend to open the offline maps while I still have a wi-fi/3g connection just to make sure it loads properly.
How is that a win? Apple got egg on their face from all the bad press. They had to shell out a ton of money for 2 map companies they bought, money for all the map data they are buying, plus all the engineering resources to create the product.

Google Maps lets google have full branding on the iphone and can gather all the data they want from users. And they can have all the branding on the Maps that they want.

If I remember right, some of the reasons Apple and Google didn't agree on maps is that Google wanted more branding and to gather more data. And I also believe Apple wasn't too happy about paid advertisements appearing for map search results.

Google really seems as the winner here.
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App ranking is also a function of momentum.. while it's great Google Maps has risen so quickly, let's not make this more than what it is.
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"Navigate to Chinese food"

I can imagine ways to make money from that. If 5 Chinese restaurants are all just about the same distance, and have relatively the same ratings, then you can suggest the person goes to the one that happens to have paid Google $0.50 in advertising.

Maybe they won't do this, maybe they will.

But picture that you're a Chinese restaurant, and you know people use Google Maps to navigate to you - you'd want Google's data on your store to be up-to-date.

Having up-to-date data from local businesses has to be very good for Google.
Agreed. I really wanted to agree with it because it has a nice sentiment, but when the author claims that war has historically been mankind's biggest killer, I completely gave up hope.
It's the consumer who wins in the end. The old model had an outdated map app. Now we've got two major companies competing to create a great map app on iOS.
Ha maybe we need to make more avatars. ;)
please believe this absurdity if you are a moron.
Very interesting thesis. But why did you use the two very specific examples of the factorial and fibonacci sequence? They don't strengthen your (again, very interesting) point but rather dilute it.
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it's a fair point, however, the way I see it, they had 2 choices: Release at iOS 6, release at iOS 7. We don't know when they actually started working on the new maps app. Choosing to delay for another whole year would have been a bigger mistake in my opinion. Apple Maps has successfully got me everywhere I've asked it.
>> Apple Maps caches a much larger area offline

Huh. Has not been my experience. Huge fan of Apple but as someone who doesn't have data on my phone, I can't tell you how many times I got screwed by their offline caching (something I never had trouble with the old GMaps)
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When the incline increases, the driver pushes the gas pedal harder. Inline up correlates with gas pedal up. It's a statement of relation between gas pedal and hill incline. The claim is correct.
It's the old discussion on how far Safe harbor and common carrier principles should go. Today however, there are many contradicting exceptions, where for example an ISP is seen as liable if their users infringes copyright or breaks any defamation laws, but not spam, scams or network viruses. ISPs also modify and change traffic (Traffic Shaping, DNS hijacking), but are not yet seen as liable when that modification goes wrong and breaks stuff (Traffic Shaping) or puts users at an increased security risk (DNS hijacking). Case in point, the game League of Legends had a large portion of the Swedish gamers cut off for about 2-3 months because of a broken Traffic Shaping rule, which meant that a large portion of users didn't get the service they bought, and Riot Games lost revenue.

Sure, the Pirate Party is testing the boundaries in this discussion, either "winning" points for principle if they get ignored or winning media attention if they get sued. But I for one welcome a more detailed look on safe harbor and how liable ISPs should be. If ISPs are forced to be responsible for anything bad going through their network (copyright infringement and spam/scams alike), maybe they will put some more cash into lobbying against being liable.
I think you underestimate the influence of Hayek, Friedman et al, whose moralistic market fetish has become the dominant ideology of Washington, London et al.

For a more evidence-based approach, I'll go with Keynes' General Theory, which works, but has few adherents among the major parties in the West.
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Ah, OK, I thought it was a citation. It certainly looked so with that styling.
Myself too. Hangar Lane is far scarier as the driving mentality is central London style and there are 7 lanes.
Now that I've read this, I was starting to think the same thing. Apple is completely capable of creating good software. They have all the resources they need, and "polish" is what their company is all about, so why release a sub-par app?

Yes it's far fetched, but not beyond possible.
He is a very legitimate contender for person of the year. A thirty-something we know nothing about in charge of a failing state with nuclear weapons. 4chan may be trolling, but the levity about north korea and their slave labor camps isn't funny because it is a real tragedy that noone can do anything about it.
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"all the themes are gone and you are left off with nothing other than boring colors."

FWIW there are still themes in the new Yahoo Mail I don't know if Little Forest is there because I don't use Yahoo Mail but its under "Options" on the top left hand corner of the page, next to the Sign Out button.
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Building an audience is not distribution. That's a separate service. Distribution is, by definition, just shuffling bits from point A to point B. This was for the longest time the single most valuable product the publishers offered both to consumers AND to journalists (most people seem to ignore that employers are required to provide a service to their employees in order to be able to obtain their services at a rate low enough that they can profit from it).

Building an audience is now handled by search engines and somewhat by marketing services... marketing services operate on a flat rate, not taking royalties let alone the 90%+ cut publishers want, and the sheer scale and reach of the Internet makes building an audience not terribly difficult. In addition, a MUCH smaller audience is necessary to support a single journalist than to support a large inefficient corporate publisher. Whereas you needed millions of readers to stay afloat, now far fewer are necessary and niche markets are entirely exploitable by individuals.
This is really neither here nor there, but I never understood why factorial is always used as an example of a naturally recursive function, as opposed to, say, sum. It's not as though "product of the numbers from 1 to n" and "sum of the numbers from 1 to n" are somehow inherently different in how recursive they are.
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Haha, it's cute people STILL think that just because they're paying them, they aren't getting shafted too.

Before the mortgage crisis, they were advising clients to buy up subprime debts while in secret shorting them hard, because they knew they were toxic. They bet against their own damned clients... at least actual mobsters have SOME semblance of honour!

If a Goldman banker is patting you on the back it just means he's trying to steal your shirt.
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In the US we call it Eminent Domain. I'm likewise baffled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain#Asia

There are other countries such as the People's Republic of China that practice eminent domain whenever it is convenient to make space for new communities and government structures.
Does that hold true when the exact string match is already #1 on the Free Apps list? Because to me, if it's an exact string match, AND it's wildly popular...
I would not bet on the increase in revenue. Music is a loss leader, it's primarily to increase customer acquisition.
I too took my driving test on this beast. I spent a good part of a driving lesson learning the different routes across it.
thank you, useful link!

something may very well be wrong, and it may be outside of my abilities or time to figure out what. :)

I am looking into increasing the SSL Session keeping length on my apache, have any opinion about that? It does seem to eliminate the extra 'tax' for SSL in my from-slow-network experiments, for the duration of the session eliminating re-negotiation.
That's an interesting perspective, but there are a few problems with it. I think Apple could live without the brand tarnish from the Maps app (mostly, the errors in the data). It's become a running joke against the platform and a bit of PR nightmare as park officials warn people not to depend on it.

The move to smartphones gave us powerful, handheld computers. Apple proved to be awesome in that space. Now, however, these phones are becoming small glass windows to cloud services that crunch large datasets to give you quick, meaningful, and accurate answers. With Maps and Siri, I think Apple is showing that they don't yet have the competency here that they've enjoyed with hardware and interface. I'm not ruling them out, but it feels like the game has moved to play more to Google's advantage.
The basic problem is here in my perspective, that Think Tanks almost always subscribe to a specific line of thought and exist to promote this cause. While on the other hand less political motivated researchers are too much in love with constructing models, that nobody outside of their peer group understands and often come with questionable value for real life implications.
Rendering is slow on the iPhone 4. Interface looks nothing like an iOS app. It's like some Android alien has landed in my iPhone.
When it's not shoving down a Google account login down your throat, places where Google maps is better (exactly where you'd expect it be)

How is it shoving a Google account down your throat? It took me a minute to find where to log into my Google account so that I could retrieve my saved Maps places.

How do you contrast this with Apple Maps, which transparently uses an iCloud account on the backend?

Do you lay the blame on Google? Or Apple, for not having system-wide account services for Google (as they do with Facebook and Twitter).
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I have no idea what would trigger the collapse, but it's extremely annoying to browse this way. Especially on submissions with a lot of comments, you have to go through a huge list of worthless comments to find the next "good comment".

Either a thread collapse or a "skip to next comment on the same indentation level as this" would solve that problem.
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That reality distortion field is pretty powerful. Wow.
Agreed. Thankfully Apple didn't get into self-driving cars.
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>And no, you can not get around this problem by doing a multivariate regression of speed on gas pedal and hill.

I'm no expert on statistics, but this seems like a pretty basic scenario for a statistical analysis to provide insight into. These two phenomena would be perfectly correlated in both the time of appearance and the degree.

You wouldn't be able to derive anything about the effect of hills or gas pedals on speed, but you'd be given a powerful clue as to what's going on.

The second there's even a tiny imbalance between the two, you're given the relationship to speed.
The article has a good number of statistics that should be relatively easy to verify. That puts it a step above just about anything else you read in a newspaper.

Sure it would be nice if they linked to sources, but that's not the standard for articles like this in newspapers like this.
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I've spent a lot of time trying to lift people out of such conditions. Crushing realization of reality: most of them don't want to improve. Give them every opportunity and resource, and they squander it.

Incredibly un-PC to say so, but nonetheless there it is.
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I think I can make up a variant of the problem that doesn't boil down to scalar vs vector. Imagine the driver is still trying to keep a constant speed, but the road is now horizontal, and the car gets slowed down by mud instead of hills.
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Frankly, Tim Cook should shut down the entire Apple Maps division. Who in their right mind is going to use Apple Maps at this point?

Try searching "Pier 39 San Francisco". The query can't be any more specific, and it's the most iconic location for tourists, and Apple Maps will bring you to a pretty shady area of town, only a mile or two away from Hunter's Point, one of the more violent areas of SF.
A Chinese daily reported as a real story an Onion spoof about Kim Jong Un being 'sexiest man'.
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"With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman's dream come true. Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute, cuddly side, Kim made this newspaper's editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile."
I'm sure the android part cares about how many people buy android and how cool it is compared to iOS.

Apple use their apps as a competitive advantage and Google aren't. Itunes supported Apple podcast & music players would help android. Obviously Google maps helps iOS.

I guess what I'm asking is "Is this helping maps at the expense of Android?"
"One of Apple's big gripes supposedly was that they couldn't get Google maps turn by turn navigation on the iPhone"

I thought it was because when Apple asked for turn-by-turn, Google said "okay, but we want larger Google branding, and also want to hook it up to Google Latitude" and Apple said no way?
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On a related note I like founder over entrepreneur. I think of myself as a craftsman, not a business person. I love building cool stuff.
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After studying it for a bit it isn't too difficult to figure out how it works, and I'm sure if you drove through it every day it would even become boring, but if I encountered this roundabout blind without knowing anything about it I'd probably cause some sort of accident.
It's not. Its more like a loan (well, actually, its more like a sale: the creators are obligated to provide the rewards offered to backers or to refund any backers to whom they cannot provide the rewards.)

Which, if you think about it, makes sense -- fixed rewards (the loan/sale model) come with obligations to provide the reward, equity stakes carry more risk.

It wouldn't make much sense for Kickstarter to use a worst-of-both-worlds equity-like downside risk with loan-like upside reward.
I hope there will be a way to export my listening data if they ever decide to stop offering their scrobbling service.
The article is rubbish if and only if the facts it names are wrong.

It is not standard procedure for newspapers and magazines to name or even link sources. That’s sad, but that’s how it is.
Hanger Lane is scary as most drivers haven't realised that it's not really a (proper) roundabout any more.

On a normal roundabout if you stay in a lane (one of the inside ones at least) you'll just keep going round and round.

With the redesigned Hanger Lane you get in the lane marked for your exit and the outer lanes slowly peel off as feeders for the appropriate turnings. If you want to keep going round and round you'll need to keep moving over to the right (since we go round them clockwise) every so often to keep from being directed off eventually from your current lane.

[EDIT] It's a "Spiral Roundabout".
Why? The analogy works just as well for temperature of water in a boiler, and the thermostat that modifies heating power inversely to the current temperature of the water.

Both are scalars in that example, and the basic problem remains.
Wow. RIM hadn't even entered my thought process. Funny how quickly things change.
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Correction: government would confiscate the difference from other hard working people and encourage low-end workers to stay in those low-value jobs. Really screws up the labor market: "why work harder? I'm getting $100/hr running a cash register!"
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>has always been and continues to be the special, important, and valuable product that publishers provide.

I'd have to disagree with that. While I definitely think aggregation is a valuable service, it has never been able to hold a candle to distribution. Without distribution, a work could only be sold or acquired in extreme geographic proximity to where it was created. Distributing it far and wide is what creates the entire market, and makes it possible for publishers to exist. Once anyone at all is able to distribute things far and wide, however, that's no longer valuable and the publisher will hopefully simply go away. As for aggregation, there are 2 issues I see with seeing this as very valuable - first, publishers are terrible at it. See the book "A Drunkard's Walk" for some statistics on the matter, but the bottom line is that no one in publishing is capable of telling the difference between what will be a success or a failure. 9 publishers passed on the Harry Potter series before one 'took a chance' on it. It's not really their 'fault' exactly, it's just that the public responds to entertainent products randomly and anyone who claims to have noticed a pattern in the noise is a (usually self-deluded) charlatan. So, from that aspect, publishers cannot offer anything superior to what anyone else can offer. Secondly, machine-learning-based recommendation systems such as Amazon, Netflix, etc have completely automate the aggregation process and reduce the value of aggregation nearly as much as the Internet has reduced the value of distribution.

>They also give them a soapbox that has a big stamp on it that reads, 'trust us, she's a great writer. All this stuff is true.'

If there were evidence that publishers had an accuracy rate greater than random chance at this (there isn't), this would certainly be something they could profit from.