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> The iPod also established credibility with the public that Apple could do great things beyond making shiny computers. The iPhone (and iPad) probably meant a good deal more to Jobs than the iPod, but I think it's clearly part of the lineage.

So are a great number of other things that we can draw conclusions about. We could argue that the Apple laptops were incredibly important, as they were the first steps in making OS X run under "mobile conditions". In fact, you could say that the introduction of OS X itself should be on display because it is what runs basically everything Apple does now from desktops to phones to tablets to apple tvs. I could actually make an incredibly academically interesting argument that Pixar was crucial to everything else that happened at Apple because in many ways it restored the credibility of Steve Jobs, and made him fabulously wealthy. However, if you are making a movie that focuses on just 3 events in Jobs life, you probably would not choose the moment he decided to invest in Pixar. Any number of events and devices were precursors to the iPhone.

Supposedly this movie is going to be about him preparing for these announcements. He will perhaps be reflecting or ruminating about the importance of what he will present. Prior to the iPhone announcement, Apple and Steve had everything at stake in a way unlike any other event since the Mac, and certainly moreso than the iPod. Had the iPod failed, it would have been just another forgotten Apple consumer electronic, like the Newton or Apple printers. Yes, perhaps that would have then indirectly lead to a domino effect of other products not being created, the iPhone included. But with the announcement of the iPhone, the very meaning and philosophy of the company were put on display. I was on the original iPhone team, and I can distinctly remember the way he would talk about the iPhone before it was released, it meant something more to him. And if you are going to make a biopic about Steve Jobs, the iPhone needs to be a part of that. Just watch him introducing the iPod, and then the way he introduces the iPhone. Think of it another way, if you could go back in time and talk to him before the iPod announcement or the iPhone announcement, which would you choose?

Again, I haven't read the script, for I know its covered in some other way. However, just from a surface understanding that it is just going to cover those 3 events in a vacuum, I don't feel very confident about this film. But I will of course reserve judgement until I see it.
I suppose it would only be fair that they received the mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of which they were making the false accusation. Bonus points for allowing the trial to procede untainted and then just transferring the sentence.
Thanks for the additional tip :)
You haven't even glanced at the claims, have you?
AT&T are scum and this sort of stuff is standard practice with them.

"Them" is almost all wireless companies, what Verizon does, AT&T follows soon and vice-versa so consumers cannot penalize them. Startup costs are in the tens of billions and you have to fight incumbents so they essentially have a monopoly (or duopoly, or...)
I worked for a company that was switching over from old internal software to SAP. We actually had to change workflows to suit SAP. You see, they'd sold it on the premise that it was adaptable, and it was, but actually a SAP engineering team would need to make the modifications to every version and update that we were contracted to receive. This wasn't covered in the multi-million-euro contract, of course.
I'm disappointed in that unlike The Social Network, which had no other film as a reference to compare to, this film already has Pirates of Silicon Valley as a precedent. While Jobs didn't care for the film, Woz thought:

"The personalities and incidents are accurate in the sense that they all occurred but they are often with the wrong parties (Bill Fernandez, Apple employee #4, was with me and the computer that burned up in 1970) and at the wrong dates (when John Sculley joined, he had to redirect attention from the Apple III,not the Mac, to the Apple II) and places (Homebrew Computer Club was at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) ... the personalities were very accurately portrayed." (http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2)
It is not an issue of users who want to run WebGL games, it is an issue of developers who want to target customers who run IE. In that sense, you are still virtually forced to use Flash if you want to hit the largest possible market.

Niche / hardcore game developers can potentially ignore this but if you are going for mass market you really can't.
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Many sailors consider the Pacific a real ocean with big waves.

http://hydroptere.com/news/501/34/Flying-trimaran-to-tackle-...

http://www.transpacrace.com/
Hackers generally aren't in the business of turning meaning into gibberish, which is what these 'eggcorns' are.

Imho, it's worth resisting nonsensical cargo-cult language, even if only as a matter of principle.
I find password restrictions often prohibit good but unconventional password models, like the "actual phrase for a passphrase" crowd. I think the possibility of an online brute force should already be near-zero for banking apps, and if an offline brute force attack can be conducted, it's likely that a) your password isn't going to matter much anymore and b) the typically arbitrary password requirements set up by the site aren't going to do much to stop any significant GPU-based hash attack.

The issue is that most people rely on memory to store passwords. Any term that is memorable and meets most online password "standards" is short enough for an offline brute force to break pretty quickly, especially if the attacker has some decent resources. The answer to this is "real phrase" passphrases, but many sites with password rules won't allow these.
Great! Something along the lines of the angular.js videocasts which popped up a few days ago would be great. Small digestible pieces which fit together like legos in your mind.. :)
mine works pretty near flawlessly and takes about 30 seconds to make a liter of whatever, what's the problem you seem to be having?
There are already laws against perjury, and in many cases, IIRC, it is a felony.

Ironic, isn't it, that prosecutors are unwilling to pursue all these potential felony convictions...
Provably falsifying evidence even one time should be enough to be banned from ever being entrusted to carry out this role again.

Not enough, IMO. The should face the same sentence the accused would have. But then, will we find enough cops and prosecutors without sins to throw the stones?
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WebGL is supported by Opera Mobile and Firefox for Android. The next version of the Backberry browser and Chrome for Android will support it, too.

It's very unlikely that IE will ever support WebGL, because Microsoft is against OpenGL in general. If you start with OpenGL, you probably won't bother with DirectX, which means you won't tie yourself to their ecosystem. That's obviously not in their interest.

Fortunately, IE has been constantly losing market share for the last 4 years.
As atrocious is Kutcher's performance. The guy will ridicule Jobs legacy with his poor acting. I saw the trailer and it was awful. And the guy they choose to play Woz resembles more Hurley from Lost rather than Wozniak.
Right, it doesn't verify the entity with 100% certainty, but it's still probably a good thing to have, because it should be a relatively simple change in the bank's code and it creates a lot of extra work for an attacker.

It's just another safeguard, and I think it does a fine job being that. It's not meant as an iron-clad, utterly impenetrable phishing prevention mechanism. If OP believed that, perhaps he is the gullible one.
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Great, they're probably responsible for this too. Every time you try and use a new tab or navigation (back, forward, refresh) on my banks website, you get kicked out to the main page. It's like someone has never heard of form keys.

http://i.imgur.com/erm0faA.png
Will never happen because it would make it way too hard to access your account on other computers.
Much the music software I use is German

Ableton Live
Native Instruments
Steinberg (since superceded by Ableton)

There's a pretty large body of German music software developers, both large and indie.

If I recall Logic (now Apple) was also German, and there are a number of other good European music software companies like Propellerheads.
Right now I think WebGL still does not make any sense to develop for. The best path for making money developing video games is either mobile, desktop, or Facebook. WebGL covers 2 of those bases but you lose mass market potential because of browser support and it's still ultimately not the best choice. For desktop you're better off just making PC / Mac apps and for Facebook/Web you really have to use Flash as it has far more browser support.

Personally I'm going with Unity and targeting mobile (iOS / Android). I don't really care about publishing to the web right now (Unity Flash doesn't work too well because the full feature set of C# .NET is not supported) but when Unity adds support for WebGL (which I'm sure they will) it might be a good option.

If I wanted to make hardcore games or games with higher graphical requirements I would publish to PC / Mac and not to the Web.

So, right now I don't see a compelling reason for publishing to the web or developing in WebGL.

edit- I'm speaking from a business perspective. If you just want to make cool stuff deployable to the web, then go for it =)
I know it's their internal network, that's the point of posting this.
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I knew Jobs personally, and I have to tell you, an accurate portrayal of his behavior by an acting prodigy -- or a straightforward documentary using real footage -- would do more harm to his reputation than a shallow script and modestly talented performer.
> on-and-off love affair for MS "standards"

That's just Miguel de Icaza, not really GNOME. If rms wanted to diss GNOME, he certainly would have had...
My mistake, I am interesting in purchasing the Pro. On the Pro spec sheet (http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-...), it links to this storage page (http://microsoft.com/surface/storage) and so I'm lead to believe that this is the storage provided to you. Thanks for bringing this up!
RapidMiner is excellent German software

A more comprehensive list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_companies_of_...
I love T-Mobile, and not just for their sane plans and prices. They are also, you know, nice to me. Every time I have called their support they have been friendly, competent, and helpful. I have never gotten even 1 of 3 from any of the other carriers.

Seriously T-Mobile, come up with more excuses for me to give you money.
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Governments simply don't have enough money to try every case or enforce every maximum prison term. If the plea bargain was eliminated, prosecutors would be forced to prioritize a great deal more. Moreover, for better or worse, every single defendant accused would receive their day in court, as opposed to being forced to gamble with the years of their life, even if they are innocent or the crime is a minor one.

Abolishing the plea bargain would by no means fix the broken system, but it would be a good start.
I have one (insignificant?) beef with the article, in that it positions critics of a scientific discipline as those who decide the validity of the 'status quo' - this is right, that is wrong - which is a rather bleak picture of what their role is for. Criticism is as intrinsic to the development of a theory/experiment as is the effort of the scientist.

In short, science critic != movie critic.
An unbelievable number of scripts implementing a browser built-in/extension, leading to this (Opera):

Error
https://play.google.com/store

The website does not permit its content to be displayed in a frame. It must be displayed in a separate window.

There are definitely better solutions.
although... the Surface does allow for extending the memory using either: "microSD, microSDHC, or microSDXC memory card". Reference: http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/support/surface-with-...
The whole system is blatantly fucked up and I'm more stunned by people's non-chalant reaction or 'it's the law reaction'.

I live in a small town in New Jersey where my mom works for the town.. recently there was a police 'strike' around contract negotiations, where, to prove the town should give them a raise they stopped writing tickets to show the town how much money the police department makes them. What this means to me (and I'm pretty sure is obvious) is that they stopped writing stupid 'money making' tickets and were actually... doing their job of protecting its citizens.

The worst thing about all of this is I have no idea how to fix it.

I can rant on shit like this for a long time but I'll ask one question that hopefully someone will be inclined to share their opinion.

I think one major problem (that most seem to disagree about) is the slowly creeping loss of personal freedom 'for the publics best interest' I think speed limit's are against this freedom, is it really that inconceivable to believe we can't judge what is a safe speed? (obviously reckless driving would still be a thing that police would be used for) or even smaller... Why is it a law that I must wear a seatbelt? Or even drugs.. why does any law care if I want to smoke crack?

this may have been off topic sorry.
Lawyers tell me that judges rarely prosecute lying under oath, they just rule against the liars.

The reason? If a person is accused of lying under oath, what's to stop him from lying more during the perjury trial? He's already accused of that crime, so more lies makes little difference. This is why perjury trials are so rare.

Also, "perjury", strictly defined, means testimony that's both material to the issues and leads to a miscarriage of justice. That's a tough standard.
It's also a good "Rückenfigur". As the saying goes "people's backs are boring". Ruckenfiguren have to be well executed to be interesting. In this case invite the observer in.

But yeah, it's just one of many 'themes' in blockbuster posters.
Slightly off-topic.

Years ago when I was working at a small ISP in Columbia, SC I had lunch with Austin Meyer. He came in to upload the latest release of X-Plane to his FTP servers. We went across the street to get some shrimp and grits.

The man oozes genius. Over lunch he was rambling about some technique he discovered to render scenes at a much higher frame-rate. Something to do with culling and inlining a series of functions responsible for a very particular set of expensive transformations.

His almost hysterical, passionate, hyper, consuming personality made it a completely one-sided encounter. It was my pleasure to just sit and listen.

While we were walking out, I noticed the tail of his plaid shirt had come partially untucked. He had also missed 2 belt loops.

We're reading today about a man who legitimately doesn't have the cycles to spare for belt loops, let alone a patent battle. If for no other reason than to stop distracting people like Austin from doing what they do, we desperately need software patent reform.

Anyway. He probably thought I was a dope, but I still recall that lunch as one of my fondest memories while starting out in the industry.
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I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but I've actually concluded the opposite. The patent system is so ridiculous now that it should be treated as such and developers should "infringe" as many patents as possible until the whole tyrannical system collapses on itself.
I got interested in that email, could I also get it?
Institute for Justice (who represented the Motel Caswell) posted a wrap-up of the case. http://www.ij.org/massachusetts-civil-forfeiture-release-1-2...
It's interesting to note that the number of patent cases in East Texas quadrupled from 2003 to 2004, from 14 to 59 cases, then increased again to 236 in 2006 [1]. Is there an economic benefit for the citizens in that district?

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_fo...
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I think AT&T has a database of IMEIs of known US smartphones. You used to be able to get around the scans with an imported Nokia, for example. I used to have a Nokia X6 that never got picked up for the two years I used it.
Right, that is why Microsoft did not include.webgl support in IE, because then the web platform would.compete with their Windows PC gaming monopoly. To get around that people just need to another browser, which is what people obviously should do, unless they want to be.forced to buy Windows pcs for.the rest of their gaming lives.
I generally agree with this, but it gets tricky when you factor in social services.

If a society decides that it should support health or medical services with public funds then there is a line of logic that conditions based on that support (such as a seatbelt laws, drug laws, or even banning soda) should be allowed.

I don't agree with this, but if I was arguing for that side that would be how I'd frame it.

The seatbelt law is particularly weird to me considering that motorcycles are perfectly legal.
Why do you say that? I think the closer someone could get to portraying Steve Jobs, the better it would be.
Wholeheartedly agree with the erosion of personal freedoms in the favor of laws made by people 'who know better.' Speeding is a perfect example--any law that 80% of people on the freeway break is a terrible law.
I agree there are better solutions but some people dont bother with plugins or scripts and/or just want a simple/quick web-based solution... and that is what this is aimed for.

Also worth noting: I literally spent 2 hours max on it. I know a few people who could use it, myself included, coded it real quick... and then here we are.
That's why I got prepaid. 10 euros a month off it for 250MB internet, 2-3 euros for calling and texting. Cheaper than any plan, even plans without calling and texting.

Oh no, prepaid is always more expensive! they tell me in the shop. They then walk straight over to their computers to show me, and they show me something slightly more expensive. What a joke, these subscriptions. Right now all my carrier has on me is my rough location (must be kept by Dutch law), call history, and phone number. Good luck billing me for using a Galaxy Note II.
> I think the closer someone could get to portraying Steve Jobs, the better it would be.

Okay, if by "better" you mean more accurate and unvarnished, of course I agree. I was referring to those who want Jobs to be portrayed as a technological saint.
Vulnerabilities in dozens of Military and Pentagon websites
Ok, let's suppose it's not illegal to send the data to the US because of the safe harbor act.

What is the legal ground that prevents me, let's say, uk employee of an UK subsidiary of an US company, to tell the press that my UK company has been orderd by it's US owner to hand over private data to the US.

I mean, I cannot be possibly forced to abide by the FISA warrant, right?
But can my company be in trouble (and hence fire/sue me? *) for this kind of action of an employee? I mean, how can the US law hold responsible an US company for an non-illegal action performed by a non US employee of a non US branch of that company?
Let us not forget the granddaddy Twitter visualizer:

http://twittervision.com
Your comment was the first on this article, and it set the tone for the entire discussion. Do you like what became of it?
What's this for? If I ever need auto-refresh I'll just install an addon or extension. I already can't remember the URL for this. Or if I don't have an addon installed, I could just write a Javascript one-liner in the javascript console.
Agreed that the iPhone announcement is clearly more significant than the iPod one. People forget that the latter was perceived as a dud on day one; the room was small, the fanfare was minor, and it was much more expensive than people were used to paying for music players. I was referring to the overall history of the product; the announcement itself does seem like a bizarre inclusion.

You're also spot-on about OS X. I'm excited that NeXT is going to be part of the film; Apple wouldn't have rebounded as powerfully without it. It's easily the most wildly successful flop in history.
This is 99% correct, but you're wrong about the last sentence.

Actually, science is about the most accurate model, but it turns out that what we mean by "beauty," is actually about simplicity, and thus about correctness.

There is a sound mathematical background behind simplicity and its likelihood of being correct, as outlined in Scott Aaranson's paper:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791
>Extraordinary responsibility should be balanced with extraordinary liability.

I agree on principle. I think it's quite corrupt and defeatist to think otherwise, but on the other hand they are just people --as fallible as anyone. Other than watchmen for the watchmen ad infinitum, I don't know that this kind of problem would ever be eradicated. (something like Google Glass for the police could work, if people allow that police work necessitate some ugliness at times (i.e. realize that sometimes drugged out people or domestic abuser need to be knocked out, for example. I mean that occasionally, there is an ugliness people might not want to admit exists but is necessary.)

I think one has to consider the human factor in this and be aware of that when designing policing solutions.
I use the AT&T prepaid service as well (GoPhone) on a factory unlocked smartphone; I don't use the data, but have the ability to turn it on if I need to.

As it turns out, one can just get a GoPhone sim at an AT&T store and get it activated then and there (no need to take a dumbphone or your smartphone there at all). The sim costs 99 cents. I have been using this sim for the past 6 months.
I like the idea. Also, I have the same problem with iOS notifications. If I've already read the update within the app, the notification should be cleared across all my devices where I have that app installed.
shitty ddos tool? that's the only use I see in this.
Like I mentioned on the other comment, i agree that there are better solutions... but sometimes you just need a quick solution to use in the browser.

I, myself, hate plugins & having to copy/paste script or code. I just want to click a bookmark, do what I need to do, and get out. That's why I made this.
That would be a very slow and very inaffective DDOS.
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As much as I like Joy Division, why is this being upvoted on HN?
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When you have a business, its far easier to just purchase a new machine and expense it than it is to upgrade existing machines. Time is far more value than money, and I'd much rather spend 3K for a new machine than waste a day or a week struggling with an upgrade issue and dealing with AppleCare.

PS: it's eligible for section 179 accelerated depreciation and sales-tax free in NY thanks to ST 121.3
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> ... it turns out that what we mean by "beauty," is actually about simplicity. and thus about correctness.

Not necessarily. The most beautiful theories aren't always the simplest. I'm only objecting to your use of "actually" above as though it were a firm relationship, rather than a desirable outcome that nature sometimes favors.
I have no problem dropping IE support for app-like experiences. Honestly, people on IE are mostly at work or don't know much about technology and are less likely to play games. I don't see how asking the user to install another browser is bad compared to having to install steam or be limited to your flavor of mobile OS or console.