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I was a Mac app startup in the days of Mac-128, OS/2 and Windows 1.0. Far from evangelizing OS/2, Microsoft sent Tandy Trower (a very important development manager, still at Microsoft) down to the Valley to visit us and urge us to develop our Mac app for Windows. He told us then that Microsoft was working on Windows versions of its Mac apps. And we were surely not the only Mac startup that Tandy had on his list of visits to make in the Valley. It has always seemed to me that developers who prioritized OS/2 over Windows were fooling themselves (easy to do, since IBM was so important then and backing OS/2), not being fooled by Microsoft.
I don't get the story at all. Could you explain?
I would reply with something interesting, but clearly I've angered the downvote police, so I officially declare myself intimidated into submission.
Any evidence to support this statement? Personally, I am just as outraged either way. (Actually, everything about North Korea makes me mad, but I am especially annoyed when they kidnap Americans.)
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Well, I've used OSX enough to say honestly that most Apple software is night and day different from iTunes on Windows. iPhoto is pretty rocking. I've never encountered any other Apple software that sucked, let alone on the level of iTunes.

The window maximizing sucks for sure though.
I don't know that I buy this. Contractor rates in Iraq are much higher than this guy's (especially if you take a few minutes and SWAG out the "billable hours" that must go into a single reclamation). You could easily argue that Iraq contractors face much less risk.
The Hungarians got three neo-fascists in too (this mob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_a_Better_Hungary, who have some particularly scary ideas about a "Greater Hungary").

Geert Wilders' list in the Netherlands are close to as extreme, and they got 17% of the vote. And we've not even mentioned the Austrians. Oh, the Austrians. Or Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National.

Neofascism is Europe's dirty little secret. It's just this is the first time in maybe thirty years it's had significant electoral success in the UK. I would say the Anglosphere, but there's Australia's Pauline Hanson, and apartheid-era South Africa...
I don't think this will work. What do the leaders of North Korea care if you kill off its people? They have been doing it themselves for years.

That's why this is a delicate situation. North Korea can incinerate Seoul (and perhaps Tokyo) instantly. The leader is a psychopath, and has nothing to lose. So we can't really negotiate -- they don't want anything, and they can kill a lot more people than we can.

(It's depressing to consider how easily one person can kill millions, and how we can't do anything about it, or punish him if he does.)
The $299 is only half of the cost, you also get to pay an extra $360 over the 2 year contract in higher monthly fees compared to the original iPhone.

I think I'll hold on to my original and hope for a new carrier in 2010. The features are great, but AT&T's call handling is not acceptable, I don't need to extend that contract.
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I know programmers don't like to hear about intuition and that is why I am probably being down voted for this too.

But that is what makes what you do stand out and what separates the excellent designer from the mediocre designer.

Just the same that makes the excellent developer stand out, that which cannot be put into a data set.

I challenge anyone to find a common design functionality that couldn't be solved with common sense and intuition.

Something that you could prove the actual results would be better if they where based on data.

The problem of course is that no such data exist.
Of course depends on what the metrics are and how correct they are for measuring what they intend to measure.
Shouldn't really reply to myself, but: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/far-right-europe... summarises the situation pretty well.
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Yes, you're correct that I actually don't get as far as the computation. That's coming next - at over 2,000 words it became apparent that the series needed to be segmented.

(I should have called this part 0, or maybe part aleph-0 :))

I won't be blazing new trails here though. My aim is to cover, roughly, the following:

* Turing's attack on the Entschiedungsproblem and the halting problem (if space permits, some context regarding Godel)
* The correspondence between Turing Machines and natural numbers, and the corollary that most real numbers are uncomputable.
* Rice's theorem, and recursive and recursively enumerable sets.
* Possibly some mention of Chaitin's Omega.

All should be covered in an undergraduate course on computability - however I see such misunderstanding of simple ideas like the halting problem that come from a shaky grasp of the unintuitive basics that I wanted to write a genuine introduction.

I'd appreciate any further suggestions for content!
Apparently it's not (though I concede it often is like that). From the linked article...

UPDATE So this is what AT&T tells us:

An iPhone 3G customer in most cases can early upgrade at $399 [16GB] or $499 [32GB].

You’ll note that that’s still several hundred dollars more than what Joe Smoe would have to pay, right off the street, if he doesn’t already have an AT&T account.
"At this point, the ONLY reason I've been buying macbook pros rather than low-end macbooks is the screen size."

Some of the higher-end Pro models have better video cards, which yields better 3D performance, and sometimes better output on larger displays (e.g., running 1080p video on a 1920x1200 monitor). I'd imagine Photoshop CS4 runs quicker with a better video card (assuming Open GL is enabled in PS).

A few extra USB ports on the big guys too, and semi-faster CPU's (which doesn't make a heck of a difference unless you're doing something intense).

Other than a few people who care about the above, you're right. You're mostly picking for screen-size/native-resolution, and weight/form-factor.
I don't think so. I do think there is a problem when we view other cultures from the outside, and when we focus only on the "fancy" aspects of culture because it's more interesting than how people arrange their bedding, or whatever.

However, I think you are focusing too much on religion as ritual specifically. Yes, indigenous Americans, for example, have certain rituals, rites, and special events that stand apart as specific expressions of their unique culture. If those rituals seek to connect the individuals who participate in them, and the community as a whole to an "ultimate reality" or an unseen world, we in the west call it a religious ritual. Most indigenous American people (all, as far as a I know) do not even have a word for "religion," however, so the mundane and the "fancy rain dance" are each simply forms of culture with no defining boundary.
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Could this happen in your company or organization?
Typo: 'Jokob' must be 'Jakob'.
No it's not the case actually. I upgraded from my 2G to 3G without any penalty. With the iPhone, which is what we're talking about here, that's not the way it works or should work. Also keep in mind, the 3G[s] isn't a huge leap.
Apple drops price of least expensive iPhone to $99
iTunes is the ecosystem Apple created for their ipods, did you really think apple would change its winning strategy?
Why did Air France 447 find itself in the middle of a powerful thunderstorm?
The 2G to 3G was without penalty because the 2G devices were unsubsidized.
Big drop in price for the MacBook Air too, especially for SSD: $1,799 with 128GB SSD which was the previous price with a regular hard-drive.
The feathers are a metaphor for words you wish you never said. It's pretty hard to take them back.
...if you're okay with losing the phone number you already have.
Your best bet is to sell your 16GB 3G on ebay (maybe for $300? I sold mine for $450 2 months ago). Eat the $175 cancellation fee and switch to a no contract carrier for a few weeks. Then You can re-up with AT & T for a 32GB 3GS for $300. Your net cost... $175 plus tax on the $300.
this.... could be huge, considering the footprint of flash, but i highly doubt they would do aggressive skype-like things to get around nat issues, so this may not be the panacea we are looking for
I just tried to upgrade and I'm getting the originally announced pricing:

Review iPhone pricing.

As an existing customer, you qualify for the following iPhone pricing: You'll be able to choose the iPhone you want a little later in the process.

* $99.00* — 8GB iPhone 3G (black)
* $199.00* — 16GB iPhone 3G S (black or white)
* $299.00* — 32GB iPhone 3G S (black or white)

AT&T
Oh okay. Sorry if that sounded argumentative. :-)
they are doing NAT traversal
There was a rumor about new Air models at lower prices. Does anyone know if there are actually new models planned, or if this is what they should've said - same model, lower prices?
What is so French about that bicycle?
I've personally been in between the 500MB-1,000MB/mo range in the past year. I don't tether or anything, but do stream internet radio over it, and sometimes internet video's (e.g., TED).

If you're only using the basic built-in apps, like email, web, and maps, and you buy all Apps over your Cable/DSL line at home and install via iTunes, you'll probably not go above 500MB.

But once you throw multi-media into the mix, and buying apps over the wire, it's a different story. 500MB becomes quite tiny.
What do I do with my now "obsolete" 3G iPhone?
With the release of the new iPhone 3G S today, alot of people would be upgrading to the new version and would also be faced with the dilemma of what to do with their old phones. I would suggest this:
1. Sell it to interested developers/hackers in Africa. There is a huge market for refurbished/used iphones in africa, but the price of the iphone from the gray market is really prohibitive, so selling it would really make sense.
Too bad they don't have a demo application showing off the features in action like google did with wave. It could be viable alternative to write collaborative software.
I am at the end of my AT&T contract (non-iPhone), and their website wants to charge me more for a new phone than new customers would pay. Unfortunately for them, I am just going to transfer my number to T-Mobile when the G2 comes out. Fuck AT&T. (And if T-Mobile pulls this on me, there is still Sprint and Verizon.)
Very valid point. It's still pretty screwy to play: don't subsidize, subsidize, don't subsidize.
If there were more than two choices he'd never have used the random coin example.
I'm running the latest dev build of Chrome and it works fine for me.
...spending a few billion on hardening the steel on their tanks a bit further

Tank armor is made from ceramics nowadays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobham_armour#Material

...is there a reason to believe that the number of innovative/creative/breakthrough technologies being developed depends on the amount of money spent on research?

Actually, there is. A surprising amount of what goes on in research is aimed at reducing the combinatorial complexity of big search spaces -- organic compounds that might be medically useful, or doping and annealing schedules that might make better semiconductor substrates, or porous materials that might be good anchors for nanotubes or nanowires. Computer scientists call this an "embarrassingly parallel" problem. The more researchers you have, the faster you get an inventory of possible routes forward, etc.
You can usually multiply the number of startups by about 2.5.
The biggest change I've seen so far is that those funky Chrome-style tabs are gone. I never knew why Apple copied those in the first place.

The new tabs don't look so great either, though.
What you say is true, as far as I know. It is entirely possible to share the culture of the people who one lives nearby and yet practice a different religion. It is also true that this has been going on for a long time. In the case of the spread of Abrahamic offshoots (Islam and Christianity), a couple of thousand years. In this sense religious expression has always been fluid. However, I think that is different than viewing religion as an object. It is a modern move to split culture into many different categories: public, private, family, government, religion, education, medical, etc, etc. This way of understanding and ordering the world is a particularly Western (some might say Germanic) form.

Furthermore, there are languages that still survive to this day that have no word for "religion" as such, something I talk elsewhere in this thread. This says to me that in some cultures religion cannot even be conceived of as separate from culture because the language does not provide the imaginative capacity to understand it that way.

So, always fluid, yes. Separable, I don't know.
This seems more like an advertisement than an article. Make them worry real big that their experts or expertise just isn't good enough, then close with a paragraph about our training. Hmmmm.

I like reading expert articles from people not trying to sell me their expert services.
You might be interested in Steven Murdoch's paper 'Hardened stateless session cookies'. See this blog post for the paper and some other related links:

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/05/16/hardened-state...
I assume if you take that path, you'd end up with a new number, which is kind of annoying.
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It could be argued that the introduction of the new device would be the perfect opportunity. Having resolution-independent apps isn't going to help when the physical size of the screen changes. I think the UI changes going from a 3.5" screen to a 7-9" screen are going to be bigger than the changes to increase pixel density on the same size screen.
Very interesting article on a possible explanation. Google is also doing this with GWT.
Maybe this is not appropriate for HN, but I thought it was quite funny. Flag/kill or not as you see fit.

Ok, so it was either killed real fast or The Onion content is automatically killed. No problem.
As a US mobile users, I can't get Java on any of my phones (G2 or Treo), and I am a geek. There might be some JVM, but I did not find them.
I can't because it looks like you deleted it yourself!

Edit: Oh, I thought [deleted] meant you did it. Never mind.
Indeed. When you say French, I think this:

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It got deaded immediately, so I went ahead and killed it myself too, but it was here:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/police_iphone_left_in_h...
Depends if you can afford the upgrade. Want an iPhone 3G S? Already have an iPhone 3G? Be prepared to pay $700 to upgrade [Updated] An iPhone 3G customer in most cases can early upgrade at $399 [16GB] or $499 [32GB].

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/08/want-an-iphone-3g-s-alr...
Hardly seems worth the hassle. Plus, they're offering me the upgrade to 32GB 3GS (from 3G I've been on less than 1 yr) for $499, so seems like it'd be better just to sell the old phone for our theoretical $300 and pay the $200 difference.
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interesting. thanks for the clarification!
"What kind of a human being is capable of such callous disregard for a precious, precious thing?" said one concerned Winnetka resident, tax lawyer Ben Klein. "Having an iPhone is a 24-hour-a-day responsibility."

Heh, reminds me of that virtual pet craze.
I wonder how long we'll still have CD/DVD drives. I've used mine maybe twice :/ Would much rather just have a bigger battery there TBH.
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Strange, I checked the same, and they offered me $499 for a 32GB, to upgrade from the 4GB 3G... I wonder if it has something to do with my buying the 3G after the price drop (for $199) or because I'm upgrading from the 4GB. Either way, they really need to get their act straight.
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Do you suppose they might've died from being crashed into a wall? Also, citation needed.
I believe that what he meant is "75% of the guessers in this case". I admit it was phrased a bit absolutely but I don't think he wants people to take away the ideas that guessers are 75% wrong, regardless of who is guessing or what they are guessing about.
My wife has a 2G and I have a 3G. She is eligible for the $200 16GB 3GS, my cost is $400.

If she gets a 3GS, what is the cost if we then switch phones?

We're on the family plan.
I never thought they did such a great job of that anyway. For example, the early versions of Firefox were about twice as big as Opera (in download size) and had a fraction of the features.
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This is a bigger deal than it looks. The space elevator cable has to support its own weight, so the stresses on it increase exponentially with length. Not having to support those last 20 miles of cable could take the space elevator concept a big step closer to reality.
If the juggle is possible at all, there should be a way to keep the number, too. The local number portability rules and processes are now fairly well-established; you could even park your number at a landline or pay-as-you-go account for a short while if a direct swap was disallowed.
Given that you'll pay at least $50/month for iPhone service, who wouldn't go for the $199 3GS over the $99 current model? The feature set seems huge and interesting to just about anyone -- who doesn't want battery life and speed? The nature of the service contract practically guarantees that iPhone buyers aren't horribly price-conscious when making purchases. So, of those likely to buy, who won't value the new model at at least $100 more than the old one?
Like when with the C64 no one uses the "Expansion Slot" or the Rastport or the PCMIA-Card Slots for the Amiga. The only successfull 'flap thing' was the MIDI on the Ataris.
Well simple.

I really do want the market to work, but I know in reality it very often does not work at all. Most often with big industries where the startup costs are high.

Do you prefer to continue to fly in a needle's eye rather then have the government step in?

Ideally at least one airline would offer the safer option as a way to gain customers, but what if no one does?

Is your libertarianism that pure? If so, that's admirable, I guess my ideals are just not quite as strong.
What are the data plans like? Does anyone know if you must buy a plan with the $99 iPhone?
Anyone buying this? I don't think a spreadsheet with a list of servers and applications constitutes compelling evidence that they have "everything." There are probably hundreds or thousands of people at T-Mobile who could get this list.
You can say that again, I paid a pretty penny for my 2G which is why I ignored the 3G. Glad I waited... 2G was good to me though, never had a drop call.
Yet another case in which something novel was first tried in a marginal field (dentistry rather than the much more prestigious medicine).
Are you telling him not to have those sentiments, or not to express them?
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You can't just swap SIM cards? I was thinking about doing the same thing.
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Yes, the phrasing of this article is horrid, but I thought it would serve as an introductory nudge to those who haven't encountered the developer-journalist concept yet.
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They get weather updates en-route sent to them by their home airline (via the radio system) - not to mention that jets of that size carry along with them a better weather radar system than most local news channels have.
It depends how long you've had your previous iPhone (and which one you had). I believe you have to have had your previous phone for at least a year to qualify for the prices you listed.
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> PS:It's "Jakob"

You mean "it's that Jakob again"? You must be designer.

Oh, I get it: you are a hacker, you mean the typo in the headline.
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I don't know what you're insinuating, but I don't think this is Hacker News.
Does this compete with Google's Wave and the XMPP protocol?
The reason is because of engineering.

If you are really going to fly down the road at 20 mph, you cannot use caliper brakes. They won't have the stopping power or "bite" you need to stop quickly. If they get wet or dusty, then for get abou tit. Ditto for suspension if you are going to be making a turn at 20 mph or even 10. At speeds above 10 you really have a motorbike.

I work in san jose and saw some guy on a, as you put it, simple traditional steel roadbike with some kind of gas motor on it, going about 20. He tried to take a gentle turn along Tasman in front of Cisco building D or something and almost lost it. It was busy traffic and he could have died if he had gone down.

These things aren't bicycles with electric motors. They are motorbikes. These are not the same things. The handling is all different ( you lean into and push into turns ). A serious bicylist might know what I'm talking about. I think the difference is the motor. :) The torque it makes has different characteristics than a bicycle with a fast rider on it.

Executive summary: be careful out there. It's harder than it looks.

As far as hating bicycling...I don't...but I'm not going to get killed for the sake of commuting since bicycles on roads meant for cars are more or less incompatible in traffic.
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Having a crappy option makes the more expensive options seem like a better deal.
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I happened to write an article about this a few weeks back. My answer is a concessional yes. But in my limited sales experience I don't do it myself. Thus making me a poor salesperson. See excerpt:

"These tactics are part of all sales. To large degree, it’s accepted and understood to be part of the game. It usually works out in the end since many if not most companies provide valuable services to their customers. At times customers just need a little encouragement to get over their hesitation to commit to buying. For better or worse, these little lies and half truths keep the economy churning."

http://stephenegibson.com/2009/05/25/when-is-wrong-wrong/
Concerning the DoS issue: the system only allows one subscriber url per channel, so it really can't be used to DoS. And as for auth, this was designed for more internal use where it isn't that much of a concern.
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