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You do make a strong point, though as I see it, you take an usability point of view rather than a pure eye-candy one.

I have to admit I have not looked at the usability of Sense UI for the Hero with such scrunity, and I also have to admit you make some very good points. It is true that the iPhone's UI is simple, streamlined, consistent, and stays out of your way (most of the time) while managing to be nice on the eyes. It's a great feat by the designers at apple, and it's one of the reasons why the iPhone is one of the most advanced phones on the market, yet it is still accessible by pretty much any demographic without disorienting them.

But, let's look at it this way. The iPhone was released roughly two years ago (I did some research, and, what do you know, it was released exactly two years ago, June 29th, 2007), and they interface hasn't changed at all. This doesn't bother me much, but the UI has stayed the same. I believe that for a phone with so much functionality, you've got to give your users a certain amount of customization options. Granted, some might argue that countless people stick with the same look of their computer OS for years without much complaint, but it's different because when using a computer, you're most focused on the applications, but I won't dabble into that right now. Having the same interface on a device that I use every day, have it on me most of the time, and navigate through tens of times a day, for two years (assuming it was acquired on launch), it is bound to bore a little, and I think one of the strong points of Android in general is the amount of customization you can do to the interface.

Now, that's my personal opinion, but I think that's one of the reasons WebOS for Pre and Sense for Hero have gotten so much hype design wise. When the iPhone was released, everyone was marveled by it's design, whose letterpressed fonts rocked the minds of even the least design savvy, if only subconsciously. It was revolutionary.

More usable and productive, maybe (I can't really say without using Sense myself). But the average Joe/Jane doesn't really pay attention to those kind of details. The average Joe/Jane will in fact look for the flashiest phone and OS so that they can show it off to the world. They don't care about how usable it is, and won't notice if it takes them a second or two more to see how many messages they've got. The power user might notice and appreciate this, but the power user is knowledgeable enough to choose the phone that suits them best.

Regarding themes, I don't have any on the iPhone. I don't need them, though I know many people who do and would love to be able to customize theirs. I won't dive into this much because it was just an idea I threw around without thinking about it much. I think apple designers wouldn't like having their perfected design redone.

(You're welcome, for the links ;)
The whole article is just fluff and filler-text, not backed up by any facts whatsoever.

He mentions a few websites going down (which is not "the internet") and he falsely claims google had trouble (which still wouldn't be "the internet" even if it was true).

But this is a systemic problem with the Internet, or perhaps put more accurately, the Web. The more people who demand the service provided by an information Web site, the harder it gets for that site to provide that information

Yeah right. Actually that's a systemic problem with that particular website then, not with the internet. He completely misses the point about the distributed nature of the internet: "Big breaking news" spreads like wildfire across many sites. So when CNN (not the internet) buckles under load then there is a good chance that you'll still be able to fetch it from a few thousand other sites.
On that subject, an absolutely must-read book is "Hard To Be God" (by Strugatsky; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Be_a_God ), an absolutely brilliant meditation on the whole Prime Directive issue (basic thesis: it's harder to bring in positive influence than it seems, thus the title)
And why exactly you cannot write free software for iPhone?
I'm having a similar problem with hotmail currently, although hotmail seems to have firewalled our source IP (can't even connect) anymore, and the various contacts we have at Microsoft/hotmail can't even acknowledge that they are blocking a certain IP range, and keep making us run around asking us to "try connecting with telnet" (how do they think I've been verifying that one IP is blocked and other isn't?) and what our email client settings are, and how we've configured Exchange. And yes, reverse DNS is proper, as is SPF, and we've had this IP for years and hotmail has accepted mail from it in the past, and hotmail correctly accepts and delivers mail when sent from another IP.

I don't mind the blocking, I recognize that as a legit way of controlling access, but what is really frustrating is that the hotmail folks assume that I don't know anything about email and that they can't even acknowledge that they have a certain IP blocked. If they could just say "Yes, we've blocked that, and there's nothing you can do or say to get us to unblock it", then we could move on; but when it looks like no one at hotmail knows what's going on, everyone continuously believes that if they just say the magic words or contact the right person, it can all be cleared up.
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If you have something to say on a non-trivial subject, you better write an article.
Stack Overflow deals with boring, gadfly-style problems. You can get some specific bits of knowledge there, not the wide-spectrum wisdom.
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Censorship is rarely about a specific message. It's about people becoming accustomed to the alien idea that a third party MUST be present to intermediate communication between you and anyone else on the grounds of some nebulous externality (think of the children). I felt this was the most important bit of 1984, often glossed over for the more shocking bits. Doublespeak was a way to censor even face to face communication without any enforcement mechanism needing to be in place besides social pressure.
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He talks about Russia and China, but not Europe. Why?
I've long thought that a StackOverflow for photographers would be a great resource... but not a business. Unfortunately, the StackExchange pricing assumes that you will be a revenue-generating because no one can justify $129/month on running a free resource.
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That's a problem with your OS and not with firefox then.
My fox sometimes updates itself multiple times a day, without any rebooting.
I think the archimedes link is that boats in the lock displace their own weight in water, this means you can have two different weights of boat yet the two chambers will still counterbalance exactly.
The irony is that that's not far from the reason that they were first conceptualized.

David Deutch is a proponent of the multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics and originally came up with the notion of quantum computing as an experiment that could ideally prove the truth of the multiverse interpretation by solving a problem large enough that it would not be tractable in one universe.
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Indeed, They want to add a 'computer' revenue stream, not convert 'television' users to 'computer' users.

That reasoning makes sense when you're thinking about a particular configuration, but that's changing. If my partner and I had a child right now, he/she would grow up having no idea what a television is, because there isn't one in the house.

Before this would be strange, limited only to hippies wanting to make a statement. But the three people in my house aren't morally opposed, all grew up with TVs, and I'm the only geek. We don't have a TV because it never occurred to any of us to buy one when we moved in together (it's only been brought up once). All content which we'd wish to see is available online, for free, most even legally. It doesn't seem odd, only a minority of my friends (mid-to-late 20s) have a TV, so if broadcasters want to keep their jobs they should probably figure something out quickly...

It should be mentioned that I'm living in Holland which has most programming available online (uitzendinggemist.nl). Many US programs are available via their own website (Daily Show, Colbert, etc), and we were watching Hulu until they became geographically impaired. Result: we watch something else or someone downloads it if it was 'important'.
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This article is guarded behind a user name and password.. any free version?
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I had a quick look at the source, I hope that qualifies me to answer your question :)

The page contains a list of tuples which contain word, time, and indentation level. The tweets are loaded in the background from the billietweets server. I don't know if the list is static or gets updated from time to time. The YouTube player is used to get the current play time and the right word is looked up from the word list. The highlighting of the word in the tweet is done with a regular expression. And yes, it uses jquery.

Edit: great, I craft an answer, just to see the question vanish.
The morals of this story: If you're that smart as Charles is, do this program in two weeks and move on. You'll get respect and raise, and get to solve more interesting problems.
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mdd - what did you use? could you give some insight about how you did the synch between lyrics/tune? I am guessing that there is no correlation, the video and lyric=tweet run in parallel. If you have more time, curious about your frameworks too. jquery,rails?

Sorry, I also saw the source, and figured out but was afraid of being down voted(it's almost like someone is swearing at you!). but your answer is much more than what i understood. I thought the author of this app could provide more details.
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No, the right word is translator. A compiler generally creates a form optimised for execution, like machine code or bytecodes. A translator creates source code files from other source code files.

The program the poster was referring to is actually a disassembler, taking Microsoft IL (assembly for the virtual machine) and converting it to a .Net language. So you might;

- compile C# to Microsoft IL
- decompile the IL back to IronPython
- use that as the basis of a CPython version.
I remember reading that the YouTube bandwidth costs cited in this article were way out of wack and beard no semblance to reality. Has anyone seen any updates on those figures? Are they, in fact, correct?
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I agree with the regulatory issues. Ripple is pretty cool though in that it may be able to fly under the regulatory scope for a while.

I gave a talk last week at the Reboot conference about the regulatory issues we face with financial innovation and how to solve them:

http://www.slideshare.net/pelleb/agile-banking
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"What's the user's interest in posting the information?"

It does raise an interesting point, especially given the timeframe in which the user kept trying to post that information, given it was occurring over a period of several months.

I'm purely speculating here, but I would suspect that said "anonymous" user in Florida might be getting a knock on his door from the DHS soon.
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Ok, double weirdness. Earlier I was seeing spikes in late 2007 for almost any query.

At first I thought it was confirming my theory because that's when the housing bubble was really popping. But it was also there for control words, including "the". So I reported a bug in their forum.

But now that's all gone. Either that was speedy corrective action or a transient problem.
If free is the future, why does Chris Anderson's book titled "Free" still cost $26.99? Considering the whole book is about making money by giving things away, I'm surprised he hasn't figured it out how to do this with his own book.

Also, I believe that the power of FREE is not about money. It's about avoiding the hassle of paying. It doesn't matter whether you're paying 10 dollars or 1 cent - the hassle factor is about the same in both cases. This makes a free product more than 1 cent cheaper than a 1 cent product.
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Some experts are not only in for the money - they enjoy helping the novice, the less experienced. They're not only in for answering only the most interesting "gems" - a true expert can give a much better answer to a newbie question than an intermediate developer.

Similarly, (most) university professors don't teach for getting rich or just fort the research - they enjoy overseeing and helping the youngest generations of their particular field.
That would be 6-8 weeks actually
I was wondering the same thing about the book price, it goes against what he is saying because the book is in his idea/ information type category.

I think if more of the net unified with a single payments company which was accepted just about everywhere, had low fees and as many ways to transfer money into and out of as possible.
It is very sadistic article. But the figure provided in these does not have valid references.
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There's nothing bizarre with it in my opinion - it's easy to understand, even for non-technical people, who are likely to make the decision at Big Enterprise whether to buy Plan A or Plan B. I don't see how a marketing decision such as this could give any insight into the efficiency and quality of their implementation of HTTP request handling.
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"How does that compare with the interest of others in keeping the reporter alive?"

A better question is: who decides whether a given person is important enough to qualify for suppression of information? This comment over at Metafilter makes a good point:

http://www.metafilter.com/82866/Is-this-proof-enough#2627732

"If I were kidnapped by the Taliban tomorrow all the pleading in the world from my family wouldn't get the newspapers to help hide it."
If the publisher gets the $26.99 that makes the book free from the author's point of view although I really doubt that Chris Anderson is not getting his share.
The lack of social skills leading one to contribute more often online sounds about true, in my case anyway. I used to post a lot more on BBSes (the old dial-up kind) and message boards during high school / pre-college when I suffered from some minor social awkwardness.

A bit off topic, but the comments on that page are hilarious. They would be trolls if posted anywhere else.
No, you haven't done you're homework. A google search doesn't quite cut it. I haven't read the cited document [1], but I am pretty confident that I remember this document being widely defunct as containing little solid evidence. The clue is in the language that your link uses. Look at question four and then back at question three:

4: Does exposure to secondhand smoke cause cancer?

Yes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), the U.S. Surgeon General, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen (cancer-causing agent)

3: Does secondhand smoke contain harmful chemicals?

Yes. Of the more than 4,000 chemicals that have been identified in secondhand tobacco smoke, at least 250 are known to be harmful, and 50 of these are known to cause cancer.

This is not _evidence_ that second hand smoking is dangerous to an individuals health. It is evidence that second hand smoke has the _potential_ to be dangerous to ones health as it contains chemicals that we know to be dangerous. It is the leap from that to legislating the behavior of the public, without a thought to stop at private smoking rooms, freedom of expression and the ability to choose not to associate with smokers.

Second hand smoke _probably_ is dangerous to health, but there is no hard evidence, just a line of reasoning that we all kind of agree with. I see that as a slippery slope. It won't be long before a line of reasoning tells us that fatty foods are dangerous to our health, so we are all to be put on rations, for the good of the nation! Then old age and mental stability are going to be a problem, bam, further medication to control our behavior. Our kids are out of control and roaming the streets!! Thank god the government is there to force feed the hoodie wearing little SOBs all kinds of prescription uppers and downers so we know they can have a normal life.

I don't want to troll the conversation into one only about the smoking ban - I was using it as an example of how government have already begun legislating behavior with arguable evidence [2]. Check out some of the laws concerning "extreme porn" for an even worse example of thought police.

[1] The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006.

[2] http://www.nycclash.com/Zion-Skeptic-Science_And_SHS.html

it's an anti-smoking ban site, but they seemed pretty well rounded. Still, as I said, I don't want to hijack the thread.
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>Those are orthogonal.

Nope.
No need, http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/ already exists.
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And what exactly is it, that technology changes social interaction?
He's actually quite magnanimous about Apple (though the opposite isn't true) - I've read a few nice comments about Apple from Bill Gates.

I guess he doesn't feel he needs to prove anything anymore (which doesn't seem to be the case of Steve Jobs...)
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As long as you know what you're getting into. ;) I don't disagree with your blog post generally, I just am not sure you'll get the sort of buy-in you want from companies you want. Doesn't mean you shouldn't try, and I'm glad you are.

I picked up Tom Peters' book, Re-Imagine. I'll check out the 80s works you cited, too.

I assume you've read The Cluetrain Manifesto?

Good luck!
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"Society has always been able to censor its members through culture and pressure to conform"

It's statements like this that I think show how grossly misunderstood this whole debate is. Society? how so? modern society? the global village? Always!? Impossible.
There is widespread belief that the human mind is pre-configured to attend to only a certain amount of individuals, and thus anthropologist believe that their was an upper limit on the size of human settlements for much of human evolution. There are still some tribes and groups that behave in such a way that I think shed's light on this issue. There are a group of Amish in USA that form communities no bigger than 124ish individuals (about the limit that psychologists believe we are capable of interacting with and knowing on the level we evolved to commune at). When the community exceeds this threshold, the population split and one group settle another village about a days travel away.
I'd be willing to speculate that this type of communal migration is what burst the human population from it's African homelands. Each time a community became to big to handle, whereby I think I mean the potential for dissent crosses a threshold, it was better for the community to split than for this dissent to fester. This type of behavior can also be seen in some of the great apes.

I would argue then, that Society has not ALWAYS had the ability to censor it's citizens, but that the myriad communities of humanity have aggregated into a whole much more massive than can be sustainable with the old paradigm of being able to leave and settle a new community. This is no longer possible, and only seems so through the creation of new mediums to populate with those few dissenting pioneers.
gov controlled dystopians and obtuse bureaucracies are often intertwined. for example, mindless obedience to tube in, tube out is a problem protagonists encounter time and again (Brazil, 1984, Anthem).
It would be cool if this worked with noticable speedup. I am skeptical though because people have been looking at async chips for a long time but there hasn't been a revolution.

The disadvantage of async chips is that subsystems become more complex (and slower) as they use latches instead of straight logic gates.
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I'll update here as I make progress:

http://code.google.com/p/hackerexchange/

I'm aware of the chinese solutions done in Django but after looking it over, I think I can do better.

I'll prolly write it in PHP too (gasp) so any n00b can basically rip it off and throw it unto shared hosting! ahh, gotta love opensource =)
The book is about things being free in the digital domain, so in the internet. Thus, a physical copy of the book is still allowed to cost some money, as the paper just does cost money. However, a good question would be: where is the free ebook?
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It's gone here too (I'm from Belgium). Edit: it's back again, but not if you look at the year 2007 specifically.

The regional differences in seasonal patterns are interresting, I think.

They all exihibit a major drop in the summer months. On top of that there's a 3 month periodicity in Australia and a 1.5 month periodicity in the UK. In the US, there's a drop mid november each year.

Are there English or Australian citizens around to explain what happens? I assume it's related to national holidays, but it would be nice to have a confirmation.