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Droplet: An Arduino-based wireless display (e.g. weather, twitter, news)
Patriot Scientific acquires Chuck Moore's patents including shboom
While all of those things bug me to some degree, it irritates me that people still mention them with regard to anti-trust action. The only place where anti trust action could conceivably start to apply to apple is in the MP3 player space, and even that's open to debate.
Do you work at Apple? Do you know how decisions are made instead Apple HQ?
the word they ad are invisible or visible? If visible where do they put it? in tags? description?
Alarmists, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaccination nutjobs.
That should be Ramsay, not Ramsey.
"Editors are meant to be customized to your workflow and what works best for you."

Sure, but if you do it too soon, all tutorials and howtos will be a pain to follow.

Comfort is important. How are you using your F1-F12 keys?

Also, if you have a whole bunch of bindings you may want to use a 24-function-key keyboard for IBM's (like http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/images/122hc.gif or http://www.nlynx.co.uk/products/keyboard.aspx) or a Sun Type-7 Unix lay-out (the one with special keys for your left pinky) may help.
Wow... Better hold on to that one very carefully.

That's one of the nicest computers there ever was to start learning on. The lowest barrier to entry and some of the best books.

My 'growth path' was KIM-1, TRS-80 pocket, then the bigger trs stuff, then an english color computer clone called the Dragon 32, then a beeb, Atari ST and from then on IBM pc's.

At some point a company that I was partner in also had a PDP 11 but we did not do too much with it because of the power requirements, that was my first unix experience.
This is more general than what you want but if you haven't read pg's 'why smart people have bad ideas' it's well worth it.
http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html
I'm always tired of the "it's not censorship if it's not the government" argument, because that's not any sensible definition of the word "censorship". I would argue that Apple does censor what is available at the App Store, just as Wal-Mart and the music labels censor the music that's available for sale there by having to sell the "clean" version, or that a newspaper censors itself or indeed its letters to the editor if it refuses to publish things that are uncomplimentary to its business partners or the government. Likewise, the "standards and practices" division at a TV network is universally known as "the censors" among writers and producers, probably because they're the ones that tell you what parts of the script you can't air.

All of this is censorship. What it isn't is a violation of anyone's legal rights to freedom of expression.
I tried keeping a notebook for a while (as many of the other replies have said), but I found that it was awkward because either the book would be too big to keep easily in my pocket, or it was so small that writing in it would go through 10s of pages easily, which was then a huge pain to read later.

So what I do now is keep 5-10 pieces of normal 8.5" X 11" paper with me, folded into quarters. I put the date and time on the top-right corner of a page when I start writing on it. This makes it easy to figure out the order of pages later, as well as separate out into different projects.
Let me put that in one page for you - makes multipage articles one page
Some background information, Shboom was a very advanced chip in its time, iirc the first one to execute a high level language directly. There are some questions about the value of the patents on this chip because it is very well possible that it could invalidate some of SUNs patents on their java processors.

With trivial modifications the Shboom will run java bytecode directly.

Maybe this is a prelude to patriotscientific going after Oracle? The timing is certainly nice. And patriot scientific has a bit of a 'history'.
This is like a political theory intelligence test.

Does Apple have a monopoly that is preventing free and open trade? Perhaps. If so, government has a role to provide an open, honest shot for smartphone developers (and more so for end-consumers) This is because monopolies distort markets, which hurts everybody. But it's important to realize that for 99.9% of cases, having control over your platform, sales, and marketing channels is a good thing for everybody involved.

Should government enforce food labeling? Sure thing, because folks can't make an honest determination of what they're buying unless the contents are clearly labeled. This is back to the free and open market idea.

Should government step in anytime somebody (even a majority) think something is "unfair"? Not so much. People think all kinds of things are fair or unfair, and such distinctions are very emotional.

The key question is whether or not the iPhone is distorting the free and open market for smartphone apps. I think we have a long way to go before we cross that line. Right now it's more a matter of Apple doing wonderfuly well and holding their cards close as to what they want to allow on their platform. But there are a lot of choices out there for app developers and consumers. And the worse Apple acts, the more the market will punish it.

I'm a developer who's thinking about writing some smartphone apps. With all the publicity, I've decided that the iPhone platform isn't for me. Over time, if enough developers feel the same way, there'll be more apps not on the platform than on it. Apple has to be smart enough to see this as a problem, so I think things will be self-correcting.
A lot of retailers do engage in censorship, i.e. Wal-Mart and music. What else do you call it when I go to Wal-Mart, and they have mostly the same CD I can buy at Hastings except with all the bad words removed?
Visualizing Sorting Algorithms
Too big, too fast.
> So if we accept the actions needed for the public to make Apple change are not things that will ever happen

But see, I don't accept that premise. For one thing, the CEO of Google just quit the Apple board, which I read as a little more than just "Too many meetings I can't take part of." For another thing, people aren't blindly loyal (except to themselves, perhaps). A mac wasn't the first computer you ever bought. An iPhone wasn't the first phone you ever made calls on. You woke up one day and decided to purchase one or both. Tomorrow you can wake up and decide to buy into another platform.

Sure, there's some friction. But that is largely for good reason. GV or no, the iPhone is better by and large than most other phones. Macs are (in some people's view, anyway) by and large better than most other computers. If they cease to become as good (or if their competitors become better), Apple will lose business. It's the same as anybody else.

> As a society are we willing to just accept this injustice?"

This is the wrong question. First of all, what's happened is not an "injustice". It might be meanspirited and in bad faith, but injustice is what happens when people are denied their rights.
And "we" as "society" are not in the position to decide anything, except whether or not we want an iPhone, and whether or not we want to develop for it. Two years ago the app store didn't exist, nobody put apps on their phones. Now, everybody seems to think it's a god-given right and it has to be run a certain way. There's absolutely nothing illegal about what Apple's doing.

The government can't (and shouldn't) dictate the way it's run any more than they can dictate the plot of a Harry Potter book. Wildly popular, prosperous to many, contentious, and ultimately the product of someone's mind.

Besides, how would you do it? There's no breach of contract; developers sign a document that says that Apple can reject apps for any reason (all the rejections that I've seen actually point to a reason in the contract, which is not, technically speaking, required). The FCC's jurisdiction might extend to protecting jailbreakers, but not what software Apple allows in their own store (and certainly not to iPod Touches). I suppose Congress could increase the breathtakingly-wide interstate commerce clause, but 70% of the apps are free, which I think would give even the most expansionist observer pause. Plus you have to ponder what random nonsense would end up in the bill.

No, if there's anything to be done, Apple has to see enough pressure to change. With Google and Apple in divorce proceedings, it would be perfectly reasonable to stop serving map tiles when the contract's up. Already you see the signs: Latitude can't be a native app, GV can't be a native app, how much ad revenue does Google get from serving Youtube to phones again? That relationship's going to get sour fast.
I sometimes wonder how I would have turned out had my family not immigrated to Canada. You take a corrupt place where ethics don't quite exist, mix in an aptitude for technology and tremendous social pressure to "make it" (much more than in north america) and I can see myself in their shoes.
I saw that video a year or two ago, and it changed my life. You can also use mexican sour cream (more liquid than the usual sour cream) in lieu of creme al fresce.
Fred Wilson: Doubling down (in VC/PE)
Meh. You want quality writing? Sit down at the same time every day, seven days a week, and write continuously for two hours. It doesn't matter if you're inspired or uninspired. There are a few gifted people who can dash off a sonnet whenever the muse strikes, but the rest of us need practise, practise, practise. It's the same if you want to be a great pianist. You have to play every day. You have to play through the boredom and the blahs because it's only after your technique becomes effortless - essentially disappearing - that inspiration can truly be released.
The best part is they're paying $300 a pop for what is probably ground-up chicken bones, or some such. Love it!
Design first, then code.
The biggest problem with this meme, that 37 signals seem to be a champion for, is that the kind of problems that hackers have are also pretty easily solved by the same kind of people. And so the hacker problem space is often over-run by others and open source software. A recent case in point: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=740789

But take patio11's company, which solves a problem that none of us probably thought existed, the bingo card creator. Suddenly you have a nice big audience for a fairly simple program, but because it's the kind of problem that hacker community never comes into contact with it's nice and profitable.

So I'd be careful on following this advice unless you're a truly amazing hacker (e.g. afaik 37signal's guy wrote the rails part of ruby on rails). The bar is much higher in the hacker problem space and has to be because in the end, the 'I could write that in a weekend' syndrome often prevails :)
So does the iphone finally have PuTTY now, or is Symbian still the only one?
Works now for what it is worth:

Hacker News | If microsoft and yahoo are much worse than google ...
... doesn't return results in google: conquistador monkey bakery laughter confusion fear hatred love citizen kane mantra manhatten mongrel montell carebear ...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750236 - 10 hours ago - Similar -
There's been quite a bit of controversy over some of these studies and how they measure the level of consumption and whether what you describe as an increase is just a "link"/correlation versus causation: e.g. http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsID.1210/news_detail.asp - I think the "eat in moderation" idea applies here.
That is true. But google also got a lot of problems.

One of the biggest is spam. I hate it when you search for something and the site you get is just a listing of your search terms.
This has been around for a while and isn't really spammy, people have been using it to plaster blown up art on their dorm walls
This one hits home with me. I always looked up to Gordon Ramsay, read all of his books and watched every single episode of his TV shows.

I left the world of software for a year and half to chase after a restaurant dream and spent tons and tons of money on legal, design, consulting, architects etc. just to have the economy crash by the end of last summer in the middle of additional capital raising.

Put things on hold and came back to where I really belong; the world of software. Now I'm working on exciting startup projects. I can't help but wonder what would have happened if I actually managed to open the place.

There is a reason for everything. Maybe this was meant to be...
It's something of a misnomer to describe Linux as a major platform at that point.
I would personally have a giant problem with government intervention in a private matter. This is a market issue. If customers don't like how Apple is behaving, they are free to take their business elsewhere. If they don't, they are either offering a more compelling product than the other guys, or are serving the majority of their customers satisfactorily.

I can see the argument that developers for the App Store are akin to contractors for Apple, but I don't believe that's the case either.

If the developers really want government involvement, the first step WOULD NOT BE regulation, rather it should be arbitration. The slighted developers have the courtrooms available to them, and potentially have contract dispute claims they could file suit on. (I don't know, I don't develop for the iPhone at all.) If they don't, then they've obviously entered into a one-sided contract they shouldn't have, and shame on them. That said, there might also be a claim for that as well. One of the primary tenets for contract law is that there is mutual consideration -- a contract without mutual consideration can often be considered valueless on its face. I am uncertain whether or not the potential for profit by app store sales counts or not, honestly.
As usual, check Peter Norvig's article about what to look for in reports on research studies.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
ED: 11:35 google has it.
What people want is netbooks with good keyboards. The Workpad z50 was a joy to type on, the problem was that it only had 32mb of memory and ran windows ce. I want that with a modern cpu and more ram.
Billing by the hour is the only effective way I have found to eliminate scope creep. Being able to say "Well, sure, I CAN do that, but it's going to cost an additional 4-6 hours" is simply the easiest (and most well received) method of indicating that they are asking for something not initially agreed to.

Obviously, it helps to have a contract/requirements documentation/specification/etc., to point to, but it's rare that you run into a document detailed enough to cover nuances like whether or not this element should be blue or light blue after clicked upon.
So Steve "just makes" this personal music management software that everyone loves which is great, and then says oh wait, if you want to use it to sync with a portable music device you can only do it with our product.

They're different parts of the same integrated system. How many people download iTunes just to use it with their iPod or iPhone? If you'd rather have an open system that allows interoperability between tons of different devices made by tons of different companies, Apple's not for you.

* Somehow otherwise intelligent people magically dismiss the former as Jobs just exerting his right to dictate the terms on which you can use his products, while considering the latter massively anti-competitive behavior.*

The rules change when you have 95+% market share. But even then, the government really did nothing about IE integration, and the world didn't end. It turns out integrating IE in Windows 98 wasn't the death knell to competition in the browser market we thought it was.

Hmm, isn't WebKit integrated into Mac OS X so it can be used as a system-wide HTML rendering engine?
I carefully framed the world "disability" above to mean some disadvantage you were either born with or acquired very young, something that's fundamentally unfair or injust. You can't choose to be allergic, you can't work very hard and eventually overcome your allergies. Fate just struck you, and that's that.

I'm not sure I view 'information asymmetries' in the same light. Clearly some information (like passphrases or source code) are asymmetrical by design, and there's nothing fundamentally wrong with that. I'm "disabled" in the sense that I can't read SJ's e-mail; forcing him to open his inbox would probably be "leveling the playing field" for a lot of people, but none of this is unfairness or injustice. Quite the contrary, forcing his inbox open would be an injustice. Sure, there are cases when you're investigating something else and you need to, but there's warrants and process and all that. There's a fundamental understanding that it's very very bad and only if we absolutely have to.

Similarly, meddling in the app store, private property of apple, would be an injustice. Sure, I think it needs work; what apple's doing is meanspirited. But it's their sandbox, and they need to be the ones to clean up the mess. Boycotts, nonrenewing contracts, etc., all put legitimate pressure on a company, governments work with illegitimate pressure (which can be useful if something really really bad is happening. But that isn't this situation).
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Motorola VU20 is actually a UMTS / HSDPA 2100 phone with tri-band GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900. It has 2 megapixel camera and Micro SD upto 4GB expandable. Some credible features includes MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/OGG/AMR player, WMV/MP4 player, iTap.
No, And my reason is because of the switch to lead-free solders. Lead-free solders aren't anywhere near as reliable as lead-based solders. Marketing folks claim they are. Reliability engineers can demonstrate that they aren't.
"Annual revenue growth in the roughly $1.5 billion global restaurant industry is expected...."

Is this how small the industry is or is it a typo?
Make something YOU want. Hope you're "most people."
I don't care much for Arrington, but the UK has some real wacky libel laws
"You can use your hourly rate to estimate the fixed cost"

Only if you know how long it will take. Which assumes you know what you are going to build, which assumes the client really knows what they want.

If you are doing a more agile project, you expect new requirements to come up, current requirements to drop out, things to change along the way. But you almost certainly have no solid idea how long it might take.

A mixed approach might be to make a big project into a series of smaller projects (e.g., well-defined and doable in 1-2 weeks), and bill each at a fixed price.
Interesting.

He seems to make most of his money from TV deals. His massive restaurant empire took in 35 million pounds pre-recession, but profits were only about 1.5 million pounds.

On a totally different note, I'm disappointed that Gordon Ramsay doesn't follow in the footsteps of Jamie Oliver and Wolfgang Puck by advocating better standards in the meat industry. I think he still serves foie-gras- goose liver that gets engorged to 10x its normal size due to force feeding.
Google Moves Rejected Google Voice App Online
This is the first time I've heard of Cherokee. Has anyone used it and what do you think?

I recall reading that Apache is good for serving dynamic content and nginx is good for static. Where does Cherokee fit in?
Gladwell wrote an essay along similar lines: http://www.gladwell.com/2008/2008_05_12_a_air.html
In time, the market will self-correct if Apple behaves poorly enough. But I think it's important to remember that self-correction might take a long time.

We're dealing with platforms -- large systems to which people commit their data. We're also dealing with a two-faced community: developers and consumers. It's going to take a lot more than unfair developer treatment to get many people to switch away from iTunes.

Apple generally makes excellent products; combine that with the iTunes ecosystem to get a combo bonus. People aren't likely to switch to a platform they perceive as inferior; Apple won't drop the ball on creating good combinations of hardware and software any time soon. Even if a superior product arrives, consumers must commit to migrating their applications, data, music, etc.

It's going to take a lot more than a restrictive and unfair developer platform to get the market to correct itself. Look at the Windows Vista debacle: despite many unhappy consumers, I don't see a whole lot of people switching away for that reason alone. Anecdotally, the only time I see people switch away from Windows is when they're enticed by buying a Mac instead -- and they cite Apple's software more often than Windows's flaws.
But saying there is much we don't know, so therefore it's reasonable to conclude we know nothing

I'll remember not to say that next time. :)

Edit: By which I mean "That's not what I said."
I'm in the Boston area. I'd say just give me an e-mail, tell me what interests you, and what career direction you are looking to take. I like meeting random people and stirring up conversations about what they're intensely passionate about.

Every Monday night Asgard's Irish Pub has 10 cent wing night.
Forgot to mention, just add @yahoo.com or @gmail.com to my userid.
XML's only real advantage over JSON, imho, is it's human readability.

While there may be cases where this is true, I've never encountered any and I find this difficult to believe without some specific examples.
I would be for government intervention, but your reasoning I see as flawed. It is hypocritical.

If you believe Apple should be required to list its requirements for applications, then you should also believe that governments should be required to list their requirements for corporations.

That is all.
That's why as skill increases, the hourly rate should, too. If a company is looking to get something done faster and are willing to pay for it, they can hire the more skilled/faster professional. If that's less important to them, they hire the slower and/or sloppier but cheaper alternatives. You have to be willing to increase your rates if you're getting better/faster.

If you're an employee, that's why you should be able to expect raises and bonuses and the like. The assumption is that you're getting better and better at what you do and therefore becoming more implicitly valuable. If you feel yourself getting more and more skilled but the company refuses to reward you, you should leave for someone else who values that skill - which is basically the same thing as raising your hourly rates if you're independent.
I have bad memories of my Sharp MZ-700. The problem? For one, the display wasn't bitmapped, it had a fixed character display with just 2 256-letter fonts. Any game had to make good use of these fonts - like Angband.

Further, there were virtually no games for it.

When I got a Commodore 64 for my birthday, I was very glad to ditch the Sharp and enjoy a REAL computer.
Wireless ?
So he's been writing for how long? And just now he's learning the pitfalls of off-the-record covered in Journalism 101?
Yes, the information is received by the Arduino without a physical connection to a computer. It's still connected to power though.
Parking is a good idea. Which company would you recommend? I've never done this before.
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Absolutely. These things take a long time to work themselves out.

There's also a case to be made, which is made by every monopoly, that having a single player actually advances things in the public interest. In other words, by having Apple control so much, the future of smartphones in general is actually advanced much farther than if they didn't. I don't buy this argument as a general rule, but parts of it do seem to make sense. After all, getting 40 individual players to agree on a standard is a lot harder than getting one company to do so.

Perhaps the natural state of the technology industry is to slowly swing between monopolies and openness. During times of monopolies, de facto standards get adopted and interfaces stabilized. During times of openness, innovation rules and paradigm changes are made.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, just that it looks like a pattern might be setting up.