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I think we're actually approaching the problem from the wrong direction. For me, I don't want those features in iTunes because I feel that those features are hindered by being shoved into iTunes, not necessarily the other way around.

Examples:

* (As I stated in another thread): I wish the iTunes store was just on the web. Being inside of iTunes, I get a "web like" experience that is encumbered. I can't open multiple tabs, and this often drives me crazy. On Amazon.com, or any online store, I'm often given lots of suggestions, good suggestions. I like to open them up in lots of tabs and then read them one by one, or just keep them around until later. Can't do it on the iTunes store! Also, it is often difficult to get links to items. ALSO, why should I only be allowed to see the store essentially when at home on my iTunes? If it was on the web, I could browser, get the link, email it to myself, and make the purchase when I get home. If they want to force you to buy through iTunes, they could still make a custom URL that popped iTunes open just for the downloading portion.

* Movies and TV Shows. The management of these just kind of sucks on iTunes, and the reason is because this is MUSIC player, and music organization is very different to video organization. They are forced into this music metaphor which works well for songs, but not at all for videos. Had Apple integrated this into Quicktime or something else, it may have been much better.

More importantly, it sucks for playing videos. With other video players, I can full screen and not have my other screens go black. Can't do it on iTunes. Again, I believe this is a function of being a jack of all trades and a master of none.

* Preferences for EVERYTHING. There's all sorts of different preferences and options in iTunes and they're confusing because you're actually managing 7 programs, not 1. And even still, some prefs are left out (like the movie ones for example) because then it would be even more overwhelming.

I don't even want to get into the fact that iTunes even talks to xcode (!!!!) to do all the iPhone SDK stuff and all the headaches that brings.

Let's not kid ourselves, adding all this stuff into iTunes was not some sort of "design decision". Apple got iTunes onto enough computers, so now if they want them to see new Apple stuff they are going to put it in iTunes. Logical enough from a business perspective, but it sucks from a program perspective.
As a highly satisfied user of the smarty templating system, I want to refer you to this (from http://www.smarty.net/whyuse.php):

) Designers can't break application code. They can mess with the templates all they want, but the code stays intact. The code will be tighter, more secure and easier to maintain.

) Errors in the templates are confined to the Smartys error handling routines, making them as simple and intuitive as possible for the designer.

) With presentation on its own layer, designers can modify or completely redesign it from scratch, all without intervention from the programmer.

) Programmers aren't messing with templates. They can go about maintaining the application code, changing the way content is acquired, making new business rules, etc. without disturbing the presentation layer.

) Templates are a close representation of what the final output will be, which is an intuitive approach. Designers don't care how the content got to the template. If you have extraneous data in the template such as an SQL statement, this opens the risk of breaking application code by accidental deletion or alteration by the designer.

) You are not opening your server to the execution of arbitrary PHP code. Smarty has many security features built in so designers won't breach security, whether intentional or accidental. They can only do what they are confined to in the templates.
People haven't stopped using mainframes. In fact sales of mainframes have been growing at a very healthy clip.

That said, commodity hardware is a lot cheaper than niche hardware due to increased competition and economies of scale. So any problem that can reasonably be tackled on commodity hardware is generally cheaper to do so.

However not all problems are a good fit for commodity hardware. Mainframes win if you need reliability guarantees, and win again for sustained high volume IO. Commodity hardware doesn't keep up. Similarly there are computational problems that require a lot of IO and communication between the processing nodes. Supercomputers beat clusters of commodity hardware for those problems.

But if you've got a computational problem and it doesn't fall into one of those narrow categories, commodity hardware will be cheaper.
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That is an apt way to describe corporate programming. A friend suggested that it is more like "a slave talking about his new shovel" but let us be diplomatic here ;)
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would humanity benefit from 'free', clean energy?
No. I mean, I understand it just fine, I just hate the structure of it. Something about it causes revulsion, something that would probably go away if I actually sat down and learned lisp.
I think we're largely on the same page vis-a-vis the performance vs. ease of mutating tests tradeoff. In my personal workflow, tests are cheap, so throwing them away doesn't really bother me. The performance hit bothers me a little, as it would potentially cause problems for some people using my A/B testing library. If your performance needs tolerate a read on every render of an A/B tested element and a write for every unique visitor seeing an A/B tested element, though, mazel tov, your way should work swimmingly.

For folks interested in weighting without the database: you can do unequal weights with the modulo method, too. Imagine if you had five choices as follows: [A, A, B, B, B]. This array can get computed once from an arbitrarily simple (or complex) representation in your program, and then cached somewhere where accessing it is very fast. (I stick it in Memcached.) Thus you get all the weights with none of the calories. You don't get trivial re-weighting, though.
What if as Julian Jaynes says consciousness is a social creation rather than a biological one? Machine social interaction would be tremendously different and could be incapable of sustaining consciousness.
Actually I've heard that it was good email etiquette to include a link in the first paragraph where applicable. It allows the reader evaluate the product/service on their own, then come back for the sales pitch.
Very cool article!

I've dabbled with Flex a bit, but never thought of using it with facebook. Although, a problem (perhaps just due to my
inexperience with Flex) was to keep my code object oriented and to be able to separate it easily into modules...
The submitted link forgot the 'l' in cloud. Here's the actual link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/rsscloud-vs-pubsubhubbu...

The article itself is worth a read. The only thing that bugs me is that the author, and a lot of other people covering this story, don't mention that RSSCloud doesn't support Atom at all (or more accurately it does in theory but not in practice). I think that's pretty significant.
If you serve PDFs with public URLs that Google can GET, you can use this in your web app.
When you end up with flow-control, and other such complicated constructs, inside your templates, either the designers are already smart enough to "modify or completely redesign it from scratch, all without intervention from the programmer", or the programmer will need to be "messing with templates" anyway, to help the designers fix their logic errors, which no amount of abstraction will help overcome.

The problems solved by Smarty could be solved simply with a single try-catch block around the rendering-kickoff logic (that forwards to a nice 500 error page if something happens), and a convention to not do any business-layer stuff within the templates. [Also, source control + a dev/testing server to deploy on so "break[ing] application code" isn't a concern, but this should really, really not need to be mentioned.] This is exactly what I've done on any [non-framework] PHP project I've touched, and no one has ever complained that it was hard to edit the views.
Some things a machine will never be able to:

- spontaneously ask itself where it is coming from

- spontaneously ask itself what it will become after its own
destruction

- having spontaneous thoughts

- having free will

Why do I say spontaneous? Because our thoughts aren't coming from our mind, but from our soul (that is, from the principle of life, which is invisible by nature).

Come on, these are all obvious things; humans, don't believe blindly in science, science is not a religion(!).

A machine could (in theory) more or less be similar to animals, though.
This sounds bazaar. So its not possible to access the audio in and out in android? It is 2am and I should be sleeping so maybe I read it wrong.

Android was on my to try list but this is a showstopper. Thanks for saving me some time.
How is he getting IPs just from knowing his FB and Tumblr accounts?
I think he is talking about it being risky to assume that the undocumented cross-site embedding is a feature Google is committed to supporting in the coming years and not, say, a wee unintended data leak that any engineer in their megacorp could plug at any time, including smack-dab in the middle of your public launch.
I agree with jakecarpenter, leave out the URL plug - interested parties can Google. I'd also drop the "Briefly," from the front end, it weakens the whole phrase. The actual length of the pitch speaks for its own brevity.
Just to be clear: a huge amount of this stuff isn't really in CSS3. A lot of it (most of it?) is custom-built Webkit stuff.

I'd been curious about why each release of Webkit added more of these obscure features. Now we know.
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Quick Googling suggests that http://vuzit.com/ would work.

You might also be able to hack Thindoc in such a way that it worked for your purpose.
Reading that gave me this strange feeling that I was being watched somehow. Our company is undergoing alot system changes at the moment and I see almost all of those examples daily.. pretty sad really.
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Clojure is a JVM-based Lisp that represents lists as 64-ary trees.)

This is awesome and I had no idea!
I hope somebody makes a Firefox addon which lets me right-click on a PDF link and select "Preview" using the Google previewer.
All valid points, which I agree may be helpful for some although, again they only serve as abstractions.

) Errors in the templates are confined to the Smartys error handling routines, making them as simple and intuitive as possible for the designer.

- Ok, but this is an abstracted error message, when the designer could simply learn to work with PHP error messages.

) Programmers aren't messing with templates. They can go about maintaining the application code, changing the way content is acquired, making new business rules, etc. without disturbing the presentation layer.

- If you are using an MVC design pattern programmers will rarely need to mess with templates anyway.

) You are not opening your server to the execution of arbitrary PHP code. Smarty has many security features built in so designers won't breach security, whether intentional or accidental. They can only do what they are confined to in the templates.

- I thought it was possible to execute abritrary PHP code by using the {php} template tags?

I suppose at the end of the day you use what feels most natural for you and what your designers find easiest (or are familiar with). It's totally up to personal preference. For me it has always felt like too much of an abstraction to be worth utilising.
Registered just so I could post it. Thanks for giving me the excuse.

If you're on Windows / OS X (and even under Linux, the Windows utility has a Gold rating in wine), I'd recommend the Airport Express: http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/specs.html

(The reason I mention the OSes is that it's got a software utility for configuration - doesn't have a web interface in the unit)

802.11n (and a,b,g too), out-of-the-box WDS, pretty rock-solid little boxes, Ethernet jack on each if you need to extend wired. Not much bigger than a power supply.

I've got 3 at my house for exactly the reasons you posted and routinely stream media from the upstairs AP through WDS to the downstairs unit or torrent with 200+ sustained TCP connections (and high turnover/churn) - it doesn't even bat an eye.

$99 USD a unit. A little pricier than your average home wifi router but well worth it (and if you're on Windows or OS X, you can stream music from iTunes to individual APs' audio out jacks or share printers from them as well). Highly recommend them.

Edit: And for those recommending dd-wrt / openwrt for WDS - don't you believe it. The people using it aren't putting any decent loads on it. I tried it (within this last year) before going all Airport Express. Too many issues with random reboots in the APs - the firmware stability on those projects isn't even remotely close to the Airports.
I'm going to parody. Can they threaten to remove sites from their index if you don't write "I love Google" on the top of every webpage? Can they threaten to remove your site if you do not ban the bingbot? I think we would agree that would be abuse of power.

If they want to remove sites from their index because those sites are no good for their index, etc. ..Fine. But, if they remove sites for reasons other than 'We don't want these sites in the index or in the SERPS,' that is a problem. In this case, I am arguing that they don't want to remove those sites from their index. They want those sites to comply with their nofollow policies. I don't even have much a problem with these policies. I have a problem with Google being able to set policies and enforce them directly with the threat of removal from the index. It is almost equivalent to the threat of removal from the web entirely due to the way people use the internet and Google's role in that. Many sites get more traffic from searchers Googling the name of a site then direct traffic.
I used to create playlists for everything, but I realized that I was compensating with synthetic metadata for the lack of natural metadata attached to my files. By actually making use of the secondary ID3 tags (Genre, Rating, Kind, Play Count, Skip Count, Compilation?, Disc Number, and other such fields), and making sure they all have correct values, I find that I never have to make playlists, only fulltext-search-then-sort (which iTunes is very good at.) I say this as someone with 28000 listened songs :)
You often come across odd stuff like this in machinery. The usual reason is that it made fabrication (or access for repair) easier. Engineering is all about tradeoffs, the "right" design is just one of them.
I'm really not surprised. I was really suspicious of their claims that they could both legitimize the site and and still keep the users and traffic.

I also didn't really get how the buyer both convinced Peter Sunde and the other founders to sell and convince big media to sign a deal. I really doubt the founders would support someone who was seriously willing to work with big media.
Check out Dave McClure's advice on the pitch if you haven't already:

http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2009/08/your-solution-is...
interested parties can Google.

Interested parties have better things to do with their time than fix the bugs you introduced into your own elevator pitch. Lack of a prominent call to action is a bug, not a feature.

Give them a link front and center. (I would personally link to a specially prepared landing page, not the front page. If they've demonstrated enough interest to click then they just might be interested in stepping through a brief guided tour.)
The key is that it's nothing new to the SEO community, but it's plenty new to many small businesses and startup founders.
It sounds like you're looking for window.navigator.registerContentHandler:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.navigator.registerContentHandler

...except a website can only register themselves as a content-handler. You could probably hack up a bookmarklet to do it, if you can't find an XSS vector, but I can't seem to make it work myself.
3. Fulltext-search applies to every column, even the not-so-often-filled-out ones. Try mentally reading "Genre" as "Tags"—works perfectly, both practically and semiotically, even when creating playlists. For example, I think I have a few songs from DDR in my library; their genre is "Dance Game Soundtrack". A few from some old japanese equivalent to MP3.com are Genre'd "Indie Asian-language Pop".
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rabidsnail was probably talking about a "formal definition" not a short description in a dictionary. The key to artificial intelligence is to develop a mathematical model of intelligence/consciousness. Something like "An intelligent being is a 5-tuple ..." With this model we can calculate intelligent responses/development and a Turing machine can calculate. Therefore one can implement an AI on a computer.

If there is no such model or we can't find it for some reason we won't develop an AI.
At some point, someone will import those giant rats into the civilised world. That'll be fun..
I've only skimmed the arc code, but there is a list of exceptions for domains. The major blogs are on this list.

OK, I checked:

(= long-domains* '("blogspot" "wordpress" "livejournal" "blogs" "typepad"
"weebly" "blog-city"
; "sampasite" "multiply" "wetpaint" ; let's just try banning
"eurekster" "blogsome" "edogo" "blog" "com"))
If consciousness is computable then it is also computable by a Turing machine and a computer. Consciousness is computable, if there is a formal model. The core question is thus: Can we find a formal model of consciousness (aka intelligence)?

So far AI research only managed to create sub-models for special tasks (ELIZA, Deep Blue, Google, ...).
I'm totally calling PETA.
Have you seen Steve Jobs? I'm pretty sure he can levitate. :)
Try winamp. Loved it. Still do so. It's simple and the search feature is good (and fast)!
So... close...

It'd be easy to make a greasemonkey-style extension that calls this on *, but it wouldn't work for links to other domains (which I'd bet are the majority of PDF links)
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I wrote this comment while not working on my projects.

Basically I made a career out of the stuff I do while not working on my projects. I did SEO for a while but I preferred to do blogging and social media in the meantime and now I do far more of it officially.
iTunes has basically become "Stuff-that-can-be-synched-to-an-iPhone Manager." It could be broken down with little effort—Quicktime Player would get the movie/TV store; iPhoto would get the menu for synching photos; Software Update would get the App Store (and hopefully make it a Mac App Store in the process, because that's really not that much more work), and a new "iDentity" app would be created to handle all the other crap (because I use Gmail's web interface, not Mail.app, but want my Notes synced anyway, goshdarnit. Or they could just make a free reduced-capability version of MobileMe.)

The only thing that's stopping them from doing this is that, right now, you only need to download one thing in order to use an iPod or iPhone on Windows, and that one thing is completely owned as part of the Apple experience. After the conversion, you'd need quite a few more apps, some of which, due to just working through APIs, could usurped by badly-written, no-UX-consideration-given preinstallware that would give Apple a bad name (I can just imagine the "Dell App Store client"—oh, how Apple would rage at that.)
"Discovered via a TechCrunch employee who has asked to remain anonymous."
And it has a link to the employee's twitter page. You gotto love TC humor.
I have coffee.
But I don't want to right-click -- adding bloat to the chrome is entirely the wrong way to go about doing this, but unfortunately Mozilla has a bug up their ass and won't let you do it right as an extension.

The right way is to register application/pdf in the browser -- which you can only really do with a native-compiled NPAPI plugin. It looks like it is possible to package them inside a extension xpi, but I'm not sure if addons.mozilla.org will distribute such things.
About those economic forces - I'm betting on games to get there first. With Creatures and Sims there have been already two examples that the public is absolutely keen on getting software that features lifelike behaviour. And the wide distribution of games also means that games can get access to a lot of distributed processing power beating even supercomputers. Also game AI programmers are probably the one with the most practical experience because they have actually to produce stuff that works.
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A little research reveals:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioTr... -- supports both streaming and static playback modes, interfaced by writing bytes

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioRe... -- interfaced by reading bytes.

Specifically for telephony, does one need something else?

If you want to make a phone call, you can ask the device to dial a number. If it's possible to be in a phone call and, for example, record it by reading the same samples using this AudioRecord API, I don't know. There is an app called CallRecorder ($3.99) which claims to be able to record both incoming and outgoing calls, so it seems possible.
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Very true. I'm hoping that once the RSSCloud/PuSH thing starts being iterated on, everyone will latch onto that for broadcasting out anything at all, and "Pushed Notifications" will become a system-level service as obvious and integral to the modern desktop experience as automatic updating (which could then be based on it, I suppose!)
But it didn't do this before -- you used to have to explicitly upload the files to a Google Docs account.

Someone explicitly added this feature, and I imagine that it will replace the lame "View as HTML" links on SERPs very soon. This ain't going away.
Crap - don't know how that happened. I've reposted the article with the correct link if you care to thumb that one up instead.
Yes, presentation does a fantastic job of explaining A/B testing in most eloquent manner. Thanks for putting up that presentation, Ben!
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Flip the levitating device upside down and put it above the mouse? That would be my guess :)
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The problem with the each month aspect is that we have obviously had months that were extremely busy and others that were quite tame. Is that intellectually dishonest then, or not?
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Dave hammers the 'tell me the problem' side. Does this pitch do that?

EDIT: patio's rewrite seems to nail the problem side pretty hard.
That doesn't mean it can't be used to achieve a goal.

Selectively breeding cows for increased milk production allows evolution to find a way or ways of making that happen. The breeder doesn't need to worry about hormones or glands. Evolution doesn't need to worry about the breeder's motives, why are only the high milk producers producing offspring?