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I can't speak to Apple's intentions but it is what makes iOS fundamentally different to Android. It could be related to product marketing. People buy iPads for fundamentally different use cases than buying a phone (even a large one).

Edit: Because I am being downvoted so heavily for this let me be clear. I don't agree with what Apple did only trying to explain it. I would imagine that Apple never expected to be releasing phones and tablets that are so close in physical size to each other.
They could if they were willing to leave the CS chauvinism behind. There are plenty of non-CS engineers, mathematicians, scientists and even non-STEM liberal arts majors who are not just capable, but competent or very competent computer programmers and software developers.

Granted the concentration is likely to be higher in the Valley, but it's not that much higher. Then there is the argument that "if you build it, they will come."
> As with the Philippines, I think the USA is the main deterrent to Chinese aggression. And these days it's a pretty shaky deterrent.

You must be kidding. The US military power is like 50 times what the Chinese can hope to come up with during a conflict. Even in 2014, if China were to try to take on the Pacific, they would be squashed like a mosquito if the US was to be involved. And believe me, they would be involved.
"Apple has clearly put a lot more thought into how interactions on a device like this should work"

What's interesting to me is the extent to which the Apple Watch is designed to be interacted with, which contrasts strongly with Google's vision of wearables (both Android Wear and Glass) as assistants that are there when you need them, but which otherwise disappear so you can stay immersed in life.
as far as i'm concerned, anyone who dismisses sapphire crystal on a watch as some kind of useless feature isn't to be taken seriously about watches, smart or otherwise.
Does ARM have any say in this standardization?
Pretty sure we go through this every year. People are 'disappointed' by Apple product announcements, people have a whinge about Tim Cook, then they turn out to be fairly successful and well received.
This also highlights why client side mods (Forge based or not) are the vast minority of 'Modded Minecraft'.

Configuring a Bukkit server would still have taken some work, but it also only required that to be expended on the server side.

Players would be able to connect with a purely vanilla client and benefit from the enhanced interactions and gameplay mechanics that could be handled on the server side only. This attracts thousands more people than fiddling with launchers, or worse, .jar files.
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> Japan may not officially have nuclear weapons, but they do not lack the capability - if they decided to weaponize (which would never happen short of a Chinese existential threat), they could do so in a matters of days, not months - the nuclear knowhow is clearly there.

You don't make nuclear weapons in days. Unless you have no idea what you are talking about. Weapon grade uranium takes months to produce. Why do you think Iran has been trying for so long to make such material ?
Any public writer would have most likely been discovered already. People are fairly easy to identify by their use of language if you have access to any reasonable body of their work. I presume that people have at least expended this level of effort to attempt to find him or eliminate particular candidates.
One of the reasons I went with AMD processors and mobo chipsets for my non-laptop system (and recommend them for anyone who's not concerned about performance per watt) is because AMD doesn't segment the market by processor features.

You choose based on power budget, thermal budget, and presence of on-die graphics. Regardless of how you choose, all processors in a given generation (back to at least the Phenom series and associated mobo chipsets) have ECC support, virtualization support, and whatever other fancy features were slapped in in that generation.
And of course the one thing we've heard over and over for the past few years from Apple is "teenagers don't wear watches". Presumably one could also add, "teenagers don't have a grand in cash to spend on a phone/watch combo" as well.

I think the logical conclusion to draw here is that there was an elaborate "Trading Spaces" style bet in the Apple executive ranks on who could get Tim Cook onstage doing the most ridiculous product demo. Kudos to whoever won that one.
Exactly the opposite seems to be true. Uber had a presence in the keynote today with a way to ride without ever creating a login, which should enable lot more people to use the service. If you thought that the advantage Uber had was mostly was in minimizing payment friction, that would be pretty wrong.
The original iPhone was thick also when it came out. Wait till the 2nd revision.

I agree the price for the low end version is off but the high end versions I expect to be in the 1k-2k range.
Ok, ok; bad phrasing on my part. I meant that with Apple's branding around affordable luxury and challenging the status quo, a round screen would most definitely have been a talking point for this product and a differentiator from everything else on the market.

That said, I've since been reminded about the Moto360 which _did_ have a round screen, so my point is moot anyway.
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Is it possible to do 23andMe pseudonymously? Mail them a money order and use a temp email address? I would never volunteer a dna sample like that clearly tied to my SSN.

I have always assumed that the airport scanners are also collecting biometrics on everyone for video identification purposes and for that reason I try to avoid them.
He's potentially worth a _lot_ of money and could have a heavy hand in swaying the bitcoin market for the worse if he wanted to.... or if someone else was somehow able to force his hand
Also, they are simply "more"...

At least here in Germany.
I remember reading tweets from an Australian that moved to the US (to work for Apple as it happens) commenting on the banking system maybe 2 or 3 years ago:

Basically his experience was:

- Cheques were still reasonably common, to the point that some bank(s) had mobile apps to scan a cheque to deposit it!

- "Bill payments" through a bank usually involved bank staff literally preparing a cheque on your behalf, and mailing it to the biller

As for your comment about "person to person is Paypal" - ok and what if I actually care about what happens to the money, rather than it randomly being held by some non-bank? Do US banks really not have a standard way to transfer money to another individual electronically?

In Australia all that's needed are BSB number (Bank-State-Branch, a unique identifier for each individual branch through the country) and Account number. Transfers could take up to a day or two, the last time I tracked it

In Thailand, there is a similar system where money can be transferred directly to an account belonging to someone else (or your own account at another bank). So far it has always been instant transfer.

Both of these systems are available via internet banking, mobile apps and in Australia, phone banking (not sure about Thailand, promo material isn't always in English)

I remember a few years ago a client in the US apologising for an incorrect wire transfer to me, as he'd given the teller the wrong amount (swapped a 5 and a 2 or something). I was stunned to think that the founder of a tech startup would not be using internet banking to make wire transfers to contractors, but after reading about the cheque situation it occurred to me that maybe he didn't have the choice.. can anyone confirm deny this is available?
It works well in practice depending entirely upon your goals - and depending entirely on your never ever comparing it to ANY other possible solution to the problem.
Bukkit's dead now anyway. The entire development team decided to call it quits due to legal uncertainty and general exhaustion, then Mojang announced that they weren't allowed to do that because Bukkit was actually owned by Mojang and had a special deal which meant there were no legal issues, contradicting what they'd told people who asked privately. Then one of the main developers got pissed about the fact that he'd been secretly working for Mojang for free and used the DMCA to kill the whole thing off - something he could do because his code, and all of Bukkit, was licensed under the GPL and using it for modding Minecraft was a GPL violation(!). This didn't stop Mojang from arguing that he had no legal right to do so, though. They're really keen on the whole free labour thing.
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That is simply not true. Do you have any data to back that up?

Other than what I have seen written on it I don't have any hard numbers, but what would mojang be doing with all the money if they had it? I don't think mojang is stockpiling cash.

Nitpick, but Minecraft doesn't make it on the top 10.

It's currently making over 100ml a year, not sure there are many other franchises that can pull that off. I mean total money of course it is smaller because it is only a few years old.
My experiences with btrfs over the past many years on my laptop and my desktop have been quite good.

I, for one, do want my FS to run on 32-bit systems and, don't want it to require gigs of RAM to get its work done. (My information may be out of date, as I stopped looking at ZFS once it became clear that btrfs was stable enough for the tasks that I was putting it to.)
Already done. Well, your first suggestion.

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang
http://www.minecraftstoryofmojang.com/

It was funded through Kickstarter.
Sure but mc is making over 100ml a year.
Agreed. I've been with many different email services, both free and paid, and GMX has never given me any impression as a secure service. It has too much of a side-project-run-by-some-web-hosting-company look and feel.

Anecdotal evidence, but there are lots of security-related complaints in a popular (albeit non-technical) review site:

http://email.about.com/u/reviews/gmxmail/Gmx-Mail-User-Revie...

http://email.about.com/u/reviews/gmxmail/Gmx-Mail-User-Revie...

I wouldn't be surprised if satoshi's account turns out to have been hacked years ago, and the culprits have been using it to buy expensive electronics with stolen credit cards. After all, the original pastebin said that the account details where already circulating in the black market. Only recently somebody might have realized that this was no ordinary hacked account.
I think Rene Descartes would take great issue with you.
> Second, anyone who thinks that the government in Iraq has been a puppet of the United States just isn't paying attention.

Please, educate me then.

> I get it, you don't like the United States

Never even said that. I don't like SOME of what the US does, but I think it's a great country in many other aspects. Thanks for the strawman, always appreciated in a discussion.

> It's been a really long time since the US annexed anything

There's real annexation and de facto annexation. There are several countries around the world which are tightly controlled by the US, either through diplomatic means, economic or military pressure. By the way, I did not mention the word "annexation" anywhere in my comment, so I'm not sure where it came from in the discussion.

> In this annexation = invasion world that you're inhabiting, you'd conclude that the United States wants to colonize the Middle East.

No, the US has no interest in colonizing the Middle East. They want to control it to ensure they have priority access to energetic means, and ensure than nobody else does (like China, Russia or other emerging powers). Energy is Power. It's obvious that most of the conflicts we see in the Middle East are linked with struggles to get access to large sources of Energy.

> We just want to buy their oil, aside from that we don't give a damn about them

Oh, I don't have the slight illusion that you care about locals there. Invasion is not motivated by "bringing democracy" to the world, this is just political bullshit, I don't think anyone believes in this anymore.
It's essential information when I'm smuggling rum, or planning my escape from lunatic asylums.
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When were you hitting these ENOSPC errors, and what kernel were you using when you hit them?

$ df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/dm-1 42G 41G 280M 100% /home
$ btrfs fi df .
Data, single: total=40.48GiB, used=40.21GiB
System, single: total=4.00MiB, used=12.00KiB
Metadata, single: total=1.01GiB, used=649.18MiB
$ uname -r
3.15.2-hardened

As you can see, I've been working with a pretty much full btrfs volume. It used to be TERRIBLE to deal with btrfs in such a situation, but I haven't had an ENOSPC issue in ages.
> I bet Bill Gates has a hard time finding enough qualified people to wisely manage the money he is giving away.

That's hardly surprising. Managing money is investing, and wise investment requires a lot of skills, market information, and connections. There's only so many good investors out there.
ISIS has been using government biometric databases at checkpoints to ID regime agents and execute them on the spot. They had seized facial recognition databases that were largely put together by Americans. When you wind up in these biometric databases you really can't be sure who is going to use it for what. It's not like the data is ever secure.
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Tasks: Outlook Tasks

I can not recommend Outlook Tasks enough. I'd used Outlook for years never giving this more than a cursory glance. A few months back our entire office was placed on an outlook training course. I went in thinking this would be a waste of a day, yes a whole day on Outlook! It was worth it and I came out a convert for some functionality i'd not explored properly, tasks being one. You have to spend the time to restructure the layouts (best thing is open task view next to the calendar and default to this view not email) and build categories. Then have the discipline to put things in tasks (Ctrl-shift-k). If in a team you can allocate them task too. The latter is great for me as I tend to pass on jobs, assume they will be done and then forget about them til I need it. This helps track these smaller easily forgotten tasks well. I'd really recommend giving it a go.

With OneNote, this is quite powerful but you have to take the time to structure & set it up. But once done it is super efficient to store loads of notes.

I realised I sound like a bit of a MS fan-boy, but I have tried loads of the usual suggestions and found these 2 products work really well together. But like most MS products it take a little learning/effort to get the benefit.
Not quite the same, but I am excited about Emacs adopting Git. I think that'll be a major boon to its development.
I found this really surprising too. Seemed quite out of character, really.
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Except when people want to believe something or have fear (of losing mass amounts of money) of something, they tend to act irrationally.

He wouldn't be able to convince myself of his identity without one of his private keys, but there are thousands of people who would have latched on, and then once those people start confirming the story it only convinces more people and so on, in a snowball effect.
For what it is worth, if you wish to keep up on this topic (and candidly, you will want to keep up with this topic), then an excellent resource is the mailing list for the International Society for Infectious Diseases, called PROMED. The stories posted there are relevant and the list is mainly read by epidemiologists and other relevant medical professionals. It is a good resource for reporters trying to keep track of the stories (The Economist, for example references PROMED quite often), and occasionally features some very insightful commentary from people who are the leaders in these fields. http://promedmail.org
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http://www.apple.com/watch/apple-watch-sport/
The good thing is that we all should benefit. I've had NFC on at least my last two phones (maybe 3?), but the hardware is not ubiquitous enough to matter. I'm assuming that there's nothing locking the POS hardware into Apple Pay, and so NFC payments become a thing everyone can use.
The developer had already posted the source code on GitHub back in March 16 2014 and has not pushed anything since. Somewhere between March and September he added Inspectlet, Google Analytics and Double Click to his local copy and uploaded it Chrome Web Store.

I came across this junk by chance. I needed a note-taking app. Simple as that. I became suspicious after I noticed the websocket connection to herokuapp.com — he's logging client IP ... no sh*t.
>Smart watches won't hold up for 5 years

This will be interesting to watch (sorry!) over the coming years.
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You don't think his email alone would be enough to at least bump the price? I bet if you sent emails to a few select journalists from an account known to belong to Satoshi, implying that you will begin offloading coins, you could easily cause the price to drop. I'm sure there are other ways too. Even if they thought to authenticate his identity, which many wouldn't, they would still write something up about it, and the speculation alone would have an effect.
You are entirely correct on both counts. The fact that we have been driven to madness by the horrible design of the web does not, in any way, mean that it's not still madness to do it.

The ultimate goal is to deliver functionality to users. Users don't give a damn what the platform is. They want application functionality which is as easy to access as typing an easy to remember name in an address bar. The means of achieving this goal taken by developers have been convoluted in the extreme. Each step has its own 'reasonable argument' defending the decision made, but it still adds up to madness.
It's quite deadly when you actually get it, but as far as I understand the transmission rate is not very high. That's why the death toll is not increasing at a faster rate. Yet it should be closely watched. It's definitely more worrying that any of the previous H1N1 media panics.
ECC might not cost as much as you think.
Here is a barebones ECC setup with 4GB of ram for $230.

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?Wish...
The GuileEmacs project probably.
I saw the sourceforge vandalism right after it happened.

Gregory Maxwell confirmed in irc he received multiple emails from satoshi's address. You can see that in #bitcoin-dev IRC logs online. [0]

As for the rest of it... That is a whole bunch of hearsay.

Edit: [0]: http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2014/09/09
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And even if you don't believe it, you still might sell your BTC, fearing that others will.
Agreed. This could be a win-win situation for both minecraft and MS. I have a short writeup here:

http://nothingjustworks.com/why-ms-would-want-minecraft-and-...
I'd like to know more about how it's powered. Didn't see anything on that. Seems like it's powered by proximity to that purple square.
The thing is money is the best drug known to man. One you get big numbers you never want it to stop. You just keep fighting for bigger and bigger numbers.
I'm sorry, it was just my opinion.

Could you please define innovation to us?

I also don't like beatification, but I know when something is good. The numbers of Apple talk by themselves.
I don't know how they do it, but if you drive by the Pentagon with a GPS unit you'll see it go crazy.
I don't know about that - my nexus 4 is only 1.6mm wider. I have larger than average hands and can't quite reach all four corners without repositioning my grip. My wife also has an n4, and she has to use it with both hands.

I'd be quite happy with an iPhone 5 form factor Android device.
They could probably do this pretty successfully following the tf2 model, where they bring in community contributions, but also pay the community contributors royalties.
I was hiking Mount Whitney a few weeks ago and by far the most spectacular site was the sky at night. Better than highest peak or the purest mountain lake, the sky was unlike anything I'd ever seen. Definitely worthy of planning a vacation around.
This sounds almost exactly like amorphous computing... but not. Was that bit just left out of the article? Is the intention that these chips will be used one-at-a-time and perform significant computation onboard rather than (as with amorphous computing) having computation be an emergent property of the internetworking of many such chips?
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Hardly, now everyone knows he has the satoshi's dox he's at more risk than satoshi of being kidnapped and tortured to get at satoshi bitcoin.
The "fork" link goes nowhere, FYI.
I bet Apple would've named it iPay if it weren't for the fact that iPay has already been taken by a ton of other payment-processing-related things.
Of course the next iteration will be better - but I am not sure about the OG iPhone comparison - the market for SmartWatches seems to be entirely different. Feels like a niche fashion or fitness accessory at that price point. People badly wanted a great SmartPhone. Watches they can live without I think until there is a compelling use case for average consumer.

Those things are all OK compared to what's happening with the overall market but what bugged me is how very un-Apple like this was.
on firefox maybe you should display a dummy webp image. Seems like FF doesn't support it yet, you should degrade gracefully in this case.
Did I just miss it or did they completely not even mention how many infants who are 'symptomatic' naturally grow out of these deficiencies without developing autism? Without knowledge of that number, and whether this represents a statistically significant improvement, the findings are completely meaningless and honestly quite dishonest.
Peter Dodds, the leader of the team in question, isn't a computational linguist. I just read his CV and he has zero publications in CL journals or proceedings, and his Ph.D. is in mathematics.
> Of course you can always just throw money away/at people, but it won't do any good. "Give a man a fish" vs. "teach a man to fish."

Yes, throwing fish at the poorest is the right thing to do. Malnourished children grow with diminished intellectual capacity. Then it is too late to teach them to fish.
I've always thought that most people "in the know" know that Nick Szabo (well the guy going under that name) had something to do with bitcoin in it's early days. If you read his blog from 1999 onward, I think you will come to the same conclusion. I think the whole "who is Satoshi Nakamoto" legend really masks a lot of the facts
> This didn't stop Mojang from arguing that he had no legal right to do so, though. They're really keen on the whole free labour thing.

My read on the situation is this:

0) Bukkit people reverse-engineer MC code. MC code is non-GPL'd.

1) Bukkit people release RE'd MC code under GPL.

In order for the Bukkit folks to be able to relicense their code, they would have had to add a couple of steps, and rewrite step one:

0.25) Bukkit folks write a spec from the RE'd MC code.

0.75) Bukkit folks hand that spec to an unrelated third party who then implements that spec without any other input from Bukkit.

1) That third party releases their work under the GPL.
Well if Microsoft gets the rights to it we all know what will likely happen: It will be made exclusive for the XBox. Maybe not immediately but eventually.
Things happen at Apple's Event. ;)
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Fuck yea, awesomium! I have been playing with that in VR on the rift!
Exactly. The comparison with BtrFS is not reasonable.