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I dunno, I think their last addition to the catalog was still better.

http://bigpicture.posterous.com/miss-tsa-2011-pinup-calendar

Looks like he's done it already. http://bweber.posterous.com/infinite-mario-ai-vs-my-level-generator

While Microsoft isn't making headlines in the consumer market, over the last decade they have pretty much caught up with or surpassed the competition in the business space (ex: Java, Oracle, PHP, Amazon EC2...). They have however recently started focusing on consumers again with Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7.

And while Apple's per quarter revenue is catching up with Microsoft, in terms of gross profit Microsoft still has about twice the margins that Apple does, which makes sense because software is cheap to produce and distribute. The research and development numbers show that Microsoft spends twice as much of their profits (8 times the total amount) that Apple does, which also makes sense because all Apple really does is find new suppliers with smaller/cheaper/better parts.

You mean like these videos?

Death grip on Droid X, EVO, Droid Incredible, Nexus One, Galaxy 1, G1, etc.

* Droid X: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-kFc..._with_droid_x/

* Samsung I9000 Galaxy S: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LROTHrTR92k

* HTC Evo Signal Attenuation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pj2YBYTbag

* Samsung Galaxy 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

* Samsung Galaxy 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPCQdYtPihg

* Droid Incredible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaDE941PzQk

* Droid Incredible (With Network Extender in Room): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpEQH...eature=related

* Nexus One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIA_lMwqJA

* Nexus One vs. iPhone (start at 1:29): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvMoV4_C4aA

* Nexus One: http://posterous.com/getfile/files.p...n_-_iPhone.m4v

* Nexus One (after Google's update to correct): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2g5J4qPp54

* Nexus One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCkjeHYT-g

* Android G1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CDaxhjUs9M

* "Major signal degradation when Nexus One is picked up" (N1 Thread on On this Problem): http://www.google.com/support/forum/...9184c33e&hl=en

These misquotes become memes. For example Bill gates never said 640K would be enough.

Just don't hold it that way then.

And here is the full score, so you can play it at home.

But it may not be that necessary if the statistics are large enough.

It's possible, though, that the statistics can never be "large enough". I remember seeing an article here about natural language speech recognition (oh, here it is) and about how many companies had hoped to continually feed more and more examples of language use into a computer and, through statistical analysis, be able to develop human-level speech recognition. The article indicated that these companies found a point after which additional examples didn't help. The statistical analysis (at least the methods being used) leveled off around 40% while human recognition was up around 95%.

Even when the statistical models included searching the rest of the sentence for context and calculating likely words, the recognition still failed. Part of the problem is wordplay-- sarcasm, puns, and unusual word usage. We use all kinds of contextual queues, and not just the word's context in the sentence, but things like facial expressions, tone of voice, and even an understanding of the speaker's personality. That's a lot of context for a computer to pick up on.

What's more, when people listen to another person talking, we basically try to draw out "what the other person is saying" and then use that knowledge to fill in any blanks. So if I use a really strange word choice when talking about my wife, another married guy might understand more quickly what I'm saying by relating to his own feelings about his own wife. Until a computer has a wife, that's a level of context which will be inaccessible.

(not everything I'm talking about in this post is in the article I cited)

The feds actively forced the banks to make loans to unqualified people using a typical carrot and stick approach. The stick was to threaten bringing them in for congressional hearings for bogus crap to make it impossible for them to do business. The carrot was to use Fannie and Freddie which are government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to buy all the known-bad debt from the banks.

Paul Krungman has been explaining since at least November 16, 2008, 5:36 pm. That the Fannie and Freddie (which are no longer GSEs but now 100% government owned through conservatorship) played only a small role in contributing to the Real Estate Bubble. He's linked to supporting evidence of this claim provided by Mark Thoma. He has also provided evidence that the Community Reinvestment Act played only a minor role as well. And he continues to provide more evidence this month.

He has even argued that the USA's federal government should continue to "keep Fannie and Freddie fully engaged in the mortgage-support business" as a form of quantitative easing, at least until the economy (as measured by the unemployment rate) continues operate below capacity.

If you are really interested in knowing about major contributor to the bubble in the Real Estate, Mortgage, and related Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) and Credit Defalt Swap (CDS) Markets, you should read up on Magnitar. I wish I had a clear answer on how to safeguard the non-participaing public from Magnitar-like problems. I'm sure it would have something to due with finanial regulation in the form of capital requirements, total leverage ratio limits and transparentcy in transactions for partisipants in CDO, CDS, and all other current and future financial markets.

How are you going to get the thing to print?

http://matrisciano.posterous.com/how-to-print-from-an-ipad-6

No, I'm imagining a situation where apple changes the underlying architecture of some a device (like they did with ppc to intel). The instance on xcode mirrors what happened back then. People that were properly using XCode and Mac APIs would find that with one click they could compile for intel and continue on their merry way. If you are bundling your own framework and translation libraries with every application, you would have to wait for that company to come out with a new build.

Lets imagine a world where Adobe and Novell (Monotouch) control 75% of the market and Apple comes out with firmware 5.0 with a bunch of new features. The adobe users would have to wait until Adobe gets around to releasing a new version. Novell would be waiting around until android catches up so it can again release for the lowest common denominator.

The lowest common denominator is what apple never wants to have its developers writing for. Apple believes they have the best product out there for user interface and design and sees this as its competitive edge over other mobile OSes. For its developers to write for that target means they will never have anything that is better than what other mobile OSes have.

I've been to the City Museum several times, and it is an incredible place. They have an aquarium, a pipe organ, caves, a circus school, a ten-story slide, a bank vault door, and a hall of insects, and that's just scratching the surface. Here is a collection of pictures I took: http://gcanyon.posterous.com/st-louis-is-amazing and a few more: http://gcanyon.posterous.com/more-pictures-from-the-city-museum-in-st-loui

It's definitely true that this place leans more towards fun than safe: if you don't have bruises, you haven't seen the museum. But common sense will keep you from most harm, a

I've been to the City Museum several times, and it is an incredible place. They have an aquarium, a pipe organ, caves, a circus school, a ten-story slide, a bank vault door, and a hall of insects, and that's just scratching the surface. Here is a collection of pictures I took: http://gcanyon.posterous.com/st-louis-is-amazing and a few more: http://gcanyon.posterous.com/more-pictures-from-the-city-museum-in-st-loui

It's definitely true that this place leans more towards fun than safe: if you don't have bruises, you haven't seen the museum. But common sense will keep you from most harm, a

This writer is just a total and utter wanker

Mod parent +1 insightful (not sarcastic) - All you have to do is read the comments on his post so far and they tell you that -

1. That he is rehashing someone else's ideas from a day earlier:
http://sachin.posterous.com/ie6-caused-the-web-to-mature-slower-than-it-w

2. That his central point is moot:
"They are not telling people to use Xcode, they are telling people they can only publish application 'originally written' in Objective C. This is quite different."

Having to find and download "free" software to do stuff MS users get with their machines, and then finding out it isn't quite the same, is a cost.

Things included with Windows generally come installed in Ubuntu.

The opposite is not true, however:

• Ubuntu comes with a browser, email client, multi-protocol instant messenger, office suite, graphics suite, screenshot program, scanner software, torrent software, and optical media burning software.
• Windows 7 comes with... a web browser. And a third of all Windows users actually replace that with Firefox et. al.

Not only is Ubuntu significantly easier to install than Windows, it's also ready to go for the most common use cases. Windows 7 requires a *lot* of extra configuration and installation to be useful for even basic functions.

Here's a summary, and here are the gory details.

I liked the one scene in Avatar where a scientist slides a finger across a 3D display to a mobile device to transfer over the viewable data.

Amen. That's exactly how a touch interface ought to work. Indeed, it's such a good idea that variations have already appeared in other films, including Quantum of Solace (2008) and even Minority Report (2002).

Yeah. Once the FCC gets its foot in door of regulating the internet, it will start embracing its new role in defining a better web. Oh, but wait, isn't the FCC more of a "central authority" than any ISP?!

Please keep government out of the internet. We will all have a better internet for it. All the comments and opinions above are important. But they should be voiced as customers, who are free to patron the ISPs that do the best job of meeting their expectations. When you start to involve the government, to try and force ISPs to provide a certain service, you are pretty much guaranteed to get un-intented side-effects. For one, ISPs will ramp up their lobbying effort, as that is the new game (instead of competing on the best product), which will continue to corrupt government.
Welcome to crony capitalism.

The real problem is the Indian Police. They will act for private vested interests. Greasing of palms happens all the time. There are middlemen who can link you up to corrupt Police officers if you are willing to play the game.

Indian Police "Cyber Crime" will do anything. They sent a Cease and Desist to have a cartoon taken down. The letter is here:
      http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?NoticeID=26127

Indian Police has a deal with Google by which Google supplies IP addresses of bloggers (if they use blogspot.com or Orkut) when Indian Police asks. No real justification is needed. The Police are ordinarily expected to investigate but they will just hand the IP address over to their "client". The blogger does not need to be in India, so be aware how big this hole can be. I know of private parties using Indian Police in this manner to obtain the IP addresses of a blogger in some other country and then launch an Anton Piller civil search order as part of a SLAPP suit. This is clearly a SLAPP situation, then we have a blogger resisting Anton Piller search.

The problem is that the Police have excessive powers in India and they abuse it without accountability. They have even killed unarmed men in custody so what to speak of shutting down a website ?

The Ruchika case is a recent one: Indian Police: Protectors or Perpetrators? by J.Srinivasan in which a powerful Police officer abused his powers to force a young girl to suicide; and this has taken 18 years to come to the court.

...and do your bank-business with this person via email or telephone.

And yes, you should keep notes of all the expenses you make with your credit-card and communicate this with your trusted person. A debit-card and ATM-machines work better, most of the times. (Mastercard or Visa). Use only ATM-machines in banks during office-hours.

If you want to be connected:
In most of the Latin countries you can get prepaid "Banda Hancha". Most of them work with a Huawei-modem.

"Keep in mind that many places have very poor bandwidth and latency."

I don't know what this has to do with security of your data.

It is also not my personal experience. (I live in rural South Chile). To get a new release of my OS takes 24 hours on broadband. If I go to the next village, I'm ready in an hour by hooking up my laptop to the Internet-Cafe infrastructure.

If you want to keep a blog, do it via http://www.posterous.com./ Blogging via email, perfect if you don't know when you will hook up to the Internet again. Of course you use an email-client.

Don't let them steal your netbook but realize it can happen.

Well, according to this Live Blog from someone who was at the event, and blogging during it, Gates did release some of the mosquitos...

-- Dave

Posterous works quite well for posting to a blog over email. And it can also auto-post to twitter, flickr and other places.

Have not tried it myself, but it gets "hyped" right now, it might be good: http://posterous.com/