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"Well, at least this President isn't having people tortured."

He just gave the people who sanctioned the torture a free pass, instead.

I've said it before, Obama is the New Bush!

Or a Chicano guy sitting up in the mountains of New Mexico, with 10 year old $50 wire frames, drinking piñon coffee that's $3 lb, who hasn't had a hair cut in 10 years, lookin' at pictures of chicks with boobs (nsfw).

"No other phones have this problem"?

Riiiight. Then why do ALL of their manuals tell you NOT to hold it certain ways which decrease signal strength?

http://dontholditwrong.tumblr.com/

If Apple put the 'death grip' in their manual, would everyone be ok with that?

Coming up with a brain fart doesn't prove your point. The ISP is not some magical black hole that has ability to change server logs and make you invisible. Do you really think The Terrorists(TM) will be able to have some magical internet anonymity if they just pay a different ISP? I think the following link will clear this up for you....

The invisible internet

How do magnets work?

HTH. HAND.

BS! It's the leprechauns, dancing on the spot, spinning around and joining hands! It's leprechauns, I tell you!

How do magnets work?

HTH. HAND.

People have done some nifty things with trailer and container houses...

http://www.greendiary.com/entry/20-amazing-homes-made-from-shipping-containers/
http://26.media.tumblr.com/9cyPFQbgCnxj7a2aELgniTn8o1_500.jpg
http://renaissanceronin.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/shipping-container-treehouse.jpg (OK, OK, it's just a CGI :P )

I've been leaning more toward things like FlatPack houses, since the shipping effort is much lower per sq ft.

If all helium balloons float to the sun, where does the sun fly off to?

http://6.media.tumblr.com/2w9XXXqFFr30xxuk3tVBOuxMo1_400.jpg

A few days ago my buddy emailed me with some infographic about "how few" solar panels it would take to power the entire planet. Now this. I'll agree there's money to be made in Solar, and it's green(ish), but has anyone else noticed just a huge marketing push in the last few weeks for solar? I guess it makes more sense to market solar energy during the summer (in the northern hemisphere) but why now? It's convenient that the BP oil spill is happening now, but this sort of thing takes lots of perpetration, time and money. I'm guessing it's in response to the Cape Wind project finally being approved? Anyone have any more info on why NOW they're doing such a large marketing push for solar? Is wind that big of a threat to solar?
 
It's interesting that they're doing this in Spain, where wind support is popular and has long had government support, with several large installations already.

Better yet, see Seth Godin's piece from last August: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/not-so-good-at-math.html (and the math - http://charliepark.tumblr.com/post/169016492/in-seth-godins-post-this-morning-he-talks-about & http://www.onpreinit.com/2009/08/mpg-illusion-seth-godin.html)

Way to fail by not RTFA'ing.

http://attepicfail.tumblr.com/

From his blog: "Many people have been saying ‘well we don’t have the whole story, where’s the first email’?"

So apparently, I was completely right, and he's now remedied the oversight.

Way to fail by not RTFA'ing.

http://attepicfail.tumblr.com/

I did read the original emails and the guy complains about the (1) increase in AT&T's cancellation fee, (2) the change in AT&T's data plan fee and structure, (3) the lack of tethering. Other than the guy having an iPhone and an iPad, this is more a story about AT&T. Other than the iPad part, the guy could have been complaining about his Blackberry and it would have been the same.

> Even Ubuntu is probably changing to Chronium and dropping Firefox

Only for the Netbook Remix, and even there it's only an idea. According to Jorge Castro "The switch to Chromium has only been identified as possible choice on the Ubuntu Netbook Edition." and "WE LOVE FIREFOX. Mozilla is one of our most important upstreams and we will continue to work with them as we have in the past."

this pie chart also shows clearly the difference between the proportion of votes and the proportion of seats. charting-uk-20100506-election-votes-and-seats. (I made this pie chart using BBC data and google charts)

Go f yourself! Separate the porn from the art on this blog. I dare you to find another person who agree with you in 100% in a blinded test.

Wow, talk about needing a "-1, factually incorrect" moderation option. Check out http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/257187093/pie-guy if you have an iPhone or iPod touch (not sure about iPad, and if you're on a desktop, at least you can watch a video of it). I'm only posting this one example because I see there are already other replies with additional examples.

Also, check this out: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/mobile_demos_fp10.1/popup18.html It's a Flash game being played on a touch device. But look how simple it is! It's just a very basic tower defense game that can be played with just taps. No fast and accurate mousing or keyboarding needed. Even if Flash were working 100% on mobile devices, most current games wouldn't work ANYWAY!

I know this thread is about HTML5 versus Flash, not WIMP versus touch UIs, but it's related because this is where the world is going. Once upon a time there were relatively few computers--mainframes and such--and when they went to desktops, the number of computers in use grew by several orders of magnitude. Now everyone in the world who wants a desktop or laptop has one, and we're moving away from general-purpose computers to more limited computer-based devices and the number of users will again grow greatly. You say "Show me an even remotely decent HTML5-based game on par with a remotely decent Flash-based game" and I'll say "Show me a 'remotely decent Flash-based game' that's playable on a touchscreen device in the first place."

Speaking of mobile devices... Smartbooks have failed to materialise due to delays in Flash optimisation [emphasis mine], a lower-than-expected uptake of Linux on netbooks, and the sudden emergence of tablets, ARM's marketing chief has said.

"I think one reason is to do with software maturity. We've seen things like Adobe slip -- we'd originally scheduled for something like 2009." ARM and Adobe signed a partnership in late 2008 that was intended to see Flash Player 10 and Air -- both rich web platforms -- optimised for ARM-based systems. That work is only likely to come to fruition in the second half of this year, when an optimised version of Flash comes out for Android smartphones.

All this whining is killing me. It's completely possible. Using one such example Pie Guy. Games can be created and loaded into the iwhatever without the apple store.

If Adobe wants to cater to these people, they need to just alter what their development tools do. Instead of whining about being weaseled out they should adopt their tools to the new standard.

I mean, have you ever heard a hardware company complaining about adopting to metric standards???

I don't develop. I hack, and I mean that in the non-hollywood fashion of - I rip out little peices of code I see and duct tape them together into something I like. As someone who primarily deals in IT, that works great for me. I'm an awesome, albeit, young administrator still learning tons but I know half of this field involves manning up and finding a way.

If you don't wanna find a way, play your old game by you old rules.

I'm sick of it.

There's Tumblr, Jaiku, LiveJournal, 4chan...

Or alternatively, you could do your own research.

It is good, but it is even better in GIMP, where it has been for years known as the Resynthesizer plugin.

http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-aware-fill-unbelievable

I can't comment on Maya (maybe it's worse, I dunno), but Adobe's current set of projects are pretty damned horrible.

Take a look at this blog (not mine): http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/ Even ignoring the stuff that plain does not work at all (the majority of the Fireworks entries), there are tons of extremely obvious errors in the UI.

Did they test against this?

I agree that out of the box, Safari has its limits, but FYI, a lot of what you want is actually achievable, though it requires some hacking.

To create a locally-stored home page (items 1 and 3) just write an HTML page and create a data: bookmarklet. Once you're looking at a DATA: page, you can add that to your homescreen and you can even access it with no network connection. By adding JavaScript and local storage you can make a pretty damn cool app with this. References:
http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/
http://www.iphonealley.com/things-we-like/glyphboard-reinvents-the-webapp-on-iphone
http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/257187093/pie-guy

View Source is solved with a javascript bookmarklet. Check out the #1 Google match for "iphone view source"

Basically, bookmarklets kick all kinds of ass.
http://www.lifeclever.com/17-powerful-bookmarklets-for-your-iphone/
Google for more.

And "History" can be accessed (AFAIK) by going Bookmarks -> History. iPhone has had this since Day 1, I don't have an iPad but I'm pretty sure it's there.

Guess what, you are actually right. I always thought you wouldn't but i looked it up. The dictionary says:

      steal [steel] Show IPA ,verb,stole, stolen, stealing, noun:
      –verb (used with object)
      1.
      to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
      2.
      to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
      3.
      to take, get, or win insidiously, surreptitiously, subtly, or by chance: He stole my girlfriend.

The second one "to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc) without right or acknowledgment" seems to fit the bill for what is happening in copyright infringement
For the non-english speaking people around here:

      appropriate [adj. uh-proh-pree-it; v. uh-proh-pree-eyt] Show IPA adjective, verb,-ated, -ating.
      –adjective
      1.
      suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
      2.
      belonging to or peculiar to a person; proper: Each played his appropriate part.
      –verb (used with object)
      3.
      to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use: The legislature appropriated funds for the university.
      4.
      to take to or for oneself; take possession of.

And some other thing where does the article mention stealing. TFA only says stealing in the sentence "users can steal or borrow another's IP address"
and again one time in the comments.

But i have to say in my personal opinion it's a grey area. If i download a movie i wasn't planning on buying or watch at the theater who is losing money?

And what if i still watch the movie at the theater with some friends anyway, i do that sometimes cause the experience is more than watching the movie
when going with a friend. Only that is already worth paying for. And at the theater the experience of watching a movie is better than on my 17.3" laptop screen
with crappy sound. I also download movies to watch a couple of scenes and see if the movie is worth paying for in the theater. Because really, the trailers don't
say a damn thing.

Or what if i buy the DVD like the GP says and still download the MKV because the DVD has no subtitles.

I don't think the real problem is the copyright infringers ('pirating; is stealing shit at high seas, http://xelipe.tumblr.com/post/47807318/file-sharing-is-not-piracy-piracy-is-stealing)
it's the movie industry that neglected to make use of a new medium and stuck to their own ass-minded little distribution channel while the world is
screaming for something else.

There are certainly counter-arguments.

Laymen have no real place in them. If you have design experts, trust them or fire them.

If you are not a design expert, resist the urge to micromanage design experts. That way crappy blink-laden web page design lies (for example).

A relevant link: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

Another relevant link: http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/

That just reminded me of xkcd explained over and over and over again.

Every time I read a story about how Obama is continuing a Bush administration policy, or extending and exceding it, I post it to http://obamaisthenewbush.tumblr.com/

Having kept this up, on and off, for the last 6 months some patterns definitely appear. The Justice Department is seriously entrenched in covering its ass, cracking down hard on individual freedoms and privacy, and almost always falling on the side of big business.

I'm not disappointed because I believed all the pablum about "Change" and "Hope," but because Obama was a frickin' law professor. He should know better!

I'm just not sure that we can change out of a car-based city design now that we've had so much money, as you point out, invested into it.

Well I would not claim that this is a quick and easy problem to fix. The first thing is recognizing that our current way of dealing with things is not ideal, is not the only solution, and is not even the best solution. The next step is deciding which direction to go, which long-term goals to set. After that, you worry about what the next steps are that you can take toward that goal.

So I'm not even worried yet about trying to convince you that we should spend $X over the next Y years to build public transportation. I'm just trying to convince you that "everyone owns their own car" is actually not a very good model for transportation infrastructure, and that building public transportation is not inherently foolish, evil, or communist. If you agree with me that far, then I'm happy.

...I asked the students what it would take to get them to take public transportation instead of using their cars...

Meh... college kids aren't necessarily the most wise people to be asking these things. They think they're indestructible, they often aren't very aware of other ways of living, and they think cars are cool. Take away their parents' money and give them a viable public transportation system; their hands will be less cold and dead as they hand over the keys to the car.

Uh, no. Tea Baggers was a term that Rachel Maddow / Keith Olberman and such came up for them.

Early on in the whole thing, I saw news footage of teabaggers talking about "tea bagging" Congressman, having "tea bagging parties", and referring to the "tea bagging movement" and "tea bagging parties". Maybe they didn't refer to themselves specifically as "teabaggers", but they certainly brought it on themselves.

It was only after they realized what the slang meant that they tried to blame the media for giving them the name. Some of them still talk about "tea bagging" people.

I haven't seen any racism in the movement.

I'm not saying it's representitive of the "movement" in general, but it's in there: image and image. I've seen worse, including signs that reference having a ["n" word] in the white house, advocating killing Obama, and claiming that Obama hates white people, but didn't see them in my hasty search.

Essentially, it seems to me that what started as a Libertarian movement has been co-opted by the paranoid wing of the Republican party. Now apparently Sarah Palin and Glen Beck have positioned themselves as central figures in the teabagging movement. Yeah, I'm going to keep calling them that until they get reasonable. Of all the crappy stuff that our government does, these people are really most upset about providing health care and building infrastructure? Really?

Your comment appears to imply that iPod Touch has no worthwhile single-player RPGs. The authors of this article and this article beg to differ. True, they aren't Pokemon or Zelda, but PSP doesn't have those titles either.

If you want to get a feeling of Chatroulette without "exposing" yourself (or getting exposed to some pretty shocking imagery) you might want to check out this blog:

http://chatroulette.tumblr.com/

He's been collecting dozens (hundreds) of screencaptures that people have been e-mailing him. While you'll still see some disturbing things at least you'll know this isn't happening to YOU, LIVE and hopefully the lack of immediacy will dull the shock a bit. If you can take that, then by all means take the plunge!

(I'm too chicken and have not). By the way, I got this link from TechCrunch, so just wanted to give them credit.

and stability is not one complaint I've heard

Really? No beachballs of death at least? Anyway, for all I know you're just cropping images all day. My students are typically doing work that acquaints them with more advanced features -- even if they're not totally necessary -- so perhaps that's where the difference comes in.

In fact, some of my illustrator friends have a bad habit of not saving often. Why Murphy's Law hasn't taught them a lesson about that I"ll never know.

So it's just your illustrator friends who have stability problems? :-) Anyway, those following this thread might be interested in reading Adobe UI Gripes. The comments after this blog post are also pretty instructional, I think. :-)

Apple has produced some real bombs in the past. They are a company composed of people like any other and people make mistakes. They WILL fuck up sometimes.

I could add a few more recent products to that list, the cube being one, and Apple TV looking like another.

The Apple TV is a complete waste of space... unless you turn it into a usable media center http://mrcolinsappletvguide.tumblr.com/ I can only imagine that the patching process hasnt yet been blocked by apple (even in the most recent firmware) as it is only people hacking this system that are buying it.

"sexy but geeky" -- there are plenty of examples on the web of this occurrance. (NSFW: http://fuckyeahgeekgirls.tumblr.com/

They did improve the battery usage in their own software - they don't allow multitasking. Agree or disagree with the choice, but it certainly means that the battery life is improved. And I have to agree with the parent - the iPad is an appliance. It's not a computer. Sure, it may have computer insides, but it's more like a router, or a digital guitar amplifier - something that's turned on and expected to do its job with little to no configuration necessary. More to Mark Pilgrim's point, though, I think the difference is that when he learned computers, they were still new inventions. Now, kids are graduating high school that didn't know the world before the internet. Most of them are not fascinated by the inner workings. I think this post hits the nail on the head: http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been

you don't happen to be one of them, do you?

IF you can truly restrict access.

Which is by definition physically impossible.

Otherwise you're just giving more reason to pirate the format.

Stop drinking their kool-aid. This has nothing to do with stealing shit on the high seas.

Do you even realize how fucked up that mindset is, that you bought into?
Their system? You fuckin’ bought it! You own it!
Pirating? Do I have to explain this again? http://7.media.tumblr.com/4nZBASoSAd79pgh9yEG2ZCPi_500.png

What you describe, is is physical reality, described like this:
You bought a computer in form of a game console, but then noticed that the designer employed some tricks to keep you from doing certain things whit it, despite you having payed and owning the device. Which of course did only hold for so long, until you were able to break it open. Because physical access > root access.
Then you would copy some data / ideas (in this case, games), which are NOT physical goods, from someone. Which is a normal thing that is a basis of human civilization.
But some fucked up retard asshole douchebag would argue that you did hurt him with it. Which of course is physically impossible. His reasoning would stem from the deliberate misunderstanding of physics of treating data / ideas as physical goods, and the resulting the staight out lie, that this means that you would have taken it away from someone and not even giving something back.
On top of that he built his whole fucked up business model, where he tried to sell not the service of creating that data, but the data itself. Which only worked at all, because he noticed that there were a lot of idiots who would actually pay for that, and cave in to his sick delusions.
And because he happens to have tricked artists into adhesion contracts to offer this “service” to them, he now thinks he “owns” this “goods” (the games).

The worst thing of that all, is not the delusional idiot with the fucked up business model. It’s that he gets trough with it, because people like you not only let him, but even use his wording and mindset, and therewith actively support him.

I know you are more intelligent that that.
I know that after all the daily brainwashing in the media, one gets so used to it, that one starts to think that way oneself.
I know that you don’t really believe in that shit, and rather agree with me.
I know that one can forget that one is in that mindset, because of being so used to it.
So I thought I’d wake you up, so you could become yourself again.

Times New Roman looks really good to my eye.
This is my Xcode setup:
http://vectorvector.tumblr.com/post/339810337/proportional-font-programming
(I link to the downloadable .xccolortheme file)

Worst to my eye: Monaco and Arial.

The terrorists were manufactured.

The public is persistent and scrappy, and they refuse to let up. More information keeps cropping up and the threads keep expanding and the picture gets more and more clear. So any beliefs one might have settled on last year or three years ago or earlier based on the available information and spin at the time always need to be updated. That's the way of knowledge; Love it or lie to yourself, (and pretend that Popular Mechanics isn't run by cherry-picking true-believers of God and Country). Anyway, this latest has been put through the crucible since November of last year. . .

Pilots for 9/11 Truth has reported that the data stream from the flight data recorder (FDR) for American Airlines flight 77, which allegedly struck the Pentagon on 9/11, shows that the cockpit door never opened during the entire 90 minute flight. The data was provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which has refused to comment.

The FDR is one of two "black boxes" in every commercial airliner, which are used after accidents to help determine the cause of a crash. One black box records flight data, the other records voice data (everything said in the cockpit during the flight). With those two sets of data, NTSB investigators can usually piece together the events that led to a crash. The status of the door to the cockpit is checked every four seconds throughout a flight and relayed as a simple 0 or 1, where 0=closed and 1=open, with approximately 1,300 door status checks performed during AA77's 90 minute flight. Every one of those door status checks shows as a 0, indicating that the door to the cockpit never opened during the entire flight.

Reg: http://rockcreekfreepress.tumblr.com/post/285492999/flt77fdr

The forum at "Pilots for 9-11 Truth" is worth lurking in if you want to understand how the flight data recorder info has been examined and what juicy details it has revealed. (Basically, that the government story is complete horsepoop.)

So this whole question of so-called "terrorism" is really a big, bad and messy joke.

-FL

I am seriously dating myself here. I've always wanted the computer book used by Penny from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. I always thought that was the ideal form factor for a PDA/computer. The closest thing I ever found was the HP-28 calculator, but that's been out of production for over a decade. Now finally! we are getting it.

Dating yourself as what, over 25?

I am seriously dating myself here. I've always wanted the computer book used by Penny from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. I always thought that was the ideal form factor for a PDA/computer. The closest thing I ever found was the HP-28 calculator, but that's been out of production for over a decade. Now finally! we are getting it.

Dating yourself as what, over 25?

I am seriously dating myself here. I've always wanted the computer book used by Penny from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. I always thought that was the ideal form factor for a PDA/computer. The closest thing I ever found was the HP-28 calculator, but that's been out of production for over a decade. Now finally! we are getting it.

I am seriously dating myself here. I've always wanted the computer book used by Penny from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. I always thought that was the ideal form factor for a PDA/computer. The closest thing I ever found was the HP-28 calculator, but that's been out of production for over a decade. Now finally! we are getting it.

http://7.media.tumblr.com/4nZBASoSAd79pgh9yEG2ZCPi_500.png

Piracy is stealing stuff on the high seas!

Might not quite be there yet, but it's well on its way.

From the abominable performance/security of the Flash player to the ever-increasing bloat of Photoshop, Adobe's users are pretty much fed up with the company.

At one point, it would have been heresy to criticize Photoshop. Now the design community is practically screaming for a replacement. (It's twice as bad if you're a mac user. Nobody's quite sure what prompted the Apple/Adobe divorce, but it's been ugly)

Clients From Hell seems like a relevant link to add here...

You wouldn't download a car!

Someone did the translation: Opinión angloparlante de la polemica ley de internet.

The summary is misleading. The original source of all this hubbub is http://stellarola.tumblr.com/post/225234492/10-6-2-kills-atom-and-other-news....

Of course this is at the bottom of the page. It's the first useful post all the way down.