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The key word in my comment? "IS"

Meaning it's current run rate is > 100M ipads per year. Meaning it's ramping upwards. Here's a graph of it for you.
http://twitter.yfrog.com/g0781qp
And here's one for cumulative growth.
http://twitter.yfrog.com/mn3oebp

As of Dec 31, 2012, total sales were 121 M. So lets see where they are on Dec 31, 2013.

The key word in my comment? "IS"

Meaning it's current run rate is > 100M ipads per year. Meaning it's ramping upwards. Here's a graph of it for you.
http://twitter.yfrog.com/g0781qp
And here's one for cumulative growth.
http://twitter.yfrog.com/mn3oebp

As of Dec 31, 2012, total sales were 121 M. So lets see where they are on Dec 31, 2013.

Uptake being higher WAS EXACTLY MY POINT you gamerloser. Apple sold 23M iPads last quarter. Did Nintendo ever sell that many devices in any one year?

http://twitter.yfrog.com/mn3oebp

Exactly how long until iOS (if you want to compare all devices) reaches 760M?
A year at most.

But, yeah, headshot or something. Spend another hour 'researching' more numbers.

The only thing that really seems to matter to Apple's share price (because Wall Street can't seem to value it any other way) is cash.

Basically, AAPL = 5x cash.

http://yfrog.com/ese58hp

I guess this is what happens when your design language is about typography instead of about... you know... actually doing stuff.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/827/pzquote.jpg/

http://yfrog.com/4rkingsizefraudtebowj

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/idiocyakbar.jpg/

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9931/newidiocyjesus.jpg

What about a nice infographic to make you go, "Hmmm...."

Rubbish, during these riots we've had only one reported death, the damage has mostly been been to property and wealth which really can be replaced. Taking up a weapon on your own only makes you a target for the criminals trying to take your property. The lesson I've taken from these riots is that were a community can organise itself in numbers it can protect itself and send a powerful message of defiance.

So they show: http://a.yfrog.com/img614/4012/cg4eai.jpg and then they're running Tor and uTorrent, I wonder what Torrents they're downloading whilst using Paint to put in big red arrows on an IRC chat? I wonder what the burning coliseum icon is?

That's basically what makes them "leaders of Anonymous", according to the police. Supposedly one of them ran an IRC server at home and the three were IRC operators. That's all. There's even a hilarious police screenshot featuring an IRC client and three huge red arrows. Because everyone knows that huge red arrows means they're the Bad Guys.

They're blaming some of the playstation store DDoS attacks on them (which Anonymous did take responsibility for), as well as DDoSing the SGAE (spanish RIAA) and some government websites as a response to recent legislation and social unrest. None of this has nothing to do with the PSN breach, it was just the usual Anonymous DDoS modus operandi.

New IRC server up in three, two, ... oh, wait, they probably set one up within minutes, certainly before Slashdot managed to pick up the story.

All of this seems to be a useless operation just so they can claim that they got *someone* for some of the DDoS attacks on government sites. Even the police knows this isn't going to stop anything, they're just making it look like some big breakthrough to appease the "victims" of the attacks.

They're charging them with a violation that could get them one to three years in prison. So, for now they're free (you don't get preventative imprisonment for that kind of charge), and I'd say there's a pretty good chance they'll end up dropping the charges due to lack of evidence.

Now can we please start profiling airline passengers and dispense with this nonsense?

http://yfrog.com/gzlb9nkj

It's not ordinary consumers who are buying these things. It's speculative scalpers.

There's a guy at the back exit of the store who has a stack of iPads. One of his friends (or possibly a student he's hired for a rumoured ~$2/hour) lines up at the front, goes in, buys two iPads, and drops it to the guy at the back who adds it to his pile. At about 1pm on Friday (first day of sale) I estimate this guy had at least 30 stacked up in two neat piles. His friends/hires then go back to the front, queue up again, buys another two and drops them to him at the back door.

It's not just one guy, however, there are dozens of people around Sanlitun Village (the shopping centre in Beijing that houses the Apple store) with stacks of iPads and white iPhones trying to flog them off at a higher price than the Apple Store. They've probably got their stock in the way that I've described above; and of course they only have a market if either a) Apple is out of stock or b) Noone can get into the Apple Store.

So the reason for all the queuing is not that the iPad2 is ridiculously popular with ordinary consumers; it's that it's ridiculously popular with scalpers who are trying to buy up all the stock, prevent people from buying it from Apple, and make people buy it from them instead at an inflated price.

http://yfrog.com/gy4b8xaj --Scalpers hoard stock for sale
http://yfrog.com/gzisfwbj --Scalper selling stock

It's not ordinary consumers who are buying these things. It's speculative scalpers.

There's a guy at the back exit of the store who has a stack of iPads. One of his friends (or possibly a student he's hired for a rumoured ~$2/hour) lines up at the front, goes in, buys two iPads, and drops it to the guy at the back who adds it to his pile. At about 1pm on Friday (first day of sale) I estimate this guy had at least 30 stacked up in two neat piles. His friends/hires then go back to the front, queue up again, buys another two and drops them to him at the back door.

It's not just one guy, however, there are dozens of people around Sanlitun Village (the shopping centre in Beijing that houses the Apple store) with stacks of iPads and white iPhones trying to flog them off at a higher price than the Apple Store. They've probably got their stock in the way that I've described above; and of course they only have a market if either a) Apple is out of stock or b) Noone can get into the Apple Store.

So the reason for all the queuing is not that the iPad2 is ridiculously popular with ordinary consumers; it's that it's ridiculously popular with scalpers who are trying to buy up all the stock, prevent people from buying it from Apple, and make people buy it from them instead at an inflated price.

http://yfrog.com/gy4b8xaj --Scalpers hoard stock for sale
http://yfrog.com/gzisfwbj --Scalper selling stock

This from this twitter makes me think it wasn't an apache or php vulnerability, though 'application server' is a broad enough term that it could mean almost anything.
Some random security researcher posited that because they had outdated apache server versions (with no known exploits) that it might have been an apache vulnerability. News sources elsewhere repeated that nonsense.

I was thinking more like...

Large paper posters can be vandalism, I was imagining something massive and pasted to their booth sign or something... Then I saw the photo.

I can see why they're quaking in their boots.

Aaron Barr and HBGary are the laughing stock of the industry. Why would they want to attend a public event right now? Makes no sense.

They probably wrote that note themselves in order to say their booth was "vandalized" so they could bail on the whole thing.

Their own leaked Powerpoint presentations recommend using to these kind of falsification tactics.

Yup, this is definitely the work of hardcore terrorists. Time to extraordinarily rendition them and ship them to Git'mo.

Protesting is one thing but wanton destruction of property is another

Do you want to see how much property was "destroyed"? Look here

That's it, what they call "vandalism" was a piece of paper with something written. If someone could prove they are "Anonymous" they would have grounds to sue HBGary for libel.

This doesn't look like destruction of property:

http://yfrog.com/gzbvtllj

Vandalized booth = a sign that says "Anon...In it 4 The LuLz..." http://yfrog.com/gzbvtllj I was expecting the booth to have been burned to the ground or something.

Because we don't all adulate a small child for figuring out something one could reasonably expect a small child to figure out? It's a shelf, and this kid figured out a moderately creative way of hanging it. I'd probably be proud of him if I knew him, but I wouldn't expect people who didn't to really care.

Incidentally, it seems that a misleading angle on the photograph misled me into thinking it was something a big more creative than it actually was. I was thinking that it was am outlet plug cover (like the ones that protect babies from shocking themselves) that doubled as a shelf. You lose a plug in the process, but it can be moved without having to take the outlet cover off, which is behavior that hotels generally frown upon.

image of the basic idea is here: http://yfrog.com/emlolinventionp

To be fair, I'm also just not a Cheddar eater. =) It's possibly why I call a lot of it bland.

I've had some really good 5-year and 10-year aged Cheddar, but the stuff is just too expensive for me to care to buy given my lack of care for the type of cheese.

Anyways, I'm a fan of French cheese as you can see in my aforementioned "cheese buffet" I had at my wedding.

Unfortunately, I don't think we ever thought of taking photos of the full spread. The worst part of my night, I never got to enjoy the cheese. hehe. I had a full plate but was to busy socializing that it up and walked away on me before I could have some.

If I'm ever in England, I'll try to remember to look you up. I'd like to try some of these fabled cheddars. =)

Cheers!

Here's an animated gif using the same technique.

http://yfrog.com/fxlowresmuybridgeracehorsg

Learn Flash/Actionscript3/Adobe AIR. It will simply run everywhere. (cue Flash vs HTML5 flame war. off-topic, IE9 ain't coming to XP so screw that -- I'm sick of all the "this will only work on Safari" or "this will only work on Chrome" HTML5 demos. As someone who actually builds stuff for clients instead of just blogging about these technologies, this is a dealbreaker and ***FORWARD*** compatibility headache as Windows XP will never go away for the near future. The original reason I learned Flash coding was because of the bloody headache of cross-browser compatibility.)

Back on topic, Flash is coming to every single smartphone platform (and even TV set top boxes). 19 of the top 20 mobile manufacturers are already part of the consortium Adobe Open Screen Project and they're working to get Flash running on their respected platforms. Only Steve Jobs didn't sign up for whatever his reasons. Flash is now out on Android, Symbian, Maemo, coming to WinMo 7 (Flash Lite is already out on older versions of WinMo), Blackberry & Palm, definitely on Meego (Nokia Maemo + Intel Moblin).

Flash CS5 can now be used to make native iPhone apps legally again as per App Store policies (the process is the same as making an Adobe AIR app). Here's a refresher on exporting your AIR project into iOS: Packager for iPhone Refresher.

There's some surprising current statistics to fix one's perspective on the death of Flash by the iOS gadget crowd. Currently 97% of the internet is Flash capable and iOS only has 1.1% share. Of course, the iOS share will increase as more customers buy them, but think of that when building stuff with the widest reach possible. Also, currently, devs seem to be monetizing the most on iOS, but the App store is now *so* *so* *so* saturated that it's hard for a new app to get noticed amidst all the noise.

Flash 10.1 is already out on Android Froyo (2.2) and AIR for Android is currently in public beta and should come out soon http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/android/ so Flash is already good to go if you want to target Android.

Another thing to consider is that Android market share has now overtaken iOS and since there's not enough decent content on the Android and Adobe AIR marketplaces compared to the Apple App Store, if you build a good app on any of those platforms, it's easier to pull in a user base since there isn't much competition yet.

Your Flash apps would run on Symbian^3 devices which are already out (N8, C3, etc) as they have all Flash Lite 4.0 (A slightly stripped down version of Flash 10 which already runs AVM2 AS3 swfs). In fact, Nokia just launched the $10million Calling All Innovators N8 app contest and Flash is one of the formats you can enter in.

Not only will your apps run on mobile devices if you build 'em in AIR, they will also run on Desktop Linux, Mac & Windows and that is the biggest plus for me. For complaints about the cost of Adobe tools, you can build SWFs and AIR apps from completely Open Source tools. The Flex SDK is FOSS and you can build apps just with your .AS3 sourcecode + a command line just like with the JDK for Java (or pick any appropriate IDE of your choice to make your life easier). Oh, btw, the commercial Flash Builder is free for students & teachers + developers who're hit by the economic crisis and are currently unemployed -> apply here for license.

Of course, please don't forget to *optimize* *optimize* *optimize*. Flash is not a slow platform. T

If all you want is graphing, then Google Power Meter is probably the best way.

That may be an option if you are not concerned with accuracy. Also it is not available in every area. In my experience (you can see chart for last month at: http://yfrog.com/mvmx1g ), Google Power Meter is off by more than 20%, skips monitoring for entire days and only shows whole house data which doesn't really help you find less obvious "power hogs." We use EcoDog FIDO which shows data for each individual circuit and was accurate with our utility bill within 1KWHr for the month. It also shows the actual cost of the electricity & even accounts for our tiered rates & warns when we're approaching the next higher rate tier. Our utility has been saying that "Google Power Meter has a few bugs to work out..." for about 7 months now. EcoDog showed us that our old dehumidifier in the basement (that we completely forgot about) was costing $90/mo to run. We replaced the dehumidifier with an Energy Star model that paid for itself in 2 months. Unfortunately, EcoDog is quite a bit more than you are looking to spend & we've been running it in VMware on the Mac. They're supposed to come out with a Mac native model next year. It's pretty cool & we figure that we have saved enough electricity to pay for the EcoDog over about a year.

Or on the iPhone4 back glass, apparently: http://yfrog.com/mtg8pj

I've proposed it before... but nobody would listen!"

What gives, guys?

Have you too been haxxored by the mighty GNAA?

What gives, guys?

Have you too been haxxored by the mighty GNAA?

Weird. 10.6.3's safari shows 113 here, and a more recent webkit, 137: http://yfrog.com/j4skitchdj

That makes it the 20th.

Yes. How many users here have actually bought the package? This is the page after you have bought the pack http://img408.yfrog.com/img408/5660/humbleos.png Many Windows users will not bother with the form, but Linux users do to fill the graph. That's because it's not real stats.

The default Firefox theme is just huge.

Firefox is not about defaults, it's about freedom and customization. That's how I read your posting. (standard firefox small buttons relocated on the menu bar, tiny menu & tabkit). If you find it huge, it's in your power to change it...

I tried Chrome but I found myself confined it its defaults.

Don't worry. You're not missing anything unless you've got a BA in biochemistry. The paper isn't light reading material. This is the only interesting figure for the general public.

http://yfrog.com/1gprintsmoneyg
True. I guess she is luckey she fell off of the Wii Fit, instead of one of those exersize steps or something else...

You must've not been check the stock markets lately, these days AAPL is almost as big as MSFT and gaining fast.

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To add to this - The java client on the site is shitty - use the one from Pachos.

That being said - It is beta. You have to click constantly to move (there's no waypoint finding), but building and crafting on it is great. The community is awesome too - we started playing with a friend and some nice guy who owned an awesome farm picked us up there and said we can have his food and other items whenever we want to. We started building our own farm next to his. Friend already went to sleep but I continued some. Later I wandered to travel the lakes and rivers with my boat to look for grapes so I could make wine - Stopped at some guys grape farm and went there to steal some, but I had to break his wall first which takes a lot of time. But I was desperate as it was the only place I could get grape seeds from. Suddenly he came with his boat and I had to flee fast.

Here's a Wiki and some guides and info for the game.

And if you go stealing or pillaging other peoples places, remember that it's permadeath and theres also boars around :)

I'm wondering who this advertiser thinks they're going to make money off of here at slashdot.
Just saw it to the right of the /. homepage.

Considering how Jobs got the idea for iPad, it's no surprise.

Doesn't really bother me too much, but it has these stupid link underlines on Opera. While a tiny thing, it's incredibly annoying looking.

Now a days "artwork" seem to be mostly about doing weird things and calling that art. An artist in Finland was awarded tens of thousands euros of government art aid for walking this piece around a city.

Oh that's nothing, remember Sol 23 from the Phoenix lander? A few images of interest were recovered in a "corrupt" data stream that was sent to the Max-Planck Institute of Technology, Germany for analyzing. My source (associated with H.S.) was able to get his hands on it and was able to stitch together these two coherent images, taken (by his account) almost 1 hour apart.

[ A | B ]

Oh that's nothing, remember Sol 23 from the Phoenix lander? A few images of interest were recovered in a "corrupt" data stream that was sent to the Max-Planck Institute of Technology, Germany for analyzing. My source (associated with H.S.) was able to get his hands on it and was able to stitch together these two coherent images, taken (by his account) almost 1 hour apart.

[ A | B ]

DN3D certainly allowed that to happen (and it was used constantly for going underwater and above), but that wasn't exactly what I was talking about. In Duke3D's build engine, you could draw something like this...

The end result would be the blue box appears to be small on three sides, but when you approach it from the south side, you discover that it is "bigger on the inside" as if it were the TARDIS from Doctor Who. This was a separate effect from the silent teleport. The fact that the engine wasn't truly 3D let you get away with this sort of impossible stuff.

Send a thousand of those braincontrolled cockroaches they can survive anything or anywhere like the one that got onboard Phoenix. A B taken SOL 23, don't ask me where I got these.

Send a thousand of those braincontrolled cockroaches they can survive anything or anywhere like the one that got onboard Phoenix. A B taken SOL 23, don't ask me where I got these.

so you are this guy?

Firefox has a ways to go. http://yfrog.com/j5temptlp

I see. This is quite a find. We are now certain that Crayon DOES look bad on graphs.

Here's a plot (thankfully, they give out the raw CSV data) with the "all versions" included. Firefox has a ways to go. http://yfrog.com/j5temptlp

Statcounter also plots that, fwiw. (Click on the dropdown box after "Statistic:" at the bottom-left of the graph to get other views and data sets as well.)