Hari_Seldon

Samsung copying Apple is not bullshit, it was very overt and obvious to anyone paying attention. it was also proved in court.

Agreed, reminds me of mp3.

>Elements of the recordings that are easily perceived are represented with exacting precision, while other parts that are not very audible can be represented less accurately. Meanwhile, inaudible information can be discarded altogether.

Fraunhofer Institute

Great quote, haven't heard this before, thanks.

Strongly disagree, not being able to keep up with demand is not a bad problem to have. As for being out of ideas, Please - the competition are mainly me too products. No one else releases actual sales numbers and many android handsets are free or cheap so are not in the same market as Apple.

I'm not surprised, it's a cute ad.

Agreed, I don't see the need for change, the incremental updates have gotten us to the point where iOS functions very well. If you're looking for innovative UI there are over 600,000 apps, many of them with amazing and novel UIs very well suited to the app's function.

That link explains a mode by which Spotify's cloud based music can be available offline. iTunes Match gives access to YOUR OWN music via the cloud. Do you not see the difference?

I have 15,000 songs in my iTunes library, the vast majority of which are not on Spotify. My 16GB iPhone would normally only hold a fraction of my music but with an iTunes Match subscription I have access to it all.

Also, it gives an off-site back up of every matched song. So tell me, how is iTunes Match similar to Spotify?

Spotify is online music, what are you talking about?

Spotify bears no resemblance to iTunes Match so how can it be better?

I think that there is a tendency amongst us westerners to believe that meditation is about attaining something, Chögyam Trungpa described this as a type of "spiritual materialism". I've noticed this behaviour repeatedly, people feeling the need to quantify theirs and others progress or lack thereof.

If the writer of the TFA experiences 4 seconds of emptying his mind and a state of bliss, does it really matter that he didn't in your opinion use the correct terminology? or wasn't in the state long enough for this or that term to apply?

I enjoyed the article, it has inspired me to take up my own practise again, even 1 second of no thoughts and blissful awareness at the beginning of my day changes everything.

My favorite Guy Kawasaki quote is in connection with the launch of windows 95, when someone said that windows is now as good as the Mac. He response was

"Saying Windows is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming".

Apple products are as good and better than they have always been, the problem is that users now have this entitled attitude and nothing is good enough for them. Witness the tech press' reaction to the iPhone 5, they're bored because it doesn't look new, irrespective of it's actual merits. it's very tedious and a shame to see this attitude here on HN, where the discussion threads were usually more considered and the level of debate generally higher.

friend of mine went on holiday to Tokyo (UK resident) a few years ago, he told me that the Yakuza seemed to have a corporate head office, a modern building with receptionists, typists etc, is this true?

You are right of course, thinking this through - it is obvious that if innocents are targeted there is little honour in all of this.

I think you're right that this guy was being shielded from the violence but I don't understand your objection to the Yakuza being referred to as honorable. Is it not possible to be both violent AND honorable? No one is suggesting that they are nice people, just that there seems to be an agreed upon ethos to which (it seems) everyone adheres.

Yeah, but you seem to be assuming that the experience would be completely alien, a language needing to be learned so to speak. I'm not so sure about that, perhaps music being the most visceral of the arts, does not require interpretation or explanation, so that even the unschooled ear can apprehend beauty.

>When Mozart's Lacrimosa came on, I was blown away by the beauty of it. At one point of the song, it sounded like angels singing and I suddenly realized that this was the first time I was able to appreciate music. Tears rolled down my face and I tried to hide it.

Seems to cover it to me

Maybe, but Apple would be inclined to make it Mac / iOS only, which would be counter productive. The other non Apple stuff has had a strategic importance, iTunes for windows enabled them to sell iPods and Safari for windows helped with website compatibility. Can't see this happening.

:)

With 97 comments (as I write this) I'd say many people :-)

Not sure what you mean by "act like a monopoly". But you're right that Apple never forgot that microsoft ripped them off and dominated the industry with their sub par OS. (I know about the Xerox stuff). This is why Steve Jobs said very clearly at the iPhone launch "and boy have we patented it".

Many companies in the tech sector have effectively been using Apple as their R&D department for decades. Samsung is just the latest and most blatant.

Indeed and if you click the printer icon you can save it as a pdf

why do people write "noone" when they mean "no one"? it is very annoying

The Obama administration has some believers

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-obama-administration-s-s...

The article is trite, the kind of thing one comes up with as a teenager, believing it to be an insight. The social contract is such that most of us are thoughtful enough not to burden someone absentmindedly greeting us with a literal answer to the inquiry.

He doesn't mention an email, he says "John expressed to me" which could also mean a telephone call or a meet up.

Just saying

Slightly off topic: The setting for his game is apparently inspired by Myst. I never got the appeal of Myst, I know it was very popular but to me it just seemed to be not mush more than a slideshow. It had the reputation of being the most popular game for people who didn't like games. At the time I was an avid gamer, maybe that's why I couldn't get into it.

Your suggestions are geek level features, not sure how this could be "huge". I agree though that Zappa was an interesting man.

Still can't get used to these Microsoft Stores. I should probably get over it, but every time time I see one, it strikes me that they're copying Apple in a really lame way.

Those of you who continually refer to piracy as stealing are muddying the waters. I agree that it is morally wrong to download copyrighted works without paying for them, but whenever someone uses the word theft, I switch off.

It is akin to borrowing a book and then scanning it and using OCR to make an ebook before it is returned to the owner. Or ripping a friend's CD. I don't think a reasonable person would describe this as stealing. This is exactly what file sharing is, except that the scanning/ripping has already been done.

By insisting that this is "stealing" you will alienate some people who might be open to persuasion and to changing their behaviour. They know that they have not deprived the owner of it's use and that they have not stolen anything.

Stop talking about stealing, it's lazy