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How about on a Sony eReader touch? You're saying they have plans for that as well?

What a sad mix of windows and OSX. That Activities button is pure ugliness.

I'm pretty much in the same boat. Not really set up for life, just the next decade or so. It's been more than a year since I last faced the usual "office" issues. HN, reddit, slashdot, zerohedge, my twitter feed, stocks and my hobbies keep me occupied.

In any case, it's enabled me to step out of a regimented life, I'm going back to school for a masters in an interesting field and my hopes of making a significant contribution to the world have not died down yet :). I'm on track to accomplishing some life goals. Social interaction-wise, I've taken up a few language courses and find the people I meet there a lot more interesting than those from my previous life.

All in all, I'd say not having to worrying about money ( although I didn't worry much, earlier either) or the future is very nice and definitely very good health-wise.

Here's an analogy I thought up: You go to a shanty town and announce "free apartments for everybody", and the people are excited and help you build the new apartments. When nearly complete, you announce "oops looks like we didn't design for toilets here. Guess you'll all have to go back to the shanty town for all that". I think it's understandable that people would be pissed. Pointing out that you got all that other stuff built isn't really going to cut it.

The sub-reddits are very static. I see pretty much the same links over the course of a week on my landing page.

Plus, the "all" frontpage is now a cesspool of the internet (IMO).

Plus, twitter has a pretty good (and addictive) information flow nowadays.

TLDR: I'm justifying my decision to start eating animals again.

Born again fundamentalists are the worst kind.

Who accredits investors?

Oh come on now. Nobody expects perfection even from Apple. But we do expect them to have tested the product and fixed the issue before it went to production. A simple lining over the antenna would have sufficed. This episode just illustrates Apple's design hubris.

Given the probability that you will not actually make a million, I think that this is a false goal that will only lead to frustration. My plan is to utilize my savings, after having got out of the 10 year rat race, to do something I enjoy (that also has a fair chance of being big). If it turns out that I make a million, well and good, if not then atleast I've been enjoying the money instead of leaving that to after retirement. The rat race is always there if I feel the need to go back.

Addendum: I also believe pretty much anything you do for the next ten years has a fair chance of being big. The only problem I see is that you're constrained by having a family and so might not have 10 years to fritter away like that.

I brought it up as an example of a society in peaceful revolt against a high price for goods, doesnt really matter who was setting the price, a tyrannical government or producers. They had civil disobedience which has a few similarities to how people flout copyright laws today (not completely the same of course, since they were willing to go jail). Like charging high prices for access to something that's essentially free (salt then, copies of mp3 files now)

Also see how electricity is commonly stolen in developing nations, anti-prohibition activities etc. For examples of societies trying to act through government to regulate payments to people, look at the UK bank bonus tax or the Autralian attempt at a mining super profits tax, and in the other direction blank media taxes, farm subsidies etc.

Actually, lying on the floor, holding up the antenna with my feet. Didn't think anyone would be interested in the details.

They certainly do try to set their own prices. On occasion society revolts, sometimes violently and sometimes not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Satyagraha.

No, I was responding to your statement on copyrights and why society gets to determine that.

> that's the nature of society

Haha. Exactly. I think you don't really believe what you read about other societies where this is/was common. And the police are a component of society, but is just having some policemen around enough to prevent crime? If so, I'd be selling you a great Russia investment story.

It's not the needing of others, but the inability to price or pay for societal benefits that leads to the social contract you're basically born into.

Another example, what price do you put on having your neighbors being educated or non-violent enough to not kill you the next time they see you and take your family and belongings? In an anarchy, the cost of your own weapons cache maybe, but in current society it's hard to determine. But it's still a benefit to not be living in the stone age or next door to the Huns.

Just because a bug appears seemingly randomly does not mean it's not a bug.

When I was a kid watching tv with an indoor antenna, anytime there was poor reception I'd go and hold the antenna and reception would improve or get a lot worse.

So, I've no problems believing that this is an issue, that it affects different people differently at different times, and that Apple knew about it and made those shells as a fix (a trade-off in exchange for greater compactness of the device) for those who want it.

Yes they do. But what's fair compensation? If a doctor saves your life, do you then become his slave? Because if not for him, you'd not exist anymore. No? Then it's obvious that the compensation is only upto a point. What if it was some medicine discovered a century ago that saved you? How do you compensate that person? You need to rely on society to have taken care of or provided for him when he was alive.

If technology progresses to a level where an individual is independent of society (to the point of one planet per person maybe), your ideas would work. Right now society has the upper hand over the individual.

No, Apple will make even more money by selling those overpriced plastic shells.

You want to make something, start by first creating the universe (as Carl Sagan put it). Since you didn't, you already owe a large debt to the universe for just existing (assuming a you've a good life) and to a lesser extent to society for supporting you (with doctors, farmers, builders, roads, schools, stability, security, existence of an economy etc) which is not really repaid in taxes. So, there's a social contract, which people now feel is being abused by creators.

Edit: But yeah, I'd like to live in a stable utopian anarchy as well.

According to the review, the opposite is the case. The demo at WWDC also indicated that the iPhone 4 was worse than the 3GS even for wifi.

Immoral != less moral

Your english skills may be less than good, but not non-existent.

Haha. If that was sarcasm, well done.

Well as long as you want to change the tone of your post completely from an strong absolute to a weak relative statement...

Expecting a dowry is indicative of an atavistic belief system. Doesn't usually go well with an ability to work or perform in a modern environment.

> extremely unusual for a person to not follow an extremely rigid career track

This is due to a herd mentality and blinkered vision. Not the caste system.

> it is an immoral nihilistic society of "uncultured" pleasure seeking barbarians (rich too ;-)) .

You're saying its not? Well, the barbarian part is hyperbole but the rest rings true.

I'm hoping it's something like the crypto algos where computing the hash is easy but getting the original message back (without already knowing the key) is not so easy.

In our case, the "simple" algo would be something trivial to implement but tough to actually figure out what it is in the first place.

Is it this http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/ ?

Newbie question: the thing that always puzzles me is where these folks get their data from (in this case the list of restaurants with details). Anybody know how one can go about getting their hands on stuff like that? Is it all available for free on some site I just haven't heard of yet?

And the sound system is still a mess.