craigmccaskill

More importantly than just being slow, the site crashes my iPad. After about 60-80% of the page loads, Safari closes to the home screen.

Does this work with hosted jekyll sites or just those that live within github? The documentation only mentions github, but after a quick look at the source code I can't see any reason this wouldn't work (at least with some minor modifications) on any hosted jekyll blog.

Given the speeds we're talking about (17,000 mph [1]), regardless of what you make your space station out of, debris hitting you is likely going to go straight through.

[1]http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-sy...

I'll +1 this, I have the same exact issue.

This is the single most annoying thing about signing up for services. If they disallow this or the +flag chances are I won't sign up for a service.

I was going to post the exact same thing, but spent the last five minutes searching site:apple.com virus for a direct quote. Seems they've changed their lingo as I definitely remember (around the time of the whole mac vs pc campaign) a definite statement about not getting viruses at all.

Chrome (currently available as a beta on ICS android devices) does this.

I'm not suggesting this is free, by any means. However, given the cost of buying existing POS hardware solutions, I'm confident I could handcraft bespoke ipad cases with card readers, sell them an ipad and still make a profit, all while undercutting a more traditional setup.

The Application looks amazing. Well done.

What I do wonder though, is why they're shipping this with such a terrible stand/card reader attachment? I can't see those lasting 6 months in a busy shop environment. I'd like to see a swivel stand that's locked to the counter which you can slide the ipad into, then bolt secure and lock with a key. While you're at it, build a robust card reader into the side of the case. Basically something similar in form factor to this: http://www.directindustry.com/prod/elo-touchsystems/touch-sc...

I could probably put something like that together in a weekend with a trip to fry's/home depot, but why should I have to?

Also, a question I'd have before using this - what happens in the event of a software crash? Where is my data, how quickly does stuff get backed up online?

It's easy to focus on Apple because they're making an awful lot of money. Selling a premium product with a profit margin of 60% [1], this race to the bottom for labour costs becomes questionable.

[1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/02/what-doth-it-profit-a...

My wife works at Google. We both live in San Jose, and she frequently gets the shuttle to work in the Mountain View office. For tax reasons, I'm not allowed to get the shuttle with her to or from work, so I'm pretty sure that some if not all perks are offset somehow. Various things like the holiday gift (this year it was a galaxy nexus) are also offset for tax on your payslip. Net it works out at zero to you, as Google puts extra money into your paycheque to cover the extra tax charge.

This looks like (from my admittedly limited perspective) an attempt by Google to build their own language ecosystem to reduce the reliance on Java and limit any potential future liability from patents held by sun/oracle.

Indeed. Bean-counters are looking at things totally upside down.

A few billion to further the human understanding of the world around us vs the 1.4 trillion spent on the war effort. I know which I'd rather have backed.

I wonder if this has been timed specifically prior to a major product release (iPhone 5) to help combat any stock drop.

That wouldn't help if the backend controlling requisitions is what's compromised (as other comments possibly point to), but you're right, it doesn't sound like these guys have any clue about security at all.

Initially, the free tier did offer unlimited (ad supported) streaming. It was only more recently (6 months?) that this has changed.

I agree with everything you've said, especially about them no longer being interesting, but for one point.

You couldn't listen to any song and as such it didn't eliminate the need to buy (or pirate) some tracks. Certain record companies had yet to sign on and quite a few major bands were missing from the database. Bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and ACDC (there are numerous others, these are just the bands I like which were missing and really stuck out to me).

I was a paying customer for around 9 months using the service to sync offline playlists with my Android phone (wirelessly, as there were no other solutions that allowed me to do this easily), but I canceled my subscription when they failed to acquire more of the artists I liked and other solutions came along to allow me to wirelessly sync playlists to my device.

There are better ways to handle your online music now. Spotify had a real chance at becoming top dog, but in my eyes, they didn't innovate and provide the features the public wanted quickly enough.

Tangental but - the Facebook app on Android has done anything but mature. It's been stagnant for the last 6-8 months while the web interface has come on leaps and bounds.

At this point in time, I see no reason other than persistance of data (FB messages) to use the app.

Some quick napkin math on numbers:

If you're to believe Eric Schmidt when he says 'millions' and put that at 3 million users (being generous), guessing that each user uploads 20 megabytes of content (again, generous) thats:

3x10^6 × 20 MB

6x10^7 MB or

60TB

Sanity check or does that not seem like a lot of resources to allocate to a project of this size?

Edit: formatting

Fascinating article, thanks.

Not really sure what the problem is, a screen saver manages to work perfectly well detecting when I'm not using the computer.

I guess the assumption is that most people don't leave their computers on all the time, so it's designed to run as a background task else it wouldn't actually get to run at all.

A concern I always have over services like this, is that they tend to back up at the most inopportune times. Holding a VC and your call suddenly drops? Playing an FPS or RTS game and things start to become unresponsive? Uploading your latest project files, wondering why it's going so slowly while a is client clamouring for it yesterday? Chances are one of your many automatic backup services just kicked in. With devices like the iPad and iPhone being 'always on' and connected to the wifi in the background, I can see this becoming a problem. When these sorts of services were confined to a desktop or laptop, you could always shut them down with a simple right click on a task bar/menu icon. Now you have multiple devices that could potentially be bogging down your network, how do you easily diagnose where the network drain is coming from?

They did have one piece of identifiable information they could use, the houses themselves. If they had a list of properties on craigslist, they could tie that to anyone who signed the same property up on airbnb. Not an easy metric to add to your analytics package straight off, but it wouldn't take too much effort to figure out just the conversion rate (x emails sent, y new signups from those addresses).

GoDaddy has now lost all current and any future custom they might have had from me.

That makes more sense, thanks.

That's certainly possible, theoretically. However, I'm not sure if those conditions can actually be met (rods should not ever come into contact with water and nothing should be able to ignite the gas, especially not at higher pressure levels).

The nuclear power plants were automatically shut down, the power grid buckled at that point.