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That was brutal.

Just because you're not smart (or you're not hailed as one) doesn't mean you're dumb.

"Learning online won't turn America into a nation of home-schooled nerds, sitting in their basements, keyboards clacking."

Is that such a bad thing?

Nice demo to learn openFrameworks from. Cool app too.

Someone should start a business that breeds/sells those 'immortial beings.'

Same here.

While the robot is definitely impressive, without substantial AI in it, I dont think it qualifies to be called a 'scientist' just yet. It clearly cannot appreciate what its doing -- it might just as well have been cleaning the dishes.

One of his quotes on wikipedia:

"When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered"

Its funny how this quote and the things he says on the letter directly contradict themselves.

Well, yeah. But, did they go to yahoo to raise money for the company?

As far as I can recall reading, they did go to a bunch of places to sell their idea. Needless to say, none of the companies took their idea seriously.

Got it. Thanks very much.

I'm a noob and so here is my question: What will I be able to create after I go through all the books mentioned on the list?

I ask this question keeping the current state of AI in mind.

Wow. I can't believe the controversy here. Reading some of the comments, it seems people are actually jealous of her renown.

Yeah. But, changing your stance every other day is something your engineers wouldn't probably appreciate all that much.

Well, then it'd probably suck to work for him. Is that supposed to be a hidden message...

Wonder how much of this will happen once Jobs retires.

I suggest you start here:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-2-0-Stephen-Ko...

Perhaps you can move to the book you have after you are reasonably comfortable with objective-c (and a little bit of cocoa).

Good luck.

Sadly, a lot of people need to be bribed to get work done. Even if they may not ask directly, its written all over their face.

Thats the way the world works.

Yay!!.....hmm..wait a second..

(addendum: whoa, my tail's on fire!!)

Its like going from one lion's den to the other. Either way you're going to get eaten.

As it is now, there is you, your company/project and a developer (albeit a talented one) who lives in Europe.

I think you have yet to find a "co-founder," sir.

I was talking about the soon-to-be college students, not the soon-to-be-graduating ones.

Didn't know that. I was just asking.

Wasn't the interface pioneered by Classics? I thought so.

Yeah, but a good number of people don't know how to jailbreak their devices or simply don't want to do it. So, I am talking from their perspective.

And, I think they'll add background apps in the new OS. I think the hardware (on the iphone as well) is ready to handle the load.

Well. At least they didn't call this OS version 4.0.

Can't wait for WWDC '10 to see a new OS with a better interface (at least for the iPad).

What about a camera? Did I miss anything?

Well, that would be 649 then.

499 it is!!! Yay!

It seems their main target is the macbook-buying college student. I wish this thing doesn't cost more than 499 ($599 max).