Any high availability system inherently aims for that, but "never" is a strong word. Sooner or later, you need to upgrade or replace physical hardware.
It's great to get more than money from an investor. It's often the case that you get money plus various intrusive behavior that is of negative value (requiring time to manage the shareholders, etc). If you have your choice of where to get money, go with the Ron Conways of the world.
If this is a useful part of corporate culture here (it rarely is) that's one of the first reasonable arguments I've heard AGAINST telecommuting. In general, I think I'd opt for a telecapable workforce, but there's certainly some reasonability to adhoc meetings at lunchtime.
Remember, gang, make good friends at companies that can/will acquire your startup. Some level of talent acquisition exit beats the pants off general purpose failure.
Man, I feel old, I remember when Sony was The Brand Name in consumer electronics. Between rootkits and intrusive behavior and this sort of thing... I can't think of the last time I bought something with the Sony brand on it. (To be fair, it was probably either a DVD... or a DVD burner.)
I thought yahoo email was pretty good, and yahoo finance is probably still the best of the choices out there. But totally agree that a lot of things went to Y to die
Oh, ok. The article seems to be talking about designers as the user-centric UX guys, or at least that's how I took it. I believe that this is critical to mainstream adoption, but agree that your point is excellent as well.
The UX of Facebook beats the pants off Myspace, but still... doesn't strike me as a triumph of design. Though to be fair this may just be because things break more readily at a half billion users.
As much as I'd like to see companies busted for abusing the DMCA to take down things they object to, I would rather it had been one of the traditional Big Media Thugs who was on the wrong end of a lawsuit for fraudulent DMCA claims rather than Dropbox... who I otherwise like.
Now I like the idea of a moon base and space research as much as the next engineer (and we here at HN seem pretty friendly to it) but I have the general impression that without commensurate investment, this is on par with saying "NASA is directed to clone unicorns"
You could say the same thing about Los Angeles (massive water requirements over and above what native supply provides) but I don't see us abandoning that particular location anytime soon either.
This is an excellent idea and I look forward to actually using it. Thanks guys for making the world of distributed development and open source a better "place" to be!
I've had phones stolen enough that I'd say "yes, too accessible" - your mileage may vary.
Timestamped travel information generally equates to "hey, this guy returns home between 7 and 8:30 most nights, works in the office five days a week, and here's where his home is". It's no great stretch to equate that to "he will not be home during this time frame" and suddenly a lost phone turns into a much larger burglary.
There's also plenty of larger privacy concerns, but even just the out-and-out-crook scenarios should be concerning enough.
The only way this could be more hair-splitty is to argue "Apple isn't tracking you, it's tracking your device". Yes, there are valid reasons for this to exist. Doesn't change my user perspective that this is an electronic trail I do not want readily accessible.
1) A particular location is running BSD - a branch office or the like. The whole company isn't migrated.
2) Migration doesn't extend to rebuilding the legacy internal software built over the last ten years, which is Windows based and still needs to be supported so that the current business processes run uninterrupted.
It's attractive to propose "let's build a new kind of city" or if you prefer, a new sort of living style, but this is one of the classic boil-the-ocean sort of problems that any ground-up engineering solution faces. How do we migrate people from a solution they know, like, inhabit, and own today to one that they don't know, will likely have to be educated to like, don't currently inhabit, and don't currently own? It's a tall order.
There were plenty of free (subsidized to zero) phones available when the iPhone came out. They weren't feature-competitive but they were available, free, and mediocre. From a set top box perspective, this isn't necessarily a differentiator.
However, having a set top box in your home theater stack at home is not as usefully trendy as carrying an iPhone. It's also more setup hassle and has to work with other devices made by other manufacturers, something at which Apple has never been good (wanting to control the whole ecosystem).
There's a more important constraint here: people change out their small consumer electronics MUCH faster. They buy new phones every year or two, arguably as fast as Apple puts them out. Same was largely true for iPods. They don't replace their TVs very often.
Moral of this story: drive your marketing decisions by data and analytics, not by fluffy market research. Asking people what they want usually results in "I'd like a pony."
That'd be to buy ALL of Sony. Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Computer Entertainment (which is mostly Playstation), and a not entirely incidental consumer electronics business. Sony might be worth more if you buy it and break it up, but this is exceedingly unlikely for a variety of reasons.
I see that this article cites "fatty liver = insulin resistance" and correlates that directly to sugar ingestion. Well and good - I don't want to be foie gras. But this article also suggests that going off sugar quickly causes the fatty liver to remediate itself - or at least so in lab animals, such problem "promptly goes away". How prompt is this effect in people? Failure rates on commonplace diets seems to make me think it isn't all that swift a process. Anyone have any good stats/links/refs?