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Also, http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/08/25/superno... is perhaps a more official story. They too don't mention that it's discovery was a few hours after it was possible to observe the explosion, not a few hours after the actual explosion.
I don't think anyone would dispute that a Prius is more fuel efficient than a sports car in stop-and-go traffic and having that segment on Top Gear just wouldn't be possible as it would make the show "fair" to the hybrid and actually about cars which it definitely isn't.
And I think they make these silly claims at times since they know they are so over-the-top that it's hard for anyone to take them too seriously.
I don't know much about yelp, and don't use it much, but have generally been led to believe that they are a good company (admittedly, by the tech press) so it'll be interesting to hear if you have actual examples of people getting scammed.
That's why I posted the earlier message.
In the interest of full disclosure, it was probably because the Mac App Store needed to re-authenticate me (I changed IPs remember), clicking resume resulted in me not being able to start the download, and the App Store just decided that the 1GB downloaded was useless.
The point about flaky internet connections, and "chunk"ed downloads still stands. I don't expect to be able to get through this download, and even my current issue would have been more gracefully handled with a smaller download size since only 1 chunk of data would have been lost.
Note: Interestingly, my 3G connection is more reliable than my broadband with respect to reliability. Even more interestingly, the provider is the same in both cases.
I don't mind waiting for 40 hours for ~4GB to download, but the likelihood that a connection in India is sustained for more than 10-15 minutes is rather low. The problem here isn't with the speed (it is with that as well), but with the reliability of the connection. Even at 8MBPS, this download will still take about an hour and it's rare that the connection won't be randomly dropped during that hour.
Why can't Apple download these things smartly like BitTorrent? Why this behemoth of a download? Why not break it up into smaller pieces of ~10-20MB each, with a checksum for all these pieces so that WHEN (in India it's WHEN, not if) the connection gets dropped, you're only effectively losing 10-20 MB of downloaded data, not losing an entire GB or more of downloaded material. To me, it almost seems silly not to do this. Is Apple really this ignorant of flaky internet connections?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel...
If I hadn't read your comment, I too would have assumed it was a bot.
I wonder if Apple will do something like that.
Please correct me if I'm wrong (I don't actually know how the 'Find my Mac' feature works, so I'm guessing), but when the computer is first booted by a thief, it won't be online, which means that it won't be aware that it needs to disable access to all accounts except to the neutered guest account right? In fact, the only way that the computer will be made aware that the mac has been stolen is if the thief connects to the internet (Apple has done nothing so far to enhance the likelihood of the user connecting to the internet). Once the Mac is connected and is aware that it is stolen it's behaviour will change to block all access to user accounts. If anything, this change in behaviour might alert a thief that something is up (I'm giving a lot of credit to theives here) and that he should rid himself of the Mac.
This is indeed a really great reason to have this feature, but I'm just wondering if this was Apple's intended use of this feature.
But this is really not what I experienced at all. I studied at a university in the US and I hold an Indian passport. I travelled in and out of the country multiple times, but not once was I asked questions like "Are you a terrorist?". I was only held by the officials once at immigration for 20 minutes. This was when I transferred from one university to another (You don't need to re-apply for a visa for this which is why it leads to some confusion cause you are not going to the university mentioned on the visa).
I never felt like anyone was trying to trick me, or insult me, or ever asked me questions like those above.
Do they treat students differently? And has anyone else ever experienced the issues mentioned by the parent poster?
I don't know whether you've gotten a lot of votes or not so I don't know if your answer makes sense to other people as well.
Why do you think you don't need permission to take pictures of a country from space? I think there are certain areas in all countries that they would want to keep secret, and if you allow people to photograph in certain areas and not in others, that's exposing where these areas are (which is an invitation for governments to spy on those areas).
Anyone have a better idea how this process works?
I think the details toolbar is more useful where it is since I generally don't flag or upvote an item unless I read it. But that is a great idea (the swipe-for-options). You can include adding to Instapaper, and perhaps twitter/facebook/email sharing.
Also, a small bug: All the comments on the submissions say 0 points.
Have you seen the tweetbot app (http://tapbots.com/software/tweetbot/)? A recommended download. Swipe left, Swipe right on a tweet perform actions. This sort of thing is perfect for this app.
Swipe left: Comments
Swipe right: Article in browser
Double click article: Read Later in Instapaper
Great app, and congrats. First time I've taken the plunge on an iOS HN app, and not disappointed so far (a little afraid though, due to potential drop in productivity).
It's a competitive sport, so given the current resources and technology, how much performance can you eke out is really what I should have been thinking about. In an adversarial environment like you describe, I'm sure every bit of time you gain is a huge plus. So yes, our speed doubles every 2 years, but so do our competitors'.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024576
There's some more submissions, but I think these are the only ones with a decent number of comments.
(I'm hoping the poster edits his comment to include a spoiler alert phrase)
(Link to the status)
But I stand by what I said earlier: he will lose some very good customers. I didn't mean he will lose all, but some. He knows that, and is willing to accept it and is betting on the fact that the number is very low.
From the article: "If I don’t have a free app for a long time, I’m certainly going to miss out on some potential long-term conversions. But how many, really, and what would it cost to chase them?"
I know I'm in a minority of users, but I still think the free is useful.
Having initially spent many months using my iPhone and not paying for any apps at all (only downloading free apps), I took my first step into paid apps with a cheap $0.99 app, and realized that for the small price, it made my app (and phone) experience a whole lot better. After that, I was always willing to spend money on apps (even if it was just for experimentation) and Instapaper became one of the first apps I bought.
I don't know if this is an unusual thing, but I've noticed a lot of my friends act in a similar manner. After paying for that first app, they are very willing to pay for more. And you'd be losing some very good customers if you removed the free app.
I suppose I understand Marco's decision even after all this, I'm still unhappy that we might see it go.