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But you have to admit the "guy insists on doing things unnecessarily complicated and falls on his face" trope has a strangely entertaining aspect to it :)

Interesting part: "In 2009, it was reported that the 43 Azerbaijanis who texted in votes for Armenia in that year’s contest were summoned to the National Security Ministry to explain their actions".

I'm surprised that this country was allowed to stay in the EBU after such a behavior. Really shocking.

Lebanon was more or less thrown out of the competition for not playing by the rules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_in_the_Eurovision_Song...), so I'm surprised the EBU did not do the same here.

You can play both the keyboard and turn the knobs at the same time: press the number keys on your keyboard for the keyboard, use the mouse for the knobs.

Brillant job, hat's off!

As a European, I'm again and again surprised how many American media and other entitities try to be non-political. In my view, everybody is political, and speaking ones mind advances society. Why is everybody trying to stay neutral?

Well, it crashed my browser consistently everytime I openened the page (Safari 5.0.4 on Windows), so it sure lives up to flash in that department :-(

Yeah, well let's say "partially solved".

This has been solved already: http://openradar.appspot.com

If you file a new bug with Apple, publish it here as well. No more black hole, you can see what others have already posted. You can even see what duplicates are about (if the original bug was also at open radar).

To sell a successful corporate wiki, you need hundreds of plug-ins to handle all those special cases that each company inevitably has. That would be your biggest stumbling block, because creating those takes time, and that's where Confluence trumps all others.

Where it falls short? Basically everywhere else. There is no taste.

If you want our business, create a wiki that puts the content front and center, and remove everything else by default. Then let us add our 3 extension wishes, while still staying minimalist. It's not that difficult.

Unfortunately, it seems that either the chief software architect at Confluence is not up to the task, or that the company values quick crappy changes in favor of good design.

Good luck with your endeavor!

Great stuff!

How difficult would it be to have the sliding gestures on the keyboard itself? Keeping my fingers at the same place would make things even faster...

Also, have you tried experimenting with acceleration curves for moving the cursor - i.e. moving the finger slow would yield a 1:1 cursor movement, while moving the finger faster would move the cursor something more like 8 times faster than the finger. With the right acceleration curve, the two-finger gesture could be dropped, and you could be even faster.

I'd love to use this in the editor of my choice. Could you make this open source?

We (25 people company) use Confluence, and we all truly hate it. The design is attrocious. It's ugly beyond the pinnacle of ugliness. We tried to use some custom styling to ease the pain, but Confluence uses so many badly designed elements that we had to capitulate.

If this incredibly crappy product sells itself, then it's only because there is nothing better. If you don't know what your next company should do - please consider creating a better corporate wiki. Confluence is truly an abomination.

Very cool. This would imply there is a superfast method to select a paragraph and extend to two paragraphs: Doubletap with two fingers, then drag up/down. But unfortunately, this doesn't work (it starts scrolling instead). I would hope that Apple implements this as well.

Yep. There is even an undicoverable swipe gesture accros the keyboard (just like grandparent suggest Apple would not do): To split the keyboard into two, do a unpinch gesture (two fingers start in the middle, one goes to the right, the other to the left).

It's interesting that most puzzles got solved faster than if one person tried it alone. And that's without an option to talk to each other. Seems that you're tapping into some kind of "swarm intelligence" that humans use rarely, but animals like ants use all the time. Interesting to be part of such a thing for a short while. Fascinating stuff.

I've seen several Showscan films, and I loved them.

I think the biggest problem is acting. 24fps lays a veneer of "movie look" over all performances. With higher framerates, actors can no longer count on that.

They have to sell it much more, like in a theatre, but with large screen closeups projected on a 20 meter screen.

In a way, it's a new challenge actors never had before. It will be interesting to see whether there are indeed performance differences among the Hobbit actors.

"otherworldly" is just a nice word for "1920s technology".

Getting closer to reality is a common thread in the arts. As soon as man had a way to move from one-color cave paintings to using colors, he started to use them.

This is the artistic expression that Peter Jackson is going for.

In one of the video blogs he said: "The result looks like where the screen was, there is now a hole in the wall, and beyond that is reality".

Imagine, instead of looking a film of Bilbo, you're transported right there into Middle-earth and it looks absolutely real. Wouldn't that be great? I'm very much looking forward to that experience.

Bad review.

That "video look" he's mentioning is the absence of 24fps artifacts I'm very glad we get rid of.

He could as well just have written "meh, reality has a video look".

> Try to match their tempo (as you should when talking to anyone).

That's stupid advice. Why should I always match my tempo to somebody else?

I'm not going to adapt to your talking speed for the same reason that you're probably not going to try to match mine. I'm not your monkey.

Downvoters should turn on their brains before voting. This was very much on topic. gggrrrr

What? No. Absolutely not.

Being bullied is not because you behave wrongly. You're being bullied because they others are assholes.

In the adult realm, there are still people behaving differently. And they're not getting bullied. You know why not? Because there is a state that punishes bullying among adults.

We need only one thing: punish bullying among non-adults. Currently they get a free pass. And every generation a million kids get scarred for life. No more.

I agree 100%. Also, the page down key doesn't work correctly anymore: It scrolls too much. For me, the lacking page-down-usability is enough that I would never even consider placing a fixed bar on top or bottom.

Doesn't the iPhone only look for wlan networks once you start using it? At least, this has been my experience in the past: after returning to my base station, when I unlock it (turn on the screen), it takes a few seconds until the network indicator changes to wlan.

If true, this issue is quite overrated, at least on Apple devices.

Apple, as always, was not available for comment...

Like they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Also, the complicated things that one sees at first sight are a sign that probably all features, including the ones that I didn't see, are complicated. Which is not what I'm looking for.

Interesting. These are the exact issues that I had. So I eagerly clicked over to your site. I clicked on a few things, and after 2 minutes I left. For good. Why?

No taste. Very little to no taste.

While you do exactly what I need, these are incredibly complicated times. And I want to be sure that you will solve my issues without introducing complicated buttons and concepts I have to learn first. Plus Icons that hurt my eyes. But that's exactly what you provided.

Would be great if you looked into this matter. Cause as of right now, 3 minutes after my visit, I'm still looking for a solution.

Thanks for the answer!

Why don't you focus just on the realtime aspect and create a service that allows realtime bitcoin transactions on any website (and inside every app) trough an API, and ask for a smaller percentage (like ~2%, like a credit card company)?

As far as I'm aware of, the blockchain only gets signed every few minutes or so.

So how can you achieve this low latency? Do you just base your decision "x has paid" on the still unsigned chain? That's quite risky and open for exploits, isn't it?

Also, what do you do if there are orphan blocks in the chain?

(Comment about coindl.com, not the book the article links to.)

Apple sells their devices around the world. They have decided to make the only way to get apps for them their own way, and to apply their american values to all countries. As a non-american I find these two decisions troubling, and they are absolutely, very much Apple's fault indeed.

Wow, absolutely love the Paparazzi concept. Have you got more ideas like these?

No, but "tasteless horse radish" is a completely useless thing. Which is my point.