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Smooth running, but the flocking behaviour just doesn't quite feel right. The boids overlap/collide and just don't feel to "flock" correctly.

Do they have awareness of the other boids around them?

I agree, the answer was changed after I accepted it, which was an initial response saying they would respond shortly.

If we have broken any licensing terms, then I would like to have been contacted, and Appcelerator to tell us and exactly what we were doing wrong, so that we can resolve it.

Unfortunately this response doesn't address any of my problems - it's the usual "we care and we are growing" spiel. I empathise to some extent as I know it's hard to build a technical business, but this didn't address the trust issues, and I'm still no clearer about whether Monday morning we're still expected to license from them?

Worst of all for me, I now have a damaged relationship with a not particularly technical client who sadly is likely to associate "open source" with "legal problems".

It's < 10k downloads over 2 weeks.

It doesn't appear to be a scam, more a case of an over zealous sales department.

However, even if it is to do with displaying the Apache license as mentioned below, the behavior is pretty aggressive and financially orientated when a simple request could resolve it.

I will post a follow up comment when I know more, but for now the dev relations team has reached out to us...

Thanks for the link but I think you're still missing it slightly. I'd like a url I can point my phone at to see the demo app running.

Not a screencast as I can't gauge lag from that, but a functioning demo to play with.

I want to be able to test on my phone to see it's "simple and fast" from the UX perspective before I'll investigate further.

I was talking this over with some friends today and most didn't know this footage existed. It's worth watching the whole piece, but for the impatient, skip to the 11 minute mark.

Sorry that's not a demo, that's a showreel.

This is of interest to me, but I want to quickly see actual performance on a variety of test devices I have to hand.

Where/how can I see a demo?

And don't think you need my email or facebook login before I've seen what you offer and whether it's any good.

Although the title is link bait, this really doesn't surprise me.

Driving across the New Forest in the UK last summer I was "stalked" for half an hour by a couple of Apache helicopters. Every few minutes they'd pop up from behind cover or on the horizon somewhere, always pointing directly at my car.

I see no problem with it at all.

I'd imagine this was to combat making guns readily available that would bypass metal detectors. Just because there weren't any planed at the time, forsight may have been enough to avoid that situation? /speculation

It's not always the case that they don't credit, I'm running a twitter feed of the Falklands conflict on a 30 year delay, and so far,in the first week, I have been contacted by two tv companies who wanted to know who they should attribute them to...

>>I can program Ok, what can you program? Which languages or platforms do you know?

Irrespective of where you live I may be able to offload some paid work your way, that would then be part of your portfolio.

I'm one of those 1m, but just to see what all the fuss was about. To be honest I'm still a little bemused as to what unique problem it solves?

Maybe sharing of photos on iOS was a chore, but this is built in to Android by design.

The filters are all rather "meh", not especially outstanding or creative.

It's really frustrating because normally if I don't use or even like a product and I can still rationalize and see why others might. But I just feel like I'm missing out on "getting it" with this.

Ted talk with Yves, lacking a bit in technical detail but worth a watch. http://www.ted.com/talks/yves_rossy_fly_with_the_jetman.html

It doesn't quite meet your criteria for start today, but the Open University, a well respected "virtual uni", has been running in the UK for over 40 years.

http://www.open.ac.uk/

Fees are a little higher but only marginally at around $8000 per 120 credits for international students. (A typical degree requires 300-360 credits)

Many degrees can be completed over 7 or more years if it's convenient. But I think there is a minimum time as some coursework is assessed to a schedule.

So there is definitely a market for this type of learning, and competition almost always benefits the customer, so good luck!

I think the point is that from an end user experience Napster had advantages and features that haven't been replicated or bettered since.

Yes that's ignoring the legality of it, but ultimately we repeatedly see that users will ignore legal issues in favour of convenience.

I was part of the trial in Exeter from 96-99. This was only sort of p2p, it was used basically as a method of carrying "cash" without notes or coins. Everything still went through the central bank (Natwest I believe ran it?) That including records of every transaction.

I've done both in the past, and while Companies House is straight forward, using a third party is even easier, its usually a case of just filling out a page or two form and entering credit card details.

The companies I've registered through third parties email me annually with reminders of what needs to be filled when etc, and where I've left a company dormant I can get that filed for a nominal fee and a couple of clicks of a button.

Additionally they often have cash back deals with the banks, so after opening an account I actually ended up with a profit from registering the company (about £5)

>>There's no way to turn off the shutter noise on it,

Use root explorer to find the sound files (sorry I can't remember where they are off the top of my head) rename them or just delete them and restart your phone.

You need make sure you get all the focus/shutter files.

Look to the international editions. These are often shipped from India - quite thin paper but the same content:

http://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780136042594

Not strictly a service, but perhaps "torrents" should be an option? I know of a few people who either buy or torrent everything.

It's a trust issue. One of those companies has repeatedly broken my trust on a very important issue, the other not.

I know gmail scans my message contents for contextual advertising, but it would never surprise me if facebook subsequently sold my email address to advertisers based on the content of messages, both current and historical.

Change my privacy preferences on a whim without my permission?

Not always, that is only used to sort comments at the same level. Often a root comment may have had 2 or 3 points and a counter argument contained some useful insight and would be upvoted to 30+ Skim reading would allow me to spot this comment contains something worth reading...

I generally wonder whether they mean a 24 hour period, or ~24 hours spread over several evenings and weekends.

The second option wouldn't include the extra dozens of hours mentally solving any problems in the shower or on the way to work...

Can you contact me (email in profile) or add a contact yourself?

For anyone whose interested, its available as a free kindle download.

I know you're not taking any more design requests at the moment - but could you put a reminder form on your site that emails when you are? By Monday I'll have forgotton all about you.

Put contact details in your profile, also please drop me an email.

Yes, when they ran the $100 offer a while ago, both myself and my better half signed up.

It's fantastic, we've both been in contact with 3rd and 4th cousins, for me they are from the US, South africa and Australia.

I now know I'm prone to type II diabetes, so have cut down sugar intake and had reports on dozens of other health issues.

I think the current prices are a bit steep, but if they do another offer @ $100 I'll be recomending to everyone I know!

Rules are rules.

As a CS student many years ago we had a 10am deadline for all work - I missed it once by less than 60 seconds.

The punishment was always 20% of your mark deducted immediatly, with no excusses.

A great learning experience at an impressionable age, so now in my professional life I've never missed a deadline though my own fault.