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When you want to use 1.9. You should really only be using the 1.8 branch if time or money prevent you from doing the upgrade.

I've actually had worse customer support with GC (who froze our account with 30k with no support phone line to call) than Paypal (their phone lines are up until 11pm PT).

Not to white knight Paypal, but selling tickets is a highly fraud risky payment event (opposed to just selling stuff). It has a high number of chargebacks due to possible event cancellation, people not showing up, or people just not liking the event. You would most likely be required to send this paperwork for each event to most any credit processor.

Typically I've found that with Paypal there's no immediate cost of entry (just start accepting payments) but paperwork is required over a certain threashold. But try to use any regular credit processor, they'll require your paperwork done in advance, and since you're doing an event with tickets, it might take a few applications until you find one with decent rates who will accept your risk.

The bitstream converted to their ASCII value is ".zncf anug erggro fv abpno". When reversed and ROT-13ed, it is:

"Bacon is better than spam."

Actually, they have been making quite a bit of money in the sale of public tweets. Wholesale data with their "Firehose", 50% and 5% of all tweets stream is not cheap if that's what you want.

I wouldn't be surprised if the iPad got a slight bump to 1280x960 just to fill out the "720p HD" spec though.

To be fair, you can easily carry around 2 TB in a single large-form external. Coupled with a general car to wall AC adaptor, you can travel around town with it.

Not to mention the fact that since it's just a simple look-up table with lots of small entries, you could store it in the cloud and only get what you need via the same GSM connection.

I like HN has the heavily tech articles float up. General news should really belong to Reddit.

Wouldn't SOX also come into play?

Maybe it's our own experience, but the "nifty stuff" is quite limiting. We've been trying to get combo pack support (ala Amazon's buy this + that together and get $5 off), and it's been a total NIGHTMARE.

For a basic general cart, it's great. But especially for an e-commerce system that you rely on your store for 100% of your income, the second you want to try anything nifty, such as combo packs, flat rate box shipping (mostly calculations involving if a cart can fit in the flat rate box), coupon codes for only specific products, and random general issues (such as 100 variants per product max, which is annoying when trying to hand-create combo packs with 200-300 variants), I'd suggest something else.

I saw the "$795/" part and was like no way for $800/month. It seems I skipped over the "year" part.

We use Dropbox here at work and it's great. Future looking, are there going to be tiers above 100GB?

And Apple devices use "Live HTTP Streaming" as their alternative for real-time video.

> Has there been a better example than Digg of how detrimental it is to alienate your users on the social web?

Facebook. It changed the day anybody (ie. parents) was allowed on. Now most people I know either refuse to use the service due to employer paranoia or just play Farmville all day, but it's not the same.

At least Facebook rolls with it, I suspect their new features (new Groups, new Photos) seem to cater towards their current audience instead of "getting the old spark back".

Not to be a buzz kill, but I think that's the first thing that will be carrier disabled. The downside to Android's openness is that carriers are open to disable features that they don't like. And they certainly have been pushing against "dumb pipe" since there's still plenty of money in selling "minutes".

Not that extra security is bad for your gems, but I was more or less insinuating iPhone support since that's what I really want. ;)

What I really want to see are upgraders or switchers. Who is switching from what to what? New smartphones may be Android simply because it's not available on any other carrier except AT&T and it has the lowest barrier to entry (ie. cheapo Androids are available).

Because I think that the Android growth is simply people upgrading their dumbphones because they'd be silly not to upgrade at the "free phone w/ new 2 year contract". Not that it's a bad thing, but "market share percentage" of smartphones doesn't really show how smartphones are growing over dumbphones.

Good for Android, but as Windows v. Mac has proven: it's not the market share, but what you do with it. ;)

Why would "Sandbox" functionality need to be first-class implemented in any Ruby? Perhaps a version of Ruby that will run on the iPhone where some carrier's rules could include "No free apps can use cellular internet access". Let AT&T dig their own grave.

For programs that sit in the background (ie. Dropbox), the menuling is better. However I prefer the black "Leopard" style menulings. I disable it if it has color because it's distracting.

There is a non-zero possibility that Jobs simply doesn't want to publicly admit he was wrong.

It's /usr/bin/ruby for the default preinstalled 1.8.7 on OS X.

It's because in the USA, there's no benefit to buying a phone without a contract; you're still going to pay the same monthly rate. There may be deals for employee plans, discounts, or bargaining with the clerk, but for 90%, we just might as well get the $199 iPhone with the outrageous phone plan because we were already going to get an outrageous phone plan no matter what phone you get.

Apple is constantly repeating it's position that the iPhone 4 is just the same as other phones, only better. What makes some people consider to be "desperate move" is that Apple is taking to just about every channel, including the rare Steve-Jobs-On-The-Stage PR event and comparing competitor's phones on their YouTube channel, over this one minor, if ridiculous issue.

Plus it doesn't help when "tech journalists" are willing to vilify Apple for the tiniest thing for the almighty page view. Combine with trolls and a general public that considers cell signals and RF a form of voodoo and sacrifice (you know how many people I know hold their phones to the sky to get "a better signal"), it's war to some people.

You just need to give a new mobileprovision file every three months, no need to update the app unless necessary.

I've always found it to be quite weird that the App Store is so closed, but a person with a developer certificate and MobileProvision can install whatever he wants and can do whatever he wants so long as the apps are codesigned. $99/yr is less than a couple coffees a month (or a good sushi plate) and way less than your phone bill, and is quite worth it for the bored hacker who wants to keep the warranty.

I imagine that Portal 2 and Alien Swarm are based on the same version of the Source Engine that hasn't been ported yet. All the Mac releases so far are older games on older engine versions. Both Left 4 Dead games haven't been ported to Mac yet.

It's probably not too far from the truth. Free tethering is probably causing a hamper on their system.

Except that there's plenty of discussion about this on Apple's boards. This looks to be a case of deleting a bunch of "me too" topics. As a board admin myself, I like to make sure things are on topic and free of trolls.

This Apple antenna thing is like a magnet for rabid pro-Android fans gloating, rabid anti-Apple haters schadenfreude, Internet trolls who do it for the lulz, and the poor people who actually have an issue. I really feel for the poor board moderators who have to sort between the four.

Umm... it's a support board for people who have bought a product, not a soapbox to whine on. It's one thing to have negative threads about how their product they bought doesn't work, it's another when people who haven't bought one complain. (And/or a continuation of the same subject that needs to be merged into the parent thread.)

EDIT: I should edit quickly to say that what I mean is that support boards specifically for support are for one purpose: support. Complaints need to go in the complaint box or the FCC or something.

This really isn't possible since the product assembly is only a small portion of the "made in the USA" part. There's hard drives, flash chips, LCD screens, and other components that are made overseas as well. Some components (like hard drives) are 100% outsourced and Apple just puts in an off-the-shelf (though relabeled) unit.

To my knowledge, all carriers in the US have at least a 14 day 100% money back refund with no egregious loss. (Maybe lose the $30 setup fee.)