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I see it as a stepping stone. The tech will eventually trickle into mainstream and become so cheap that it's throwaway. Long term ideas off the top of my head: A tyre lets you know when it needs air or replacement. A plant contains explicit information about what nutrients it needs. A coffee maker prepare coffee for you when you get home.

Longer term, when augmented reality glasses become useful it could open up some really cool opportunities. Instead of having to remember all the little mundane things, we'll be able to see them. Instead of having the world cluttered with LCDs and input devices, we'll be able to separate the object APIs from the interfaces. Not so we can fiddle with our phones to find the home automation app. It's so we'll be able to say "lights", "heat up some water for a shower", " show me who's at the door". Maybe my perspective is skewed, I grew up watching star trek. Isn't this sorta stuff a hackers dream?

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I'm with you there. I'm normally an Apple fanboy, but iOS is looking cluttered and dated beside Metro.

I think familiarity has a lot to do with it. He was trying various gestures to get the Win8 tiles to move and select. He mentioned that you should hold down and drag to move a tile, but what I gather from other demos is that a swipe down on the tile selects it and a long swipe down moves it.

The intensity of the swipe seems to affect the speed if that helps any. A fast swipe switches spaces almost instantly... I don't know how practical this is on a magic mouse but it works ok on a trackpad.

That makes way more sense :) I just added an imitation to my post below.

Hopefully I'm not being rude, but I thought I might try my hand at some as well.

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edit: I can't reply below yet, but I think I'm done at 4 so feel free to incorporate them into a sheet!

It might just be me, but the line "Perfect backup for your baby pictures :-)" on your features page struck me as a little... odd. It's the only smiley face on the site as far as I can tell, and the oddness of the lone smiley accompanied by talk of photos of children just seemed somehow creepy! Again, maybe it's just me :)

Yeah, maybe "reliably" was a bad choice of words, reliability has little to do with it. I agree that Linux on the desktop can be fine if you have the time to set it up for your needs. I just think that setup time is not much fun after a while and not strictly necessary when you look at how the competition does it.

It seems better :) I think the finder was rewritten for snow leopard and I haven't noticed the same horrible clunkiness in relation to slow/unreliable network shares. That said, I nearly always use AFP or SFTP for moving stuff around so those protocols could still be dodgy.

You'd be surprised at the variety of hardware that's supported. Loads of graphics cards, many sound devices, nearly anything USB, lots of chipsets and CPUs.

My relevant experience is with my htpc running linux and my linux/hackintosh dual boot machine.

Both machines are fully supported by Linux and the hackintosh is supported by community kernel extensions. Getting linux up and running for the htpc required a lot of fiddling with config files... adding refresh rates to X manually, custom ALSA configs to enable the audio device to show up correctly, accept the correct sample rates and stream 5.1 properly, adding extra PPAs to get video drivers that support one of the various forms of accelerated video decoding, scripts to shut down gnome when xbmc is running because it interferes with rendering for some unknown reason, messing with launchd because it launched programs that rely on all filesystems being mounted before they were mounted... that's just off the top of my head.

The hackintosh required a boot cd and a package for drivers that weren't natively supported. Once the drivers were installed, it worked. That's it. Everything that took days of tinkering and forum searching on linux just worked.

I have years of experience with linux and this was my first time trying OS X on an unsupported machine. So no, I'm not misinformed and no I'm not trolling, I thought HN was supposed to be civilized :/

OS X runs on multiple architectures with a wide variety of hardware. You can build a PC out of parts and run OS X on it. Just because the drivers are limited doesn't mean it isn't portable. The thing about OS X is that when the drivers are there, it works reliably and with a minimum of fuss. You can't say that about Linux.

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The acceleration is present in Lion and it's more sensitive than in iOS, so you can get through about 5 window heights with a fast flick or go pixel by pixel if you move slow enough. Also if you flick again before the inertia has died down, the acceleration seems to build up, so 3 quick flicks might get you through 20 screens of content. Pretty cool really.

I would like to subscribe to the verbose version of your newsletter :) That sounds very interesting.

I think there's a lot to be learned from buddhism but I don't think the statements in this video add up to much. Why does the notion of space as information promote a more compassionate outlook? Is Rupert Sheldrake is the best person to cite as a buddhist scientist? Is he even a buddhist? Just playing devils advocate here ;)

hmm, reminds me of couchdb a little.

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