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We've all known it for a while, but this redesign (which I think is quite nice compared to Microsoft's previous efforts) throws their logo into stark relief. It looks outdated. It doesn't match.

I'm speculating that we'll see an across-the-board Microsoft rebrand within the next two years, including a new logo for the company. They've rebranded their core software offering, they're now changing directions on their hardware/software philosophy, and trying to gain some mindshare for their new aesthetic (and their new appreciation for aesthetics more generally) is going to be a core part of that movement.

Thoughts?

+1. Archiving is a huge part of my workflow, which is similar to that of the folks above me.

Pretty sure all versions of iOS >= 4 (and new-ish versions of OS X) support Archive when you tap the Delete icon, so it's not something I even think about anymore.

Whether or not Apple's corporate culture is "controlling" (though I don't really understand why you're conflating 'confrontational' with 'controlling' in the first place) does not directly impact whether policies towards consumers are restrictive. Since the two seem related, I can see why you'd slip into that, but your claim is really a non sequitur.

Also, that article is about a patent lawsuit being brought against a third-party software development firm. The plaintiffs probably requested that Apple take down the allegedly infringing app, and they did. Any curator, no matter how strict or liberal their policies, has the freedom to remove potentially patent-infringing content from their marketplace.

(Which, for the record, isn't to say I agree that the patent is legitimate. I really hope the small developer wins.)

Why not just use a top-of-the-line iMac with 32GB RAM? It's not officially supported, but it does work.

These may be functional and fully Linux-compatible and whatever, but the key for me is this: does its trackpad compare to that of the MacBook Pro?

Oh, it doesn't? You mean I'll have to carry around an external mouse to compensate for the lackluster trackpad? You mean one of the two ways I interact with my computer is clunky at best and non-functional at worst compared to the best one on the market?

Sorry. No dice.

Though I agree that it's good (awesome, even), it should be noted that only one of those ports is a LAN port. The other is WAN only.

Side question: does anyone know why Apple uses edgesuite.net for these things? Is that an internal name, a third-party corp. managing their video distribution, or something else?

For me, it's really Spaces whose usefulness was diminished in 10.7. They used to be configurable in multiple dimensions (i.e., X & Y): now they're linear only. Lame city.

Can't help but agree with you here. I think tweeting (whether about the conference or not), surfing the web, reading/responding to email, etc. during a talk are symptomatic of the same inability to maintain focus and to think deeply when that's not PRECISELY what we want to be experiencing in a given moment.

Because of the fleetingness of the things we do online, even if the particulars are boring and mind-numbing (e.g., reading fifteen Cracked Top 10 articles in a row, or fruitlessly tweeting to tech celebrities in hope of a reply), we don't notice because the experience in general gives us the impression of fulfillment by virtue of its variety alone.

I did a video on something like this that got some traction on reddit, where some really nice, knowledgable folks told me about BeOS and the original vision for Longhorn.

What I think both of them are missing is a really simple GUI that makes it so that the average user doesn't need to worry about the metadata layer, which seemed a little too present in those efforts.

I'd posted it on HN at the time, but it never really picked up any steam. Here it is again, if you're interested: https://vimeo.com/39284250

It's also throwing a 404 error for modernizr. It's looking for it in /rooms/js/libs/modernizr..., but it's actually in /js/libs/modernizr....

This'd all be easier to confirm, obviously, if they'd have set up a demo site. Anyone else care to take a gander?

The readme isn't very well written. Would someone with Node.js/redis experience be willing to write a more comprehensive installation guide?

Not sure how that's obvious from your links. It'd be helpful if you gave some explanation.

Are you guys part of the H&FJ web font beta? Or are you using Gotham on the web in violation of your license agreement with them?

If it doesn't steal my credit card information, I'm not interested.

What can I say? I'm a traditionalist.

She's barely comprehensible and monotonous besides. Nobody in that room is listening to her anymore. All three people in the frame behind her are looking at a screen.

Ridiculous.