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Yes, back in 2004 we did offer lifetime free updates for Professional Edition customers. We changed it to 1 year of updates a number of years ago, but indefinite access for the versions released during your free update period. But of course, we grandfathered in all licenses that came with lifetime free updates. I think when we started offering lifetime free updates back in 1998, we didn't expect to still be working on VueScan 27 years later!

Those old Nikon scanners really were great scanners - VueScan will be there when you need it!

VueScan Developer here. We have a subscription option - but that's really intended for customers who have short term scanning needs (ie. scan all of your slides). If you purchase a one-time VueScan license, you can use it indefinitely.

Not a ton has changed for the better - but a few things have:

  1. Ticket prices have come down in real terms (especially with the advent of low cost airlines)
  2. Fuel economy on newer jets has improved
  3. Increased number of routes and frequencies
  4. Lie flat seats in business and above on long haul
  5. WiFi on planes
  6. In-flight entertainment - both seatback units and video over WiFi

I believe he is referring to the Lindy effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

I think this is what Curb (formerly Taxi Magic) (http://gocurb.com/) is doing.

Spreadsheets and word processors are good examples. Visicalc was overtaken by Lotus 1-2-3 which was overtaken by Excel. WordPerfect was overtaken by Microsoft Word.

This is great. I continue to use bitbucket for all of my personal repos since they provide unlimited private repos for free. I would use github for my private repos but I have lot's of small repos that make private github cost prohibitive.

In-App purchases are for digital goods only (Content, Functionality, Services, Subscriptions). You are completely free to sell real/physical goods (ie. a train ticket) via your own payment system.

https://developer.apple.com/appstore/in-app-purchase/In-App-...

"You must deliver your digital good or service within your app. Do not use In-App Purchase to sell real-world goods and services."

I think that all of that can be supported by file formats. There is no rule that an image file format can only hold the pixel information. The issue is that it's hard for all vendors to agree on a standard, and once it's agreed upon, people want to add more information to it. We have EXIF for images, but what happens when iPhoto and Picasa both add face tags?

I don't believe files are the issue, it's agreeing on the interchange format that is.

The person who invented the original traffic signal patented it in 1923 (http://www.google.com/patents?id=EHJoAAAAEBAJ&printsec=f...). The idea was unique, novel, and non-obvious at the time. It's easy to see an invention now that is ubiquitous and say that it's obvious.

Works for chrome. Doesn't work for Safari or Finder.

Good use of Twitter's css framework, bootstrap. Makes it much easier to launch a website with a decent UI without too much thought.

Unfortunately you can't write data to your application bundle. That folder is read-only.

Good use of Twitter's new Bootstrap framework http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Shameless self promotion - I'm the author of VueScan Mobile which will let you scan to your iPhone/iPad using WiFi printer/scanners from Epson/HP/Canon. I've been using this for awhile to scan all of those random forms I seem to accumulate and save them in Evernote. I especially love that evernote OCR's and indexes all of the documents so that I can search through every document I have scanned.

I think one very interesting case is services like directv, dish networks, comcast, tivo etc. They all offer services but their apps are ancillary to the subscription service that they provide. Does Apple want Directv to offer subscriptions within the app?

This is very disappointing. Paul is a great writer and a great voice on the engadget podcast.

Note: This article is from 2007.

The author should have kept in mind that Unix is used on everything from mainframes to desktop computers to smartphones.