As others have mentioned, the universe won't let us see what happens when a photon travels through the slits as a wave. It's as if God puts down a curtain, and instead shows it to us as a particle instead. We are not allowed to see what really happens. It is this phenomenon that makes me believe our Universe is in fact artificial, a digital simulation.
A better fight would be to push for 802.22 (super-wifi) broadband ISP's. Cell networks are obviously going to have a hissy-fit when any competition to their 3G and 4G oligopolies get tumbled over by superior technology. Due to the corruption of US politics I seriously doubt this will ever see the day of light.
Imitating something that already exists is nowhere near as difficult as creating something truly unique. To create some that's never existed before requires different skills. If know the exact storyboard, functionality, and design should work, then you don't even have to stop and think about anything while implementing it. You don't even need any trial error because someone else did that work already.
Carbon copying for vanity just doesn't my respect.
This sounds like sci-fi but I think we're not far from being able to do this. I think the entire Postal system could be replaced with UAV's. Why deliver mail by hand when robots would clearly be better and could work 24/7 and not go crazy. Food delivery maybe doesn't have the profit margins to do it yet, but eventually it will.
Icon-check then calls a JavaScript function which draws the icon to the canvas. The icon files end up being javascript files which can be gzipped along with other assets.
A reasonable dividend (1% per yr) leaves more options open for a big acquisition in the future if they want, eg Sony, or Comcast, or Netflix (they can afford all three if they want). I highly doubt they'll blow the whole load in one shot.
The US is going completely authoritarian, and it's becoming more and more scary by the day. It is an extremely serious situation when the most powerful country in the world starts acting like this. Fascism is dangerous, and the US is walking a very thin line now.
Without question root DNS control needs to be stripped from this regime. Imagine for a second if the Internet was controlled by Nazi Germany, or Stalin-era Russia, or today's China... It would be completely unacceptable. If control is not taken away from these thugs now it will only get harder in the future.
The answer is to use HTML5 canvas instead of SVG, and create your icons as a JavaScript algorithm. Canvas code can become vector if you utilize the scale() function. I've done this for the icons in one of my web apps and it's a superb solution.
If there was some way to export a vector drawing as a JavaScript algorithm, or some semi-standard way to process an SVG image to Canvas then it'll become the defacto icon solution for the forseeable future.
Ah yeah I should have expected such pedantry on HackerNews. You know very well I didn't mean you were going to stop using Windows immediately. I said nothing of the sort. You didn't even have the respect to read anything else I said or even acknowledge that I said anything else. Instead you pointlessly nitpicked at a generalization and added nothing to this thread.
This is actually a battle cry for Mozilla. The desktop GUI paradigm is done for, it's at the end of the line. Once desktops die off in popularity there will be no growth for web browsers like Firefox unless they own the whole stack like Apple and Google have successfully done, and Microsoft and RIM are attempting to do. Mozilla is developing Boot2Gecko because without expanding into a full mobile platform Mozilla is in a really tough spot in the smartphone/tablet markets. Predictions for the future put Apple/Safari at 45% marketshare, Google/Android at 54% marketshare, and the 1% scraps left over for RIM, Microsoft and now Mozilla.
Mozilla will to have sell an awful lot of these phones for their organization to be viable in the future.
Between free online services (Google, Facebook), extensive piracy (bitorrent), and the proliferation of free open source software, internet users have had it drilled into their heads to not pay for anything, ever. I'm in the 37 Signals camp - I think the creators of software and services need to charge for it, and users need to start paying for software they like.
You're implying that Kevin Rose is like an NBA superstar, but his startup didn't earn a single penny and got shuttered. How is that anything like a basketball star who throws the ball in a hoop well?
It's Fantasy Silicon Valley available for iPhone and Android! Trade your team's hustlers for their engineers, make billions in an IPO, and defeat the evil villain Mark Zuckerburg.
half-baked idea got hundreds of thousands of users... That is success.
No it isn't. Success is earning money and staying in business. Oink earned zero dollars and failed, so how does did this failure translate into success for Kevin Rose? Was Oink just something to add to his resume? I don't get it.
Yeah well Kevin Rose's startup had a couple hundred thousand users and made $0. So what makes Kevin Rose so amazing that he deserves a bailout, while the rest of the startup world whose name isn't Kevin Rose has to do things the hard way, like grinding it out, or EARNING a job at Google, or starting another startup?
That's exactly the issue, Kevin Rose is getting dollars for shuttering an unsuccessful web service. Why does Kevin Rose get to cash out for being a failure, simply because his name is Kevin Rose, while all the hardworking nobody engineers slave away to build successful companies without any help or millions of dollars splashing down on them for their supposed greatness which is unsupported by evidence?
If it's jealousy and hatred, then it's not because of being jealous of success. A lot of developers work really, really hard on their startups for years bootstrapping, just scraping by, and being ignored by investors because they're not famous. And Kevin Rose comes along with a half-baked idea of posting pictures of the food you're eating to the Internet, and his "startup" that he's "really dedicated to" get's almost a couple million just dropped in his lap for no reason and year later just whimsically quits and gets a job at Google with no real engineering skills or anything tangible to bring to the company other than stories of what actual developers produced at Digg.
I think he means that Google is like "Happy Days" at their peak, and hiring Kevin Rose is a desperate attempt to still look cool like the Fonz, but in fact are foreshadowing that their market capitalization will probably now decline.
Wow a full 33% of his work day (2-3 hours per day) he's working on something new while the company slips further behind the competition. Are we supposed to congratulate Nokia?
Site owners can't prevent their data from going through a proxy. If they don't provide an API the service is going to look backward, and be less useful in the future. This type of system is inevitably coming because there's no way a human can possibly keep up with the number of new content services that are coming out.
If they didn't really believe in this "innovative" idea of taking pictures of food and posting them on the internet, and didn't have the resources and conviction to see it through, then why will they be more successful next time?
What you've alluded to is actually how people will interact with nearly all services in the future, through a proxy. Great effort is taken by social media sites to make it difficult to migrate off. But what they, and their investors, don't want you to know is that eventually these services will be reduced to API's that your proxy (an intelligent agent) communicates with.
Proxies already exist for linking your Twitter and Facebook feeds, and this trend is going to continue and possibly one day even replace the WWW we use today.