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Well I guess you could link brain patterns to thoughts, but how do you gonna read them without a 5 ton MRI machine?

Buy the right thing for your daughter, that you think will influence her in the right way? How come the responsibility to raise a child lies not in the parents anymore, but rather in companys and what they want to sell to them. Nothing is stopping you from dumping a big pile of mixed LEGO pieces in her room for christmas.

A little bit too simple for me. I guess it supposed to look cool and sleek, but I don't know, something is odd about just 4 lines. What do you guys think?

Am I the only one who agrees? Obviously going back to something like BeOS is a little extreme, but fact is OS X Lion made things worse. I don't need LaunchPad or AirDrop or the AppStore, oh and thanks for hiding my Library folder and reversing my scroll direction, wtf. Now I'm looking at Windows 8 and the only thing that comes to my mind is: Why the hell would I want to install that on my PC? Tell me. My PC is not an iPhone! If this trend continues we all end up using Ubuntu without Unity sooner or later.

Doesn't really matter anyway, since the worst offender are always Flash & Java plugins. You should disable Java right away if you haven't done yet.

Headline is not true. Motorola won a patent case and now can make Apple stop selling iPhones/iPads, they didn't yet. At that point Apple's lawyers will appeal the ruling and who knows where it goes from there.

Something tells me people using Bingo Card Creator aren't the most technical people and these little download screenshots would make much more beneficial there than on the Dropbox page ;)

There goes one of the greatest game-designer of our time. I remember his talk from E3 this year, where he - between the lines - criticized most of the modern game-design. Some of the points he made:

- Gameplay is everything. Games are about gameplay, don't turn games into movies. I think the Mario & Zelda series show this rather well.

- Always change something in a sequel. This was one of his strongest points, if you look at Nintendo, all they do is sequels of their existing IPs, but unlike - say Assassins Creed cough - they always make sure it's never just more of the same.

Most of the time, you loose the "crispness" of the final image with AA and everything tends to look a little bit blurry. Couple that with fact, that it drops the FPS by quite a bit and over time I got slowly conditioned against AA. However in some games it looks very good. WoW for example has a much better image quality with AA. Of course it also runs with 60 FPS pretty much everywhere.

How's that heavily damaging? Google is known to be open about its workings, and I think most people agree that an engineer explaining underlying concepts is a positive thing. Putting up NDAs on every little thing is just silly and annoying.

On that note I'm all for introducing English as additional official state language in all EU countries. There's a lot being done to educate people in English across Europe, but this will be a slow process, taking decades, no matter what you do. Right now politicians seem to be pre-occupied with keeping the EU together though, so we'll have to wait first for the dust to settle a bit.

Well of course. The whole topic of inequality stems from us acting like the evolutionary animals we all are inside. The only way to counter act is to consciously analyze these behaviors and try to adjust ourselves.

Yes this is much worse and should get 10x the attention. Reason for me to be suspicious of every Android phone I'll get (I assume there are ways to remove it and that it's not shipped on non-contract Nexus). The reason a comparatively minor iPhone scandal gets so big is because everything Apple related gets now over-hyped in the media. You could say Jobs has marketed the Apple brand very well.

Yes this is much worse and should get 10x the attention. The reason comparatively minor iPhone scandal gets so big is because everything Apple related gets now over-hyped in the media. You could say Jobs has marketed the Apple brand very well.

Are they gonna redesign Google now every 2 month? I mean the new Google Bar looks ok, but the "old" black one is stylish too, so why just throw it out after such short period of time?

Well some people say if you are getting offended by "inappropriate" jokes that's basically your problem, not the problem of the majority of people there having fun. After all its just jokes, as in having humour. At a developer conference you shouldn't be so critical about it.

And she actually sings about the time, when you could find Ron Paul posts on Digg. That feels like a century ago.

VLC doesn't really manage your media, does it? It just plays it.

Only if you set it up as Exchange account.

Good news. I want Apple developers to go and debug their apps without access to the devices filesystem and tell me how that feels!

Ignore minoritys. Great strategy.

Only if Apple (and not some random third party) releases a wireless gamepad as an accessory for iOS devices. Then it could really take of.

Amazing how good smartphone cameras are these days, I remember taking pictures with one of the first Nokia phones equipped with VGA cameras, and you couldn't see a damn think on them.

Ok yes, I know, obviously a lot of people are moving away from RIM.

In the context of the article, by "anybody" I meant companies and organisations, who are working with highly sensitive and confidential information. That's the segment the phone in the article is trying to compete in. In order to move these people away from RIM, they have to build up trust though, which is a long process.

I don't see anybody ditching RIM yet. Security needs to be proven with a track record. No matter what systems they deploy, there will always be exploits and hacks.

I am so fucking tired of this argument. "Users don't care" - well you know what? I AM a user. And if a phone can't do X it does matter for me, even if you or your grandma might not care. It's downright insulting saying that I am somehow different from regular people, because I have flaws with Apple products.

Is it done in the cloud? Why would it require an iPhone 4S then?

Of course a competent Perl developer could have, after all that is his domain, but he'd still needs to come up with scalable hosting somewhere and why exactly would he want to do that in the first place?. As someone who's primary field isn't web development its amazing what one can put together in a weekend these days - if I had, say, a J2ME app a decade ago and wanted to do the same thing, I don't think I'd even try.

Painting everything a little bit dark, aren't we?

Look here's a story: We just had our national holiday in Germany and therefore a long weekend. So I decided to code an update for an iPhone app I have. The app lets the user create funny pictures, so I thought it would be cool to have an online gallery with user-created pictures, where people could vote on the best ones and have a weekly top list. Now this is far from trivial though, suddenly I need online storage, a database for users and votes, and a webservice to handle all of that. So I looked around, found Node.js, MongoDB, Heroku and S3, signed up, started reading, learning and coding. 2 Days later and the first version is done and working. How much did I know about this before and how much does this stack cost me? Almost nothing.

So where's my point with this? First, this kind of story would be impossible just a few years ago. When you realize, how it's now possible for a small developer to reach potentially tens of thousands of users, without the need of a big budget or being in control of delivery channels. When you realize, how much powerful resources are now right at the fingertips of the average developer, how you just need to sit down, read and learn, and you are able to implement even the wildest ideas - then I can't help but think these times are great!

Coding is still hard and despite advancement in technology, it may not have gotten much easier. But many things that used to be straight out impossible, can now, with the right commitment, be archived from the comfort of your own four walls.

This is what I like to do on daringfireball posts: http://i.minus.com/iXy1JUUd4GGMz.jpg - and that's pretty much my opinion about them.