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When the iPad first appeared on the market, publishers immediately saw its potential as a media-consumption device. Indeed they were right: iPad (and tablet) users are more likely to buy content than smartphone users. What they were not right about though was that native apps were the right vehicle to break into this market. A number of high-profile publishers have been recently abandoning native apps in favour of the mobile web. Learning lessions from 500 years of non-proprietary print.
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In artificial systems it seems we need a new and broader definition of self-awareness - but what that definition is remains an open question. Defining artificial self-awareness as self-recognition assumes a very high level of cognition, equivalent to sentience perhaps. But we have no idea how to build sentient systems, which suggests we should not set the bar so high. And lower levels of self-awareness may be hugely useful and interesting - as well as more achievable in the near-term. Why are we fighting to save the humans? They're a primitive and violent race.
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There are two end-user computing devices I hold in the highest disregard: all-in-one PC desktops and thin clients. While they both apparently have their place in the information technology ecosystem—preferably far away from me—they also carry with them a hidden message to the poor worker drone stuck using them. Your boss doesn’t think you’re worth spending money for a real computer. Green screen of dread.
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Apple: Make the iPhone 5 Ethically.
Quote: Reporters have documented cases of deadly, preventable, explosions at iPad factories, and repeated instances of employees dying of exhaustion after long shifts [...] while Apple makes hundreds of dollars of profit on each iPhone or iPad it sells, only $8 and $10 (respectively) goes to the workers that make it.
Think they're screwing you by overcharging you? They're screwing the workers who make the iPhone a great deal more.
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Definitely the right sentiment.
Now how about we do this for the whole industry, not just the poster child?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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WikiLeaks Enters the Music Business.
The album, "Beat the Blockade", has 12 songs and is available via iTunes, but not Amazon (the website originally responsible for taking down the Wikileaks site). Funds spent purchasing the album will go toward supporting WikiLeaks.org.
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Won't be long till Apple removes it from ITunes 
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I would not be surprised. Apple did remove a WikiLeaks app from the app store for a pretty bogus reason.
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One person's concept of the best companies. A number of them state that the pay is not so great. That should lower them out of the running for the best.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: A number of them state that the pay is not so great. That should lower them out of the running for the best.
that would be, as someone once said, "one person's concept" of what makes a company great.
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Interesting. I just moved from No 25 to No 14 on that list.
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I've only heard of 12 of the 25. It really depends on what you look for in a job. Some like high profile stuff, some like money, some like the technology, some like the comradeship. Everyone has a different meaning for best.
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This is an introductory overview post for the Linux Graphics Stack, and how it currently all fits together. To start us off, I’m going to paste the entire big stack right here, to let you get a broad overview of where every piece fits in the stack. If you do not understand this right away, don’t be scared. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
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I'm having 'nam flashbacks of working with X11 all those years ago. I haven't used it in a while, but the layers you had to go through was like waiding through mud. Talk about slow...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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E-books will be obsolete within five years. Crippled by territorial license restrictions, digital rights management, and single-purpose devices and file formats that are simultaneously immature and already obsolescent, they are at a hopeless competitive disadvantage compared to full-fledged websites and even the humble PDF. Coming soon: a FoxBooks superstore and the end of civilization as you know it.
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PDF is one of the crappier formats for online reading, because it renders to a fixed page size and layout.
Users don't care about adolescence of file formats.
Some Internet Guy wrote: This means most e-books are using technology that was cutting edge fourteen years ago
The technology you use to get your bodily waste out of your house was cutting edge about 2000 years ago. This is not even a point.
The same guys wrote: single-purpose devices
... as if it was a bad thing.
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I don't think so. In the last month (different) people told me the following:
- normal internetpages will vanish in the next five years, because everything will be published in solcial media or on boards.
- paperback will vanish in the next ten years, because no one will buy a paperback book anymore because of e-books
- laptops will vanish in the next five years because of pads.
- BluRay, DVDs and all other disctypes will be out of print in five years because of downloadable movies.
Once they told me that in the year 2000 nobody will use vinyl, they told me that in 2010 no one will buy a CD.
I don't believe it and (as Ford Prefect says in hgtg) proove it I still won't believe it. 
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Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem
How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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I agree. Just look at other wars such as video tape, bluray, pc. People will go where they get the most freedom. There are too many tablets out there that are incompatible. PDF does do the job, as does web format. Sure there will have to be some work done to make pdf compatible with smaller displays, and I suspect it will be done, or pdf will be replaced with something that does. There will be some sort of common format that will solve the problem. The current situation in tablets cannot exist, and the winners will be the ones that are most flexible. Just look at ITunes. Originally apple tried to tie everything down, but that did not work and they had to change. I suspect Itunes will eventually die. I know I will not use Itunes, just like I will not use non-standard formats for books. I go with pdf (i am also fine with word, rtf, etc), and anything else is not get my dollar.
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What the article ignores is that the current ePub and mobi formats works well enough for the main application - portable books. Last not least miles better than PDF.
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Maybe e-books are obsolete.
I read e-books on my phone using an open-source e-reader.
I need a reader to have a toc, remember by bookmarks per book and remember where I stopped per book. Currently browsers, pdf readers, word and text editors don't do this (I don't want to bookmark where I ended every time I put done my phone).
Maybe we'll end up with an e-reader that reads html5 together with other formats. Epub is not the only format out there. Html5 will just be another format for a reader to process.
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Somehow I feel that both the paperback and ebooks will coexist although the paperback volumes might drop further.
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The assumption here (erroneous) is that everyone a) has an e-reader of some description and b) gives a toss about the format of the item they are reading. Another fatuous prediction of a non-event.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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