I won't be popular for saying this, but here goes: Apple is actually trying to force a return to sanity. For years now, we have all been swallowing the "virtual machine" Kool-aid, watching with baited breath as very talented engineers put incredible technologies into the VMs (garbage collection, trace JITs, etc). All so that the code runs ALMOST as fast as native code* and has features that have been in other libraries/languages for years. Please don't think that I don't value the changes to the languages and libraries -- C# and Java are nice, and I'm glad that they finally got categories (which was in Objective-C 15 years ago, and before that Smalltalk). Still waiting on delegates ;-) My point is this: As a developer, I understand the frustration with having to maintain a codebase across each platform, and thus I see the value of Flash / .NET / Java (and for that matter, HTML / JavaScript). But does anyone remember when Java looked like absolute crap (AWT) on most platforms? The marketing hype was just overwhelmingly inaccurate. And I can give you examples to this day of where a Java program won't run on a certain platform -- the "write one run anywhere" promise is NOT true. And Steve is correct -- Flash crashes ALL the time on my Windows and Mac boxes. So, I think what Steve is trying to do is to say, "Look, I know this will piss of many people to the point where you won't develop for the iPhone OS 4.0 platform, but that's OK and we understand. For those of you who remain, you will have immediate access to all of the coolest new features and your stuff will run fast because its not emulated". Have any of you naysayers even looked at the APIs in Cocoa that would NOT be available if you used Flash / .NET / other? CoreAnimation, CoreAudio, CoreData, etc? Or QuartzComposer? (And yes I know about LINQ on .NET) Apple is being very smart here because they are gambling that with the market share that they have in the mobile market, developers will huff and puff but they will eventually learn Objective-C / C++ and Cocoa. If it's the APPS that make the PLATFORM, then its the API that makes the APPS. All of this being said -- and this is a critical point -- Apple had better hurry up and flesh out their development tools so that they are a viable alternative to the things you can do in Visual Studio and Adobe CS5 pro. They have a ways to go there. * All of you locality-of-reference and usage-pattern VM people, calm down: If you can show me a Java / CLR program that runs as fast as native then I will show you a poorly written native program. Flame off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTjk7uuSScI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox6BtwDmm3c&feature=related

I'm not going to refute your numbers, because that's what apple themselves said. However, you should note that those numbers also include "sales" to retailers like Best Buy.

No doubt they sold tons of iPads, but there weren't 300,000 in the hands of customers on day one.

All I know is that if this attack had occurred on a machine running an MS OS, it would not be given the benefit of the doubt around here. The next time a breach of this magnitude happens on a machine with Windows installed, try to use the same excuse and see where it gets you. If you said "the OS was not compromised, but an application running on top of it" you'd be tarred and feathered.

Their calculator says I'd have a BAC of 0.241 at 0 hours (even assuming that's accurate, in reality it'd be lower because those ten shots would be spaced over several hours). If my body reduced 0.02 per hour, I'd be at zero in roughly twelve hours. Their calculator says 0.096 in twelve hours (it's just using a 7g per hour processing rate, regardless of your age, weight, or gender--i.e. it's making shit up).

So you think Google is the rule, and not the exception? Most modern corporations have the will to skirt US law to sell to countries like Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and so forth, despite trade embargoes. US companies helped themselves and Hitler make a killing during WWII. (A guy named Prescott Bush even got in some trouble for it.) The US and her corporations armed Indonesia in the genocide of the East Timorese, right through the 90s. We are still responsible for 70% of the arms sales in the world, all manufactured by US corporations.

So, no. As long as the Chinese government is paying cash, corporations will ignore everything else. Just like they always do.

Hell, US investment in China skyrocketed after Tiananmen Square, because China proved they were willing to kill their own citizens to maintain order while they opened China up to "investment" in the Special Economic Zones. Meanwhile, Cuba is under an embargo because it's a communist state? I think we can all see the true value system of the American corporation. Just be glad you're on this side of the equation -- for now.

This will be a great, hot new trend until companies start running into what Google already has - their research & assets seized by the government, the company kicked out of the country, and no compensation or help forthcoming. It may not be in China's best interest to do so, but they have the track record already.

Yeah, it's insane. China may or may not be as unsubtle as to seize their assets and kick them out, but you can be pretty certain that anything they develop at the Chinese facilities will end up right in the hands of Chinese competitors. And if after that goes on for a while, they do decide to leave on their own, they'll certainly lose all their fixed assets.

For the record, I used to feel that presidents were interchangeable too. Then a particular president who will go unnamed blew that impression out of the water.

It seems like the options in presidents these days are "Bad" or "Holy Heck Godawful." Sure, that means that they are all bad. But there is casually bad, and there is "make-the-country-laughing-stock-of-the-world" bad.

And maybe all of this means that the Office of the President is an outmoded design choice that doesn't really fit the modern operating needs of the country. Is there another structure that might work better for this?

I am going to bet they found the evidence in emails/records during discovery or they have an inside source.

Unfortunately, by that time it will be a moot point. If we assume that he doesn't get reelected, then the we will only be able to look back and say "yep, Obama was more secretive." If we assume that he does get reelected, then we still lose those 3 years of having greater information available. Those are 3 years that you cannot get back. Either way, we lose something by waiting another 3 years.

I don't think that book needed even one movie.

My daughter attends Auburn University and everything she wears is Orange and Blue...do not think she wants anything else

Please don't lump us jailbreakers in with pirates, Having the power to pirate and doing it are two different things. I take your point, But I just don't see most people going to all that trouble just to dodge a small fee.

    That was my thought on it. They aren't "capturing" it. They're looking at refracted light. It's a very fancy prism. They spent a lot of money on water drops. Otherwise, they should be able to quantify the photon dust on the bottom of their apparatus. :) ... and I was just making a joke about the photon dust, but I googled it, and it's theorized to exist. Well, kinda. :)

    I guess there's gotta be something at the bottom of a black hole from all that light that can't escape, right? :)

Folks, this is a very irresponsible headline at slashdot. The Microsoft articles does NOT say hotfix breaks power save and it doesn't even mention turbo, but that it is an either or solution. Microsoft always offers workarounds as an ALTERNATIVE to the hotfix for people who don't want to apply hotfixes. The Microsoft KB article even tells you if you want to keep using those power states, then run the hotfix and make a certain modification to the registry.

This post makes it sound like some kind of cover up and that the fix causes major CPU slowdowns, and that it's on the level of the AMD Barcelona TLB bug where the fix actually did cause a significant performance drop. This does not appear to be true. The real story is that all CPUs have hundreds of errata, and it's the job of the software maker to work around it, and that is what Microsoft is doing with their hotfix and registry hack. They're also telling you if you aren't experiencing any problems, don't bother applying the hotfix.