There is nothing naive about thinking that "We the People", should maybe be a bit more concerned with the actions of our government. Not just during election years, and not only when the bill threatens our precious entertainment. There's plenty of other bills that should have had equally strong responses, that were basically ignored as inevitable. Heck, look at this complete laziness on the part of the Senate as it is. Yet we toss our hands up in the air and declare how we know how useless politicians are. As a form of acceptance. People -do- write, call, email, and pester their representatives. But mostly it's just a hum to them. A quiet hum in the background that's easily ignored. SOPA/PIPA showed that we the employers of these people -CAN- make enough noise to be heard.

That the public doesn't turn out to protest every horrible bill that way. Pretty sure the patriot act could have used that kind of response.

File a lien against them, and make sure you inform Dun and Bradstreet of the lien.

Because, even beyond disclosure. It makes sense to have the person in charge of your companies Social Network, to be using -it-, not your competitors.

Best way to develop a good product, is make the developers eat their own dog food and use it.

If the media companies can't figure out that charging people to view ads is no longer a workable business model, well then... can't help 'em.

Namco's "Isaac Newton's Gravity" puzzler, she worked through all 100 of the puzzles over about a one year period, with only the occasional help from me.
Minecraft PE, which now that she's older she's getting more into the desktop version instead, but when she was younger I could set her up in creative mode, and it would act simply as an infinite lego set for her. (She also adores real legos as well)

Neither may seem like straight up math or science, but she's picked up some surprisingly well thought out ideas about physics and architecture from both.

The Montessorrium apps, like Intro to Math (and Intro to Letters) she got a huge amount of use from, which while just basic as the names would imply was good around that age.

DragonBox+ is awesome and I highly recommend it, even to adults. It's basically a series of algebraic puzzles, using cards that start off not as numbers.

When she got curious about elements, we picked up the Nova Elements app, which answered her questions at the time pretty well.

Most of the rest of the items we've picked up for her for the iPad haven't been specifically science or math based, though a lot of book style apps. She's a big fan of Curious George, the Bartleby Buttons book/apps, and anything about DIsney's Cars. The new Reading Rainbow app has been great too, as it came out just as she was really starting to read on her own, so it's given her a lot of material to easily choose from.

Heck, I would LOVE to see 3 security settings. I keep my phone locked with a reasonable length password, but there's a definite tradeoff between security and convenience. I've wondered for ages why I can't actually have 3 settings:

Apps that are accessible no matter what with no password or anything. I mean honestly, I don't even care if someone uses the calculator on my phone. There's a number of apps I'd drop in here for use at any time.

Apps that require a simple pin. I for instance would put apps that require data usage in this, but don't actually have personal data. But don't need anyone who potentially gets ahold of my phone wasting my battery on burning through costly minutes/data without at least some effort (A pin would slow them down enough that if it was actually stolen I could very likely have already noticed and erased the phone), Turning the phone off and on should also require this at a minimum.

Apps that require a strong password. Banking apps, the web browser, anything that I feel contains personal data. Most of these apps probably also contain their own strong password requirements, and I don't mind having to enter a password to get to the app, to enter a password to verify the service.

While there'd be something to be said for more levels than this, I'd say 3 is something that pretty much anyone could wrap their heads around with a minimal amount of instruction if needed.

Rather than having them copy the output. Give them each a different set of art assets, and have them each turn out an original work using the lessons -taught and shown- by the example. Then there's no copying, and they might actually learn something.

Not sure about if it's their own implementation or not, but it IS very easy to move to a new device.

They provide a serial number in the app, and a recover code. Simply entering both on the new mobile device and you've got a clone of the original.

Well I -should- be able to sell it for any price I desire, even at great loss to myself. Because if I'm willing to say, take a loss on the part just to get it out of my garage. Why should -anyone- be able to tell me I can't make that choice?

Don't know what Jean-Louis is talking about, as there were press releases and everything not long ago about Apple ramping up production at TSMC foundries. Don't think they feel they need Samsung or Intel for their ARM production.

Is it me, or is blurring/removing something from these maps the absolute ideal way to tell the entire world: "There's something really important to someone here."

I can see the conversation now. "How do I get to the Secret Base?" -- "Take a left and follow the road until it disappears on your map, then you're there."

Honestly, the screen size isn't a big deal.

As an example, I'm about to ship a new app to the app store, as soon as my company settles on a product name. Meanwhile, adding support for the new screen size involved... dropping a new launch image into the project.

Literally, that was it, not even a line of code. Since all my views already took into account different screen sizes to support properly laying out on both the iPhone and the iPad, it all happily resized itself to the new screen size exactly the way it was supposed to.

So what's the problem again?

Actually, for a lot of apps it won't be much work at all. I have a slew of apps I develop that all have the few constraints set up properly, I'm more than able to change the size of any of the views and have them resize exactly as they should.

On the other hand I'm glad they don't just scale it without letting the app Opt-In, as I also have products that expect the views to be a very specific ratio (a game for one), and I wouldn't want it just changing that ratio on the game and making our nice pixel art suddenly look oddly sized.

On the iBookstore book prices are set by the Publisher -not- Apple. Just like the AppStore they let the copyright owner set the price. If Harpercollins wants to discount their books on the iBookstore, they can go in and change the price tier themselves.