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Maybe they're wearing an invisible bicycle helmet.

Think such a thing doesn't exist? Well think again: http://www.hovding.com/en/how/

I suppose it's Nintendo only at the author's home, then.

Great job!

Well then that's bad intended behaviour. The back button should reverse the loading of a new page after clicking a link. It should not interfere with scrolling at all.

This breaks the back-button for me, despite the author claiming otherwise.

Steps to replicate: 1. Visit article 2. Click on logo to go to the home page 3. Scroll down until more content gets loaded 4. Click back button

Expected behaviour: Get moved back to the article page Encountered behaviour: Still at front page, scrolled to the middle.

Using Safari 5.0.5, OS X 10.6.7

The difference is of course: with Apple, rooting a device is not an officially sanctioned thing to do. With Google, it is.

Well, democracy is not everything. If the majority of the electorate wants to fight wars, or repress a certain minority, then you've still got a problem there.

What about people outside the US? Before Apple, the FBI couldn't track them. Now that the phones are sending their gps tracks home every 12 hours, they probably can...

Does it use military mode (the one that is even more precise than regular GPS)? Now that would be great reverse engineering project :)

Where was the GPS receiver mounted? These things need view of the sky, no?

It doesn't for me. I have to click on the page first to make them work. OS X 10.6.7 / Safari 5.0.5 here (basically the newest thing you can get from Apple).

I often scroll down using space or the pagedown key. This has worked with every webpage I've encountered so far.

While I don't care about the styling, every single linked example on that page doesn't work with space or the pagedown key. I wish there was a bit more polish here...

"not permitted to publicly link a UDID to a user account"? Really? But that's exactly what Plus+ is doing:

Register in Plus+ game 1, then open Plus+ game 2 and it promptly recognizes your account.

Appalling.

John Siracusa wrote about this very aptly 5 years ago: Avoiding Copland 2010 http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2005/09/1372.ars

Then he revisited it 10 months in 2010: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/copland-2010-revis...

And then he talked about it 2 weeks ago in the Hypercritical Podcast: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/14

Abstract: new language and new API go hand in hand. A memory managed combo trades execution speed for faster program creation. Was already needed 5 years ago. The recent garbage collection additions don't cut it. Microsoft started working on their successor (.net) 10 years ago and now it's starting to look good. Apple gained some leeway when the iPhone happened. With ever improving CPUs on mobile devices, Apple still risks losing ground down the line.

Great podcast episode, I highly recommend it.

Exactly, many people cannot differentiate front/back and up/down with general purpose HRTF, something that is much better with a custom HRTF.

For basic experiments, put 2 small microphones into your ear canals, hit record, then go for a walk. The result will blow you away :-)

To record your custom HRTF, get an anechoic chamber, put 2 small microphones into your ear canals, then record impulse responses from all directions. Not quite as simple.

Good luck! Post your results here!

I agree. Here's a crazy idea: App creators are limiting themselves. They don't think in the big picture. They play it save. All because previous App denials have made it terribly expensive to create something and then be shut down at the last step.

Where is the next Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Hypercard, Eclipse, XCode, Visual Studio, browser extensible with plugins like Firefox, vmware, Bittorrent, Protools, Cubase, Live, Avid, FCP, Maya, Blender, Max, Aftereffects or Dreamweaver?

Well, quite a few of them have been actively banned by Apple.

I haven't seen any really complex new Apps for the iPad, where somebody invested heavily. Games don't count, they are very rarely killed by Apple. Ports don't count neither, there is less investment there.

Where are the big investments?

I've seen 5 so far: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Garageband, and TheDaily. 4 from Apple and 1 from Murdoch, created with the personal guarantee by Murdoch's buddy Jobs that it will reach customers.

Could somebody comment? Are there app creators that indeed play it save? Are there others that are investing big time and have just not reached their 1.0 yet?

Yes. A custom HRTF makes all the difference between "hey this is kinda cool" and "holy guacamole I can locate everything down to a tee".

Yes, I've tried Papa Sangre. Unfortunately, it uses a general purpose HRTF, which limits the immersion potential.

Great stuff. Without correct speaker positioning and well-matching HRTFs for each listener, I feel that this won't fly.

Btw: I'm thinking about creating a 3D audio game where the HRTF model is constantly refined for the player while he is playing. Does anybody know whether there has already been work done in this direction, either academically or in the indie game world?

Here are more photos and some additional infos:

http://www.eaa.org/news/2011/2011-04-14_aero.asp (scroll down a bit)

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/23/flynano-plane-is-super-li...

Don't you think the whole "lose face" part of the japanese culture is a run down model? With all the mistakes made in the Fukushima plant pre and post incident due to not wanting to lose face (or not controlling enough so that the other party doesn't lose face), it's hard to overlook all the bad things that this concept brings...

Or to ask differently: what do you think is good about the concept?

Right now it's at a balance (169/169 points). I'd be interesting to see how this changes over time. We need to do such a poll every 6 months, somebody mark their agenda.

If you're a dev, file an official bug and mirror it here: http://openradar.appspot.com/faq

Brings the incentive back: if Apple doesn't fix things, there is still a public record of the open bug.

Prevents people from wasting time writing up the same bug over+over.

Also increases the likelihood of getting fixed: if somebody else sees your open bug at openradar, they can file a second bug at Apple. Apple detects that they're duplicates, which "votes up" your bug.

I enabled it as well. App store doesn't hang, but is much slower: downloading an app normally starts after 1 second, with the fix enabled it takes 8s to even start.

LoginWindow sleep worked fine when logging off and pressing the sleep button. Didn't have time to properly test your case.

The big question for me is: How do people with iPhone and iPads enable this? The test in the article yields "not trusted" instead of revoked...

Funny that Apple has revoking turned on for App certs, but not for SSL. Guess they value their platform higher than user data...

The rolling shutter artifacts are present, yes, but it's in the range of a movie camera. Movie cameras also have some slight jelly in fast pans, something not many people are aware of.

"measured the mysterium (RED ONE) at 9ms, the X (EPIC) at 5ms, and film at 4ms. All of them substantially faster than other sensors which can be in the 20's."

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?42240

"The mechanical shutter "wipes" across the film in a similar way to how a CMOS sensor is read. The trick to CMOS is getting the read-reset time similar to the mechanical shutter. EPIC does that. (...) there is skew in a film camera with a mechanical shutter, one of the many reasons film has "character"."

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?55397-General-Questi...

The concept is unclear to me. Is this basically about ad-hoc restaurants, where people cook for guests, and the guests can browse through hosts by looking at pictures of food they cooked? If yes, why don't you write that on the home page?

And why do you only show the food? I'd be interested to see pictures of the hosts.

Also, location would be supremely important. Where are these hosts located?

EDIT: Some more feedback: Photos should look way better. Encourage hosts to use DSLRs. Show some tips on food photography.

Make sure that browsing through the finished site shows just 1 pic per host, with all the other pics grouped together at the host page.

Apart from that, fantastic concept, wish you luck!

In other words, giving your book to somebody in good faith but the person then pirates it will cost you $300'000 (or at least it did in this case with Caridi and DVD screeners).

In other words, you better not share, unless you've got a lot of money laying around...

I have never had a problem with small links. iPhone user here. I can reliably hit a 3x10 pixel area on the 3GS.

Maybe PadKite is a solution to sub-par touch sensor performance on some Android devices, as shown here:

http://www.gadgetsdna.com/how-do-the-smartphones-rank-in-ter...

That was Racter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter).

"It" even wrote a book called "The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed". Was a fun read at its time. (http://www.ubu.com/historical/racter/index.html)

I'm not believing that. It goes against all Apple said ("We've got 2 platforms, the App store and the web. The web is open and we support that").

This is all just hearsay. Where's the smoking gun? Where's the Exec email?

I agree that "similar devices" might live up to become as commonplace as microwaves.

But if the iPad with its control freak attitude stays at its 90% penetration in this market, I've got no trust in humanity anymore.