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Re:Businessweek Magazine's Classy Tribute to Steve Jobs on Sunday October 09, 2011 @01:02PM (#3090773)
More likely, they had this issue prepared ahead of time. They, like most observers, knew it was coming. No ads simplifies the logistics of swapping out the issue.
Given the crazy complicated XML schemas people come up with, I'd say you are lucky it's just plain text, and you can parse it without needing a library.
I do find it amazing how people comment on it, yet none of the links work.

Does anybody actually bother to even check out the site.

The only thing that works is the front page!

Re:The Curious Complexity of Being Turned On on Monday November 29, 2010 @01:49PM (#1951309)
Perhaps the "mood detector" isn't the most intuitive example. But imagine it's some sort of computer peripheral that several applications make use of. The problem seems simple until multiple agents start to mess with it. So you start out with steve's simple model, and you too will progress to what he ended up with eventually.

on/off seems easy, but it's hard in complex systems. Like how complex can it be to turn windows vista on and off, right?