FWIW: I seem to recall something said at the keynote (or many a discussion afterward) that the greater power of the 4s' A5 was "needed". [ correct me if I just dreamt that ]
Not that that should stop anybody from processing it with an A4-powered iPhone.
> 1. Encryption really was expensive in 1996 or so, but in the age of multicores, its questionable if there's a real cost now.
A lot of "budget-priced" hosting services are near-free for http and heavily-surcharged for https. - Pricing it to make it seem as if there were some huge cost difference. Makes a difference when shoestring clubs/nonprofits want to throw up a cheap static site.
Read the NYTimes article... you learn that the two sets of pedals are 1:1 connected. Your partner pedals faster and you have to pedal faster. Maybe not harder - but you do have to keep pace.
Plus, stripe.com has become visible only so recently (couple weeks) that other discussions linked here may not even include stripe. "A game changer by introducing developer-friendliness" is the takeaway that I got from the HN discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883
I concur about what you say (although it's not exactly an argument for teaching programming).
How different would the online world be if knowledge were universal about:
- copy/paste
- cmd/ctl +/- for resizing
- why password mgmt matters - and its basic principles
Self-educated web-surfers out there have amazing gaps in their knowledge - for things that are practically spinal reflexes to even a low-grade hacker like myself.
So the diameter more than the width of a football (NFL) field. And... one of those per each household? Besides the visual obstruction, just finding such space for each abode is daunting anywhere (not to mention somewhere with the population density of Japan).
EDIT: Or, consider the transmission costs from areas where such land is available.
Does that mean that whenever you recommend server-side solutions that the server must have Ruby set up?
[OT question that has blocked this PHP-hobbyist from dabbling in RoR: do professionals ever add a new functionality as part of a web app via RoR when the bulk of project has already been built with something like PHP? (looking for motivation to start some experimentation in Ruby)]
Their parliament seems to have been effective in prohibiting that use of footage of parliament be used for parody. [see recent blackout of a John Stewart segment]
Takes me only a moment (upon landing at such a page) to hit my R bookmarklet. [Though there is now the pause while they process and resend from their server; I preferred the classic in-browser processing.]
After more than a year's use I've only had one failure of cheap CFL I bought in a package of 6 or so (for only about $60US at Wallys/Sams or some such). I wouldn't have paid $4/ea, but at <$2/ea they were hardly more expensive than tungsten.
Better than email, I've always liked the idea of using URL to my own web site as an identity.
Even if not everyone eventually obtained their own domain name, the idea of using some URI as a (self-chosen) identifier seems to me attractively powerful - as long as one is able to re-select at later time).
Couldn't find it at Amz, and thereby learned the title seems to be actually The Elements of Typographic Style 3rd edition, 2004 is ISBN 0881792063 --hope that helps
Which says, "The US bank on Wednesday revealed details of the breach...
And MarketPlace.com is similarly unforthcoming: "Citi reportedly said it discovered the breach in early May, and that it had affected about 1% of its card customers, according to a report in the Financial Times, citing a Citi statement." Link:
And is not (good) writing also about logic - even though sometimes it's fuzzy or the (twisted) logic of human psychology?
Writing requires "logicking out" the likely responses of the reader - and the pseudologic of parsing by the human brain (see Dan Ariely's "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions").
Not that that should stop anybody from processing it with an A4-powered iPhone.