> They require either A. OS X to be hacked to run on the machines (aka: your pirated copy)
Hacked != Pirated.
I am planning to use a hacked MacOS X for IPhone development and I will buy the OS. That's fine, I can pay for the software.
I simply can't afford their overpriced desktop hardware. (The iPhone is reasonably cheap compared to their desktops).
Edit: I don't know why this has been down voted. Maybe I should say that what adds to Apple's desktops cost, besides their premium for the brand, is the importation tax for items over $500 here. As high as 60%. With this tax, I can simply buy the software and assembly the hardware from commodity parts myself.
Theres an overwhelmingly large majority of the people who dont know enough in order to to hack os x and instead pirate a hacked copy. But hey, if you do know enough to hack it, kudos to you.
Though if you're going by the "I bought a legit copy. I should be able to download it in modified forms if I want to" argument, then thats grayer then I would like. Especially if I'm developing for a platform that's controlled by the company that I'm pirating from.
Amazon could provide both a wifi and an EVDO connection. Wifi chips probably are very cheap on scale these days.
If the EVDO connection is available in their area, great. Use that. But if it is not, users can figure out how to set up the wifi connection. They have to figure out how to set up the wifi connection in their notebooks anyway.
Thanks. Maybe it was lost in translation, but by Design do you mean appearance (like in graphical, interface, industrial design) or architecture (like operating system design)?
If it's the former, I hope you don't get offended by it, but I think, looking at HN and your website, that you wouldn't be accepted. :) Nor would Sergey and Page.
But in your 'startup ideas', in the idea #16, you said Google has no sense of design, so I suppose that the people responsible for it (Google founders originally. Marissa Meyer with a team of designer now days, I believe) wouldn't be accepted in YC.
And that is more of a rhetoric observation. I know they would.
But then isn't the 'sense of design' requirement unnecessary?
Paradoxically, early Google both had no sense of (visual) design and yet managed to produce results that are way above average. The reason was that (perhaps knowing they weren't good at visual things) they just kept everything as simple as possible. It was like the design equivalent of a low-fee index fund, which despite not even pretending to know how to pick stocks, consistently generates above average net returns because of the low fees.
I think a netbooks's screen is too small to use it as a convential desktop.
This just got me thinking. If Apple is rumored to launch a Netbook and a Ipod Touch with a bigger screen, maybe they are going to launch both in the same device. That is, Apple's netbook and the new bigger Ipod touch will be one.
Something like the new OLPC prototype, with a virtual keyboard on the other screen. It would be the Nintendo DS killer.
Except a DS is already 4 years old (nearing the end of it's lifecycle). In the next year or two, Nintendo will just release something new (not just another rehash); especially if Apple keep closing in on the handheld games market. Maybe the next gen Nintendo handheld killer...
In the case you didn't get it, it is a java applet game (using Processing). Here is a description:
"Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you.
The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer’s thought process is sketched on screen as it plays."
Jeez, this sounds good, but if people here are like me then they already have about 5 books on their list that they want to read. I don't know how many would commit
Read? Who spoke about reading? I thought we would discuss the books without actually read it. Isn't that what everybody does?
"Yahoo will also hide cookie data related to each search log and strip out any personally identifiable information, like a name, phone number, address or Social Security number, from the query itself."
There's much more personal information in a few month of search logs than that.
Hacked != Pirated.
I am planning to use a hacked MacOS X for IPhone development and I will buy the OS. That's fine, I can pay for the software.
I simply can't afford their overpriced desktop hardware. (The iPhone is reasonably cheap compared to their desktops).
Edit: I don't know why this has been down voted. Maybe I should say that what adds to Apple's desktops cost, besides their premium for the brand, is the importation tax for items over $500 here. As high as 60%. With this tax, I can simply buy the software and assembly the hardware from commodity parts myself.