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I just recorded a video with my first gen iPhone using some third party software called VideoRecorder.

I'm sorry the AT&T sales person was an ignorant ass. It may be a bad habit, or just unfair, but I will never take what a salesperson says as fact. It doesn't matter what company they work for.

Oli, iPhone 3G is real GPS, the original had the cell-triangulation.

Assisted GPS only uses cell networks to enhance the location. They are still real GPS from satellite, it's just that they ALSO have the cell location to assist in areas of bad satellite reception.

That's hardware... at least it is the way they didn't. I'm not up to date on the hardware specifics, but I do know that the 3g phone has a different chipset for it's data transmissions. That let them not only do the 3g, but improve the battery life.

Both original and 3g can definitely do video. I would wager apple hasn't done a 1st party video because that would drain the battery FAST.

The camera inside the iphone supports video there's just very limited software available to use it. I've got a video recorder app installed, but it only takes about 5-10 seconds before stopping. There is a developer working on live streaming video from the iPhone camera now.

Doh'. That's the group.

Perhaps it only works so effectively now because of the limited number of jailbroken iPhone users that have access to Twinkle. There's several dozen different people I see daily in the view, and it works. When it gets to several hundred, it might not work as well, but I think for major events it'd still be at-a-glance useful. More than that and it will require some analysis, which goes further into the data mining concept.

Location awareness really adds another level of utility to any data, but I think that's just one aspect of the potential here. Just having all the data of twitter by itself isn't terribly useful to an individual, but you put a filtering layer in between to show trends and it becomes an entirely different resource.

Well, I'm horribly tangential. My mind doesn't operate the way most do; I tend to be exploring every side avenue of a topic instead of looking at it face on.

The most obvious example I have is using Twinkle, which is a nice iPhone twitter client. In addition to being the best client on the iPhone, it's location aware. So, if you're using Twinkle, and someone else is, you'll see I'm posting from Denton, TX (or wherever I am when I tweet.) In addition to that, you can look right there at who is tweeting within N miles from you. So whenever some event happens, you can look and see people nearby talking about it. A big storm passes through, you see people talking about lightning, power outages, tornados, etc. A concert is in town, people talk about getting tickets, etc. This is kind of obvious stuff, but it's a view into a region that has never existed in such a direct fashion before. So on that level you not only have the time correlation, but a location as well.

Without that client, you've still got a time correlation to what people are doing. I learned about the latest Nine Inch Nails releases first through twitter... even though I'm on the NIN mailing list!

The really interesting aspect is being able to look at the trends to that data. There's already a few people building things to do this, and who knows what they're doing internally at twitter. It's similar to the google zeitgeist, but in a much more real-time and personal level. I think if we get some people studying this we will be able to have an insight into regions, society, etc, that we've just never had before without decades of data.

Am I making any more sense now?

Also, iChat's screen sharing feature beats the hell out of the alternatives.

I'm sure it'd be hell porting ALL the features considering the tie ins with the core system of OS X, but it'd definitely be one of the slicker windows chat programs available.

iChat for windows would be awesome. The video chat on that really kicks rear.

I use iChat, and connected to it I have an AIM account, and a jabber account with MSN, Yahoo, and gTalk.

I also use skype for international calls.

Oh boy, and we can gripe about twitter being down because of it!

Every time I want to make a small change to something I would assume was very simple

1. No one has already made a plugin to do it
2. I have to dig through code and docs to find where it's being done in the first place
3. There's not a good way to make a plugin out of it, so I have to manage the code and check for breaks after upgrading.

You'd think that wouldn't happen so often considering how small the codebase actually is.

See, I've always seen that the difference between a small business and a successful small business was not how much money they saved cutting corners, but instead how much work they got done and how well they served their customers.

You can do that with any computer platform. But in my experience there are far less things to deal with on a mac that get in the way of doing work. There is less configuration, less hardware failure, less confusion, less conflict within the various hardware bits and software bits, etc.

Sure it's not true in every case, but it's the overwhelming trend.

Most small businesses I know that are in the technology field use macs, that may be something to do with their weight/momentum in the creative industry. They've ruled that market for a long time now. The other small businesses I work with regularly realize that the technology they use is just a tool, and will use whatever suits it. Sometimes this includes dos 3.x machines.

Smart businesses don't use a computer due to its image, cost, or popularity. They use them to get a job done. For me, I can't imagine going back to pc's. We have a few, and they are constant headaches.

The IT industry is a silly one. There are politics and power plays within the big corps for what they should use. More often than not the people making these decisions aren't actually using the machines for the tasks they were given.

That's some serious para para action there. Never could get the hang of that.

Looking at that chart, foreach is the fastest. The lower the time it takes the better, no?

My main improvements are reducing/optimizing database calls.

Powerful move. Well played.

And I was beginning to get tired of adobe as well. I haven't been impressed with any of their offerings since the original CS suite.

"I'll create a gui interface using visual basic... see if I can track an ip address."

I'm going to start saying that regularly.

I think the main weakness is the documentation. They're starting to catch up, but for a long while there was a ton of stuff that you had to really dig in the code to find--or write your own from scratch using it's db structure.

I don't think it sucks, but if you want to do some more advanced things with it, it can be a pain.

I think eventually people will get ticked off enough to MAKE a competitor, or at least push one of the existing (if floundering) alternatives to start a migration.

That doesn't mean twitter's population will fall. When facebook started gaining steam outside of universities, it didn't really impact myspace drastically.

But I imagine they'll fix things. If I were them and was taking this long to get things in order, I probably would have been planning out a good strategy for the future to keep ahead of the user demand. Sometimes that takes a while to implement. I'm hoping for that. People stay with twitter because that's where everyone is. It's why a lot of people grudgingly have a myspace account, despite really hating myspace.

I constantly miss a call while I'm in the shower, then don't realize I've missed it for a little while afterwards.

I do however use the filtering if I'm busy. I don't avoid people, but I might put them off depending what I'm doing.

Just wait for the 3g iphone announcement, the older phones and touches will likely fit into that price range!

The XO's are trash. Really.

Perhaps with a good bit of hacking in the software/firmware you can come up with a useable computer, but the way they ship they are a complete rip off and utterly fail at their purpose.

I honestly would be ashamed to have worked on the project with the way the things turned out.

As far as brands at 30" you want the Dell UltraSharp or the Apple. Dell's non UltraSharp line are crap. I have one of these "budget" models in 24" and sitting next to my 17" imac screen it looks ridiculously bad. It's not really that it's terrible, it's just that the Apple displays are the best and the only peer they have are the top-of-the-lines.

I know over here the Dell Ultrasharp has a lower price point, and many people rave about it..

iMac G5, macbook, and a little XPC for when I have to test things in windows (or play some pc only game... very rare.)

Then there's my iPhone, which is way more powerful and useful than the computers I had in the mid 90's.

Sisyphus comes to mind

The point system you linked to isn't bad, but I wonder about the -10 points for "Interesting." Perhaps if that was the majority of the comment made.

I think the most important thing to keep in mind is not make it hard on the real people commenting. If you catch 90% of the spam and it's still easy to leave a comment that doesn't get flagged, I think you've succeeded. If you catch 100% of the spam over a week, but have 2 false positives, I think that's a failure. Then again, it really depends on the level of traffic and spam we're talking about here.

I just noticed a couple of my domains jumped way up in Alexa rankings.

What are these good for? One of the same domains lost 2 spots in google pagerank, but is now getting double the traffic it had (PR5 -> PR3).

Cliche or not, iPhone is by far the best gadget I've seen yet and I use mine every day for more than just calls.

The graphics card memory is hardly ever a factor, the chipset absolutely is.

For work, you won't be disappointed in the least. I run the 2.0 ghz model with the older 950 chipset on graphics and I have never felt it as lacking with those apps + more open (though safari is drastically better than firefox performance wise.)

If you want to play games, you want a macbook pro.

Break it into two fields, one a text descriptor, the other the price. If there is the possibility for more than one special price, a new table is in order specifically for those and their descriptors.

You might be overcomplicating things.

The field in question, you say it has to be text so she can enter whatever she wants. Is she entering text here? Doesn't really make sense for a price or discount field, it should just be a decimal. You can prepend the currency symbol on output.

The only real complexity comes in determining the exchange rate. It changes all the time, so if you need to be accurate, then you need to get the exchange rate for the day. I'm sure there's providers of this information you can hook into. Google has it for instance. If you want to give real time accurate conversions you'll have to pull in and parse this from an external source.

How accurate do you need to be? If your client is content with inputting the exchange rate say once a week, you could just make a configuration option she has access to. This is very prone to user error/forgetfulness,

Either way you decide to go, once you have the rate your task is just one of multiplication.

If you're paying for bandwidth, you're paying for bandwidth. The only reason they are pretending to care about P2P is because when people use it and leave it on, they're actually using what they paid for.

Comcast has a business model in which they oversell their bandwidth to an extreme degree, that's how they make their profits. They know that the average user is going to browse the web, watch a bit of youtube, do email, upload some photos. That uses a tiny fraction of the bandwidth that they are paying for. People that actually use their bandwidth breaks the model.

Actually, the model is broken to begin with. It's inherently dishonest because having shared pools like that, they can never guarantee what speed you'll get. The more people actually using the service they paid for, the more people will start complaining because they can no longer get the advertised speeds. Comcast looks bad. Comcast loses customers. It's not a problem with P2P, it's a problem in selling something you can't guarantee

They're putting heavy spin on it, but I'm going to call them outright liars. The truth is they're scared because people are realizing that they're being fleeced.

That is absolutely ridiculous.

in the us there is very limited 3g coverage area. In the right areas the speed is great!

I follow:

• People I know in person - to see what they're up to
• People I know online - same reason
• People whose work I am interested in - Wolfgang Bartelme, Jonathan Coulton for example
• People who I think are interesting - Wil Wheaton

My list is at about 40 I think.

I really don't want flash on my iPhone. I'd love to see some video apps (recording,) and I have no doubt we will very quickly after the SDK finalizes.

The iPhone does have quicktime, so it can play a handful of codecs natively. Expanding that capability will be nice.

3G is a faster data network, that's it. It eats a lot more power to use it, which is the main reason it wasn't included in the initial go. If the batteries are better in iphone 2.0, then 3g is likely.

I do the "what are you doing" thing about 70% of the time. Otherwise I'm replying to someone... or drinking.