Posted by on under engineering philosophy, inferior system, trust models, defensive measures, future internet, centric approach, millis, twitter, ipv4, software engineering, productivity, alex, networking | 
An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was 'built wrong,' and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. 'We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity,' says Payne, who calls for a 'content-centric approach to networking.' Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."
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Tagi: engineering philosophy, inferior system, trust models, defensive measures, future internet, centric approach, millis, twitter, ipv4, software engineering, productivity, alex, networking
Posted by on under james gleick, settlement deal, authors guild, millis, licensing system, google, snippets, lawsuits, copyrights |
James Gleick writes "Authors, publishers, and Google are announcing a huge settlement deal today in their lawsuits over the scanning of millions of copyrighted books in library collections. Google has agreed to a huge payout for books that were scanned without permission, but now they'll be allowed to scan the books legitimately. Most important, they'll be able to put millions of books online, including those still in copyright — not just for searching and not just in snippets. There is a groundbreaking new licensing system meant to make the books as widely available as possible while protecting the authors' copyrights and enabling them to share in the revenue. Some will differ, but personally I think this is a wonderful outcome, for readers and for authors alike."
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Tagi: james gleick, settlement deal, authors guild, millis, licensing system, google, snippets, lawsuits, copyrights
Posted by on under revolution v1, scores table, coue, game mode, millis, mey, high scores, ibrickr, butts, taps, new features, sg, apps, beats |
I finally took a day to update Tap Tap Revolution and get a few more features in.
Among the millions of new features are:
- MUCH better tap response
- Multitouch taps have been eliminated
- Pause and Exit buttons in game mode
- Clearer tap graphic
- High Scores table for each song (that's why you're prompted for a user name)
- The iTunes Library remembers who made beats for each song
Watch for a couple new tracks coming soon, too.
It's already in iBrickr and will be in Installer very soon, thanks to Shaun who does half the packaging for Installer.app.
Give him your money! He spends a lot of time packaging these apps for mass consumption and deserves a lot of the credit for how easy it is to get applications on your iPhone.
Tagi: revolution v1, scores table, coue, game mode, millis, mey, high scores, ibrickr, butts, taps, new features, sg, apps, beats
Posted by on under russian project, solutis, fb2, milana, millis, offshore development, mths, alexey, slava, andrey, mth, x4, cyril, ilya, new era, anti piracy, repository, peoe, alexander, victoria |
We are excited to announce that most of our products (namely
Kate,
Russian Project,
i2Reader,
Greek Project,
Hood and
iPref) are now available in
our APT repository for Cydia/Icy. Give 'em a try if you didn't yet. :)
Also, to celebrate the mark of 200,000 sold copies of our software, we are permanently dropping down the prices on selected products:
- Kate is now being offered in 6 month subscription and Unlimited variants:
- 6 months subscription: $20 → $10
- Unlimited edition: $45 → $25
- Russian Project: $21 → $15
- i2Reader Pro: $35 → $25
We are already working on Kate for 3.0, and i2Reader went through some major rewrites to soon shine with more formats support as well as an improved FB2 parser.
We believe this marks the beginning of the new era for Ripdev as a team. Over the past year we have grown from 4 to 15 people, and are successfully developing our own solutions as well as doing some offshore development. Our software protection system
Kali AP still holds the ranks of the most advanced anti-piracy solution on the market, and our free products
Installer and
Icy serve millions of people around the world.
This all, of course, couldn't happen without your support... so we'd like to take an opportunity and say "thank you" to everyone who supported us on the way. You rock.
-Alexander (x4), Alexey, Andrey, Anton, Cyril, Ilya, Julia, Milana, Slava, Victoria, Yuriy (x2)
Tagi: russian project, solutis, fb2, milana, millis, offshore development, mths, alexey, slava, andrey, mth, x4, cyril, ilya, new era, anti piracy, repository, peoe, alexander, victoria
Posted by on under nobel prize for physics, george smith, millis, imager, digital cameras, inventors, willard, boyle, ccd, telescopes, science |
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics went, in part, to the inventors of the charge-coupled device George Smith and Willard Boyle this week. Their innovation, sketched out in 1969, is now the imager in millions of digital cameras and telescopes.
Tagi: nobel prize for physics, george smith, millis, imager, digital cameras, inventors, willard, boyle, ccd, telescopes, science
