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When Will The College Tuition Bubble Burst? | The Consumerist
This seems important.
This seems terrifying.
That’s because it is.
We’re becoming a nation full of poorly trained human capital that, quite ironically, doesn’t understand the fundamentals of math.
See also: Elizabeth Warren.
So you heard about AirPlay, right? Steve kind of glazed over it a little, but here’s one of the most amazing things about it: it’s actually a rebranded and licensed AirTunes.
That’s right. You don’t have to buy multiple AirPort Express basestations to support multiple speakers anymore. Now you can choose from products by JBL, iHome, Denon and others. That means your receiver can be a selectable source in iTunes, as well as the alarm clock next to your bed.
If you upped the pixel density on a 7-inch iPad (132ppi) to that of a non-Retina iPhone (163 ppi), you get almost the exact same number of pixels. Put it this way: You could double the number of pixels on the current iPad, and still comfortably fit them in a Retina-display, 7-inch iPad. The current iPad’s battery, which constitutes the bulk of it’s weight/size, also lasts much longer than I need. With a smaller display, the loss of any battery space would go unnoticed.
Put me in the camp that thinks a 7-inch iPad is a wonderful idea. But there’s not going to be a Retina Display version any time soon. That would mean the embedded hardware would be pushing nearly the same amount of pixels as the forthcoming 27-inch Cinema Display. It wasn’t all that long ago that we could run a 2048 x 1536 display without a powerhouse video card.
It’s more realistic to expect that the 10 and 7-inch iPads would share the same resolution (1024 x 768). The delta between screen sizes wouldn’t reduce tap targets too dramatically and the display would appear more dense and crisp. It would also have the added bonus of keeping developers from doing more somersaults to support yet another resolution standard, which all of us would appreciate greatly.
There’s a FAQ at the bottom of this page if you’re still having issues:
That like had to do with someone asking for Last.fm scrobbling support in the Safari Extension I wrote, Dashboard Radio. The original post it references is here.
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class by Elizabeth Warren.
Distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She is an outspoken critic of America’s credit economy, which she has linked to the continuing rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class.
There are some afternoons that you open your Dashboard and it’s full of cats and memes. Sensationalist fringe politics. Recycled tech news links with Gruber-humping, “me too” commentary. And then there are days when there’s something important in it.
I know this video is 57 minutes long instead of the more tumblelog-typical 57 seconds long, but for those of you that are interested in the reasons why the middle class is gasping for air it’s worth watching over your lunch break.
Introducing: Tumblr Android App
Built by the same brilliant team behind the Tumblr iPhone App, v1 of the official Tumblr Android App is ready to download!
Click here from your Android phone to install
(or click here to download directly)
We made an Android app! Well, technically Jason and Jamie made an Android app while I watched. What? Isn’t that what bosses are for?
Anyway, here’s some highlights:
On a side note, we’d like to thank all the folks that helped beta test. We appreciate everyones patience while we work through any bugs that exist in the 1.0. There are a lot more fragmentation issues than with iPhone because of all the different device models and carrier customizations (hey carriers: you should really stop doing this and stick to how Google rolled the Nexus One. For real).
We can’t wait to show you what else we have in store, not only for Android, but the other platforms as well. Stay tuned!
(R)emember: developers are human, and you will be speaking ill of their child. It’s one thing to say “your kid has a stain on her shirt”; it’s another to remark that she’s no good at math. It takes tact and a solution-focused approach to broach the latter problem.
Great advice for users who not only beta test advance software, but email/review/blog about software at all.
I know it’s frustrating to encounter bugs and crashes. Trust me. Developers sweat it harder than anyone. Just remember, when you tell someone that something they made sucks that there’s a few people on the other end of the line.
We were updating our app’s graphics for the gorgeous screen of iPhone 4 the other day and it was a pain to update all the 163 PNG files we had and not to miss a thing.
So, I’ve come up with a simple Ruby script that checks that for each @1x image you have a properly sized @2x image.
The output it gives is like:
FILES WITHOUT @1x VERSION ============================================ status-new@2x.png FILES WITHOUT @2x VERSION ============================================ Icon-Small.png logo.png message-bubble-left.png message-bubble-right.png no-photo-icon-boy-small.png no-photo-icon-girl-small.png nofriendsbg.png profile-gallery-super-star.png send-button.png share-on-network-bounds-rect.png INVALID IMAGE SIZES DETECTED FOR THE FOLLOWING FILES ================= dashboard-checkin-button-full@2x.png: SIZE IS 506 x 94, EXPECTED 596 x 94You can check it out on GitHub at: http://github.com/eploko/ios-png-check
Hopefully it will make life easier for some of you iPhone developers out there. :)
Via Jamie Pinkham.
Glad you’re enjoying it. The playlist feature is on my short list.
Update time!
New in 1.1:
Update in Preferences > Extensions or get the new version here:
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About to enjoy Saison du Buff, a collaboration between Dogfish Head, Victory and Stone, thanks to Thomas!
On paper this is the greatest beer ever brewed. I fully intend to find out.
Last.fm does allow scrobbling via API, however, the API is going through a bit of a rewrite at the moment. I’ll probably wait until the new one ships before implementing that functionality.
