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Samsung 'Actively Exploring' Its Own Proprietary Headphone Jack

In quick response to Apple's shift to a proprietary 'Lightning' port, Samsung is considering a proprietary jack of its own.

Heh. Looks like there are actually reasons to abandon the good old headphone jack.

Then again…

Strategically, Samsung’s move is being considered a potential ‘death strike’ against Apple, with the entire ecosystem of headphone manufacturers suddenly faced with a choice. Using the numbers game, Samsung and its army of Android allies hope that headphone manufacturers will prioritize their proprietary jack first, leaving Apple deprived of newer, more interesting models.

But why? They could just keep using the 3.5mm jack and iPhone 7ff users can’t use them. If anything, this alienates users of older phones, including Android.

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Daring Fireball: The Guardian Runs Piece on Apple Written by Mike Daisey

...the serious problem is that The Guardian ran this piece (in the Tech section, not Opinion, no less) without any sort of note alluding to the fact that Mike Daisey is a known fabulist who completely made up stories about labor abuses in Apple’s Chinese supply chain. Mike Daisey doesn’t have zero credibility regarding Apple — he has negative credibility. He’s a liar. Shame on The Guardian.

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‘I thought the tech world would be full of new voices and people. It hasn’t happened. The number of women in the sector is tiny. It’s such a waste’

The founder of Lastminute.com, Martha Lane Fox, last week told the annual Wired technology conference how an industry that promised so much hope had failed. Here is her call for Britain to set a global standard for equality in the sector

More than that, we also know that products co-created by men and women are much more successful. Hello Apple, remember your health kit, you’ve launched it and touted it as managing every single bit of your effective health needs, everything you could want to measure, everything that you possibly need to know, except periods, the menopause, anything to do with babies. Could that be because there are no women on your design team? Perhaps. And we know that companies that have a founding team with women in it, either two women and a man or a man or a woman, do better in profit terms. Everyone benefits.

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The 3 Types of Regret That Can Destroy You

I regret wasting years of my life with her. I regret the missed opportunities and the emotional turmoil I endured, the friends I lost and the time that can never be mine again. Why was I with her? Why is anyone in a bad relationship? At the time, I honestly didn’t think I would ever find anyone else who wanted to be with me. It was shameful and lame, but it’s how I felt. I thought I had to take what I could get.

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Focus on the Family | Christ and Pop Culture

…it was then, that very moment, when I realized something. I realized how desperately I did not want to raise a polite daughter.

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Hirnforscher Hüther über Jungs: „Das Wichtigste wäre ein richtig guter Vater“

Der Hirnforscher Gerald Hüther fordert im F.A.S.-Interview bessere Vorbilder für kleine Jungs. Dafür aber müssten die Männer umdenken, damit nicht „ein Teil der Jungs auf der Strecke bleibt“.

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Ausgemacht ist nur, dass Jungs im Durchschnitt mehr Halt im Außen brauchen. Sie orientieren sich stärker im Raum und suchen nach etwas, das ihnen Bedeutsamkeit verschafft. Neugeborene Mädchen haben das weniger nötig. Die haben in sich selbst genug Halt.
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In jeder neuen Generation muss jeder Junge, der auf die Welt kommt, die schmerzhafte Erfahrung machen, dass er den nötigen Halt nur findet, wenn er gewisse Erwartungen erfüllt. Aber das ist kein Wachstum, sondern Verbiegung oder Selbst-Abrichtung. Wenn man das weiter so machen will - meinetwegen. Ich würde mir für unsere Jungs allerdings wünschen, dass sie statt Rollenspielern authentische Männer werden.

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3D Objects in Objective-C with CATransformLayer

Basic Brush Up

So Core Animation is kinda 3D. A CALayer’s transform property takes a CATransform3D struct which is a basic three dimensional transform matrix. You can apply a 3D transform in a few different ways. There are some convenience functions that go something like..

layer.transform = CATransform3DMakeRotation(radian, x, y, z);

or you can access the the transform with a keypath like this..

[layer setValue:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:radian] forKeyPath:@“transform.rotation.x”];

or you can modify the CATransform3D data structure directly by accessing its entries, like m34 is the unique one that applies a perspective projection which you would do like so..

transform.m34 = 1.0 / -zDistance;

So you’ve got 2D objects in 3D space, and a few thousand lines of code later you’ve got a city of album artwork, I guess. But the whole thing isn’t really 3D. It’s more like 2.5D, cause whereas all your layers can have a 3D transform, you can’t group them together into a 3D object and apply a transform to that, because everything gets flattened. Any CALayer that has a 3D transform applied to it flattens all of it’s sublayers. So you could make a cube, but it would take a lot of code to rotate it, cause you’d have to transform each layer individually and things would quickly get pretty complicated.

The New Hotness

With iPhone OS 3.0 and now OSX 10.6 there are some really awesome additions to the CALayer class hierarchy, so check them out. One of which is CATransformLayer. A transform layer is just a special hosting layer that doesn’t flatten it’s sublayers when a transform is applied to it. So it’s a container layer that can group a bunch of transformed layers into a 3D object that can spin around in space. These can also be stacked, one 3D object inside of another.

I put together a simple example back when the API came out on 3.0.

You can check out the code on GitHub.

The touch interaction uses Bill Dudney’s TrackBall.

And there’s a video of it in action here.

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