1. “Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true.”. I agree with Steve: Flash is pretty closed. However, the iP(hone/od/ad) isn’t open either.
   1. H.264, which Jobs touts as a great modern replacement of flash, is patented. You have to pay whatever the MPEG LA fancies you to pay for use of the standard. This is not really different from the control of Adobe over Flash.
   2. iPhone OS is closed. You need to buy yourself into the iPhone Development Program. Again Apple can shut the program down whenever they like, which is not really different from the control of Adobe over Flash development.
2. Safari is an intermediate layer and creates sub-standard apps. Jobs claims that third-party intermediate layers result in sub-standard apps. Jobs argues that an intermediate layer will keep developers from platform enhancements, won’t result in targeted great apps and won’t put apps directly on the shoulder of the platform. If he is thinking about Safari, he is right: web-apps for the iPhone just don’t feel great, can’t use all the platform enhancements and don’t result in great targeted apps.

I’m looking for an apartment in the neighborhood of Nijmegen. I’m not picky, but can’t afford more than €300,- in total per month.

Contact me per e-mail (bas@this domain) or call me: 0644239435.

Bas

A reader of dutch, can visit their site.

Example usage:

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Password:
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You can download it here. I could write a simple webpage with the same functionality, if anyone would mind.

>>> from normul import normul
>>> normul('http://bit.ly/1I4VQ')
{'type': 'other', 'normalized': 'http://www.shinguz.ch/MySQL/mysql_mv.html', 'original': 'http://bit.ly/1I4VQ'}

And shows useful links for hosted-images:


>>> normul('http://yfrog.com/6c5krj')
{'image': {'full': 'http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1079/5kr.jpg', 'thumbnail': 'http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1079/5kr.th.jpg'}, 'type': 'image', 'original': 'http://yfrog.com/6c5krj', 'normalized': 'http://yfrog.com/6c5krj'}

You can find the simple but convenient sourcecode here.

Suppose is countable. Then the union, is a countable union of countable sets, hence countable. (Suppose is an enumeration of and enumerations of the elements of the chain. Then enumerates .)

Thus is an upper bound of . In the poset of countable subsets of some set , of which is a subset, every non-empty chain has an upper bound. Hence, using Zorn’s lemma there is a maximal element, say .

Suppose is uncountable, then there exists a . is most definitely also countable and which contradicts ‘s maximality. We are forced to conclude that there exists an uncountable chain of countable sets.

Cantor’s set theory keeps surprising.

Update: an example of such a chain is the set of the countable ordinals.

Another update: a “more concrete” example are the downsets in without the empty set and itself. These downsets correspond to real numbers, see Dedekind Cuts.

For the non US audience, it would have been nice to note that if Microsoft (or the US) would recall all foreign licenses for Windows, our entire government is crippled.

Maybe I should be waiting for another Wave.