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So true! People looking at something and finding it "mindblowing" for short periods says almost nothing about whether a) there is actual value delivered, or b) there's a real business to be built there.

I can count at least 5 waves of 3D hype going back to the 1850s. Stereoscopic photos were all the rage for brief periods starting with the 1851 World's Fair in London [1], and we are all familiar with the 3D View Master, which was developed in 1939. There was the anaglyph 3D [2] wave in the 1950s, and as the marketing suggests, the main audience appeal was novelty. [3] Next came, as you say, the VR wave of the 1990s, including predictions of "affordable VR by 1994". [4] We next have this decade's rise and fall of 3D movies, with a related rise and fall of 3D TV.

So far, history suggests that this is just another wave of novelty. 3D pictures did not replace pictures. 3D movies and TV did not replace movies and TV. The evidence is equally strong that many otherwise smart people can combine "cool novelty effect" plus "OMG future" and to end up fooling themselves.

Sure, it could be different this time. But I suspect that 3D will end up, for at least the 6th time, as being about as appealing as Smell-o-Vision. [5] This is in strong contrast to color and sound, which started out being optional and became mandatory both for movies and computers. Wake me up, I say, when we get to showing movies in "Feel Around". [6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscope
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wax_%281953_film%29#/...
[4] http://i.imgur.com/j73ipNp.jpg which is from http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1992&pub=2...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjm_zmBoxjw#t=2m20s [7] and dang, when will we get some hypertext here?
So don't learn from our mistakes, basically?

More like: don't criticize others for not learning from their mistakes when you're making a point of not learning from making the same mistakes yourself.

He's pointing out the hypocrisy of berating others' treatment of nature when you live where everything natural has been bulldozed and paved over for hundreds of square miles.
With the support of the people? Do you realize Zimbabwe has a dictatorship?
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I only have a little experience with Amazon AWS; Looking for recommendation for a cheap and simple way to host django projects.
Nope. At least in Europe, there are working on to get their own frequency. There are also first contacts made to regulating bodies. But we learned, it is very complicated with lots of intransparent groups and clubs of those regulating bodies on national, Europe and international level. That means it will take at least 10 years and than additional years to then transform those international agreements into national regulations.

So, to be honest nobody believes that it will work out. The industrial industry is very diverse compared to telcos. There are only 3 different telcos in Germany. There 3 or 4 telcos for the whole US. So they have a different market position.
You might be surprised at how far you can get with a media room with a pair of old $50 computer speakers a used subwoofer and a cheap projector pointed at a bedsheet hanging from the ceiling connected to a $300 laptop. Some variant on this has been my media room for years and a six foot screen (ahem bedsheet) works fine for everybody who likes to come over to see it.

These days you can probably just hook a chromecast up to the projector directly and save $300.
I think there's a risk of dismissing a sentiment you don't understand as therefore being irrational vs being something that you simply don't understand. To play Devil's advocate here we have always had the problems you mention and most likely always will; at least for a very long time. But there's a very real chance (and very soon) that we won't have these magnificent creatures like Lions/Rhinos/Elephants etc. The killing of a lion like Cecil (tagged, well known) increases that sense of urgency and concern that we seem unable to save these creatures from hunters and poachers. These are not renewable resources like cattle or chicken.

Secondly so many big problems are complex with multiple contributing factors and it's hard to tell the victim from the perpetrator and often times those roles change over time. Cecil's killing, much like the killing of a child, is very black and white. He was lured with game, shot with an arrow, suffered pain for 40 hours and was then shot and beheaded. There's no shades of gray in there like "Was he or she in the wrong place at the wrong time? Did they do something to contribute to their own demise via their behaviour? Are we going to find out some new fact in this case in 72 hours or at the trial that makes us realize there's more to this victim than we thought?"

I think it's this sense of losing for ever combined with the lack of any ambiguity that creates such a strong response. To address your post it is logical and explainable. You may not agree with it but it's certainly not irrational behavior.
How long before gestures move off the screen surface? This technology got off to an exciting start but it quickly hit a wall. It was disappointing, for example, when Microsoft had to unbundle the Kinect.

Microsoft's Kinect - 2010

Leap Motion - 2010

Intel Real Sense - http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tech...

Google's Soli chip - 2016 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0

Google's Touch Sensitive Fabric: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/google-atap-project-soli-gestur...
You oversimplify leftists in the same way some leftists oversimplify anti-union sentiment.
And you haven't even mentioned Cabal, which is arguably the single worst thing about the Haskell ecosystem.
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I've been trying for weeks to start an honest discussion on the Internet about a hunter's role in conservation. At almost every turn I get hit with the "he's a poacher" stick!

Can we just forget about the dentist? He's not a poacher! Maybe he's just a bad person?! No one really knows. But he's not a poacher.

/*
If you want to see what a poacher does and if you don't want to sleep for a few days then just ask me for a video of a live Rhino, suffering, with half it's face chainsawed off for his horn... (Brings me half to tears to just describe the video!)
*/

He's not what's important here. People are loving the animals that they care about to death. They're so against someone killing them that they're hurting the hunting, and in turn, the conservation industry.

One of the most beloved people on Earth, Nelson Mandela, hunted and described the benefits that hunting had on conversation: http://imgur.com/a/ZJ0QK

Nelson is cited for marketability, for the real numbers there are plenty of credible sources and institutions that'll provide the same information.
Be that as it may, security breaches occur in complex and presumed safe systems every day - look at how a social engineer used data found from one system (Amazon) to exploit another (Apple) to get further information and cause users havoc last year. Both systems were presumed to have safeguards that kept intruders out. When humans are part of the security equation, in my experience, all bets are off.

In this case, it may (or may not) be a hysterical over-reach, only time will really tell.
When I worked at JPM in the late 90s the whole shop was Apple. Ironically, they gave them up just as Steve Jobs was coming back. Doesn't really answer your question directly but it does show that Apple as a mainstream corporate platform can be viable (IBM had them for more than a decade and gave up mainly because AAPL was looking like it might go bust).
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They discussed it a bunch yesterday, but the vote for "cloture" (which is basically a vote on whether to proceed with debate) will be this afternoon around 2pm.
Unless you jailbreak your phone you are basically forced to trust the vendor. Even with a jailbreak there are lots of places to hide something like this. If there is a hack in the baseband firmware on your phone you are basically out of luck.
I actually found this on wikipedia https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_popul...:

"England officially became the second most crowded major country in the EU in 2008, according to figures released by the British Office for National Statistics"

I believe, it's because people from continental Europe sometimes don't differ between UK and England - but it's sensitive issue in the UK :-). UK is actually the first if we take European countries with over 20M people - 255people/km2.
We killed the server!

Mirror here:
https://github.com/andyli/blog/blob/master/content/posts/201...

EDIT: Looks like it's back up.
Take it to court and terms that ... convenient to the vendor very possibly would not hold up. For something like books, with versions that are tangable and massively litigated on over half a millennium, I suspect Amazon would lose badly, after of course the other side spent many times the losses.

At least in the case of Amazon, with its reputation being such a big factor in its success, if you had to go to court the bad PR from such a white line case would almost certainly result in a quick and favorable settlement.
Did you ask the account team to restore your purchases to the replacement account? If so, what was the response?

The mere fact that they didn't think to do it for you honestly doesn't seem like it's as serious as you make this sound.
Looking back, I think we could have heavily optimized towards what is called today 'gifted and talented' in some areas of my education. That was kind of out of our world at that time. I particularly recall drills in math and recapitulating the same subject year after year (this was entirely the design of the curriculum - Saxon Math "Original"). It's important to note that I pursued other interests after schoolwork was done, and it was usually wrapped up by 3pm after 4th grade or so. This gave me, in effect, hours of self-teaching when I got interested in a subject (or hours of Legos, fooling around outside, and reading fiction). I self-taught DOS, QBASIC and C++, for instance. It was undirected, so not as fast and as thorough as a good curriculum, but it did serve. In general (maybe 90% of the time?), however, I liked school, outside of the part where it wasn't letting me play. My mother generally chose intellectually challenging curricula (one particularly notable example would be the US history course - 3 separate curricula combined into one, one each from conservative, centrist, and progressive viewpoints), upon which I found some meat to entertain my mind.

What I can attest to strongly is this: my k-12 teaching was far closer to college and the work world than anything I've ever read about from US public schools.
IBM is such an iconic and Big company and yet I have no idea how they make their money. What are some of their best selling product/services?
I wouldn't say the web is broken it's just not up to such a demanding task, yet. SIMD.js should be in Ecmascript 2016 (JS7). Once available, traditional image, audio and video processing techniques should be viable on the web.
I dont have that issue:

http://i.imgur.com/W05ZxpC.png

But I still use noscript with umatrix, so it might be a noscript surrogate "fixing my flow.". Do you have "hide placeholders" selected in umatrix?

Risks have always been around.
Maybe a cloud platform has to offer everything. So, in the same sense gce was a move from app engine to ec2, they are both converging to the same "anything you want as a service" offer.
Explaining what society condones has nothing to do with what built-in impulses Homo Sapiens possesses. What's your point?
I remember when Ted Sarandos (head of content acquisition at Netflix) said "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us."[1]

[1] http://www.gq.com/story/netflix-founder-reed-hastings-house-...
> ____ is being run by a cabal of scared, mostly 60-year old men. They're using every trick in the book to hold on to their power while trying to appease the crowds with shiny new trinkets.

You could literally be describing any country on earth with that.
Owning everyone is the very opposite of the definition of a targeted attack. My point is not allowing your data to be collected en masse is a reasonable precaution against mass surveillance.
Or secretly trying to goad someone into porting it
Most of Zimbabwe's problems are not America's fault, and quite frankly, there's not much we can do about them. But Cecil's corpse is our fault, because he was shot by an American dentist. People tend to care more when they feel implicated, and it's logical to care more when you can actually do something about it. It's easier to boycott the dentist than to hope for a coup that ousts Mugabe.
Heh, this made me think of it as a sort of "Internet gentrification". A new hip service/site starts getting into the mainstream, the lay people move in, it becomes adapted for the lay people, and what made it hip in the first place moves out and on to other things. Doesn't fit perfectly, but I think it's an interesting way to look at it.
That's exactly what Zimbabwe is trying to accomplish with the arrest of the guides and requested extradition of the American hunter... If a Zimbabwean national had lured a wolf out of Yellowstone and taken its head and skin as a trophy you can bet the US would try and do the same (even though wolves are scary and the US has bigger problems than poaching).
I was previously getting my PhD in VR (I dropped out to start a company) and I can't believe the hype around a HMD, like it's a new revolutionary thing. I do own an Oculus as I love VR and I am a proud UMD alum but generalized VR is so far off, immersion is way too difficult to completely generalize. I do think that there has been enough significant improvements from the first VR hype bubble that there could be a serious specialized VR arcade where the application is very well understood and you can build real immersion into the product. For example a fighting robot MOBA where you can control the haptic feedback and the player's surroundings match the virtual world (cockpit is real compounded with stereoscopic screens for windows)
What good does that do? For example, we fought a war to keep Vietnam free and democratic and failed miserably. The Communist regime only began to make meaningful change once we opened up to them.
> I wonder if there is anything fundamentally different about the US or US people

I don't think there's anything fundamentally different about the citizens of the respective countries. Both are loath to give up comfort and the status quo to challenge their governments surveillance states in meaningful ways.

The big difference as I see it is that the staus-quo, at least on the surface, is vastly different in the two countries so the governments go about their efforts in appropriately different ways.
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I've had a great track record with various Linux distros until I used the RHEL IBM edition. I've been plagued with problems and crashes on it. Don't know if they distributing a special OSX IBM edition or not.
But people have not been ignoring it. I have been hearing about it for years. Why is no American actually up in arms about the Zimbabwean government?

1) It is an ongoing problem, not an isolated incident.

2) There is an easy resolution to people from the U.S. flying down there to go hunting that the dept of Justice can implement. Solving the Zimbabwean government's corruption requires more resources than the DoD and state department have available. Americans, particularly those who came of age politically in 2003-2007 are deeply suspicious of our ability to enact regime change.

3) This was the straightforward fault of an American. However the U.S. bears zero responsibility for Mugabe's actions unless you blame the U.S. for pressuring Ian Smith to resign.

4) There are small numbers of Americans that are upset about the fall of the Rhodesian government, but they irredeemably associated with murderous racism in the eyes of most Americans. Thus, there is no simple narrative that mainstream Americans can put forth as a solution or thing-that-should-have-been-done.

EDIT:
People with no responsibility for causing the situation, no clear path to fix the situation, and only the power to create an atrociously bloody mess of the situation cannot be faulted for only being passively aware of the situation.
No, I value any 1 human over all 30000 remaining lions. How could you not do otherwise?
What makes you so confident that the gov can't "plunder" investment properties? It looks like they're finally starting to turn on Buy-To-Let now, and IMHO not before time.

Why do people rob banks? Because that's where the money is. Where's the money in the UK? In property.

As property ownership becomes ever more concentrated, it a) becomes a more tempting target for fiscal raids and b) has fewer votes. There's a US economist whose name I forget who proposes that the big driver of property cycles isn't credit but regulation, as govts deregulate too much then finally swing back when the horrible consequences become electorally inconvenient.
Does England have a seat at the UN?

I rest my case.
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I'm getting this message for the past few days. If I wait, I can usually get into gmail, but get locked out after only a little while. Today, I'm getting this message as soon as I go to gmail.com. HELP!
We seldom find people misusing this freedom.

Then you need to clearly communicate expectations. You said elsewhere that you don't expect a full 8 hours, but are unhappy with 4-5. What is the quantity of work you want done? And it can't just be accomplishing tasks on deadline, because your scheduling process is based on a certain number of man hours per week.

I want him to be motivated intrinsically.

Intrinsically? OK, how much of the company does he own?

None? LOL. The biggest con perpetrated against programmers is that they can be made to care so much about something that isn't theirs for reasons that aren't money. If this guy is outside of that, it's a more healthy mental state to have about a job. So what do you offer that another employer won't do the same/better on?
"most likely"

In other words, there is a good chance you are wrong.
First off, you should be ashamed at how ridiculous that analogy is. I'm going to assume you understand that it's completely and utterly inaccurate and irrelevant to this conversation.

Secondly, suffering happens everywhere every day. Are the American people supposed to maintain a constant level of outrage about every single instance of suffering?
A guy writes down one point you disagree with and you dismiss the article and person. While, I agree with your point that this sort of hypocrisy calling doesn't help anything, I can't agree with your overall conclusion.

This article is import, even if it isn't particularly well-written or well thought out. It's important because it resonates a very important idea that the west is psychologically disconnected from Africa and Africans in the cruelest of ways. It reminds us that Africans must really scratch their heads as they struggle to figure out our unique branch of apathy/concern that's both cruel and emotionally unbalanced.
joeyh++ And with a much better attitude too. Living off the grid certainly helped him come up with some innovative ways to use Git (e.g. git-annex).
Consulting.

Company X has Problem Y that can be solved with technology. Company X feels they don't have the know how to do it so they pay IBM to help them do it.

IBM has a suite of products/services that have been put together to speed this process up, but they will also put together custom products/services (for a handsome fee).
Why do we have to resort to public outcries to get attention from a company?

If the user agreement really allows this, then it is time to stop supporting them.
If there were notable positive effects, it would likely be danced around, because saying positive things about the groups with Neanderthal admixture is a touchy subject.
The simplest method is to encode an authentication scheme using digital signatures for each device in the bus, and burn an approved transmitter list into each device such that specific messages have to be signed by a specific MCUs authentication key or it is ignored. Then simply don't add internet-connected hardware to the approved senders list for any high-risk messages. You can then compromise the car at will but none of the other CAN devices will process acceleration messages unless you happen to own an internet-connected accelerator.
intuition about lazy evaluation order can be very misleading
Why? we're mid-rollout?
I'm curious if you look at the list of Google Fiber cities and their population density (http://i.imgur.com/8mpVm73.jpg) you'll see a trend, and maybe predict the next set of potential cities. I mean it makes sense that they wouldn't roll out in NYC/LA/Chicago immediately, however, there is most likely some ratio of density to total population that they may be aiming for. I dunno, just a thought.
It's helpful when looking at a modern IBM to consider them as a finance company as opposed to a tech company.
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This is a good thing even for those outside of San Antonio proper. I was able to upgrade to 1 Gbps on a small-time ISP this weekend, and it's because Google is coming to the large city near me. Competition is a wonderful thing.
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Depending on how small the app is, Digital Ocean($5/m), or Heroku, which can be free.

With Heroku, you get a "dyno" with 12 hours of background jobs, and 12 hours of web server for free. After you exceed those limits, it's going to cost $7/m
Does the author even know Python? Because in Python maps are called dicts!
i was born in the USSR. People have government they want to (except when forced upon by a foreign power). Dictatorships are the people, and the people do all these things. Dictatorships simply fall apart when they loose real support of their people.
Rather "only confusing to US citizens" (there are more states in (even north) america than the United States):

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Map
You have correctly identified the contradiction. We love animals but our instincts are even stronger. The only rational conclusion is that we are not rational creatures - we are creatures of instinctive survival/domination. Therein lies the dissonance, because we refuse the rational conclusion which would be explicitly to value human lives less than those of animals.
When the basic essential interactions like "select" feel natural and unambiguous -- holding your hand in place for Kinect wasn't a good replacement for "click"/"tap".
>So for architecture Occulus fills a nice niche.

Ditto for plane and car simulators. I'm looking into picking up a headset for playing carsims, but don't think I'll be using it for, say, 3D shooters.
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I'm not entirely sure, I mean, from my level of understanding it could all be relatively faked data and I wouldn't know any different. They claim they do quality review[0] and you can compare them to some of the competition[1], and they don't offer anything except genealogy records and your results in a big file you can download. You can use that information to parse on other sites for medical things (there's quite a few sites that take the data file as an upload, actually). I'd be interested in reading a more comprehensive audit though.

[0] - https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904760...

[1] - http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_c...