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That's nice until you try to obtain catastrophic coverage and are declined despite a lack of any current or chronic medical condition. It also fails to account for things like the fact that an MRI costs $150 in Japan and $600 in a "cheap" clinic in the US.
Isn't there a nonprofit behind VLC? I was mostly wondering what what their focus is on. Is their focus primarily licensing issues?
I'd say it has some to do with that but also players like MPlayer which are provide much greater playback performance for the most part.
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But if the instructions are geared to forking the console-to-TV output, wouldn't those instructions work perfectly to fork the cable-box-to-TV output as well?

EDIT: The page referred to seems to be http://www.justin.tv/p/video_games (since renamed to "Broadcasting video games") and indeed seems to be cast in terms of video game broadcast, but afaict the instructions would work just fine for broadcast content as well.
The engine designs are circa 1960.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_Engines
smarter ventures was a good introduction into the company creation / funding process, from a legal perspective.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smarter-Ventures-Survivors-Venture-C...
I'll pay for ESPN 360 if they let me. I already pay for the college sport package on sat but I have to get off the computer to watch. Just let me subscribe ESPN, please.

As a side note, live broadcasting has a huge advantage over recorded tv. Ads can't be removed. Just put the feeds up for free and make your advertisers pay more.
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My partner and I had a similar "oops"

We started down the path of developing a Google Latitude-like system before Latitude had been publicly announced. Our prototype apps quite literally had the same workflows and functionality that you'll find today in Latitude. So, when Google announced their intention to release Latitude for the iPhone, we killed the project.

Fast forward to today, Apple blocked Latitude from happening on the iPhone and if we'd put in another month or two of work we may have been successful. What's the moral of the story? I guess I might not stop executing in the future just because it looks like the market isn't viable or someone big is poised to eat my lunch. Then again, that could be a recipe to end up penniless or hungry.
Sadly, they disabled this in QuickTime X. Some of my friends use older versions of QuickTime to get around this problem.
I run a number of niche networks (http://zerkmedia.com) and they provide a good source of income. The small ad size of The Deck and some of my networks works well in technology, but in the wedding space you would probably want more conventional sizes. You would also be dealing with larger advertisers which means more of a sales effort, do you have sales experience? (if not it's not very hard, it's just not very fun either)

I have also written software to manage running these networks, if you are interested in using it drop me a line (javery at zerkmedia.com).
And the funny thing is the Omega-3 oil in question comes actually from algae and not fish. I bet it's even easier to get it directly from the source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docosahexaenoic_acid
$32? Really? For 1 article? I guess they really want you to subscribe at $199 a year. Ridiculous pricing.
$1 million after being top 5 app for 3 months? Urrgh. There's either 2 or 4 (two founders + two employees?) so $250k in revenue for a year's work isn't exactly huge. It's a big win I'm sure for Occipital--a million dollars is a million dollars--but if that's the pay off for a home run the iPhone is not a market I want to play in.
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Not quite what you're looking for, but Settlers can actually be played by 3 people and usually lasts for less than two hours.

It's designed so that the longer the games goes, the more likely it is to end. Also, three seems to be a reasonable minimum number of people for a "social" game.
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That's a shame because VLC is by far the best media tool I've ever used on OS X in terms of playback compatibility.
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http://tinyurl.com/y9952j5

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http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=gottman&...
I'm not sure I'd characterize it as "guard that situation jealously." There's no jealousy involved.
FYI, the author mentions "flax oil also fits the bill", which from what I know, and from the most recent Nutrition Action Newsletter (nonprofit consumer information organization), isn't true. It's in their latest (November) issue, but I can't find a link to it online. http://www.cspinet.org/nah/index.htm

Flax oil I believe contains mostly omega-6, which people aren't generally as needy of with our current diets.
Here's an example from the finance world. Let's say that you can't get a closed form solution for some option you are trying to price. One of the methods you may turn to is a finite difference method. You are going to have a series of equations to solve for the value at each grid point. A good understanding of linear algebra is essential if you want to code up your solution. You will be dealing with sparse matrices and tridiagonal matrices.
Do you really think that telling Craig is what gets someone blocked?
Every so often in the news you read about some elderly person in one of the developed countries found dead in their apartment, having been dead for months. Their pensions keep getting direct-deposited and their bills keep getting paid automatically so no one suspects anything for awhile.
I wonder how they'll actually forbid the use of cheques; will a bank be actually unable to advertise that they will honour them? The entire idea of the cheque began quite without governmental intervention, although I suppose that in modern times the government clearinghouses perform a pretty vital role.
This thing appears to be impossible to download using Chromium on Linux. It says I need quicktime -- fine, I'll use the "download" links. The "download" links don't work. When I open the link in a new tab to get the URL and attempt to download with wget, I get a 91 byte file that appears to have a quicktime header.

Maybe it's the crappy gnome-totem plugin, but can I just get a link to the file to download it, especially under the "download" heading?
The Labor theory of value was as much a creation of Adam Smith and David Ricardo as Karl Marx. No less a personage than Lincoln extolled it in glowing terms; economics wasn't that sophisticated back then.

Blaming Marx directly for the evils of totalitarianism is absurd. I am a capitalist but I recognize that this system has also been a vehicle for exploitation and repression, just like communism and mercantilism. Marx didn't kill anyone or urge the death of anyone, he just viewed the system of bourgeois (middle class) capitalism as unsustainable, just as hereditary feudalism had proved unsustainable before that. His ideas about what would and should replace it are wrong, but foolishness is not the same as mendacity.

The man's philosophies have led to more misery than just about anyone else in history.

A bold statement...and an unsupportable one. Shall we examine the influence of platonic thought on subsequent authority? Or the lives lost in pursuit of monotheistic ideals? How many have died under the banner of droit de seigneur? Most of us enjoy the modern luxury of evaluating Marx's errors from a position of considerable economic and political freedom, far removed from what was available to the proletariat during Marx's day. Back then, most people weren't allowed to vote; even the various reform acts brought very slow progress and women weren't considered worthy of having political opinions until long after Marx had died.
I think that largely used to be true ... but nowadays with tools like Perian and Mplayer OSX Extended it's definitely no longer the case. With Snow Leopard, VLC is actually the weakest of the media players in terms of stability and performance, in my opinion.
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Easiest way to think of it: consider the position of the bottom right corner. It can be put in any position with a resize, so the line doesn't have to be straight.
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Its the only GUI which supports svn+ssh . TortoiseSVN is (was?) extremely clunky in this respect. We host our repository on a Linode slice and our developers work on various OSes.

Since it is Java based, it basically runs on Linux, Win, Mac.

Anybody know of any other alternative ?
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The problem with the omeaga-3 in flax oil is that it's ALA, while we really need EPA and DHA. Although the body can convert ALA, it doesn't do so with great efficiency.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/omega-3-dosage-sources/
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Wouldn't the most pertinent stats actually be your own stats from your own analytics?
...and someone, far away in a remote part of the Rocky Mountains, puts his hand in the air and makes the sign of the dollar.
I think an important issue is that life isn't fair. Some people need nothing but routine checkups for 90 years. Some children need a million dollars of medical care before they're 10 years old. I don't think it's fair to say that if you happen to get a rare and costly-to-treat disease, you're just screwed. It makes much more sense to me to balance healthcare costs roughly equally across the whole population.

What keeps this system fair is that everyone really is recieving the same thing: the promise of good health care no matter what health issues they encounter. Health care systems work because most people pay for more than they "use." Whether it's the goverment or private companies that organize this system of most people paying a little more so some people can use a lot more makes no difference to me. I think it's the right system, so the question to me is just whether it works or not. Current U.S. health care is broken in a lot of ways, and I'm not sure it can fixed while it stays in the market. If the government can make a system where everyone pays roughly equally and everyone recieves all the care they need, then let them take it over. If they can't, then they should be working to find someone who can.

Or to come back to the analogy, some people need to eat 10 chickens a day and some people can live on a wing a week. If people pay out of pocket for their chicken, then some people will just starve to death. There is no avoiding it. No one can afford the amount of chicken that some people need.
Oliver Cromwell, who is generally regarded as the father of English Republicanism (bearing in mind that the English Parliament is the oldest in the modern world) also carried oppression of the Irish which today we would unhesitatingly class as genocidal.

My own wife's family hail from North Vietnam. Not particularly educated or politically opinionated, they nevertheless saw several off their family wiped out by what we'd today call 'collateral damage' - in this particular case, the family home had the bad luck to be within spitting distance of a factory, and got flattened by an American bomb.

Permit me a degree of skepticism about the moral purity of institutions we take for granted. though I'm neither a communist or a socialist, I don't see that being democratic and capitalist gives anyone a free pass to kill people.
I'm loving this move.

Had kind of wondered what they were doing dinking around in Boulder Colorado...

Lot more startup action in Seattle.
I bet it's even easier to get it directly from the source.

I think in terms of what is economical for food production and what is bioavailable to human eaters, that is not the case yet today. Scientists are working on that, I have read elsewhere.
you can do some interesting searches at boardgamegeek, using your parameters you get http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7717/carcassonne-the-...
The statistic of deaths / mile is irrelevant. Of course more drunk walkers die per mile walked than drunk drivers die per mile driven, because it takes them > 10 times as long to get anywhere. I think it's more likely that accident rates are based more on time traveled than on distance traveled.
Facebook's actually encountered scaling problems from memcached taking up too much CPU time; that's why there's the binary protocol, and they're talking about the multiget hole at http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/10/26/facebooks-memcach...
Instead of hack, it should read "Insurgents intercept U.S. Drone video feeds"
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How many different tabs/windows do you currently have open?
Parts of this article is almost word for word straight from the wikipedia article on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhaden.
I understood him to advocate the overthrow of the "bourgeoisie". That is, a class of people, distinguished (among other things) by the fact that they were the ones financing (i.e., accepting the risks for) industry.

Financing means accepting the financial risks for industry. It doesn't mean accepting the risk of having your hand crushed in a cheap machine, or being poisoned by the chemicals used in the factory, etc. There is more than one kind of risk, and to imply that the investor is the only contributor to an enterprise is as stupid as saying the same thing of the laborer.

Furthermore, overthrow is a fundamentally political conflict. At the time of Marx's writing, poor people were not allowed to vote. Was that equitable? A 19th century political thinker looking at today's society would conclude that Marx had won because today everyone over 18 (with the exception of criminals in some countries) is allowed to vote. This would have been unthinkable when Marx was writing his communist manifesto.

You are assuming that the political ascendancy of a proletariat (which has arguably already happened) is directly equivalent to genocide of the middle class. Nonsensical.
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> When totalitarian hellholes call themselves "people's democratic republic of whatever",

Because all those groups professes a Marxist philisophy (e.g. The democratic People's Republic of Korea). I personally attribute most of Africa's problems to Marxism. Almost all of the failed states' parties professes a Marxist ideology.

No-one can point to a communist country that works. Every communism/Marxist country that fails, is said to be "not truly communist". Yet there are many variations of free market countries and they are all at least moderately successful.
That's more clear, perhaps, but this is certainly a hack
'Fixing the security gap would have caused delays'

'... it would have added to the Predator's price'

If you're paying $20 million each you'd think another million to ensure your targets don't see you coming would be a no-brainer?
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For me:

General + site related(email, actual site, admin panel, twitter, facebook etc.): 19

Entertainment(online radio/HN): 2 (i usually try to do all the distracting stuff in a single tab)

Business related resources: 50
Perian and QT have definitely not replaced VLC at all. I'll give you one example: VLC's filters kicks the functionality that QT can give square in the nuts. I often apply VLC's Audio tempo scalar synched with rate filter for listening to sped up lectures. That feature alone makes VLC necessary for me, not to mention all the other stuff it does.
I have 42 tabs open. I use Firefox's tree tabs add-on.
After pruning, I now have 22 tabs open.
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Yeah, what's the opposite position, an even less coherent analogy?
I get a kick out of these consecutive sentences:

> the company’s ... continued right to fish in federal waters, means a half-billion menhaden are still taken from the ecosystem every year.
... this egregious privatization of what is essentially a public resource is shocking.

The whole issue is that public federal waters and fishing rights are being abused but this guy complains the problem is privatization.
What is the proposed benefit of publishing badly researched articles making weak arguments for both sides?
I guess for those who can get health care, I'd agree with you. For those who have no insurance (which is often the same thing as no access, at least to expensive care) and/or pre-existing conditions, I guess they have either zero care or infinite pricing.

I think the "average working person" is slowly disappearing, replaced by the person with one, two or three no-benefit low wage jobs.

I expected nothing but sausage out of the government, particularly since the administration and the Dems were so set on getting an agreement, any agreement. It was theoretically possible for the two parties to have an honest debate and work toward an agreement that's good for citizens and uses taxes and other money efficiently, but in practice that would be impossible since their primary concern seems to be not agreeing to whatever the other side says.

It seems so plausible that we could have a much more rational and accessible health care system, however because health care is so expensive it can only be meaningfully underwritten by either or both of the government or insurance companies. The government is dysfunctional, and the insurance company's primary objective is to ensure least access to health care while still convincing people that they're a good buy.

Feh.
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We might think. It's unfortunate that Knuth is not more widely read or understood. He's a great writer, it shows in his writing and coding work.

I liked his quotes in 'Coders at Work' where he said he didn't expect anyone to read his books cover-to-cover, and he writes such detailed books in part to avoid forgetting stuff.
I have a thought. How about next time the military just flies one of these things down to Defcon and lets people have a go. The hackers get a cool toy to play with a for a day and the military gets a free fairly sophisticated penetration test. I'm sure the flaw would have been found; instructions on how to intercept satellite data with about $100 worth of hardware have been floating around for years. I'll edit this post in a minute with details for anyone that's interested.

EDIT:

* One possible LNB: http://bit.ly/7AGe7e

* Possible dishes: http://bit.ly/4NfMN1

* One possible receiver (for digital, you'll need a different one for analog): http://bit.ly/4zHyND

* Useful forum: http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air-fta-discussion/

That setup is enough to pick up signals from satellites (locations: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=satellite+index). If you do this as a hobby you might want to spend the money on a motor to tilt/pan your dish for you. ;-) The article implies that such a setup is pretty much what the insurgents used to intercept video from the drones. The drone bounces its video up to a satellite and the satellite bounces back down to the operator. The insurgents just grab it when it's coming down to the operator from the satellite. I'm pretty sure (or at least I hope) the receiver would have to be modified to decompress/decrypt the drone data properly. It'll do just fine if you're scanning for legit TV signals.
Sounds like a great opportunity to feed some false information to the insurgents.
http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html

They have a nonprofit, but it looks like they don't use it to pay developers. I didn't see any financials, so I don't know whether they just don't have enough money to pay developers or they have consciously decided not to (see http://wiki.mako.cc/Crowding_out ).
You think operators won't notice and switch to something else? That strategy never works.
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Are you kidding? HN is written in Arc, not C++.
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> First, please don't give German lessons if you don't speak German.

I did not claim to speak German. (I can understand German when read or speaken slowly to, btw). Also note that your German "translation" is not a translation at all, but a paraphrase of the paragraph in English. The words "thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society" never occurs in the German sections.

The correct translation for "diese passive Verfaulung der untersten Schichten der alten Gesellschaft" is "the passive rotting bottommost section of the old society".

Don't give German lessons if you do not speak German.

Also note that Marx de-humanises the people (by calling them "rotten".
The results are in line with other studies though. National Instruments, Google, and Apple all rank in the Fortune 100 best places to work every year. It's not surprising that they top this list as well.
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"said people familiar with the matter"

WSJ is really going down in journalistic quality, it seems. But seriously, problem known for a decade, "they're dumber than us so they can't use it" attitudes, in a device at that price point, you'd expect they'd think about these things. Reminds me of the Boeing report on Columbia. ( http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0... )
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As I understand it a high amount of Omega-6 means that you cannot absorb the omega-3. From WP:

> Thus accumulation of long-chain n−3 fatty acids in tissues is more effective when they are obtained directly from food or when competing amounts of n−6 analogs do not greatly exceed the amounts of n−3.

Fish oil contains a higher ratio of omega-3 to omega 6 than other sources (flax seed).

Also, fish oil contains Vitamin D which is very good for teeth (if you get enough vitamin D, holes in teeth repair themselves).

A lot of fish oil is also specified as "cod liver oil". So I don't think that it uses the above fish and i don't think that the cod livers is used in food (so it is a byproduct).
I had to use Jekyll the other day for something relatively small and it frustrated me, but that's because I've been using StaticMatic (http://staticmatic.rubyforge.org/) for about a year and, let me tell you, it's the bees' knees. The cat's pajamas, if you will. Haml, Sass, Rails-like templates, generates the html and css to upload to your site. I added a deploy script that minifies my css and js, and it's been a thrill to work with.
Great, thanks for the suggestions, everybody!
VLC is also used by other programs (such as Handbrake) to perform decryption of protected DVDs.
Oh no, we've brought religion into the mix!