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This has nothing to do with the nook itself but rather the process about acquiring one through the holidays. I expected an article about the actual hardware itself.
OMG they are reducing their ownership from 15 percent from 18 percent! FUD!

Seriously though, why would you want to leave it all tied up in there and be a billionaire just on paper. Well unless you're Warren Buffet who has never sold a share of BRK except to gift to the Gates foundation... Or Ellison who just takes multi billion $ loans out against his equity pile.
Actually acquiring a short code can take a long time I hear, however, there are many services out there to get you up and running in little time for a lot less. This is just one that I know of that with a nice API and takes no time to setup...

http://www.deeplocal.com/products/gumband
Why do you care whether he gets a commission on the sale of a Kindle? If you want to buy a Kindle, and he influenced you in your choice, shouldn't he get credit for that. Seems to me that everything seems okay, unless you're suggesting that he made up the story in order to get people to buy Kindles, which seems unlikely to me.
I would prefer an ARM-based server, but it seems far too many people want x86s... Go figure.

As for SSE, I was under the impression (I don't know where I read that) the Atom achieved its massive power reduction through a very aggressive simplification of the floating point hardware. Maybe the HT capabilities somewhat mitigate the lack of out-of-order execution. In my experience, floating point sucks a bit, but most other uses seem fine.

I am writing this on an Atom netbook while a Django app is importing a largish volume of data for a couple tests (it takes two hours to do it with a SQLite database) and Transmission downloads a torrent (need an alternate Ubuntu install disk). The browser is still responsive as long as I don't try to view videos. My worst complain with this machine is the hard disk being really slow, but considering price, size, weight and battery life, I guess I can't be too picky.
This is a great change. We almost never use .find() anymore in our rails 2.3 projects and everything uses named_scope() or scoped() (which return relations). This change will discourage really bad practices that I've seen in a lot of rails code.

If you've been doing things right you won't need to change much code. If you've been doing them wrong you will likely see a significant performance increase after updating your code.

Here's a line from our 2.3.2 project (Get all organizations that the user is a fan of):

@user.organizations.scoped(:limit => 10).with_role("Fan")

And what it will look like after this change:

@user.organizations.limit(10).with_role("Fan")
I'm not trying to suggest this device works.

On the other hand, we hired a guy to dowse and dig a water well when I was a kid. He dowsed, and drilled a well.

Just an 'anecdatum'.
I use "ping -a localhost" to annoy myself when a job finishes.
Hmm, from what I remember, Reproducibility became a big issue in SIGMOD. In 2008 they introduced some new requirements when submitting a paper.

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2007/08/experimen...
Barnes and Noble: "We canceled your order. Fuck you."
Corruption. You pay 100k dollars to few government higher ups to back up your case then you can sell lots of 40k dowsing rods and no one will argue because higher ups can't be that foolish, right? An if they are you can't say this out loud. Especially because this is about security. Important stuff. You may have to do some sciency talk that no one will understand or verify but all will revere.

Tamiflu is being purchased by governments for exactly same reasons.

You just have to grease the wheels then you can roll like hell.
Is intended to be an endorsement of Lisp, or are you saying something along the lines of 'The Jonas Brothers are better than Mozart because so many more people listen to them these days'?
Former XP user who upgraded to Windows 7 here. I am hugely impressed with Windows 7 and the annoyances listed here are valid complaints, but on the whole extremely minor.

My big complaints are:
1. Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 is a horrible experience if you made the mistake of buying an upgrade license.
2. Windows 7, presumably borrowing from Mac, does a lot more to hide details about errors from the user. Maybe this makes the computer less scary (questionable IMO, but at least arguable), but it /definitely/ makes it more frustrating to diagnose and fix problems.
Twitter withdrew their SMS service in Australia quite some time ago. Both incoming SMS and calls are free in Australia.
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This was entirely a rant about customer service and delivery issues. I got my nook a week before they promised delivery and I've been perfectly happy with it ever since. I even called customer service once while waiting for it and they answered all my questions.

The Nook itself is still a little rough around the edges - it just feels like it was a rushed job to get it to market, which it probably was. The good news is that most of the problems I've experienced with it seem to be software related. Biggest annoyances are not being able to go to a page (?) and the sluggishness of the LCD touchscreen. It's crashed a couple times formatting a book the first time in.

OTOH, the paging speed is good, the PDF support is adequate, and I've spent a fair amount of time reading on it without issue.
Google has a SMS to web gateway on AppEngine?!?!?
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This sounds like Douglas Adams' theory of power is being vindicated. In his Hitchhiker's "trilogy," Adams sets up a convoluted situation where the Universe is ruled by a humble "Old Man In A Shack" since people who want power are therefore unqualified to possess it.
I would suggest also contrasting Asia and North America's total populations. I suspect you'll find they vary by a larger constant than 3.
I have one word for you my friend: chargeback. Call your credit card issuer and state that you a retail outlet made a sale, made some promises on that sale, and charged you $278.

This is the easiest action you can do to deal the most damage. Anyone who processes payments knows that chargeback hurt a lot. Chargebacks are a consumer protection, so they are easy to do.

If a company makes a promise to give you X, Y, & Z at a certain price, they have to follow through. You have a few options, but chargebacks can be the simplest way to get there.
Maybe it is our fault for assuming that "entrepreneur" is the same as "successful entrepreneur".
For a virtual drummer, Jamstix seems to be popular, although I've never been impressed by its behavior. http://www.rayzoon.com/
Yup, that was my first thought too. But you kind of need to know SQL to really figure out the current API, so maybe moving closer to that isn't a bad idea. In any case, you only need to know the idea of SQL, really, since chainable scopes let you go wild with where().joins().where().where() and you don't have to worry about syntax or aliasing.

You can still use find() through 3.1 (so for at least a number of months I'd expect). At that point, they'll offer backwards compatibility via a plugin, so no worries.
I suppose cash is king but couldn't they could also simply take out loans on the value of their shares a la Ellison?
Are politicians failing our lobbyists?
I'm under the impression that groundwater is reachable from almost anywhere, provided that one digs deep enough.
Infinity is a process, not a number. And, as such, one infinity can not be greater than another infinity, as the relationship of being "greater than" only applies to numbers, not to processes.
If you are keen on this, see Amory Lovins talk on buildings:
Short version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvmHJNeif24
Long Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5txQlEI7bc&feature=chann...
I will get that fixed. Thanks.
The number of people who care about Theora is small, and the number that care about it primarily for non-ideological reasons (i.e. practical reasons) approaches zero. Compared to the number of Firefox users who view video on the web (which is the group whose concerns we're talking about), I feel I'm not being absurd in referring to the former as "nobody".

Clearly someone wants it, as it was created.

This is very presumptive when talking about an open source project.

The important questions are whether it is useful enough to merit inclusion in a browser, and whether it's useful enough to outweigh the downsides.

There are a lot of directions this could go, but let me make clear that I'm not against supporting Ogg Theora. I'm also not insisting that Mozilla include h.264 support in their products. I'm against limiting support to only Theora on ideological grounds, which is what Mozilla has done. That turns it into a question of whether it's useful and advantageous to actively prevent the use of all other codecs.

Given that h.264 is already the most widely used codec on the web (while Theora is among the least) and that YouTube and Vimeo, two of the largest video sites, have already started supporting it (and not Theora) in <video>, I think it's clearly not in the interests of users to block them from using it.
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All other sources I have found suggest that mature poke leaves are poisonous until cooked. I'm not sure if Bill is a troll, wrong, or just of solid constitution, but please do your own research before taking his advice on wild edibles.

ps. I've also seen no one else claim that "wild almonds" taste like domestic almonds: "not even the most ardent nut lover among us will eat wild almonds; their lousy taste keeps us away" http://discovermagazine.com/1994/sep/biologyandmedici422
He also refers at the beginning of the article to his Kindle hacking. He's clearly into that.
I think you are mis-assessing the value of a checklist for creative work. I think medicine involves a considerable amount of creative problem solving for example. And yet the use of checklists to manage basic techniques has an enormous positive impact on patient outcomes.

More fundamentally, not every aspect of a task or project requires creativity or needs to be reinvented each time. To the extent that there are good practices it speeds you up to encode them in a checklist so you can free your mind to focus on the creative aspects.
Ah, welcome to the world of lawyers. Those disclaimers are everywhere, like the the labels on the lawnmowers that say "don't pick this up while it is running." They aren't distancing themselves from me, just standard legal stuff.

Yes, it is marketing, but my job is marketing.

You are definitely right that CPU is not always the problem, some systems can be I/O or memory-bound.

Our 4 channels of memory on the new products will help with the latter; to fix the former, you need OEMs willing to put down mulitple chipsets. Typically the cost drives people away from those designs, unfortunately.
This is true, but if their customer service for acquiring the device is anything like their customer service if something goes wrong and they already have your money, this is a bad sign. Not only that, but he's spent so much time (~2months) dealing with this that it has jaded him entirely on the entire thing. What was supposed to be a good experience (who doesn't like a new gadget?) was ruined by B&N customer service. True, this was their first big foray into consumer electronics... but that's no excuse for bad service. Even if they had said in December "it's on backorder, and we have no idea when it will ship", that would have been 100X better for this guy.

If you promise something, you must follow through. This is something that most companies just don't get: details matter. How you're treated on the phone matters. The ordering process matters. The pre-purchase information (web page) matters. Hell, even the box and shipping process matters.

And this is all before you even get to use the device. Imagine if you've gone through all of that. How could you possibly write a non-biased review? You can't, because all of the stuff leading up to the device showing up at your door completely ruined the experience.
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is there any reason other than our collective stockholm syndrome not to expect a modern shipping hub and technological powerhouse city to be run at a hefty profit?
That's quite horrible.

That means that people of power consists of two groups. First group built of individuals thinking they deserve power, who take much for themselves illegally and other group of individuals thinking that they do not deserve the power, who perceive immoral actions of the people from first group less immoral then they actually are.
no offense to you staunch, but I've gotta be honest, I'm starting to get really annoyed about people bitching every time someone puts an affiliate link up.

Who cares?? It's clearly marked, nothing deceptive about it at all. Complaining about affiliate links is becoming a cliché, like complaining about dupes.
The goal was not to dismiss SMT - merely to explain why we are not using it.

We have a different strategy than the competition. They are choosing SMT, we are heading down the path of more physical cores.

At the end of the day 3 things matter: what is the performance (throughput), what is the power consumption, and what is the price.

I am pretty confident we will do well in all 3.

The argument that we have been deflecting for some time is "SMT only adds ~5% overhead and gives you ~20% more performance." On the surface that sounds like a good tradeoff. If you always got 20% - but you don't.

Instead, for our Bulldozer product, we are using 16 cores. It will be in approximately the same power/thermal range of our current 4 and 6-core products. But 2 threads running on 2 physical cores will deliver 80% more throughput than 1 thread running on 1 core. When you compare that to the 20% uplift for SMT when you run 2 threads on 1 core, you start to see the benefit.
But where do you get complete books to read on it?
I use Project Gutenberg to get free ebooks.

http://www.gutenberg.org
Would like to see a follow-up to see if the ones who are in power but do not think they deserve it eventually, or can be made to, come to think that they deserve their power.
I'm not saying I'm right to find it tacky/lame, but nothing requires that he made up the story to sell Kindles. It could be simply that he decided this article might get a lot of attention, and decided to try to capitalize on it.
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I think this helps underscore my point. Sometimes you get performance, sometimes you don't.

I used to work for a major OEM that sold Intel systems. One of the biggest problems was that SQL Server, for instance, ran slower with HT when you had more than 4 threads.

But customers never thought to turn it off because they assumed it was a "performance feature." If it was pitched as a "sometimes" performance feature, then people might be inclined to turn it off to check performance.

If I had a dollar for every customer I had to have that discussion with, I could have bought myself a server.
Having owned a merchant account for many years, I can tell you that this advice is 100% correct. Do it now!
China wholesale products / wholesale from china / china wholesale electronics
Good spirit!

Interested parties can also hack on Parenscript: it compiles a decent chunk of Lisp to JavaScript, it's extremely well documented, and even has a CLOS like object system.

http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/

Regards.

- someone who compiles lisp to native object code
I just think there's a right way and wrong way to do it. 1) Do disclose it at the time you use the link 2) Don't obscure the URL with a URL redirector. 3) Don't contrive reasons to put put affiliate ads into your content.
Amazing. I can't wait to hear what comes out of PMG next; The Way Up blew me away in a way that no other jazz recording ever has, and I can't imagine the next one won't do the same.
That's great if you're fine with not reading anything written while we were alive.
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"179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean."

Statistics like these, with overstated and confusing precision, bug me. Why not say 180 Million?
If that's true, you should be able to find a flaw in Cantor's proof. However, your statement falls into the category of "not even wrong".
There is also Stella used for PowerLoom - http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/PowerLoom/

To implement PowerLoom we developed a new programming language called STELLA, which is a Strongly Typed, Lisp-like LAnguage that can be translated into Lisp, C++ and Java. PowerLoom is written in STELLA and therefore available in Common-Lisp, C++ and Java versions.
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I own a nook myself now. And, used to have kindle.

From my experience, kindle is a lot better than nook with just two reasons:

1. Amazon offers more books(especially programming books) than B&N.

2. Amazon offers cheaper books and it doesn't require you to join the Amazon book club. You have to join the B&N Book Club to get cheaper price which is always the same price that you get from Amazon.
Promoting books with free copies: On Kindle, Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell
Somewhere, Cory Doctorow dances a little jig.
Within limits, shareholders can elect the board of directors, right?
I've always appreciated PM for his musical prowess, attention to detail and ethereal style - but this is too much (in a good way)! Solenoid and pneumatic accoutrements unsullied, steampunk retro-coolness, as a musician I am blown away. The most beautiful part is the programming - there is none! (ironic huh?). All other instruments are 'coded' by parroting his guitar, the ultimate in simplicity. MIDI seems like a form of torture. I have to have one!
It's hard but it isn't impossible: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200707/shenzhen/3
"Of course, there are exceptions - e.g. the native GIMP format, which I understand to be a real hairball; but apparently the developers are working on a new open standard to replace it in future versions."

Doesn't having the source code of a reference implementation freely available make it non-proprietary?

I believe GIMP folks will be perfectly fine if you use their format for the pictures your paint program saves.
I bet the 10.3% of internet users in Latin America represent a bigger business opportunity than the 14.6% in North America, due to the difference in market saturation.
> Cantor's second proof generalises [...]

That may be true, but at the time a student first sees this proof, you're trying to convince him that there are different cardinalities of infinity in the first place. In fact, you've probably showed them that there are as many integers as there are even integers, which works to establish an intuition that all infinite sets have the same size.
Actually, it can't. That adds more precision to the acceleration measurements, but it still can't do proper absolute positioning.
Just a guess, but: their economy is doing poorly and/or there is some political scandal, and their government wants people to think of something (anything) else.

Leave it to law enforcement to take appropriate precautions, but trying to scare your own population seems really bogus.
>We recently received an email from you. However, the email did not
include a text message. Kindly re-send your inquiry with a text message
so that we may respond to your request.

I'm going to remember that one. It was pretty good.
I've seen claims both ways on leaves - poisonous and not - I've only eaten them cooked and don't particularly like them. The young stalks are the only part universally agreed not to be poison, that is the part I have eaten often (older stems gain poison later - rule of thumb is not to eat them after they start turning purple, though I have eaten them up until they started getting woody without problems). Some sources claim the berries are poisonous some claim not, but I grew up being told they were poison and have never tried them. And the root is universally agreed to be seriously poison.
I can't vouch for the service, but there's ebooks.com .

Personally, I prefer formats more flexible than PDFs, like plain text files.

DRM issues. Pricing issues. Platform issues. And, apparently, customer service issues. The ebook has a little more maturing to do, so for contemporary books I'd still stick with physical copies.
Minimal content; links to ZDNet which has little more, but which gives us the source itself: http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jan-2010/msg00161.html
It is probably more of a preference. Since not everyone is using Lisp as their main programming language (don't ask me why) it seems that some people prefer more syntactic sugar sprinkled through their language.

Personally I stopped preferring sugar in both my tea and programming languages a long time ago.
Yeah, Goya looks like and tastes like something you should definitely not eat but is a great food when cooked, despite it's bitter taste.
Principally, you care because you might have been manipulated into reading an article with a catchy name just so the author can make some sales.

That said, most likely this particular post is a genuine complaint plus an opportunistic idea.
Very cool, very LINQish (for the C# lads out there). Includes deferred execution and everything!

Color me excited.
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No. The RIAA represents the major labels as the plaintiff. The labels consider it recouping losses, not making additional profit. They also don't consider it recouping revenue for the artist. All label obligations are fulfilled and are usually based on total album sales minus recording, production, legal and PR costs.

It's important to note that most contracts a label will offer, reward the music copyright and ownership to the label, not the artist. Artists have very little grounds to sue for anything by the time the label is done with them.

Unless you are Metallica, Radiohead, Prince or some other huge band that has fulfilled your 5 album label contract, and now have [a]leverage for a new more even-weighted contract or [b]millions to start your own label and produce and promote your own albums, it is likely you will sell your sole and your ownership of your music to sign a contract like the one described above.
Apple went down about the same amount, so it was probably something else...
Actually, more likely it's a few hundred different automated trading systems all playing off each other. If you're managing a pension fund, volatility is the last thing you're after.
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The idea was borne more of intellectual curiosity than an actual desire to implement a new way of breaking copyright. I agree that the best approach is a revamped copyright system that promotes the progress of science and the useful arts while accounting for the modern reality of near-zero-cost distribution.
What about difference in disposable income?
Doctors were quizzed, "Do you want to use a checklist?", they answered, "No.". "Do you want someone who is operating on you to use a checklist?", they answered, "Yes.".

If you read the book you'll find that almost everyone hates checklists but when used they cut down on mistakes and human error. The surprising discovery is not that they work, but the reluctance of people to use them...
Probably a little of both. But they can't print that - it's the UK, after all.