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As for detecting that messages aren't being delivered to a particular peer, at the moment that is not possible since zmq_send() is asynchronous from the point of view of the caller, i.e. the actual sending gets offloaded to a background thread.

Unfortunately there's no straightforward way to map asynchronous error handling onto the socket API. I guess we could experiment with hitting the calling thread with a SIGPIPE or similar but signal handling on a lot of systems is suboptimal (to put it politely) and we also need to support Win32. So this whole area requires more thought...
The key word in my post was substantially.
I think the iPad is good for what it is - a personal media player. It is NOT the laptop/touchscreen hybrid next generation technology that we had hoped for.
I suspect as a PMP it will see wide success, but there is still a massive void yet to be filled with a proper touchscreen laptop that can accommodate all of our computing and graphic needs. We can only hope another company steps up to the plate and delivers something truly revolutionary. Not just another iPhone/PMP.
>an integrated trackpoint (nipple) mouse

They call it the "clitoris" and the name fits pretty well IMO. Last time I noted this I got downmodded something rotten.
Just get your buzz saw and slice em off. I'm sure it'll work fine, how sure I wouldn't want to say.
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How long until the default way of putting video online is using the <video> tag and a snippet of JS to fall it back to a flash-player for non-HTML5 browsers?

I'd guess that the iPad moved that date up quite a bit. And suddenly Flash-plug-in risks going the way of the Shockwave-plug-in: nice to have, but not really missed. And sites that depends on Flash for stupid eye-candy will see the drop in compatibility, and switch to stupid jQuery eye-candy.
Hmm, would the company have its DR/backup servers seized as well? And what if the servers are in the US or cloud-based?
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The question answers itself, I'd say.
Generally for internal accounting you will mark it up to a fair value anyway as it makes it easier to see where costs are allocated and which divisions are profitable, but doesn't change the overall profitability of the company
Individuals do not have to respond to FoI requests they are for organisations. The Uni of East Anglia is in charge of the data - they are responsible for responding to the FoI. Admittedly the request could be derailed by particular individuals but then it would be an internal issue to be handled in the normal way. Sacking the scientists and releasing the data for example would have allowed the Uni to meet their lawful duty.
Huh? I thought it was just the opposite- the site had "missing plugin" icons all over the place. My feeling was that Jobs did this very much on purpose, so that the Times would think about dumping Flash.

http://garmhold.blogspot.com/2010/01/apples-ipad-one-ring-to...
>home-education in the UK is exceptionally harder to do than in the US (as in it's virtually unheard of)

It may well be harder in the UK, I'd be interested in the reasoning there, but I'd dispute that it's [virtually or actually] unheard of.

I think you're being too tough here. Latest reports that I've looked at are that the Thiomersal used in vaccines that was associated with autism has been removed from US vaccines and that studies have since shown that there has been no corresponding decline in autism cases.

In order to learn this though I had to do some research and look at some quite complex discussions. The US studies have not been popularised by the likes of the BBC that widely reported on the MMR controversy.

Indeed I was studying the swine flu vaccine, http://alicious.com/2010/swine-flu-vaccine-safe/ , as we were offered it for our son. The NHS did have a very thorough FAQ on it.

I'm still reticent about the swine-flu vaccine - they've probably had it (we all had a couple of flu like episodes in autumn-early winter), it's normally not severe, infections are declining, next season it will have mutated and this vaccine will likely provide no benefit AND most importantly this vaccine has not undergone the extensive testing that drugs normally do. We probably will have the vaccination as I have to trust our health care workers here.

If we don't vaccinate and someone catches swine-flu from my son, him having nothing more than a sniffle, will I be a murderer in your eyes?
In India? Doesn't seem unreasonable.

I've heard Indian coworkers practically brag about how corrupt their officials are.
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I suspect the Bookmakers in question are going to learn an expensive lesson about how the internet works.
Opt out apparently.
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Definitely reminds me of Disney. Apparantly, it's been used in many movies, as seen here:

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0006269/

But can't find anything about the Beauty & The Beast there.
It's just an off-the-shelf Barix Barionet 50. It does the job well, and only draws a watt or two (literally).

Not terribly impressive, but $150 worth of my own work wouldn't have been able to drop the power usage to those levels.
I have noscript, but I'm still only one in 47,347. While not uniquely identifying me, I often frequent sites with far less than 50.000 unique visitors.

I'm guessing my non-snow leopard Mac combined with Firefox (that seems to release an update every few weeks) gives me away. Maybe Firefox should stop putting more then major.minor, and certainly not build number, in the User-Agent?

EDIT: let's see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543202
true, but if you compare the same simple crud app to a desktop equivalent - which is easier? to get even the simple web app to the stage that it runs consistently on all the different browsers out there is a bigger task. say you want to list the rows from your db: do you use a table? or divs? lots of ways to layout these in html. then you need to write some CSS, cause there's no default look and feel provided out of the box. then you'll probably need to write some javascript to validate fields before user can submit a form (or alternatively come up with error-handling on the server-side and then write some html to display these appropriately).

so many different technologies involved. IMO a programmer shouldn't be expected to know java, css, xhtml, javascript - just to get a crud app running.

I've been developing web apps for many years and to this day some css layout issue takes me hours to solve to get IE6 to work properly. That's where time is wasted, not on the crud db access stuff...
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They don't mention that Obama is president of only one country, while Apple kit is sold in many countries.
Web games?

JS+Canvas is nice, but it's not nearly performant enough yet, even given how unperformant Flash is.
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Should Apple be more open?
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/thimerosal/index.h...

Thimerosal is a mercury-containing preservative used in some vaccines and other products since the 1930's. There is no convincing evidence of harm caused by the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines, except for minor reactions like redness and swelling at the injection site.

However, in July 1999, the Public Health Service agencies, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and vaccine manufacturers agreed that thimerosal should be reduced or eliminated in vaccines as a precautionary measure.
Initially I was wondering where you saw the connection between BDSM and Flash. But thinking about it a little more I do get it now. Visiting a site full of Flash sometimes makes me feel beaten up and spat upon. Web Masters are clearly trying to dominate and humiliate me and Flash is their tool of choice.
Will they no longer keep restricted items at the guard station outside the embassy? It's a couple of years since last time I was there.
I didn't ask you to solve the question of, "Where they can figure out HOW to hack its guts", that would be a pointless question to ask, here of all places. I asked you how are they going to figure out that they CAN hack its guts? Mark said that he had to press a two key combination to get dropped into an evaluation prompt and that he could start hacking right then and there.

A kid with a new computer today has gotta figure out first that it CAN be programmed and then what a good way to program it is. If he's got no guidance and no foreknowledge, he'll be floating in a vast, featureless ocean of jargon, languages, libraries, and frameworks.

We've drowned the burgeoning tinkerer before he even had a chance to start. Apple's just held the funeral at sea.
Obviously we don't know all the facts but if it turns out that Just Dial is wrong and Infomedia 18 is innocent, the court will have egg (?curry?) on its face. In which case there should be some harsh downside for Just Dial like, say, reimbursing Infomedia 18 for lost revenue, plus damages.

As a general rule I don't like ex parte hearings for all the obvious reasons. There needs to be a means to limit their use, and a heavy fine for being wrong is about all that comes to mind.
It'd be nice if you could view the public stream without signing in to twitter.

edit: also I haven't logged in and checked yet, but it'd be neat if you have a trending videos, hot videos, over a few time periods, etc. Maybe by category also if you get the youtube metadata, so [view hot videos in the "news" category in the last day]. Definitely tie into the youtube gdata API if you haven't already.
I wonder if the name is a reference to the remark attributed to Mark Twain that "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco".

(Snopes says Twain never said that. Still, a lot of folks give it as a Twain quote.)
I doubt that. High court (and law offices, in general) are clean in India.
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Thanks for the feedback axod. That's a really good idea!
Upvoted for a well-presented opinion, although I disagree. While the author's reductionism may seem extreme, I think it's legit for his argument, which is that electricity becomes the dominant cost over time, and that realizing that fundamentally shifts how we think about the economics of hosting an app.
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The AppStore is a means to an end, it's not a gold mine. If I remember correctly from the last report, it about breaks even.
Reading the headline, I thought it would make people read out your tweets on TV.

It's nice but the public stream is pretty much like http://www.youtube.com/videos?s=pop - right? I'm not sure how this is better? and my private stream was kinda empty so perhaps its just me not being your target audience, or my friends not being into video enough!
Seconded. Didn't Mr. Shaw give up his previous blog because it was just a silly obnoxious persona that he had made up, and he instead wanted to write like the big grownup he actually is? Uh huh.
This is by no means a "rival to Bing". It's a page with Creative Commons pictures on the background, with a search page driven by Google. I'm not entirely sure how this could possibly be construed as a rival to Bing, unless you see their site's background as a bigger feature than, you know, the search engine.
Who cares if he is ignorant about SEO or not? I don't see the big deal. And even if he is ignorant, he could have employees who do the SEO stuff.
I don't mind flash but I found this hilarious. How exactly does a video format treat you so badly ? Flash eats up my CPU like crazy but it seems to run just fine when viewing sites like TheDailyShow.com or Hulu.
The problem with these approaches are that they're inflexible. Most parts are hardcoded closing the way for further development.
I think this product is an exception to that rule. The reason is that there is no tablet market. It doesn't exist.

Apple is doing what they hardly ever do here; they're selling the iPad at low margins (which will get higher with time) in order to take this market, giving competitors little chance to undersell them with their inevitable knockoffs.

They usually don't do this. Usually they care more about margins and profit than about market share. But they're in a golden position right now; they have more cash than they know what to do with, they're making loads of money while their competitors are struggling.
This could be interesting for people to get into OS development, or assembly development, or embedded development (although its embedded applications are likely slim to nil due to it being x64-only). I don't believe they intend for this to ever be a real OS (and they plainly say that it's not at the moment), so I don't think their time really factors into it. Personally, I think there are better ways to achieve the goals I listed previously, but if this helps get someone into low-level development, I'm all for it.
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As stated on the website, BareMetal is meant as an educational project.
My point is that web games is all that Shockwave did when it died/was retired by flash. Flash got its initial traction by spicing up the pretty static web (that role is largely replaced by jQuery (and similar)) but it's complete indispensability came with video.
Well you could argue that Yahoo search is just a news website with a search page driven by Bing.

I see Bing's background as a differentiator to Google, which is why I'm trying to combine the two and promote free media.
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Are you running NoScript? May I assume not? If so, then may I point out that you are hypothesizing what using NoScript is like to a user of NoScript while you have no direct experience? This is a structurally-unsound argumentative position for you to be in.

(No, any experience you may have shutting it off entirely does not count. NoScript is smarter than that and does not work that way.)

I do use it. It is two to three times less common for me to be surprised by secret JavaScript functionality on a site than for me to be surprised going into the comment sections of HN or reddit and seeing people complain about some bad thing that I didn't experience. That is a serious estimate. And the thing I missed out on is rarely important. (The most common exception to that is when you need JS to go to the next page. Frequently I decide I don't care enough anyhow.)

Malicious Javascript can do some weird and nasty things, but mostly I run it because it makes the web less annoying. That it tends to prevent exploits from working is just gravy. (Exploits often fail against a 64
bit gentoo-based Firefox anyhow, but still, careful is good.)
I'd say that that's a fairly apt description of Yahoo, actually. If you were to drop the linkbait title and go with the title of the blog post itself, it'd be considerably more accurate. SearchBandit isn't competing against Bing any more so than Bing is competing with Flickr by showing images on its background. All in all, it's a pretty silly claim, which won't do anything for your goal of free media promotion.
Minus the questionable language I pretty much agree. The amount of buzz and hype the iPad has received far outweighs how revolutionary the device is.

There seems to be a cult-like mentality to many Apple fans. I couldn't imagine the same fan reactions if Google released a giant Nexus One.
"They've thrown out everything they can get away with and then a bit more; which Linux distro's can't or wont do."

Bravo. I would hazard to guess ChromeOS is Google's stab at this. There's also Jolicloud and some others for netbooks, so maybe there's hope in that direction.
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Hi adyitya.
Thanks for the feedback. One advantage of the public stream over youtube, is that you can discover new movies and immediately retweet them to your friends. It's actually like twitter's public stream. I think the search in the public stream in Twitter is very powerful and that was our reason to implement this feature.
Too bad the MyTV stream doesn't work for you yet. Hopefully this will change soon. It does indeed depend on the people you follow.
Thanks for checking tweetz.tv, we're very eager to get feedback. We want to create a useful tool, with these critiques we can make it better!
So what do you guys think, do you see value in the public stream?
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I don't know about U.S. embassy in London, but in St Petersburg (Russia) they kept your items in a numbered box at the entrance. That was about 3 months ago.
I think less focus on making it like a house would have have let you improve the build quality elsewhere (I realize this was just a "draft").

The windows seem sort of small, making it hard to communicate without walking out of the house. I'd rather see a more "convertible" design. Larger openings (that can still be closed) would be helpful for inter-house collaboration.

I think the mobile enclosed office idea is great, I just wonder if there wouldn't be some benefit to thinking outside the "house."

As a counterpoint, my wife thinks I'm nuts and that the house design is what makes it work ("Who would want to work in a rolling box?")
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In Stockholm they say they won't hold stuff in the instructions, but if you do have something that you can't enter with, they will. I guess they just don't want to be inundated with stuff.
You're absolutely right. It all depends on how it is being used. I wasn't completely serious obviously, but so many websites use Flash in a way that is insulting to their users in my view.
Question: How exactly does this work? Is the player code (video decompressing etc.) part of the browser code or does it utilize players on my desktop (divx or even vlc)? It seems that html5-video is codec-independent. But the codecs have to be somewhere, right?
What sort of embedded systems are you interested in? There are "embedded systems" which consist of standard server hardware with some preinstalled software (aka. "server appliances"); there are "embedded systems" which consist of low power boards running general purpose operating systems (e.g., cheap home routers); there are "embedded systems" which run specialized operating systems (e.g., the Martian rovers, running a commercially-available RTOS); and there are "embedded systems" which don't run what you'd recognize as an OS at all (e.g., your car, your TV, my blood glucose tester, etc).
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If you jack it up to a level insubstantially higher than market rate, then the number of jobs lost will probably also be insubstantial (and statistically insignificant in most studies). I agree with this statement.

So basically, an insubstantial increase in minimum wage hides the harm in statistical noise. On the other hand, the (also insubstantially small) benefits will be completely visible.

Sounds like a political win to me: an invisible cost but a visible (albeit small) benefit.
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The U.S. government provided a $465 million loan to a tiny money-losing startup and got no equity in return.

Now Tesla insiders are leveraging that taxpayer loan to IPO.

Is this free enterprise or just corruption?
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Isn't upgrading IE free? Or is it really old versions of Windows they run, that can't be upgraded? Which ones would that be?
When trying to download the VM (link at bottom of BareMetal page), I get a virus warning ("probably a variant of Win32/Genetik") from ESET Nod32 (my antivirus software). Anyone else get this or have any problems?
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I was expecting them to be free, but when I click on "the right way to do wrong", a Google books site comes up that only seems to have links to place where one could buy it.

Maybe I don't understand how Google books work?
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