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I currently am finishing my Diploma in Singapore Polytechnic. I have a 3.93/4.00 GPA, and is among the top, if not the top scorer in my course. Unfortunately, I would be unable to enter a local Singaporean university due to my "O" level results.

I dream of going overseas (USA) for my college studies, but due to the incompatibilities of our education system (Singapore follows the British education system), I don't think I'll get to use my diploma GPA for entry.
Well, and?

The big screen experience has always been different to what you could get at home. That apparently didn't stop people from watching pirated hollywood content on their small tubes.

Likewise 3d screens will dripple into homes the same way radios and tv sets have.
At least on Experts Exchange, you can read the question/answers without signing up. It's just well-hidden (and doesn't show up in text-only browsers like w3m or links last I checked). You have to scroll all the way down the page past the looks-like-the-content-but-is-blurred-out-or-otherwise-obfuscated section, and past all of the navigation links. The content is actually there.

I don't necessarily condone their page design and misdirection, but I have found answers on them through Google searches in the past.
7 Black Modern Vanities from AquaLinea  
When it comes to a black bathroom vanity, there is no comparison between now and 30 years ago. Back in the late '70s to early '80s, a black bathroom vanity was relatively common and dull. At this time, people were trying to escape the “flower power” frenzy and turn to something more sober. The major problem with black vanities was that they scratched, eventually ending up with worn spots. Nowadays, with the new materials and techniques, the sinks look better than ever while holding up.
Easy. I went to college for the seal on the piece of paper, and access to people smarter than I, and tools I cannot easily access / afford (I'm also an art minor, favorites being metalwork & jewelry. Ever looked up prices for a foundry / smelting furnace?). The seal on the paper is worth a LOT of money in the long run, and access to smart people and tools lets me learn / do things I would not normally be able to.

I've always (always) had the stance that nobody can really teach anyone anything. All learning comes from the individual doing the learning, as it can easily be shut out if they simply ignore it. Thus, if you're learning, you're trying at least a little. (exceptions being made for "teaching" under torture)

People (teachers) and tools can make it significantly easier / better / faster than learning on your own from other sources, but ultimately you are the one doing the learning. The ball's in your park. I go to school / class because I see the value in it. I also slack where there is little to no value, or when I've learned all the class has to offer. To do otherwise is ludicrous, as I could be spending my time learning other things, which is significantly more valuable to me. My grade is temporary. Learning is not. Which is more important? Also, if an employer doesn't see the value in intelligence / learning, and only looks at my grades, I do not want to work there. They clearly have backwards goals compared to mine.

Grades, as pertaining to this, are not a measure of learning. They're a measure of how well you can match the test's metric, typically rote memorization of facts. Learning is connecting facts, and being capable of extending them, and that's hard to test. It also rarely requires real memorization, as you instead build off X to get to Y; you don't need to know Y, just the method, and the method could be applied in a thousand places instead of just the one Y.
Emacs in Scheme. I really, really hate dynamic scoping.
What is bad about the user experience with ActiveCollab?
The idea is that they've just started testing it with these iPhone apps on an unperturbed connection to the public internet.
Might have been their own test suites in the first stages. Besides we don't know if they are going to actually ship the product or only announce it.
Thanks. Facebooker seems to be the de facto choice.
Potentially, though as I say at the link below, if an employer is selecting on my GPA instead of my skills ( / learning / intelligence), I'm not interested in working for them, so it's exclusively to my gain to not be employed there.

If I can't demonstrate why I would be an asset, I've failed far more severely than a low GPA would imply.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1074501
Every single person on this comment thread that has agreed with the topic has been downvoted.

Is it because the argument is fundamentally flawed, or are we seeing a little groupthink here?
If you want to try, type "invaders" (without the quotes), and enjoy...
Or they're doing the absolute minimum so they can be employed. Quite a few profs I've encountered clearly aren't learning anything in their field any more. They're just being the typical drone, at least as boring an existence as the classes they jam down your throat.

Some I've had are extremely interested & active in their field, and they're all fascinating to talk with, and have useful, efficient classes. I've yet to see someone who isn't interested in their field do a good job teaching it.
"Unless you’ve been asleep or unconscious the last few days, you no doubt have been following the brouhaha kicked off by Jason Calacanis’s angry rant against Comscore and its business practices."

Another example of living in an echo chamber. I doubt more than a few thousand people care anything about the "brouhaha."
I'm a single founder too. I guess there's not much we can do but apply and see what happens and to keep seeking a founder (of course for you I assume you also have to find a way over here). But from what I've heard (from emailing founder's coop) is that if you're a single founder you better be at least technical to enough build your idea yourself.
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And be able to show your skillz, to catch their eye. Otherwise you're just a name that wants special attention in a (potentially) large, seething crowd.
This is probably just one of SourceForge's lawyer's overzealous misinterpretation of the law. (That's what lawyers are paid to do, of course.)

My question is, is SourceForge really "exporting" anything? Last time I checked how the Internet worked, SourceForge sent the packets to its ISP, and the ISP handled it from there. (Repeat until the packets are at their destination.)

(If the law says, "you must not transmit a packet addressed to a host in <list of countries>", then I guess that makes sense. But I have a feeling there is no such wording.)

Anyway, people in those countries should definitely be using Tor. So this will just remind them of that.
A lot of groupthink potential there...
"Kurzweil's defense of "computers commonly embedded in clothing and jewelry" as applying to iPod Nanos embedded in pockets is a bit of a stretch, but in practicality not far at all."

It's very far indeed. You're taking a specific prediction about how we are going to use technology and turning it into a prediction that technology will get smaller and more portable.

It's a technique shared by fabulists, fortune tellers and cold readers:

"I see a brown dog called eric..."
"Well, we had a dog but he was a German Shepherd..."
"Yes, that's it, I knew I saw a dog!"
This article is full of naive statements which means everyone will discount it but I feel like the core point is somewhat valid. Obviously content has to be developed, art has to be produced, someone has to manage the whole thing, you need to market it so people know it exists. Oh, and they all need health care and a reasonable salary. That being said I feel like the content industry is failing to adapt to people's habits for consuming their content. As a result maybe piracy is a correction of sorts. People are creating a set budget of how much they are willing to pay for entertainment. This includes cable/satellite, access to broadband, and old fashion offline entertainment. When you tally it up that's a pretty good chunk of money before you even buy a single movie, record or game. I don't want to listen to one or two CDs a month. I want a dozen. Maybe I won't even like most of it but I like exploring what's out there. Maybe I want to watch 3 or 4 movies a month. Not that unreasonable but the stuff they play on cable/satellite is awful to me. I don't want to watch those particular movies yet I'm actually paying for them anyway via the cable subscription. I have a seriously short attention span for games. Maybe I only want to play 5 levels of your game but I have to buy all 50 on the DVD for $60. I only wanted 5% of your product but you were only willing to sell me 100% of it. So when I look at $0 versus $60 the $0 just seems more fair to me so I go with it. I would pay $3 for it bundled into a subscription plan or micro-payment system.
Bingo. You have put it way better than I did!
Producers of software like Photoshop and Office stand to benefit from user level piracy.

For example, not many students and graphic artists starting out can afford to buy a copy of Photoshop, let alone the entire Creative Suite. If all the talented creative types opt to spend their time learning GIMP instead of pirating Photoshop and learning how to use it, the companies that hire them have no reason to buy the expensive software. In effect Adobe needs users to pirate their software to ensure there are as many people as possible who know how to use it, thus securing the sales to businesses.
How do they license it for their derivatives?
Then we're missing a lot of details...
Welcome to the current overly-developed sense of self-entitlement that a lot of people have these days.

Everyone is owed everything with nothing in return.
also here: http://www.search-stories.com and with an SEO friendly domain.
Same here. I've never seen a language get cleaner, but hot damn did JavaScript get about 30 times faster over the last couple of years.

PS: Has anyone seen a language get cleaner / simpler?
Key opening: "We haven’t heard this first hand"

How I wish everybody would just stop yakking until Moses descends from the mountain with a tablet in each hand. It's only three days people - read a book or something.
That is a very good take on the Photoshop business model. Very nice. I never looked at it that way but I'd agree 1000% because professional shops will usually have legit licenses. "Photoshop experience a plus"
Orignal source: http://blog.flurry.com/
Just remember that the best line of code is the one that's never written ;)
Not this again.
...and fewer Thomas Friedmans.
> We don't consider compensating producers as an externality where physical goods are concerned, so why is it an externality for intangible goods?

That's a good question. One important difference is that, at the point of which duplication is possible, the intangible good already exists. Compensating the creator for creating the good may or may not encourage future creations. It's a sunk cost. It's also the only cost.
There's something weird about this report. The only actual detail that they shared regarding it being different from an iPhone was that it's running OS 3.2. How do they know it's not the next-generation iPhone? Or even just the current 3G S being tested with the next version of the OS? And if they have other info, like screen resolution, memory, CPU, camera resolution, etc, why aren't they sharing it?
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Nah, that's a media personality / talking head.

Journalism is the process of paraphrasing press releases into content to place ads around, while self-aggrandizing about how democracy depends on your work. Even Woodward & Bernstein were straight stenographers, just to the acting head of the FBI instead of some PR flack.
"a OTP doesn't stop a man-in-the-middle attack"

This is true.

" Once the attacker is on the remote system they can open a backdoor."

If you're using OTP's, then there's really only one way an attacker could do that: hijack your session after you use the OTP to log-in, but before you have logged out.

OTP's won't protect you from such a session hijack. However, they will protect you from a simple keylogger on the untrusted machine you're logging-in from, since recording the password you used to log-in will be useless for the attacker (as far as future logins are concerned).

This is why OTP's are very, very important and useful for access from untrusted systems... particularly for uses such as reading your email through webmail interfaces while away at on a business trip or on vacation, where your only access to your email might be through an untrusted computer at an internet cafe or somesuch.

"Sand boxing seems to be a good idea"

I'm all for it. But that is a solution to a completely different problem: how to keep the rest of your system from being compromised further once someone has already hacked in to a part of your system. OTP's are a way to (hopefully) prevent that from even happening (by neutralizing the usefulness of a password that has been compromised on an untrusted machine).
Enclojure for NetBeans is pretty nice.

http://enclojure.org/
And the Ten Commandments for Tablet Developers.
Well, the original post is poorly reasoned and fails to preempt all the objections from Econ 101 that can be raised against his point.
I think the author is postulating that number of units scales with fixed cost.
Unfortunately in digital age, a consumer can get the product by illegal means even if they can't afford it and producer doesn't really have a way to stop this illegal behavior.

What do you mean "in the digital age"? Ever heard the term "black market"?

Of course it's a market correction, it just happens to be an extralegal one. The laws of economics don't stop applying, and the market doesn't go away, just because a producer has been granted a government-enforced monopoly; no matter how appealing the notion is, making something illegal doesn't make it magically disappear.

I have little doubt that producers could find ways to successfully sell their products anyway, but that would require sucking it up and admitting that they have to compete on actual value, instead of relying on massive government market intervention.
Why “Work smarter and not harder” is crap advice for entrepreneurs
That's well and good if you can afford to be choosy about your first place of employ when you leave college. Not everyone has that luxury.
My GPA and/or degree definitely helped me get my first jobs which then gave me the opportunity to build up enough experience for grades to no longer matter.
Being able to demonstrate why you would be an asset doesn't do you much good if HR won't pass your application along.
It doesn't matter which parameter assumptions you use to calculate a hypothetical number that has no connection to reality.
And if you really think about what it takes to actually write the crack - they are amongst us.

On a commentary note, what would drive a hacker to write a crack for a game? Most of the time it's not even for money.

Others just download it after a search.
If incorrectly assume that a product's value is directly related to its cost, I believe it's true that people would be less willing to pirate the game that cost more. Which means they would be willing to pay more.

The copyright holder's problem occurs when they create work that has less value than what they spent on it, based on that equation. This, I believe, is the author's point. When the public sees your product as having less value than you do, they will be unwilling to pay the amount you charge, and will pirate your work.
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Scribd ceased doing related search queries some time ago. Their CEO described it, to Techcrunch, as "reducing the aggressiveness of our SEO, which reduces total traffic in the near term but increases the relevancy of Scribd links in search engine results."

Scuttlebutt among SEOs whose opinion I respect suggests that it is highly probable they got a backchannel from Google telling them that either they could drastically reduce the footprint of their pages in the SERPs or that Google's search quality team would assist them in doing so.

Anyhow, their traffic went down by about 50% in a month, if you trust Compete et al.

Search for [Scribd "aggressive SEO"] if you want the whole tale.
i think it's interesting that jason - who manages his online reputation exceptionally well (and speedily) - has yet to comment.
So does this mean the Apple Tablet is basically an iPhone the size of a kindle?

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Doesn't this mean it's capabilities will be about the same as an iPhone? Or is it that a slightly bigger screen does make a huge difference?
Thanks, but unfortunately that article does not address the issue of errors on the disk possibly making all the encrypted data un-decryptable.
I'll be choosy or I'll take a lame, more temporary job elsewhere, while I build up a codebase to improve my chances in a later application.

"afford" is a pretty vague word. It depends on your priorities. Money is pretty low on my list. Happiness is near the top. I'll be more happy in a medium-bad job that I can easily change from, than stuck for longer in a medium job that I "had" to take. What cost are you measuring? Money? Free time? Ability to travel? Proximity to Wisconsin? (good cheese is important, dammit!)

Also, I'd like to point out that if they're not hinting to HR that they're interested in skills, not GPA, they're probably nearly a place I wouldn't want to work with. And / or HR is doing a crappy job, and they're allowing HR to continue to do so, which also puts them in that category. People are important, and any business that devalues people so far makes their employee satisfaction very questionable.

I am in CS because I like it. If I really need to, I'll pick something else up and do that. What matters to me is my life, my wife, and living happily, not making as much money as I can.
I believe the author would add that the pirate's perceived value of the product is also a function of piracy.
PG- Will there be RFS ideas again? I'm not necessarily looking for ideas, but it is always interesting to see what you and the crew are thinking about.
People respond to incentives. Sometimes in strange ways, at the edges. But mostly they do.
I think the implied moral imperative is generally taken to be "markets should be freely competitive"; everything else is details. Prices not dropping is just an indicator that a market isn't competitive due to, e.g., barriers to entry or government interference.

Of course, not everyone thinks free markets are morally preferable, so it's not really an imperative that applies universally.
What exactly makes Entrepreneurship so hard
if they've got millions of papers they're working with and they have been found to have had 2 blunders, i'd say they're as close to perfect as human beings can get. or would you expect absolute perfection from the years and years and volume after volume of data that they have had to read through to assemble an analysis? me thinks thee protests too much. and if you think, somehow that this negates the fact that the earth is warming, show me how this incident changes all the other data that verifies it? the glaciers are melting and some at a very rapid rate. they're just not going to be gone by the absurd date of 2035.
astonishing, the image recognition lays beneath is a smart strategy when attempting to solve this kind of problems.
I wonder how come this was hidden all these years
Actually, MS has finally figured this out, and has a deal on Office for students ("the ultimate steal"). It's Office Ultimate for $60. Pretty much everyone I told about this who was using a pirated Office bought a copy.
Actually it looks like I broke something since it was working a little earlier. Seems it only works on Firefox now. No chrome or safari.

I'll fix it up tomorrow.
> Unfortunately in digital age, a consumer can get the product by illegal means even if they can't afford it and producer doesn't really have a way to stop this illegal behavior.

That may be. But if the consumer consumes the product without paying because they couldn't afford it in the first place, can you really say that you lost money on that? If they didn't have the money to buy it in the first place, how could they have given you money for it if piracy wasn't an option?

The real cause of piracy (other than availability) is the over-saturation of media markets that we have. Example: If I want to buy a new video game for $60, that's maybe 4 or 5 CDs that I can't buy, so I download those CDs instead.

I know that some people will call it naive, but we live in a society where we are bombarded by marketing in which everyone tries to shout the loudest or find the best way to subtly convince you that you need their product (i.e. you won't be cool unless you have X). But we are now in a marketplace where the consumer can choose to pay for X and pirate Y instead of just deciding to (exclusively) buy X or Y. So it comes down to this: If everyone is able to convince me that their product is a necessity, then I'll end up acquiring all of those products, but only some of them will be paid for.

Note: I'm using a hypothetical 'me/I' in this explantion.
Air New Zealand has a 24 hour limited deal website www.grabaseat.co.nz. It focuses on the New Zealand domestic market and has been very successful.
he should be fired and never be allowed to work in the scientific community again. i just read his cv though and he's got more experience than god, which means, he knew just exactly how wrong what he was doing was. what a fool. maybe he's losing his mind. he is 61 years old. and arrogant? his reviewers challenged some of his assertions in his paper and they got his paper back with him saying things like "i can't find the data to support this right now.. have to give it to you later." or "corrections made" when nothing had been changed. that is arrogance!
And they should support MP3 for HTML5 audio, too!
That the producer doesn't have a way to stop the piracy is the crux of the issue. Because the black market exists, consumers have the power to place their own value on a product. This value is the price that they would pay for the product if it were legally available at that price.

The product's price is relative to the marginal cost of production because that's the cost on the black market. The producer is competing with the black market.
Then the copyright holder's work get pirated and they don't get compensated.
What does a one-in-a-billion software error look like?