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I think, major irony alert, they're using the weakest claims against them ("the exact percentage of the Netherlands under sea level matters" -- seriously, who cares) to sweep the most damning claims against them under the rug.

This has some similarity to the CRU email theft, where precious little was discovered from among thousands of emails, but a few sentences were plucked out of context, deliberately misinterpreted (like “hide the decline”) and then hyped into “Climategate”.

That is a lovely two-step there: this keruffle about a footnote is largely meaningless so it is essentially meaningless that the head of one of the most prestigious research institutions in the world successfully destroyed evidence rather than handing it over to opposed investigators.
Has this been a successful strategy?
"Everybody wants to be entertained," he told me. With a look of disdain, he explained how most users simply want to consume - while far fewer are prepared to do something worth watching. "

As this thing gets more press and more people try it out, it will be severely diluted by people unwilling to produce. Folks who have traditionally spent their time on YouTube watching videos have nothing to contribute here, and decrease the overall quality of the service.

Perhaps adding categories would weed out the noise a bit. I'd love to randomly chat with someone on HN.
I felt the same way until I watched many of the presentations. TED has some very deep thinkers. I don't find deep, complex subjects "liberal" or "bland". Just my opinion.
It was the happiest moment of my young life. There is just something about blowing a load in a chick's face that makes you feel like a man.

Any boy who thinks like that is a jerk.

especially on behalf of younger women who might mistakenly think they have to put up with the new status quo if they want their guy to put out.

And any girl who thinks like that would be described as an idiot.

Seriously folks anyone who thinks being superior to your own sex partner is manlike and anyone who thinks they should just accept what ever is coming from there's is seriously a wimp.
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It depends on how you look at it.

If you look at it in the sense that some browsers support it and others will likely follow, no, it doesn't matter.

If you look at it like IE6 supported CSS, it won't matter tomorrow, but in a few years when everyone has to hack their site to pieces just to give a box a rounded corner that looks the same in every browser.... well, it will matter then.
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Shelley Powers (http://shelleypowers.burningbird.net/about), who is quoted in the post, has worked in the industry for decades, has written several O’Reilly books about Web technologies, and used to be highly critical of the way HTML standards development has gone. (Yeah, and now she’s on the HTML WG. Veterans of volunteer organizations should be familiar with the “OK, if you think we’re doing everything wrong, you can join us on the committee” gambit.)

If she says Adobe is not to blame, Adobe is not to blame.
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That quote was taken from another article. It could be faked, or the author of that other article searched really long to find somebody who would say that.

I don't like articles like that...
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This reminded me of the "one way hash" rhetorical technique. I'd actually forgotten that the term was coined in relation to climate change discussions.

http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/04/06/climate-change-and-a...
What if I like two chicks at the same time for my birthday? I think my girl-friend would find it very easy to say no to that.
This is fascinating. Of course most modern music is generated with click tracks, if for nothing else than it makes it easier to edit in Pro Tools, since each track will be aligned with a beat grid, and you can literally cut and paste entire bars of music.

This has more to do with the modern way of generating music - get four or five takes of the song from each musician, take the best bars and phrases from each one, and put them all together. Maybe Britney had a great take on the second take of the chorus, so you just copy/paste that 5 times and now every time the chorus plays it sounds perfect. Maybe the instrumental solo was perfect the third time, so let's use that one.

This also makes you have great appreciation for those bands that recorded music before the advent of modern multi-track recording software, and were somehow dedicated enough to get that one perfect take where everyone in the band did great and nobody made a mistake.
Adobe has a pretty large collection of products spanning a rather large and diverse group of disciplines and therefore users and customers.

So are you talking about all of them or just some? How did you get to that conclusion?

There is plenty of things that they don't do very well but that can be said about more or less anyone else out there can't it?

In general as a user of their Masters Collection I am pretty satisfied with how they allow my workflows to be optimized across the line.

That's what adobe is in the business of helping me with.
Is Windows not doing the same with their new smartphone OS? Everyone should be declaring war on Adobe.
Exactly right: the behaviour of the CRU is anti-scientific to the core. To deny access to data and the analysis on which their claims are made is the antithesis of science, it is more like religious zealotry in the worst sense of the phrase. This is the reason why climategate is a lot more than a media storm.
Agreed, I did concurrent enrollment and by the age of 16 was taking half a day of University courses and half a day of secondary courses.

However, this is quite a bit different. Will any out of state University seriously consider a college application without 12 grades of experience?

This is tremendously short-sighted. There are some rabid conservative Republicans that believe all public education should be removed and replaced with private education. This is just taking advantage of a budget shortfall to accelerate that process.

Would you trust private corporations to school your children? I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong...
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The basic concept of copyright law is that an author is the only one who is allowed to make copies of her work, and only she can give others permission to do so as well. At a technical level, sending a response to a request involves telling another machine to pass a message along for you, so there is at least implied consent to copy it and send it to another user. However, what are the bounds of this consent? Can a router store the data it has been passed? For how long? Can it serve it to others besides the IP address the response was intended for?

There may be case law and/or actual laws that clarify these points, but I am not a lawyer. I presume you aren't either. If you think the concept of IP law has a straightforward and indisputable application to the internet that clears all questions about what routers can and can't do with the data they are passed, feel free to explain.

It seems like you're operating within the "lots of people do it, so it must be legal somehow" school of thought when it comes to routing. This isn't necessarily a problem as long as it's applied consistently. Several other commenters and I effectively made the same argument in saying that Google does almost the same thing Scribd does in terms of copying and redistributing content. It isn't possible for you to call that argument invalid then rely on that argument as proof of routing's obvious legality.

Scribd is legally indistinguishable from a caching proxy. Feel free to let Opera and all the other caching proxy operators know.

http://www.opera.com/business/solutions/turbo/
Exactly. This is a non issue (non article). Who even cares? I bet a survey of Tweetdeck or Bitly would reveal that 99.something% are actually shortened and not just modified. And you have the option not to shorten URLs in Tweetdeck anyway...
Kind of similar to using Lisp macros to have infix operators: because you can do it doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Short answer: No.

Long answer: The W3C process is apparently so opaque that even the editor of the spec believed it to be so. Rumor travels faster than fact.
At least the DDT-tolerant mosquitoes will deter people from using DDT again. Hopefully.
In that case, put some sort of contact info in your profile. I went to go send you an email, just to see what would happen, but the lack of contact didn't help anything.
It's quite logical given the situation:

Adobe essentially had a monopoly on browser-based plugins as it was included natively in Internet Explorer and bundled with every copy of Windows XP.

In the years since 2001 when XP was released, they have enjoyed their monopoly status by becoming the defacto standard for streaming video on the web, purely because web developers made the pragmatic decision to go with the monopoly provider, rather than requiring users to download and install a different plugin.

That they've squandered their monopoly status is very visible, as their features have been stagnant for almost a decade now.

It's a shame that finally, in 2010, they are adding GPU acceleration to their plugin. They are finally caring about mobile power management by offloading video processing to dedicated sub-components. They really are playing catch up here.

Apple made the right decision to keep Flash off the iPhone. Until Adobe even cares about GPU acceleration and using the h.264 decoding capabilities that are built into most modern smart phones, it is not worth having on the device.

Of course everyone would love to have Flash video available on their smart phones, but until Adobe can prove that they can deliver a reasonable 30 fps and more than an hour or two of battery life, why should we put up with it?
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I"m looking for a free package to run a simulation and systems queueing analysis. I've considered ARENA [1] but wasn't a big fan of it. What are some of your favorites?

Thanks.

[1] http://www.arenasimulation.com/Arena_Home.aspx
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I just bought drople.com for 9.99USD

What should I do?
$6000 a ticket isn't a lot considering the caliber of speakers that they bring in. They're paying the speakers, right?
1. Sell it
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You'd lose the syntax for real literals, though.

And although you're technically true, the lack of a library implementing reals as userdata let me guess that few people have found this approach practical. Unless I missed it?

I guess people just use the LNUM patch.
To be fair, Apple isn't really waging war on Adobe. They simply decided that it wasn't in their best interest to support Flash on their devices.

The war is being waged mostly by the fanboy contingent
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3. Give it away it's a cool name someone might need it.
4. Spend the rest of the day asking yourself why you bought such a lame name.
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As a student or even in the professional life you cannot deny the fact that writing a marketing term paper is a very difficult task that if not done properly can become a nightmare for most people.
I'm not that subtle, no. It's really as-is.

So many people telling me the idea should be developed into a book, but I don't want to, so I was just letting it publicly be known that the idea is up for grabs.

Hoping to encourage someone who wants to run with it, knowing I won't compete.
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Personally, I find about 80% of TED talks to be painfully pretentious, saccharine, or so desperately worthy they just make me weary. For example: "how we rescued the dancing bears", "embrace your inner girl", "[someone] teaches kids to take charge", "the uniqueness of humans"; things I could only listen to with gritted teeth.
Metalua comes out-of-the-box with a short lambda syntax: "function (x, y, ...) return foobar end" is shortened as "|x,y,...| foobar".

And it comes with macro capabilities, plus syntax extension facilities to make them more user friendly.
Just to be fair: Seth is a friend and I told him about it before he posted about it.

I posted about it on June 6: http://sivers.org/dance-lessons

Seth posted on June 10: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/06/guy-3.html

Not being competitive. Just making it clear I wasn't copying Seth's idea.
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I think it sounds like a great idea. We don't need a one-OS-per-vendor market. Consolidating mobile OSes could be a very good thing.
It seems so: http://maps.google.com/maps?near=N+34th+St+%26+Lancaster+Ave... yes. :)
... Scribd is legally indistinguishable from a caching proxy.

You already said you weren't a lawyer. No need to prove it dramatically.
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Yeah, I've been using this for a few months now, since it is the first version of Flash that can play Hulu in 1080p connected to an HDTV without dropping half the frames. Now, it only drops one frame every few seconds, and crashes about every hour or two.

This is with a 1GB Nvidia 9800GT graphics card - Flash plugin 10.1 is now accelerating video playback using the ATI and Nvidia chips that support this. However, they're doing a terrible job of it. Granted, this is a beta plugin, but it still uses close to 100% of the CPU on a dual core machine (2.53 ghz Core2, 4GB RAM, Win 7 64-bit) to playback 1080p video.

In XBMC on the same machine I can play back 1080p BluRay rips with 5.1 Dolby Digital without dropping a single frame.

Adobe has a lot of catching up to do. This situation reminds me of Internet Explorer 6 before Firefox started gaining market share.
Well, it turns out they actually screen "funders" , you have to already have a track record with funding startups before you can contribute..that right there may be the death of GrowVC.

I think it would make more sense to allow any random person with money to invest, and then work on how much power/say they have in the actual running of the startup
You can get a better idea by reading some of the blog postings written by Adobe's Masinter here over the last year:

http://masinter.blogspot.com/

They include an explanation of why HTML5 being specified too well makes it anti-competitive, comments on why you shouldn't refer to HTML5 as a "standard", why Google is cheating at standards by employing people to work on them full time, and why irrational people hate Flash for no reason.

Basically it sounds like someone playing politics really well.
Why is the article mentioning Adobe AIR? I find it hard to believe that this doesn't put HTML5 on the air.
5. Write a web app that displays the amount of time left until it 'drops' out of your ownership. Only then can you move on with your life and forget this whole sorry episode.
I recall a millionaire couple (older folks, maybe 55-60) I knew when I was a kid - they built and operated nursing homes; I recall very clearly them with an architect's ruler going over the blueprints for a new building.

They worked on a farm, and were themselves the son and daughter of farmers going back many generations.

Education level? 8th grade education.
I like the site Wordle.com Perhaps you could do something with the word "Drop". IDK, hard one to see ideas for. Best of luck!
Any boy who has a hormonal response to a certain sexual act is a jerk?

I hate to tell you this, but people have very little control over what turns them on and what makes them feel good. A boy isn't a jerk for wanting to give a girl a facial, just as a girl isn't a jerk for enjoying wearing leather and whipping her boyfriend (or vice versa).

What determines if you are a jerk is not what you want, but how you behave in the pursuit of it.
Could you explain what you mean here? Are you talking about comment moderation on realclimate.org blog posts?
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Adobe needs to embrace HTML 5 and start making great tools around the HTML 5 runtimes. Flash, the runtime makes them nothing. Yes, the build tools around Flash, however, they need to stop their belly aching around HTML,JS,and CSS and learn to embrace and profit.
It would have taken me a lot longer to become familiar and comfortable with this culture if not for esr's help. A hard rule like "no esr" would throw the baby out with the bathwater. HN's shower has a drain.
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I would like to see memory and CPU-time allocation during the tests, as well as some more information on the test workload.
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This page needs an example output to see what one can expect from the tool and there should be a better way then a git checkout to install. A rubygem that adds a binary perhaps.

Edit: misstook it for a command line tool. This is great!
Allowing developers to create apps once and deploy them as native apps across all major mobile platforms would be a big win for Adobe.

But as a result, app stores will be overloaded when anyone with access to Flash CS5 can deploy a native application.
Mark Pilgrim, who is not quoted in the post, has worked in the industry for a decade, has written several books about web technologies and remains highly critical of the way HTML standards development has gone. He says Adobe is to blame.

http://twitter.com/diveintomark

I don't think this one can be untangled by deferring to experts - at least not yet. There's still not enough information.
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Wow. How could they forget the AppleTV?
> Will any out of state University seriously consider a

> college application without 12 grades of experience?

I only have anecdotal evidence that they would ;)

I had 9 grades of experience total (skipped first two grades as well), didn't have stellar SAT scores or high school grades, did a half-ass job on the applications, and yet I got about 40% acceptance rate at pretty good schools. I got rejections from Harvard, MIT and Caltech, but I doubt my age or lack of experience was the main factor in their decision.

A friend of mine from the same high school did pretty much the same thing a year later and was told by MIT (or was it Caltech?) that they're not accepting him only because he's graduating early. He ended up going to the same university as me.

> Would you trust private corporations to school your

> children? I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong...

Private schools are pretty popular in this country.
Isn't streaming video pretty processor intensive too?
Completely outrageous, and completely unsurprising.
It's unfair to leap on a single mistake and say it was the postscript of his essay. He also bought Petro China as part of his strategy to deal with a weakening dollar around the same time and by when he was selling it 2007, it had earned several billion. It is also worth pointing out that the essay dealt with China specifically, and that the RMB has appreciated against the dollar in the time since (and will more as the government relaxes its peg).
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What I would have really liked to see in the video was any new capabilities of Mobile Internet Explorer. Is it going to have the capabilities that we're used to from the iPhone, webOS, and Android? The web browser is probably the most important part of these phones since almost everything has a web interface. The XBOX Live and Facebook apps look nice, but there's no guarantee that Windows Phone 7 Series will take off and get lots of developers on board. However, a good web browser means that I can still get what a lot of what I want without apps.
"shorteners are now a fact of life"

The only time I ever use URL shorteners is when I'm trying to Rick-Roll someone.

Seriously, what is the use case on these things?
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I bet Chris Hansen is already working on "To Catch a Predator: Chatroullette Edition".
From Radley Balko (as usual):

"Take the Money and Run

"The crazy perversities of civil asset forfeiture."

New development:

"But allowing unelected private attorneys to oversee a county's forfeiture proceedings on a contingency basis is the worst option yet."

Plus the usual corruption, e.g. a judge changing his mind about a case after asking for $5K in forfeiture money for A/V equipment and getting turned down: "'Since then Judge Headley has had, well, I'll just say he's had a much different demeanor in forfeiture cases.'"

Balko notes that Indiana's constitution requires forfeiture money goes to schools ("'child' is the root password to the Constitution"), but of course they have dodges to get around that.
Herein Scoble fulfills the "huge responsibility"[1] of getting a rare TED press pass by reminding us once again of how awesome it is to be Scoble. In a truly shocking turn of events, getting to attend has made him no longer jealous of people who get to attend. Sweet badges, networking with rich folk and stage decor that helps you "weave together a fabric that encourages your mind to explore new ideas" while staring off into space during a boring talk will do that to you, I suppose.

If I didn't know that this is just how Scoble writes about everything, I would have come away with a worse opinion of TED than I had going into it. TED is supposedly about "ideas worth spreading", not how awesome it is to be rich and white (or fashionably ethnic). If I wanted to know about things rich people do that I will never do, I'd watch My Super Sweet 16. It's no wonder they don't hand out more press passes.

I think the way to address complaints of elitism is to not. If being an exclusive event is how the sausage gets made, great. Reasonable people understand that the hype and pretense surrounding TED does not negate the value of the content that it produces. Reasonable people skip the unbearably pompous intro music and the punctuating two minutes of advertisement for things that rich people care about and simply enjoy the talks. Reasonable people don't care about how awesome it is to get into the exclusive club.

[1]:http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/08/a-ted-responsibility/
In my first job I had a portable III http://oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html - considerably lighter at a mere 20lbs!

It was great - when there wasn't a seat on the train or at the station I could sit on it.
Not when you have a hardware H264 chip.
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Yeah this is what is commonly known as a straw man argument. Actual climate skepticism is at least as complex as climate theory, and one newspaper's incompetence in reporting isn't even news. If anything, this would make a good anecdote regarding current mainstream press' sloppy reporting.
Hmm not sure what to make of this.

The interface looks very limiting.

For instance where do I overview my apps?
Apache 2.0.39? When was this test made?

Also, which apache model, prefork or worker was used?