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Thesis is probably one the most fearful exercise that any student will have to do during their academic life. Essay help is sought abundantly when doing it. If you are studying architecture then you will have to submit a thesis architecture if you are looking to get a degree.
I think the article used "worst holy war" in the sense of "lamest". The (No)SQL "holy war" is just as dumb as any other computer-related "holy war" throughout our industry's short history (e.g., emacs/vi, Windows/Mac/Linux/Unix). It's as dumb as the arguments about who the best Captain of the Enterprise was.
Also, try changing the background color ;) anti-aliased opacity!
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I dare say he was being sarcastic. While there is perhaps some minimal bar on notability, it seems that it has to be a very low bar on a site that, as noted, has entries for things like episodes of TV shows or obscure cartoon characters.
There is the Levitation Project which attempts to port Mediawiki to a Git backend. It was spawned out of pretty much this very same discussion in the German Wikipedia.

http://levit.at/ion/wiki/Main_Page
Yo Kanye, I'm really happy for you and imma let you finish, but I think Ken Robinson had the best creativity essay of all time. OF ALL TIME!
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So was Picasso. If you can't separate the artist from the art, you won't enjoy much.

This essay actually betrays a vulnerability; it reveals a Heiligenstadt Testament-like calling. I, for one, am impressed.
"we believe the company's stock has meaningfully underperformed all relevant indices and peers. With over 33 years of experience in investing in public and private companies and an extensive track record of successfully structuring and executing acquisitions in the technology space, we believe that Elliott is uniquely situated to deliver maximum value to the company's stockholders on an expedited basis."

Translation: we intend to lay everyone off, sell off everything they're doing that's not netware related, put lipstick on the corpse and sell it.
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Yes, but I am not a (wikipedia) lawyer, and so I dont need/want/have the inclination to justify my actions with an alphabet soup. I just want to contribute, (and hopefully want to see is stay).
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I'm quite happy with the results of http://www.ajaxload.info/ and usually use it for my spinning gif's.
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I think it's pretty clear they are going after Google. By going after one manufacturer you put the brakes on the rest. Either it was a piece of HTC technology that violated patent or it was Google tech.

BTW. I hate the idea of software patents and wish it ends badly for Apple.
I would have also liked to see a fallback on soft rendering in that demo app (and the FPS number).

But it would have most likely crashed the system if they would have started the app while the GPU was removed physically.
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He makes a good point... But then ignores the most important part of robustness: good exception handling. Most of the issues he mentions are more related to maintainability issues than robustness.
The short answer is that Android-based phones like the Nexus One and Desire are a far bigger threat to Apple's stranglehold on the NA smartphone market than anything else to date. This isn't about "protecting their inventions", it's about throwing up roadblocks to their biggest potential competitor.
!#@!@^% deletionists are ruining Wikipedia. They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
That's a good strategy for finding opportunities. This post was mostly about marketing.
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what exactly is impressive about kanye west vs every other pop "artist"? does anyone have any examples?
I'm sure these policies are designed to keep up quality. Deletion is a great incentive for improving articles. Perhaps the best thing to do in this case is to fix the article at the moment there is little content. If you care, fix it :-).
The most interesting thing about the article is that people randomly assigned to positions of power lied better than their underlings. It's not simply a matter of better liars rising to better positions -- being in power changes you physically. ("Power corrupts"?)
< A superficial look suggests to me that in most cases, the "it turns out" could as well just have been left out

That's pretty much the point I was making. Most of the instances could be replaced by "is" or whatnot, without loss of meaning...
Yes, humans evolved to eat some meat in their diets at points in time where other foods were scarce. This does not mean that meat is something we should eat often or as a primary source of food. And it does not mean that we can't survive without it.

In addition to the incomparable suffering that animals who spend their entire lives in factory farms experience, a few good reasons are:

1. It is the number one cause of global warming

2. It's one of the main causes of deadly health problems in humans (heart disease, cancer, obesity related diseases).

3. It's a big reason why people go hungry. You can grow way more food to feed people through plant based agriculture. When you allocate land to meat production, you deprive people of food.

4. The reason why 60% of the rivers in America are classified as "impaired" due to runoff.

There are lots more reasons if you look and I suggest you do.

Just because we've done something for a long time doesn't mean we should keep doing it. Wouldn't you say that the conditions of the world have changed considerably since we were hunter-gatherers a few thousand years ago? Well, we need to evolve. The very best thing you can do for the planet, other humans, and yourself is to eat less meat.
Anyone taken it apart to see what hardware is on the inside? If anyone gets this running with Linux/BSD and a compiler, I'll get together a keyboard attachment along the lines of: http://adamsolove.com/index.php?id=3
It has Wi-Fi, but it also has a wall-wart power supply. It won't replace the iPad unless you duct tape a battery to the back of it.
That patent is on NeXTSTEP's NSDistributedNotificationCenter [1], which admittedly might actually be enforceable (I'm not sure of any prior art in this regard).

That said, after reading the claims of a lot of the other patents Apple is citing it is apparent that they are complete rubbish, for example [2] (the observer pattern applied to a desktop environment), [3] (generic proxy objects for IPC/RPC - Smalltalk/CORBA did it), and [4] (WTF???????).

1. http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/C...

2. http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=zIwLAAAAEBAJ

3. http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=7d4aAAAAEBAJ

4. http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=HrobAAAAEBAJ
So how do I root it?
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I used to use things like this to make kiosks. It's not multitouch. The touch display tech can best be described as "janky." It's essentially just using your finger as a mouse. No comparison to what Apple does. Nobody who has used an iPhone will still consider non-multitouch touch screens "good enough."
Nice app!

I have some suggestions:

1) Add a setting to make Readability the default (when this option is used, you could turn the current Readability button into See Original).

2) It would be nice to be able to see more than the first 30 items.

3) Add a button to go to the comments from the story view (currently you have to go back to the story list, scroll down to find the story and then tap the comment icon).

4) Add support for sending stories to different places: I'd like Instapaper, email, and Google Reader Shared Items / Buzz, but I'm sure lots of people would love Twitter and Facebook.
Why is the speed of stat a POSIX issue ? I don't see anything in there that warrants changing the semantics of open() read() write() seek() stat() and close(). I don't see how it is any business of POSIX to mandate meta-data caching.
It probably doesn't have ten hours of battery life.
Are you under the impression that you look sophisticated and cultured when you pretend to not know who he is?
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He does seem vulnerable, even tortured. Does this go hand in hand with creativity?
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Interesting how in his/her user-page, Miami33139 puts forth a defensive claim of being 'inclusionist'.
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He does seem vulnerable, even tortured. Does this go hand in hand with great creativity?
Just make the back thicker and add Li-poly modules. It's a suggested hacking platform, you know!
That's sad, I hope that these are the extreme or the one offs, just as I hope you tube comments aren't representative of real people's views.

Either way it doesn't make it alright.
Ahh, Apple. Do you realize that your only value for most of my friends is that your OS is actually a NIX beast?

I wish someone had enough money to come up with decent UI on Linux (pardon me but GNOME looks and works horrible), better typography and write some general, and widely working, framework for supporting Windows drivers.

It should not take more than $20-30m I think. Ubuntu, unfortunately, is not aggressive enough in those, critical, areas.
>300k users is tiny for a consumer app.

Active users, not the total number of users in the user table. People grossly overestimate the scale of most web properties, where the number of active users is far lower than you likely imagine.

>But a bunch of industries have opened up within the last ten years that require several orders of magnitude more data, and it's naive to think that just because it works for a corporate help desk or POS system, it'll work for a system that logs every page view and every action for millions of users.

Strangely it says nothing of the sort. Yet here, again, you've used Google as the example. How many Googles are there? How much does that apply to about 99.999% of people who deal with databases?

Yet it always appears as the example.
Compared to the control systems on lots of existing equipment, it's still a big potential improvement. It's not an iPhone replacement. It's a high resolution display with touch interface enabler.

A lot of restaurant POS systems would fit nicely on such a device. For that purpose, you don't even need to have them battery powered. Just make each waitperson's "login" very rapid. (4 digit PIN?) Scatter these things throughout the place.
The only student I know to have died on campus during my K-12 education was a middle schooler who choked on a hot dog in the cafeteria.
Thanks for that informative and thoroughly depressing link.
Perhaps they're treated better than humans, but in South America, the business of raising cattle has destroyed the rainforests specifically to sell cheap cattle to the US and the EU.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/rain...
We do this exact thing for clients at the marketing agency where I work. It takes longer to train them on the service than it does to build it. Set ups like this can be used for brand monitoring/shepherding, lead hunting or just marketing department brainstorming. It's also great for promoting an internal company culture.

The open web is a gorgeous thing. The trick is selling it. At Big Corp Incorporated they're so used to sending out press releases at $1000 a pop (we do this too, and it works, but it's a whole different game) that they just can't see how something like this, which is entirely soft-cost could be useful.
Now we're talking. I didn't think that the previous way to have 2 GPUs on a board made much sense.
Kind of missed the benefit of going "for profit," since 501c3's can donate to other causes as long as it's for the public benefit: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopich01.pdf

While I love Paul Newman's food, acting career, and generosity, going "for profit" I think causes more potential problems than it solves.
Sure, broad generalizations are always a problem, but in this particular case I'm not sure that it matters. The patent description that you linked to doesn't really seem specific enough to make it unique. It seems to be talking about eventing systems in an operating system (as opposed to a language). The idea that there isn't prior art seems dubious.

Also, I think leaving it to the lawyers is part of what got us into this situation in the first place. We have a bunch of lawyers and patent clerks that don't understand the technology so we end up with a lot of silly patents that shouldn't exist.
You probably don't need 10 hours of battery life for industrial control applications. Just add some Li-poly modules and a docking station.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/07/meds-to-cut.html

http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp
Most likely, not nearly as much. In medicine, tests are expensive and ethically complicated, because you're experimenting on living beings whose inner workings we barely understand. So the ability to make firm conclusions, like you can do in the sciences, is not there.

Gravity is proved. Evolution is rock solid. We still don't know if coffee is good or bad for us.
I've never spent 10 years at a startup, and several were successful. In fact, after 5 years any startup is unrecognizably different from how it started.
As a sub-topic, if I were to catch some form data, write it to a file, compress and encrypt the file (password/key protected) and then email it to a health provider, is that viable alternative to actually storing information?

Of course, the temporary files would be deleted immediately.
Three kids, same pediatrician. First kid: "Drink lots of whole milk". 2nd kid: "drink only skim milk; kids are too fat". 3rd kid: "drink 2% milk in moderation".
I think at some point it would turn Wikipedia into a huge advertisement. You'd have every person who ever came up with a product create an article about how theirs does all these great things and is better than the others. If you've ever taken a look at the recently created articles list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPages) you can see examples of this. People copy-paste text from press releases (which violates Wiki's policy on copyright because all articles are technically released under CC-BY-SA) and write text that's really heavily on the advertisements. And I think that there really needs to be some threshold in place, if only to keep that stuff at bay.
See the comments about Schneier's new book http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1113641

Given that you are using a tool stack that, well, has historically had a large number of security issues and that is difficult to get clarity on be cautious.

It is possible to build capable and relatively secure systems using php but it takes a correspondingly greater effort to do so. You will want to pay special attention to the global php settings (if you turn on register_globals even in development you deserve to get sued for malpractice) and you will want to understand the different layers of encryption that support your application. You also need to engineer your applications workflow with an eye towards separating out different kinds of access. A patient filling out a form should not be able to access any other patient records. A doctor or clinical assistant should be able to view only those records their role requires; any patient record access should be recorded in an audit log that is not accessible to any user directly.

Also, drop mysql for postgres; php support for postgres is very good and postgres supports in database public key encryption which you will want.
It looked all mozilla and webkit specific.
I think it does. If you look at the lives of a lot of artists (and a lot of scientists throughout history!), it seems that a great many of them had miserable lives because of this tortured search for "something that could be better, something missing, something needed."

There's an old legend where I live, in the Czech Republic, of a fire bird. The hero sees the bird and his horse tells him, "If we turn around right now, you'll have a nice life, a quiet, happy life... but if you capture that bird, you'll cry and you'll suffer, and your life will be an amazing adventure." The horse begs him to chose the former, but of course, the hero's journey is the latter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_%28Slavic_folklore%29
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the key word is "potential." I don't see an obvious way to make this much better than existing industrial touchscreen. Also, there are plenty of touchscreen kits that don't require taking things apart and figuring out your own operating system.
Seems to be resolved already: http://twitter.com/VZWNetwork/status/9926483852
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The system is rendering Windows Aero without the NVIDIA GPU being enabled. That means there must be another DirectX-capable integerated GPU in the system that is on when the NVIDIA GPU is disabled.

How does the system decide when to switch over to the second GPU?
I tire of these "prove me wrong" arguments. How about you prove yourself right?
Show me that the evidence for that position was all produced by someone funded by a meat producer.

This tactic of yours is frequently used by politicians and other extremist groups and I want to see it stopped.

You get to be the first one. Start researching your position and prove to me that you are right.
He's probably the only male in the hip-hop world that makes music with a lot of personal, emotional content. Also he has a pretty good ear for hooks, and is widely regarded as a good producer. Not a big fan myself, but I think that's basically why he's well liked.

Then again, maybe it's the shutter shades.
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I don't mean physics. I mean human sciences with statistics heavily applied (eg, economy or sociology).
Tell me about it. I'm reading all these comments about 'expensive' beef at $5 pr lbs and simply shaking my head. Here in Sweden I have to pay double that, and that's for the lower end. If you want a really nice cut, double or triple it again.
The worst holy war would be a holy war about holy wars: which holy war is the worst?
Can you expand on the postgres public key encryption - is this a function that encrypts/decrypts based on some files on the server (or in a database column)?
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Trips my BS detector. Like "Really!" and "You know,".
The biggest SQL problems I've seen the last few years have been ORM using developers using the database as a data structure store, rather than a database. For some reason, the act of getting data in and out of a database was the "hard problem" that had to be solved.

I know this sounds parochial and if you're a close to no money start-up then it might as well be Greek but there is a reason for the business tier in a 3 tier architecture, it translates transactional data in to your data structures... Done well it can scale like a mutha.

I do sort of appreciate the approach of NoSQL though. Map/Reduce is a concept missing from RDBMS and it seems like it could be incredibly valuable for certain problems. There are probably other concepts that could be applied as well. At some point I see the two camps sort of merging back together. ACID is just too important.
I can't upvote this enough. Making any conclusion about a patent without concentrating on the claims (at least the independent ones) is ignorant. I admit that I used to do the same, but once you understand the mechanics of a patent (just like any technical system), you are immediately put off when someone is angry over a summary.
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Small children are the most at risk for choking on things like hot dogs and grapes.
The additional point that maxklein made was this was coming off one of the best softcore, pop rap albums of all time. It sold something like a million in a week, and then was huge worldwide.

He could have made another album like Graduation and sold 10 times the records 808 did. If you want to gain some respect for Kanye, go download the Graduation album and listen to it start to finish. Not only is it great, but it is very introspective and self-critical.
I hated his latest album (808 and Heartbreak) and the one prior to that (Graduation) was mediocre, minus a hit or 2.

But if you listen to his first two albums, "The College Dropout" and "Late Registration", and compare it to what was being released at the time, you find something completely different.

In addition to the new sound (summary: sped up soul samples), he came with emotion as well as acceptance of his being a upper/middle-class guy (his mom was a college professor) while others would try to masquerade as gangsters.

Basically, what he did was bring relevant hip-hop to the mainstream, showing suburban kids, college students and yuppies that you can relate to rap music without having to act like someone else.
Definitely: I stopped contributing (content and money) to Wikipedia after non-notable deletions ~2006 took out most of my contributions. At the time it was noted that it was easier to list a porn star (anything with a major distributor was automatically considered notable) than an academic who hadn't managed to get a real dead-tree newspaper article written about them (journals, awards, etc. didn't count as much as 2 paragraphs in USA Today). I hope that's changed since then but it definitely killed any interest I had in contributing more time for a uninterested editor to discard without comment.
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i know your not gonna name your album this but this would be cool if you named it “IMA LET YOU FINISH”
Here's the actual url instead of the shortened one that was submitted:
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He is a self-made pop artist. He was a producer, and then wrote, performed and produced his own album. Creating pop rap is not particularly common - and he leads the genre with creativity that everyone follows for a few years after.
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I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just a lot harder than a desktop-app, because there isn't a GUI toolkit with standard look & feel, functionality, and API. Web designers ultimately write one from scratch every time they need to create a new web app. IMO that's wrong.

GWT is the only proper GUI toolkit I know, and it truly borrows lots from desktop APIs. But not everyone wants a 100% JS web page, some people still care about SEO.
That's a really good point. Saying that NoSQL is about picking the right tool for the job makes it easy to dismiss. There are lots of programmers out there that just refuse to look at any other tools than the very small set that they already know. I think it would be beneficial to change that attitude across the spectrum of programming tools.
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Yes, but only for certain kinds of creativity. Hacking requires a lot of creativity, but there's not a tremendous amount of emotional content in it, so it doesn't really demand vulnerability. Even a lot of very creative musicians write from the head more than the heart (e.g., Frank Zappa, Robert Fripp, others).

A lot of artists, however, try to explore and express something about the human experience. That kind of creativity demands vulnerability, because you have to be sensitive and introspective enough to be able to channel that emotion into some kind of medium.