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Choice is slavery.

What does he mean I can't "control" closed software I run? I start it, stop it, and click on the pretty buttons to make it do things. Sure I can't turn it into something different, but then I don't have the infinite free time necessary to do that to open software anyhow. If OpenOffice is changed in a way I don't like, I have exactly the same options I'd have if Microsoft Office was changed in a way I don't like: stay on the old version, move to a different office suite, or put up with it.

Hosted software is the same, except for the option to stay with an old version.
Ditto. (Well, at work, not right now). I was lucky enough to snag one from a different room in my office. I was excited because of the magical stories I've heard about Aerons. There's lots of little knobs and levers to fiddle with, but even after extensive personalization, it's not all THAT comfortable.
It's not a cheap shot. The Kindle is designed for (figurative) book burning. Any book distribution system with strong DRM is. Amazon has the ability to remotely delete (or worse, modify) any book on any Kindle anywhere. Never in the history of written works has a government or private entity had that ability.

Again, it's not a cheap shot. Digital books and newspapers present a clear and present danger. I'm open to well supported arrangements about why the rights of copyright holders are more important than freedom of the press and free speech, but honestly I don't think such arguments exist.
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Hi, there. I'm Kenny Dialoggins. If you're a Rails developer who wants to use scriptaculous dialogs but doesn't want to mess with JavaScript, you might want to prep your best friend for some bad news. We're going to be spending a lot of time together.
enforcers for the bourgeoisie

They are in fact the parasites of the bourgeoisie, getting sweet salaries from a bankrupt, overtaxed city while pretending to be performing a good deed.
Do you think Youtube's founders are thinking "we should adhered to copyright material more closely", or "we should have deleted all those emails"?

Both sides have a point here (content creators deserve to be compensated, or at least not not-compensated, vs. youtube helped expose media to people who would never have seen/heard some content before).

IMHO, I'd like to think that youtube made reasonable decisions in the past (take down full movies, tv shows). I certainly don't have the data, but I would hope that youtube helped popularized and spread videos that would never have done so otherwise (e.g., numa numa, rickroll).
Where does one obtain a standing desk these days?
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WSJ has been pretty on-target with the validity of their sources when it comes to the iPhone, if I recall correctly. While many other outlets can speculate about a new iPhone come summertime, if it's been printed in the Wall Street Journal, it's about as good as hearing it from Apple. Likewise, with the CDMA-iphone bit - if it doesn't come out, it'll be because it was killed off internally between then and now, not because the WSJ published incorrect information.

In short: No, these aren't rumors.
How Microsoft Bob ended up being a part of every copy of Windows XP
Using your own source, "Positive liberty is the possibility of acting — or the fact of acting — in such a way as to take control of one's life and realize one's fundamental purposes."

Must one's (everyone's?) fundamental purposes include having all software available by law? If so, that's a mightily counterintuitive notion of freedom, be it positive, negative, or else.
I do all of that and have still been afflicted with most of those problems.
In the office I work at a desk and on a chair. But at home (where I work on side-projects several hours most days) I never work sitting on a chair - it's always either curled up with a laptop on the couch, or sitting on the floor. Usually I alternate between the two. I much prefer not sitting on a chair if I can avoid it.
These are the guys you should hire.

http://www.madebysofa.com/
Artists in our industry (I'm an animator) create reels of their past work - paid or unpaid - to act as a collection of their best stuff in order to get jobs, bookings, etc. We have a lot of freelancers in our industry, and so most people have a reel that they can send to companies and say "Look at how great my stuff is, let's work together!"
From one of the linked-to articles:

The patents granted to Myriad give the company the exclusive right to perform diagnostic tests on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and to prevent any researcher from even looking at the genes without first getting permission from Myriad.

I don't know the ins and outs of patent law, but the idea that this kind of patent was even granted makes me want to tear the whole damn thing down.
Fixing the fragmentation of the Android platform
You say that until you realize that you use your hands for doing a whole lot more important stuff than you do your ass.
There was a company a couple of years ago that did outsourced bulk film scanning. You basically sent them your film en masse, they sent it to India and had it scanned there, and then sent you back the film and the scans.

Couldn't find them with a quick google though, they may not have survived the GFC.
Like everything else in life. The answer is "It depends".

There is nothing stopping you from learning more with your current job. Regular working hours still leave you with free time on the weekends, and maybe an hour or two every day to read up on stuff you like.

Lots of people here, bootstrap a company along with their day jobs. If one's really motivated to learn new things, then status quo is always unsatisfactory.

I personally would advise, that you might try working on your own ideas rather than for someone else. You're bound to learn more.
Did you read the part where I literally said "christian missionaries are well intentioned"? I guess you just read the part I didn't actually write about missionaries being unable to do good work...ANYWAY:

Anthropologists and the other two are very different...anthropologists mostly don't raise social movements. In fact even having their actual presence known in the field is mostly considered a downside as it affects the way people act (longer discussion not for here). Anthropologists are studiers, primarily interested with understanding and interpreting the world for others to act on. I don't think they belong in this discussion.

Marxists and Christians absolutely have a TON in common. I will agree on that. I don't blanket condemn anyone who isn't pushing their views along side with the help they give. I do have very direct experience with a wide variety of Christians (from Catholics to Greek Orthodox to fundamentalist Presbyterians) and many of them did some sort of mission work. The vast majority of it had little to do with religion, but without fail they all prayed with the people they were helping and helped work towards some greater mainstay of Christian faith in the area (usually working on building some Church, repairing some Church). Unfortunately I think missionary work is inextricably about the broader goals, and it's not as clear cut as you make it out to say you are helping someone - this is a slippery slope to cultural imperialism.

I obviously don't have any issue with feeding people, and helping them rebuild after disaster (widespread like war, or personal like homelessness), but take a nation like Korea. Before Americans came in it was almost entirely Buddhist. After the Korean War the Americans came in and said "hey we'll help rebuild your nation, just let us build this Church." In many cases the first generation (those who made these deals) paid little mind to the Churches, but the second generation was completely culturally slaughtered. South Korea now has a thriving economy and is between 35 and 40% fundamentalist Christian. It is now culturally necessary to be Christian in many cases to be in the upper class (the wealthy social networks are mostly Christian). So look what the trade off there was in terms of culture for stability.

Is it not possible to understand that such a thing could happen on a personal scale as well? There is no moral ambiguity about feeding someone who is starving, there absolutely is when you package that food with your beliefs. You force them to compromise themselves, and I think that's neither useful nor appropriate.
yup. though, for me, my desktop (well, wallside) is the perfect setup; using a laptop is a real pain.
> it's always either curled up with a laptop on the couch, or sitting on the floor

Aren't you still sitting though? Or did I miss something in the article?

[ If you aren't sitting while 'curled up with a laptop on the couch,' I can't imagine that that position is good for your wrists/tendons/etc. Just food for thought. You don't want to avoid hemorrhoids just to end up with carpal tunnel or tendinitis. ]
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hey! we may be overtaxed, but who you calling bankrupt?
Out of curiosity, how much further do you think he would have gotten? Do think usage of free software today would be 3x higher if Stallman were less abrasive? 10x?
Odds are, one should never trust a programmer who thinks they know [X]. Odds are they only think they know really know [X], but they haven't gone too much farther than figuring out how to use the library.
It has nothign to do with positive vs. negative freedom; the set of "things you can do" when you have only open software available is a strict subset of "things you can do" given that same open software and also the alternative of closed software. Closed software can only limit your freedom if its existence inhibits the availability of open software.
It's also remarkably easy for your wallet to get stolen out of your back pocket.

I learnt this lesson the hard way. Thankfully all they were interested in was the five pound note and some kind soul handed it in.
Perhaps there are drivers for video cards old and new crammed in to there to facilitate the new OpenGL 3.0 support.
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Here's the css with a nicer datepicker that doesn't move around as things get selected and has better vertical alignment of the selected date:

http://gist.github.com/348580
Hi, there. I'm Kenny Dialoggins. If you're a Rails developer who wants to use scriptaculous dialogs but doesn't want to mess around with JavaScript, maybe we should hang out.
Don't forget Bjarne Stroustrup's http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:JyMHnEtpuZgJ:t... Generalizing Overloading for C++2000. We'd all be a lot better off if we'd just listened back then.
...legislative district, special districts, school districts...actually a good idea, but you'd need to be able to toggle which boundaries you wanted to see or it would be a mess.

It's just not enough "mass market" appeal to be on the primary menu of Google maps. The primary use of maps is to get oriented in an area and see where physical locations are, hence "Map", "Satellite", "Terrain".
Those stories are lies. Even people with real jobs don't have nice apartments in NYC.
Ok, I agree with some of what he's saying, he says: "It can wait a day". Well, yes. In theory.

The truth of the matter is that if you're doing actual client work, you have to contact the client, then you might have to pinball things with your programmer or your designer or whatever, those things take time. If they all wait a day, and the client waits a day for you, before you know it, it's been a week. Maybe two weeks, and you don't have a clue why it took so long. This is just one example.

Of course this totally depends on what line of work you're in, but that's maybe my point. Not all companies are 37signals working on a SaaS product.

If you take a week to respond and do something for your client and your competitor does it in a day, you're going to lose.

Of course reducing interruptions is paramount for any business, but you can't get rid of them completely in most fields. You just have to control the interruptions, learn to distinguish between important and not so important stuff, keep as much communication in an asynchronous manner as possible, but when you need something asap, you need it asap.

Sorry for the long winded response.
This video goes into excruciating detail about the one-time interconnection performed by SMS gateway operators to carriers, but skips over that part for the traditional 800 services, which is more complex and political than wireless services.

Additionally, it spends a lot of time on the 'mobile marketing agency' concept, which is not a requirement at all. You can pick up your own short code from the US Short Code administration, and turn up with any gateway operator of your choice.

The gateway operator has already negotiated interconnection with T-Mobile, Cricket, AT&T, Sprint, etc., so you don't have to. The only unconventional one I know of in the US is T-Mobile, who requires an additional $500 setup fee.

You can't make payments to an 800 number naturally, so on the wireless side you have an additional party, known as a clearinghouse, who is set up to do the billing with the 19240824901 different carriers from where your users originate, so that you don't have to.

The SMS market isn't as hellish as people make it out to be. If you're concerned about cost, well, the fewer players there are in a market, the less liquid the prices are going to be.

Try to connect to 1,000 carriers around the world, with different systems, different billing methods (due to different plans with their subscribers), different levels of deposits required, different types of interconnection (MPLS VPN, T1, SIP, HTTP, proprietary protocols, etc) and you'll quickly realize the great amount of complexity involved.
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مشاهدة مباراة مانشستر يونايتد وبايرن ميونخ بث مباشر
That's what I meant. With Uniform already styling forms element in Aristo style and JQuery UI now with a matching look, I don't have to waste too much effort on intranet apps...
One more thing. If your managers suck and they keep interrupting all the time or at the wrong time or don't respect your time and that it is a failure when they interrupt you, then you have a sucky manager and he's probably not even going to log into campfire or whatever, he'll just ask or interrupt anyways, so I think the biggest problem with interruptions is lack of respect for interruptions and stupid managers.
I have an Aeron chair at work. It's okay. If I were going to film a movie where the plot was being tied to chair, I would use the Aeron. Even without binding, you feel trapped. When you stand up and manage to escape, you feel an amazing amount of freedom.

I have a "crappy IKEA chair" at home. It is much better. You sit in it, and it feels good. You don't think about the act of sitting anymore.

Did I mention that Aeron chairs are ugly?
The kindle is not designed for book burning, even if it might be used for that purpose. I'm not 100% comfortable with the concept of the "remote wipe", but as companies go Amazon has proven itself to be pretty trustworthy. And what's the worst case scenario? Amazon censors/deletes a bunch of books, people scream bloody murder and host some torrents.

Never in the history of written works can a shout of a single man be heard by over a billion people. The internet still blows my mind, when I stop and think about it for a second. Thanks to encryption and publicly available algorithms people will always be able to communicate against the will of any government, even if the internet itself is compromised. So I don't think we have to worry about DRM and similar technologies. At any point in time we can just say 'No more!' and use something different, so DRM has no power over us.

If you want to worry about something, worry that data can't be deleted, and advances in data mining (artificial intelligence) will change the laws of privacy forever. Perhaps, in 10 years from now, you'd wish for a remote wipe button.
"For instance, some proprietary programs are “spyware”: the program sends data about users' computing activities to the program's owner. Microsoft Windows sends information about users' activities to Microsoft."

He probably could have come up with a more credible example of spyware than Microsoft Windows.
Agh. I have mixed feelings about this. On the face of it, sure, you're getting rid of an exploitative industry. This is good, right?

Yes, just as it is good to prevent companies from setting up shop in poor countries and employing people in what would be called sweatshop conditions in their own countries.

More broadly, if you feel that a choice that someone makes is harmful to them, you're saying you should be in charge of them; denying them agency. Apart from the opposite sides of the political spectrum the buttons push this is exactly like the War On Some Drugs.

But now Iceland is pushing yet another group of women into an area of life run only by criminals. How is this good?

The article implies that a large majority of the strippers are foreign. As such, the majority of the people whose choices will be constrained by this will be people the Icelanders in general and the feminists in particular do not give a rat's ass about. They're far more important as symbols of the Icelanders' moral purity than as people.
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Same story here, though I've recently given up my Aeron. I bought my Aeron at the Arthur Andersen bankruptcy auction in Houston in response to back, elbow, and wrist pain caused by a half dozen crappy chairs bought from Office Max or Office Depot for about $100 each over the span of several years. I kept the Aeron for 8 years, and then sold it when I was moving out of my house and into an RV...and it looked as good as the day I bought it. The guy who bought it from me couldn't believe I'd had it for nearly a decade and that it was used when I got it. Best $385 I ever spent, and when I can make room for another one, I won't mind spending a few hundred bucks to buy another one. I can say with absolute sincerity that it's just stupid to buy a cheap office chair. You pay for it with your back, your ass, your wrists, your elbows, and with your wallet, because the cheap chairs only last a year or two if you are a heavy user, as programmers always are.

I had started to regret selling it a month or so into my travels, but I've now figured out how to avoid trouble with the new lifestyle. Moving regularly between all of the several sitting locations I have in the RV (dinette, desk, sofa, and also sitting outside in a cloth folding chair or a wooden folding chair when weather is nice (which is most of the time, since I follow good weather), and exercising a lot more (easy since I have to walk my dog regularly, anyway, and I'm always in some place new that is way more interesting than what's on TV). I also still have my tall table from Ikea that I used for a while as a standing desk, but I haven't parked anywhere long enough to make it worth setting up.

As I type, I'm sitting outside under the awning overlooking the desert in a place called "Slab City" about 150 miles west of San Diego, and just south of Joshua Tree. I think I am going to do some customization of my next RV to get an Aeron back into the picture, though. There's just no good reason not to have a really good chair.
Never trust an old man who says he's stood on the moon
The idea is more that you have the liberty to change the software should you want to. Regardless of whether or not you have the time, inclination or skills necessary to change the software, not having the source code prevents you from being able to do that.

That said, Richard Stallman does sound like an idiot when he writes things like "Some web pages install nontrivial or even large JavaScript programs temporarily into your browser without informing you. When these JavaScript programs are nonfree, they are as bad as any other nonfree software".
I think if you have a choice between getting addicted to Russian Literature versus getting addicted to World of Warcraft, one will be a lot more beneficial to you than the other...

"I spent every waking hour of my years 12-14 reading all of Dostoievsky, Tolstoi and Chekhov back to back over and over again"

vs

"I spent every waking hour of my years 12-14 playing World of Warcraft."
List comprehension in Erlang
Anyone have any idea what a ruling like this (if it stands) would do to companies like Monsanto?
A wise move. Now nature will have no financial incentive to develop new types of breast cancer.
Part of it is that I'm bored and rather suspicious of a lot of economics. But PhD admissions are very competitive, I'm somewhat lacking in mathematical background, and I can't afford to pay for a master's. Nor do I see much worth in it unless it's specialized.

I'll probably try to shift in the 'data scientist' direction.
Guess I'll be taking C++ off my resume then. Wouldn't want to risk having an interviewer think I'm not trustworthy!
Are there Javascript obfuscators/transformers that implement this?
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(content creators deserve to be compensated, or at least not not-compensated, vs. youtube helped expose media to people who would never have seen/heard some content before).

People should only have the right to earn one's profits in voluntary exchange. The reason for this is very pragmatic.

The free market will not work without artists starving on the street, or taking a part time job to support their art career. Failure in enterprises and dreams is critical to the free market's ability to allocate resource.

The failure of firms quite often become signal to the rest of the market on what not to do. With every failure of a speculation, a business idea, a poor execution, lead further to correct information about consumer's preference and perhaps, the future.

However, the future is very uncertain. Consumers' preference are fickle. Sometime unforeseeable natural events happen. For that reason, speculation, and thus entrepreneurship is a constant activity. Our economic system is a dynamic one, and thus, cannot have an equilibrium that is so often at heart of economic models.

For the reason of satisfying consumer preferences, we must ignore people who insists and demand compensation for their work without giving people a reason to buy.

If that mean breaking the law and ignoring copyright, so be it. If it means that the music industry shrink to 10% of its former size, so be it. If that mean more musicians working at restaurants, so be it.

Why should they make people fork money over something that they would not buy without copyright and government intervention?
I assume you are referring to this post http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1689-link-ready-aimfail-why-s... ??

As I understand it, it does not recommending you don't set goals, it is just recommending that goals be something more than a to-do list or group of numbers.

Let's take a goal such as 'fix a bug within two days'. What 37 Signals is saying is that that isn't a good goal if by fixing that bug, you introduce two others.

Or 'add two new paying customers a day', doesn't help if you lose 3 per day. So you'd be better off with a goal like 'grow revenue 3% each month'.

How you word your goals is very important, and makes sure you are focusing on the right things.

That's my take on it.
The Slim has no Linux capability and allowing Linux on older PS3's holds no benefit for Sony. It made a little sense in the beginning, teaching some Cell skills to developers who could get interested into developing for the machine, but none now (or they would allow it on the slim). What makes sense is the idea Sony fears exploits coming from the Linux side could compromise the signing keys and allow bootleg/homebrew software to run on the consoles.
Although I didn't realise it, I am sitting on one in my office right now. The entire 3 floors are decked out with them, and I can attest to the incredible configurability. It can, however, bite you in the ass if not set up correctly. Read the instructions!