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nah, you're just wrong.

superbowl ads are popular because they are a spectacle. you know they are going to try to be different/unusual because the companies had to spend millions. you want to see them compete. BUT if you had to watch any of those fantastic ads 10 times everyday you would grow to hate the site of them.

ads in newspapers, magazines, flyers aren't as bad because they are passive. You can read them if you want to (i used to buy computer shopper magazines which are 99% ads). but TV and internet ads are desperate to engage with you.

auto-playing video ad with sound? I will make a note to hate your product and I will bad-mouth it any chance i get.
I feel the same way too; i mean, where would aids research be if it wasnt for gay men.
Even then, is it really an emergency? What's the consequence of it being down? Death? People being fired?

IME, 90% of emergencies are "such-and-such a manager is going to look a little bad in a spreadsheet next Monday".

That doesn't mean it doesn't need fixing, but we should start being honest with ourselves. Defining P1, P2, etc. is useful.
And I'd love to avoid putting another layer between the games and the hardware if I have to. I remember using Wine.

I agree, that makes perfect sense.

and in any case I doubt they're good enough to get the games talking to my GPU properly.

Now that's a whole different story: NVIDIA provides Solaris-native packages for their drivers, and they JustWork(SM). Way back in the day, NVIDIA engineers were stunned that they didn't have to produce a completely recompiled driver for every Solaris release: thanks to device driver interfaces/driver development kit[1], one could develop the driver on an ancient version of Solaris and have it work flawlessly on the latest-and-greatest one.

When I wrote that I'm using Mac OS X, that was the truth, but it wasn't the entire truth: I am typing this on my intel-based workstation I put together myself, with Solaris 10 running on it. And it has an NVIDIA GTX 980 accelerator, the top of the line model one could buy at the end of 2014. Downloaded the driver from NVIDIA's site, installed it with pkgadd(1M), and it JustWorks(SM)[2]:

> pkginfo -l NVDAgraphics NVDAgraphicsr
PKGINST: NVDAgraphics
NAME: NVIDIA Graphics System Software
CATEGORY: system,graphics
ARCH: i386
VERSION: 343.22,REV=2014.09.11.17.06
BASEDIR: /usr
VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
DESC: X and OpenGL Drivers for NVIDIA Quadro graphics
INSTDATE: Dec 04 2014 22:37
HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 188 installed pathnames
30 shared pathnames
2 linked files
42 directories
7 executables
405482 blocks used (approx)

PKGINST: NVDAgraphicsr
NAME: NVIDIA Graphics System Device Driver
CATEGORY: system,graphics
ARCH: i386
VERSION: 343.22,REV=2014.09.11.17.06
BASEDIR: /
VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
DESC: Kernel Drivers for NVIDIA Quadro graphics
INSTDATE: Dec 04 2014 22:37
HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 6 installed pathnames
3 shared pathnames
3 directories
52151 blocks used (approx)

However, all of that is not to say you could play games on Solaris. If they were really optimized for Solaris, then they would fly, as Solaris is really, really, really fast, especially on intel. But since they aren't, and that's not realistic right now (and might never be realistic), I completely understand where you're coming from.

As for Mac, OS X has plenty of major and indie titles in the Apple app store. But, it's for people who are actually willing to pay for that.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-4854/

[2] http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/105347
Absolutely. I even sign up to have ads delivered to my email: they're called newsletters. What I don't like is intrusive, spammy, misleading ads that want to track me across the internet. That's why I use an adblocker.
If you don't even like the media why do you care about not being able to watch it without DRM? Do you have to ruin it for everyone? I get so much utility from Netflix. This attitude reminds me of how some religious people want to force those who don't believe the religion to still follow its commandments. I'm going to go to hell either way, why do you care if I have some fun first?
Very nice game!

I've written a similar game a while back (single player, though): http://david-peter.de/quizzity/
I feel like i m glowing .
Speed and efficiency. Very convenient keyboard only use.
Highly configurable and scriptable.
Available from anywhere with ssh.

mutt does many things out of the box that other programs cannot do or just with plugins and/or inconveniently hidden functions. Some examples of things I frequently use:

- bouncing mail

- re-send incoming email (after editing it)

- changing headers of composed emails on the fly

- show (only) certain headers by default

- using your editor of choice for composing mails
Almost certainly. One fascinating aspect of language is that many metaphors that are baked into language appear in many languages. E.g. In English we can form the future tense with modal verbs, "I will..." and "I am going to..." and in Chinese there are similar modal verbs "我要..." and "我去...". In both languages the idea of intention, or motion, are used as a metaphor in forming the future tense. Or 加油, an expression of encouragement similar to "put your foot on it" which has no equivalent in English, but does in Danish, "giv det gas".
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Preferably Jolt Cola, the official beverage of the elite hacker.
I like when they show me ads for the expensive thing I already bought, as if I'm going to buy it again. Had they predicted I wanted to buy that thing, and shown me ads for things like it first, that might have been useful.
I think it is a great idea, you can charge when people use it in production and it reverts to oss on a specific date.

I worked at a startup and companies would want us to put a version of the software into escrow and were wary of us going under, giving them something like this would have been perfect.
We do pretty heavily

- Packer for production workloads for > 2 years

- Consul for production workloads for > 1.5 years

- Terraform for building production (and all other) infrastructure for > 1 year
>> Anti-Google research group in Washington is funded by Oracle

Does it matter? Research is either legit or BS. That's all that matters, doesn't it?
Errm, I did, I knew they had cruise missiles in the 1980's they were talked about on UK radio, I remember a particularly rabid friend talking about the threat of a communist take over in Ireland (dear jesus that guy was crazy) and how "The Russians" would station cruise missiles there!
That happens all across the 'net though, not just on Facebook. Happens to me with Amazon all the time - they have records of me eyeing something up, I buy it a day later, and 2 days later they're still pestering me around the 'net with ads about that thing.
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Have been thinking about markdown email support as well. That would solve many of our problems!
I do most stuff in terminal and wanted to do email as well.
So what is a good comparison if not the rival? Who should we compare it to then? San Marino?
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I think the obvious question is how much research is it and how much is it just Oracle trying to give Google a hard time. A lot of people and/or press probably have a hard time distinguishing.
> I've never understood this argument. We have been "playing god" since we settled down 10,000 years ago and started practicing agriculture.

Yes, and as the above poster stated, often with unintended consequences - many of which have been disasterous. Even after thousands of years of agriculture we've still made monumental mistakes, such as the creation of the Dust Bowl. For an example involving pest elimination specifically, you can look at the Chinese effort to eradicate sparrows.

That doesn't necessarily mean we shouldn't try to eradicate the mosquitoes that are harmful to humans. However, when people are unable to appreciate the problems that unintended consequences have had in the past, and the risks they may pose for the future, it doesn't seem like we're making the decision based on an honest and sober look at the facts.
I've switched to using Emacs (with mu4e + offlineimap). Composing pretty emails using Orgmode is great. It's even possible to render code snippets with code highlighting taken from your current theme. Attachments handling is pretty great as well. My only problem is rendering of HTML emails is not good. It tries its best, but most of the time it doesn't work (about 50/50 from my experience).
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This is intentional. They're shaping your perception of the purchase by mitigating remorse.
I wish we had something like Markdown for email--to me that would be the sweet spot between the mess HTML email has become, and plain text which sometimes does lack in its ability to communicate information.

I don't use mutt but IIRC a basic feature of both mutt and similar (pine + variants, etc.) is allowing you to define your own external editor. Therefore, there's nothing to stop you adding a wrapping pipeline to that so that, for example, first you edit normally in your preferred editor, and second an established piece of code or basic series of regex replaces your markdown with whatever you actually want. Optionally, the reverse runs before editing. This should not take longer than a few hours on the outside to get running comfortably.
> Contrary to popular opinion, people want to see ads.

I'd like to see some data supporting this opinion. I'll form the contradictory opinion that no-one really wants to see ads but most recognise that some form of advertisement is necessary to lower the cost of access to some information.

Rather and a _want_, it's more of an acceptable evil, sometimes.

There is probably a threshold at which ads become acceptable, and that probably involve their level of intrusiveness, perceived relevance/usefulness and the privacy risk they pose (although I would guess that the implication of that last point probably fly under the radar of most regular users as it needs some technical understanding of how the web works).

Ads on the internet are nothing more than spam, a privacy risk and some are just outright dangerous.

This industry is pretty much out of control and its bad actors deserve to disappear. They probably still have a few years left before ad blocking becomes mainstream enough that it hurts them enough. We'll all be forced to find new -hopefully better- measures to keep having some of the content we love.

Hopefully, some of the fluff content whose sole purpose is to feature ads will also disappear. Good riddance I say.
So you would claim that these companies do not hold these lists? Or do you understand that they currently don't sell them (because it is currently more profitable to sell services based on them)? Do you remember what happened when Radioshack went under recently?
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When you phrase it like that, it seems that there might be something meditative in elevating something mundane to be the main point of the day.

To misquote Bruce Lee: "I do not fear the man who has 20 breakfasts, I fear the man who has one breakfast 20 times."
Depends what one calls BS. Quick look at GTP-generated news gives impression that all covered topics are quite legal, but presentation looks FUDish. Like: “Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration” [1]

[1]: http://watchdog.org/265844/google-obama-revolving-door/
Meh, in the scheme of things this nets out to very little for Deutsche shareholders. It's truly a moral stance.

Huge respect for this guy. How much better would the world be if 30% of the population could take this level of ethics to life. Some reputable bank should chase this guy to work in their regulatory affairs.
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Are you sure? I often see ads for the same type of thing but from multiple competing brands.
Preprogrammed paths is absolutely not what is meant by self-driving vehicles. Preprogrammed means a human has made all the decisions an actual self-driving vehicle would need to make.
Another interesting side-effect that the compactness of Chinese symbols
(other variations: Hanja in Korean, Kanji in Japanese and so forth)
allowed was a higher chance of survival against natural disasters like wild fires or crimes like thefts or vandalism.

It was/is far easier to ensure redundancy of scripts and books
since the costs of reprinting/copying was far lower compared to other forms of phonetic systems.

The compactness explains how so many archaic, buddhist scripts could survive to this day.
Another interesting side-effect that the compactness of Chinese symbols (other variations: Hanja in Korean, Kanji in Japanese and so forth) allowed was a higher chance of survival against natural disasters like fire or crimes like thefts or vandalism.

It was/is far easier to ensure redundancy of scripts and books since the costs of reprinting/copying was far lower compared to other forms of phonetic systems. The compactness explains how so many archaic, buddhist scripts could survive to this day.
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To be fair, did many people actually place a significant 'bet' on Chrome Web Apps? Even from the beginning that wouldnt sound like a very wise bet.
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How does world peace even remotely follow? We can't even make peace in the countries we're currently occupying, and have little interest in intervening in other conflicts for humanitarian reasons.
is this your personal guess? it sounds plausable, but... reference?
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Anything has a range of interpretations or "partial representation of the facts" that can be used to provide spin to a story.

Narratives are powerful, and "independent research groups" can provide that (purposeful) narrative for their backers' gain.
Yep, Bandcamp is the one site I go to when I discover new and interesting articles. If they're on there, half the time it's an impulse-buy of the whole discography. If they're not on there, chances are I won't bother any further. I don't know how it is as an artist, but as a tech-savvy consumer the experience is tremendous.
"perfectly targeted ads"? Never had that experience.

Even if I summarize all the analytics solutions out there, like ads, Facebook stream, Youtube, Amazon, Netflix. What they usually do is they figure out what I did in recent history or in general and present me more of that. I don't know about other people, but that's absolutely not what I want. That's boring, or maybe even unnecessary.

Like, if I just bought a book about Linux system administration the only reason I would buy a second one would be because the first one sucked (and Amazon knows the ratings of the books). A reasonable suggestion after that would be something people do with Linux, like hosting a Wordpress blog. Honestly I might not even know what I would do with my newly acquired skill once I succeeded with that topic. Also it's quite tiresome to learn. Maybe after reading 30% of it I would like to insert a simple but interesting novel or comic book. Why not suggest something like that to me?

Or I just watched an action movie on Netflix. Then I don't need other action movie suggestions. After that maybe I want to watch a character focussed tv show.

What we need is not a "I know what you did and here is more of that" suggestion engine. What we need is a "oh that's getting boring, here is other awesome stuff that may surprise you" suggestion engine. Figure out the stuff I don't know I want and then suggest that.

And honestly, not a single of these billion-dollar-engines out there do that for me at the moment.
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For years i used Mutt as an IMAP client, but that was honestly quite a nightmare. Even back in the day at uni with an über fast internet connection it was still just not responsive enough. The day i switched to using OfflineIMAP and a local Maildir it was as if the blinds had been drawn aside and sunshine streamed into my INBOX :).

Having said that, i use mu4e these days, because i've become an Emacs user. With a few tweaks it now scratches my itch very effectively (except of course the HTML-email problem as mentioned elsewhere -- this is especially troublesome at work where they want me to include an HTML-embedded-image-tabled monstrosity with about a page of legalese as a signature).
Not really. You are making a false comparison.

The differences are :

- USA has an asymmetric conventional dominance that would prevent a non nuclear outcome that could provide a strategically acceptable outcome for Russia.

- The USA's continental territory is 1000's of km from Russia; a Russian retaliation would not be short range strikes but intercontinental - this would look pretty much like a nuclear escalation even if it wasn't

- The outcome of a conventional strike by Russia on the continental territory of the USA - for example one conventional cruise missile striking Portsmouth Navel Base in Maine - would be politically catastrophic for the sitting president. I cannot imagine the likely outcomes for said president or their likely next move, and I invite you to contemplate the possibility that neither you or the Russians are able to do that either.

A conventional confrontation between Russia and the USA could remain rational so long as neither national territory is involved. If either national territory is involved the retaliation would lead to an irrational situation immediately - after that all bets are off. Even a clear accident would be extremely likely to trigger a nuclear war.
Korum was a director of the company.[1] A director has duties to the company that an ordinary shareholder does not.

It's hard to see how a NDA could survive sale of the stock. If an employee sells some of their shares to another party, that party gets the right to examine the books, but isn't subject to the NDA.

[1] http://files.ali-cle.org/thumbs/datastorage/lacidoirep/artic...
I can't believe I never thought of this! Brilliant idea. Now just to solve the viewing problem...
Reminds of me this - https://xkcd.com/435/
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The objective of much of the advertizing money in the world is to get impressions and not clicks. Clicks are chased by companies who are primarily selling products and services on the web - and that is really a small part of the economy.

Think of companies like beverage giants, car manufacturers, large consumer products giants, financial institutions etc or almost anyone who advertizes on superbowl on TV. Their primary objective is to build awareness & a certain brand perception among a large segment of consumers so that when you buy their category, you will choose their brand. Coca Cola doesn't necessarily want you to buy it that instant online you see the ad (though if you do, it's a nice bonus). Rather the objective is to build an equity that will make you think of yourself as a "Coke person" instead of say "Pepsi person".

Remember that bulk of the advertizing money in the world comes from such players. They pay facebook a premium for being able to deterministically show your advertizing to a given target audience.
At least, a watchdog that talks about accountability and transparency should be accountable and transparent and it seems that they are not. That casts a doubt about the intention and the results
* Keyboard-based interaction.

* Actual macros and extensibility (i use mu4e which isn't strictly a console e-mail client, but it's text-based and allows me to Elisp the crap out of any issue i'm having).
Going to be interesting seeing how they will figure out where to draw the line (in legal terms) between testing and production. Would health checks be considered as testing the system or production type work?
unfortunately even vagrant is buggy and very slow and I would like to see a better alternative.

consul and vault are very nice for devops.
So true, and it's often even worse in that you get peppered with ads of stuff you already bought.
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Your aesthetic is a kind of pretense, too.
I love that games start to become more like stories or experiences. It gives a new dimension to traditional media.

Having said that, failing the expectations can be blamed to the marketing of No Man's Sky.
There's a thing called perfect adverting. Exactly the right product presented to you at exactly the right time.
Europe here: it did the same to me too in my main pc. Wondering what will happen to my laptop where I actively removed a lot of the telemetry functions with some scripts I picked up from github...
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> To my knowledge, releasing through Bandcamp does not provide free access to other distribution platforms like Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, Amazon, or YouTube, which means, if I'm right, it is a walled garden.

That makes no sense. Bandcamp is a storefront site/minisites, you can put your music on bandcamp and put it on everything else as well. In fact, the Bandcamp faq specifically redirects people looking for distributors to DistroKid and notes that you can put your music on any other store you wish.

Either you don't understand what bandcamp is, or you completely misunderstand the concept of walled garden.
My thoughts exactly. Where's the IRC? Where's the trap music? Where's the high-proof liquor?

How else do you expect to get anything done? :-P

(Cute write up though. In Norway, they call this "koselig". Honey-moon with a sig-other kind of day, maybe, but some of us like to live more.. intensely.)
Which is why lots of people are very bullish on FB. No adblockers on the FB app, and so the more AdBlockers take off the more it helps FB.
If the artist made their music as Mp3 then you should accept that as the way they intended it to sound.
I saw a Sean Murray interview at some New Yorker-hosted event late last year. He was very explicit about his desire to make a modern-day Elite.
The old UI was way better Im afraid to say! It was very easy to view the last day's costs with it - seems to be impossible with the new UI?