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but as that trend reverses, I expect the share of our economy held by the top 500 corporations (that's essentially what the S&P is) to contract.

I agree with this statement, but not with the conclusion you seem to be drawing from it. It is quite likely that the share of the world economy held by the top 500 US based corporations (S&P 500 only includes companies that are actively traded in the US...) will decline.

The world economy is becoming more diverse as other nations rise to prominence, wealth and technology slowly and finally start to spread and more and more startups are created even within the US. So, yes the S&P 500 is likely to represent an ever smaller percentage of the total market.

However, you seem to be assuming that means the S&P 500 itself will contract. You must remember that the world economy is not a zero sum game. It is quite plausible (I will not speculate on probabily here, but very plausible) that the S&P 500 in particular and the US share of the world economy shrinks in relation to the total, while still growing in an absolute sense.

Even if you really believe the actual value of the S&P 500 in particular and the US economy in general will decrease in absolute value (not just relative share), then the answer is not to refuse to invest, but to diversify and include more foreign stocks.
Prepare to be pleasantly surprised: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html
"How is managing a team of techies different from managing other kinds of office workers? Technical people are motivated by interesting work. They will put up with abominable working conditions if they get to work on something that interests them. I've managed people who had to be sent home at night. But technical people without interesting work are very difficult to manage. Their active minds tend to get them into trouble. A happy team is a group that is busy and too intrigued with their project to get mired down with internal politics. In contrast, I find office workers to be more interested in the overall job than the task at hand. Environment, recognition and security are more important to them.

I've also found that technical people need to have adequate playtime. Ideas are exchanged and expanded while they play ping-pong or walk around the parking lot. Allowing people the freedom to wander when they need to returns high rewards that far offset the apparent lack of focus. Technical workers work all the time. Their minds are constantly mulling over problems and possible solutions. What looks like slacking off may be the most productive time they spend. Give them the freedom to work."

-Judy McKay, author of Managing the Test People

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/300537/Career_Watch
> The netbook user experience is horrifying

It all depends on what software you are using. I am perfectly happy with mine.
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I think it's a wedge device. It will not be an overnight sensation. More so, the first viable larger format touch experience in the beginning of a steady and gradual increase in this kind of UI playing a major role in how we interact with information and media. Apple has planted roots creating enough momentum for the space to begin growth in earnest. We'll see steady improvements to the iPad, new competing tablets, touch screen desktops, and so on. It's started...the iPad is simply a tipping point. Not a singular revolution in itself.
Working on boring things, in addition to random revisions of boring things will suck the soul right out of you. This is why you shouldn't make bad financial or life decisions which enslave you to a high paying, soul-sucking job. God help you if you're not getting paid.
Biking, on the other hand, which I for the most had a brief encounter with to shed 45 excess lbs 10 years ago, I found built huge leg muscles. My biking had much more in common with the low-weight-many-reps-strategy.

Same experience here. I think people get confused because of how professional athletes are built. The best long-distance cyclists are very light and lean, while the best sprinters have huge lower bodies. Same thing with runners: sprinters are very muscular, and marathoners look like coat hangers covered with a thin layer of beef jerky. That is because of selection effects and professional levels of training, though, and is a misleading way of judging the effect of casual training on normal people with day jobs.
I already have a Mac (cf. other reply), but wouldn't mind a sacrificial VM to try stupid things. However, I couldn't even get my Linux box to image one of the two original OSX 10.6.2 discs for backup to HD (shrugged it off, didn't insist - I'm not obsessed with copies of driver discs anymore ;-).

Any pointers to good guides ? (Ubuntu, VirtualBox preferred. 8GB quad-core AMD PhenomII.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
A reasonable way to calculate the size of the universe is to first calculate its age, and then assume expansion at the speed of light. Age can be determined by a number of factors, including calculating the age of the oldest stars we observe, using objects such as Cepheid variable stars (whose brightness is a function of time), and measuring relative velocities of distant galaxies to then figure out when they started moving (Big Bang).
People at a company complaining about how existing software didn't do what they want.
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For something to be copyrightable, it must be an "original" work of authorship that is fixed in a tangible medium of expression. 17 U.S.C. § 102(a). A leading copyright treatise states that a work is "original" if it is "independently created by the author" and possesses "at least some minimal degree of creativity." Nimmer on Copyright, §§ 2.01[A], [B].

Therefore, a submission or comment posted online would be protected by copyright provided that it possesses at least some minimal degree of creativity. The copyright would belong to the author and not to the site on which the comment or submission is posted. This is why many terms of use for sites that invite third-party submissions, comments, etc. provide that, in making a submission, a third party assigns all copyright to the owner of the site, who is then free to use the material as he likes without further say from the submitter. Without such terms of use, the submitter (i.e., the author) would retain the right to object to any other use being made of the submission besides the post itself as submitted by that person.

Two major doctrines modify the above.

First, by making the submission, the author of the comment gives at least an implied license for display on the site and for incidental copying that goes along with it.

Second, fair use might allow otherwise copyrighted material to be quoted in limited ways.

Given the above, I believe permissions would be needed to re-publish in magazine format any comments or other materials that reflect any degree of creativity. The magazine sounds like a great idea, though, and the problem is likely more logistic than anything, as I assume few if any contributors would not give permission if asked.
August 11, 1998 - I just took delivery of my Gateway computer with a Pentium II 450, 256MB RAM, and 10GB hard drive. This was the computer I would take with me to college 6 weeks later. The first data to pass through my 56k modem was an MP3 of Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight, found in an AOL chatroom.
I owned a Studio XPS 1645 (the Core i7 model). The construction was pretty good for Dell, and the RGBLED screen was gorgeous. However, they clearly rushed the Core i7 version to market without testing power consumption effectively. The supplied power supply was 90W, and the machine drew something like 110W under load. I returned mine, but from what I hear, Dell replaced all of the power supplies. Not sure if that fixed the issue.

Although they made it right, that's the last time I'm going to buy a Dell -- particularly one built on the newest tech. I don't think the QA is there.
And what effect might this have on the people willing to comment?

Comments add value to a site, making it attractive to advertisers. That's the exchange. Asking contributors to also allow the site owner to re-use their contributions for other purposes crosses a line for me.
I can confirm it is also an MSVC problem.
What are you talking about? You're missing an arg in your transform() call.

int nums[] = {1, 2, 3};
printf("nums: %i %i %i\n", nums[0], nums[1], nums[2]);
std::transform(nums, nums+3, nums, (lambda<int> (x) --> 2*x));
printf("new nums: %i %i %i\n", nums[0], nums[1], nums[2]);

Edit: And of course, there's the implemented map he gives in the example:

int* incs = (lambda<int> (x) --> x + 1).map(3,nums);

The class needs a little bit of work obviously (like more operators overloaded), but it's pretty nice.
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Is it focused on the US, or is most of the advice good anywhere? Financial software, books, and websites focus so much on the US sometimes that it's hard to find things that are neutral, or focused on Canada.

For example, I'd love to use Mint, but it doesn't have support for Canada.
Here are the cons

1. business lock-in: Having one's whole web business(code/website&data) be hosted by a small startup out of russia(ssor) will be a non-starter for most.
2. code lock-in: Having "code lock-in" for developers, meaning writing to a proprietary code-stack for an ssor will also be a non-starter.
3. scaleability: akshell does not currently provide a clear path to scaleability for any one app let alone the potential of hosting 1000's of apps. This very rapidly becomes a cloud-scaling issue that the ec2, gae's are attempting to solve and will be a non-starter for an ssor .
4. dynamic code sharing - use'ing other libraries within askell might reduce development time, but unless there is a static version of that library associated with each instance, with any change the possibility of breaking the web services makes this a non-starter and everyone would revert to a github like "static code sharing" model.

Here are the pros

1. A custom webhook pipe builder: Say I wanted to build a "dynamic form" get user input, save state (in a db) and run it through a series of dynamically created "webhooks" and process the final output. If akshell provided "an app development api" I could dynamically create an app, generate the code have it hosted and throw the url up for user input and have the user walk-thru various webhook/needed steps to process & generate a final response.
- this is not now possible w/ appengine or ec2
- propietary code/data lock-in is a non-issue since I am not "storing" as much as I am processing.
- leveraging "dynamic community code" would be a pro/ not a con in this case.
- a freemium model would be possible as i'd need free to wade in/ test etc and with load expect to pay a per use fee.
- see some of Jeff Lindsay's webhook related work i.e. webhooks, mailhooks, scriptlets.org etc at http://github.com/progrium for related work

2. A mashup test/use-bed: Web sites with apis could create "canned akshell apps" that not only allowed developers to use("foo-api") to test but also provided examples of use and each web-service could possibly subsidise the hosting / bandwith costs of using their api-apps so developers could just plug-n-play.

3. There are a few more use cases i can think of, you could shoot me an email if interested.
Why?

Clearly it should inform your purchase decision, but why should it be scary?

No one device is for all people to do all things. So why should a particular weakness inherent in this form-factor be scary?
Would you rephrase the article to make it clear it's a module designed to make the kernel vulnerable and not a vulnerability of a kernel currently in use?

And if I read the article correctly, you have to be root to load the module
Muscles don't get "toned." They get stronger or weaker. If you want to get "toned" you need to lose fat.
Hmmmm an Atom slate running on Android - It would be cheaper than the iPad, have decent, suitable OS for the task. Goodbye iPad?
I get this feeling every time I'm in Whole Foods. It seems like everyone there looks exactly the same. Then I look at my girlfriend and think to myself "Damn, now I'm part of the stereotype".

Also reminds me of the Chicago term "Trixie". The Wikipedia entry nails the definition: "a "blond, late-twenties woman with a ponytail who works in PR or marketing, drives a black Jetta, gets manicures and no-foam skim lattes."[5] Trixies typically also have a small dog (a pug, puggle or shiba inu) and know all of the other neighborhood dog owners by their dogs name." I'm sure that nowadays Trixie only buys local organic produce.
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Except how many developers want a random (to the user) shared login? I'm doubtful that logging into a non-Google site with a Google account or using Facebook Connect is yet a standard user experience. The way I see it, this could just confuse users.

Why not provide a login system specific to each app?
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I'm working to accomplish something similar with Redis's pub/sub and Rosepad Socket.IO for handling persisting the client connection. If anyone has ideas questions or suggestions related to this strategy or these technologies I'd love to talk, email is in my profile.
Depends on how you define 'underpowered'.

The iPad is underpowered in that it can't run Vim or emacs. If you are a developer, being able to run a text editor is the baseline for a device.

Why would you want a cheaply built laptop? So when your bag gets stolen or dropped or whatever, you lose a $200 netbook rather than a $500 iPad or a $1000 laptop.

As for not running OS X? Google 'hackintosh'.
Is quantity of crap you don't actually need (admittedly, Walmart sells a lot of necessities but the phrasing "own a house and fill it with the same sorts of things" doesn't scream "required for living a good, comfortable life"), how living standards are measured? This is sad.
Yes, 2 and 3 are what I was referring to. Glad to hear those are fixed!
Less than 500 lines of C++ code is very little? A lot? I don't know what to make of it.
Check out this guide: http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/12/install-snow-leopard-in-v...

It's all pretty much straight forward, but I found it most stable when I: use the darwin_snow.iso provided as your boot device (it emulates the bootloader used by Macs), use all SCSI devices, and in the config file, set guestOS = "darwin10-64"

The machine I'm running it on now is a i5 750 with 12 gb of mem; I have a single core and 2gb of mem dedicated to the VM. Feel free to email me if you need any help, I spent quite awhile playing with various methods of virtualizing Snow Leopard, so I can probably answer a majority of questions about issues that arise.

edit: As far as VirtualBox, I'm not aware of anyone getting 10.6.2 to run stable in it. I believe 10.4 will run okay. You may want to just use VMWare player, though. Also, you will have issues with the AMD processor, Apple was 'thoughtful' enough to include code to ensure Mac OS will only run on Intel processors. There are several distributions of 10.5 that have been modified to run on AMD processors, but I haven't really played with them - I think google can assist there, though.
I think I was paying about $150 to my cable provider for the ISP cable content combo. I dropped the cable content and upped my ISP service to 20Mb/s and pay $85 per month and now get all my video from the internet. I use Comcast which has a 250Gb monthly bandwidth cap. Currently, I use 150GB to 200GB per month.
I would say it is becoming a problem. It is turning the company away from doing what is right for the user to doing what is 'good' for the company.

For instance in the dl's, any third-party criticism would be quickly followed up belittling the critic's remarks. While disparaging the competition is common of misc-eng in any company, the habit of blaming the user seems more ingrained at Google than elsewhere in my experience. So when someone speaks up, it is immediately dismissed instead of considered.
As is, $500 for a 3-year old's toy seems a little crazy. By her a leap-frog instead? But cheaper, more durable options would make a lot of sense.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage'
I think developers are motivated by money, but here's the difference: If a developer finds out that the incompetent sitting across from him is making $10k more per year, because of being hired at the right time, he's not likely to care all that much, as long as he's happy with what he makes. It's not taken as a affront, the way it would be among traditional business people. Status in software is measured by access to interesting work and opportunities, not compensation.

We start caring at the 20-50% level, but not about minor differences. Even then, it's not always worth it to get bothered by it. It's mildly irksome to see utter douchebags, at the same age and with not 1/10 my level of talent, making $500k in private equity for literally no good reason, but I can't do anything about it and it doesn't directly affect me (except via New York's absurd rents, but that has more to do with government mismanagement of the property market) so I don't really care enough to think about it that much.
for 60€ you can get the whole sky package which includes all the live sports (bundesliga, premier league, cl, euro, formula 1, boxing, basketball whatever ...) all the movie channelns, all the side channels (discovery, disney etc) and all the hd channels (movies, sports, disney etc).

so add the ~16€ you have to pay for basic digital cable access and your at 76€ ~ $100. voila :) but on the other hand i know maybe two households that have this setup here in .de
Amazon affiliate program – $12.00 – just a few dollars to buy a two good coffees – but I need coffee everyday :(

You seriously need to find a cheaper source of coffee, at least until your income ramps up!
I love Linux but really?
Sure - you'll need to take a bit of a wait and see approach, but personally I'm hesitant to build anything at this point. If I wanted to build something serious on it I'd be relying on you to stay in business...

And when I suggest open sourcing I am thinking in terms of the bare minimum to setup an app on another server - so your very cool editing system wouldn't need to be part of it, that would be what makes you different from anyone else who sets up their own server.
Could the basic Windows utility "Notepad" be ported to the "IPad" due to naming conventions?
Attribution.

In fact, being that it doesn't have the attribution, I'd say it did suffer from attrition.

But that's enough of me bein' a grammar nerd.
No, not goodbye iPad, not with Atom under the hood. An ARM slate running Android might be able to do it, though.
I was using KPPP on KDE to dial up an internet connection, communicating with a graduate student in Norway for some work on Project GNU.
"ports"? Reconfigures current linux kernel and recompiles with different version of gcc (or icc?) along with all userland?
Big deal..
Oops, I misremembered. I was thinking of Ein-Stein, not Molly's.
More details here: http://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&ta...

Summary: It's not out yet. No mention of the open-source license to be used, or whether they will be pursuing a "MySQL" model of charging commercial users (presumably not -- they already sell video storage hardware). The only mention of monetization is that there will be a "marketplace" for proprietary extensions.
The monopoly thing is similar, the one big cable provider claims, though, that it is only very small compared to the big ISPs with their newfangled IPTV offers :)

That difference to the US is altogether really strange. You can buy additional stuff in Germany now, but there just doesn’t seem to be any original content (like Mythbusters) above and beyond all the soccer stuff.

But private TV stations are also a relatively new thing in Germany – the first one got started in the early eighties – and our cable network was privatized only a little more than ten years ago. Will be interesting to see how that all develops.
Or you can use Visual Studio 2010 and use C++ lambdas.

Nice post nevertheless.
What exactly is your argument here?
Hey, thats a great idea.

Have you thought about facilitating an interaction between the person with the service and the other party so that it is quite clear that someone will be notified if something happens to them? I'd think deterrent is more than half the benefit of something like this.
Thank you for your comprehensive reply. I definitely agree that now Akshell doesn't suite mission-critical applications. And I think it will never suite bank applications or such. But I think that it has a rather big niche.

I'll contact you. Thanks again for feedback.
I love their business-speak.
I hope it's better than their website...it's completely unusable under Chrome. But good on them, this is one area where OSS has been lacking up to now.
Netflix and Hulu fill any TV needs we have - except for the NFL. If Hulu was able to offer all of ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox with no commercials for $30/mo I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat, especially if they also sold some hardware to go from the network straight to the TV.
Interesting. I think you are going to have to market this heavily to some very specific target groups (people with elderly parents, ...). Site and product look great. Now that you've launched, it'd be interesting to see from which niche you get the most interest/$, and the pivot and focus on those niches first. Right now, it feels like a specialized product trying to aim too broad (ie., it's a little hard to explain because you are aiming at too many usecases).
A specific for application login system can be implemented as a library in a few lines of code. But using it will prevent an application from benefiting from the Akshell environment.
When I saw the "Most innovative life alert" slide on the root page, and the "One-Touch Emergency" in the Tour, I thought of this bit from Snowcrash:

And then the dark mass of Meltdown fans turns into a gyrating, orange-red galaxy as twenty-five hundred new stars appear. It's a mind-blowing sight, and at first they think it's a new visual effect put together by Vitaly and his imageers. It is like a mass flicking of Bics, except brighter and more organized; each Kourier looks down on his or her belt to see that a red light is flashing on their personal telephone. Looks like some poor skater called in a Code.
As people in the TC article pointed out the only issue I have with cord cutting is live sports. MLB has a 20$/month subscription service but I'd like to only pay for my team say 3-4$/month. Once the other leagues follow, and I can pay a few $ a month/team. I'm ready to cut.
From the beginning, I knew this device won't go so far. I'm more optimistic with the new HP slate.

When I get a device bundled with Windows 7, with the ability to run any windows application and not only Flash, it's just like tele-porting my computer to this little device.

The iPad OS is a phone OS, whatever powerful it is, it'll be always way behind any desktop OS.

Point 2 is multi-tasking. And about iPhone OS 4.0 multi-tasking, it just made me laugh, it just proved me Apple failed to support real multi-tasking.
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My first thought: "Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!" for the 21st century.

I see some of the use cases on the site are things like medical and personal safety, but don't see anything about keeping tabs on kids. There's other solutions out there I think, but that seems like a good use for this. Ex. Kid walks to school, gets there and checks in. Then the kid walks home, and checks in when they're in the door. A parent's peace of mind is probably worth $5/mo if that's something they worry about.
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Wow. This is absolutely awesome to use in a dev environment with vim/java.