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They are using Direct2D (or DirectSomethingOrOther) for the hardware accelerated rendering. I don't believe this is available on XP. There will no doubt be a bunch of other Win7/Vista specific bits of functionality that would build up to an appreciable amount of hassle when implementing an XP version.
I'm confused. Engadget's review of the current Envy 15 says it lacks an optical drive and has a battery life of less than 2 hours. http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/10/hp-envy-15-review/

It's a similar story for the Envy 13 ( http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/hp-envy-13-review/ ). 2 hour battery life (estimated 5 hours with the huge battery). No optical drive. Terrible trackpad.
I can help out same username on both.
But tested by nobody?

What happens to the reviewers that let this thing slip through, btw?
I understand what you're getting at, I have a huge amount of trouble trying to get people to understand what I do at the office. I even have trouble explaining it to java-land "enterprise" programmers.

But, here's the thing. About 5 months ago I started working on a product that I am hoping will be the basis for launching my own start-up. This particular product was something that people could immediately understand was useful. It did some of those magical things that their computer does, and that they think they couldn't understand in a million years. And all of a sudden, instead of people's eyes glazing over, I started getting comments like "I really don't know how you do this stuff, that's amazing!"

There seem to be two things that are important here - one is that you need to be working on a product that is user-facing, so that they can actually use what you have just made. The second thing is that it has to be done just by you, or by you and just a couple of friends. It was you, and not some faceless organisation that did it, even if you were a part of the organisation.
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tl;dr Canonical have a H.264 license agreement, but that doesn't mean Ubuntu users are covered by it. You're only covered if you buy some hardware that comes with Ubuntu AND the hardware manufacturer explicitly tells you that they have licensed H.264 (and possibly other codecs) from Canonical.
[1] "I found 4 085 giraffes created by people named Sanne!"

[2] "I found 9 988 giraffes created by people named Ediktonia!"

The actual statistic is that 2% of all Germans who submitted giraffes were named Sanne and 5% were named Ediktonia. It doesn't say they were all the same person.
This is great stuff, J. I need to get on your reading list, because I almost missed this!
To counter act some of your points:

1) you don't support big labels, thats fine, I applaud for it, but not supporting it means boycotting, not stealing the stuff and say you don't pay because you don't agree with it.

2) So you are ok with me taking the car and only leaving money for costs, lets say it costs the company 20k to manufacture it, so if I pay for the 20k, I should be ok, as the company didn't lose any money on it. On the same idea, it should be ok for your employer to not pay your wages whenever it feels like it, it didn't take anything from you, your home or your car, just your time, so it should also be ok?
I, too, am considering ditching facebook. I get very little value out of it in return for the hassle of having to closely watch every update, every new feature and every policy change just to keep tabs on my privacy.
I usually find the Tombstones for Scientists to be pretty funny.

http://web.mst.edu/~gbert/tombstone.html
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It worked for Weta Digital ! In case you didn't know Avatar SFX house. Also a lot of Harry Potter was filmed and SFX done in NZ.

I was brought up in NZ, but now live on West Island (Sydney, Oztrayla). If you create some sort of blog, etc let me know, I'll read it. Majority of my wife's family still live in NZ.

Cheers !
The article is from 2006. You may well know the tips.
Flawed analogy. I don't often pay for premium features then stop visiting a site!
> We encounter the paradox of P because of the definition.

The point of the problem is this: to create a program P that will tell us if f(x) halts or not. Q is simply a function that breaks P so that it cannot give the right answer. Thus making P impossible.

Paradoxes are irrelevant to the issue :)

(You're over thinking this a lot; read one of the formal proofs and it will address pretty much all of your points)
Video of similar experiment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN5aMjTCfo4
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Thanks for the reminder - that 'Munsell Hue Test' is both interesting and fairly hard. I think I've seen discussed (mostly scores ;-) at Reddit, http://www.reddit.com/domain/spectralcolor.com
Not sure if this is still the case, but with the hp laptops I own (especially ugly with the small HP mini's) the laptops looks good but they add the HUGE ugly power adapters.

With my hp mini the adapter is like 3/4th the size of the laptop itself. It's those details (a pretty big one in this case) that makes Apple products so good.
Apple's MagSafe is awesome.
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Come on. Given the option, between two equally complex features, it's preferable to implement the one your competitors got wrong because it offers the more bang for your programmer buck.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

-- Mark Twain

"So I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.' I knew that when I was 80 I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day, and so when I thought about it that way it was an incredibly easy decision. And I think that’s very good."

-- Jeff Bezos, Regret Minimization Framework (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ)
That was poetry!
Well, it's a problem when application developers operate a backend server to support their game - which isn't the most common thing to do, but it does happen. I've seen cases where piracy cut the developer's profits considerably because of this.
Where do you see that?

> "At the end of the day, a paid member of a freemium service is often more involved than the free account holders. He or she might log in much more often and begin to make full use of the new features..."

Martell is saying that if you are paying for the premium, you will visit the site.
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Maybe we could work with the urge and create something good with it.
There's nothing wrong with leaving if you feel you'll benefit from doing so, just do the honorable thing not to leave your current employer in the lurch, make sure all your responsibilities are tied up to a standard you would expect and appreciate if you yourself were the employeer.
Soot and hydrofluorocarbons are low hanging fruit to fight global warming
More simple explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_faster_than_the_wind#Sa...

And probably you can sail downwind faster than the wind too:
http://www.flixxy.com/sailing-yacht-research.htm
The reason they made it fixed width is to bring the ads closer to the results. It was a financial move on their part.
It's HP. They could ship me a free one and I'd ebay it to buy a Lenovo or a Mac.
Explain.

Large projects are certainly doable in dynamically-typed languages. I just think that static typing becomes a win once you have:

* enough code that internal interfaces become important,

* enough code that at least 30% of time is spent debugging, and:

* more than one programmer on the project by necessity.
Well, pyramid schemes (like our debt-money) don't necessarily create more wealth in an enclosed system. They drive a form of growth, that isn't the same thing as wealth.
> a Palestinian politician claimed that Bush said that

Yes, but I'm not aware of Bush countering him that he didn't say that, the Palestinian is on the record about it and was fairly clear.

If it is just rhetoric then that's one thing but he could have said that easily and has never done so as far as I'm aware.

I'd prefer world leaders not to be hearing little voices in their heads.

Obama seems to be susceptible to this too:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/05/obama-can...

"Prayer is something that the president does every day," explained White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, adding that Obama will sign a proclamation to recognize the day. "I think the president understands, in his own life and in his family's life, the role that prayer plays."
I have read primary sources on various Microsoft blogs saying almost exactly the same thing about a variety of standards (web and otherwise) over a period of years. I have no reason to doubt The Register reporting in this case. This is not in the same league as a tabloid claiming that Elvis and Bigfoot had a lovechild. It is expected that Microsoft will trash-talk standards even, or especially, as they are forced to implement them by market forces.
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Wow, Dan's linkbait shows up here on HN. Never thought I'd see the day. Well played, Martell, wherever you are.
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I understand, if your Energy is being drained that bad - constantly, maybe the attitude that "life's too short to be stuck in a crummy job" is the way to go. Security is way over-rated anyway, companys go bust, get taken over, managers change.
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Really? The first thing I though was that it was a cheap chinese copy of a macbook, just as they copy the iPhone. It is not as sleek as a macbook.

Lets see if they get the track pad right. One of the greatest features of the macs is the huge, multi-touch track pad, better than the mouse for a lot of things.
I used to be into high end audio, and spent rather large sums acquiring great looking machines. When apple first came out with their brushed metal cases, I assumed that Apple had simply copied luxury audio manufacturers of the day.

I still don't know why other computer companies don't try and design beautiful machines that have minimalistic design principles.

Here are some earlyish examples I was talking about, but there are plenty more from other companies who I have long since forgotten:
http://www.pliniusaudio.nzld.com/photolibrary/photo.asp?id=h...
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Where would you say that the trade-off is between dynamic and static if both are represented by best of breed representatives? Something like Erlang or your favorite Lisp?

Lisp is a great language, but I still think static typing wins at a certain point for large projects. Type signatures (which are automatically inferred) provide a certain amount of documentation, and static typing also makes for cleaner and inherently more comprehensible interfaces.

When you have multiple programmers, when a lot of time is spent debugging, and when internal APIs become essential, static typing begins to show its strength. People can't just change interfaces willy-nilly and expect everyone else to adapt; the compiler catches this.
Right. Which is why the analogy is flawed.

If you are paying for the premium, you will visit the site.
If you have sex with someone you have been dating, you may choose to move on to date other people.

Get it?
Very few companies make the effort to provide linux drivers for their laptops. That made me buy a mac in the first place. It would be nice if some distro were backed up by a hardware company and feature a "bootcamp-like" easy way to install windows afterwards...
The average pirate downloads a lot more games than the average customer buys. This means that even though games see that 80% of their copies are pirated, only 10% of their potential customers are pirates, which means they are losing at most 10% of their sales.

This is simply not true: Sales are not distributed evenly amongst customers. It could very well be that people who are pirating would usually buy a lot more apps than the usual customer. Sure, if you don't have to pay for stuff you consume more, but they are probably more likely to spend more than average in the first place.
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Because 209 BC will in the past by the time he collects the soldiers... that is, the year after 209 BC is 208 BC.
I'm doing the same on one of my sites, the rules that I dug up when I built it were:

- 30 seconds max (you already got that)

- mono

- reduced in bitrate

I also fade the samples in and out at the beginning and the end to make the transition a bit nicer.
Which model? Did Vaio later revert back something more conventional? As of 2007 Apple was using the same layout they have now and Vaio was using a fairly mundane PC laptop configuration. Side-by-side: http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/19478.jpg

Or is there some feature in particular that was copied that I'm not seeing?
The Yoda embedding, contravariant it is.
This bill strikes me as being a little odd in light of the drive toward the small and agile versus the monolithic and too big to fail. I think this paragraph sums up the potential for disaster:

"Obviously, I’m deeply concerned about Senator Dodd’s proposal to place these restrictions on angel investing. I think angel investing is undeniably one of the largest engines for job creation as well as innovation and competitiveness on the global scale for the United States. There’s no doubt about it that the restrictions that he’s proposing would absolutely chill investing."

Chilling investment is the last thing that bootstrapping start ups need.
One of the charts in that link is GDP per capita adjusted for CPI, and it's still shows growth at a pretty constant rate.
This is why the Google Sputnik test results not only shows what percentage of tests pass, but also groups browsers together based on which tests they pass in common (i.e. a crude measure of interoperability).

http://sputnik.googlelabs.com/compare

Guess which browser is the outlier in both dimensions?
Of course, data should be sorted server-side if possible, so this shouldn't be used unless absolutely necessary

I understand that this is 2006 article. but this is not sound advise today. It is fine for the service (server) to order data, but one should not rely on the fact that the service will do so as many times reordering data is a function of the display (view).
I'd say that's a creation, not a 're-creation' since it never actually existed in real life, Sherlock Holmes is after all a work of fiction.

It also can't be accurate since the original is (for the most part) imaginary, and everybody that reads the books will see this different with their own imagination augmenting the text.

Taking it to the point of reconciling all the bits of data in the stories without finding contradictions suggests that Conan Doyle had a pretty extensive series of notes on his characters lodgings.
diaspora is used for people who live outside of the traditional land of their nation of origin.

from my understanding, the name implies that people who don't have a social networking account from some service provider are expatriates. i think this gives too much importance to such services.

nice idea, i definitely would like to see how it goes. but the name should be changed, so that it is in line with the political view it is the brainchild of.
The binary tree example is fine for very small and completely balanced trees, but for anything else you're going to get a lot of undefined entries in the array. There's no need for this; the array elements can be data structures like:

{ 'data': data, 'left': null, 'right': null }

When you insert a new child, you can just push it onto the end of the array, find its parent by comparing the 'data' values, and set the parent's 'left' or 'right' to point to the child's index in the array. Update the child's 'left' or 'right' as needed if the child isn't a leaf.

He mentions that you can build a traditional binary tree out of objects, but he makes it sound a lot more complicated than it actually is. His implementation of a binary tree breaks down at a scale where it's probably simpler and nearly as fast to just use an associative array and linear traversal, and he still requires writing the insertion, removal, and traversal methods.
Well, actually the entry-level 14" version is just as expensive as an entry-level Macbook Pro.
I'm trying to figure out why they're bothering to solve something that's already been solved pretty well.

eg:

http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://infolab.stanford.edu...

Users won't see any difference, or care.

I do think scribd up to now has been pretty bad for the web, locking plain text documents and images up in their walled garden. Maybe they can change that, but what value can they actually add? What problem are they solving?
In my opinion, gardening/raising animals and programming work pretty well together. It gives you the opportunity to work outside in the evening (alongside family) and it's so different from our normal stock and trade that I ultimately find it refreshing.
I think that guidelines suggest that it shouldn't only be funny or cute, there has to be something more. In this case it's a pretty clever form of advertising, plus it's related to Google Chrome...
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I just use:

if ( errror ) {
try { console.error(msg); }
catch(e) {};
}

Of course I do all of my debugging in Firefox with Firebug, and my goal is to ensure that these errors don't happen in production code so other browsers never hit the try/catch block. In rare cases where an error only happens in IE, I can throw an alert into the catch.
Let me be the first to say I don't care about Flash. All I want is a Linux-compatible netbook running a standard distro with great battery life, 2+ gigs of RAM, a real hard disk and a standard external monitor port. Hardware-accelerated 3D and 1366x768 built-in screen are pluses.

And, for the Flash thing, I would love if ARM decided to pour some money on Gnash development.
UFC is not a duel in the traditional sense, nor is it 'violent' in the same way a war or aggravated assault is 'violent'. It's a technical sport (well UFC is a league of MMA fighters, where MMA is the sport) with well-defined rules designed to minimize damage to participants. Saying that the popularity of MMA shows that our society is getting more violent doesn't make sense, on the contrary - it's proof that we are able to channel primary urges to measure ourselves with our fellow humans in controlled and structured ways.

As for your link, an anecdote does not data make. If you want to argue that our society is getting more violent you need to prove that the amount of violent episodes now is higher than in the past, not that there happen violent events now. And as a matter of fact, overall in most of the Western world, the amount of violent crimes has been on a steady decline for the last 50 years at least (the amount of other crimes has gone down too, by the way).
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It is the dilemma of the righteous dictator. We have a dictator who is good to use, but he is still a dictator. And you are constantly afraid of the next one that you don't know.
It's dangerous for the web's videos to rely on a format for which royalties are expected to be paid. Hopefully Google will release the VP8 codec as a royalty-free alternative (as rumour has it) and it becomes the standard.
It's pretty scary that a defense minister actually believes that. You have only two choices here:

- he's bonkers

- the cover up is real

Let us hope for the first.
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It depends on the specific services you're looking for. If you have a tax preparer or otherwise need more robust reporting, you'll probably want to go with a larger package, like Quickbooks. That's what Fred Wilson recommends. In fact, you should check out his recent post on accounting: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/03/accounting.html.

I'm considering moving to Quickbooks, but I've been using (and have been happy with) a straightforward, well-designed tool called Outright (http://outright.com/). Another simple accounting tool in this space is LessAccounting (http://lessaccounting.com/).

I don't think that you should make your choice based on the cost of the apps ... you should use tools that work, even if they cost money. But if you aren't sure what you'll want to use, Outright is free, and LessAccounting has a freemium setup, so you can try with little risk.
I have the Envy 13t. It comes with an extended battery that fits over the whole bottom of the computer. There's a pic in that engagdet article (http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/10/hp-env...). This makes the battery life for me more like 8-10hr and you can't even tell the battery is on there, i.e. its flush.

No optical drive but I literally never use CDs so I don't care. The trackpad doesn't bother me that much. I'd say it isn't the greatest, but its multi-touch and works fine.

It's also quiet and fast. Not sure how much of that (if any) is due to the SSD or my other particular specs.

• Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo SL9600(2.13GHz, 6MB L2 Cache)w/512MB ATI Mobility Radeon(TM) HD 4330 Graphics
• 3GB DDR3 System Memory (1 Dimm)
I'm going out on a limb here and guess from your profile you're talking about Tibet?
I think he meant to say 'internet service provider', and even if I associate that with companies providing access technically speaking Google is an ISP and things like youtube are 'internet services'.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/your-new-isp...
Plus the language hardly changed in the 10 years before that.
Really? I'm interested in this because I've always thought it was the other way around.
That depends on your definition of 'legitimate'. According to broadly-accepted international law, from the 20th century on terrorism is not a 'legitimate tool of warfare'. If you argue that it is (can be) an effective tool, then yes - in the same way rape and pillage can be. Terrorizing opponents is not exclusively for the small party in an asymmetric way.
Uhh, four guys and an idea for a website. You know they'll definitely succeed because they're totally willing to sacrifice their summer internships to build it in three months and release it, scouts-honor!

Sorry for the sarcasm & general negativity - but they have nothing. As someone else said, just build it. The concept of replacing Facebook with something open, private and distributed is not at all new - many have tried and failed before them. "We have the chops" and $10k isn't some kind of magic potion. And their biggest challenge isn't building it, it's getting people to leave Facebook for it.