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The 1996-2006 growth is actually part of the disagreement as well: a lot of Greeks feel ambivalent at best about it, because they feel it went disproportionately to a relatively small elite (I don't have the numbers on whether that's true). Total GDP went up significantly from 1996 to 2006, but the feeling is that it went mainly to the top 25%, with a good portion going to the top 10%. I believe (though I'd have to look it up) that real income of the bottom 50% was flat or declining over that period, which would mean that fully half the country doesn't perceive 1996-2006 as a positive economic period at all.

On the inflationary side, Zimbabwe is an obvious example (with Weimar Germany) of the levels you don't want to go to, but the 1970s Italian/Greek levels of circa 30% annual inflation (with a sort of punctuated equilibrium yearly distribution, i.e. 5-10% most years and 1000% once a decade) aren't quite the same as circa 30,000% annual inflation. It has a lot of effects, some negative, some positive, but is a different sort of beast.
The £3.5bn they're given by the UK populace every year probably helps with that, eh.
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Keeping extremism out of the Parliament when it is present in the populace has a disadvantage too though, people tend to discount it as 'not being viable' until it is too late.

Better to get it out in the open in an early stage.
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While you're testing, try gigablast.com as well, they're pretty impressive.
These stars are called white dwarfs.
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Perhaps Conservatives should push for independence for Scotland - get rid of those non-Conservative voters ;)
I would be quite happy for them to get a seat so that they have more opportunity to advertise how nasty they are.
This seems kind of silly. You're not forced to multi-task, why not change your habit and use only one application at a time? Try http://www.nowdothis.com - maybe it'll help change your "bad" habit? I'm sure there's an application out there that forces any window on-top and probably blocks out other application sounds.
"it keeps extremism out of the Parliament", i understand this but would it not be better to have these parties play by the rules in the system rather than be out of it and make things up as they go along. There are quite a few examples of extremist parties coming into Parliament and then having to tone-down the rhetoric or getting rejected by the public.

"Rest assured the if there was a party-list proportional representation system in place, parties such as BNP would have an appallingly large number of seats" - i very much doubt this.
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A very thin article suggesting that 1) lots of resumes are online (CVs) and 2) that you can google them for keyword phrases.
Your screenshot is for the home page before moving the mouse, of course you see nearly nothing, so it is consistent. Anyway, here is a commented screenshot of the search results page (not all the comments fit in, especially the font size on the left for the tools, so I did not include them). This is especially this one annoying me because I access google through the search box of my browser.

http://xhtml.net/documents/images/new-google-page.png
Chances are that you'd get it if you clothed it in the appropriate terms. Heck, why settle for merge sort, why not sorting as a whole?

"Method for the creation of order from chaos in the memory of a digital computing device".
I don't mind a rag-tag coalition , my problem is with the stability of it.

Its probably better for parties with at least a common minimum program to work together than two parties that have nothing in common trying to stick together and run a government for 5 years.
I believe his point was that the effect of looking at videos from Greece while imagining the consequences for the economies in the rest of Europe and those consequences spreading to the US while suddenly watching the Dow fall 1000 points was harrowing, to say the least. Not that one was caused by the other, but that it a lot to take in in one go.

I'm sure watching the Dow fall like that while watching videos from Greece was scary, especially to people that are already too aware of the fragile state of the world economy.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dwarf

I'm aware of what a white dwarf is, black dwarfs do not currently exist (we think) but are definitely a possibility, think of them as the burned out ashes of a white dwarf, which is an intermediary.

For variety there are also red, orange, brown and yellow dwarfs, it's quite a family.
"... Our logos are all pink and that is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. It's friendly but it walks the line between the serious issues and gathering to have fun. ..."

This is an interesting point. One of the quickest way to stop women according to "Sapna Cheryan" (Uni.Washington) is "You can get a message about whether you want to join a certain group just by seeing the physical environment that that group is associated with," For men, it was reported, decor made no difference.[0]

"... "The feminist movement was incredibly important to people like my mum who had to argue with people like my programming teacher so that I could stay in my course," explained Judith Lewis ..."

That is really sad.

[0] Wired, Lisa Grossman, "Star Trek Stops Women From Becoming Computer Scientists" ~ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/star-trek-keeps-wo...
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Interesting idea! And it would certainly be slow enough. However, it's not really what I'm looking for ...

It looks like I'll implement something similar to FSP - there doesn't seem to be anything like what I need "off-the-shelf"

Much appreciation to those who replied - I've learned a lot that may be useful.
The British National Party gained 1.9% of the votes this year. That would mean six seats in the Parliament were there a party list system in place.
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Isn't that what we all do, every day?
Am I the only one who finds the coverage of this completely overblown?

Yes there are significant problems in Greece, Portugal, Europe, and the US.

But why do we continue to place more and more importance on the intra-day movements of the Dow Index, when in the long run, the day-to-day is irrelevant?
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There is always some improvement to make - for example it's commonly considered proper to expand abbreviations on first use, or that "language harpy" is likely to be opaque to those unfamiliar with Greek myth, or that foreign words per se should be italicised, et cetera.

Personally _if_ the meaning is clear then I don't object unless that person is requesting review or they're being pedantic about other's writing.

I've never heard of the MLA before but a brief glance suggest that they provide a style guide for scholarly writing, not for blog posts.
Well, he's 1/10 of the way to filling it already. (The video project made while building the NAS is 1.5TB)

Good design, not often a NAS actually looks great.
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In fact I just did. Bought a high-end pen tablet on ebay from a seller in the US. Even including overseas shipping, it was half the asking price here, so I felt lucky. The only problem, the package arrived with the box tampered and the tablet itself missing. So I am now stuck with a grip pen and a bunch of driver CD's :)
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Articles like this remind me of a website idea I had: web-wide mostly human curated collections of articles on something, tracking the progress of something over time and giving a summary. I feel like it's too easy to see something interesting that you'd like to follow but then not have any reasonable way to do so. You can do things like Google Alerts, but you need to choose the right keywords and would probably get a lot of false-positives.

(My example is always an article I read about a decade ago about mouth bacteria which caused no or minimal cavities but could also overpower the normal bacteria, which if introduced would make it so you virtually never needed to go to the dentist)
And gained 8. That’s still not good, but it’s not as bad as you’re painting it. At current standings a Conservative minority govt would have 294 seats, and a Lib/Lab coalition would have 304.
Looks nice :D
I hope he has better results with Raid5 then me tho. I have reverted back to a dual drive NAS for stability after having raid 5 servers for a long time.
Somehow IDE and SATA drives and raid cards don't cut it for me. I have lost my data so freaking often by corrupt arrays it's not fun anymore.

The first server I had used a Promise card (Supertrak SX6000) card (with 4 * 80 GB drives) that gave me nothing but problems (very poor performance and corrupt arays about once every 2 months). It was running on a standard non-server mobo with a decent but standard PSU, so one of the components might have caused problems tho.

The second was running on an Areca ARC-1210 card (with 8*320 Gb drives) on a tyan thunder dualxeon server mobo with an 850Watt Tagan server PSU and was put behind a 2200VA UPS. Even then the array seemed to dropout quite often and I have spend 100's of hours in total (updating drivers/firmware/OS'es, recovering lost data, replacing parts, cables, moving the server etc...) trying to get it to run decently.

Eventually I just sold the whole damn thing and bought me a simple COnceptronic CH3SNAS with 2 1,5TB drives for the cash I sold the old server for. I have ever never had a single problem in the whole year i've had it and am very happy with the purchase.
The performance is totally not comparable (600MB/Sec vs 20 MB/Sec), but even the slow NAS is sufficient enough for me (it streams HD movies just fine and my backups aren't TB's big anyways ;) ). Plus the power usage is literally 1/10th, it's very quiet and a lot easier to carry around and take with me if I need to.

Maybe I just fail at fileservers, maybe I just had bad luck with 2 bad cards, but I'm not convinced a simple affordable RAID-5 solution means your data is safe.

But I must admit I wouldn't mind having that self made NAS at my home tho, it looks cool :D
Maybe one day i'll try again.... ;)
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He's not "rubbing it in", he's pointing out some harsh truths. Perhaps mostly about how most people define "big picture", but in general they need to be said.

I'll go one step further; in a followup, the author said "[T]he leadership of the company is excellent" when that is demonstrably not so. Just sticking to the technical management part of things, the leadership of this company has known, and should have realized what it meant, that for that last year they had a key coder who was producing unmaintainable code. For the last half year this guy has been melting down and is now non-functional. Yet he is still a "co-founder".

They don't seem to have then necessary sense of urgency about this emergency ("We're in trouble (in my estimation only) because no startup can afford to have a key person take a dive, and every developer is key.").

This is an existential crisis for the venture and there's probably nothing more important for them to do at the moment than resolving it with a good plan, which I just don't get the impression is happening.
His other mods are actually more impressive to me (http://www.willudesign.com/CinematographTop.html and http://www.willudesign.com/TheDeskTop.html) especially.
But Labour and LibDem together only have just over 300 seats, i.e. not enough to govern.
Man that sucks, I hope you can somehow get your money back.

Was the delivery insured?
Really? (I'm the guy who made it.)

My rationale was that you can always pause a screen cast, and go back to parts you may have missed. Some bits might be obvious, depending on your level of knowledge, and I didn't want it to be boring for some.
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This is actually insane. If I know it correct you cannot patent discoveries. I always find it funny that people are patenting algorithms. Come to think of it, it is indeed a discovery. Even addition has an algorithm (x*n = add x, n number of times). Imagine if someone patents multiplication and his son does not get it in his math class he will just walk up to him and say "Hey dad can you ban my school from teaching multiplication we own it anyways why give it away to everyone?"
"Closing the ozone hole actually speeds up the melting of the polar ice caps, according to a 2009 study from Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research."

Unintended consequence?
I'm sure that has already occurred to them :-(
I believe in Sweden a party must receive 4% of the vote to be considered. That seems like a sensible approach to keep extremists out.
A few. Wish there were more, but it's all good.
Ideally, you should figure out how to patent patent trolling.
Somewhat less ad-filled link: http://www.google.com/patents?id=kycWAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...
Easy fix - put in more effective circuit breakers. Right now they are limited to the indices and certain hours of the day.
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=CircuitBreaker

Make it so circuit breakers apply to individual stocks, and for all hours of the trading day.

For example, commodities have a 'limit up':
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/limitup.asp
("Also, also"? Oops. Missed that before the edit window closed.)
Already been done (seriously).
Indeed. Since C has had built-in syntax for bitfields since (I think) the 70's, if such a patent ever were valid, it would have long expired by now.
304 is still nowhere near a majority (326), and it's doubtful whether it's enough to govern.
>the trend is to require payment first

You expect people to put down $10 on an app that appears to be nothing better than a text entry that you have to calculate yourself? </incredulous>

If not, then as the parent says, try to put some feature details into your landing page.
Obesity is a complex problem and blah blah blah insert standard disclaimers here, but I think there are two things that, combined, contribute significantly to the problem:

1. Food is cheap

2. Most people enjoy eating food

Solutions include: Make food more expensive (tax it) or alter peoples' sense of hunger. The latter is actually not infeasible. There are drugs that decrease appetite.

Another idea takes some explaining: I think obesity has quite a bit in common with smoking. The biggest difference is that people need food to survive. Still, the solution to decreasing smoking could work on obesity. Smoking used to be quite popular, but today it isn't nearly as socially acceptable. In most places in the US, cigarrettes are taxed in both currency and social cost. Jokes at a smoker's expense are acceptable. It's not uncommon for friends or coworkers of smokers to suggest they quit.

The same is not true for obesity. Mocking fat people is considered rude. Suggesting they cut down on certain foods is also a delicate matter. An excuse for this taboo is that many fat people can't help it. They were born with genes that caused their metabolisms to run slower, or they feel hunger more strongly than average. But the same is true for many smokers. Their genes make them more susceptible to nicotine, or cause them to feel cravings more strongly than average. Yet we allow poking fun at smokers.

So while this suggestion won't be popular, I think it would be effective: Society needs to treat fatties more like smokers. If you see an overweight person doing something that will most likely increase their weight, picture them as they will be in 20 years: dying from diabetes and heart disease. Vision failing, fingers and toes pale from poor circulation. Possibly even missing a few digits. A premature death; an under-lived life, lacking many experiences healthy people take for granted. They never went rock climbing or surfing. Their extra weight causes them frequent back and joint pain. Think of all that suffering, and think of how you have an opportunity to prevent it. You probably won't be thanked for it, but you might very well save someone's life.

(I'm only half-joking in that last paragraph.)
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I think I know why: the only funny part was the last cell. And this man was trying desperately to be funny the whole time.

Oh, and the "design". Humongous blank space on the left; comic pushed off to the right. I really hope he didn't send it like that.
That was solved centuries ago - take a look what Indian people are eating - lentil soups (daal) and various kinds of a whole grain plain breads (just wheat and water).
Because the users will notice and start slagging you in reviews.
actually someone did think of that :)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/halliburton_patent/
> Filing Date: 12/10/2001

I thought of patenting well-known, widely-used techniques (e.g. doubly linked lists) as something that happened back in the 80s and 90s, but it seems I was wrong.

They cannot honestly believe this will stand up to scrutiny, and I understand that filing a patent isn't free, so what on earth are they hoping to accomplish?
I live in Ukraine and hope to be able to make sure Apple doesn't see a cent of my money. I feel the same towards Microsoft, but there's no avoiding their products (they saw to that).
Softwar patents are absurds and broke the system completly

More info at http://patentabsurdity.com/
You forgot to mention non printing.

Though here is a hack for this: http://thereifixedit.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/12915814498...
they are savvy, yes. no argument there ;).

p.s. i may have gone overboard with my description there :).
I agree with you that the record labels are probably the root cause. However I don't like the idea that "It's not Apple's fault, it's the labels". Apple claimed the record labels forced them to put DRM on iTunes, but then Apple put DRM on the AppStore. Did the record labels really insist on DRM for indie app developers? Fact is Apple likes DRM and control.
Well it is my opinion that if it weren't for spell checks many of the authors wouldn't be able to correct all there typos. What happens is, that once you write you work you are fairly confident that it is right. Thus even if you read and reread it there will still be some typos left because your mind is tuned to the fact that what is written is right. It takes a lot of effort and practice to get over this habit.

(We run a self published magazine at our college. It is a rule amongst us that nobody will edit there self written article even for typos for just this reason. We have seen it happen many times that people are not very good at editing there self written articles just because the above mentioned reason).
Certain Constitutions have a mandatory minimum percentage required to gain seats (5% in Germany, 10% in Turkey)
You don't make or lose money in the market based on the daily start and finish prices in the market, you make or lose money when you execute your trade, which happens intra-day. The market might have "only" been down 347 points at the end of the session, but many investors bought or sold investments when the market was down 990 points.

Coverage of this is not overblown, yesterdays events were extremely rare and quite damaging for many investors who were forced to sell at the low intra-day points in the market (via stop-losses and margin calls)
That was sort of the point ;)

By making it so broad you could theoretically sue any company.
It is a device to show your girlfriend some stupid clips from youtube and pictures from 4chan to get laid more smoothly. =) It is a consumer device, not a computer or laptop.
uhm, it doesn't matter how pragmatic I try to be in regard to my decisions regarding tech. equipment I use, I tend to avoid those kinds of compromises.
Same here. I got a Dev Phone shipped to the UK, and it cost loads more. The extra cost was to pay for customs and import tax AFAIK.
Really? An article I read back when the ozone hole was a big news story pointed out that at high latitudes, the sun angle is so low that sunburn is quite unlikely, ozone or no ozone. What are ultraviolet radiation measurements in populated places in the extreme south of Argentina compared to, say, measurements in tropical Central America?
Ironically, the things least likely to make one throw up if you exercise right after eating them are the sorts of foods one should generally avoid if at all worried about obesity...
Interesting, I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation to be more interesting though as extending addition-multiplication-exponentiation-... wasn't something I'd really looked at before.
Next time do try ZFS on Fuse (linux userspace filesystem) - I have a 1TB setup and it works quite well.

You could try making a RAIDZ volume and see how it goes.
I wonder how old Judith Lewis is, or if this varies by area and subject? My mom was a chemistry BS and MS major in the late 60s / early 70s, and she seems to think that when she started in 1966, there were a lot of "women don't belong in science" dinosaur professors, but by the early 1970s they were almost all gone, or at least had been "encouraged" into keeping quiet.
Even so, Brian Williams compared it to 9/11 -- that's pretty over the top.
Bitfield functionality and related operations are even incorporated in many old CISC processors. The 680x0 family for instance, starting from the 68020 and up, released in 1984, has several opcodes for advanced bitfield manipulation of data/address registers as well as memory.
In EVERY electoral system, it is possible for seats in the national legislature not to match the party proportions in the general national vote. No one even asks about the overall national vote between Republicans and Democrats in the United States elections for Congress.
It is not only Apple, and it is not only media rights, there are other issues.

For example shop.lego.com has a strange list of countries where they ship to: Poland is included, but Norway is excluded.
It's the same issue here.

Conservatives in power (right), Liberals in opposition (left/center) hold the bulk of the seats, NDP (left) and Bloc (left/separatists) hold the remainder.

The NDP doesn't have enough seats to help the Cons on their own, and being propped up solely by separatists is seen as distasteful so support for a vote must come from either both smaller parties, or from the Liberals abstaining (the opposition looks bad when voting with the gov't!).

Yet here we are, years later and for the most part it has worked ok. The biggest problem is that parties are always in semi-campaign mode as whenever a money vote is lost by the gov't we'll have an election. This has resulted in some stupidities like targeted tax credits for specific groups (ex: families with kids in sports) that are not good policy, but simply vote buying.
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