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If I'm reading it correctly, the article isn't claiming there are more people being diagnosed with mental illness, but rather that there are more people severely enough incapacitated that they can't work.
Yeah, -c 100 is nothing I haven't tried before. My server knows to disable abuse detection for localhost, but it should have throttled your requests fairly quickly.

I have a nanny to restart the server if it dies, but on this occasion it just got wedged. That happens sometimes because PLT scheme uses atomic operations to enforce consistency. Like I said, thanks for uncovering this.
Do any of the people that came up with this have any relationship with Scientology? I'm completely serious - Scientologists hate psychiatry and psychiatric drugs.

If there's no connection with those nutters, I'm very sorry for having raised the issue at all. But you gotta know these things before you can trust what you're reading.
Delimited continuations look interesting. I'd be curious if you could implement something like SJS's ALT operator ('@') with them:

A@B follows both branches A and B simultaneously and, as soon as either one of them returns, it cancels the other one. Cancellation means that the 'losing' branch gets a chance at cleaning up after itself (close sockets, remove ui, etc) and then gets abandoned.

(Disclaimer: I work on SJS)
Maybe, but it seems to follow from this judgement that you can write the exact same thing, with the same number of readers and the same impact on the public interest and get treated differently depending on whether you're part of a "news organization" or not. I don't follow the justification for that...
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Or Home Depot, or the grocery store, or your favorite restaurant, or...

I understand that the law applies to corporations, but if you take your company out to lunch once a week a handful of times on company money, assuming your company has 10 people or more and your restaurant is ten dollars per plate, you'll have to file a 1099 if you go there for more than six weeks. Or if you buy more than $600 worth of equipment in a year from Wal-Mart or Home Depot or anything like that, you'll have to file a 1099 for them, too.

That's how I understand it anyway. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
The case here is a "reasonable attempt" to return the phone. It is very possible that asking the other patrons if the phone belonged to them was reasonable enough.
Wow, I'm incredibly excited to have AJE potentially coming to the US. I can't stand to watch the news anymore, it's gotten so bad... I always feel like it's a game of spot-the-partisan-bias.

Now if only there were a way to help them get picked up by a network...
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It looks like the only way to have good journalism these days is if it's paid out of someones private pocket.

People are assuming American news is bad because of some maliciousness, or incompetence, but actually it seems they just don't have the money.

Anyone know an American Billionaire who might be willing to start (or fund) a news network? Maybe Warren Buffett?
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Simply existing is not good enough for Apple, their bar is higher than that. See copy/paste on iPhone for an example:

They could have implemented the menu-driven kind of copy/paste found on Palm Pre and Android, but they wouldn't because it sucks. Apple prefers nothing at all over a solution that sucks. So we got nothing in place of cut/paste, until they figured out to do it in a way that didn't suck. Simply existing is not good enough. Not even Adobe is claiming that Flash on mobiles works today, let alone three years ago.
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No law gets repealed. They'll just pass a new law that changes the previous one. It's sort of like CSS for Congress... cascading legislature...
If you read the article the author actually criticizes CCHR. In any event he's not arguing that psych meds shouldn't be used at all, but rather their long term health effects should be taken into consideration.
Well, I think 3D has no place in the cinema. Films have been and films are an art form consisting of two-dimensional moving pictures. You can't change that, just as you can't say that a three-dimensional computer image is just a form of painting, just 3D.

However, I think that the 3D is a new art form of its own, and it's only at its developing stage at the time. 3D may not be the right medium for what we consider good films as the 3D projections are not of the same art as traditional cinematic films. We will see what experiences the 3D turns out to produce, but it's probably going to find other uses than emulating films.
At the time, they arguably were better. Things change, and Apple changes too. Don't see anything wrong with that.
I found Al Jazeera was unusual in that after watching it for any length of time I actually felt more knowledgeable for it. In particular their programmes like "Empire" were always educational.

Take this for example. http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/empire/2009/11/20091...

Watching other news stations rarely makes me feel like I've learnt anything. Too many fluff pieces and too many short stories that quickly relay what happened but give you little insight into why. There was a bombing here, there was an accident there, this happened over here, thankyou for watching. Its all reporting and no analysis.
Thanks for the great reply. Love that last quote especially. :)
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When I reach his page I see this which hides his text:
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Turn it on in Settings › Safari
to view this website."
And I'm surfing his site with Opera on PC. Would you believe somebody of his competence?
Thank you for such a detailed answer! Would you recommend any articles/books/blogs that walk you through these (and more) tricks of the trade?
Well, I just meant that 'is part' is different than 'is'. And that I think the freedom that enjoy MSR is not exactly related to the creation of future consumer software.

It is generally accepted to make a difference between, for instance, the marketing communication and the work quality accomplished by the engineers. I think it is as important to make the distinction between Microsoft and its Reserach part.
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Al Jazeera and BBC are by far the top two news organisations in the world.

The one common thing they have - independent funding, AJ funded by an oil sheikh and the BBC by the British public. May be that's the way forward , instead of citizen journalism we need citizen funding for news.
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Once again, Herzog is my man:

And my hero, Werner Herzog, is using 3-D to film prehistoric cave paintings in France, to better show off the concavities of the ancient caves. He told me that nothing will "approach" the audience, and his film will stay behind the plane of the screen. In other words, nothing will hurtle at the audience, and 3-D will allow us the illusion of being able to occupy the space with the paintings and look into them, experiencing them as a prehistoric artist standing in the cavern might have.

That sounds awesome.

Even though it was great fun watching Avatar in IMAX and in 3D, I can't help but cringe at all the wasted plastic used for the glasses.
The dollar amount didn't change. What changed is that now corporations need to be sent 1099's, while before they didn't.
I really do not care about Flash. What I care about is the freedom to use any programming language that I like or see fit for the problem at hand. Section 3.3.1 is not only banning Flash although that would be wrong too. It bans _every_ other language than the three C's and "JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine".

The argument is not that Flash is open or the holy grail. It is that Apple forbids the use of any unapproved language. And the real problem is that they can prohibit it's use because they dictate whats availabe for the iPhone and what's not.

The world would be a better place if they could not get away with this. Let's hope they can't.
And this law changes that, so now corporations need to be sent 1099's as well.
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This isn't just a policy on projects. Last year I was talking to an engineer on the compilers team about some of the work they were doing on LLVM/Clang, and even he wouldn't talk about unreleased features. This is a compiler! Not the latest iPod or MacBook, and yet I just kept hearing the same mantra, "We don't discuss unannounced products.
Just a suggestion, but it worked for me. Play games that involve scripting/programming. The more fun you make it, the more likely you'll be to remember what you've learned.
You could start with WoW - learn how to create mods.
What I enjoy most, though, are MUD's ( multi-user dungeons). What these are, basically, are text-based games, most of which are RPG's, played through a client. IRE has made a few games in which combat requires scripting. Being able to script in your client's chosen language ( I use Lua ) gives you a big advantage over those of the player-base who haven't learned to script. I got into this about three years ago, and I'm still learning. While it's the most fun I have gaming, it's also sparked my interest in learning to program. What's best is I find myself grasping programming much more easily because of what I've learned while MUD'ing.

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Actually, many mobile phones simply haven't had the CPU to run flash, and you'll find that none have been able to run complex applications until fairly recently.

That's why smart phones have also mostly sucked until recently too (no, it isn't that the iPhone's suddenly created demand, its just due to an evolution in technology).

Besides, you miss the point. H.264 IS a patent encumbered format, and Apple is going out of their way to jab at its loyal developers.

For that reason (and many others), I will now be replacing OSX on my mac with Windows 7 and will not personally be supporting OSX for my project (Nightingale). In fact, I'll be asking the community if it is the right thing to do shortly.

Apple's disrespect for other developers is absolutely incredible, and I have NEVER seen such a disrespectful person. He doesn't give a damn if other companies spend months developing a software package for his platform, or if they have bent over for Apple for years. I'm totally done with Apple now.
I have yet to go to a 3D movie where I felt 3D really added to the experience. Avatar came close, and there were times when it was really cool, but there were also times when I turned my head or something didn't line up right and 3D took me out of the movie. Maybe a part of that is that right now the tech is immature, but I know that every time I've paid for 3D it's felt like a ripoff.

Ebert's point on focus really hits home for me. When you are watching a movie in 3D it feels like I should be able to focus my eyes anywhere I like, instead of accepting the focus the director has chosen in traditional movies. When I want to look at something in the background in a 3D movie, I expect to be able to focus on it. So either all 3D movies need to be filmed with really high depth of field, or 3D will always feel broken.
There are a ton of tricks for it.

Give yourself a reward to work for.
Take frequent breaks.
Delimit your tasks into very specific chunks of time.
Usually, just getting started is a huge factor.
The EU is a bigger market, overall. And as China knows, you can sell to places without being there.
Personally, I agree with the author -- tickets were too pricy BEFORE "3-D" came around.

However, my friends all love 3-D. They say it provides something they can't get from a DVD, and they'll gladly pay for it.
TC is largely trustworthy. Everyone screws up sometimes (particularly in a high-stakes environment where some people give you bum leads just to watch you make a fool of yourself). One fuck-up out of hundreds of reports does not an unreliable source make.

In this case, I'd say the point is pretty believable. Although you should never trust anything you read on the internet 100%, I think this one is likely to be correct.
It would have really been nice if they would wait until iTunes in the cloud launched
Email is not an appropriate solution for many of the things faxes are used for. Sending private information from one business to another. Faxes routinely contain credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc.

Every business has a fax machine, many still do not have email. I work with a lot of hotels, a large number of them do not have email, business is conducted via fax as it is the only option.
He seems to be claiming that in the phrase I don't feel comfortable signing up for a $7,000 extra flight without talking to you guys , it's the word to that signals the manager/subordinate relationship. It seems to me that ... without talking ... you is the best clue.

In English, subjunctive case usually requires a to, and people asking permission use the subjunctive a lot. Is that the signal he's finding? Is that the best NLP can do?
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Thief logic.
I get their channel over the air here in DC. You should check if it's available in your city. Their next major hurdle is to get on cable.

"Al Jazeera English has finally broken into the United States. A non-profit educational broadcaster has agreed to carry it in Washington and twenty other American cities."
Amen to higher frame rates. If you haven't played a video game at 90+ fps yet, you don't know what you're missing.
I think someone's already started on the iPad-ish take on Courier:

http://www.popplet.com/
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On reccomendation of his lawyer, "he regrets"...

Returning the 5k would be a sign of true regret.
I was always uncomfortable with stopwords. Ignoring some data smells like overfitting, or perhaps a naïve algorithm (as in, it has no concept of structure – which is often the case, for computational reasons).

That said, the last time I dabbled in IR, my algorithm choked on stopwords. I should revisit it.
I also favour "Please run into my fist".
Mhh, i just tried that. Although the thumbnails show the controls on the right side, i didn't get it to work. Regardless of the theme selected the controls remains on the left side :(
I'm not avoiding your argument. I'm telling you it's fallacious.

Technologies don't come and go according to whether they're better or worse than other technologies. They really don't. They come and go according to whether enough people decide to use them, or engage with them, or develop them, and so on. If it were as you say then no-one would be using php, which plenty of people would agree is 'worse' than its alternatives.

I mean, you're sort of right. Your argument is just missing a step. It may be that Django's difficulty including other toolkits is a weakness. But that only matters when enough people decide it matters.

You can call that relativism if you like. It doesn't make any difference. But it could just be that Django works fine enough.

Feel free to point out how wrong I am, but if you do it from a qwerty keyboard (an 'objectively' bad keyboard layout), you'll only be proving my point. Problems are only problems when they're problems for people.
Apple's failed products are more notable because of two facts:
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Yeah, he said "Domestic Asses." Huh, huhhuhuh.
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There is a fundamental difference between a shipping product that doesn't meet its sales targets and gets canned and a leaked video of a non-existent product that gets canned before production.
You don't want very high frame rates in movies, unless you're going for a home video look.
That's what's driving it, I think: the industry is looking for, "what can we make that the consumer can't replicate at home easily?"

It's interesting, though, that this has been one of their answers for literally decades: there was a big fad of 3d films in the 50s. Will be interesting to see if this one turns out to be any more long-lasting.
Woah, thanks! This is probably the last thing that i found disturbing in the new release, great!
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>My desktop CPU bought in 2000 used 30 W.

And didn't it support Flash?

>Now I can come to a lot of web pages where only Flash ads use 100% of a modern CPU!

Okay, so show a placeholder for Flash content and only load and play the things the user double taps.
I absolutely agree. Every country should have an independently/public funded news organisation, that is free from commercial conflicts of interest.

AJE is fantastic, by far and away the most rigorous, in depth, detailed and well researched news anywhere. However, the BBC is not what it used to be. Yes it's licence-payer funded, but in recent years the standards of rigour have definitely dropped. There's a lot more emphasis on magazine formats and light-weight simplified coverage catering for the twitter generation.
In Chaplin's autobiography there is a part about the first movies that weren't silent. Everyone was used to silent films, and even Chaplin felt, that speech might hurt his character. I agree 3D movies are different, but they are here, and it is very probable that they will stay. So instead of telling people why 3D sucks, you could ask this: How can filmmakers improve 3D experience?
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>The original Aljazeera channel was started in 1996 by an emiri decree with a loan of 500 million Qatari riyals (US$137 million) from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa.[2][3] By its funding through loans or grants rather than direct government subsidies, the channel maintains independence of its editorial policy.[4][5] The channel began broadcasting in late 1996, with many staff joining from the BBC World Service's Saudi-co-owned Arabic language TV station, which had shut down in April 1996 after two years of operation because of censorship demands by the Saudi Arabian government.[6]

Following the initial US$ 137 million grant from the Emir of Qatar, Al Jazeera had aimed to become self-sufficient through advertising by 2001, but when this failed to occur, the Emir agreed to several consecutive loans[3] on a year-by-year basis (US$30 million in 2004,[7] according to Arnaud de Borchgrave). Other major sources of income include advertising, cable subscription fees, broadcasting deals with other companies, and sale of footage.[8] In 2000, advertising accounted for 40% of the station's revenue.[9]
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No offence to the OF project intended, but if nothing else the Cinder code appears to be a lot cleaner. I don't like the way OF wraps GL functions for a start.

At a first gander it looks like Cinder lets doesn't baby you as much, and really provides a "consistent way to do this kind of C++" as much as the library functions themselves.

That's my first impression anyway.
I couldn't agree more with this guy, as former film maker, enthusiast, I've found the 3D movies to be a range of uncomfortable to distracting. Most importantly 3D is used to distract from the fact that the stories are 1D and disinteresting. Avatar... terrible movie.

You know what the best form of immersion is, a compelling story, and characters that make me care about them. The movies that I love have filled that role without the use of fancy 3D cameras, and giant blue cats.

If you were even to look at films in the same genre, 2001 : a space odyssey would be a perfect example. It used special effects to convey a sense of futurism, and to keep you locked in the world Kubrick created, but they weren't the center piece, the center piece was always the story (as an aside, I think the effects of 2001 still look more photo real than avatar).

As always my 0.02 dollars.
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I think this has great potential. This might be a killer app for the iPad. This seems like an excellent tool for brainstorming and journaling. This can handle a lot of the functionality shown in the Microsoft Courier ad. A website where a Javascript version can be shared and edited collaboratively would go a long way towards making this a killer app! The addition of a desktop version for Windows, OS X, and Linux (possibly based on WebKit) would seal the deal.
After finally seeing Avatar in 2D I'm convinced 3D was the only thing it had going for it. As I lulled through the movie there were times when I thought "Yeah, this scene would look cooler in pseudo-3D." I don't think it did a very good job of backwards-compatibility.

How to Train Your Dragon, though, was still quite enjoyable in 2D and I hear it was well done in 3D without going overboard.
Just tried it with a first gen not-jailbroken iPod Touch. Worked beautifuly, with cover art auto-downloaded by Rythmbox and all.

I'll go as far as saying the experience is WAY better with Rythmbox then using iTunes.
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Yes. I thought: "How would this library help the way I write code in C++?" Apparently "creative coding" means a particular class of applications.
Just imagine a movie, where 3D is not used as a distraction, but in harmony with the movie; and where the story is complex and beautiful.

The only question is, which movie will it be.
I'm really curious how people reacted when sound was introduced...then color.
Nowadays everyone seems to be a critic and anything you give them they see a drawback to it and sometimes this behavior feels just too forced.

It is turning into: back in the days thing...
When actors were actors not animated characters etc. Remember back in the days the frame-rate was given by the projector fellow's hand steadiness and now we can control it. It has to start from somewhere.
As for me, Sony did some cool engineering to make Avatar possible and Cameron financed this awesome project. For me that is a winner. I enjoyed the 3D experience a lot.
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This has always been the best explanation of why we don't see evidence of aliens. Any detectable species is less than a pixel on that timescale. Combined with likelyhood of getting wiped out by natural (comet/asteroid) or technological(nuke, pollution/climate, custom disease, etc).
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> But to imply that they have some obligation—moral or otherwise—to consider any interests but their own isn't just inaccurate, it's lunacy.

You just say that it's perfectly normal for Apple to behave like a psychopath. Now, replace "they" (Apple) by "any for-profit company in the world". And watch the world burn.