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The reason we have limited liability is because we wished to promote company ownership to more people.

Personally I'm right behind the idea of telling people that if they, or their pension fund, owns one share in BP they are jointly and severally liable for the entire corporate obligation of the company.

It's certainly make more people take exercising their oversight duties more seriously. Attendance at shareholder meetings to elect boards would be much higher. But I think it might have a few unexpected impacts on the availability of capital that you should think about. There aren't many people who would be willing to take that risk.
>I think I am going to start a website where I interview normal people. Hopefully mostly people with cool things to say.

Reading this, I realized that Rule #34 of the Internet has a non-porn analogue: If a person is interesting, we'll learn about them. I write this not to slog off your idea - after all, the way we learn about interesting people on the internet is through having other people find them and draw attention to them.
Camiguin Island of the Philippines, where did the name come from?
Camiguing island is one of the most visited Island in the Philippines. It’s one of the nicest, friendliest and tropical island of Philippines that tourist both local

and foreigners enjoyed a lot.

Yet where did the name came from?
Camiguin comes from the native word "Kamagong". Kamagong is family of Ebony three that thrives near Lake Mainit (Hot Lake) in the Provnce of Surigao del Norte.
"Manobos" are the name called for the inhabitants of Camiguin who migrated from Surigao as well.
Camiguin was originally construction and known as "Kinamiguin", which word has been created originally by Monobos.
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I'll take it you meant "overblown" instead of "overrated". And no, that's not the case. We actually are incredibly offended by it. We see dives as part and parcel of corruption and as a "more serious situation".
I pointed out that she was the mother of his kids because the the previous poster called her a whore.
It is a free market (a free market is a market without economic intervention and regulation by government) it just isn't a perfect market (perfect competition occurs in markets in which no participant has market power).
> I too like to read outdoors. How does the iPad do in this situation?

I love my iPad, but it is basically unviewable in sunlight (or bright indoor lighting) due to the glare. This is one reason I've hung on to my Kindle, which I had thought I'd get rid of once I got the iPad.
Off-topic: the NYTimes-style snap-out link recommendation was really distracting - and not in a good way.
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>The evasion is that the only way to actually manipulate the market is through government policy.

I don't agree with this. If you do really well in the market you can get big enough that no one can compete anymore and you no longer even need to try. Look at Microsoft for an example. Do you think they were manipulating government policies in the rest of the world?
Web-based MMS message composer. Initial features:

0) Subject and Text
1) add image (gif,jpg,png)
2) add support for more than 1 image
3) add resizing tool for images
4) add support for other filetypes (no preview necessary - just add as attachments)
5) Add support for page breaks (separate pages)
6) Simple design choices (text and image together on page or on separate pages etc)
7) More advanced design choices (move content between pages)

The output should be zipfile (one file per image, one file for text, one file for design - SMIL language). If you want to be advanced then you can also output Nokia MMS file format.

I have written some C#-code for reading Nokia MMS file format if you need that.

I can coach and give feedback if necessary. I am working in the mobile technology industry as a software developer.
If you're cynical you could argue that it's because it's harder to rail against large bonuses if there's real shareholder democracy.. A baptists/bootlegger alliance if you will.
Definitely Vienna, Austria. It was at the "Haus der Industrie" on Schwarzenbergplatz 4.
Nice ... had no idea about Passenger. While working on a Rails project 2 years ago, had to wrestle with a Mongrel cluster and it wasn't nice.

Thanks for the tip,
I think the kids these days are calling it "Corporatism".
His entire analysis is basically taking the revenue total for all apps, divided by the number of apps, and saying each developer only makes an average of $3k per year. Sorry, this is not a good analysis. Some people give their apps away for free. Some quality apps make millions. This doesn't mean the opportunities are not there.

A similar analysis could be done of PC shareware software authors, with similar results.
Is the PDF available for download somewhere?
Do you have any evidence to support this, or is just an idea?

Also, how does your idea square with the fact that cardiac mortality has decreased at the same time that the diet you are blaming has increased?
Given the “five ingredients/ten minutes” constraint, you can’t do much with dried beans, can you?
Applying behavioural psychology on myself
You are correct. I was incentivising players who may not be sure whether or not they are injured to play on. Serious injuries (i.e. more than a sprain) at the amateur level are vanishingly rare.

If you want to overcome the "sport for pussies" stigma that American Football players love to attach to soccer, there's got to be some tough love, at least in the USA.
On dives, I agree they're seen as a much bigger deal in the US than other places. I think many people not very familiar with soccer/football tend to assume that they're a much more serious offense than seems to be consensus within the sport. Essentially, people assume that they're a form of deliberate cheating, which in many sports is a kind of offense that would earn you a multi-game suspension on the first offense, and long-term bans on subsequent offenses (say, if you were caught using a corked bat in baseball).
Seems to line up with the old adage about never buying first gen Apple products. I'm sure a new and improved iPad will be released soon - likely based around the new iPhone hardware. And, as usual, people will be hurt, upset, betrayed, and incredibly quick to spend their money.

I'm honestly astounded that Apple isn't putting iOS4 on the iPad at the same time. Of course the majority of people won't notice/care, but isn't this the same sort of device fragmentation that they lambaste Android over?

That said, I doubt this difference will affect the iPad in any noticeable way. The form factor is what sells the device (and what interests me).
I would say this is true to a large extent. Our family knew an Indian who wanted to marry his Japanese girlfriend. The parents behaved like the biggest <censored> on the planet, even harassing the couple and taking the guy around to meet other women (who they thought were more appropriate for their son). Needless to say, that family went through quite a rough patch. But this is true of Indian parents. On one hand you have the new, more educated variety of parents who allow the kid to charter his/her own life. Then you have the weirdos who are completely out of touch with the world and feel that they know everything (no literally, from deciding their kids' majors in college to deciding where the kid should build his/her home). Right now there are more weirdos in India than the sane ones.
He has data that indicates 73% of total apps on the store are paid. He then bases his remaining calculations on that paid app number.
You can get some decent information on that kind of thing on Crunchbase. For example, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropbox

You might want to differentiate between those that have plenty of cash from investment, and those that are profitably bootstrapped. For the latter, there is a series on 37signals' blog: http://37signals.com/svn/
I'm not sure I buy that a typical iPhone app costs $35,000 to develop. Considering the simplicity of most apps, combined with the fact that many apps are effectively the same program with some content alteration, it seems like a really inflated figure.
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I'm impressed by what Tesla has managed to accomplish so far. If they manage to bring an electric sedan that can compete with a gas vehicle on price, performance, and convenience at the same time, it will be a huge step toward weening us off of fossil fuels.
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I think that the word "retired" is losing its meaning. If you're your own boss and you spend most of your time working on interesting things, you can't call yourself "retired", even if you don't make money or have an official job.

What I'm saying is that "retired" should mean "stopped doing interesting things" and not "stopped receiving a salary". By that definition, Derek is not retired.
There's more to life than work or money. Taking some time to travel, or figure stuff out, or whatever can be the best thing ever.
Thanks, I'll have to take a look. :)
I've noticed a difference in quality also. I compared mplayer and vlc, mplayer looked definitely better.
Looking at it from another angle, the laid-off employee loses nothing - they simply stop receiving. However, the owners are on the hook if the company goes belly-up

The entrepreneurial system is organized so that the risk takers are the money makers when a company succeeds. It doesn't really make sense any other way - why else would someone start a business that might fail and cost a fortune?
This idea is both cute and useful. I frequently run a deployment script and switch to another window (e.g. HN) only to forget about the deployment. I will definitely be using this.
Nope, that's not what it is. He explicitly states that he excludes the free apps in the revenue analysis. He uses a combination of numbers from Apple and from other 3rd party services to come to the median revenue per paid app at something like $680/year.

He also fully acknowledges that there are some extreme examples that make it big, but that half of all paid apps are currently making less than $680/year.

This is a pretty thorough analysis.
Google it, you'll find news articles from 2006/2007. This NY Times piece is good. I especially like the diagram.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/technology/17paypal.html
http://www.feedlooks.com - clickable
State of the Realtime Web : the Publishers
Wouldn't this just make the rapist angry, especially if he found out too late? Angry rapist could equal dead girl...

EDIT: After reading the article, I see that others think so too:

Critics say the female condom is not a long-term solution and makes women vulnerable to more violence from men trapped by the device.
"Now the heartbreaking news. Lets factor in our development costs. Again, independent source, the Internet Retailer reported on May 1, 2010, that most apps cost between $25,000 and $50,000 to develop."

These numbers were really taken out of the ass of a troll.
Flowdock, the teamwork accelerator, gets a facelift
Our startup improves team communication by taking a new approach: conversation can be instantly turned into ToDo items, bug reports etc.

We entered public beta a couple of months ago. Today we launched a facelift and some new features.
It doesn't really make much difference, for the purposes of his analysis. Let's say a typical app costs $1500 to develop. If his other numbers are right, that typical app would take about 2.5 years to break even. His argument is that, on average, developing an iPhone app is, in itself, a fairly dismal economic proposition.
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Sometimes the back arrow gets me there with chrome.
That shouldn't be a problem with pretty much any option. At worse, Microsoft (or whoever) can make an improved version of your code that they copyright, but they couldn't copyright the original version that you released in a way that would prevent others from using it. The biggest difference between licenses is whether you care about those derived works: if someone improved your code, should that improved code also have to stay open source, or is it okay if someone takes the improved version closed-source? If you want to ensure that any improved versions stay open too, then copyleft licenses (the GPL is the main one) are the way to go. If you don't care about that, and only care that the original stays open, then any permissive open-source license is fine ("BSD-style" licensing).
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You have paid for each upgrade. Do you really think telcos subsidize phones because they want to be nice to their users? Where do you think the money used to subsidize them comes from? Unicorns?
I find this study rather disturbing. It never even attempts to actually define "study time". There are about 40 instances of the term's use just within the paper and not a single attempt to provide a definition. I'm guessing that it means time studying and work for classes outside of class, but I don't know for sure. A sentence or two to define it would be welcome.

I'm also disappointed that the only statistics presented are averages. Averages are really not useful enough to stand on their own, and it'd be very helpful to know the standard deviation at least. From my own experience (at a selective 4-year liberal arts college, for reference), the amount of work people put in varies immensely depending on the person.

I would have liked to see statistics broken down by class year as well. I spent a lot less time on work my first year here (there was less of it) than I have the past two.
nVidia driver?
Exactly. For me, the saving grace of Amazon's mobi format is that it's easy to strip the DRM off. I would never buy so many ebooks were that not the case. I generally immediately return Topaz books if I slip up and actually buy one.
> so far, on Windows, VideoLAN is quite sad to be forced to recommend nVidia® GPU, until ATI® fixes their drivers on Windows

I noticed that MPC-HC uses much less CPU (using the GPU I assume. Are there any tweaks to get VLC to do the same? Or is this quote above an indication that this just doesn't work well in ATI cards?

BTW, I'm using ATI hardware and I find CPU usage around 10-20% in MPC-HC vs ~50% in VLC. In spite all VLC's other awesome features, The CPU useage and resultant fan noise are a bummer.

I love the skins and plug in feature, btw.

Good work.
the sign up link is too obscure

also, google reader integration?
section 8.7 deals with relational algebra. this is a really nice mathematical underpinning to SQL.
I think the game could engulf America, if the Television networks are willing to air two 45+ minute halves without showing a single commercial.

Note that every popular American sport has enough stoppage time during each break to show at least 4-5 highly-targeted ads. In my opinion, this is why the networks aren't really pushing soccer. On-pitch ads (i.e. sideline or sideboard ads) wouldn't really cut it because every network needs to have regional advertisements, and lots of them. Just my $0.02.
I always thought it would be cool if people who are pursuing excellence shot off their mouth before they were anybody even remotely significant. Then, along their journey, there would be a trail to measure the success of whatever it is they believed in or subscribed to.

This eliminates the annoying "survivor bias" that every skeptic is sure to hide behind. I know it is statistically relevant, but it's still annoying to hear people constantly downplay and scrutinize someones success. Tim Ferris comes to mind. Sure I get it, the guy's no saint, but we can learn from his achievements. Same goes for luck. If you want to justify your lack of achievement by citing how godawfully lucky all your peers are, go ahead, just don't poison other people with that nonsense.

Anyway, normal people run their mouth off about how great what they are doing is and then they go out and do it and see what happens! For example I would like to run my mouth about how solid my business principles are and how much I trust in the 37-signals-ish mantra. So I make bold claims about why its true and what it will work (without it having actually worked to date) . And then inevitably I blow up and nobody can cite stupid luck or survivor bias because I've been running my mouth even when I was a nobody.

'Course who's gonna read the unfounded ramblings of a nobody eh?

The end.
PHP isn't a mainstream language? That's news to me!
Here I think you can distinguish between types of regulation. Lots of bureaucracy, with forms to fill in and specific certifications to get can be onerous to startups. For example, having to get FCC approval for wireless devices falls into this category. There isn't really a way around this, other than to make sure the bureaucracy is not excessive, which brings us to a tautology - excessive bureaucracy is excessive.

However, much regulation is done proactively, for free. For example, restaurants don't pay for food hygiene inspectors, and if they have good hygiene practices the costs are minimal (and if they don't, we want them to fail.)

I agree we want regulation to be of the second type, but sometimes the first type is the only practical way to do it (and you could still make it cheaper, e.g. by doing FCC-compliance tests for free.)

Also, in reality there is a sliding scale for small and innovative companies, e.g. PayPal or Pandora.

TL;DR Bureaucratic love-ins aside, regulation doesn't need to fall any heavier on the little guy than the big guy, and the little guy can often just ignore it (at least until they are big.)
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X-Ray Toys
Amazing and really interesting X-Ray Toys.
Well, until ATI fixes its driver, you cannot do much.
Or until we found a work-around.

But we are not really Windows developers...
IIRC there was an analysis done by the New York Times which showed that it was much, much cheaper for them to ship a free Kindle to subscribers than to print and ship them the physical paper for 6 months. Unfortunately the experience of reading a newspaper on the Kindle pretty much sucks.

I disagree that the Kindle has to become a general content consumption device. I'd be very happy if it did its one thing well. What it's really missing (which the iPad provides) is a much higher level of interactivity - the eInk refresh kills it. I'm excited for the Notion Ink Adam just for this reason.
How about a live demo?
These things come and go (hopefully). A couple of years ago
there were at least three Seth Godin articles per week.
Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can enlighten me... if the provision has already been approved, how can the White House change the wording? I thought the President wasn't able to make modifications to legislation.
This looks like a very old version of the manual (I'm off to install it and take a look at a newer one) but festival does appear to have voices: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_2...

edit
That appears to be the newest version of the docs. You can select voices by calling the function (voice_voicename) in interactive mode. So something like this works:

echo -e "(voice_nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts)\n(SayText \"this is a sentence\")" | festival

On Fedora, I had to install the festvox- packages to get other voices.
It has worked if you are at the improved weight ten years later.

If you find a way to do this, notify science.
Popular Apps
Nielson deprived some key stats regarding “the most popular apps on different smart phone platforms”. This describes momentarily the usage of different apps like face book, LinkedIn Pandora and Weather Channel. Whereas, noteworthy Apple’s iPod and iTunes apps has not yet been seen on several other platforms
Then there's also the point that while some extreme examples made it 'big,' in the long run of things mobile, 3M downloads really isn't all that big.
I find it interesting that people argue FOR convergence devices being the death knell for digital cameras and mp3 players but argue AGAINST them being the death knell for book reading. If people "want to have one device", it ain't going to be a book reader.

I still prefer a book to an e-book, as they're more robust, durable, lack DRM, are easy to resell and are readable in a wider range of locations. I can easily see the value in e-books for technical materials and other such time-duration or non-recreational reading, so there will be widespread usage.
I recently quit my high-paying job, in fact, today is my last day, and "randomly walk around" is exactly what I'm going to do. For most of my 27 years, I've been trying to do the "wise" thing by getting good grades, graduating from a good college, working at a good job, finishing my master, etc. For once, I want to be foolish.

My number 1 reason for quitting is I want to get off the addiction of the constant paychecks. It's easy and safe, but the trade off is the predictable and unbearable daily routine. Everyday on my way to work, I know exactly which lanes to switch to on 495 for the optimal travel time. I log on and off the computer at work at roughly the same times. Once back at home, it's sad to look at the reflections of myself and the clock in the bathroom while washing my face and know that the same action happened at exactly the same moment yesterday. As for long term, I know exactly where I will be (in the best scenario) in the next 15-20 years if I continue to work for this or any other big companies.

That's no way to live life if you look at the short time we have here. That's why I take the year off to travel, not only to break the daily routine, see new things, and meet new people but also to taste the danger of having no financial security to motivate myself to act.

Before quitting, I've consistently worked 2-3 hours everyday after work on side projects. But the passion and focus cannot be there after being exhausted by 8 hours of work and knowing I will still get the next paycheck even if my projects fail. So now I'm excited to have my 8 hours back. Let's see how this foolish thing will work out.
Rather than supplying very specific URLs where infringing material could be located as is the norm with these type of requests, the BPI provided whole site URLs such as http://megaupload.com, http://sendspace.com and http://hotfile.com.

This seems absurd, however I do wonder what the percentage of files hosted on these sites are copyrighted.
Soon there will be no reason to have a big, boxy computer on your desk.
I don't understand how this is any different than if you did an analysis of Startup Economics.

In any space with great competition and where your product is scalable, few will make enough money to justify their investment.

Also many paid apps are part of a bigger picture, the iPhone app is not the only revenue stream they have.

That's reality, now deal.