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I suppose in some sense it flows but watching the World Cup I notice that there are constant little stoppages of play -- the ref is always blowing the whistle when two players collide going for a ball, any time there is a challenge (and an opportunity to mug and dive and generally lose dignity ;) Restarts happen quickly to be sure but the whistle stoppage seems to take some of the momentum out of the game.

It would be better if the refs just let the players play and only blow the whistle for the most egregious fouls.
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> Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Why "thank you"? Are you looking for the truth, or just something that repeats what you wish were true?
>> "no one cares about caste at least in the cities"
I find this to be reasonably close, till it comes to marriage. Very few families wholeheartedly agree for an Inter caste marriage.
I'm a former ref and longtime player. I understand the flow of the game very well. Americans don't want to slow the game down in the slightest. What they want is more justice, post-mortem oversight, and less preventable human error.

Anyone faking an injury on my pitch used to get a red card for conduct detrimental to the game. So I consider 5 minutes to be very generous. I'm aware that it's quite a long time. That's the point. Provide a disincentive.

You cite the example of quickly throwing the ball back in. Yet average high school matches get a replacement ball to the thrower quicker than at the World Cup. Worse, everyone seems to be OK with having the thrower creep down the field for 10 yards until throwing it with all kinds of crazy side spin on it.

To most of us, you seem like the abused who now sympathizes with the abuser. You want egregious human error unjustly changing match outcomes? You want to continue to foster an ethic of diving and unsportsmanship?

To reduce this aspect of the game, you've got to provide disincentives. The key is to pick disincentives that do not change the fundamental "flow" of the sport. It's really very simple. I expect that at some point in the next 50 years, there will be some leagues that tinker with the rules, become immensely popular, and people will forget the current dark ages of corruption, incompetence, and unsportsmanlike, disgraceful on-pitch behavior.
I think it was suggested by someone else here on HN but the idea is to have a widget on blog that tracks how many pages a visitor has browsed. Then simply show him a message saying 'Hey, you seem to be a loyal reader. This is your 3rd visit on the blog and you have read 33 blog posts here. Writing unique content takes time and effort, so please consider leaving a small tip to encourage me to write even more.'

Also show some sort of leader board of donators and the content they consume. Idea is to come up with guilt-ware which presents a new revenue stream for dedicated bloggers :)
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So, first release, then, when calm is back, make the built-in update.
That font looks truly terrible in the example shown on the page. I assumed that it was a problem with my browser, but it turns out the sample is a bitmap. It looks like a decent font resized using the worst bitmap resizing algorithm in the shop.
To people here, the ideas themselves are probably more valuable than the effort required to realize them. It might be a good idea to reach out to communities that have good ideas, but not the technical means to implement them. Having said that, check out:

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
http://openideas.eu/
http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/

I am reluctant to give you any of my ideas, but how about a web app for images, that particularly serves the needs of e.g. law enforcement, and allows storage and annotation related to crime scenes, cases, etc, or perhaps for the health industry, and does the same for patients with certain conditions, and you could tag them and other doctors could offer second opinions for money etc.
I see your point; any injury requiring the trainer on the pitch requires you to go to the side and be waved back on specifically by the ref anyway.

5 minutes is too long though; a minute maybe (and even then nothing formally timed etc.)
Just one question, is this "after 5 year i should be a manager" sustainable? How many managerial positions are available?

Usually these are only a small percentage of the total... and to have something to actually "manage" the manager/employee ratio must remain somewhat constant (or that "add value" become meaningless).
Players constantly lying/cheating certainly has a negative effect on how the game is perceived. I know it has an effect on me.

Also, it has a noticably negative effect at the kids playing at the amateur level. At one of the World Cup games the commentator noted that he teaches his young kid that diving/cheating is part of soccer and it's important to be good at it. Sports are supposed to be a part of life where cheating and lying is discouraged and outlawed.
About the "Bocadillo de Jamón" (cured ham sandwich page 18):

It's only 2 ingredients, so you still have leeway to add some more, and so you have to add tomatoes (and a bit of olive oil and salt) to make the typical catalan "pa amb tomaquet" (pan with tomatoes).

1/2 1/3 Baguette
2-4 slices jamón
1-2 ripe tomatoes (red and juicy)
1-2 teaspoon olive oil
1 pinch of salt

Open baguette. Cut the tomatoes in half and spread their innards on the bread. Oil and salt it. Layer with jamón, close up and enjoy even more than the original recipe.

"Pa amb tomaquet" looks like this:
http://jaumepros.blogspot.com/2007/11/pa-amb-tomquet.html

You can do it with any kind of bread, but with toasted bread it's even better.
> letters way too run-together

Keming!
I agree and want to add that you also should consider your future. Today playing around might be a fullfilling life. But in 10-20 years you will think differently. If you don't start now to do something you can build on later, your life will just suck when you are 50. And then it will be incredibly harder to get what it is important for you if you don't create it now.
Just think about how you would not have that job chance, if you didn't go to school as a child. Of course that was uncool at this age, but now you have great opportunities for the sacrifice of a part of your days back then.
I think that's the trouble with the intellectual property rights today.

You feel happy and thrilled that someone used something yours in something good, but you are afraid that you are sucker for feeling that because course of action that is touted as moral and right is to sue their asses.
True, but it's also possible that the comic's reference, as a small part of the total work, to a fan image on the internet is also fair use. I guess it might turn on the extent to which the original image was passed around (which I don't know at all)--- you have a stronger fair-use argument referencing things that are part of popular culture, as opposed to, say, randomly taking something out of a high-school yearbook.
I have an Aeron. I bought it from a now-defunct company for 20% of the original price. There should be plenty on eBay for less than retail.
Good to see lots of Melbourne names pop up in this thread. Melbourne FTW!
I know that billboards and many other things already distract drivers, but another distraction that encourages them to get too close to be safe seems plain idiotic.
Your'e right, but you don't have to assume that multiplication is distributive over addition. You can build math without that assumption. It gets weird, but it's very interesting to see that so many things we take for granted about mathematics are really just conventions.
To most of us, you seem like the abused who now sympathizes with the abuser. You want egregious human error unjustly changing match outcomes? You want to continue to foster an ethic of diving and unsportsmanship?

No; and in fairness this is the only legitimate criticism I can accept about the game.

It's a new thing as well and entirely to do with the players and their ethos rather than the rules of the game. It's a catch 22 - sacrifice the spirit of the game to enforce fair play or keep the spirit and try to mitigate the diving etc.

Honestly; I don't think it is so bad as to warrant changes. Perhaps at the highest level of the game (though the world cup hasn't been too bad) but below that (club level outside of the premiership) it is pretty ok.

throwing it with all kinds of crazy side spin on it.

What's wrong with that? (I dislike the creep... agreed).

Yet average high school matches get a replacement ball to the thrower quicker than at the World Cup.

Citation? But also this proves the point somewhat - even the World Cup I disapprove of this whole "chuck em a new ball" philosophy. That is taking away from the game (where you should be running to grab the ball and get it back on the pitch ASAP). Modern football is having the urgency sapped by new ideas and rules like this. :P

I'm not saying the game is perfect; just that, well, Football is a game designed for Europeans to enjoy and some of that is stuff Americans don't seem to enjoy. Whilst I appreciate the suggestions we still enjoy the game very much - and would prefer for it not be changed to suit the American market (develop a break off game, certainly!). In the same way people would get pretty annoyed if I started making suggestions about how much Baseball could be improved :P

We each have our cultural games.
a minute, involving another clock, another person to control the time, another clock ticking in the corner of the screen. meh, gimme a break :)
Of course they would. Your looking at 30s plus for a video replay. Plus then the restart recommended by the ref. A free kick or other call is a few seconds usually (unless it is tense, or important edge of the box stuff etc. which adds to the drama of the game).
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Well, yes.

First, remember that VLC is not a media player. It is a framework, like GStreamer, QT or DS. It works in the same way, with modules/plug-ins/objects that are loaded when needed.

For the matter of GPU/DSP decoding, you have two choices: either you do a codec module abstracted and independent from the rest of the modules or you plug a special codec module to a special renderer module (and violates your clean separation, but well...)
The second is faster, of course. But...

But, then you cannot control anything: depending on the GPU/DSP vendor, you will have different filters (deinterlacing, noise, gradient...) that you cannot control, you have different color tones, etc... So depending on the GPU/DSP, you will not have the same experience...

Also, you cannot use that method for restreaming and converting.

Then, you need some hardware specific code, which, of course we want to avoid...

And finally, for each 'API' we need a special renderer, and not use the normal ones. Which makes more code to maintain, and VLC's core team is hardly 5 persons.
>But I know not everyone's use is the same, and the iPad must rock for books with pictures and maps and such.

There's more to it than that. PDF reading (99% of my books) is worlds better on the ipad, & the speed makes it better for any book that requires lots of flipping around. Battery life isn't an issue; I plug it in when i'm going to sleep, & it's usually only down to 50%.
This reminds me of the whole thing about the guy who invented a way of dividing by zero some time back. There's nothing at all wrong with coming up with mathematical systems, and nothing wrong with defining -1 * -1 to be -1. But you pay the price in terms of the consequences.

http://blog.jgc.org/2006/12/midas-number-or-why-divide-by-ze...
Clickable: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/benglert/concept1.pdf
Don't touch at least half of your savings for a zillion reasons.

Good luck on road ahead. This article will be nice to review in the months ahead. I wrote myself a similar note when I made the leap.
Simply put, there is insufficient and non-timely post-mortem review. Kaka's red card should have already been canceled and the CIV player suspended. Italy's dive against NZ for the PK should have already generated a post-mortem yellow.

As far as multiple referees goes, it's simply a matter of having greater field coverage in the area of view. It also reduces referee fatigue. It's a no-brainer and is the norm for just about every other sport on Earth.

Let me ask: what was the call in the US / Slovenia game? Nobody knows except for one guy. I was stumped. The commentators were stumped. The players didn't even know. There was no signal whatsoever, and it's not even required.

In fact, you actually can signal just about everything: pushing, holding, dangerous challenge, tripping, elbowing, and unsportsmanlike. Pretty much everything can be summed up as one of these with a simple hand signal.

Your point about the difference between "discretionary power" and "anarchy" is disingenuous. One would expect an officiating body for the world championship for a sport to have at least a reasonable consensus on what constitutes fouls and caution-worthy offenses. Do you think that the German team deserved 5 or 6 yellows and a red from that Spanish ref? I don't think so, and most people did not.

Sports evolve. You can either embrace it or fear it.
I'd love to find a PDF of the full paper; we hear so much about MapReduce, and this is essentially the map-reduce approach as applied to graphs.

The best reference about Pregel I've been able to find so far is a one-page announcement, published last year:
http://jloxim.mimuw.edu.pl/redmine/attachments/11/p6-malewic...
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I agree that the video replay may/may not affect the flow of the game. but i guess what i'm saying is that I enjoy the game alot, regardless of the quality of refereeing. To fifa, it probably takes alot of will power to implement changes that may or may not work to something that 1) people already enjoy 2) is growing in popularity 3) is probably the most played sport in the world in its current state 4)they make alot of money off

What would be interesting if a well known respected soccer league (italian/spanish/english) instituted video replays in some manner into the games to test this out. then we would know how it would affect the game (flow, behaviour etc). all we have right now is alot of personal subjective opinions (including my opinions), which we have no way to validate. =)
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Quite prescient about the replacing of musicians by electronics, but completely missed the fact that sound would be recordable, with the subsequent exponential growth in the range of titles available to anyone.
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Steve Nash (admittedly: Canadian). His dad was a professional footballer.
Moveover, can the lawyers amongst us murmur aloud the state of regulation in the 'physically' mobile advertising market? Such as how alternating 'windowshade' ads atop pickup trucks differ from location targeted LED/LCD signs in Taxi roofboxes in the eyes of 'The Law'? Shouldn't the DMV/NHTSB already have a stance on this?

It seems with the advent of large format E-Ink displays, plastering the back of a Semi-trailer with a 4x8 'film', a solar panel+battery pack, a camera and an friendly mobile OS - one could collect CPM based on all sorts of things. Weather, type of vehicle(s) trailing, number of passengers, distance behind, 'txt trivia' for Corporate 'points', and so on. All without being much of a nuisance to passers by..

Alternatively, what fines should be imposed for more 'rogue' implementations? High enough to offset any potential gain? Will that stifle stranger, consumer driven things from happening? If and when you start offering CPM kickbacks to the cellphone bills of those in the Donk/Lowrider/SUV 'urban crowd' that cruise nightly around impressionable youth with multiple large, externally visible LCDs showing everything from Pr0n [1], local rap promo videos, and Blue Clues. One needs only a phone with a 'video out' capacity and creating a local Pandora'esque App playing 'underground' music could be fed by cheap embedded servers placed outside of bars, sports venues, and less scrupulous places. As 'data package' prices reamin high, and smarter phones trickle down....public hotspots (and exploitation) that don't connect to the internet make sense.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, as Soccer Mom's queue in line to pick up their children? While immoral to a degree, the unused LCDs in the back of a ML450 (or schoolbus) could serve ads, school updates, etc. No one is moving and it's usually on private land. No one can really regulate that. Right?

I already dread billboard obscured sunsets on the drive home, I am of the opinion (electric) roadside advertising should be regulated to some degree and a more public discourse on how 'public' land is used. Hopefully someone soon will do a study strapping eye tracking software to a large set of drivers to measure how disorienting erratic light from advertising and other sources can be. Someone will die (<blink> tag induced seizure?), much fuss will be made, and a law 'in honor of XYZ' will pass and perhaps something will be done about it.

:shrug:

[1] http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/v100/n2/999/LR100n...
I'm still absolutely blown away by the fact that the iPad doesn't have a reader which allows you to annotate books as you read them!
If it can be put in without harming the woman, presumably it can be taken out just as easily. Why wouldn't a rapist just fish it out before assaulting her?

It might work in cases of domestic abuse, but then it also might be seen as a vindictive act (getting him back for something other than forced sex).

Regardless, I hope we can survive our adolescence.
> At one of the World Cup games the commentator noted that he teaches his young kid that diving/cheating is part of soccer and it's important to be good at it.

You make a good point.. there are negative effects of the current state. I'm not too sure that having video replays would address it effectively though. In reality, the number of video replays would probably have to be artificially limited (ie. 3 per team etc). So this might just fuel a diving culture where teams dive so much to get the other team to use up their video replays. i'm not saying that it might turn out this way, but i guess it can still go both ways.

Regardless, the commentator ought to be shot =)
Quick check on Wikipedia shows Baseball was gaining popularity around 1860, and Basketball around 1900. Football was introduced around 1860.

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"Buy it once, read it anywhere."

No.

Read it anywhere there's a Kindle app. Maybe. For a while. Note that invisible string attached. And the key that you don't control that is required to give you access to what you've already paid for.

I have no intention of every buying a _book_ with DRM. I have books, that I bought myself, that are 45 years old. I can read them just as well today as then, failing eyesight notwithstanding. I'm not going to invest money into a book that can suddenly disappear, not because of fire or damage, but because of obsolescence or malice on a venders part. No "reads for shure" for me...

There's a perfectly fine, improvable but fine, open e-book format with lots of titles, both legitimate and informal.
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No disrespect to VLC but I just did a side by side comparison with MPC HC and VLC player and the MPC HC player looked much more clear - http://i.imgur.com/Mc2oS.jpg. Any reason behind this?
Wait a second - you're dressed up as Wolverine, which is a mark owned by Marvel:

http://weeklyrot.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/wolverine14.jpg

They do something cool and put you-dressed-as-Wolverine in a comic book, which doesn't make them any money or cost you any money in any way, shape, or form. There's no damages. And it's something pretty cool you can show your friends.

And your inclination is to... sue them?

Strange world.
The spin thing was changed in 2008 with a rules tweak. It used to be that excessive spin on a ball signified that the player did not "use both hands" by virtue of favoring one hand over the other (to create spin).

Now it's "holds the ball with both hands", which allows for spin, but it's still seen as bad form in some circles.
There's no need to be obnoxious, you can just tell him that he should have used who instead of whom. If you wanted to be extra neighborly, you could have provided a cool rule of thumb for gauging when to use which, suggest as "Try substituting him or he; him corresponds with whom whereas he corresponds with who."
One of the reasons Poker is so popular is that even a terrible player can beat a pro by chance, some of the time. I've always suspected the same is true of Football.

Any attempt to "fix" the game by making refereeing better makes the game more fair. While that might seem like a good thing, I don't think anyone is qualified to decide whether that will make the game more or less popular. And considering it's the world's most popular sport, tinkering with the games in unpredictable ways is stupid.
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That's actually a common theme I've found in AI--- people underestimate how much of the way to automated generation you get by just selecting from a large library of canned things. Given a catalogue of every jazz album every recorded, and a good way to pick the one you wanted to listen to, for most listeners, you've already "solved" the problem of automatically generating jazz tunes. The only people it wouldn't solve the problem for are those who are so familiar with the entire existing repertoire that they genuinely need a new one.
IANANetwork Engineer but basically with anycasting you can announce a single IP from two different places and different providers will route to whichever is 'closest'. If your datacenter goes down one of those routes stops being advertised and providers will re-route to the next best advertised route. BGP cycle time is variable but way less than 30 minutes in many cases.

This presumes you can essentially have two 'active' datacenters, not all application designs allow for this. You can still use BGP as a failover mechanism, just announce the route to your production IP from DC1 and if that dies, announce it from DC2 once you fail over. Again, limited by response time and BGP cycle time but that's faster than DNS.
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The game stops for 30 seconds after debatable situations anyway. Also, the rule could be set up in such a way that the main ref. has the option to call for the video replay if he's not sure. That way, the ref. can keep the game smooth but ask the 5th ref. to examine the video replay before game changing decisions.
Sounds like you've been listening to David Deangelo.
Which kind of license you should pick depends on what exactly you mean by "claiming it and then preventing others from using it in the future".

The two main styles of licensing are:

* Permissive (BSD-style, MIT-style): Anyone can use your code for any purpose, including in proprietary products, but they must retain the copyright notice.

* Copyleft (GPL): Anyone can use your code, on the condition that any software they use it in gives the same freedom to reusers.

Which you should choose depends on what you'd consider fair/unfair reuse of your code. For example, if Microsoft used an adapted version of your code in the next version of Excel, would you consider that a great thing, and be happy to see your code out there, or would you consider it a betrayal of your intent for someone to adapt a version of your code and then keep the adaptation closed-source?