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...since you haven't been running any virus detection software, you could well be infected

Most virus nowadays are intended to do something over the net. If there aren't connections attempts, no CPU activity, no disk access, one could think that the machine doesn't host a spambot.
Damning Android with faint praise
Not really. This concept of "scalability", while alluring at first glance, falls flat on multiple counts.

First and foremost, it verges on a straw man; Felten argues against unspecified "Americans" with largely-unspecified views, when in fact criticism has been quite specific and has come from practically every part of the globe. The things people are asking to have "fixed" are not the lack of an official clock or any of his other examples; the things people are asking to have fixed seem mostly to be abysmally inconsistent officiating standards. Which, in an article praising the uniformity of the game at nearly all levels, is a glaring oversight.

Second, Felten's concept of "scalability" is deeply flawed; we might as well argue for the World Cup final to be played on a parking lot with piled-up sticks for goals -- after all, your neighborhood game doesn't have those big fancy stadiums, does it? Privileging some aspects of the game by allowing them to be radically different at higher levels of play, while arbitrarily requiring other aspects to be uniform at all levels, is frankly irrational.

Worst of all, he touches on baseball as a game which "scales", but fails to note that while the basic rules of the game are the same at practically every level, the implementation varies considerably and the game is better for that. For example, a local sandlot game doesn't need six professional umpires, instant replay and a strike-zone-tracking pitch-plotting camera system, but a major-league championship game does. This allows each game to have the level of officiating it actually needs, rather than forcing impossible burdens on the local game or false austerity on the professional game.
A couple years ago I was in a building in Vienna that had one... it was brilliant!

It was a little scary stepping on for the first time (probably like stepping on an escalator for the first time when I was a kid, not that I remember) but it's a really unique system.
I agree. Referee decisions are a neverending source of outrage and drama and exactly the reason people love football. It makes it a human thing.

The cynic would say that it provides emotionally crippled men with an outlet for showing their emotions.
Your mensch.png shows up the problem with making > too big:

-> no longer looks like an arrow.
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Just be aware that just because an app is listed as working in the appdb, doesn't mean you can reasonably expect to type "wine app.exe" on your computer and have it work. All it means is that someone somewhere managed to get it to run once under one particular configuration.
Teaching this in the classroom could engage a lot of students that might otherwise be bored sh*tless of the regular curriculum. For those that do pay attention it could open their minds to a new way of looking at maths as a human tool rather than some universal law. It's a shame its taken me till freshman year and reading this article to make the connection that a 6th of a radian is a third of one quadrant. I can't imagine how much simpler this would have been to learn if it was 2pi.
Can't remember which match it was I was watching but 2 minutes into a 3 minute additional time at the end of the match someone had a cut on their head or similar, at least a minute of play was lost but the ref added about 20 seconds additional time. Seems really unprofessional not knowing much much time is actually going to be played, especially at such an important tournament. Seems to be abused to, after the 90 minutes there seems to be a lot of pointless substitutes where the player walks off nice and slow to eat up time.
>> Elevator behavior always seems very random to me, to the point where I think that it doesn’t really matter which button I press.

And that's with a relatively naive system running the show. Imagine waht elevators will be like when the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation finally deploys their Happy Vertical People Transporter...
>"Since when? There are lots of jobs, particularly on this side of the country (um, the west) where your performance is judged by your work and not the time on the clock (if you're even clocked!)."

I've found that most places expect at least an eight-hour day out of you, whether you're formally "clocked" or not. I think often that a salaried position is seen as an opportunity for exploitation by bosses. My last job was like that, and my co-workers just ate it up; the bosses demanded ten-hour days and other concessions and everyone just went along because since we were salaried it meant we had to do whatever they said (we were even taken to the boss's house one day to help move furniture) without any prospect of fair compensation, or something like that. I don't really get it.

There may be a bit more leniency with breaks and that kind of thing at a salary job, but if you're not there before 9 and you're not still there after 5, and this happens even rarely without prior approval, your bosses aren't going to be pleased.

I agree that a job can provide a way for an employee to work on "his dream", but such a situation is incredibly rare, and even rarer is the situation where, when this dream is realized through your work, you'll get due credit and compensation.

Working for the man is just an all-around bad deal if you're looking to control your own life or do something big. That's just my opinion. If you're OK with a work-a-day routine, OK with even the possibility of eventual bullying from the bosses, OK with getting paid 1/4 or less of the value you actually generate, then working for someone else permanently may not be so bad, but that's not how I am, and I presume that many of us on HN have similar aversions.

I say permanently because I think working for other people can be a good experience, and it's nice to get a significant amount of it under your belt; it helps you understand human dynamics and politics, can accelerate your skills and force you to learn new things, introduce you to cool people, etc., so a job isn't all bad, but I have a very hard time with the idea that I would be stuck working for someone else for the next fifty years.
I am familiar with the FIFA's reasoning, and I just don't think it holds up. The best example is the NBA: advanced technical rules at NBA games aren't stopping anyone from playing basketball on the courts or at the High School level.

Also, the rules are different anyways. At the FIFA level, games are played on large fields for 2x45 minutes, there are 4 refs, etc. AFAIR HS level games were 2x30 minutes and we were lucky to have 1 ref, and so on. So the rules are already different at different levels, and people can deal with it.

Would it really kill soccer if we had video replay? Match outcomes are routinely altered by erroneous ref. decisions, decisions which the whole world except the ref. knows are erroneous because we see the 1000FPS close up 30 seconds later. It's become so nonsensical that at the recent Brazil game, the brazilian players after a bad ref. decision to send off Kaka with a red card were begging the ref. to look up on the stadion screen to see the replay which clearly showed nothing happened, but he couldn't be bothered.

I think everybody would be able to accept that at High School level games there's no video replay, and the ref. makes mistakes, while rejoicing that World Cup level games are not influenced by bad decisions avoidable just by having a 5th ref. look at the replays.

This would also move the game towards actual fair play in the sense that players wouldn't be constantly diving, lying about who touched the ball last, lying about what happened, lying to convince the ref.
Well that's disenchanting. I've always admired the skill and imagination of comic artists, and now we find out they're just tracing!
Three counter-points:

1. FIFA makes a ton of money from the World Cup. The sponsorship and protection efforts of the sponsorship are ridiculously elaborate.

2. Even FIFA doesn't scale the game linearly. In the World Cup there are always 3 refs on the field, even though really only 1 is needed. Further, there are many different types of football balls (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28ball%29 ), so again, the game played on the streets or school leagues is not necessarily exactly the same as the World Cup.

3. FIFA constantly innovates in the making of the actual ball. Every WC we get a new ball that has different characteristics. This year's ball is the most consistent in distance and trajectory in tests (i.e. hit it the same way and you'll get the same volley).

With all that said, I don't think "maintaining consistency" is the reason FIFA refuses to introduce replay refs. I think it's more about politics: they have always supported the number 1 ref as the final arbiter of play and introducing a replay ref would undermine this long-held traditional philosophy.
You probably deserve something for snapping the shot - but if you try to get something from them, I hope you pass on something to the 'model', after all, the creativity behind it is his. From legal standpoint - do you have a model release?
Dowry is a deeply rooted cultural custom in some regions India where the Bride's father/family has to pay a heavy sum of money to the bridegroom or family in order for the marriage to take place.

Now, I hear you ask : "Why do they need to pay?. can't she marry someone else?". It's difficult to explain. But I will try.

Love-Marriage (Name for the "not arraged by families" marriage) is still a No-No in india. Which means your parents finds a girl/guy for you. Also,you are supposed to find a bride/bride groom from the same relegion-caste you are from.

So, if everyone expects dowry in your relegion/caste,you end up with no other option but to pay the money to get your girl married.

Now the amount of Dowry varies according to the bride grooms family status & of course the qualification and job of the bride groom. If the bride groom has moved outside india, specially to US or UK, the dowry paied increases considerably, as it's considered a socially prestegious thing and he is considered a winner in Life.

Hence the Guy in question asking to be sent to US. And "Crore" is a word used to denote 10 million Indian Rupees.
Where did they see the photo? Did you post it on a site where a CC-like license can be assumed?
What football (I'm European) needs is much larger penalties for feigning injuries and taking dives.

There's a good reason you see players rolling around on the pitch like bruised 4 year old girls, it's beneficial in the long run to the player feigning injury. You're more likely to win a beneficial free kick from it than two yellow cards in a row, so the practice continues.

Some national football associations (e.g. Italy) start training kids to do this at a young age.

It would probably stop overnight if a player seen taking a dive were to directly receive a red card, or a three game ban.
The kindle's transferability, ease of use, and Amazon's brand trust are almost compelling.

But what about openness? http://news.cnet.com/o-reilly-amazon-must-open-the-kindle/
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He forgets about one thing - pro football is not managed by a single referee because it'd be impossible, he has 2 side referees to help. Also, in amateur (edit: for fun, not non-pro leagues) football you usually play without offsides or almost without them; while in pro there is a ridiculous situation where a rule meant to prevent static play (standing in front of the goal waiting for a pass) is often ripping the game of dynamic (halted actions because the side referee saw that one player's foot was 10cm pass the line of defence).

Football is scaled down mostly because you don't need expensive infrastructure to play and train - 2 sticks in the ground or draw lines on a fence and you're ready to kick - no equipment (baseball, hockey) besides the ball itself, no need to build anything (basketball, hockey). I think that's a far more important factor in football popularity than the rules set.
I'm pretty sure excerpts are considered fair use.
> The best example is the NBA: advanced technical rules at NBA games aren't stopping anyone from playing basketball on the courts or at the High School level.

alternatively, basketball has so many rules that it prevents first timers from truly picking up the game at all... ie. a non-intuitive game

> Would it really kill soccer if we had video replay?

Has the lack of video replays killed soccer? Why stop at video replays at all? why not have a group of referees sitting in the comfort of an airconditioned room with muliple camera angles available to them making decisions about the game which are displayed on the screen?

would this kill the game? it is debatable. But would this significantly change the game? yes.... would I want to play in such a game? maybe not..
Wow...thanks for the feedback again.

I am simply charging customers for access to a web app. So no buying or selling or transferring of ownership/title will be done.

Think 37signals type pricing model...except that I want to be able to easily access the cash that accrues in my bank account in the US :)

My bank account needs are relatively trivial. Just accepting funds from my merchant account, and doing electronic international wire transfers (which I know a number of financial institutions do, e.g. Bank of America).

So no credit lines, no credit cards, etc....yet.

More than likely, when I am ready for those, I will likely just engage my local bank here.

If my US corporation does the 'selling', i.e. the web app is owned by the US corp, and the US corp is wholly owned by the Jamaican corp, can't I 'expense' a transaction - e.g. licensing fee or something - and leave the US corp with a modest profit and pay the taxes on that?

Is this all worth it? Should I just setup a paypal account to work with my Jamaican credentials, and accept money there and go that route first, then move to the merchant account with US corp after I generate a significant amount of revenues?

Thanks for the help by the way, really appreciate it.

And I know this isn't real 'legal advice' and I will corroborate our discussion with 'advisors', if & when I get them - and you will not be held liable for any stupid things I do :)
Google Docs Now Does OCR for Images & PDFs (Sort Of)
Yes, it will look weird because Consolas was designed specifically for ClearType (which is why it looks nowhere as good on OS X). Inconsolata was designed without it.

Similarly, Monaco doesn't look half as good on Windows :) Text rendering differs on OS X and Windows.
Broadly speaking, European sports evolved before the spectator-sports industry and, as a result, are primarily for playing; American sports evolved afterwards and have been shaped (to a greater extent) by needing to be good to watch.
Australia Takes Further Step Towards Police State With Cyber Crime Proposals
Well...regarding the banks...that's the thing. I have approached, easily, about 5 - 7 different banks (including Silicon Valley Bank, and Square1Bank) and they all are hesitant without a US corp.

I am trying to get my bank account setup first, if there was a US based bank that allowed me to setup a regular business checking account using foreign credentials, I would definitely prefer that route. Do you happen to know of any that I can try?

Never considered that just having a presence in Delaware would run me about $3K/year. That's interesting.
Is Reddit profitable?
follow-up question - did David Beckham become a real star and popularized football in the US?
Being foolish seems to be the purpose of the all thing, isn't it?

It's my favourite advice from Steve Jobs BTW: "Stay hungry, stay foolish."

Some context:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1fdeu_steve-jobs-stay-hung...
Would it really kill soccer if we had video replay?

Yes. Alot. Injuries already interrupt the flow of the game - and one thing Football is good at is flowing (one reason I personally enjoy it).

A good game is non-stop action (which is my only criticism of US sports - I usually get bored waiting for baseball for example :))

Match outcomes are routinely altered by erroneous ref. decisions, decisions which the whole world except the ref. knows are erroneous because we see the 1000FPS close up 30 seconds later. It's become so nonsensical that at the recent Brazil game, the brazilian players after a bad ref. decision to send off Kaka with a red card were begging the ref. to look up on the stadion screen to see the replay which clearly showed nothing happened, but he couldn't be bothered.

This is the point of the game :) bad decisions aren't all that prevalent - you just notice them because people will yell (rightly) about them. Human error is what makes the sport so much fun.

But more importantly stopping for 30s while replays are reviewed just delays the game - a game which is designed to flow. That would kill it for me!
Well as long as you want to change the tone of your post completely from an strong absolute to a weak relative statement...
> an unreasonable amount of wealth given she didn't create it in the first place

Western society at large believes that domestic life plays a very significant role in the process of creating wealth which is why most jurisdictions award an equal split of property at the time of divorce.

In this particular case they have five sons together and it seems like they met before most of Mr. Musk's ventures were started. There is a lot more effort to a decade or more of supporting a fledging entrepreneur and raising five sons than just marrying well.
I did a similar thing recently. I had so many things I wanted to work on and no time to do them, especially while working fulltime or being tied to one location. As they say - you can always get money back, but not time or opportunities. It's not a conventional path to take, but it certainly challenges your creativity and willpower. And as Xavier put it – it's about the freedom to say yes.
Video replays make for longer stoppages. To my mind, football is more enjoyable to watch when the action is more or less continuous. Replays would interfere with that continuity.

Where they have could some value is in dealing with automatic suspensions. If a player is wrongly red-carded, for example, I see no reason a replay couldn't be used to exonerate them and undo the automatic suspension that follows a red card.
> lying about who touched the ball last, lying about what happened, lying to convince the ref.

lying doesn't matter, it's just expressing emotions. you almost never see a referee backing up from a decision, more often discussions result a yellow card.

> Would it really kill soccer if we had video replay?

it wouldn't if they were limited, just as switching players is. if one team had one single chance of calling for a replay, it wouldn't kill the dynamic, but would solve the problem of nonaccredited goals or the Kaka situation with Ivory Coast.
I own a Kindle and I find that I still prefer it over iPad for reading books. This talk of all-in-one and multi-function devices has always been perpetuated by vendors marketing their next crop of gadgets and claiming to finally rid the consumer of another single-purpose device.

Take Apple who first told us that iPhone was also a music player (it's not) and now tells us that iPad is an e-book reader (it's not). I, for one, end up owning a music player, an e-book reader, an iPad and whatever else that comes along, and that's perfectly fine.

It's no surprise that consumers are enticed by the vision of universal personal communication device, but I don't think anyone seriously believes that such a device can be created or that it can stand up to the tide of innovation.

I guess what I am trying to say is that it's not about Kindle or iPad hardware, which is subject to turning obsolete the minute it ships, but about distribution channels and consumer freedom, i.e. the ease of decoupling the content that you rightfully own from a particular platform. Here, I feel, Amazon and to some extent Apple has done a good job.

I agree with the article in general, but I don't think Amazon should rethink Kindle to make it something more than it already is.
"as long as you want to change the tone of your post completely from an strong absolute to a weak relative statement..."

Rubbish. There is no "change of tone". In my first comment I said that some people in India believe that America is a nihilistic nation and Indians are somehow more "moral". In my second comment, in response to your statement saying that you think such a judgment about Americans is correct (says a lot about you doesn't it? Why do you continue to live and work among these uncultured nihilists then vs going back to your more civilized homeland?), I said that people who believe such crap are fools and hypocrites. No "tone difference" there. And there were no absolute statements made in the first place to "tone down".
We're still waiting for Mac OS X release.
Can't you just be happy about it? I would...
But you're agreeing with it! By far one of the most elegant ways of solving a problem is avoiding it in the first place, which is what you are doing by attempting to change your taste in food. But it is still very much about willpower - you're not ignoring it, you're taking great pain to go around it.
Have you tried SGI screen? It's a bitmap font (ASCII-only), great for small sizes (if that's your cup of tea).
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The last thing one wants when trying to lose weight is efficiency of motion. Cycling is a great alternative to driving (or taking public transit), but it's a horrible alternative to walking until you are at or near your target. Replacing a half-hour walk with a five-minute bike trip rather defeats the purpose.

Walking is great -- you'll need to pick up the distance soon, though, and perhaps make it a daily thing. As you walk more (and as you lose weight) your body will get better at walking. And don't worry too much about the food intake -- learn to listen to your body's needs rather than its wants. It can happen. If you are walking about an hour a day for exercise (along with the normal shuffling about), you should probably be able to get by on something in the neighborhood of 1500 calories -- and that can represent a lot of food if you're eating the right stuff, so feeling hungry doesn't have to be part of the deal. (Keep the time and effort constant -- if you're walking about 3 mph now, you'll find it steps up to 4 mph pretty much by itself. I regularly catch and pass "joggers" these days.)

I've lost just a little bit more than 160 pounds, but I started at a slightly more modest 300-ish (just shy). Just walking, dumping the egregiously horrid foodstuffs and being engaged with the meal I'm eating (rather than absently putting stuff in my mouth while doing other things) did almost all of the work. (Unfortunately, at fifty the skin doesn't quite snap back the way it might have if I'd done it at thirty -- I look way too much like a shar-pei these days.)

It really is about calories in versus calories out. Managing calories in doesn't have to be hard -- it's more about mindfulness than about absolute quantity. It's keeping that arse in gear, even if that means low gear until your capabilities catch up with your ambition, that makes the big difference.
Rugby has video replays, and these are only used when there is a potential try. It's easy to limit the video ref to perhaps situations where there is a goal scored, and maybe when there is a penalty is at stake.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure there is no website in the world where a "CC-like" license can be assumed. Either you release something under a specific license, in which case it is obvious, or you have not stated a license, in which case you definitely retain the copyright and things like, I don't know, creating commercial derivative works is not allowed!