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The entire point of the suggestion is to break compatibility with IE6 so that the rest of the world can stop having to code against it. Breaking compatibility with IE6 has freaking enormous switching costs for some users.

(Let me hum a few bars: you use a $3 million CRM which only supports IE6, and the company which bought the company which made it has since folded. This is hypothetical, but not very hypothetical, if you catch my drift. A forced free upgrade to IE9 would create an organization-wide emergency for that customer, instantly, and it would be a cold day in Hell before they every do business with Microsoft again.)
Not really. There are two reasons why people tend to change less as they age, none of which has anything to do with the brain:

Old people are just stubborn. There is little that is new for them, and they have habits that covers most, if not all, of what they do.

The older you get, the less time you have (think family and kids) which means you have less time to adopt new habits.

Your brain plasticity actually remains and there is very little physical reason not to improve as you age.
Never underestimate maintenance costs.

The traditional urinals have at least the advantage of self-maintenance. You flush them - they clean-up. If you don't flush, someone eventually will. You don't need someone to look them over or replace the liquid sealant for at least three reasons I can think of right now.

It's similar to what you get when you replace intersection lights with LED to save _electricity_. They don't get hot. In the winter they get covered with ice and snow enough to not see them. You then go and clean them yourself and realize that what you saved on electricity doesn't even match the cost of gas and labor you used. Or you don't clean them and you have one or more collisions and you're still no better.

How much water you say you save? It is peanuts compared to the water on the toilets...
I use NuvaRing for birth control and have been doing so for a few years now, and it's a flexible plastic ring which sits inside the vagina for three weeks at a time with no removal during that time. There are some IUDs and more that are left inserted for years. Menstrual cups, an alternative to tampons/pads, can be left in for a recommended max of 12 hours, but I'm sure there are women that use it for far longer without removal and any problems.

There was a past where IUDs and tampons (not even just high-absorbency, but the materials used for certain ones...) caused TSS and more, and the risk factor is still kinda there, but nowadays it's almost unheard of. And just keeping something in a vagina doesn't mean it's about to turn into a toxic breeding ground like it did in the past. Not that I support this condom much, but it's probably not unimaginable for a woman to keep it inserted for most of the day if she wishes to, no worries about TSS or whatever else.
> if we can figure out a system to do so that's not too costly to the general public.

No, that's not the basis of capitalism in the slightest!

The point is to work out the price someone will pay and maximise your returns by offering it to them at that price.

It is up to content distributors to set the price they want; and it is up to the public to refuse to purchase if they feel it is too high.

You also seem to be claiming that piracy is purely due to high prices; and that if prices come down piracy will end. This seems unlikely. I am certain we would see less piracy - but much less? Free is always better than any price after all :)

"Intellectual property" is a contradictory concept. Claiming that ideas, thoughts, and other non-physical entities "belong" to someone is contradicting the very nature of the universe.

This is pseudo-philosophical mumbo jumbo. In a wider sense it is certainly correct but, realistically, the idea of intellectual property is used (call it a hack) to simply identify those who contributed to creating something and therefore can (in the eyes of society) ask for renumeration in return for it.

Intellectual property is fucked up (for example; it shouldn't be an easily transferable right, grandchildren - maybe even children - shouldn't get it etc., it is too easy to protect generalities rather than the specific thing you created) but I think the general point has merit.

I worked in the games industry for a short while (for an indie developer) and it is pretty disheartening to see your hard work handed out for free without your consent. It feels like someone is sticking their middle finger up at you. :) And that is what is at issue; we are potentially building a culture where people expect stuff for free and businesses are expected to earn revenue in other ways - to the point that people will take it anyway and to hell with what you think. That's an extremely complex model in my mind and possibly counter productive to innovation.
Very uncool, Obama. Very uncool.

He obviously never read this quote from the world's richest man (talking about piracy in China):

"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though," Gates told an audience at the University of Washington. "And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

Source: http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/business/fi-micropir...

If the Obama started listening to smart people in the tech and music industry, not to mention the young people who voted him into power, then he would make far more informed decisions.
Back around the turn of the century when the UK was experiencing a brief bout of videophone mania, my friend who got free video phone minutes would leave me video calls if he ran out both voice and text credit on his pay-as-you-go phone. It was all a bit Max Headroom.
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I've always sat on the fence with this.

One interesting point that was made was that if people keep calling it theft attitudes may change - or maybe it would simply pave the way to making it a criminal offence.

Ultimately how I always feel is this; if someone is pirating your work then I don't mind if you call them a thief (in anger or whatever). But if you're not one of those people then it's a weasel word to be using.
When people want to save water they think... I'll use water-less toilets! Now they have two problems.
Okay, I challenge you to find me one that has both.

The only exception I can think of right now (3D Studio Max) essentially has too different modes: a normal mode where you have to use your mouse to select everything (which takes a really, really long time) and an expert mode without any buttons at all (which is by no means intuitive).
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Bah. In the end I won't make it; we have a huge backlog of work so I can't get away in time to catch the train.

Keep posting future meets to the mailing list that was set up though; I'm often down there & would love to meet you guys.
Just because a bug appears seemingly randomly does not mean it's not a bug.

When I was a kid watching tv with an indoor antenna, anytime there was poor reception I'd go and hold the antenna and reception would improve or get a lot worse.

So, I've no problems believing that this is an issue, that it affects different people differently at different times, and that Apple knew about it and made those shells as a fix (a trade-off in exchange for greater compactness of the device) for those who want it.
The problem with enforcing controls on the web is that even if they are well-meaning and protect copyright holders in the short term, they do untold damage in the long term that can't be estimated or anticipated ahead of time (the butterfly effect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect).

Do you think if the internet was 100% government regulated or by a company (e.g. AOL) from day one, that is would have grown and developed as quickly and as well as it has? Or that the many opportunities for creating a web-based business would exist? Of course they wouldn't, because they would have been stifled by well-meaning legislation. The cost and bureaucracy to startups would increase massively. Piracy isn't nice, but it is the price to pay for an open and independent global network. (/rant)
""Intellectual property" is a contradictory concept. Claiming that ideas, thoughts, and other non-physical entities "belong" to someone is contradicting the very nature of the universe."

I never understood that point. That's like saying preventing murder is contradictory to the nature of humanity.

The point of societies is to make laws and enforce them, in a way that leads to everyone being better off. As far as I'm concerned, the argument against copyright should only be about whether it makes society better or not; it has nothing to do with morality, and definitely nothing to do with the nature of the universe.
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So instead of more water down the drain you fill the dumpster with the cartridge... which you then recycle, of course.
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It won't be long, the iPad and iPhone is mostly built from standard components, ARM chips, the Samsung Hummingbird SoC (or a very close relative) etc.

If you've been looking for an ARM "smartbook" you'll have noticed that they are frighteningly thin and have amazing battery life. Unfortunately the inability to run Windows meant no-one was prepared to sell them. This year all those exact same smartbook systems are back, this time minus the keyboard and running Android.

edit: just to be clear, that last line isn't metaphorical, the product demonstrators at thing like Computex are saying this is the exact same hardware as our smartbooks we've been previewing but in a tablet form factor.
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In the UK this makes perfect sense. (thinking about it I would probably us "were" but a lot of my generation would use "was")
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I do not have this issue. In fact, I think it is a software problem. I made a call with perfectly clarity with 0 bars.

It's fine, people. Quit making a huge deal about nothing.

I bet more than 50 percent of the people voting on these answers are people without friggen iPhone 4s. Wanna know where the people with iPhone 4s are? They're playing with their new toys.
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They campaigned extensively for users to switch to newer version of IE. They don't force it because lots of company still have IT policies of using IE6 (or whichever comes installed with the OS, I suspect).
Two words: Special Interests.

He's probably only getting one side of the story, as the anti-piracy lobby has the money, power and influence to be able to bend the ear of those high up enough to make a difference. Spend enough time listening to one side of the debate, and you have the VP eventually making dumb comments like the Tiffany's quote.

Richard Stallman probably would probably not clear White House security checks (joke)
Whereas today you've covered making statements while on your period.

Also, rhetorical questions aren't questions. Who knew?
All the other browser already have hw acceleration in various stages in their "preview" builds, in released builds to some extent too.
At risk of sounding like a complete asshat to apparently everyone else on this thread, a 9:00 - 4:00 workday is what I had in kindergarten. If I were running a company with this issue I'd consider it a big problem too.
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Is this a security risk? Could someone, theoretically, enter in a random string of characters and land on your files?
If you replaced Facetime with Skype and published it what five(?) years ago, then yes it would make sense.
Stated in a general manner. What's being alleged rather than the evidence to support it.
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The entire point of my suggestion is that a newer browser doesn't need to break compatibility with older browsers to allow people to stop supporting them. Backwards compatibility makes it possible for Microsoft to do a forced upgrade without screwing anyone over. Once a significant majority people are using IE9, it doesn't matter if they're still relying on its backwards compatibility for existing websites, new websites can just target IE9's native rendering engine and ignore older versions of IE.

I didn't mention IE6 backwards compatibility, because no one running IE6 is going to upgrade directly to IE9; they don't run on the same OS. Even if IE9 was made a mandatory or automatic upgrade, people relying on IE6 wouldn't have to worry. IE6 would have to be dealt with differently than IE7&8, which is fine, it'll get to insignificant market share soon enough on its own.
This is a run-of-the-mill gadget blog by bad writers. Unless I was super enthralled by the product, say, a new iphone (shudder) or something, all I want is the statistics. I skim for those. I don't read each sentence with exacting precision. A disproportionately sized link hidden in what looks like an unrelated section (in terms of design) make this a hard-to-follow, hard-to-be-informed-by read.

Aspiring bloggers take note, this is not good blogging.
I'm always surprised when visiting the United States that there's a lot more water in every toilet than over here (Israel). One of those small things you never think about, but when you visit another country you discover there are other standards.
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I'd have to go with yes. Hate to be an entropy nazi, but here goes:

Hash is 6 characters long, characters are alphanumeric (a-zA-Z0-9). So that makes:

(26 * 2 + 10) ** 6 => 5.6E10

That looks like a big number, but it isn't. Because at the scale of dropbox there will be 10 million links out there in no time. So then the math goes:

( (26 * 2 + 10) ** 6 ) / 10_000_000 => 5680

So you have to make only a few thousand guesses to get a random file from another user. I'd say that's not very secure.

Note that the links redirect to a page with a far longer (and presumably far more secure) hash code. Any time when you see short hash -> longer hash alarm bells should go off.

I'm assuming the share links last forever. If the share links would last only 24 hours then system looks pretty safe.

Anyway, this is only my first impression. I might very well be wrong. Either way I think it's pretty silly to give up so much entropy to get a prettier URL. Why not just use the complete 128bit hash?
What? You're confusing two completely different things:

* Digital distribution is good for artists, as they can reach their fans without needing a record company to physically shift media. Digital distribution is not piracy. Nobody is disputing digital distribution being anything but good.

* Piracy is bad, as people taking things without paying the people that made them.

Look at Trent Reznor. He's not signed anymore, and gives away Ghosts I as a way of connecting directly with his fans, and making money off Ghosts II - IV, which he charges for.

TPB distribute torrents for Ghosts I which is great, but they also help people steal Ghosts II - IV.

No different that HN's friend, the Bingo Card Creator guy, when he made the desktop version of BGC and had his app ripped off left right and center.
Hm no way I can get there for 6, miles away from me (and finish at 6) - is it vitally important to arrive on time?
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This is why doctors are paid well - they're responsible for something very valuable, people's lives.

I don't understand how people needing others (which is true, no man is an island) justifies people taking things from others.
If you've never read it, I love Oliver Sack's book "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat": http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/dp/0684853949....

It's an amazing book full of stories just like in this article, about incredibly strange things that sometimes happen to people's brains.

It's also the scariest book I've ever read: it made me realize, more than at any other time, just how much of who I am is determined by my physical body, which is incredibly easy to break. There are stories in there of people who can't understand the idea of "left" anymore. They can see out of their right eye, not their left. They can turn right, but not left. They can eat food off their plate, but only on the right side. Freaky as hell.
Definitely agree this juggling rests in experienced hands. A vet knows what balls can be dropped and which ones cannot. My thoughts on this are:
1) As a rule of thumb, the longer the project the more structured it should be--which should be a no brainer.
2) Having a clean dispatch module allows you to sweep the mess under loosely coupled rugs.
3) Programmers are code excavators first, curators second, developers third.
I'm going to be working a bit late tonight to make up time from the Football yesterday, I'll pop over some time after 7, I'm hoping it should be still going for a while after that.
No, you still choose which files and folders to make linkable.

Anything you give a url to you should consider to be public anyway.
Go to a Microsoft Store? http://store.microsoft.com/Locations

Actually, they probably won’t sell you a copy of XP, but I’m sure they’ll sell you a computer. They actually negotiated deals with OEMs to supply no-crapware versions of their computers for the stores.
I thought HN did do that checking. Sorry.
Nobody's arguing that you should ditch Flash today

Clearly, you haven't spoken to my boss. ;)
This agrees with the OP. As I understand it, he's basically saying "don't go after people who have blogs and convert them, go after people who would start a blog if it wasn't so complicated".
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It's possible to make that work. It works on http://listen.grooveshark.com on OS X in most browsers, it's just a matter of embedding the swf in wmode=window and writing some JS to force the browser to send the scroll events through to the swf in the right format.
> Nice sense of entitlement you got there.

Sorry, what's wrong with being entitled to the benefit of my own work? What right does anyone else have over something I made, with my work, taking hundreds of hours of my time?

I can't believe such a shitty personal attack on someone for daring to say they're entitled to what they create is sitting on HN with +3.

How would you feel if someone uploaded all the source for Woobius to TPB?
As an American that has spent time in Israel, I have to say that the bowl may be more empty, but the amount of water used to flush is quite a bit more.

In commercial toilets in the US you commonly get the pressurized toilets that use a significant amount of air to flush, not just water. This cuts way down on the amount of water used.

However, I do like the "little flush / big flush" buttons you see in Israel and other places.
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"Falcon recommends pouring a bucket of hot water into its urinals to flush out deposits before putting in a new cartridge." (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_waterless_urinal/2/)

Maybe it would make sense to make a hybrid version option that flushes with water every x days. Attacks the idea of pure "waterless", but maybe more practical?
As for a circular yellow tint appearing on a retina, maybe we should nick the medical fraternity's term for that: retinitis pigmentosa!
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I never said that you couldn't or shouldn't be running XP. What I said was that if you want the features and benefits that Microsoft offers with their new releases, you shouldn't be upset when they're not available for an almost 10 year old OS.

I'm glad you're able to still get stuff done on XP, but time is short and soon Microsoft will no longer be issuing security updates for XP. In a way, forcing most people to upgrade.
Any time is good. We'll be there most of the evening.
I think the cost they are trying to solve for is the environmental cost, not the cost in dollars.
This is a CEO of a company that wants to get a product out the door. Sometimes that's not easy. He's basically using the tools at his disposal. It sounds like he's given his team a year, and they still haven't delivered. An email like this can sometimes shake out the non-performing team members and lead them to quit. In a company with 7,600 employees - I'm pretty sure not every one is a star performer.

Anyways, I've worked for a CTO who basically was a raving lunatic. Every couple of months there would be some kind of a blow up. But, looking back, we also did some amazing work under him, and created a cutting edge service still used 6 years later.
I don't think this example is contrived. I can imagine plenty of use cases where being able to draw lots of objects is really important. Hardware acceleration is exactly what HTML5 needs in order to compete with Flash.
but nothing except profits prohibits Apple to stand up for the interests of it's users the way Amazon and Google do, yet Apple seems to always choose it's own short-term interest ahead of it's users' long-term interest.
I don't think anyone has any particular right to profit from their work. You're arguing for some sort of positive freedom to profit from labor, which unsurprisingly no libertarian-leaning person would really endorse. Not only that, you're arguing that state power should be used to create artificial scarcity that would allow you to profit in that manner!
Reznor is pro-piracy also, though. He's openly admitted to being a member of various torrent sites, and says he doesn't care if people pirate NIN works, even the ones he isn't himself distributing on torrents. He's certainly not going to sue anyone for doing so, and if one of his previous labels did, he's said he wouldn't support their suit.
The currently existing alternative is just to install Chrome or Firefox for the current web and leave IE6 in place for legacy internal applications. But then browsing the web isn’t seen as a useful part of people’s jobs in most companies.
Chrome is currently the fastest at this

No it isn't. Firefox in software mode (release builds) is generally faster than Chrome when it comes to canvas. Firefox in hardware mode (pre-release, Direct2D) is around as fast as IE.