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live TV? What is your definition of that? LIve broadcasts of sporting and entertainment events? Or just a contiguous stream of shows? If you want the latter Justin.tv offers that.

As for Hulu Plus I think it's a great start and shocked by all the monkeys and trolls who left reviews re: hulu plus iphone app. They completely diss it because it cost $10 bucks and has ads. How much you pay for cable TV service with ads?
Because he worked on a political campaign?
I switched from Parallels when Parallels started sucking AND THEN wanted more money for me to upgrade to 3.x. VirtualBox, back then, was anemic but functional. Now, it's really going places with features that still trail behind the commercial brands you know and love, but when you consider it's free, it's hard to complain too much.
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As you said, you didn't read the post, so you shouldn't be too surprised to learn that you are characterizing it 100% wrong. The term does not refer to savings or anything like it, per se. It refers to an extremely large quantity of money, such that you can act freely without any fear of negative financial repercussions. It's the term that was used in the question Jacques was replying to — it wasn't his choice of terminology.

Also, I think for most people, it sounds humorous and whimsical. Unless you also refrain from mentioning hamburgers out of concern for vegetarians' sensibilities, I don't think it's anything to get upset about.
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>> So this is by the guy who ran Northern Rock into the wall.

Umm, no. Ridley was a non-executive director. He accepts blame for its demise in the book. He wasn't an executive running the company, though as a director he certainly should have exercised more oversight.

If Ridley worries you so much, would you consider this former director of an effectively bankrupt financial institution to be a "dangerous maniac"? Unlike Ridley, he's now one of the most powerful men in the world:

Emanuel was named to the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) by President Bill Clinton in 2000. His position earned him at least $320,000, including later stock sales.[31][32] He was not assigned to any of the board's working committees, and the Board met no more than six times per year.[32]
During his time on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities.[32][33] The Obama Administration rejected a request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel's time as a director.

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) later accused the board of having "failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention." Emanuel resigned from the board in 2001 when he ran for Congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel
I did not encounter significant cheating until I went to graduate school. There I found that nearly all Chinese and Indian students "co-operated" on assignments. Usually one person did the assignment and his (usually a "his") friends then copied and made minor changes. Take-home tests were a bad joke. Although I was quite able to compete on my own, I still resented the situation.

Prior to that cheating was, in my experience, rare and socially unacceptable.
The whole reason it's called "fuck you money" is because if you don't want to do anything... for anyone... at any time... or if anyone you're working for or with pisses you off for any reason... you can ALWAYS say "fuck you" and have no issue about cash. You can say "fuck you" to every person who ever wants to give you a penny for the rest of your life and you are still fine. It's a figure of speech, and that's where it came from. What you describe is NOT "fuck you money". You can go YOUR ENTIRE LIFE without seeing A SINGLE PENNY OF INCOME other than your "fuck you money". That's what it is. I can't think of any terms that describes it that way, and definitely not any of the examples you gave.

The tone in both of your responses is way worse than the thing you're taking issue with. Your ignorance just makes it worse.
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Sad especially considering that you can record TV via Windows Media Center for a couple hundred bucks in hardware and no monthly fee.
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This story says duct tape will work. The following story in the Economist says insulating tape will not work:

http://www.economist.com/node/21008277

Will any kind of tape work? Duct, electrical?
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They might not replace your computer if you mess it up while taking it apart, but you're not going to have a problem getting support with a new hard drive.

My coworker replaced the keyboard in a MacBook Pro and when he called to ask AppleCare if they would still honor the warranty they said yes.
From second hand experience I can tell you that if you have a problem that money can solve (for example a serious health problem for which an expensive cure exists), but not enough money to solve it, it can be as bad as or worse than a problem that money can't solve.
It's cool. I understand. I never expected anything else. Standards are not spread, they are just upheld.
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Punishing bad people is great at all, but with no accountability you're going to punish a lot of nonbad people too.

There's nothing stopping people that have your phone number from posting "He raped me" or "He beat me up" just because they don't like you or because they'll get your job when you get fired. And since it's usually really hard to prove that you have never ever done X, an innocent person basically has no better way to defend oneself than a guilty person.
I like the metal umlaut. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut
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How many errors are left to find?
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Philosophically I am with you, but the site design seems to make it feel 'dirty' to me. I really wish it broadcast the ideals your blog post is rather than broadcasting a cockroach and dirt.

I am curious what kind of features exist to combat slander (and what features exist to keep those features in check against honest, but negative, feedback)?
The only commercial supersonic jet no longer flies. The Space Shuttle is being retired without a replacement. It has taken months to stop the spill in the Gulf. Billions of dollars spent and we can't cure cancer. We can't even cure the common cold. Only a small fraction of the world even contributes to progress. Most people live on a few dollars a day and are just trying to survive.

In short, we have a long way to go, and there's a lot of work to do.
Wow, what do you do with your browser that you absolutely need to have a JS performance which is an order of magnitude better than FF 3.6? Just curious...
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What's to stop the 4Chan army from coming in there demolish some relatively harmless person's reputation?

Sure, maybe you can't get sued, but their life is ruined. Some accusations don't unstick.
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> There is absolutely, positively no such thing as a free press sponsored by public funds directed by the government.

Care to cite any references? What about the BBC and (Australian) ABC? Both have been huge thorns in the side of their respective governments over the years. In the case of the ABC, they definitely lean towards a liberal editorial view and this was maintained throughout 12 years of the previous conservative government's rule.
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>Imagine being able to have a real time discussion in a classroom/stadium/concert hall that's completely anonymous.

Most programming conferences have some kind of "backchannel", such as BackNoise(.com), that is just what you describe. And the results are not always pretty: http://blog.weatherby.net/2009/09/dont-blame-backnoise-atlan...
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What's up with downvoting? It's a great question, I'm intrigued by adbge performance requirements as well.
Because it's evil.

Which makes it all the more surprising that no one has brought it back.
When professors/schools started getting lazy... so did the students.

I did a BA in Political Science in the States, and every single teacher was very concerned about cheating... at the same time they were giving out multiple choice tests/quizzes and assigning small paper assignments which were similar for everyone.

I then did a study abroad program in Holland, where nobody was truly concerned about cheating. Grades were based on group presentation of literature in class, class discussion, an a big final paper who's topic you developed with the teacher (and then presented). Final exams, if they even existed for the course, were long-essay format.

You can't do that with every subject, but there's no reason why your students should be able to text quiz answers to each other or re-use another students paper... there shouldn't be any multi-choice quizzes and papers should be individually developed by students with the teacher.

Needless to say I went back to NL for my next degree.
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The irritating thing about that argument is it comes with the built-in implication that you already know something else (Windows/OSX/whatever). It is basically complaining about learning-curve, right?

The other irritating thing is it usually 'means' general computer usage, but as hackers we need to choose OS's for things like server deployments, development environments, etc. In my experience when you start mixing in enough complex/worthwhile applications of the OS it becomes a wash in time consumption between *nix/Windows (since you are using the bulk of your time learning application-level things)

So if your doing something 'worthwhile' might as well go with the option that only costs 1 of the assets rather than three (time, money, and freedom)
I completely agree. The writer makes a big leap equating a dubious "natural monopoly" idea to public support. Is his argument only valid in a small town?

Newspapers started their economic decline well before the Internet. And television, which gave newspapers something called COMPETITION, is the reason.

Now, television is not going to do the job of a great newspaper. But a great newspaper doesn't do the job of a great library. Or a great interconnected electronic mesh of information we all seem to be getting easy access to these days.

Newspapers are nothing special. If people want it, it will be there when then the dust settles.
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So women don't think you're a real man. And the solution: throw away expression of the personality you like and want to be and respect, turn all interactions with women into a game, and carefully craft yourself and all your presentation with single-minded purpose into a seduction machine. This is treating women as completely different creatures from us (albeit ripe for taking willing advantage of with half-truths and careful conscious manipulation of human impulse). Yes I know it works, but I'm still sure this is just horribly wrong, and far from "not putting the pussy on a pedestal" (as the movie saying goes) this is worship of the game to such an extent that it makes men willing to transform their whole personality and convince themselves that insincerity is the only honest form of human interaction.

That these methods work so well makes me sad about the state of humanity and whatever dreams we could ever have at achieving relations between genders be on equal terms. Maybe the physical and psychological differences are just too great for that, because of the pre-historical assymetry with the burden of carrying and giving birth to a child, I don't know.
It's an opinion piece by the president of Columbia University.
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The US Postal Service gets virtually no subsidies and is a self-sufficient organization. It borrows money, however.

"Since its reorganization into an independent organization, the USPS has become self-sufficient and has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters. However it is currently borrowing money from the U.S. Treasury to pay its deficits."
The idea of growing old and having my facilities degrade like that truly scares me.
I've found out one thing that will no doubt annoy a lot of people - if you are unhappy and depressed, because you don't have many challenges in life, or you are underchallenged or something (in school, work, etc), then try the game as a new fun activity. It will cure your depression, because it's so fundamentally animal, and it has the biggest pay off of any sport you could try.
Grrr. Graphs without labeled and meaningful axes and graphs without legends bother me a little too much I think :(

Anyone know what the other lines are?
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Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas of a project I can work on? I've been trying to generate ideas for days and I just can't think of anything "new" to build. I simply want to practice more python and I've been using it for around 2 months.

I'd prefer to build a command line app just because I hate working with GUIs :). Would it be better if I improve my Python by rewriting some GNU tools?

Thanks!
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They're given better context here: http://www.arewefastyet.com/
There are lots of cable customers who are willing to pay extreme amounts of money for content and have no problem with ads...
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What I'd like to know is: when did asking students to perform tasks easy to cheat on become ok?

I find cheating reprehensible and am a conscientious objector, but when professors and teachers gave me busywork I came up with my own solution.

I didn't do it.

I got good grades in high school - never had less than a 3.4 or so at a well regarded high school - but in some classes I simply wouldn't do 50% of the work. Instead, I would go up to the teachers and say "I don't understand why you're asking me to do this."

Most of the time...possibly as a function of small class sizes...they gave me other assignments.

Students have to understand that a lot of teachers aren't sure what's best. Good ones will acknowledge that. Great ones will let you just play around with the material.
What kind of ratios are you actually seeing with VMware's deduplicate memory features? I have not seen much on anything I am running, though I admit I don't have them overcommitted very much on RAM (total RAM allocated to all VMs is about the same as physical RAM in the system).
The greatest hidden feature of Python (for me) was its standard library. Its sheer size and completeness, I should add.

Yes, I have heard of "batteries included" and all, but after working with Python for a year I still felt that the size of its library has been "hidden" from general programming public.

I love Python.
Actually "Jäger" is the german word for "hunter" and it's always written with umlaut. No metal umlaut for you. ;-)
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There is a lot of evil on the internet. I am not supporting what it stood for - I am simply curious.
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You can add the number of Python implementation to your list of "hidden" features as well: IronPython, CPython, Jython, PyPy, unladen-swallow, Python3 - and all of them are of pretty high quality!
Because most live sporting events don't broadcast for your antenna to receive. Maybe that doesn't matter to you but it does to me.

I just want a service that will stream all of the sports I currently get on basic cable (local teams and nationally televised games), along with what I can get from Hulu. It would also be nice to be able to get a daily or monthly stream of a channel on an a la carte basis.
Well, the first real university was the University of Bologna, founded in 1088. So I'm guessing somewhere around 1088.
It's foolish to have such a narrowminded opinion of "game". It's only called game; but in actuality is much more an art. Even if you're going to be so brash as to consider it a game, do you still find it impossible to express personality and self-respect while remaining in the construct of rules? You seem to be answering "yes" to that question.

Putting your reluctance to realize that "games (systems of rules)" and "art" have no fine line aside, the issue of "gender equality" that you pose makes no sense to me. I suppose it's because I have a much more complicated definition of a "true self," which to you seems to be "not treating women with what I consider 'respect' is immoral and wrong and is 'not me'", that I so strongly disagree with you about virtually everything you said above.

Males and females have two completely different mating strategies, and rightly so. For you see, women are stuck with the burden of 9 months of having a baby grow inside them, plus taking care of the child, while men could potentially sire greater-than-the-human-population children every day. Women will obviously be more picky. Men, less so. Intersex competition will be very high and follow a distribution similar to the 80/20 rule, and multiple sexual partners (when it's possible to go undetected) will be beneficial to both sexes.

At any rate, I suppose I'm trying to say three things:

* Males and females have different strategies for sorting out an ideal mate. How you present yourself is part of your strategy.

* If you're willing to always be your "best self," or what you would call "throwing away expression of personality" by "carefully crafting yourself" -- how does that make you not yourself? You are still you, and your actions are yours.

* Evolutionary psychology -- it makes sense.
* I'm not a fan of the roach either. It was a marketing decision made before I came onboard. There's some story about why our founder liked the roach and I'll try and find out about it from her tomorrow.

* The name DirtyPhoneBook was chosen for marketing reasons. It's definitely a bit attention-getting.

* Besides the ability to vote on and comment on posts you don't think are true, there's a feature that allows you to verify your number and post an authentic message as the owner of that number. But everybody has the same free speech rights to post on DPB.
Fair enough. But hulu doesn't carry any sport right now, does it?

Personally I'd pay to see the Formula 1 live, but that's about it. I don't think even cable carries that in the US.
Again, I'm not saying that you're advocating writing things in C.

Where I think performance advantages that come out of writing things in C come from is being rarely being able to take shortcuts by relying on provided libraries and primitives which turn out to be not quite tweaked for the problem at hand. That is, C forces you to do so much yourself - largely because it has such poor abstraction tools - that you end up with a more specialized codebase. That specialization can include cache-oriented optimization, but I don't think it's the most important aspect or unique to C such that you can't get 95% of it - to the point where it's no longer a meaningful advantage - in a GC'd language.
This isn't a hack. It's vandalism. It requires no creativity or unauthorized access. Just a lack of scruples.
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I floated the idea of essay questions by the students for a 3rd year programming languages course I taught at university (in North America). I was just about run out of the classroom.

Since I was bring paid about $1250 CDN a month and was trying to finish my PhD, I didn't press the matter. Still, it seemed as though students didn't want what likely would have benefitted them. (Or perhaps they knew how to play the current system to get passing grades...)
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And then pay $10/month more for internet. For me it makes more sense to get a basic TV plan and get more than what you get with an antenna. Especially if you have multiple TVs or get poor reception. You'll pay more than internet alone but it's mitigated by the $10 you'll save.
At the same time the stereotypical 'nice guy' isn't really being himself either, he's crafting a personality that he intuitively thinks will attract women by kissing their ass incessantly. He just happens to have the wrong idea.

I think there's something to be said for the middle ground of learning the lessons of pickup artists but not the message.
And if you like that, I would suggest that learning an intricate technique to regularly murder bums and get away with it is another great method to improve self-confidence for the depressed young man.
* Besides voting and commenting, there is a feature that allows you to verify yourself as the owner of a phone number on DPB if you want to make a verified rebuttal against a comment.
One way to beat Amazon is to make cloud development easier. I think they will do that. IMHO, Microsoft does make good development environments. People will pay for ease of use.

Another way is for Microsoft to do a great job of selling the cloud to its enormous client and developer base. I think they can do that. I suspect, but don't know, that most corporations would be happier with Microsoft behind their cloud than Amazon. A lot of corporations will have 10+ year relationships with Microsoft and/or its resellers, certified developers, etc. Amazon to them is an online store.

I think Microsoft has a great chance.
The nice thing about using C# is that you don't need to use an array, if this is critical. With unsafe code, you can all but write C.
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Yes I know it works [...]

Only for some very silly definition of "works". If you want to methodically outsmart people, you can play chess. Doing it in a romantic relationship completely defeats the point.

Romantic relationships aren't about following rules, they're about exposing yourself to someone without a moment of hesitation. Yes, doing so risks the most acute of pain, but it can also hold the most sincere of pleasure. And if that isn't nice, I don't know what is. :)
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I don't believe they have any sport, which is why it can't replace cable for me.

Just checked on Formula 1 and it looks like Fox is broadcasting the next race live. Subsequent races appear to be live on SPEED.
If you're the only person understanding a system, it's a great risk for the company. They will eventually replace the old system and then you're worthless to them.