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I have a DX that I use for just that purpose (reading journals and textbooks).

Yes, the two column text runs a bit small, but I haven't had any problems. Check to see how well it works for you. The DX crops out borders on good copies of journal articles (if it's a scanned image sometimes scanning artifacts cause it to miss correct margins).

PDF speed has recently improved, though since the person above returned it just a bit ago, that was probably too slow for him. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the PDF speed. I find the speed to be consistent even with very large scanned-image PDF files (e.g. 300 page book with each page being an image, rather than vector text). Journal articles tend to flip pages only a tad slower than native ebooks.

The most recent firmware version for the DX (2.5) has finally introduced PDF zooming and panning, which has worked for me pretty decently though I haven't had to use it much (once zoomed in to read fine print on a graph)

Aaand that's been my experience.
It has little to do with the US and more to do with its customer base. It's doing what it needs to to make the majority of them happy. If banning an image pisses off a few and pleases most, they do it. It's really simple, and it's what any reasonable business would do.

The fact that marijuana and breastfeeding are 'protected rights' in other countries doesn't mean a private site has to allow images of them. Ever.
It may (may!) have been the initial tiny nudge in this direction. Though I know that different animals (or even lifeforms) decide on gender differently.
Somehow I don't see IBM open sourcing WebSphere, J9, DB2, zOS, Lotus Notes, Lotus Live, EAS, Cognos, the Rational lineup, the Tivoli lineup, CloudBurst, ibm.com/cloud, or anything they consider a product.
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You can always "unpack" the packer code

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> Hum, monogamy was the norm in the Roman and greek world anyway. And wasn't monogamy the common jewish habit, too? It predates christianity by centuries, anyway.

Sort of - I'm under the impression that Greek and Roman monogamy was more "soft monogamy" so to speak. You had your wife, but then you were free to do whatever your like beyond that as long as you didn't break your duty to the family, yes?

Interesting, most of the patriarchs in the Bible were polygamous, it was a famous rabbi's teachings (forget which one) that mandated monogamy as the way. For instance, here's Wikipedia on Abraham:

"Jews, Christians, and Muslims consider him father of the people of Israel. For Jews and Christians this is through his son Isaac,[2] by his wife Sarah; for Muslims, he is a prophet of Islam and the ancestor of Muhammad through his other son Ishmael, born to him by Sarah's handmaiden, Hagar."

King Solomon was known for his many wives. I think hard monogamy - no prostitution, no bisexuality, no mistresses, concubines, or sexual relations with slaves - was largely established as the norm by Christianity. I know the Romans and Greeks definitely had other lovers and orgies and things like that, whereas once the Roman Catholic Church was established by Constantine this sort of thing was outlawed pretty quickly.
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This is consistent with what I claim. I never sad the apple indicator light was 60hz, I was just using that as an example as it's a very common frequency; I notice it especially with antennae, bridges, buildings, etc.

Take a camera and set the shutter speed long enough so that you can blur the light, and you'll see the blinking effect that I do. The patent can claim it's not noticable, but it's pretty noticable to me. Interesting that they market even in their patents.
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Hey, thats an interesting topic for me. So my 2c:

Most of ppl calling themselves "backend developers" simply overvalue themselves. Not talking about you here, so plz dont get it personal. But i spend way too much time on hiring and thats usually the case: "Hey, i am backend guy. Stuff like HTML is too stupid for my super-brain!". And when you actually start asking them what are their main achievements with back-end dev its turns out that in 99% its simply:

1) Running some bg scripts that are faily OBVIOUS, like sending emails. (Seriously many ppl think its still a rocket science backend stuff!!)
2) Connecting to existing APIs or writing own api
3) Scrapping some content, sending emails etc.
4) Re-writing some existing open source system from scratch instead of configuring existing one "just for fun"
5) Coding simple mobile apps, or some backend algorithm for web apps
5) And so on!

I have tons of such stories when smart guys waste their time and keep thinking they are doing some rocket science simply because they are NOT doing front end out of principle!

So in fact, no rocket-science, no achievements to value, just some sort of ego and unwilling to work on certain front end tasks(Where design!=front ent). At the same time i know many good front end guys who rock at ajax, jquerry, html etc and still able to do 98% of the same back-end stuff !

All these not to say that there no real backend Gods. There are many. These guys usually work on DBs, compilers, operation systems, low level programming for specific devices, drivers, protocols, etc. There are a lot of work and potential success for such guys!

In most of other areas good hacker(at least in my company) must combine his backend skill with certain willingness to work on user interface. Otherwise its getting too expensive (esp for smaller startup) to hire another frontend guy for him, simply because backend guy is to smart(/lazy) to work with UI

DISC: All above is just my experience of course.
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Yep, exactly. Progressive scanning is pretty bad. I also find it distracting at night while driving as more and more cars' lights, especially tail, are pwm'd LEDs. High frequency, but still they flicker.
Most people with some skills buy the DRMed books and use Python scripts to strip the DRM. It's not that hard to do.
Not sure why I was down voted on this but if this were the case it would be easier to port code between the iPhone and Android. Currently, it is a total rewrite which sucks quit a bit.
Using '[' to enter the assembler still works in BBC BASIC for Windows, except that of course it accepts IA-32 (x86) instructions rather than the 6502 instructions of the old BBC Micro. The power of being able to mix BASIC and assembler code in the same program is as great as ever.

BBC BASIC for Windows does implement MODE 7 (teletext) and the SOUND statement!

http://www.bb4w.com/
>>European societies sacrifice a bit of growth potential and individual freedom to get better living conditions for all. I think that's a wise move

The problem with sacrificing growth rates ought to be that interest accumulate -- that is, Europe becomes further and further behind.

But that seems to be countered by a variant of "second mover advantage" -- it is easier to grow fast when you are far behind (see e.g. China).

The Americans might be beating down the path for us. Who knows how slow we would otherwise move...?

Would be interesting to read a serious analysis of this.
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Yes, although the rules change frequently. For me it was an interest free loan of which I had to pay back only 50%.
They do -- it just isn't obvious to you. I administer a GAPE domain with 19,900 accounts and we absolutely are listened to and provided personalized service. That said, as Apps has grown in revenue it's been harder to influence their roadmap (back when we signed up it was pretty easy to get their engineers to do things we wanted -- email me for info if you are interested).
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The 10,000 hour thing pre-supposes you are genetically predisposed to it in the first place. The example I always give is Michael Phelps. It wasn't his 10,000 hrs of training that gave him his flipper-like feet or extraordinarily long arms.

Anyone at the top of any field has both.
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Hm so all the successful entrepreneurs were younger than 30 years old when they started?
I love all the wrong answers in the comments.
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"using Visual Basic by default"

I don't believe that is the case. I know some schools teach BBC BASIC (for Windows), which of course was specifically designed for the purpose: http://www.bb4w.com/
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Another kid who thinks the web is the entirety of computing.

There are several early products and technologies that implement graph database technology, including the one my company is developing

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, first as tragedy, then as farce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Management_System

IBM did this in 1966. Yes, 66.
Mobile apps also killed his post.
If you want to see what you can achieve using BBC BASIC for games programming these days (on a PC) look here: http://www.bb4wgames.com/
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Android sells *what*. Apple sells *why*.
Have you seen Aviary's vector tools? They've been at the in-the-browser game for a while.

http://aviary.com/launch/raven
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Ah, but does it cost the government of Germany 50,000 dollars for a years tuition?
"Those who can't do, teach."

Believe it or not, teaching IS doing. It is a separate skill set, a separate collection of values, and a separate set interests.

The idea that all who choose to be professors are failures at business is totally juvenile. What's more, it's arrogant in the extreme to think that those who are successful in business would automatically make good professors, and it's even worse to think that someone who happened to have both skill sets would find no reason to teach once they were rich.

Edit: Of course, this is addressed to PG, not to the poster of the summary.
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That is a great point. Just reading how he framed his life story, he sounded like a kid who was given so many opportunities to succeed and turned them down because he was spoiled. But if you look at the actual things he's done not through his words, he tried things that very few people would attempt. Actions, not words?
Actually, this is a fallacy that you start believing the traditional parenting point of view. I think that a parent's role is basically teaching the kids how to make the right choice. Not making the choice for them.

It's true that early on you need to nurture and protect them by taking stuff into your hands, but by the age they need to start thinking about stuff like this. They should be mature enough to do that, because you can't be there for them all their life telling them what to do, can you? It's just that your role as a nurturer needs to evolve with time as the dynamics of the relationship changes, and you need to respect that. Not fight it.
Not to mention: ...it’s 50,000 dollars for tuition at NYU and it’s zero at Humboldt University in Berlin. So NYU adds catastrophic amounts of GDP per capita and Humboldt adds nothing.

Which is utterly false. The author is confusing business sector output and GDP.
Did you pay Apple prices? A Range Rover, BMW X5 or VW Touareg isn't like some godawful Explorer.
I would imagine it's a tale that was repeated up and down the country.
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This topic was vented here some months ago, and the reality of non-commercial use was actually the same then as it is now after this statement from the MPEGLA; for-free, non-profit creation, delivery and consumption of video in the MPEG formats was never subject to the license, not for the creators, not for the distributors, not for the end consumers, ever.

Hopefully this statement is clarification enough for thick skulls like Thom Holwerda to finally put an end to the vacuous yapping, the wolf calls, and the fear-mongering.
At 2 in the afternoon yesterday, I hopped in my car and drove 2 hours to the beach. I sat in the sun and gazed out at the ocean while the kids played in the sand. We took a long walk along the beach, did a little window shopping in the local town, then went out to dinner. We watched the sun set behind the perma-cloud spanning the horizon, then drove back home.

The worst thing about being self-employed is that I don't do that sort of thing more often. I feel much more pressure to constantly work - even if I'm not being productive. I used to think the hardest thing would be self-motivation, but really I've found the hardest thing is forcing yourself to stop working and take a needed break. (Oh, that and taxes. I hate doing taxes)
The reason our pricepoint is $300/mo is because our service is nearly/roughly comparable to buying SEO consulting from a top SEO company. The speed with which questions get answered in the forums, the depth of the answers, and how noise free it is makes it an unparalleled/unmatched experience. Rather than creating around "what would sell" I created around what I would want to buy. And since we make plenty of $ elsewhere, part of why we pushed the price up on SEO Book was to increase the quality of the membership base. And it worked well!

And a lot of times when you buy SEO consulting you get strung along, etc. Whereas with us you get direct access to us on the forums and quick direct answers. Amongst our staff and subscribers there is literally over a thousand years of SEO experience you get to tap into. I have been doing SEO since 2003 & some of our moderators have been in the game twice as long as I have.

At some point we will launch multiple tiers / access levels & those who are not paying for access to the forums will have a much lower pricepoint...likely closer to ~ $50 or $60 a month (though we are still thinking this through).
We do, and like most things on Blackberry's, it can be turned off.
The school I want to attend here in the states costs $250 per credit hour. A bachelor's degree (4-year) is 120 credit hours. It's $30,000 USD. I know salaries in some parts of the EU are behind the US in terms of buying power within their respective countries, but even at 500 Euros, you're not paying anywhere near like what we're paying for school, even adjusted for your local wages.
Go educate yourself, the average Western-European citizen has more luxury, more free time, and better health-care than the average citizen of the United States (I know, I have visited the US often).

Help me educate myself. Provide some evidence.
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Another one to try is Optimal Layout. It gives you tiling, hotkeys for resizing and moving windows, and a better Cmd-Tab (though you have to Alt-Tab instead, unfortunately), and the latest release supports rotating. I love it.
It's quite striking to read up on the differences in definitions of social classes between Europe and the US. In the US, class is almost entirely about income bracket, in Europe, class is mostly about your social network.
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You know why the Chinese have lower wages at the moment? Because they are less productive.

As they become more productive, their wages are going up, too.
Or move to Europe.
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There is a legal minimum amount of vacation though - IIRC it's something like 25 days/year.
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It is four weeks (minimum).
Please check:
http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/burlg/__3.html

It is 24 working days and since Saturdays count as working days: 24 / 6 = 4

It is called "Bundesurlaubsgesetz" -- my translation: Federal Vacation Law.

Does anything like that exist somewhere else?
What's also interesting is that (as a culture) we don't stigmatize working class who've become rich, nor upper class who've become poor - but only efforts to cross the class boundary. Perjorative terms like "nouveau riche" and "mockney".
Also, while the man is out at war, the woman usually won't be procreating with anyone else until the man dies.

There is some counter-evidence to this claim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_john_letter

"Dear John," the letter began. "I have found someone else whom I think the world of. I think the only way out is for us to get a divorce," it said. They usually began like that, those letters that told of infidelity on the part of the wives of servicemen... The men called them "Dear Johns".
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You have a good point; my forward looking quibbles are:

The young lawyer supply is now grossly out of whack with the demand (there are too many for the slots available ... and this field is now starting off shoring...). Skim the Instapundit's blog (he's a U of Tenn. law professor) for lots of indicators on this, the latest being smaller law firms offering unpaid internships. As he or someone said, if you have to fight to get an unpaid internship....

The number of politicians is relatively fixed. Maybe not in California, where there are a zillion boards in which to place term limited legislators, but that latter game along with all the other ones in is coming to an end.

And the same WT cops, public school teachers and "almost any type of government employee" in most states and the Federal government. Right now they're for the most part in tall cotton, but we can see how this game is likely to end rather harshly rather soon. A situation where they're getting on average a whole lot more compensation than taxpayers is not politically stable in the long term when the latter are getting hammered by the Great Recession.

Some states like California are not recognizing their financial limits in that they're merrily adding civil servants on their way to de facto bankruptcy (being sovereign there's no legal framework for a state to go bankrupt). In my home state of Missouri our new Democratic governor has laid off more than 2,000 state workers along with many other moves (e.g. a freeze in starting new projects for the DoT) to keep our budget more than vaguely in sync with reality. Soft landings have been arranged in state higher education, etc. The bottom line is that in this Purple state few in government are spending like there's no tomorrow (the only one I know of is my county sheriff who has his own tax source ... and I'm getting the impression he's not winning any points while the rest of us are tightening our belts).

(Well, my home town of Joplin is not feeling much pain yet, we've gained the most jobs (absolute (!)) of any metro area in the state (and ours is not big in population) and our tax revenue decreases are quite manageable as of yet. Then again we didn't go wild in any way during the last two bubbles.)

So, how many students will bother with the calculus if they think they can find a cushy government job instead? I don't know, but we're not e.g. France where the culture strongly encourages getting one of the latter instead of working in business. Despite decades and decades of vicious anti-business propaganda, the business of America is still business.
He produces Bible Study software and still has to fight keygen hackers. Even as an atheist I find that slightly sad.
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This can apply up the chain of command as well as down: managing expectations, working within the limitations of an individual's world-view and dealing with the tantrums are all areas where in the past i've found applying the experience of dealing with a toddler to the 'management' of a boss :-)
I really, wouldn't know where to start if ever needed to make a similar application. so, i could use it as a starting point.

maybe if you suggest a general outline of the steps taken, and tools used that'll be a headstart.

thanks a lot.
Of those three areas, only the "more free time" element is easy to compare:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time

From those statistics it does look like the average citizen of the United States probably does work more hours in a year than the average citizen of the EU.

[Edited to remove the comment about "but not by a huge factor"]
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Actually blinking/transitions are two things I really prefer about Android over the iPhone:

1) Notification blinking: It is quite useful to have an indicator that there is a missed call/email/text message without having to turn on the screen.

2) Transitions: I run my phone with every transition disabled. I never found much value with the phone being unresponsive for 100 or so ms as it animates.
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The willingness to do work "beneath you" is a fundamental requirement for any founder really in my opinion. Besides the trivial advantages (tedious minor things get done too) it sets an example for the employees.

When I was studying mechanical engineering, I was doing a summer internship in a medium sized industrial plant in southern France. Every now and then, the owner of the company got into a forklift and did warehouse duties himself, just like his workers. This is a very old trick in the book.
Ive also talks about the aluminium being cut from the iMac surround is used to make two keyboards. Absolutely genius.
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Your website is funky in my Mobile Safari on my iPhone. It's wider than the screen and the pinch-to-scale isn't letting me fix that.

Looking forward to your game.
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At the time the bonuses were being handed out, engineers were running pretty much whatever they could think of up the flagpole. Nobody was concerned with the ethics of the situation. (In my defense I pitched only four disclosures at them, out of which only one was accepted for filing.)

Today, if you have a problem with the USPTO's policy of rubber-stamping trivial, obvious, and abstract patents (and I most certainly do), the proper targets for venting are your Congressmen. It's safe to say they don't read Hacker News (hint, hint).
A wild west market is not an efficient one. You need to have constraints, you just need them in the write places and none in the wrong places. The controls in place in the app store are (IMO) an example of the good kind. Look at the quality of the app store versus the Mad Max world of the Anroid store.

PG was wrong when it said Apple are jerks about it. The process is certainly slower than one would like but nearly all apps get approved. It's just an extremely noisy minority that are incorrectly setting people's perception.
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It's very much a case-by-case thing. On my quad-core Phenom 9650, with 8GB of RAM, I tried building FFMPEG using -j1 through -j10. Build times dropped until I got to -j9, which meant that, for my system, the fastest build occured when I ran -jN where N was 2x my CPU cores. This is the only place I documented it: http://multimedia.cx/eggs/ffmpeg-and-multiple-build-threads/...
Also a very excellent documenary titled "The Secret of Oz" can be found here:

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Maybe some day Ubuntu might gain a respectable desktop market share, but by then the desktop itself will be a lot less important than it is today.