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I am in love with the title. "There is a horse in the Apple Store". I want it on t-shirts and cereal boxes and in graffiti on highway overpasses.

I am not even sure what it really means. I know it's purely literal, but it's almost poetic.
To be honest although, they don't go around meters to detect radio transmitting devices. There are tons of people who forget to turn off the cell phone inside their carry on in the over head compartment, yet that test case hasn't shown a single flight problem.
It's terrible isn't it.

Because in the past you could have been a reptile enthusiast, and he might have been interested and maybe you could have taught him something.

Now everyone just looks at you weird.
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I think technically Halo did however I'd also suggest Battlefield 1942 as really fleshing out vehicles.

And saying that, multiplayer in general seems like a big step (although not sure how well multiplayer was in the 90s)
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I never thought TC would ever come up with a quote worth, uh, quoting, but pigs are in flight today!

If it’s just a sex crime it isn’t a story. But if a listing on Craigslist was involved, it’s a big story.

Painfully true.

It's all bullshit as well, this "OMG Sex crimes" nonsense. We investigate sex crimes (i.e. rape, abuse, murder etc.) caused by the internet - literally none of them (and I am well above 60 investigations in that area now) have anything to do with personal ads such as the ones censored here.

I might be out on a limb here because a) this is based on only a small amount of empirical evidence and b) I've not talked to colleagues to get their take on it, but, most of the internet derived sex crime comes from the "under the radar" sleazy dating sites or, more likely, simply someone they managed to get on MSN.

These people prey on those looking for a boyfriend, not someone looking to sell sex. Prostitutes are, for the most part, not stupid - they know when to take a deal or walk away.

I can't help feeling crusades such as this are actually harmful.
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Simplicity, like everything else, is a fashion. Compare Beethoven to Cage, or the Sistine Chapel to the works of Le Corbusier or, for that matter, Romanticism to Modernism.
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> I looked up, nodded and indicated that I needed a second to finish an email, and he walked past me into coach.

That's a pretty douchey and self-ish thing to do on his part, however. I mean, there's probably a safety reason why they have that rule. You have a plane in the sky thousands of feet in the air, travelling hundreds of miles per hour, and if you're supposed to shutdown that device, you do it. Other people's lives are on the line here as well. Of course, nobody knows the details of what really happened, but when you're supposed to turn that shit off, you turn it off. Email can wait. Email can be resent or rewritten if needed. Show curtesy for fellow passengers and the law.
This problem is well known in optimization. The A/B testing approch, when use correctly, provides a local optimization method that will bring you closer to the local maxima (or minima by inverting the metric sign). Note however that it is not the most efficient.

To locate the global maxima, if you have no prior knowledge on the underlying function, you have to pick very different starting points and apply the local optimization algorithm. The starting points may be picked at random, or in a grid for complete scanning or preferably using some priori knowledge which we do have on web services efficiency.
Really bad title: new online drawing application from devianART.

This sort of demo was shown before on here as part of HTML5 demos - but I don't think they claim to work with WACOM as this one claims to (via plugin).

Really awesome.

It's freemium, you can pay for extra brushes.
The cost-benefit analysis is a very good point. That's precisely where aviation security goes wrong; it overspends on ineffective procedures and very expensive equipment for negligible increases in security, because things as simple as as large bottles marked "saline solution" are allowed to go through untested.
The iPad is a joke. I've yet to see a normal person owning one (But then I don't live in the valley either).

It's a toy for people who have more money than they know what to do with.
The flight staff can't "see into his soul" like you can, however. :) They can only see and interact with his actual behavior as they encounter it. Someone could kiss babies and pet puppies and give millions to charity but then if they are in a situation where they behave like an ass to somebody, they're an ass. In that situation. (Not saying that's exactly the case in the discussed incident, but in general.)
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I have to be fair here and say every time I have flown into the US the border guards have been very courteous. I even had one joke, and the first time I flew into NY the girl recommended a restaurant for the first night near my accommodation.

I suspect I have been pretty lucky :)

As to in-flight stuff; I've given up on it. I fly short haul quite a lot and tend to use cheaper airlines to save pennies. But it's not worth it - the third time I did an overnight flight and got woken up to be told about all the amazing offers I very nearly swung for the idiot :)
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ideally there should be a solar-wind-powered atmospheric CO2/H20 to hydrocarbon synthesis device in every backyard, and i believe that's how our grand(grandgrand)children will operate. it'll take a while to get there, though.
He wasn't arrested. He was escorted off the plane, questioned by the police, and then let go. Arrest is taking you to the police station in a cruiser, mugshot, at least a short time in jail cell, etc.
> I swore that the mirrors actually were functional, and you could damage stuff that was on the sidewalk with the boot-kick.

Both true. Neither possible with the Doom engine.
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A minor linguistic point, but, the use of "reached out to" in this and similar articles really bugs me somehow. Why say that TechCrunch "reached out to Virgin America for their position" when what actually happened would be better described as: "TechCrunch asked Virgin America for their position"? There was no touchy-feeling "reaching out" going on; it was closer to a corporate request for a position statement from one company to another, whatever spin you want to try to put on it.
My point is that they don't need to see into his soul. He is always civil in person whatever his intellectual intensity. And as Michael Arrington himself says in the story comments, one of the calmer people you will meet in person. Any theatrics and fireworks are left for when he's presenting on-stage.
I think you are right. I remember Duke as technically more advance than Doom 2

I found something here: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Duke_Nukem_3D

"While Doom and Duke Nukem 3D feature similar technology, Duke Nukem 3D could in most respects be considered technically superior. The player can jump, crouch, and aim up or down. The rendering engine features slopes, overlapping and moving sectors, arbitrary scaling of textures and strong scripting capabilities"
Some of the other comments here have described air travel as nightmare. I can't agree with that. Though I don't enjoy most aspects of domestic US air travel -- I do love some of it. I wouldn't call it a nightmare, that's rather extreme and lacking in perspective. Annoying and stressful at times, sure. I also find that once I can start sipping a cup of Vodka & Diet 7-Up in my plane seat, even the annoyances fade away for a while.
Well, see for yourself - you can read most of it at http://books.google.com/books?id=JuLko8USApwC&dq=skeptic...

He does indeed open the chapter with the statement you quote and then goes on to spend the next 60 pages disputing the predictability, degree, significance, cost or negative outcomes of climate change. To me that seems like no more than lip service, especially given that he misused a lot of data in making his argument; ad the argument follows a well-worn pattern that sounds very much like every other challenge to the concept.

I don't actually have my hair on fire about global warming (ie I think it's a serious problem but one that is solvable with a mix of thrift and technology), and I think the IPCC badly needs to overhaul its process and be more transparent about its methods. However, I feel that a majority of the skeptical arguments are rhetorical rather than substantive, and that no amount of evidence will ever be enough.

Strangely, many of the same skeptics who question the predictive power of science in this area and ridiculed believers in climate change as apocalyptic Chicken Littles see no irony in pronouncing the inevitability of economic doom that will result from envirocentric policymaking. Lomborg is exceptional in that he's revised his views as more data has become available, but many have not; if anything, they've become more partisan about it. Those folk seem far more certain of their economic opinions than any climate scientist has ever been about temperatures.
Is fully immersive, 3-dimensional games worth the hassle of putting on glasses?

Um... YES?
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Maybe I'm just drunk, having just been kicked out at bar time from the place around the corner[1], but this resonated with me: "When does the magic of a situation fade? When do we get acclimated to the exceptional?...We define a pattern, no matter how exceptional, and acclimate ourselves to it?"

I'm surrounded by exceptional situations every day and they just seem mundane. Tonight I congratulated a guy who just signed a record deal with Sub Pop Records. Earlier this week, I landed a development contract for an iOS app that I think will revolutionize its market come early next year. It goes on from there. These sorts of things seem normal to me now. At 15, I would've been, to quote the article, gobsmacked by my involvement—however tangential—in any of them.

Are human beings just so easily adaptable to their circumstances that they start missing the depth of these 'big' events after a while? What must it be like to be Bill Gates or Bono? "Had dinner with Queen Rania of Jordan and the food was middling to fair. My Gulfstream's flight to New York was delayed due to weather issues. What a joke. Don't they know I'm supposed to have coffee with Bill Clinton tomorrow morning to talk about his philanthropic efforts?"

Where's the magic? What does it take to surprise and delight us? Obviously not a pony.

[1] the haagen-dazs ice cream bar I'm chewing on right now doesn't hurt either: having a 24 hour supermarket across the street is the bomb. Get kicked out of the bar, go buy ice cream. Not a bad way to end a Friday night.
I think this speaks more to your attitude than to the model and brand of phone.
Queue the Louis CK Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy clip :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

Me, I think they're just buses in the sky... except for all that economic and personal friction we pay to ride them.
I'm also confused by this article. It looks like the last three paragraphs are the ones that support the title, but there's no explanation of why Hawking thinks the last three paragraphs are true. It asserts that universes can occur spontaneously out of nothing, and that the multiverse exists, without providing evidence for either proposition.

If it's just the way the universe works, I'm okay with that. But I'd at least like to know why the author thinks it's just the way the universe works.
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No, the regulation only applies to commercial flights. To be fair, each flight is full of people the pilot doesn't know, bringing random equipment on board. But standard laptop hardware is of no particular concern.
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Privacy advocates would be screaming bloody murder if Ping automatically scrobbled. Apple wanted to avoid waking that beast.
I find it amazing that so much of the peak oil arguments come from looking at production in the USA, and also from seemingly looking only at production of light sweet crude.

Production in the USA is much harder now because of environmental regulations. These drive up costs and naturally would result in companies going offshore to produce... Yet I bet if you looked at proven reserves in e USA you might see a different figure.

Especially if you include forms other than light sweet crude. This easy oil is cheapest to refine but it is just one grade of oil, with many heavy grades going all the eay in to oil shale and coal tar and oil sands..... And the reserves of these types of oil are massive in the USA and staggering in Canada.

Further exploration is very difficult and banned for the Americas richest locations, such as ANWR. Before it was cut off from exploration, I believe many geologists believed that north of prudhoe bay there was more oil than was found in Saudi Arabia, and at the time they were keeping it under wraps as strategic reserve..... Now we pretend like it doesn't exist.

Finally peak oil is based on the theory that depleted fields never produce again, while I understand there are many fields that were previously depleted that refilled while lying fallow for several decades. It is possible that oil is actually a natural product of geological forces, not ancient plant matter, and that most fields will refill over time.
According to Wikipedia, only 5 lines:

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> He is always civil in person

You cannot know that with certainty.

What we do know, from his own words, is that once the passengers were told to shut off all electronics devices and stow them away, that he did not do it immediately, and told an attendant he needed to finish writing an email. Look at it from the attendant's perspective, who again, is not psychic. Yes, the attendant may have overreacted, who knows, but nobody knows exactly how he behaved either. We do know that this rule is in effect ostensibly as a safety precaution intended ultimately to preserve the lives of everyone on board.

It's a bit like somebody driving an SUV on the highway in traffic, and putting a higher priority on the state of the cellphone conversation they're involved in, rather than the state of play on the highway and neighboring vehicles. Your right to email/cellphone when and where you want ends (or should end) when it begins to intrude on the safety of fellow human beings.
I am struggling with the notion of a country that will defend to the death the rights of its citizens to purchase guns and use hateful speech, but simultaneously attack sex with such fundamentalist zeal. I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance.
That's a surprising number of upvotes. Are people really that scared of electronic interference in flight, or is it a more general sentiment?
My moral compass has always been tilted towards meeting the needs of people before their wants.

That said, I have read some awful things about the Bill Gates foundation so I'm a bit wary of taking his side.
And power over the populace has many uses, not the least of which is creating a culture of cowed people unwilling to resist e latest edicts.
I actually had to restart my browser (FF3.6 Ubuntu).
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There is no safet issue here. His laptop was not a threat. The entire anti-electronics thing has been nonsense firm the beginning. Most of these laws are not actually laws, as they exceed the authority of the constitution.
No, it wouldn't be a good choice because it's not persistent in the physical, written-to-disk sense. It's an in-memory queue.

And no, you don't need a "broker" for that. The messaging middleware application of ZeroMQ, and other middleware, is not the same "messaging", in the human communication sense. The former can be used to implement the later, but typically it's for inter-application messaging and communication.

In your case, I recommend you use a tradition RDBMs and do something like

CREATE TABLE Message
(
messageId SERIAL,
senderId VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
recipientId VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
timestamp TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NOW(),
message TEXT,
status message_status, //
PRIMARY KEY (messageId)
);

CREATE SEQUENCE serial;
CREATE TYPE message_status AS ENUM ('draft', 'sent', 'new', 'read', 'archived', 'deleted');

Then a message "send" is just a row insertion. To refresh the display, in semi realtime fashion, you can have some javascript on the client side poll your server periodically, assuming you don't have comet or some other persistent connection.

If you have a persistent connection, then the code that inserts to the database also puts out a ticket in some "refresh-display queue" in the following manner. All logged in users are eligible for message status updates. i.e. those that have an active session will get "you have new email" message. You will have an alerter process/thread/job that runs in the background and reads those message update tickets. It takes the recipient ID and updates that user's display, i.e. pushes.

Typically, you would use ZeroMQ in just that later part; as a queue of updated-message statuses, and the queue is consumed by a background job that just notifies a bunch of remote users that they have new updates. Javascript on the client side takes care of the display update/modification (typically a DOM operation, though you could also have a flash or java applet consume pushed data; those later two can actually keep persistent connections, but watch out for session length or you might quickly run into file descriptor lossage.)
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If you believe in something as magic as a God, why can't you believe in spontaneous creation?

I mean that is much less far out than the existence of a God who have always been there.
>It's a workaround for a permissions issue, basically, and has no ethical justification.

I think you mean no ethical justification that you agree with.

For example, take as an axiom "sex should only be allowed between partners in long term monandrous relationships" and it follows logically from there.

This is an ethical justification. You just apparently disagree with the premise. Most theistic ethical systems have something akin to this as a rule (whether derived or axiomatic within the system).
Looks interesting. I develop on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. My desktop is Windows+Mac, and I'm currently using TortoiseGit on Windows and GitX on Mac, plus the command-line where necessary or more convenient. I haven't done too much Mac development in the last few months, so this is from memory - the situation may have changed since.

I would guess GitX is your main competition. GitX is perfectly friendly, and quite useful for staging and making commits on a single development branch, but doesn't exactly have great coverage of the other features of git that I use, so I end up resorting to command-line relatively often. Good for me I'm sure, but it hampers my workflow a little, especially if I have to start diving through docs when I know what I want to do, but need to look up the arguments to do it.

With that said, I'd welcome a more complete Mac Git GUI, and I look forward to tracking your progress, and evaluating your product when possible. Best of luck.
You do not know there's no safety risk. And there are all kinds of laws and rules one has to follow everyday that are not specified in the Constitution and yet we have to follow them anyway lest consequences ensue. The highest courts in the land have already determined that the Federal government does have the right and responsibility to regulate and enforce certain aspects of inter-state commerce, which includes airline travel. In broad enough strokes, it's a settled issue.
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If you assert something such as the existence of a demiurge, it's up to you to provide support for the theory. That the idea pre-exists modern science and is thus widely believed by default doesn't strengthen it in the slightest, from a philosophical perspective.

One has to ask why the notion of a creator is necessary to begin with; sure, we're lucky the universe exists as it does but on the other hand if we didn't need to breathe space travel would be a lot cheaper, so our current form is a limitation as much as an adaptation. And if this being does exist, prior to the universe as we know it, then where? In a higher dimension of some sort? In this context, the notion of a creator is a proxy for our lack of knowledge rather than a positive demonstrable.

As for multiple universes, try the number line. Consider how some functions can iterate endlessly upon themselves without falling into an oscillating or steady state. In abstract terms, what you have there is a one-dimensional universe populated by point beings whose only property is that of position, but which can yield exhaustively complex behavior nonetheless. All iterative functions 'exist' simultaneously for all permutations of their starting values whether or not anyone is actually calculating them at any given moment. You can expand this concept to include more than one dimension, or alternative geometries, or indeed any axiomatic formal system, with the one fundamental constraint being that completeness and consistency are mutually exclusive. We could do worse than consider our own existence from a similar perspective.
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