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Reminds me of a 100MHz AMD DX4 I had, circa 1996. I was handed a signal 11 whenever I tried to compile a certain C program.

After going over every inch of the source code and finding nothing wrong, I'd almost given up when I discovered the Sig 11 FAQ (http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/) Clocking the CPU down to 90MHz, no more crashes. Turned out my gray market dealer had sold me an overclocked 90.
One very simple thing I would love to have is setting the city I am in through 3G, GPS or wifi location.

Having the desktop making smart decisions about how to show stuff according to where I am is cool. But flashing huge notifications on a full screen when I am not close is a privacy issue if it's the default behaviour.
I would wager learning nothing is a trait of individuals and not settings.
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I believe to us it seems like a futile attempt, they should really target mail servers (which appear to be hosted by microsoft anyway). But to these not so tech-savvy people, I think it's enough to annoy them.

They seem to be fighting fire with fire but the fire of DDoSing a torrent file server burns brighter.
I actually set out looking for a co-founder a few months ago when I was starting to build the product. Since most of my friends went to big-name jobs right after graduation, nobody was particularly keen on starting up.

I hit up all the networking events - barcamps, startup events, and other miscellaneous meetups. I met a lot of people, offered to buy them beer in exchange for hearing out my idea, and made some great friends. The people who were capable and experienced were already in a job, or a startup of their own. The ones who were interested to join me were ready to do it part-time and half heartedly. The two people who were enamored by the idea and wanted in couldn't code for nuts.

Two months later, I am still single, two weeks away from launch, and things are going great. I have some unconventional little discoveries by my tiny amount of experience:

1. Go somewhere you'll be surrounded by people. I went back to college and have friends all around. In the event that I get bored or need to take a break, a coffee break with five people is just a phone call away.

2. I realized that it's hard to stay fully motivated through the entire thing. Talk to your friends and family about it and tell them it'll take their help. My parents were extremely helpful, and my mother patiently used to listen to my ideas, even though she couldn't really understand what an alpha release is.

I actually found some minor advantages of being a single founder. For instance - you get the flexibility to travel around and relocate if you want. But the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages.

In programmerspeak - I felt being a single founder instead of having a co-founder is somewhat like writing a web application in C++ instead of Rails. It's harder, though not impossible. And you learn a lot more about yourself and your limits.
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You could have said that about relationships 10 years ago.

Disclaimer: happily married to a woman I met on match.com 7 years ago.
Solar cells work the same way: they capture a narrow frequency, and throw the rest away.

More accurately, below the frequency cutoff they ignore the light, above the cutoff any, extra energy is wasted as heat.

And plants don't need a narrow frequency anyway.
I agree with you that the reason many proponents of structural believe it is that it is consistent with their existing ideas about free markets and such, but that doesn't necessarily discredit it. There were bubbles that popped in finance and construction. This should produce a surplus of labour in these areas that needs to be absorbed.

I'm not an expert, but I don't think that a structural unemployment explanation is necessarily incompatible with with Keynes. Keynes talks about sticky prices disrupting the classical economic reallocation of resources. This would make sense especially for labour. If you need to go from an 80k job in finance to a 40k job in retail, you would probably be very reluctant and meanwhile be unemployed. That's, to the best of my understanding, a structural explanation.
Fun note: the composer of the music is the same guy that wrote the music for this game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_(video_game)
Any other things people want in the right panel?
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A more complete explanation than I can give: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/09/14/trillium-wa...

Basically, it's submitting hidden sell orders at a high price, and submitting a lot of visible buy orders in the hopes that other people pile on and bid the price up to your sell order. It's market manipulation, and it wouldn't even work if you DOSed other people's computers. The goal is to fool them into filling your orders at unfavorable prices - a DOS would simply shut them down.
I'd like access to the pretty right panel ;)
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Is the fact that Intel is testing the market for this a sign of fabrication processes having improved to the point where yields have outgrown the binning process?

Then again, here's a thought: This test marketing is being done with ancient-architecture Pentium chips. Perhaps this is a consequence of fabricating these chips with less-dense architectures on equipment built for the tolerances required by the latest generation. I don't know enough about the process to say for sure, but I could imagine this resulting in a significant improvement in yields compared to the Pentium's heyday (or to Core i7 chips today).
I'll second that :)
So you're saying that IBM got their representitives to do more than necessary to cover up the fact that the upgrade as just a flip of a switch? That they were conscious of what their customers would think - business customers that are probably far more understanding of this type of arrangement than the average consumer?

The fact that we know it's been going on a while means nothing to the average consumer. Crippling of CPUs used to be magic that happened at the chip fabs that only people connected to the industry knew about. Now consumers are being openly told that their chips have been crippled in software, and if they pay more, that magical switch will be flipped.

I don't know if there'll be a big backlash or not, but this is not business as usual. Intel's small step forward has suddenly made the pratice visible.
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It's hard to get the point of this presentation seeing only the slides. Would you mind sharing some background information?
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As recently as five years ago, IBM would do a mainframe deal sort of like this: You get X MIPS available, but only YY% of those MIPS will be turned on with the option of turning on additional computing power during the period of the deal. There was no pretense that the hardware wasn't already present.
#2 was what sold me on AR. It makes you look like a wizard, which makes for a very compelling demo.
All mainstream US politicians are fairly right wing.
When you look at quotes on Yahoo Finance, you are not looking at the whole quotebook. The whole quotebook lists the whole bid side and ask side. e.g.,

Bid Size Bid Ask Ask Size
100 4 4.02 50
50 3.99 4.03 200

The whole quotebook could stretch quite long depending on the numbers of buyers and sellers on the market. Algo's and human traders use the quote books to analyze sell or buy interest. For example, if the quote book has a lot of bid size and very little ask size, it means that there are a lot of buyers than sellers which could prompt traders to buy the stock at a much more expensive price in hopes that the stock will go up due to the demand.

However, what Trillium did was that they stuffed the quote book with a bunch of buy orders just slightly out of money to make for the appearance of more buy interest. e.g.,

Bid Size Bid Ask Ask Size
100 4 4.02 50
50 3.99 4.03 200
300 3.98*
300 3.98*
300 3.97*

Other algo machines or human traders will now jump to buy the stock at $4.02 (which Trillium is short selling) in hopes that the buy side's demand will propel the stock past $4.02. But what happens next as soon Trillium short sells $4.02, they will cancel the bid orders. Now the buy-side interest is back to normal, un-inflated side and whoever bought the stock at the inflated price is left holding the bag. The pricing of stock will go down due to reduced buy interest, Trillium buys to cover at $4, netting $0.02/share profit.
I am genuinely interested in references for available arable land in Africa vs China & India.
It's still their hardware.

That's true, but I think that's the smaller problem. Owning and using hardware built for fraud (presumably banks ordinarily provide merchants with the real ones) would be a serious crime that only outright criminals commit. With credit cards you need to worry about the marginal criminals.
No background in optics, physics or serious photography, but I am curious: What sorts of effects or "feel" does an ancient lens like this typically generate, and why? For instance, will the lens elongate, fade, or gather microscopic pitting?
I am a part time single founder of www.socialadmanager.com and a part-time co-founder (adult site). I have found that it helps not only in terms of working on the product at a faster pace but things just get done at a must faster pace in general as a single founder.

As a single founder if users are complaining about something then I am the only one there to fix it so the most important things (the ones being bitched about the most) always get done first and if it needs to be implemented as a product feature I don't have to discuss things with people like i do at work.

At work everyone wants to feel as if their opinion matters even if it does not. We have to get a consensus on things and trade emails, phone calls, text messages etc... just to get a simple feature out the door or any similar task.

I can just get in and fucking do it. We spend so much time at work justifying shit to morons that want to play devils advocate or salesmen that are asking for random things that they don't even really understand.

As a single founder when I develop I keep in mind that I will need to maintain and manage this feature myself so it is mandatory that all features have proper test and administration tools that facilitate this. Then if and when something happens I can quickly deal with it and move on to something else.

At work I am usually outvoted since we all agreed to do "group product development" (Note: this was done to ensure the authenticity of the site within its niche (xxx)). Even though I make sure we have test the maintenance portion is usually seen as a luxury so we go without until something fucks up. At that time a day or so is spent paralyzed by indecision and a few more asking how to fix the issue with minimal impact to users blah blah blah it eventually gets done but its never smooth.

Oddly enough I think that one place being a single founder also helps is in customer service. I always make sure that every one gets an answer to their questions. And 2 (or half lol) of my agency clients actually have my cell phone number and call me whenever they really need something important or right now. Some people would think thats lame but what I have found is that it makes me focus on what the most common things people call me about are and work them into the product asap so that I don't have to be involved in the task.

Anyway... this is just my two cents.
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This isn't how pricing works. Prices track value (in the abstract) and the market (in reality); unless the good we're discussing is sorghum, prices don't track costs.

If pricing did work this way, Photoshop Elements would have cost the same as Photoshop.
From a UI perspective, just my opinion, the site is somewhat obnoxious. First of all, you have to sign up to see what the site is all about. Then, when I tried to leave feedback, it required me to give my credentials (Twitter, Google, MSN, etc). This is bad UX... it doesn't allow me to get a sample of the site easily.
Same. FWIW, here are all the clickable links in the presentation:

http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

http://shellhaters.heroku.com/posix

http://twitter.com/rtomayko

http://github.com/rtomayko

http://man.cx/
Just a thought: when I say "flat" against a wall, I don't literally mean the curtains should lay flat. Leave an inch or so from the wall if you can and let them have folds, like normal curtains. It can look very elegant. I just bought solid color sheets (no patterns).

Good luck.
I guess it makes it easier to fit crazy programs into a single tweet ;-)
Just because it has a restriction built in doesn't necessarily mean it comes with an EULA, or that finding a way to enable or otherwise modify the hardware to your whim is illegal in any way (although I'm sure Intel would take a run at the first grey-market unlocks)

As long as they are up front about the cost & features of the product I'm buying I don't care. As a consumer, I don't like this practice, it smells bad - but it's supply and demand. Intel can price their chips however they want, it's up to them to price them in a way that's the most profitable for them - it's not like they have no competition.
This is ridiculous. There have been less "alleged" cases with vaccine caused autism than there are deaths by swimming pool accidents in kids. The greater good must be served, EVEN IF IT DID CAUSE AUTISM in a super ultra rare instance.

Vaccinations are important. End of story.
There's plenty of training available once you're in a company, because most companies understand that there's a large cost to losing an employee who's proven that they are intelligent, have a good work ethic, and are easy to work with.

There's very little appetite for training new workers until they've proven those same things.

In essence, on the job training might be in short supply, but on the job retraining is not.
Wow, if speaking names of colors is such a huge deal to him, imagine how he'd feel about an app that could read text aloud using the camera!

I wonder if you could also make an app that would generate sounds from the camera in a way that would allow a blind person to "see" with their ears. What if you took a line across the image and used the intensities as input to an inverse FFT, what would that sound like?
having a 5ft. cable to the exchange trading server vs. a 7ft. cable is a competitive advantage

Incidentally, light travels this far in one clock cycle for a 2GHz processor. I have a feeling that the interrupt handling machinery and the network card and the Layer 2 and Layer 3 inefficiencies add more latency than two feet of Ethernet cable, though. (But I guess a pair of scissors is cheaper than a processor fab.)

The HFT world reminds me a lot of the audiophile world. Sure, two feet of Cat-5 cable introduces measurable latency. Sure, using 1% tolerance resistors instead of 0.001% tolerance resistors affects the performance of your amplifier.

Whether or not this makes any difference in the real world, though... nobody ever has the answer to that question.
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Clicking on this broke my iphone's Safari.
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"artificially increasing prices" - if the market, which has heavy competition, will bear the price increase, then there is nothing artificial about it - prices are not a fixed amount - intel is free to sell every single chip at a different price if the market will bear it.

Think of the logic. You want to produce a low end and a high end chip - because that's what the market is eating up. It's cheaper to have one fabrication process rather than two.... and suddenly, instead of busted, inferior chips being sold as lower end chips, we have the same chips in the same market niche, with the possibility of a simple software update to enable the high end features. It might smell funny at first, but as long as they are up-front about it, it's just business.
IIRC, intel chips have had software modifiable microcode (or some portion thereof) that could render them useless for a good 10 years or more.
I agree. I have been at Etsy since the (relatively) early days and despite what the post says the office was pretty much the same, except in a crappier Brooklyn neighborhood. It didn't take more employees or more money to have a great DIY space.
I'm hitting a paywall for this article...washing it through google seems to have done the trick:

http://www.google.com/search?q=just+manic+enough
Yup - which is why the unlock will just end up floating around out there for free, and the concept will just fall by the wayside as not market-worthy. Everyone and their dog will buy cheap chips and crank up the volume.
The clueful cryptographer would have said, "crypto doesn't work when you give the key to a bunch of no-name companies in China".
These are the slides from a presentation given by Ryan Tomayko at this years GoGaRuCo (Golden Gate Ruby Conference).
Is there a tool that sends webpages to my kindle?
Just got a kindle, and would like to move some of my reading offline.

I would love to have a tool that allows me to just paste the URLs for the articles I want, and it emails it to my kindle email address.

Any ideas?
We all have to be a little bit broken to do this, when we could sleepwalk our way to six figures at an insurance company and be done at five.
Practically guaranteed someone will, in no time flat, figure out how to unlock these, and that knowledge will be spread far and wide. There will be a run on the stores for the cheap versions of the chips for this reason, mostly for the home/small shop busines, and then Intel won't do it anymore.
It is a huge problem hidden by the fact that we have been getting around it for so long. These are the worst sort of problems to recognize because their cost doesn't manifest directly (merchants steal money) but in various costs incurred to prevent it.

- Consumers are picky about who they give their cc to online. They sometimes buy from second best sources due to these concerns. This also favours the established players at the expense of innovation.

- Banks/CC companies always favour consumers and always chargeback merchants for alleged fraud. This means merchants are careful who they sell to. They spend resources vetting clients (I had a client that sold phones who called every client to confirm orders - this is not abnormal). They don't sell to marginal customers (the margin is often 'outside the country'). This hurts merchants and consumers.

- Banks/CC companies spend lots of resources dealing with & preventing fraud. This manifests in higher processing fees & higher interest rates. This hurts consumers and merchants.
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How long will it be before this software is cracked and Intel has to think harder about this stuff?

Also: IBM did the same kind of thing beginning in the 1960s with System/360 and System/370 mainframes, but I think there may have generally been hardware modifications involved.
In a well-functioning market every vendor would be frantically scrambling to improve value minus cost, because the delta between the two is the upper bound on their profit. But being in a market with very few competitors and ridiculously high barriers to entry gives Intel the luxury of incurring minor costs to decrease the value they offer, without seeing anyone immediately undercut them on it. If you could run a chip fab in your garage, you wouldn't see price discrimination ploys succeeding.
Hah! Letting the cat out of the bag. Don't you think letting people onto DMA brokers with execution speed close to your own prop shop is doing yourself a disservice?
Letting any third party have the ability to put stuff on the right panel would be awesome, even if it would lead to FarmVille on Twitter pretty quickly...
This is a bit like saying that every city in the US is fairly warm.

Yes, if you compare them to McMurdo Station in Antarctica, they are. Relative to each other, there are warm cities in the US, and cold cities in the US; Minneapolis, while not nearly as cold as McMurdo Station, is cold by US standards.

Similarly, while US politicians may all be "right wing" in comparison to their European equivalents, there are most certainly politicians who, in the relevant context, are not.
You're right, there's no need for undergraduate textbooks to be nearly as big and as heavy as they are -- they merely got that way in order to justify their enormous pricetags. With a book like Tipler I'm pretty sure the material could be rewritten in a book half the size.

Physics textbooks rapidly get smaller and lighter the more advanced the material gets, though.
Exactly. Actually, I haven't yet seen a scenario where ssh agent forwarding is useful. It always increases the risks: the machine you're forwarding to may be compromised, and in case it is, your private key is not private anymore. And the attacker who gets your key gets instant access to all other machines you access with that key. How is it worth it? Why would anyone bet the [server] farm on that when you can easily use "ssh -L" or something to forward your ssh connections without exposing your key? Beats me.
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Students in intro economics courses (in American universities) already are taught this. Most microeconomics courses will have a lesson about how during the Depression, farmers were paid to destroy crops in the field, to reduce the supply of them and raise the price of commodities. Or how today, farmers are incentivized to convert their crops to non-productive uses like biodiesel to keep the price high.

The formation of Standard Oil in the 1880s was a reaction to ruinous overproduction of oil, and its effect was to control and restrict the flow of oil onto the market to maintain prices. Same with the OPEC cartel today.

That people don't already know this says more about the educational system than the economic system. Then again, the educational system is itself a monopoly that seeks to restrict the flow of information so that it keeps itself relevant.
I doubt you'll see this since the thread is old, but you aren't making a valid comparison.

You could not have realistically have 300k wives at the same time, but you could have 300k customers.

What you're saying goes completely against any type of advertising or promotional model that I am aware of. This is why there is more than just Cost Per Acquisition ad models.
My money's on that this lens is a Cooke Triplet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooke_triplet which was (and is) a fairly neutral lens design.

There is some astigmatic aberration as well as vignetting visible in the photos provided, but it's possible that this lens was intended for a smaller image circle than 24x36 sensor in the 5DmkII. All lenses will have astigmatic aberration and vignetting at the edge of their image circle (which is normally outside the photographic media the image is being projected onto).

This lens is uncoated and highly susceptible to lens flare. As I understand it, many lenses before the 4-element Zeiss Tessar also tend to have more pronounced flare than later lens formulas. You can really see this in some of the photos.

Overall, it's neat little lens and I would shoot it in a heartbeat. It looks very sharp in the center with gentle fall-off near the edges. The owner could go a long way to get the most out of it by crafting a little lens hood for it -- it really helps with older lenses like this.