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Part of it is the advertiser tunnel-vision thing I've seen where you get ad people saying things like "People will be eager to opt-in to our fantastic savings and they like to be aware of the newest prices and products. Hey... why is almost nobody opting in?"
Who uses IE6 on XP? Pirated copies of XP? That's bizarre.
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Actually, as a non-user of both, I didn't know there was a difference; until your comment, I though Sun had used the other D for dtrace. I know the difference between Java and Javascript, but even those languages' names continue to confuse people (usually non-programmers). Not to stomp on Go!, but one significant difference here is that both Java and Javascript have wide user-bases.

I believe Firefox went through two name-changes after the project's initial kick-off, but the Mozilla Foundation is hardly a 900-pound gorilla. This kind of sucks for Go!'s creator (and was a bit sloppy for Google Go's creators), but it's hard to tell Google where to sit.
I'll ask a friend if I think it's something they'll enjoy talking about.
"(he has cultivated a particularly drama-heavy collection of fans online), but they are Reznor-specific, not endemic to the whole Internet."

Are you looking at the same internet as I am?

(Reznor's drama heavy fans are Reznor-specific, but drama heavyness in general _is_ the internet, if you look at it the right way...)
You're saying that Chargify should say "We're on the verge of death -- here's the stats, our current path is clearly not sustainable, we're hemorrhaging money on our worst customers" to help with their customer retention for a component which is mission critical? That would not be the tact I would take. One whiff of instability and the best clients will be out the door, because downtime costs them actual money. The only people who would stay are the ones for whom $100 is expensive compared to their ability to charge customers going down unexpectedly. In other words, terrible customers who you can't base a business on.

I've mentioned a time or two that one of the benefits of charging more money is that it scares away pathological customers. A business which wants telephone support for their credit card processing systems integration and is not willing to pay $100 is virtually a textbook pathological customer.

(If it needs saying: I am a bootstrapper. I love boostrappers. Many of us are pathological customers with unreasonable expectations.)
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I won't be surprised if he turns out to be the Chav that he is described here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2003/jul/17/art.artsf...
That people used to believe the world was flat. Then I went to college and got my mind blown AGAIN when I learned that this "fact" was actually a blatant lie.
Yes, exactly. I thought the same thing. "Finally, there's someone out there who understands the needs of a bootstrapping, young business". But apparently it was a scam. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.

There's no way Chargify would have the customer base they have now having launched with these pricing plans from day one. With the several other options out there, someone starting out with nothing would NOT choose to pay $100/month right off the bat, without even considering hosting costs and merchant/gateway costs, knowing there are other options out there for $19/month. I'm happy for them that their "too good to be true" pricing sucked in some customers, but it sure does suck for us.

The attitude that "there will always be cheaper options out there, but we won't be one of them" is a far cry from how it was early on. It used to be "we understand, and offer the best pricing around". It was so relaxing to know that $50/month would get you up to 500 customers, with 49 of them being at no charge (even 10-15 at no charge would be great). Coming from that, no, $39/month for as little as 1 customer does not feel like a good deal, unfortunately. Downgraded from $100, maybe, upgraded from $0, no.

I'm truly shocked the old prices aren't going to be grandfathered in.

I think I'm going to bite the bullet and (re-)integrate with someone else. Ugh.
There's a lot more risk from the company's point of view in this case than from the investor's.
Maybe no one you know. Try looking for a job doing C, and wading through the confused recruiters. I die a little every time I see "C/C++/C#" in a posting. (To say nothing of the ones calling "Ruby on Rails" a language.)
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Yes, I responded in that thread - the thing is, drilling through rock is much easier than tunneling through sand/mud. See my comment there for more detail.
That we have all evolved from some very simple single-cellular ancestor that lived billions years ago and everything that happens to us on a biological level is encoded in the DNA.
I have a completely unfounded theory about the Gap. :)

Through the last fifteen years their pattern has been two to four great years followed by two disappointing years. They'll do well for several years with basic khakis, denim, t-shirts, polos, etc. Then they'll try to stretch into trendier, more daring fashions and have a couple poor years before going back to basics.

I get the feeling that the kind of people who go to work at Gap, Inc. love fashion and style and are sort-of bothered by the stodgy products they sell. They really want to be Gucci or Ralph Lauren, but their customer base won't let them. In the same way, I wonder if the stodgy logo chafed against their idea of a hip, fashionable company image.
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The why would be useful but I would hardly say it is pointless. For example I understand the theories but I'm light on details given I have never implemented an encryption algorithm.

Hmmm weekend project?
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Meanwhile, thousand of lives will be lost every year because we do not embrace this technology with speed.

It's insane that society does not embrace the technology, even with all the authoritarian risks.(autonomous cars will probably make tyranny more efficient, but at that point we're doomed anyway)

I hope somebody is dedicated to the task of speeding societal acceptance.

Maybe somebody should create organizations like "Parents for Autonomous Driving" and mobilize public opinion in favor of autonomous technology.
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Logic paradoxes always did (and still do) blow my mind:

1: The farther out in space you look, the farther back in time you are seeing. If you could look back all the way to the big bang, you would be looking (billions of miles away) at the inside of a universe about the size of a grape fruit (or whenever super-inflation was supposed to start).

2. You cannot move. In order to move between A and B, you must first move half way between the two. etc.

3. Some people "invest" in the lotto.
Please don't call me son, I'm not your kid nor am I a kid.

> With continual slight inflation, in order to keep up, society is pressured to keep expanding exponentially.

True, but this assumes no corrections, like the one we're currently in. Ideally there'd be no inflation or deflation, but that's just not practical as wealth is not fixed nor can the money supply be. So the balancing act either tries to stay centered or slightly to one side or the other.

> continual slight deflation is the best option.

Deflation increases the value of my debt load putting me in deeper and deeper and reduces the value of my assets; how is that good? Deflation increases the value of saved cash. If anything, that sounds way worse for the poor than slight inflation. If I'm rich I just keep all my wealth in cash and steal from the poor via deflation.

Under continual inflation, I can't do that, I have to convert my wealth into hopefully appreciating assets-and I could easily bet wrong-and the poor have continually decreasing debt as long salaries keep up with inflation. Sounds like a better deal to me.

> Deflation is the natural order of things,

That's not an argument, being natural doesn't equal being good.

> Anything more inflationary than natural deflation (of course society will go through occasional inflationary bouts) is effectively stealing the fruits of societal progress from the poor, and reappropriating it to the rich or politically connected.

You assert that, but I don't see any proof or evidence of it. You've shown me why you think inflation is bad, but now why you think deflation is good; you just assert it is.
If you are considering buying one of the servers listed at the above geeks.com link, take care in doing so.

The ones for < $890 are running NetBurst Xeons ... which means, at the youngest, they're nearly 4 1/2 years old.

The one at $890 uses a Xeon 5120 which at least gets you into the Core Xeon era, but you're still looking at a more than 4 year old processor.

If you are going to cheap-out, at least do yourself a favor and buy something low-end-but-new from somewhere like Dell. You can pick up a new PowerEdge T110 from Dell for $400 which comes with a only-released-a-year-ago Xeon X3430 which is going to be about 3 times faster than that Xeon 5120. Plus you're going to have a faster FSB, memory, drives, networking, modern interface to upgrade with, etc.

If you're looking at spending $1k/yr for colocating your server, make it worth it by co-loc-ing a server that's not 5 years old.
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I work in IT at a health network; specifically doing compliance, audit and IT security. We have to keep logs for decades from every system used to "transmit, store or process ePHI." A LOT of time is spent chasing shadows when a patient thinks someone might have looked at their record.

Sure there are people who abuse the system but more time is spent on the false positives. Usually there is an innocent reason someone knows why the concerned patient was in the hospital; like they were shopping for baby clothes and put on a lot of weight recently.

With changes in HITECH the requirements for reporting are going to get broader, increasing the cost. Some of this can be planned for but much of it is just man hours to gather, report and store information.

The longest case I have been involved with is just over 2 years of litigation against a physician. The physician was found innocent but all of the emails, medical records, voice mails, etc that might pertain to that specific situation have to be preserved. Access logging is the largest use of disk space in our organization; around several GB per day.

For a hosting organization there is less to save, but there is also additional work in isolating systems. We have a significant investment in datacenter operations and lease the EMR out to specialty practices in our area. Most of the effort with external organizations is talking to their auditor of choice to prove that our systems are secure and isolated, running reports to show who has access to their data or what people did and the extra process to verify each change that affects their information or part of the system. Some of the extra steps are to address Accounting for Disclosures.
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"Go [rising intonation]"?
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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...
This isn't the "Ovarian Lottery" Warren Buffet talks about. I doubt anything I say could get through to someone clearly after troll bait and offering no insight.

Each of us worked harder than most people who complain about being slighted by the hand of fate. I started working on the farm when I was 10 and continued helping out until I was 19. It ranks below minimum wage. As for my parents, you think that chastising their frugality and having a paid for house within their means is something to mock? Really?

Farming ranks as one of the 10 most dangerous occupations; you can be injured in pretty much any way imaginable. In fact my father was. Once while my brother was in high-school and again when I was. We each did our part staying home from school running things until my father was recovered on both counts. Trust me, 1.2 million over the course of 30 years isn't as much as it would seem.
> Do you think they have janitors on their payroll on full time basis? I don't think so.

Absolutely they do. Most (all?) schools in NYC have (at least) a full-time custodial engineer and a full-time janitor. And they do a heck of a lot more than mop the floor.

>Why can I not see a simple, easy to see employees and budget numbers.

Because the NYC Dept of Ed. is one of the largest and most complicated bureaucracies anywhere, simply by virtue of what it does. There are more students in the NYC public school system than there are people in almost every other major city in America. Add to this the fact that each principal has a fair amount of autonomy in how the school's budget is spent, and breaking out costs system wide becomes a much harder problem than it at first sounds.

I would also point out that besides janitors, IT staff, etc, there are also a ton of staff who work directly with students but still aren't teachers: para-professionals, social workers, guidance counselors, the list goes on and on.
Oracle's patents and trademarks.
This is a big annoyance of mine too. Reddit actually seems to have solved this problem, but I'm not sure how.
The issue I'd have with this setup is reception. In our Hospital there are a lot of places with little or no reception; Radiology and Lab are two main examples. Due to all of the lead they have around there is no signal.

We had looked at iPhones for CC processing over cellular networks, but the lack of a consistent signal killed that. Which sucks because that would have been much easier and cheaper as a temporary solution than what we are doing now.
The differentiating factor over the typical webcam software is the fact that the data is stored in the cloud, and can be retrieved and replayed at any time, right?

If you want to get a lot of eyeballs looking at it, what about finding something that people will watch, will want to "rewind", and will want to share?

People love puppies, so what about finding a local breeder and asking them if they'd mind having a camera there in return for showcasing them? And allow people to watch not only the current streaming version, but the old archived footage and vote & share their favourite moments? It doesn't have to be puppies, but anything that people enjoy watching... though population that might be looking at puppies might have overlaps with, say, population that might have kids and may be in the market for a nanny-cam or something...
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Google's Dalvik VM is specifically designed for mobiles. Presumably a lot of the engineering trade-offs made in light of that would make Dalvik relatively weak on servers. So I'm not sure Dalvik would be a great starting point for Google to fork Java.

Having said that, Google are heavily reliant on the Java platform, so they must have at least considered how they can protect the platform if necessary. Could they fork OpenJDK? Or at least support a fork? They certainly have the resources to do it, and Oracle's early moves don't bode well for a cooperative solution, so I wouldn't be surprised. Perhaps they will use the current litigation as a test re: the possible patent issues, although by the time that is resolved it may be too late to make a move...
Oracle relies heavily on Java for their enterprise products (including the custom business logic that their consultants write for customers). Oracle has a deep vested interest in Java, however, so do their competitors. They may just be trying to put it on a shorter leash.
They're not frustrated, they're engrossed. So engrossed the phone falls into a toilet and he picks it right back out to keep typing. Did he watch the ad carefully? If there's an mis-association to be made, it's with addictive phone usage, not frustration. Not exactly the worst association you could make.

I find the ad dangerous for exactly the opposite reason: it's like MS is promoting a phone that you won't enjoy using too much, so you want to spend as little time on it as possible. This aligns fairly well with my experience with Office and Windows products.
Yes, one they outgrow with each wedding.
No, there's a time and place for inheritance, just not as often as composition.
A system built from scratch can meet HIPAA, and HITECH, without much more than good security. The issue is often with companies that give security an afterthought or have older software that needs to be "made secure."

The key to that link is encryption; it gets Amazon off the hook for a lot of things.
Most recently I found out that the Russian Salyut 3 space station (whos missions were to take 3" resolution pictures of the US) had a cannon mounted on the bottom of it. Not only was there a machine gun in space, but it was fired too.
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Yes. I can't help thinking that if I was Google, I would be working on an alternative language that compiles directly to Dalvik bytecode as fast as I could. Heck, I'd probably just be grabbing something like Go and throwing 10 pHDs at it.

This would help them in many many ways. Firstly it would demonstrate to the courts that Dalvik is not specifically a Java VM. This clears them of several legal challenges (still leaving some).

Secondly and more importantly, it would up the stakes with Oracle tremendously. Having Google actually abandon Java on Android due to legal concerns would be a huge blow to Java. Especially if Google did so in a way that enabled existing Java applications to be ported easily (by adopting the Apache Harmony libraries, utilizing their existing dexer to enable people to run their existing Java code while picking up Google's replacement language for new code). They'd have to work around any patent violations in the VM which might have some performance impact but I'd still assume it is possible.

It would basically change the game to a lose-lose proposition for Oracle - win the court case, get some money, but lose Java. Lose the court case, effectively still lose control of Java.
That's not really true though. I used the Windows 7 Phone -- I thought it was pretty good. I think the App market model in Win7 is far better than the app market model in Android. It can't promote number of apps but I use maybe 10 applications on my iPhone.

Integration with Xbox Live kicks the crap out of the iPhone and Android.

The user interface is pretty good and innovative. At least you can't accuse them of ripping Apple off.

Overall I think it's a pretty good phone offering. Personally I'm a happy iPhone user and I don't see myself switching anytime soon but I don't think spreading FUD is being intellectually honest.
A 2 hour commute? Each way or total? Unless you are hard up for cash or this is the most amazing opportunity ever, this is a waste of your time. Find something closer.
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It's interesting to try and position a smartphone towards people who hate obsessive smartphone users. I don't think that's the best positioning, though.

Microsoft has the power to keep crapware off of Windows phones and the Windows Phone UI seems better designed than Android, at least aesthetically. They're also on networks other than AT&T, which is their competitive advantage against Apple. So at least until a Verizon iPhone comes out Windows can sell WP7 on those merits. Upon getting that beachhead, they can beat Apple in third-party apps by not being dicks to their developers.
I've always wondered how much of this would be possible with just a standard stereo recording. Does anyone have an idea?
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Windows Mobile 7...yay?
A little more context, over here:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2010-10-...

eMusic's change page is blocked off for members only, but here's what it says. Both the above article and the blurb for subscribers are written with lots of PR-ese.

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Coming soon! eMusic’s largest catalog addition ever along with a new way to price music

eMusic’s mission has always been to provide our members with a deep and broad selection of music at the best possible value. So we’re thrilled to announce that this November we will be adding more than 250,000 tracks to eMusic!

The additions include classic hip-hop albums on the Def Jam label; groundbreaking, forward-thinking rock music on Geffen and Interscope; giants of jazz on the Verve and ECM labels; a wealth of classical music from the standard bearers Deutsche Grammophon and Decca Records; hard-hitting alt-country on Lost Highway; timeless R&B from the Motown label, and much, much more! It will be the single largest catalog addition to eMusic by far, and it comes thanks to a recent agreement with Universal Music Group.

In order to continue to grow our catalog and to insure a sustainable business in the long term, we need more flexible pricing. So we are changing from today’s credit-per-track system to currency pricing. Your membership will continue just as it is today and your monthly payments will not change. But starting in November, you’ll see tracks and albums priced in dollars and cents instead of credits.

New pricing in a nutshell

Under the new currency pricing system, eMusic members will enjoy savings of 20%-50% compared to iTunes a la carte prices. The majority of albums on eMusic will be priced from $5.19 - $8.99. Single track pricing for members will vary as follows:
$0.49 for most tracks currently in our catalog
$0.69 - $0.79 for more popular content
$0.89 for tracks that generally sell for $1.29 at iTunes
We won’t know where specific titles (or exactly how many) will fall in the categories above until November. But we think you’ll find that eMusic still offers the best deal out there on a consistent basis. For more on pricing, read The new pricing in detail.

Your monthly loyalty bonus

To thank you for being an eMusic member, a special loyalty bonus will be added to your account each month. The bonus level depends on the plan you are in. For more details regarding your new membership plan see the Your Plan info on the right.

eMusic today, eMusic tomorrow

We want to assure you that the heart of eMusic is not changing. As we grow our catalog, we’ll continue to profile records we find interesting or important, regardless of whether they've sold 4 or 4 million copies.

By growing our catalog our aim is to also grow our member base, which in turn will help fund improvements to the service. See A look at the future of eMusic for details on some of the good things to come.

Read on to get more details about the new catalog, the new pricing and how this affects your account. We want to hear your thoughts about the changes, please take a few minutes to share your feedback on a MEMBER SURVEY.
"They really want to be Gucci or Ralph Lauren, but their customer base won't let them."

The second part matches my high school experience. As someone who grew up in Connecticut, I didn't even own a pair of blue jeans between 6th grade and college. And the first part definitely makes sense as well.
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They are pacifying everybody before pulling a MySpace and coming up with a logo that really expresses "creativity":

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I'm pretty sure the number theory involved in the "why" is over most peoples' head.
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