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I know that the main char is from CT, I was just wondering if someone had a free rendering of him, or it was simply a SNES rip.
Even with NoScript, Ghostery, AdBlock, Flashblock and Beef Taco installed, it still takes forever to load/render. Possibly the worse example of this type of site I've seen.
My parents both can speak a little of the language though they're not turkish at all. The overcharging of tourists there is ridiculous (in Istanbul at least). You pay a much higher price as a foreigner than any local. So it's possible you got a very high mark-up on the tea that paid for the spoons.
Obligatory: http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/01/28/maven-adoption-curve/
You really only need to do that once.
Probably West somewhere on University Ave. But East Palo Alto may be more representative of the average population.
Ubuntu 10.10 Released
Chalk that one up to talent acquisition. Nobody buys a company and then closes it if what they want is to develop the product; they buy it and close it when what they want is the talent solely focused on their own, in-house projects.

Which is fine. It just begs the question:

How much would someone have to pay you to drown X months of development work and your entire userbase in the Deadpool?

It's an interesting question. For how many people is a buyout, a 9 - 5 job, and some 0s in the bank account a desirable, worthwhile exit strategy? How many 0s does it take to make an option that's viable into one that's desirable?
Although I do not disagree with what is being said here, do not overlook the fact that Nintendo, as content distributor (WiiWare) and arbitre of several distribution platforms have a vested interest in downplaying the role of piracy. They are certainly not an impartial observer.
I'm not sure I fully agree with your Japan example. The Japanese are pretty fixed in how they do customer service (which has its negatives as well I understand), but often they do it better than any other place I've been. 2 quick examples:

1. Even at places like McDonalds the cashiers are incredibly friendly and attentive. They even bring the food to you if you go sit down.

2. At the exit to a car garage I lived near, there would be a worker who would take your ticket from you as you pull up to the exit, and put it in a machine. He would treat you like a king.
I'm not really sure what generalisations like yours bring to the table. I mean I've only been to maybe 5 or 6 states in the US, but I know that a city in Maine is so completely different from somewhere like New York or Boston which themselves are completely different from, say, Orlando or Las Vegas. So trying to make generalisations that hold for all 50 states in the US is even more ridiculous.

I guess an analogy is that Turkey is in Europe, and being a European it would be very easy for me to say "the service in the US is way superior to the service I get in Europe" and then I could add "but at least in Europe I don't get someone telling me how much I should tip when I get the bill like I did in America." But the truth is that the tipping culture is nowhere in America that I've visited like it is in New York and the standard attitude is actually very similar to the UK, which itself is way different to somewhere like Italy or Germany. But hey, let's not let the truth get in the way of a good discussion that is rooted in anecdotal evidence.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the service you receive is based on a lot of things, the least of which is the country you are in. In fact the most important part of how well you judge the service you receive is you and your expectations. That is something I realised from similar 'anecdotal discussions' with my fellow Europeans when I rave about the service I receive in the US - "they would never let your beer glass go empty for an hour like they do here!" - "yet but they also come over to interrupt you every 5 minutes to ask you if everything is okay.. when I need something, I will ask for it!"
Yes, but if you want anything that's not part of the script, it's never going to happen.
AUP = Acceptable use policy? I'm beginning to hate acronyms from the bottom of my heart.
I notice then when reading about Nvidia. Officially, since about five years ago, they've decided that the proper written form is NVIDIA. It seems shouty and aggressive.
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More than a content distributor, Nintendo is a major developer (via its numerous first-party studios) and publisher. While not an impartial observer, their businesses would peg them on the side of "any piracy is a problem" more than "piracy is not a problem".
Shell companies will have people on the board as well. If it was that easy to have a corporate cover for a an illegal business there would be many more than there are today.

Drug trade and other illegal stuff is 'cash only' for a reason, you don't want a paper trail.

And places that hand out IP numbers to unknown MAC addresses should get a better network administrator.
What site is it?
He should just use Zsh, rather than wasting his time rewriting shell one liners in Perl.
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Got one. Nice hardware. Still waiting for the firmware update to fix GPS (completely shot) and WLAN (locks up frequently, requiring a reboot).

It has been promised for September. Now it's promised for October.

The eventual execution of this update will be the deciding factor over whether this has merely been my first samsung phone or also my last.

The otherwise splendid hard- and software can't mitigate the fact that the device has shipped with not one but two critical features being defective. That shouldn't happen in a flagship device like the Galaxy. And when it happens then it shouldn't take upwards of 3 months for a fix. Get your act together Samsung, quick.
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isn't the "frequency" perl script the same as "sort | uniq -c" ?
There hasn't been a better media player since Amarok 1.4, and it's no longer in the repository :-(. Even Pana and Clementine which aim to be remakes of Amarok 1.4 fail to meet all of the nice subtleties. And we all know what a piece of shit Amarok 2.x is...
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Ah you're right, thanks. In fact dist-upgrade should be avoided since it can apparently break dependencies.

After a little digging, the command line to upgrade to the newest Ubuntu version is:

%> sudo apt-get update

%> sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

%> sudo do-release-upgrade
Is it just me, or are there no release notes?
I'm in. I have 3 little apps I'm working on. I'll pick one and run with it.
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Your "buy now" looks a bit funky on Opera on Linux, nothing huge, but you might want to get it fixed!
It was linked to in the release email at least: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1010
Basically the corporate "metal umlaut" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut).
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Torrents:

64 bit: http://burnbit.com/torrent/156840/ubuntu_10_10_desktop_amd64...

32 bit: http://burnbit.com/torrent/156841/ubuntu_10_10_desktop_i386_...

Please seed
Just having people tell you that you're being a dumbass isn't enough, you have to have the wits to realize they're right too (when they are!).

Colin obviously meant it metaphorically but further down in this thread he says he uses HN for that. The harder part is to listen and act upon advice.

HN can be easily ignored if what people there say is not to your liking, but with a co-founder that has put money on the table for their equity that would not be so easy.
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I agree with the author, but wasn't it a tad hypocritical to use the the "cute" spelling of "want to"? ("wanna")
I'm not sure that the homebrew scene is quite that heroic, sadly. The DSi came out over a year ago and there is still no practical way to run your own code in DSi mode, giving access to the camera, extra RAM, internal storage, improved Wi-fi, etc. There is a hack [1] to run code in DSi mode, but this has already been fixed in newer DSi and XL models.

IMO the reason this has not been cracked wide open is that there are not enough DSi-only commercial games to make it worthwhile for the folks that create cartridges used mainly for unauthorized copying. Being able to copy and run DS-only games is enough.

[1] http://davejmurphy.com/dsi-mode-homebrew-anyone/
Should Steve Jobs "man up" and kill the iPhone 4?
Would be very cool if you could make it work on the iPad as well!
The market is the only mechanism that can allocate scarce resources equitably.

The article is surprisingly good and mentions that the economic argument is not so clear cut because the demand is inelastic. People still need to drink whatever the price.

But if someone owns a resource, they have an interest in preserving it.

There is also anecdotal evidence given in the article that this doesn't automatically happen. Privatised water utilities have cut down on staff and maintenance in order to maximise profit (since maximising profit is their reason for existing).
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It's absolutely not appropriate to ask employees to work as well as actual co-founders. If you want them to work as well as co-founders, give them equity. Hell, I expect my employees to fight me for their rights, when I don't give them enough.

If you aren't going to pay your employees like co-founders, they should very well not work as cofounders.
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Single founder here (although I have a partner now) and I completely agree with everything you say, but I get the impression that Colin is happy with the way he's doing things. Otherwise he'd have changed it by now.

The fundamental tech works extremely well but is poor from a ux position. I don't think he needs a founder to fix this, he needs developers, a service manager and someone to handle marketing.
I hoped they would manage to make my wireless card work wirelessly. They didn't :(
That's not marketing, dude, that's some thin shreds of organic traffic. Perhaps you should listen to tptacek, wheels, jacquesm (and myself) and actually find someone who's competent at building a business, just as you are competent at building technology, and team up with them.

Would Steve Wozniak be considered successful by any metric if only 100 Apple computers had ever been sold? No. A business needs many things, of which a great product is only one. "Make something people want" implies you need people (enough of them) to actually want your product. If they've never heard of it or if they don't buy it because of some other reason, they don't want it. If only very few people buy your product, it's because it sucks on some important metrics.

Harsh reality: until you get your head out of your ass and bring in someone with the skills to turn your technology into a business, you don't even have one founder, because you don't really have a business at all... yet.
How can i update to the newest version from the 10.10 release candidate?
I agree computers will be able to drive much better than humans, and this transition will occur at some point--the question is, when? Is the 8 years mentioned in the article anywhere close to realistic? I don't think so.

Not only does the technology have to become better in the aggregate than humans, it has to become so much better there's aren't any crash situations where human drivers perform better. There also can't be many crash situations when the computer doesn't significantly outperform a human. Otherwise both public sentiment against the cars, and legal liability will be too great.

Imagine: whenever there's a software bug and an automated car crashes in any situation where a human might not have, the GoogleCar manufacturer will get sued, the local paper will write an article about how Google killed someone, etc. And then, once a year, there will be another story about how crashes are down 2%... that's a lot of lives saved, but which article do you think will get more attention? And do you think "our cars usually make driving safer, just not the night of October 10th when John was killed" will be a winning defense?

I can't wait for this technology, I think it really will deliver all the benefits the article mentions long-term. But it's a long way off (I hope I'm wrong). I give a lot of credit to Google for investing in it now--this is one of the things I read and think "don't be evil" is more than just marketing-speak.
I'm running JPK and it's much, much better.

Like you say - nice hardware but released with way too many bugs.
Makes sense - things like gconf and dsettings are fr developers, not end users. The main page has a what's new, I believe, which covers more common interests.
To be fair that applies to almost all parts of Japanese life from my experience.
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European stores have unpredictable hours and businesses there are always on vacation. The 24 hour culture of NY or Silicon Valley is a different kind of convenience and customer service: streamlined, modernized, and consistent rather than curious and idiosyncratic.
Turkey is a bit of an exception. Hospitality is a massive thing to them. I spend quite a bit of time in Istanbul and the retail service is unlike anything I've seen anywhere else.

You can walk into a tailors to buy a suit, they'll get you a chair, sit you down, bring you tea or coffee, sometimes sweets or cakes, bring everything to you, ask you what types of things you like, don't like, listen to it, make suggestions. It's an incredible experience. It's not just tailors either, most larger ticket places do this but almost everywhere does this on some scale.

If you ever get invited into a Turk's home, don't eat beforehand and don't forget to take your shoes off. It can be incredibly overwhelming but it's just a fundamental part of their culture.
Wooohoooo!! Welcome to the beautiful land of products that make money. It's a nice place to be!

Let me give you a little piece of advice-- unstealth yourself!

When we shipped Freckle, we had $1500 in monthly billing at the end of the first round of 30-day trials, because we put up a little teaser page just like this (for our 2nd SaaS product): http://charmde.sk/.

We had about 400 names on it, from tweeting and talking about it, and a pretty decent conversion rate on that. That headstart was worth at least $18k that year (and probably more, since our main factor for growth is word of mouth). We now have 320 names on the Charm list and that's a much narrower audience, so I think our actual rate of emails vs audience is even better.

Typically speaking, "stealth mode" doesn't do a lick of good for paying products. Most people are too stubborn to make a paying product to begin with, much less copy one that isn't out yet. On the other hand, people love the opportunity to put their name in for a new product that will help them -- and if you don't capture their email, they'll just forget about it.
You're absolutely right, which is why I used all those "my opinion" etc. qualifiers :) Trying to not be a douchebag.
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> Would you apply the same logic to oxygen instead of water?

Markets are a means of managing scarcity. Oxygen is not scarce, at least not if you're at sea level and you don't mind it mixed about 5:1 with nitrogen and a bunch of other gases.

For use in places where oxygen is scarce — like on top of a tall mountain or in an unpressurized aircraft at high altitude — you'll find that the stuff is very commonly bought and sold.
System → Administration → Update Manager should do it, if you're using the GUI; if not, try the usual "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade".
Freelancing is really your best bet, but the trick is to find clients outside of those freelance market sites. They're ghettos.

Pick one or two things you're really good at and figure out how to turn it into a package that solves a problem a lot of people have. Here's a (non-tech) example: http://hopscotchdistillery.com/
Try Ubuntu 10.10 Server in Amazon EC2, entirely on our dime
See comment #20 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/08/cbc-agreement-with-t.ht... for an explanation from the CBC.
Is it just me, or is this release treading water? There doesn't seem to be anything beyond minor UI improvements and a few features scattered here and there.
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At least this one is being honest about what he is!
Google-like Instant Search in under 60 lines of jQuery
I'm not an expert in BitTorrent, but in my mental model, aren't you siphoning away seeders from the _official_ Ubuntu trackers by using burnbit?

I can appreciate using burnbit for certain behemoth companies that don't normally publish via torrent, but since ubuntu.com actually offers them along-side the isos, this smells counterproductive.
After they've gathered whatever information they can from you by having access to your Facebook profile or Twitter stream.
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I used the anecdote not as a means of proof but rather as a point of illustration. This is the sort of thing that seems "exceptional" to many in the U.S. but is de rigueur in many near, middle, and far east cultures.

Is there variation in the quality of service you receive from one place to the next? Sure! It'll vary from one cafe to the next. The point I was trying to make, however, is somewhat deeper. I'm not just saying that service is better in Turkey than in the U.S. I'm saying that the expectation of service is part of the culture in Turkey, not just a nice "perk" like it is in the U.S. and many European nations.
Ubuntu 10.10 works very well on EC2 for me. In 10.04 they recently introduced a bug(1) which causes 100% cpu on one core -- that's no longer the case in 10.10.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-on-ec2/+bug/574910
I think uTorrent does not even connect to web seeds unless there are low seeds/peers
Official torrent downloads:
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/alternative-downloa...
> To upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a server system: install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed; edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set Prompt=normal; launch the upgrade tool with the command sudo do-release-upgrade -d; and follow the on-screen instructions.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes
You can config Git so that it always uses rebase when pulling:
git config branch.autosetuprebase always

To override this simply use --no-rebase.
You had me nodding my head.

I am constantly frustrated by being "peerless" in terms of interaction design. When I talk about how things are broken, I get blank stares. People rabidly defend the status quo. Most interaction designers are button-twiddlers.

What keeps me sane is A) knowing that there are a few people out there, even if I don't talk to them, who must be on the same page. I use their software and it doesn't make me want to puke.

And B) I have a group of friends who understand me. None of them are interaction designers or even heavily invested into creating software (with the exception of my equally crazy husband), however.

I think this actually helps them get me, because they're not chockful of preconceived notions. I can tell them, "Imagine if you could..." and they go "Yeah! And what if...?" -- my friends who are more nerdy, about either ui or code, go "But x already does y." (Which isn't even remotely what I was talking about.)

It's like the people who are actually in my field(s) think in terms of Concrete Nouns and merely use those Nouns Concrete in various recombinated forms, so if you try to come up with something that doesn't already exist, their brains break, and they barf out "But, ...".

Pardon the self-absorbed rant, but the downside to this is that not only am I lacking good outlets for discussing and growing my ideas, I'm lacking good outlets for smart constructive criticism. And I miss that.
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Yes libraries and infrastructure do not give you insight like a co-founder, but a large part of an engineering co-founder in a heavy engineering startup is perhaps %80 - %90 showing the strength and attention to getting the development right. For example managing an engineering team, showing attention to detail, making sure the design is exceptionally good etc. He has these two crucial pieces of technology at hand which would otherwise be developed by using most of the energy of a tech cofounder. So in that respect I agree with the point.

In summary, there are now tools to make it so much easier for startups that sometimes they can even do almost as much as a technical co-founder.
mailinator.com is brilliant for this.
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My first thought was, just re-implement it in C, then I remembered than we do have a bunch of boxes without a compiler on.
I've been looking for a 1TB drive connected to one.

I'd probably also want eSATA, since the hardware supports it, and you get way better speed, and way less cpu usage.

The no bittorrent, and no IRC turn me off. Why should the provider be messing around with the data coming in and out of my network? Both I've HAD to use on occasion on my servers. I do understand that it would reduce the amount of bad activity happening on their networks though.

I'm still bookmarking it for next time I want to evaluate hosting providers.
The correct way to upgrade Ubuntu from the command line is "do-release-upgrade" (which includes extra upgrading smarts that apt alone does not).
If you're upgrading a server, just run "do-release-upgrade -m server".