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But if your car can correct your cornering for you, why shouldn't it? Should we disable all our car's electronics just so we can learn to make fewer mistakes the hard way?
Actually, VAX/VMS's shipped with a versioning file system, so the technology has been there for a long time.
So they'll be suing themselves now? Because this lawsuit is hurting their brand a lot more than the Top Gear review did.

I remember seeing it when it came out, and thinking how positive it was. Sure, Jeremy ridiculed it for running out of power, but at the same time he spent a long time talking about how fast it was. From memory he said something like "if this is the future, bring it on"

By your logic, what should Audi do when he said (paraphrasing): "All Audi drivers are cocks"?
For what it's worth, you can "change the mood" of the website. http://brassflowers.com/?themedemo=sunrise
Yes, I think you're right. Remember that Windows 8 will run on ARM, which means major rewriting will be involved.
Large scale conventional farming is akin to mining. I guess it's always the little guy who gets enlightened first. There are a lot of small farms practicing sustainable agriculture. It feels like it's taking way too long to persuade conventional farmers to clean up their act (and to persuade consumers to make better food choices), but the number of acres involved in sustainable farming has grown quite a bit in the past decade. Human nature being what it is, I don't know if we'll ever get the majority of people to behave responsibly over the long-term. But, the current trends do look promising.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_agriculture
I would love to be able to have full customization of folders and navigation structure on my windows pc. things like 'games' 'searches' 'links' etc. that nobody (I've not seen one) uses annoy appearing in start menu and all other places eating up screen realestate and making it harder to use. And actually its really hard to get rid of them if not possible. You keep deleting them from various dialog boxes and they some of them keep coming back making it feel like you trying to kill a zombie that keeps coming back with one organ less each time.
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A counterpart to /dev/random is /dev/urandom ("unlocked"/non-blocking random source) which reuses the internal pool to produce more pseudo-random bits. This means that the call will not block, but the output may contain less entropy than the corresponding read from /dev/random. While it is still intended as a pseudorandom number generator suitable for most cryptographic purposes, it is not recommended for the generation of long-term cryptographic keys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random
Sure. Global warming can kill people for tens of thousands of years to come.

Newer processes produce no fission products with a half life > 100y. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Thorium_fuel_... Proper reprocessing can dramatically reduce the amount of waste produced, and the toxicity therein.

Just generally, but why would you expect insuring a nuclear plant to be any more painful then insuring a pesticide plant/etc? A leaky pesticide plant can easily wipe a town off the map. A leaky dam can wash away a city with ease.

I mean if you screw up your shale oil extraction you can end up with oil/natural gas leaking in to groundwater for hundreds of k's. Similarly with a burst dam at a gold mine, or....

There are large numbers of things that can cause massive ecological damage. A good number of them are that bad that they arn't ever really reported: http://newsdesk.org/2010/06/niger-delta-oil-spills-dwarf-bp-... as they continue on for years. It's just that some of them are easier to use to sell papers then others.
A simple programming tool designed for kids and beginners, with comprehensive video tutorials, given a prominent place in the Start Menu.

Something like Microsoft Small Basic would fit, I think.
Huh. I went from using XP at work to using Windows 7 at work, and I didn't see what all the fuss was about. The file finder was nice, but other than that... ?

Since then I've moved to OSX at a newer job. I really like the paradigm of installing apps just by putting them in a folder and uninstalling them just by deleting them. And I really like having multiple workspaces to slide between. I also have that on Ubuntu at home - not sure if Windows has it or not.

I guess overall I feel like OSX has the command-line power of Linux and even more shininess and nice UI stuff than Windows. I sort of miss easily maximizing windows, but then again, my iMac does have a pretty big monitor, so maybe that's a waste of space.
Consumer grade security enhancements. ROM-able boot chain validation support. A fine grained version of Mandatory Integrity Control that supports individual profiles, ships with profiles for popular applications and allows ISV's to embed requested access in their signed installers. A home user focused Steady State type application that allows them to reload the core OS from a known good repository on demand without breaking most user mode applications. An extended validation type code signing policy for anything that isn't user mode.

Hey, a lot of them may not be realistic but I don't have to implement them.
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I don't understand. If anything, the new MagSafe design creates a lever when you pull the cable and snaps the charger out much more easily.

Oh, do you mean you pull the cable in parallel with the body, rather than outwards?
Not really.

If you take the waste out of a thorium cycle reactor (ie. no fission products with half lifes > 100 hears), burn it down until there is basically nothing left then turn it into glass and stick it underneath solid granite in the middle of the worlds most geologically stable tectonic plate then no. It's not exactly devistation.
Dont sell your self short! Interning (work for free or for cheap) is common in fields where there are tons of students looking for jobs (publishing, fashion, film, TV). In development it isnt the case, there is always a shortage of good people. If you do intern, make sure you get paid a reasonable wage! Something on the order of 20-25/hour. When I interned about 15 years ago I made about the equivalent of 50K/year. Not great, but certainly not free. I had found free lance jobs on my own paying about $50/hour.

If you are going to work for free, you might as well do it for yourself and work on an opensource project
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On virtual machines, /dev/urandom contains very little if any entropy.

Basically /dev/random takes entropy from the system and feeds it to you.

/dev/urandom is a psudorandom number generator that reseeds from entropy as it gets it. Ie. if it has no entropy, your random numbers are anything but random.
I get quite annoyed when I read comments of the "hah, [X] has had [Y] for ages!" variety in response to questions like this, as I don't believe they are particularly helpful or address the point.

This isn't a question asking for comparisons between Windows and other operating systems - it's looking for sought-after features (whether implemented in another OS or not).

Responding otherwise always seems to end up in a fanboyesque argument (see commentary on this recent TC post on desired iOS5 features devolve into an Android-vs-Apple flamewar: http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2011/04/01/10-things-that-simply...).
Good idea, very high value, but VERY difficult to make sure you get high quality answers.
What are the things that the people on the ground worry about most/work hardest on, and how does that compare with what's being focused on in the media?
Can you briefly explain what you're trying to accomplish here? I can think of several much simpler ways to do what I think you're doing here, but a brief description would help.
I live in the state (Illinois) with the most nuclear power plants. By far. It suits me just fine.

By your reasoning, you should be raising your kids on a coal ash dump. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/us/07sludge.html
thanks A#:

thorium? maybe. but all of the reactors currently dotting the globe, and any of those which may be built in the near future, all use uranium. I'd hate for us to make the mistake of basing decisions about whether or not to retire existing aging uranium reactors on the promises of theoretical thorium models. We certainly shouldn't keep building dangerous uranium reactors simply because, one day, hopefully, there might be thorium models that might be safer. Like I said : this industry's been promising more than they can deliver since Go.

waste: out of sight / out of mind? not good enough: this material should remain prominent in the eyes and minds of the technological wizards who created it.

Solar: these sound like valid concerns, and I don't know enough to answer them, but I'm pretty sure that there's a lot more to build before we hit those constraints.
How many times have you hunted for an action/preference in the menubars to no avail?

not sure which OS you're talking about, but in OSX all menus are searchable via the help menu (top entry in help menu is a search field. type here and it will highlight matching menu items in any menu)

[Edit: this video shows what I
'm talking about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOoOvIqiWe0&feature=playe...]
Maxing out a handheld geiger counter is misleading because they've got a sesitivity knob. A friend brought one to a party recently and showed everyone that their soda cans would max out the counter (at full sensitivity). Believe it or not, some people then refused to drink more soda because they thought it was contaminated. Better not bring them into a brick building!
* DNS server--I'm tired to install BIND on every laptop with Windows 7.

* Analogue to rpm/yum.

* Virtual desktops.

* Rebindable keyboard & mouse bindings for the system WM.

* 'Follow mouse' focus (and an ability to drag any freaking window with Alt+Mouse-1).

* Lightweight & tiny pdf-viewer.

* Something like sysinternal's Tcpview.

* System-wide spellchecker.

* Integrated version control.
Yes I agree with this writeup. Having tested the unity desktop I was thoroughly disappointed. I felt as though the interface was dumbed down and all of the advanced features or navigation that I once had control of were now gone. It will perhaps as they gear more towards a touch based interface and even netbooks but as a main desktop manager it really does fail quite badly.
3x more enjoyable? Really? Maybe 4x? By "necessary UI improvements" you mean they are necessary because....?
Except the big problem with the old MagSafe plug was that it would get bent around in various positions and eventually some internal connection would break and it would stop working.

I went through at least 3 chargers that way, no joke.
Oh my god that's even worse!
>fusion development hasn't been stopped, especially not for fear of proliferation.

>Do you have any information about this subject that I do not?

do you have any information about fusion development being really seriously continued? It isn't proliferation risk alone that affects the development. It is also about projected cost of the produced energy. Any such facilities would be extremely expensive, typical nuclear plant expensive, and it doesn't look like it will have energy density higher than current nuclear plants as both are limited by the same factors, like cooling system engineering that transfers the energy from core to turbines. Thus the price of fusion energy may theoretically be cheaper than the price of fission energy only by the cost of uranium itself. Permits, regulatory approval process, etc... will not be cheaper. Such cost projections, together with the proliferation risk are the reasons that there is no meaningful development of fusion today.
Doesn't uranium get mined? How safe is that?
This seems pretty typical of Ubuntu releases, frankly. Anyone remember the Firefox 3 fiasco? Luckily, if you don't like it, you've got lots of choice, the current version will be supported for another 12 months, and the next version will be out in 6 months. It's not a big deal.
That article was pretty disorienting before I read the date at the top. "Man, I thought I knew most of the players in the industry... wait, joysticks as a standard peripheral?" Guess I missed the 80s mention in the first paragraph. :)
There is enough nuclear fuel to last for billions of years. Billions. With a b.

See: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/nuclear-faq.html
Great post. Don't just ship early, promote early.
Anyone else have an iPod touch/iPhone that is unusable because the apple dock socket no longer works unless you push down on it while it's connected?

Great business model though, why pay $100 to get it fixed when I can put that money towards an iPad 2...

EDIT: Actually, it'd cost me $199
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/service/prices/
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I followed your advice re size, but the default sizes are just too big, so big it's ugly. I ended up making everything bigger than it was, but not default-size-big. Maybe your advice is best for blogs.
Try doing a search for health forum. Here is one example

http://www.healthboards.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=58

It doesnt mean it cant be a startup, but things like it do exist. If you make something you will need to create a spin.

I thought webmd did this but the discussions are buried many layers deep.
> Most tax money goes toward providing defense

It seems like (FY2010) 20% of Federal expenditures go toward defense, and 58% go to entitlement programs (which (I speculate) the 1% wealthiest do NOT receive disproportionate benefit from).

Source: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/03/usa-incor... second graph
That explains it. I actually like quora, so got worried. Now i 'm off to buy WimpyKidRodrickRules.com
Claiming something doesn't make it so, not even if you do it repeatedly and use lots of italics.

It's not really a "discussion" when you're just saying the same thing over and over, without addressing the data presented by others or providing any data of your own.
I'm not comfortable reading that page.
Some kind of incentive program to stop OEMs loading new PCs up with crapware. Most importantly, Microsoft Security Essentials installed by default thus removing the need for Norton/Mcafee/whatever. Sure they might get a bit of "anti-trust" flak for it, but it would be worth it to the end user.

I do student laptop support for a university at the moment, while I won't be doing it by the time Windows 8 comes out it'd be nice to think my sucessor on the job doesn't have to wade through tonnes of default installed junk to connect to the university wireless.
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Well if you chose to use color or non default elements then you would have to make sure your customizations were also updated to still maintain usability.

That aside, I am curious to know if you disagree that putting padding on the browser would make viewing your site more enjoyable?
The article was mostly ok until all the way at the end.

Where he completely messes up and mentioned that hydrogen cars are "completely green".

Just a few sentences before that he says the car from Tesla is powered by "so-called green power" (electricity) from "dirty great power station".

Mr. Clarkson where do you think most of the hydrogen comes from ? Or the power to compress the hydrogen to make it compact enough for use by a car ?

Yes, there is a possibility someone will find a good way to produce to create hydrogen from algae. Or some breakthrough in the science of nuclear fission. We really don't know what will happen.

Anyway the real problem is efficient storage of energy and efficient conversion from storage to action/motion if I can call it that.

Batteries seem to be the current solution. But if we want to talk about environmentally friendly I don't know if they really are. I just know that batteries, like hydrogen use materials which come from nature which are just as finite as oil or matterial needed for fusion for that matter.

Although on Wikipedia it says:

'In addition, new Nickel-metal hydride and lithium batteries are non-toxic and can be recycled, and "the supposed 'lithium shortage' doesn’t exist"'

I don't know if that is true.
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Some people work very hard and are very creative. Those who produce more should get more. That isn't the entire picture of how people get wealthy in America, but it is the gist of it.

Of course, America has an increasingly corrupt government and a great many people acquiring wealth by using government to scam the rest of us. And we should be railing against that.

But the fact that wealth is distributed unevenly is inevitable. Not only are the productive wildly different in their abilities to produce, the ability of the corrupt to steal varies greatly as well.
I know, one thing that I've absolutely improve is my English skills. I'm Italian, and now we're based in Italy. Our product Challengein.com has as target the US.

We knows that is essential to be in US to understand better the US culture and create a better product. In fact this is our goal. Move in the Bay area.

But, we haven't the financial resources to live there for 3 months, searching a seed investment.
Now we have this opportunity, where the Chilean government gift $40k seed investment to global entrepreneur, if you stay in Chile in a startup hub for 6 months, then you can leave. The deal is really hot, because the Chile doesn't take any equity or anything.

You have simply to stay there 6 months. Their objective is attracting worldwide entrepreneur to create the startup hub of the latin america in Santiago.

There'll be mentors, other startuppers and ventures capitals.

We're asking if can be good, go there, learn, get funded, then move to US with a stronger product.

Understood?
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Apart from features like package manager, proper firewall (manually configurable rules with more options than allow/block), apparmor/selinux equivalent, virtual desktops, I'd simply like it to be more responsive. I use a windows laptop at work for 2 things really - visio and outlook. Compared to other linux systems I use, it's simply slow to respond, even though it's a new, high spec, multicore machine.

Also, networking in a domain could be finally fixed... Plug out the cable while you're logged in to a domain - freeze. Suspend, unplug, change rooms, plug in, resume - freeze, "windows explorer is not responding".
Having family members who are/were high powered lawyers (working for international firms, taking home 300K UKP per year or more), they certainly spend very long hours and lots of time in meetings, and certainly have to read a great deal in order to review carefully very long documents.

However I would make a distinction between hours spent in meetings, talking, and reviewing documents, vs. bringing as much brainpower as you can to solve a problem and do something new. Somehow the job of the scientist or engineer seems much harder - perhaps this is just my perception however.
The key section of the article is the last one, about "the erosion of our sense of [national] identity, in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important."

The author, Joseph Stiglitz [1], doesn't explain how inequality of wealth alone causes such erosion. On its own, inequality very well might not.

But other factors might be at work as well. Consider the effects of envy, or more precisely, "relative deprivation" [2]. There's been research indicating that no matter how well off humans are on an absolute scale, we tend to become dissatisfied when we perceive that we're worse off than our neighbors; we tend to believe we're somehow entitled to do at least as well, or even better, than they. (See also "keeping up with the Joneses.")

Envy is probably a product of natural selection; it can be a useful motivator, at least when properly channeled.

On the other hand, envy might be less adaptive in an era of global mass communications. It's certainly easier today for millions of people to become aware of, and then (perhaps subconsciously) resentful of, others who seem better off than they.

So it could be that we have a combination of causes at work: Increasing public awareness of wealth inequality leads to increased envy, which might indeed start to erode the social fabric.

If this turns out to be the case, what could we do about it?

Some might say humanity should be less envious, that people should just accept inequalities of wealth as natural consequences of their own limitations. History suggests that they -- or should I say, we -- probably won't.

[1] Joseph Stiglitz, professor at Columbia, former chief economist of the World Bank, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 2001 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_deprivation
ok let me rephrase: even if you wanted to buy a reasonable copy of a renoir, the price you paid corresponded to man-hours of labour. It was a compensation for something.
I'm running unity since yesterday - feels like they compromised massively on the full desktop experience for the sake of compatibility with touch-based and netbook devices.

I'll give it a week or so though; no-one likes change, and it's impossible to make any significant UI change without hoares of angry and confused users foaming at the mouth until they get their bearings.
This is something that's so often overlooked. If you want a stable desktop for production use, use an LTS version of ubuntu. If you want 'close to the edge', get the last version or two, they come with 18 months support. If you want to fool around on the edge, well, that's where they do crazy stuff like this. Early adopters are beta testers, always have been, always will be.
Understand that and it can be the best move.
We've granted the 1year visa.

Can be also interesting to get funded (just if we need it) with the objective to move to the Bay.

In fact one objective of Startup Chile is attract VCs and financial resources for the startup world.
Not the best choice in names. If there are problems people are going to refer to it as "Nasty Narwhal."
Considering that KeePass 2.14 is significantly better and runs nicely with mono on Linux, I don't see the need for this news item.
The ribbon UI to me is like those websites where you have to hunt for a link. I can't stand it either.
Tell HN: VC totally falls for april fools article
I was a judge at a business case competition yesterday and was talking to a junior VC who was also a judge. We were talking about accelerators and he mentioned the battle between east and west coast accelerators. He specifically referred to the start fund and the end fund.

I said, umm I think that was an april fools article. He was like really? I said, I thought the part about giving funding on a first come first served basis may have been a good tip off. He was like, please dont tell anyone I said this. I laughed and said I couldnt commit to that, but I wouldnt use his name. :)

I let him off the hook a little by saying I generally try not to read news on April 1 because it is a hassle having to sift through fake articles.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/01/angel-investors-counter-y-combinator-start-fund-with-new-100-million-early-stage-end-fund/
thanks for the reminder about this. these help in not just making it a pleasure to read, but also in improving comprehension of what you are reading.

There is a principle called "Chunking", the term to describe breaking into digestible units of information, that relates to this.

http://www.chambers.com.au/glossary/chunk.htm
That data is still a URL in your page - the axis titles at the very least will be crawled.
Without a doubt. I was just saying that it's been a fairly viable system for a while.