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It is just a key for an encrypted ebook.

When you start to download an Adobe PDF a small file with the extension .acsm is first downloaded. This is used by Adobe Digital Editions to send the activation ID to the delivery server which will use that ID to generate an encrypted PDF/ePub eBook, which is then downloaded to your PC.

Write the code in a file and save it as 'foo.acsm' Login to the dead guys account and download his encrypted adobe ebook.
I have a maze drawn at this A4 sheet of paper. How long it will take you to get out of this maze?
I really like the idea of a site where I can put my memory shirts online. Right now they just sit in a box and nobody sees them. Some of them mean so much to me that I never wear them because I don't want them to wear out.
thanks for the clarification there. I meant specifically online social networking -- I hope the answer choices at the very least suggested thats what i meant :)
The reason why "lorem ipsum" is latin is that since the language is almost extinct, it looks like real copy but it's very difficult that someone can send it to the printer by mistake, thinking it's the final text. (by the way, perhaps to typeset for the Vatican press they use something else...)

So, placing a real image as a placeholder is not a good idea.
LOL, extralegal collegiate entrepreneurial escapades...
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Could someone please explain what this means? What kind of service is that particular server providing? I thought that MPlayer is a software project, not a service provider.
The problem with Ford's quote is that the customer offers a solution. In such a case you need to ask further questions to find out the problem he wants to solve. Had Henry Ford realized that, he would have found out customers wanted to get from A to B faster and he wouldn't have quipped this silly 'they want a faster Horse'. They didn't actually want a faster horse. As soon as you understand the problem, you're free to come up with innovative solutions.

There are still a few exceptions though: you can create a new market by appealing to a need people didn't have until you offered a solution. Fashion, fads (including fads for children), arguably Twitter,...
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Even Stallman said in several interviews that it was ok to make money that way, release a free/open version of your software and charge for the latest version by making it proprietary but just for a few months/years before releasing it as free/open too (I'll let you google the interviews). So I take it you're either more extreme than stallman or you're just being disingenuous to make a point against google, but if you're just more extreme than stallman, do you use gnewsense or something on your pc? Thought so.
This announcement has its roots in the FFmpeg/libav fork. For a long time, FFmpeg resources were hosted on the MPlayer server. (Not sure if they still are; its git has been migrated to videolan at least.)

Like a number of OSS devs, people on both sides of the fork share traits of being a) brilliant hackers, b) stubborn and c) prone to mannerisms that people may interpret as rude or inflammatory, whether intentional or not.

I for one am sad to see this whole fork happen. If it were driven by interests pursuing divergent goals, then that's understandable, but this fork is purely politics. Codec development is already an arcane art, and there are dozens of RE'd (or poorly documented) codecs in the FFmpeg codebase. Splitting up development and maintenance effort is not going to help anybody in this case.
They give almost all the words. I've had harder Latin tests.

The history stuff is weirdly worded. Probably the hardest part of the test.
yes, this kind of people are part of why Attila leaves MPlayer...
It's not easy to change from one engine to another radically different type. I would love for them to go down a path of better fuel economy, torque, weight, and horsepower. But you are looking at manufacturers trying to sell cars that need to be serviced down the line. service centers are not trained to handle X technology and the only place you could get it serviced would be the dealership. As a consumer I probably would not want to take the risk of an unknown longevity engine with unknown costs to fix it so I can save 20% on fuel; the engine design must be > 50%-75% less fuel(or some other reason that would make it a no brainer) used to make it worth taking a gamble on unknown quantities.
Hurray for algebra! Still as relevant today as it was a hundred years ago.

Are programming languages going to be equally durable?
I believe he's deriving "B student" from "B school"

"B school" == "Business school"
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Harsh and myopic...
My maths is relatively weak, and I found the maths component trivially easy. Perhaps mathematics had a smaller part to play in society at this stage, because asking a university level student what a prime number is or how to do long division seems trivial.
This test shows what was valued - at least at Harvard - in the late 1800's. Greek and Latin were more important, as well as knowledge of geography of the known world and algebra and geometry.

Algebra and geometry, I feel, are still important today (see SAT). Greek and Latin are less important, although they are still in the background. The humanities have changed and we now learn about more modern authors / topics and the humanities classes in general have cooler names (i.e. Microcomputer Application in Kinesiology or Topics in African Society and Culture).

There's probably some bigger point I'm missing here like "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it" or something similar.

Teaching kids about how to conjugate Latin verbs or some other rote activity always seemed pointless to me. Perhaps I'm preaching to the choir, but learning about entrepreneurship or practicing selling things would have been much more useful to me than many of the things I learned in high school or undergrad.
Release notes: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.6
This is a very low estimate for Silicon Valley.
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Any opinion on the open source alternatives, e.g. Icarus Verilog?
Kudos to sanetax, but my earnest hope is that tax reform will abolish the use case for such a service.
That would make startups drastically uncompetitive.
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Fully agree, but do disclose this. It's not really necessary, but if people find out later any inconvenient facts like the timeline are likely to drown in mob rage.
Wow, this is the damn best design blog post I've seen. Down to earth explanations, plenty of examples & resources, can't ask for more, thank you so much for taking the time to write & share this!
Does that make his advice wrong?

Disagree with what he says, not who he is.
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What's terrifying about this is that it sounds like a participator in the project is effectively stopping simply because of a legal threat.

How is this not terrifying to you?

It means that our legal system is completely broken.

This is actually kindof an open ended question. My response was downvoted to -3, which generally means somebody has said something stupid. Am I missing something here? Do most people honestly think that this is an acceptable practice?

Okay, honestly, blatant misuse of our legal system being used to pressure somebody out of a project is a misuse of the word terrifying, but using the word to describe the misuse is a proper use of it?

That's terrifying.
But to become a fully erudite member of modern society, you might want to also study

zipWith :: (a-> b -> c) -> [a] -> [b] -> [c]

:-)
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Interesting data point, but it doesn't support the thesis that programmers get fatter the more they've programmed unless you can show the attendees at the Linux symposium are older/more experienced now than in the past.

You'd probably also want some external data as I'm pretty sure people as a whole are getting fatter.
What is truly amazing is how easy it is to find those answers today. With Google, Wolframalpha, etc. retrieving information is cheap both time wise and money wise.

Perhaps a test could be made today that would test a person's ability to search for obscure knowledge and comprehend it. A person would have to determine which sources are trustworthy and what conclusion could be made from the information received. Is this what is really meant when we say someone is intelligent?
Answer: Probabaly higher than yours because only only low class people ask crass questions.

Here's the book to actually understand India:-
"Late victorian holocausts and the making of the third world".
http://www.amazon.com/Late-Victorian-Holocausts-Famines-Maki...

As Nehru and others had observed, poverty in India is highly correlated with the length of British rule in that part of India, Bengal being the poorest and Punjab the richest. This is actually true of the world in general - compare Africa with Japan - prosperity is highly correleted with the colonial experience a country had.

Caste is almost irrelevant - the Gini coefficient which measures inequality is much higher in the US than in India.

India which was 25% of the world's economy in 1800 was essentially crushed by the British to make way for
their industrialization via a captive market. Internal trade in India was crushed by internal tariffs.
Railroads which had a positive network effect in the US, had the opposite (destructive) network effect in India killing its manufacturing base and driving millions to unemployment and dependance on agricultural land which lead to the widespread poverty you see today.
I hav every little (greater than zero) hands-on experience with it. The thing about such options is that it makes everything very theoretical. They do not deal with device "geometries", device specific hacks, Fmax targets etc. They might as well be logic simulators of old, just with a friendlier syntax.

A very large part of coding for FPGAs is to actually make your design work within very tight hardware limits, at a particular frequency, while satisfying routing contrainsts, very limited RAM, limited number of Fast Multipiers, etc.

So while Icarus would be ok when you are learning verilog/vhdl, it doesn't really help you learn any of the practical stuff.

To use a bad-car-analogy, its like learning to drive using a driving simulator on your PC, controlled with cursor keys instead of steering wheel. Yeah, I know. I didn't find that funny either :p
Flame wars apart, blog of a linux-loving manwhore, and other comments on your first link are atrocious! No wonder people are leaving.
I teach mathematics at a community college and I can tell you that for most people the mathematics on the test is hard. Our course with the largest number of students is on arithmetic and the students just don't comprehend fractions. They can't even comprehend how to convert a decimal to a percent. Especially when given a problem like:

Conver 0.25% to a decimal. That really throws them off.
Yeah this has always puzzled me. Everytime I order an AA t-shirt (I live in Australia) I get warned to order a size up because they trend slim. After getting bit once or twice by this, I just order my regular size or even one smaller now and have no issue.
Seriously though.
Heads up, 'yum update' should upgrade you, if you are on 5.5. If yum update is not working, do a clean: 'yum clean all' then update.
I'm an ex-Googler, and I disagree. Before I left the GWS team (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/google_web_server/) became a model for how frequent, stable releases should be done within the company. That's all I'll say.
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I don't mind the downvote, but could someone who downvoted me explain his/her view?
Seems like to me that almost (probably) all nutrition articles try to find a silver bullet to beat obesity/overweight.

My theory is that modern culture keeps searching such illusory silver bullets because acknowledging the working solution, which is practising sports and stop eating junk food (fast food, fat food, sweets) would be much more challenging.

=of course clinical cases must be dealt separately
=given a certain cultural context. in a more healthy cultural context, eating cleanly is much easier.
It's been a long time overdue.

As both a YouTube and Ustream partner, I'm interested in how this could change the advertising revenues for live events. Ustream uses google's adsense, so it would be hard for ustream to match YouTube's ad split.
Had my production servers upgraded from Redhat 5.5 to 5.6 a few days ago, no bugs or issues so far.
I found some Cambridge exam papers from 1899 a while back. I don't have scans, but there's a few of the more interesting/mysterious questions at:

http://beebo.org/lately/2001-07-10_cambridge.html

I quite like the 2.5 hour "English Essay" for bizarreness:

Write an English Essay on one of the following subjects:

1. English country life in the 18th century.
2. The battle of Blenheim.
3. The character of Rachel Lady Castlewood.
4. Duelling.
is that ok to edit application now and resubmit? i'm in the list of 50's
There is still hope - the government is about to abolish the state-guaranteed monopoly.

http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article12492654/Bahn-verliert-... [German]

Of course, public transport is a complex issue - the government as the current owner of the railway system is still trying to protect some routes, so we have to wait and see how the licensing for long-distance routes is working out.

And the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) is also the biggest provider of bus travel, so it will be quite hard for new companies to get into the market.
Interesting. The Math section with today's GRE exam makes the latter seem like a kindergarten exam.
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The star characters corrupted the text.
The first '=' is a note after "working solution", the second after "more challenging".
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I find myself super productive starting at midnight, and sometimes on Friday evenings. Sounds weird, given that most people decide to call it a day or a week. Was wondering if any of you have similar experiences?

Cheers!
Yea, I'm lost why you're worried. FB is going to do a case study and use your article for its own purposes, which are to learn from it on how to coach their advertisers and to try and get in your shoes to improve their platform. As far as you're concerned, this study will be seen as validation of your success as an advertiser to your customers, partners and investors. Your job was not to investigate FB, it was to advertise, anybody who made a gang of money there would naturally be praising them, you just kicked everybody's butt and that's why you were chosen for the case study. Think of it like this: a surgeon so smart that God consults with him before creating the next iteration of the human being. It is instant elevation that sets you apart from on your competitors, and those disclaimers mentioned below - you should be bragging instead. Congrats champ!
Doing cube root by hand is more tricky though.
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The reference to the wikipedia article is misleading, and practically false.

Practicing physical activity indirectly increases a series the expenditure for the basal life processes, so it increases the calories consumption more than the raw amount of energy spent doing it.
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I used to think this as well. But if you think about things which are ridiculously expensive -- like cars or airplanes or Google's datacenters -- all of them got their start in someone's garage.

After spending some time with the Open Wetware/DIYBio guys, I realized that no one (other than the DIYBio guys) has really spent time reducing the costs of the fundamental toolkit of the molecular biologist.

Now they are starting to do so:

http://openwetware.org/wiki/DIYbio:Notebook/Open_Gel_Box_2.0...

That gel box is going to be about $200-$300 all in. You might not get a multiphoton microscope right off the bat, anymore than you'd get access to all of Goog's servers when you were just starting out with your laptop...but reducing the price of entry for the hobbyist biologist/biochemist to say $5k or less is going to be really important.

That's because the role of the DIYBio community is set to wax in a big way. With the NIH budget cuts and the coming fiscal collapse of the US Government, the sun is about to set on a ~70 year period (1945-2015) of centralized US government research. The period before 1945 was more innovative by many measures (e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/business/30view.html?_r=1), and potentially the period afterwards will be as well.
Similarly awful is (usually) my youtube experience over DSL :(

However: just now watching eyepatchentertainment's test broadcast I find it remarkable. Sharp picture. Perfectly synced sound. Smooth scroll of live comments. Unknown fps, but it has no jerkiness to video.

I worry for what this will do re" jacquesm's ww.com.

Looks like youtube-live will be setting the standard for streaming vid.
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Hello all. Im currently in the process (revising the database to be specific) of creating a site that will inlude persistant chat functionality, and I had a couple of questions I hope you guys can help me with:
1. Which comet server do you guys recommend to combine with django (or perhaps pylons, Im still undecided between the two), or would you recommend a more custom approach with twisted? Scalability is my main concern.
2. I plan on using apache as the http server, django (or pylons) as the front end, with postgres for the database. I haven't decided on a search solution; but as far as perfomance is concerned what would you recommend I consider incorporating? (such as a reddis cache)
3. Is anyone using jython-Django? I really wanted to use this combination since I also have a background with Java; however it seemed too new.
The 'right' answer there is to system test first (eg. set up a dev system and run things like selenium against it) and then you can start to pull stuff out into libraries and unit test it.

The standard way around the 'luxury' attitude is to start with fixing downtime, and grow from there.
I made the mistake of clicking a link on the blog and...

Now that Reiser is in jail for slaughtering his whiny bitch wife, someone really had to step in and fill the gap in the long line of psychopathic linux developers.

So I'll just forget this person exists. Shame on anyone who gives him a public forum.
http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html is definitely the best introduction I've seen. I still don't use it as much as I'd like, but I'm slowly getting there.
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Apple's not been growing relative to the US smartphone market though. It's been flat for a year (while Android has taken share rapidly) which, despite the ominous overtones, is what "dead in the water" means, a ship without wind not going anywhere (sales still need to rise about 60% to keep up with market growth so the analogy isn't perfect, but they rarely are).

What you seem to be missing is that makers of both types of phone are losing share in dumbphones, even as they gain share in the more lucrative smartphone market.

If you had numbers for smartphones only, it's likely that about 4 or 5 companies would have higher growth than Apple. Almost certainly in the case of the second graph, because Apple has a higher marketshare and the same mathmatical trick that makes them look good against the Samsung who sell 1 in 4 phones, would make them look bad against the samsung that used to have 5% of the smartphone market but are catching up to and probably overtaking Apple soon.
I guess it's things like the main website, issue trackers, downloads hosting, community and such for the project. A large part of the identity of a project.
Yep, the speed does not matter as much as understanding the goal, esp. when resources become limited. And no doubt, India has deeper experience with operating on low resources, than nowadays western world does.

The 60 years old Gandhi paradigm is still reusable with modern tools today, compare e.g. with mobile/Internet impact on village production business.

Greer on Gandhi economical paradigm:
"His suggestion, to condense some very subtle thinking into too few words, was that a nation that had a vast labor force but very little money was wasting its time to invest that money in state-of-the-art industrial plants; instead, he suggested, the most effective approach was to equip that vast labor force with tools that would improve their productivity within the existing structures of resource supply, production and distribution.

Instead of replacing India's huge home-based spinning and weaving industries with factories, for example, and throwing millions of spinners and weavers out of work, he argued that the most effective use of India's limited resources was to help those spinners and weavers upgrade their skills, spinning wheels, and looms, so they could produce more cloth at a lower price, continue to support themselves by their labor, and in the process make India self-sufficient in clothing production."
- http://silverbearcafe.com/private/02.10/factories.html

Edit: added second paragraph in the citation
I'd characterize it as 'pointless tedium' and I'm glad our educational system is rid of it. It's easier to justify teaching Latin than that drudgery.
IMO, it is not to be taken litteraly. I mean, you won't make a test and, based on the results, teach math to the top performers, and entreupreneurship to the others.. it doesn't make sense.

I think that the "B students" know who they are: they are the students who are not so fond of math / physics / litteratures, etc.. but have other interests in life.

The idea is not to force these guys to learn entrepreneurship, but rather not to force them into studies that don't fit their qualities and potential. Most of them would be glad not to attend the hardcore math class and instead do something useful that interests them..
Computer Science is not about building real software or real systems, as opposed to Software Engineering. Your comment strikes me as missing the whole point of CS. Maybe it is so because of misleading English name -- as someone said, Computer Science is not about computers, just like Astronomy is not about telescopes -- but what kind of person would call Astronomy a Telescope Science?
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like what devices? not doubting, just curious
Also upstream release notes:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5...
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I wrote a library for Clojure called Cascalog. It's a variant of Datalog that executes using Hadoop. It's not Prolog, but you may find it interesting.

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