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You now have to upgrade to the second tier if you want to have more than 500GB hard drives or an SSD, so if you really want that you'll have to pay $300 more than the base model. Too bad the hard drives in these macs are so hard to replace yourself.
Wow, I'd never seen that before. But to be honest, we can't be too critical of a 19 year old Zuckerberg. We were all absolutely obnoxious at that age. We think we know everything and we want to believe that our ego is limitless. As this was written supposedly in the dorm room era of Facebook, it's easily dismissed. It's rude, yeah, but wouldn't you have boasted the same thing if you'd invented Facebook? I probably would have, too.
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Note: I'm running Chrome 12, so things might be different for older versions. Also, I think I had to enable the click to play in about:flags. Before that, I'd have to right-click and choose enable from a menu.
http://outright.com/ is what I use. Just 9.95 per month
I didn't say it wasn't happening, or impossible, but you don't see more of it.

Most doc offices aren't tech savvy - they'll get something that has some approval from colleagues or professional bodies, and go with that recommendation. The few products/services that can break through that seem to be set for a while.
>Compare the coverage of Quora versus StackExchange, for example.

Quora made it to regular press, dailies, TV tech news, etc. but I've not personally seen SE in those media.
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Agreed. I can only look at it for a few moments, and I want to stop. Fuzzy, grey, depressing scenes. Mostly of hallways receeding or stairways. Blank, soulless, inorganic.

If that's what the artist was going for, then they succeeded.
Glare would be the #1 reason.
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The real reason is that for years they have overcharged corporate customers for tethering plans and they don't want to lose that revenue. Same reason why sms is so expensive per GB, basically because they can.
Too expensive for my laptop.
Either way, as long as it's temporary, as far as I'm concerned.
For some people that is like asking if they prefer vi or emacs.

I personally prefer matte displays because I like to avoid the glare that I get with glossy monitors. But the colors on a glossy do seem 'brighter'.
From the article:

“Hundreds of people are going through it now,” an official said, adding that intelligence operatives back in Washington are very excited to find out what they have.

This suggests data were not encrypted, I guess. Amazing.
Sounds like the i5-2400 and the i7-2600 to me, both Sandy Bridge CPU's. The bit about the "only at.." means you can't get them in the physical store, because those will be custom built to your specifications.
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Depending on your physical environment, you can see reflected objects in glossy displays. Some people mentally filter these out, some people don't.
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Sadly it doesn't state the length of the first transmission channel. Length multiplied with bit rate is the real figure of merit - and 165km * 102Tb/s is really impressive.
The amazing part to me is that the reports say there was no internet connectivity and no phone lines running into the compound. Did they have an internal network? Or, were these all just stand-alone computers where they kept notes?
I remember reading that about 40% of people tested suffered significantly more eye strain than others with a glossy screen. The theory was that there is a genetic trait affecting whether eyes tend to constantly refocus or not.

Personally, it gives me a headache and makes it very hard for me to concentrate because I can't help constantly refocussing. The other 60% of the population think we're just being awkward.
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Assange's claim that Facebook and the other myriad social tool's he mentioned are spy tools is a bit embellished. He's right in that U.S. intelligence agencies can and will gain access to the data stored by these services (if necessary). However, saying that it's inherently a spy tool just seems a bit on the Salem side. If there's information about us or our lives that we deem sensitive, the last place you want to put it is online. There's noted security flaws in pretty much every system out there and to dismiss that reality is a bit naive.

There's most definitely a problem with security in this era, but it's important to note that we're the one's doing it. Honestly, anyone who may expose sensitive information should have Facebook or any other online presence on the top of their list as things NOT to use. When you're being nefarious communication is a bit difficult, eh?
Thanks for the ideas. However, in this case the DLL relies on MSVC for binary compatibility with its host, and the version control server is a *nix box.
no, pages should not play audio unless users asks for it...
This doesn't seem to be anything like dropbox, but more an NFS replacement.
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I don't think that is comparable.

vi and emacs are in competition. One cannot be said to be the successor of the other.

The glare is supposed to be better so that is what I don't understand.
There shouldn't be browser tabs actually. Tabbing isn't a well designed solution, it's being widely used just because mainstream desktop environments still lack basic window management requirements.
For Firefox, try NoScript for this functionality.
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It's not a matter of needing drinks to say what you mean, it's a matter of lowering someone's inhibitions to see what they really get excited about.
Can you tell me which is the mutation for huntingon's? If not, someone is going to have to tell you where it is and what the 'bad' genotype is. That interaction should be regulated.

I'm all for people having access to their data, but blood pressure is an easy concept for people to get their heads around. Interpreting it isn't hard. And we've been using it clinically for close to 100 years. Genotypes are different. You don't ask people to read and ECG. Sure, you can see it, and you can have a doctor explain to you what it means. That doesn't mean you should be able to go to a drug store, hook yourself up to electrodes, and decide that you don't have an arrhythmia.
These things are a worthy effort (there have been several such posts recently) but there is no way it's equivalent to Dropbox. Dropbox is cross-platform and has web-based file access and many other benefits. Is Dropbox-like file storage destined to be one of those things (like anti-virus, for example) where there are some fairly good open-source implementations which are never quite as good as the commercial product(s)?
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2509723 for discussion
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"Too bad"? Its of course no accident that memory, drives, in fact everything cheap to upgrade on an Apple is tucked away behind "warranty void" stickers.

Compare the the ease of replacing your PC laptop drive or RAM - behind a snap-off cover.
I agree that breaking the build is normally a very bad idea. I've gone after friends with Nerf weapons for doing this. :-)

But there are a few cases where it's a necessary evil. For example, when upgrading a large Rails application from Rails 2.3 to 3.0, you're likely to make hundreds of small changes before everything works again.

In this case, I create a new branch, prepend "BROKEN:" to each commit message, and record the number of unit tests that are currently passing. Once all the tests are fixed, I hand-test, add new tests for any regressions that weren't caught by the automatic tests, and merge back to the main development branch.
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That article doesn't even come close to saying that glucose meters are a hoax. It says that they're poorly regulated and fail far too often, which is much different from saying the principles they're based on are fraudulent, as is the case with the IED "detectors".

Glucose meters may be off by 20%, but you're still better off having one than not.
<audio> and <video> tags don't count as plugins in Chrome, so aren't disabled with this method.
Even if they were using encryption, it was probably the kind the US government can very easily break.
Most are, due to the limited availability of microwaves in India, although this has changed in urban centers now and I have seen microwave safe plastic ones as well. Generally you (or your chef!) would pack the food hot in these metal containers and then place the entire tiffin inside an insulated vacuum flask like container so that it stays warm till it reaches you.

Here's an Indian site that is selling a microwave safe tiffin set with a built in heating mechanism for under $10. I just googled for it, so I can't vouch for the quality though. http://www.rdsons.com/prods/kitchen_apps/elictrik_tiffin.htm...
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What an unfortunate acronym. Whenever I see "FFS," I think "For #&%*'s Sake." Tell me I'm not alone on this.
This isn't that new; PDANet has been blocked on AT&T in this manner for at least a year (from my experience having tried to download it when I first got an N1). Searching for it in the Market yielded nothing when an AT&T SIM was in the phone.

On my N1 the easy solution to the block was just to power down the phone, pull the SIM, then access the market over wifi. All those carrier blocked apps suddenly reappeared. I don't know if carrier locked phones still "remember" their carrier when you pull the SIM, though, and in any case I guess you're stuck with sideloading on those non-LTE Verizon devices where there's no SIM to remove.
What exactly do you mean here? ROT13? Some sort of crazy arabic version of pig latin?

Just because they have DARPA doesn't mean the americans can just waltz past elliptic-curve cyphers.

EDIT: Unless you mean the 'give me the key or I'll fetch the powerdrill' kind of encryption breaking, in which case, fair point.
I was at the MagicRuby conference when Dave Thomas said, "Agile is not a noun."

And he's absolutely right. Unfortunately, the article gets this wrong and uses Agile as a noun in every paragraph.

If 'Agile jumped the shark' it's because people insist on making it a thing, instead of a mindset, not because the capitalists found a new toy.
It seems the title doesn't quite match the content and thus I was skeptical until the end: "I think the problem may be with the pure architect model. No engineer likes being told “here is a perfect architecture, just code it as per that spec”."

This is exactly the problem with waterfall management in general. Some elite management/architecture cabal presents a long-range plan and if things don't work out it's the fault of the grunts for not "sticking to the plan". This type of software development management is quite obviously wishful thinking and intellectual laziness. It puts a dramatic chilling effect on developer creativity and engagement.
Actually there is another regulatory body called the FTC that does that.
Interesting article, introduced me to a whole bunch of lisps I had no idea existed.

Slightly tangentially, can anyone explain to me what the supposed advantage of using Lisp is over languages such as Python and Ruby (which also provide functional programming, dynamic typing, etc)? I certainly feel that I'm more productive in some languages than others, eg, I can do the same things faster in Ruby than in Java. When I tried working in Clojure for a few mini projects, I enjoyed using it, but didn't feel any more productive than in Ruby.

I actually like the Lisp-like syntax, but I usually find myself either a) tying myself in knots trying to avoid the use of variables, or b) missing Ruby's object system. It seems like these might be problems that stem from inexperience, can anyone else comment? Is it worth reading "On Lisp" or SICP to learn how to take advantage of Lisp's unique features (macros and so on)?
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Curious: What would be a better alternative to tabs? I don't want to have dozens of windows open. And when they are group-able, I don't really see the difference to tabs.
Rubber hose crypto doesn't work on corpses. I was actually quite surprised that they didn't try/manage to get more people alive...
Calm down. Sheesh. He's only giving a tutorial on how to develop a very basic Dropbox. I thought any developer would know that.
Am sending this to every person I know building a community-driven site. You've perhaps unwittingly boiled the general solution down to its base components.
"Because the hummingbird’s tongue is so efficient, the researchers think...perhaps liquid-sipping robots could benefit"

A great day for science indeed. We stand on the precipice of a revolution in liquid-sipping robot technology; our children will scarcely believe the languid speed of their parents' liquid-sipping robots.
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At a certain point they were using proper algorhytms but not regular pgp because they would not trust american software

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/mujahideen_sec...
Let me play devil's advocate here. Is there any proof that the companies who are linked to are aware of the links? Isn't it possible that someone else (say, a rival company looking to tarnish a rival's reputation) is buying the links? Or that the companies have contracted out SEO to a third party, which is buying links in violation of their contract?
To clarify - this is only true for the 21.5" iMacs - the base 27" can support larger HDD + SSD.
That is false.

RAM and HDDs in MacBook Pro machines are user-replaceable parts. No warranty is voided provided you install the proper stuff, and don't break your system in the process. I believe the manuals include detailed instructions for the replacements.

The RAM is _very_easily_ upgraded in an iMac. Apple's even designed a nifty door to make this process incredibly easy.

The only point of annoyance here is the HDD in an iMac. The design simply doesn't allow for the HDD to be accessed, and hence it's not user-installable. Personally, I'd never buy an iMac, and I very seldom recommend them.
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this looks pretty cool. Happen to know any similar projects for python?
Part of what I love about the Kindle is the screen and battery life. It puts readability first and foremost, and that makes it a tolerable substitute for books.

However, there's some serious tension with the fact that it would be extremely useful as a tablet in that form factor if it got better screen refresh rates and was a tad more usable.

I wonder how they'll handle it; I'd be sad if you couldn't get the e-ink screen any more, but I'd be pretty tempted by a more full-featured device.
And yet to upgrade the RAM in a Mac Mini, you just screw off the bottom and it's right there. You don't even need a screwdriver. If your theory was correct, they'd have sealed it up like the original ones.
It's been many years since we've had a new Mac chassis. I'd love to see Apple apply some of their touch screen technology to the Mac line.
This is very cool; I wasn't aware of the existence of some of these implementations.

The Wasp Lisp is an interesting idea and looks like it has many of the same benefits as Erlang. If I had to guess at what programming languages would look like in the future I'd say they'd at least include capability to (easily) do distributed computation like this, even if they're not based around the concept.

There are so many qualities that Lisp has, like its lack of syntax, that makes exploring new ideas very easy.
From the Thunderbolt section:

"The 27-inch iMac includes a second Thunderbolt port for even more expansion possibilities. Connect up to six more devices or a display or two."

Sounds good.
There was talk that this information may expose deliberate ties to the financiers of Al Quida including Saudi royalty. Not that this is new information per se, but awfully damning evidence if its found on the hard drive of bin Laden.
Even then, I usually comment out partial code then slap on a TODO. And where it makes sense, I'll also add in a "throw NotImplementedException" or some equivalent, so it's explicit that the code isn't expected behavior when executed. It's usually not much effort to do this. Especially when you plan ahead while you write.

There's always repercussions to checking in unbuildable code. Suddenly, nobody else can contribute or pull from that branch without first fixing your bad code, for one. What's worse is when they think it's a mistake and do tweak your code. You'll have to backtrack then, adding noise to the file's history. Another is when you need to roll back. If you allow broken commits, there's always a change of hitting a broken version. In times of emergency, you really don’t want to be bogged down by unbuildable code.
Intellectual Honesty...
This is the difference between equality and equivalence. It's not cross-platform to the extent that Dropbox is, though the fundamentals are portable to any platform that supports FUSE and thus GlusterFS. There's also no web UI, though there are already plenty of web UIs that can be slapped on top of any POSIX directory on a remote server. If you're the sort of Dropbox user who primarily stores and retrieves individual files through the web UI, this is not equivalent. For what I believe to be the more common use case of using Dropbox as a mountable location to/from which to sync files, though, it's quite equivalent. The fact that it's open source, deployable under the user's own control, and actually secure even makes it a better fit for many current Dropbox users' needs.

As for "never quite as good" that's just anti-open-source crap. It only works if you define a category by reference to a specific commercial alternative, and use that product's feature set as your checklist. That's no more valid than starting with the open-source alternative's feature set and using that checklist to find the commercial product inferior. It's marketing, not real life. If open source did exactly copy commercial products, then (a) technology wouldn't advance as much, (b) people would bitch about the lack of originality, and (c) the people who make the commercial products would sue. That's a totally unreasonable expectation.
This is at best half correct, depending on the model. The RAM in iMacs come with tabs to help you pull them out. You do need a screw driver, but it's kind of hard to have a snap-off cover on an aluminum case, no?

You are correct about the hard drives on imacs and macbooks, but on the pro machines, those are pretty easy to replace as well.
You may want to check where is RAM on iMacs "hidden", and how hard it is to access it.
sure.. it is possible everything you wrote there... but just echo that code.. and read the source-code...
then come with a post and start complaining about free software...
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I wish it was like this, but most standard PC laptops are so hard to open up that it is not even funny.

It's not the same as the iMac (which is hard to upgrade iirc), but the MacBook (Pro) is a really nice machine to upgrade, and it doesn't void your warranty. Apple even has nice instructions on how to do it. (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1270)
That probably only improves the marketing.

Blizzard's WarCraft 3 file extensions are .wtf.

Don't see any harm done.
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That's not true.

To upgrade the memory in an iMac there's 1 screw in the way.

To upgrade the memory or hard drive in a MacBook, there are 10 or so screws, but as long as you don't damage your device in the process it remains under warranty.

People like to make Apple out to be draconian about this stuff, but let's at least do basic fact-checking.
What non-mainstream solution did you have in mind?
It depends who you ask. I'm also a beginner in lisp. Wrote some hobby projects in it but it felt like swimming against the current.

lisp appeared a long time ago, when non lisp languages were really primitive. So a lot of the arguments you might read on the net might be outdated (comparing it to C or FORTRAN).

Ruby and Python give you a lot of power that a lisp language has. I guess the only thing that lisp has, which the other languages don't, is the "macro". Which (in my opinion) is like a lisp "program" running before your lisp get compiled and changes the code. So several lines can be expanded to lots of dynamically generated code.

C guys will say they have #define & such, but this is a "program" with most of lisp syntax not just some primitive ifdefs. So you can do a lot of advanced stuff.

On the other side, python & ruby have a lot more libraries. I see that common lisp has picked up steam again, with stuff like quicklisp which can be seen as "ruby gem".

So to sum it up, lisp is a powerful language, it has constructs which are still not available in other languages but you don't get the free stuff you would have in big communities as python or ruby.
There are no carriers in the US that don't play these games. Sprint is a little better about not limiting the stuff they label as Unlimited, but they still charge for tethering, have absurd overage fees if you're not on an unlimited plan, and still have Sprint/OEM specific Android builds.
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My ex did her Masters in Uni-Saarland, and based on her experience it isn't that hard to find a job with that Masters, but you must be willing to travel to get it (although she was at least a competent programmer by the time she finished her Masters.)

If you want to do productive research in NLP you will have to master either semantics and predicate logic or statistics, particularly Hidden Markov Models. Statistical approaches are much, much more productive, both in real world uses, and in terms of getting papers published.

If you are even thinking of doing the Masters you probably should, a doctorate is training for academia, in the overwhelming majority of cases if you don't want to be an academic you shouldn't do it.

The site for linguistics jobs.

http://linguistlist.org/jobs/
A more useful article would be a how to on setting up secure FTP.

Edit: Looks like I was wrong.