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Who is this guy trying to fool? It's always the case that linux on the desktop takes a little longer to catch up with the latest technology. While the latest windows always works on the new stuff -- but older windows probably doesn't.

Three years ago I bought the latest asus laptop (M50sv) and lot's of stuff didn't work (sound, hibernate, bluetooth etc ) but within about 12 months with new installs of ubuntu things started to work to the point where now everything wor
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I would much rather use a working version of Ubuntu than Win7 ( I used both at work and Win7 really sucks in comparison ) . But, as I said, the latest hardware always takes awhile and any seasoned Linux user knows that, even this guy.
Thanks, I also found Dan's other site here: http://computing2.com/

So in this case the inventor did make some money off it at some point.

Abelow has a bunch of other patents that he seems to have never used himself but just sells to these various interlinked companies that then sue people. Another patent, 5251294 covers anyone using rollover menus in javascript. If you've got those and aren't paying WebVention a license fee (which is a shell company of IntellectualVentures, the company that sold to Lodsys) you might be in trouble, well except it seems to have expired in 2010, but they had a good ride up to then.

discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2609936/javascript-css-ro...

analysis:
http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?i...

litigation:
http://news.priorsmart.com/webvention-v-abercrombie-fitch-lX...
Yeah, I agree. It was fun at first to try out different places at low cost. But after doing, I've learned that it's really not a great way to discover unique experiences. As of late, I've been using an occasional deal as more of a reprioritization to which new thing I do first. That is, say, a new restaurant I've already planned on visiting. So it's still nice. But the fad is getting pretty old.
Even though a variety of hardware makers already do this with Linux, it's a different situation than with OSX. Apple can really dictate what goes where in the hardware, but Dell etc. are all buying the latest, greatest, and most cost effective hardware out there.

And since makers of that hardware, and makers of software for that hardware, are so keen to have their stuff work with Windows, they do most of the heavy lifting, leaving Dell etc to package stuff up and ship it out the door.

So while Dell etc might bust its ass getting a few Linux-based SKUs out there, they're going to have to keep up the hard work making sure it runs on the newest hardware, when the hardware manufacturers rarely care if Linux runs on their stuff at all. And as anyone who has installed Linux on brand new hardware knows, hiccups are not uncommon.

The balance of power difference is that with Windows, everyone else works hard to make sure their stuff works with Windows. With Linux, Linux devs work hard to make sure their stuff works with everyone else. And Apple just has to work well with Apple and their few suppliers.

Linux does hit a lot closer to the Windows model with Android, however.
If Curtis' latest documentary series was a courtcase, the defense would be going blue in the face shouting 'objection!' after virtually every line and the judge would likely just make a sign saying 'sustained' to hold up. Almost every assertion/connection he makes or insinuates is logically untenable. Consider the whole leap from 'some' Silicon Valley entrepreneurs following Rand, to the NY/London financial industry putting too much faith in computers. Or the supposed direness westernisation has brought about in south-east Asia - focussing on a single crisis and ignoring the broader picture. Or statements he makes about things so long passed that they somehow shouldn't need evidence, eg. the great depression 'was caused by greed.'

Basically he picks a bunch of ideas or voices, arbitrarily decides they had utmost influence on history, giving no evidence for this, then connects them to cherry-picked historical events, omitting any events that would contradict the narrative he wants to present, and also any counterpoints within the ideologies he's 'debunking.' If anyone seriously finishes watching those shows and takes it all at face value, they have some serious epistemological issues.

Was Rand happy? Think how ridiculous this is: all the stuff she accomplished in her life time, and the documentary focuses on one spell of unhappiness stemming from a personal betrayal, to paint her as a 'failed invidividual.' Think of all the difficulties other philosophers/writers ran into - yet we let their ideas stand on their own merit. Of course Rand was not happy every single day, and there's nothing about her philosophy that suggests she ought to have been, but she was (rightly) satisfied with her life.
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Think about the following scenario:

you have a point lightsource in the center of a circle. The radius of the circle is R.

You have a point on a concentric circle with radius R/2. This point is moving on the circumference of this small circle with the speed of light.

If my calculations are right the shadow of the point on the big circle runs with 2*c.
42% of the worlds poor live in India. There is very cheap labour, and extreme social inequality.

To give you an idea, a primary school teacher in an average school makes about $200-$300/month. With this type of pay scale for most middle class professions, there will be corruption. A traffic cop can make 3 months salary by pulling over a few guys speeding in their BMW's and taking a bribe from them, so why won't he, especially since the current system supports it.

Also, our judicial system in India is broken; it takes years(5-10) for any court case to get resolved, which is another problem since the corrupt don't get prosecuted in a timely manner.
No activation/licensing bullshit, feels at home on my Mac, does not try to take over the machine.
I would argue that the most cheapest option for hosting static sites nowadays is on S3.

At $0.14/GB and $1/million requests - I don't think you can get any cheaper. Or reliable, for that matter.
Is anybody keeping track of which states this applies to? I know Illinois was (one of?) the first, and now obviously CT as well. Which states remain?
But the article talks about installing WordPress. So the confusion is understandable.
Heh. I just checked, and you're absolutely right. I guess they've changed it since I first signed up.

Too bad, it was really good the other way.
It works on my FF4 ... Yeah it is using flash.
That's true in some areas, but definitely not in others. I've used a variety of media players, and generally speaking the proprietary ones are inferior. VLC, while it is a bit of a resource hog, will play anything you throw at it. Mplayer and Media Player Classic are elegant, fast, and have damn good compatibility.

iTunes and WMP are bloated crap that force you to sit through DVD warnings. WMP has gotten a lot more stable since Windows 7, but that's actually a case where it has taken Microsoft years to come up with anything approaching the usability of VLC. (And their fealty to the MPAA prevents them from taking the final user-friendly step and allowing us to watch what we want to watch on the DVDs we've purchased.)

Chrome is widely regarded as the front-runner among browsers. And to be clear, Google didn't make Chrome because they wanted a free (in both senses of the word) browser. They built it because they wanted a browser that doesn't suck. (Though I guess you could make the argument that KHTML was just a me-too product.)

I don't think Inkscape has any competitors, open or closed. It's an intuitive, full-featured vector graphics editor. Adobe Illustrator by contrast is certainly superior, but it has a learning curve that makes it unusable for people who aren't graphics designers. Inkscape is extremely innovative.
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What's so odd about this is that I have this on my macbook now but in a much more straightforward way. Each application running that outputs sound has a volume control embedded in it (itunes, vlc, flash video in youtube, etc). I go to each one and adjust the volume. Not that hard. I realize PA was trying to centralize and offer more, but it's a solution looking for a problem in most cases.

And I tried out 'airfoil' the other day (I think that was the name) that let me push out audio from different apps on my mac to 'foil speakers'? - basically other software running to capture and playback that audio. I can essentially run and manage just the audio portion of itunes on mac 1 from software on mac 2. And it 'just worked' (to reclaim the ubuntu mantra). Ahh - here: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/
Shadows and spots can appear to go faster than light. Example given in the article: We shine a laser at the moon and wave it gently. The spot of light on the moon moves across the surface faster than light would travel. However, what we call the spot of light on the moon is not an object in any real sense.

If I am standing on the Earth with my laser and I place two observers on either edge the moon, we may say colloquially that a spot has moved from one observer to the other faster than light can travel, but in actual fact what has really happened is that light has travelled from me to the first observer and then to the second observer at the speed of light, and it is just that my signal to the second observer arrived extremely soon after my signal to the first observer.
I've been moving all over the place this year and ended up buying a temporary bar stool for my current residence. It's pretty uncomfortable if you use it for long periods.

Talking of 'rickety hillbilly engineering', my desk currently consists of a chest of drawers, minus the draws. Quite a setup I've got here.
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European officials says they have confirmed that bean sprouts were the source of Europe’s deadly E. coli outbreak.
Apple’s Commoditization of Cloud Storage, Should Dropbox Worry?
RVM is indeed a life-saver. I wrote a blog post documenting RVM setup on Ubuntu a while back - may be slightly out of date by now, but it's here: http://www.bootstrapp.in/39074927
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> - Utter inability to consume streaming video, be it Netflix, Hulu or YouTube.

I'm sort of curious what version of Ubuntu you installed. I've installed Ubuntu 10.4, the default install, on a number of machines and have had zero problems with streaming video (Hulu or Youtube). I've had issues playing encrypted DVDs, but I think I just need to install a codec or something.

> Out-of-date crappy versions of libraries available through apt-get.

This is an inherent problem with the very concept of a distribution, and doesn't really go away with OS X.

Generally if you want bleeding edge software, you're better off building from source no matter what the distribution, although you might be able to tweak your sources.list to use unstable repositories.
What are the "wrong things" that you think CS focuses on?
A more accurate headline would be: Amazon.com kills affiliate marketing in Connecticut, due to dissatisfaction with new Connecticut law.
I am constantly reading that information cannot travel faster than light, and I accept each of the explanations as to why the various methods for attempting to send information faster than light do not work.

What I do not understand is whether sending information faster than light would cause a paradox of any sort. It may be that it happens to be impossible. But is it necessarily impossible?
Yes, but beyond the headline is the article :)

It actually ends with MySQL + Nginx + PHP + WordPress all running in addition to the 18 static sites, which does seem a bit unlikely to hold up very well, even if the setup shown does leave the VPS with 48MB free.
This is not just a linux phenomenon. I don't know of any desktop environment on any operating system which has improved in any meaningful way since 1996.
North Carolina, I think, is one of them.
It's sort of fun to scroll through historical logos too... http://www.google.com/logos/
Could really use a readme. Languagejs.com goes to a GoDaddy landing page.

I guess this is what PEG is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar
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Nice. I thought this was a fun little distraction. I'm glad they keep their past logo art available.
It does but at the end he also talks about running 2 or 3 wordpress sites on such a box.
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NC is one for sure. Lost my account after many years. Considering leaving the state because of it.
This article reminds me a lot about the Amazon Android App Store. Amazon is expanding its reach at the expense of many developers by giving deep discounts on their apps. Many times the developers agree to temporarily give their apps for free in the hope of acquiring more customers but what they end up acquiring is more bad reviews from customers who do not really care about the product and feel entitled that everything should be for free.
Those are the conventions in Computer Science, but the conventions in Software Engineering are different. Words having different meanings in the jargons of related fields is a really old problem, and one which has bitten me from time to time. At least we aren't arguing over whether a factor of 10 increase in something is a 10 dB or a 20 dB change.
Illinois did something similar with what it called the "Mainstreet Fairness Act" in March [1]. Illinois, as you may know, was rated as the worst state in the country for debt last year [2]. These states would rather chase after more revenues (and chase companies out of their states in the process) rather than have to do the hard work of actually cutting spending.

[1] http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-03-10/business/ct-bi...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/44/debt-10_Global-Debt-Cris...
Maybe it's just me, but sites like this really annoy me. I feel that I've been duped into clicking on a link that's just asking for my email. It doesn't tell me what it does, what benefits it offers, why I should spend time even bothering to look at all.

In short, it's completely put me off bothering again.

If you want me to engage, tell me something. Anything. Don't just take. The more you give, the more people will be engaged.
I used to be a linux only hacker since a child. Then I bought my first Mac (the first flat screen iMac) and fell in love. Recently I installed Ubuntu to my work laptop and found several workflow enhancing applications.

My work desktop is a simple two monitor setup with xmonad, several urxvt terminals, vim instances and two browsers of choice (firefox and chrome). I love it because there's no distractions, only code is visible and browser when I need it. I even use mutt with Exchange (a very perverse setup through davmail, thank you corporate policies) so I don't get notifications for emails which would distract me from programming.
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Unless you own a web host (that includes just hosting frineds/family) there is NO reason for cPanel (or other panels) except you not knowing how to run a server
Sounds a lot like my thoughts on hosting. To me, a good provider isn't necessarily the one with the best 2-second-reply support. To me, it's the provider where unless you're running a really high traffic complex site you pretty much never need to contact support. For instance, having to contact support rather than pressing a cancel button is something of a red flag for me.
Information can kill (indirectly, for instance by driving someone to commit murder or suicide) and as such it is the grandfather paradox from the article all over again.
Those people in the market for entry-level hosting don't use a VPS, they use a shared hosting service.
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This same thing happened in Colorado a few months back, and I think California has a similar bill on the horizon
Switched over 2 years ago. Got tired to get everything working so I could just work.

printing, sound, skype, ...

updates that break stuff, etc. Still like it on servers but not on my laptop ;)
Only if you let them.
This page looks to answer your question with a fairly comprehensive "we're not sure": http://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/Relativity/SpeedOfL...

(I can't vouch for its accuracy. It seems that the grandfather paradox is the biggest problem with FTL communication)
The latest revision of the Macbook Pro (8.1) is not well supported by Linux. For example, there's no driver for the built-in wireless. Even the older revisions have many features that need manual configuration to work.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro
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Your numbers are wrong, $0.14/GB is only for storage. The thing that will most likely bite you depending on what kind of site you are hosting is the $0.15/GB outbound transfers.

But yes it will still be cheap for most static sites like a jekyll blog or something, if you ever reach more than 130 GB of outbound transfer you have just reached the cost of an entry level linode with transfer of 200gb included.
My main VPS has 128mb RAM and is running a MyBB forum which gets 80k pageviews a month. If I dropped the PHP, MySQL, IRC stuff and email server I could run it on 16-32mb except when updating the software on the VPS.
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What's with the mass downvotes... I don't think my statement is wrong in any way, if so explain your point. You may of course have something to add to it, but I don't think it deserves what's it's getting.
I've heard about Amazon pulling this tactic in NY and other states that forced them to start collecting sales tax, but that is one breathtakingly petulant letter. What exactly is the constitutional issue they're alluding to?

(I live in Washington state, where Amazon has always collected sales tax, so personally it seems like a non-issue.)
I respectfully disagree.

There are a lot of things, especially when you're dealing with market sensitive information, that's best done behind the scenes. If, for instance, the Prime Minister of Spain calls the IMF and asks what kind of deal they would be able to make in a bailout of the country it's in all parties best interest to keep it secret. If this hypothetical phonecall was public everyone in the financial markets would short Spain, thus making it a selffulfilling prophecy.

I'm fairly certain that a contingency plan exists if Greece defaults. I'm also fairly certain that there's a report somewhere in the IMF stating that the chances of a Greek bankruptcy are greater than 30 or 40%. If these plans were to be made public Greece would default within a week, and wreak as much if not more havoc on the world economy than Lehmann brothers.

Some things are best negotiated out of the public view.

In a few years these records should be made public though.
Agreed I have to say its not to say that Abelow is not part of the problem, from looking at his site I have to say he's part of the systemic patent troll system. From what I can tell he just ideates and then patents without ever building anything.
This just got pushed literally today as I gave a presentation on it at CappCon, wasn't expecting it to get posted here, README and so forth are coming.

EDIT: OK, there is a README up, but again, this is not officially "launched" or anything, I was planning on putting the docs and website together this week, so check back later.
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a $7/month 1gb VPS is going to be really oversold in ost cases. My 128MB VPS is $3 a month and runs my MyBB forum great.

Apachebench on the 128mb VPS to a static page:
Document Path: /index.html
Document Length: 1046 bytes

Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 0.843 seconds
Complete requests: 10000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 12630336 bytes
HTML transferred: 10510208 bytes
Requests per second: 11867.44 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 8.426 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.084 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 14637.67 [Kbytes/sec] received
This is why I have two machines, one is windows the other is Ubuntu. Most work and browsing gets done on the linux box, and I have very few complaints. My biggest complaint was a bug in the firefox search box that seems to have been resolved; and I haven't been able to figure out how to disable touch-click on the trackpad (without disabling the trackpad entirely, which I admit is much easier to do in Linux than windows).

I'm very comfortable with cygwin, emacs, and putty on windows, and can move more or less effortlessly between windows and linux when working. The biggest annoyance is probably the slightly different copy-paste rules between putty and gnome/gnome-terminal. So I generally use Linux and Windows concurrently enough that whenever I encounter something that windows does better, I can just use that.

Because those four positives the original author lists are enormous:

* shell
* transparency, control
* package management
* lack of viruses, malware

Cygwin is good but limited. On Linux, back up your data and script your installation. Configuring a new box should take a few hours at most. On windows it will probably be days of tracking down all the software you need and getting all the right license keys and other crap.
Actually, I'm not looking at the new page. I was just looking on the main hacker news page or the AskHN page. I was more perplexed by the AskHN dropping so quickly. It was literally there for 2 seconds and as soon as I hit refresh, it was gone. Maybe my question was too long... Thanks for replying though, I really appreciate it :)
Anyone know the status of Amazon's litigation with New York State? Amazon still charges sales tax to NY addresses.
It depends on your perspective of course, if you code in asm probably C++ looks like a high level language. On the other hand if you came from the branch of Lisp, Python, Ruby, JavaScript ... C++ is as close to metal as you can get.

Strictly speaking C and C++ are between a low level languages and high level language. Lot of authors consider C as a low level language, close to assembly.
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"So Pixelmator has the Apple Store thing. One install only, so"

App Store terms say: "You can install apps on every Mac authorised for your personal use and even download them again." [1]

Also, you can create an App Store account using only gift cards that you can pay in cash. Apple will still know your IP address, of course.

[1] http://www.apple.com/se/macosx/whats-new/app-store.html
Thanks for the link.

Glad you fund a name you like, but I'm looking to avoid anything I have to explain or spell. When you talk to people about your site, how often do you have to point out that there's no 'e' in 'pixl'?
The suggestion seems to be that FTL communication is equivalent to sending information back in time. But the explanation on this page asks me to make massive leaps. I can only imagine it is not meant to explain, but rather as a reminder for people who already understand the explanation.
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