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That's different from what the OP is talking about. You raised prices and volume went down. He raised prices and volume went UP.

At a glance the simple explanation, having some experience in marketing myself, is that $19.99 is a magic price point- 9/10 times you will not see any price point on an infomercial that isn't $19.99 or $19.95. And it's because it's a magic price point. Hard to explain but it works.

If he had gone from $19.99 to 39.99 or from 4.99 to 9.99 it would not ave had this effect- his volumes would have gone down. But if you want to sell something at $14.99, 9.99 or 24.99, don't do it- just sell it at 19.99.
"Buy old hardware" is not a way to get people to stay on or move to your platform of choice. People don't care why their stuff doesn't work--just that it does not.
"90% just want to consume." Do they only want to consume, no matter the service/site? Or, does somebody just need to build a better experience?
The story of TidySongs, RealNetworks and their abandoned customers...
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P.S. I dont completely trust Phoronix, but I'm beginning to think that the power regression thing is real http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux...
Small technicality: It isn't your KVM that's doing the mapping, but the OS that's interpreting the key this way. I believe the keyboards send the same signal.
I see a lot of people are comfortable drawing arbitrary lines grouping people together into categories and calling it something else. Whether you want to get into whether Italians are a race or a culture is a semantic issue, and it completely skips the point. You're lumping a group of people together and making broad (negative) stereotypes about them without nuance or understanding.
Mine doesn't, and I don't miss it.

Not everyone needs a car that goes over 65... I'd actually argue that in non-US cities, the vast majority don't need it 99% of the time (the 1% being when you're planning on doing a road trip).

See also: Tata Nano or Maruti 800 (my car).

OTOH, I'd really appreciate 1gbps internet :) . In a college in Germany they had 1gbps for all the students, and they enjoyed streaming HD movies and all that.
I am happy with an Acer netbook and a Dell i5 latitude. The Acer isn't fast, mostly thanks to its slow hard disk, but the Dell is good enough. Its GPU won't win any speed contests.

If you feel adventurous, burn a copy of Ubuntu on a USB stick and go to a computer store. Last time I did that I promised the salesman I wouldn't harm their display computers and the guy let me boot a lot of them under Linux so I could check what worked and what didn't.

I'll soon replace the Acer with a Vostro v130. It's small, light and has a configuration that comes with Linux preinstalled. I'll reinstall it immediately, but it's good to know it works.
From what I've seen the long meals and afternoon naps are a myth (even in Spain people don't do that anymore). In fact, I'm willing to assert Italians work harder than the French. They have a 40 hour work week (the French have 35) and three weeks vacation (5 in France, by law). The French are exactly as hedonistic as the Italians, so whatever incompatibilities the Italian way of life has with a strong economy, they would be a factor in France as well. However, I have yet to read the article or comment on HN supporting the urgent need to completely restructure the French economy.
I continue to use a number of (sometimes modified) bookmarklets from squarefree. They are also useful in skirting restrictions in environments where you are "not supposed to install stuff" (but where concerns are not so severe as to prevent execution of Javascript with which you are familiar).

It's also nice to be able to do the same things in an arbitrary set of browsers (for the most part).
I find it highly unlikely that Stack Overflow's phantom profiles and similar features are an intended casualty of those laws. Unless politicians just hate the internet.
In my experience this is not the case. I am using the new AMD drivers (I belive) on Ubuntu 11.04 and the performance is terrible. Alt-tabbing to switch between windows even incurs a second+ delay. I reverted back to the open source one and it at least functions.
The most interesting part of the article is the end which discusses the validity of IQ tests in general. This kind of reminds me of how much is read into the Marshmallow Test, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment
It is fascinating to see the market develop so fast. I have created http://www.longnumbers.com as an industry portal. I need feedback. Please tell me what y'all think.
Now that's weird; I wasn't even aware that the apple symbol had been removed from the apple key. Both my apple keyboards (one on a IIci, and one on my ~2004 Powerbook G4) have apples on them. I wonder why they removed it.

EDIT: according to wikipedia, they removed the apple to make space for the word "command" (or "cmd" in Europe). Makes sense, I guess.
In a lot of cases you can directional bore underneath the streets. It can really reduce the amount of above ground disruptions.
So you can stop thinking about outdated things like the "local network" vs "the internet".

If you can store all your stuff remotely, and get it as quickly and easily as if it were on a local NAS suddenly things get a lot easier.

Ironically, it's the non-geeks who need this the most, because they can't setup a NAS. How many people do you see emailing images to themselves so they can get it on their other computer? Every person who does that needs 1Gbps internet so they can do that for their entire photo and film collection.

(And yes, I know Dropbox helps with this scenario, but even Dropbox is better with 1Gbps intenet...)
Should Google switch to Wikipedia as its ranking function for the whole web?
Google could use Wikipedia as a way to process queries to determine the sorts of non-Wikipedia web pages that should rank highly.

For example, when searching for "8 queens variants", Google might use the information here to determine which non-Wikipedia web pages to rank highly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle#Related_problems

Do you think this would be a good idea?
I agree. I use Linux religiously for development and server setups. The only part I don't like about it is using the desktop as I would Windows 7 or OS X. And really the two things that bother me are just Unity and AMD drivers and hardware. Without those the experience is just fine.
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I was the first person in my township to get FIOS. At that time, their customer service was excellent and in-line with what you both are saying. But over the past 5 years it has steadily degraded. The service itself is great, but you no longer quickly get the technical help you need.
The original Mac had no Apple logo on its command key. They added the Apple logo some years later and it stayed there until 2007 when it was removed.
AT&T DSL here, pretty good for latency (low jitter, sub 60 ms, in WoW, SC2, TF2, and others while on wifi as well), not so good for throughput (only goes up to 6 mbps in my area, we have 3 mbps I think).
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But I can't help myself: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
If all of that facebook-page-type-stuff was saved on the wart, then we wouldn't be prevented from browsing through it while they were personally offline with their computer powered down. I assume that would be the plan - but if I'm wrong, I would share your doubts about this catching on as a drop-in facebook replacement.

-edit-

To be clear, I'm imagining pictures, an activity stream, a presence server, and maybe a calendar and a blog sitting directly on the wart - independent of a separate computer to such an extent that a person wouldn't even have to own an actual desktop or laptop to use the appliance to its full extent, maybe just a cell phone app to update these things, or even updating them through public or other people's computers over the internet. If friendly neighbors left their freedomboxes open to your through traffic, it might not even necessitate a local internet connection.
I don't think we can expect all the different service providers to agree on a standardized API, but that doesn't mean it wouldnt make sense for someone or group of someones to take up the cause of creating a standardized API for a category of services and maintaining the connections to all of the different providers.
Typo, if any EFF people are here:

> (...) in many instances, will come out to than the cost of defending a lawsuit.

I assume it should read "will come out to be more than the cost".
I've got 100Mbps fiber for less than $20. There is better plan: 300Mbps for $32. On the other hand my country is the leader in fiber-to-the-home. Benefits of being small.
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Lossless data compression is the technique which is used when the original form of data needs to be reconstructed again but with some compression in it. Mostly the lossless compression techniques are
FWIW, Acorn 3.0 has layer styles listed as a feature: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Author submitted the post directly to HN a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639214
This book is excellent - http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ . I have a whole working system based on the exercises in this book - https://github.com/jamii/tecs .
Knuth TAOCP 1.2.11.2 People often abuse O-notation by assuming that it gives an exact order of growth; they use it as if it specifies a lower bound as well as an upper bound. [It looks to me like Knuth does this on page 389 2.3.4.4 right after equation 14.] For example, an algorithm to sort n numbers might be called inefficient "because its running time is O(n^2)." But a running time of O(n^2) dos not necessarily imply that the running time is not also O(n). There's another notation, Big Omega, for lower bounds

I find this a bit confusing because it's unclear to me what Knuth actually endorses for use in average case description.

Wikipedia: Although developed as a part of pure mathematics, this notation is now frequently also used in the analysis of algorithms to describe an algorithm's usage of computational resources: the worst case or average case running time or memory usage of an algorithm is often expressed as a function of the length of its input using big O notation. Wikipedia and the web in general have many examples of "worst case O(...)" which would be redundant under your convention.

So clearly one needs to be vigilant about assumptions when discussing average case, but common usage does not agree that big-oh notation implies worst case.
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Yes. In my town there was an undergrounding project for a certain, high-end neighborhood. The residents voted to pay for the cost themselves. About half way into it, the project hit a snag--unexpected rock, which was difficult to drill through and increased costs quite a lot. The contract with the residents was poorly written and the city, it turns out, was on the hook for the overage. The city canceled the project, because they couldn't afford it and the residents wouldn't pay the extra amount. Lawsuits were flying and it took a couple of years to settle it. The city ended up losing 1/3 of the general fund to this mess.

So, yeah, undergrounding is a mess.
> This way you should be safe, unless whole world conspires against you.

That may be an egocentric way to look at being a victim. Perhaps the target of the malicious hardware is the whole world, and you were just caught in the net.
In some circumstances the usual formula that you know and love is unstable, and if you need to solve quadratics, you need to use a more numerically stable form.
I saw a news bit about how breakout ISPs in the UK are selling 100mbps(I believe I might be wrong on the speed) for as low as 6.99 quid.

If only.
A decade or two ago, someone proved that it was impossible to accurately separate code from data in general x86 (and then made a tool that sort of almost worked as best he could, with something like 99% accuracy). Does it scare anyone else that we are apparently in the position of putting forward grants to solve known-impossible problems? :(
Another issue is that discussing project requirements is usually done very badly.

If you don't know any programming, you won't know when to ask for a professional.

You know that an automated weekly task is easy. You know that scraping names out of an API is easy. So you can do it yourself, or pay a pro a few hundred to do it.

If the task to be automated was different, i.e. "put all the confidential emails into a special folder, and forward everything else to a public archive" then it would a little more expensive. You only know that because you know that computers can't differentiate "private" emails, wich you know because you know how to program.
It's actually interesting, because Job's complaint about "wearing out" the Apple logo with over-exposure is a well known problem in design… and, well, propaganda, too.

The Nazis had a similar problem towards the end of the war: absolutely everything they produced was adorned with a swastika. They called that phenomenon "Hakenkreutzkitsch" (swastika kitsch)

Just to be correct, because fanbois are easily upset: I'm in no way comparing Apple's marketing to 3rd Reich propaganda, instead I'm trying to show that Jobs made a very good call here: it's a well-known problem, an old one at that. You lose the power of your symbol, its special meaning, and recognizability.
Interesting read. When it comes down to it the answer seems to be that JavaScript needs to have support added for explicit parallelism. But isn't this what we're supposed to get with HTML5 web workers? It shouldn't be hard to write a utility library to implement parallel map, reduce, and so on in terms of spawning workers, falling back to serial execution if the worker API isn't available.

In either case, this will require a rewrite of every piece of code that needs it.

Speeding up/backgrounding the JIT compilation phase is a transparent optimization that I'm sure some smart people at Apple, Google, and Mozilla are already working on.
Here's the sad part (unless you bought into their shares early): You're paying for their dividends (i.e. payouts to shareholders). It's their fiduciary duty.

However, companies like them need to realize that there are more stakeholders (like the community) than just shareholders.
Ok, sorry my original comment was incorrect, I meant "by me being offline" by the physical device being unplugged or say electricity lost. And yes the wall plug idea is nice and really I would love this to be a reality, but there will have to be some sort of breakthrough in this distributed nature.

Some sort of p2p hosting solution, not sure how it would work exactly.
So you posted this question here as "Ask HN:" and it got no traction; now you posted it no Quora and have posted that link here -- is there some ulterior motive you have?
This is a great lesson for developing a sales strategy. People are more willing to do things if you bring it to them. Even more so, offering something that gives an automatic solution to a current problem will most likely create a sale. Simple idea, but great to apply to every sale.
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Indeed, I'm in the same camp. I've run into hurdles getting Linux installations to work, but nothing near the headache I've had trying to get a proper Emacs setup.

I've been using some flavour of Linux as my primary OS for over three years now. Windows 7 seems like a big improvement over previous version of Windows, but I have driver issues like you wouldn't believe, whereas Ubuntu works flawlessly on first installation on the same hardware. OSX is nice, but it's just uncomfortable because it offers a lot of what Linux offers, but in a rigid, UI-driven way that you'd expect from Windows.

For technical users, (technical users like me, at least) Linux is still where it's at.
Christensen's dilemma is that incumbents' customers don't want it yet - it simply isn't good enough along the dimensions they value.

> As Clayton points out in his book innovation always loses in the 'risk' evaluation.

That's not my understanding - can you indicate where he says that?
No legal issues, though you would want some insurance. Even if there are, if you get something that works then the big boys like Wallmart will fix things up for you.
Regressions abound. I've been bitten more than once by X server upgrades, driver changes and kernel fix-ups that made my otherwise linux-friendly laptop go hayware. For a year now I've had to run my system with KMS polling turned of -- otherwise, I can't move my trackpad without getting 100% cpu usage by kworker processes.
Uh. Not really.

Directional boring is one of the most expensive ways to lay cable. Just going underneath at standard two lane road in a residential neighborhood is something like $50-$100K.

Undergrounding utilities (esp in a metro area) runs something like $250K to $1M/mile. There are many, many variables that affect cost.

Underground cables are also much more susceptible to failure when compared with aerial cables. When they do fail, it's sometimes more costly to repair them if they are buried as opposed to attached to a pole.
Actually, to be precise, one of the machines was an early Eee PC, costing 300 EUR, with a 4 GB SSD. :-P
I've had quite a bad experience with CS. It focuses on all the wrong things.
That's mostly true, but there's still the latency benefits of physical proximity. For example, just for an electric signal to travel 6000km across the country, it will take t=6000km/v where v=c/n (c = speed of light, 3e8 m/s and n = refractive index of fiber, 1.62). So it'll take 32.4 ms just to send a packet across the states, and another 32.4 ms to receive one back. This doesn't even take into effect the latency from the routers in the way, and other things like that your message doesn't go in a completely straight path.

So latency is really important if you're doing something like playing a real time game. 32ms is basically a single frame if you're playing at 30 fps. Some people will notice if they're constantly a frame behind.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_fiber
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Many people have asked me to provide a good UI design for wGetGui. I've started this with a new post "Don’t design like a programmer, Part 2" (see http://bit.ly/lceiAx).

Thing is, it would be a mistake to jump to a solution and the process behind the solution is ultimately more educational. So, I'm starting with the process and will apply the process to create a good design in Part 3.
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Preventing any sort of tracking without consent is the overt goal of these laws, and tracking users who have chosen not to log in sounds a lot like tracking without consent to me. YMMV.

[Edit: Just to be clear, if users have explicitly chosen to use cookies for persistence of a "phantom" identity, then this is not without consent, and neither I nor the laws in question have a problem with it.]
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it seems my ability to write coherently decreases significantly after a single drink...

What I was trying to say was that it is quite interesting that something like this is "news" and moreover, that we find it surprising.

If we can be just as productive as we were in the 90s, when we were all doing better (seemingly), why can't we have a similar quality of life?

This all reminds me of an old story posted on HN: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in...

Record profits and increased efficiency seem like they ought to lead to an improved quality of life. Shouldn't they?
Makes as much sense as switching to OS X. The Mac OS is not Linux.

Sure, but it's much closer than Windows. OS X is a Unix and things written for Linux will often compile on OS X without significant hassles. Windows has some optional layers to do this but it's not the same as running a Unix through and through.

The VM route is an appealing one though and one I use myself from OS X. From what I've seen virtualizing Linux under OS X is a more seamless and pleasant experience than on Windows but perhaps things have come along there since I last looked.
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Can you elaborate what you mean by it focuses on the wrong things? I'm confused because Computer Science is a tool that is supposed to enable you to focus on what you want.
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Yes. Ubuntu is particularly good in that regard. I've tried to run Fedora for a month and, man, is that thing brittle or what?
Tell us what software packages and drivers you're using first! :D
Forgot that existed. That is a smart way to get people coming back each week, but doesn't solve the same problem as granularly as Moviemail. Whenitdrops : Moviemail :: Coolhunting : Set-and-forget. (You can set-and-forget with Whenitdrops with their weekly email but that inherently provides more noise than signal. Moviemail is all signal.)
Noticed from the Kickstarter page:

"Such boxes exist in the form of plug computers and mesh routers, tiny, inexpensive machines that can take the place of other electronics in your life, that draw so little power (often as little as 5W) that they can be run off of batteries or solar panels."

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/721744279/push-the-freed...
That's what they said with the railroads. They should have said: fine, don't.

But politicians are short-sighted.
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I don't speak for the author, but I'd wager that his existing fleet of hardware is the reason, especially the new machine he was complaining about. He can install Windows on that machine and it will probably Just Work.

If he were setting out to buy a new machine and was choosing between one with Windows and one with OX X, he might make a different decision.
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