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If your are not an advance user probably you have never read an EULA. Probably you do not even know what it is. We should change that. An EULA is a contract that you usually sign without reading because it's boring, it's intelligible, it's does not matter... because it is your right not to read what you agree (even if you are selling your soul!).
We should change that. Why can't we make them user friendly?
Keep the billionths page EULA but add a visual presentation that shows what it is about. Expose the fact that you want to make money or change the world with that program. Even if you do not care!!!
Add a “Like” or “Dislike” button at the end. “I agree but I have not read it because it is ….”.
User will have to agree anyway because that is the way you decide it has to be. It is still your program. If they do not like it they can write theirs.
I consider that this is important because there is a lot of good people out there and they should know what they are agreeing to.
I understand that they do not care but if we want to build a better place to hangout we should try, at least, to make things easier and faster for everybody.
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As I remember, it was supposed to be two vehicles: a people-mover and a "space truck". Budget cuts and general human stupidity turned the project into a single, crappy vehicle.
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Yup. There are a lot of variations on "circles" that can make sense in different contexts. I'm hoping that Google+ adds more.

Currently I'm just categorizing people by how I know them. For instance if I know them through work, which job(s) did I work with them in?
Why not build both, launch and A/B test them. Your real end users should be telling you (via stats) which they choose. The hard part might be determining the why.
I was thinking of the Lion King.
The primary motivation for rolling out the cell networks was to provide voice coverage, or else SMS wouldn't be a hack on to the GSM protocol and we won't have things like a 140 character limit.

Before there was voice, there was paging. I'm not super familiar with GSM, but I know for CDMA the reason SMS messages have a small fixed size is they used to go out over the paging channel. I don't think that's the case any more for CDMA. I'm kind of surprised it is for GSM.

In any case, the point is there's no objective way to untangle costs in an item that has a large implementation cost but provides more than one service.
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YouTube comments have actually improved a lot over the past couple of years. They have advanced from what was once a morass of non-sequitur racial slurs in vaguely parseable sentences to a predictable pattern of self-amused meme repetition.
It is funny you mention Teletext, my grandpa uses that almost exclusively for almost everything, especially flight status when he is coming to pick someone up from the airport.

It is also generally presented in a much less confusing way than any other format, and doesn't have thousands of distracting ads all over the place.
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A similar comment was left on the Business Insider[1] post earlier this morning. It does seem quite hyperbolic an insinuation.

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-walk-in-the-w...
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I'm part of an accelerator and working on a product that I strongly believe in. It's in an industry that's just ripe for disruption - online payments & selling online - so I'm even more excited about that.

I'm young. 21. Haven't dealt with something like this before. So, I'm wondering if anyone has had experience with this and what, if anything, you did to help you deal with this?

I never understood the comment "Startups are like roller-coasters".

Yesterday, I was on top of the World. Hey, we're about to be the next Craigslist/PayPal/eBay/Amazon. Today, I'm significantly lower. These hurdles are getting more insane; what's the chance of us breaking through?

The day before, I was up. Then low. Etc.

Have you experienced this personally? How have you dealt with it? Is what I'm experiencing abnormal? Appreciate if you can shed any additional light on this subject.

Gracias.
Yes, India has a caste system. It hasn't "gone away", but it doesn't necessarily mean everyone in the same family is always forced to work in the same profession and it hasn't had the force of law for quite a while. These things can subtly create significant hurdles for many people, but so does poverty or membership in unpopular groups for people in countries other than India. I think I am pro free marker, but something I find irritating is Tom Friedman-esque simplistic assumptions that aren't true. I don't think many village laborers were able to improve their lot and become school teachers due to BPO businesses. Its not a statement against globalization, just the way things are right now. Also, the economic liberalization process changed some things about Indian commerce irrespective of globalization.
Wings!

Shuttle had wings thanks to the Air Force joining the project, then the Air Force dropped out, but Shuttle still had wings.

Of all the problems with Shuttle the wings bother me the most.
Interesting point. So is your user name, given the discussion :)
> He agreed to start a company with Elbring and invest an initial $500,000 through his trust — in installments, to ensure certain benchmarks were reached.

This kind of offer is generally a warning sign, btw.
> accessing someone else's voice mail is no less a crime if they don't have a PIN set.

So by extension, you're saying if I setup a directory on my website called /admin and don't password protect it, then you could be committing a criminal offense if you decide to access it?

Personally I think there is a difference. If there is NO security, then it could be argued that it was intended to be public. If there is security, but it is bypassed, then obviously that is a violation.

So I'm with you that the difficulty of hacking isn't related to the severity. But in the particular case of having no PIN, no password protection, there is no hacking taking place. So it's a moot point IMHO.
I like the new look. I've always liked a darker screen while watching a video especially for long periods of time. I also like the wide variety of sizes you can change the video screen too. I do however wish there was a fit to screen option as I often like to watch a video while working on another part of my screen. Perhaps a screen dimmer that darkens all but the video.
i use mplayer with smplayer and it is amazing. I couldn't watch high res HD on any of my computers with VLC and now i can run it on my old, shitty netbook. I've also heard good things about potplayer but i've never used.
What exactly do you base that claim on? Can you cite some relevant law that says it's only a crime to steal trade secrets when the door was locked?
I still woundn't mind some investigation on how the call/video feature works.
The post mentions some java. We are not talking about applets here are we?
This sounds like thenextweb.com's implementation of RSS subscriptions. A modal window pops up when you click the RSS icon on the right; it says "Pick & Mix The Blogs You Want to Subscribe To". Is that similar to what you propose? I do like that.

Looking forward trying all this stuff out. Hope they send more invites soon, they actually opened for about 30 minutes last midnight.
Yesterday's news:

"Procter & Gamble, Asda and Tesco consider pulling News of the World ads

Coca-Cola GB and other major brands voice concerns as Halifax, Co-op, Vauxhall and Virgin Hollidays join ad exodus"

-- The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/news-of-the-worl...

Let me emphasize, that was yesterday. The trickle turned into a flood and then a tsunami today: by the time NewsCorp announced the closure of "News of the World" they only had one major advertiser left on board.
You are requesting nested circles.
Surprised that I cannot change the currency from $. Or am I missing some setting?
Brooks is a neighbour of, and close personal friend of, the Prime Minister.
I don't believe Google are limiting supply to create buzz, but I do believe they are focusing too much on making sure everyone who gets in has a perfect experience in terms of responsiveness and lack of bugs.

Twitter is living proof that if your service is compelling enough people will put up with a LOT of unreliability (and in the context of a network like Twitter, FB, or G+, compelling means 'are there many people I personally want to interact with it on the service'). Will they also put up with a brick wall keeping them and/or their friends and family out (regardless of why it exists)? Will they tolerate the extremely confusing UX (even from a techie's perspective) that goes along with trying to scale that wall? I guess with Google+ we will find out one way or the other.

My main beef with Google+ isn't even that it is limited right now (though that does suck for a 'social network') but rather that the invite system doesn't make any kind of rational sense and the funky way it works isn't properly communicated to users at all.
It can be argued that religion invented retconning way before we could think of a name for that process.

Noah is the retconning of Gilgamesh, Jesus the retconning of Ra, etc.

Every religious explanation should be taken with a ton of salt.
Is there an RSS Feed for Google + Stream?
One of the main questions is how wide/broad spectrum a light source is. CFL's, I believe, have strong & narrow emission bands[1]. LED's tend to be a bit fatter (also shown in link[1]).

I adore NIST's "Spectrally tunable lighting facility"[2]: a room with a huge variety of different narrow-ish-band LED's. You talked about a tuneable RGB array for selecting color, this is the same idea but comprised of 22 different colors, giving way better spectral control. Humans might not know the difference when they're looking at grey cards, but when it comes to seeing how different spectrums of light interact with real objects, I really like this idea of a tunable light source.

[1] http://web.ncf.ca/jim/misc/cfl/
[2] http://www.nist.gov/pml/div685/grp05/vision_lighting.cfm
What of toasters? I assume that in the U.K. you do not need any sort of certification whatsoever to use a toaster. Yet nobody suggests that we go out of our way to design toasters for the portion of the population for which toasted bread is alien.
Shuttle does one thing very well: it's a gorgeous sight watching her lift off. And seeing her glide to a landing is like poetry.

Too complex, too expensive, not best at any one thing.

But a sight to see.
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Microsoft loves arrangements where you have to pay them whether or not you're using their product. In fact this was the subject of the first anti-trust case against them which was settled out of court. (Not many people remember this one.) See http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/467487/the_antitrus... for confirmation.
Time to feed the troll:

First off, PyPy uses a JIT, so there's no obvious reason why it would have to be slower than 'optimized SIMD code' (whatever that is). The actual performance all depends on the quality of the JIT and the quality of the input into the JIT.

Second, they clearly state in the blog post that the PyPy version of the algorithm is easier to write than the equivalent C++, because the JIT can transform their polymorphic Python into efficient native code - doing the same with C++ would require the use of template expansion or a code generator.

Third, if the idea of sacrificing a tiny amount of performance in order to reduce the cost of development and maintenance is that abhorrent to you, Python is almost certainly Not For You.
I have had fine service with Comcast. The thing to remember is that Comcast is basically an umbrella over many companies generally separated by state. To further complicate things one area within a state may have better equipment than another area.
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I am not requesting nested circles. Though a lot of people have requested that.
An example: if you are in Salt Lake City, your traffic to the west coast (i.e. California and Washington) is first routed to Dallas, TX, then across New Mexico and Arizona on a saturated link that limits you to a few mbits/s.
Of course that's true as an outside investor working under the efficient markets hypothesis, which is hard to beat. But it's not how a principal like Zuckerberg, who can actually affect the valuation through strategy and recruiting, should view or portray things.

And I'm not making an extrapolative prediction of Facebook's value, just reminding people that the idea of Apple as a $300B-plus behemoth is itself fairly recent, and required an at-the-time unforeseeable surge in value from its Facebook-like $70B valuation just 5 years ago.

Thus rather than Apple providing an example of a height Facebook can't reach, as the great-grandparent post seems to imply, Apple suggests the opposite, that a $70B company can become a $330B company, in less time than pure faith in the market valuations might suggest.

Finally, the $70B valuation is not a market prediction that the actual trading value of Facebook will remain $70B in the future: merely that $70B is the best consensus average from public information, weighted over all considered futures. Very roughly, maybe there's a 4/5 chance Facebook falls back to $10B, and a 1/5 chance it races forward to $310B. Voila, that risk-neutral average value is $70B. So, a Facebook of Apple's size is 'thinkable', and there's essentially no chance that $70B is its actual value after this all plays out.
Then suddenly a court had evidence "someone" had deleted voicemails from a kidnap/rape/murder of a 13yr old. Within hours everyone from the PM down had hung them out to dry.

Not just any murder victim -- she was one of the victims of serial killer Levi Bellfield, just recently convicted of multiple rape/murders. And the deletion of voice mails (allegedly because Milly's voicemail box had filled up, and the journalists wanted more material to work with, so they deleted earlier messages to free up space) had mislead Milly Dowler's parents, and probably the police, into thinking she was still alive -- thus impacting an investigation into a serial killer.

Let's also add that another assault/attempted abduction prosecution against Bellfield had to be called off this week due to the tabloid news media prejudicing the jury.

This goes beyond hacking and phone bugging and into the territory of interfering with the judicial system, to the detriment of extremely serious investigations and prosecutions.
All the bank ATM's I've encountered here in the UK won't dispense cash until you've taken your card back out of the slot.

The first ATM I used in Thailand a few years ago, dispensed the cash and then gave the card back. Needless to say I walked off with my money and no card. That turned into a fun holiday....
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Ignoring the issue of user network adoption, I would love to drop Facebook in favor of G+. But I can't until G+ at least replicates some things it's missing from FB, like Events, and possibly better one-on-one messaging (which I would hope would take the form of email backed by GMail, just as G+ photo sharing is backed by Picasa), and some form of groups/shared circles.

But agreed in that I don't want to see G+ succumb to feature-creep. While I do want to see some sort of API/platform to build stuff, if G+ gets crapped on with Zynga-madness, it'll make me cry.
Curious to know if this piece of company culture came about right from the get-go or if you started pushing this mentality once the company was stable and making steady revenue?
Facebook reports monthly active users - people who have visited the site in the last 30 days. You (and anyone else who hasn't visited in last 30 days) are not included in that number.

Refs:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/10/dear-tech-press-lets-cut-th...

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/07/06/facebook-750-millio...
None, Facebook user counts are people who actively use the service.
LED & CFL are very much opposite situations for powering: LED uses very low voltage DC at high currents, and CFL uses high frequency high voltage low current. LED's have to be current limited.

I recently picked up a 2V 100A power supply off ebay for some LED projects. :)
How did I know you'd be citing the Grauniad...

They have by far the highest readership of any sunday paper. That wouldn't evaporate overnight.
Hey Bijan,

We had this baked in from the get-go, although I don't see why a company couldn't start any time. We've always been protective of work-life balance, but it was hard to articulate why until recently.
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'Regular white light' I take to mean a daylight spectrum, not the the warm orange of incandescents, sunset-like and pleasing though it may be. Halogen lights take time to warm up and their color spectrum shifts along the way. I like them, but they don't deliver a real daylight look. Any time I've ever shot at night using a HMI people's skin looks purplish unless you add in some incandescent light to warm it up. I am not saying that LEDs magically solve this problem, but that their limitations as stated above are really not that bad.

The problem is that people can't tune the color filtering in each of their rooms with the expertise of a Hollywood cinematographer.

It's an awful lot easier to do now. For old-style cinematography you were basically dealing with bulbs of a fixed color temperature, gels, and a dimmer switch. Building the lighting setup so that it looks good on camera was a very complex task - in fact that's one reason that the title 'cinematographer' got upgraded to DP/Director of Photography. (There's a joke: why don't more DPs smoke? Because it takes them 3 hours to light anything.)

Now with an LED array, you can basically just twiddle a few knobs and get the color you like. If you're shooting video it's especially easy, because you can just hold up a color card and match it against some other scene or even have a computer do the matching for you. But even with film, you can still shoot a polaroid and get the color matching done a lot faster on a small-to-medium set with LEDs. And a lot more cheaply, too, because everyone knows that LEDs are commodity components. If someone wants to do this at home with mood lighting (say, recessed strips around the ceiling with 3 tracks of red, green and blue LEDs connected to a dimmer - something that can be done for a few hundred bucks)...well, it ain't that hard.

As for testing, I can simply start another thread about it if the results are sufficiently interesting.
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I don't understand that logic. It's $5 taken from the cost of the device, and because of those $5 baked into the cost, it probably makes the devices $10-$15 extra at the retail store.

Also they are planning on charging Samsung $15 license fee, so that would be a lot for a $150 phone.
I would argue that Rodolfo Llinás in fact knows more about the brain than either one of your two philosophers.

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I'm working on a very early stage startup to solve this exact problem. One of our main challenges though seems the hardest part of finding a solution is having a social graph to test with, or how to gain traction in the first place. Content algorithms inherently need a lot of participation.
Depends on the monetization methods. Google turning on the revenue didn't drive people away, in either the original CPM or eventual CPC incarnations.

In fact, extra results ranked by ability-to-pay (rather than other hypertext algorithms) can be uniquely valuable for many commercial searches; Google's AdWords monetization is thus often a boost, not a drain, on its attractiveness to users.

If Facebook finds a similar revenue fountain — and their incremental deliberateness in monetization suggests they want to — look out, world.
They treat their engineers like rock stars[1]. It is a very intense environment though, in which not all personality types will flourish.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-now-the-best-tech...
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Interesting to note that this was probably largely down to a concerted twitter campaign - egged on, as ever, by the gruaniad. See #notw over the last few days.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/06/news-of-...
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I don't think naming your store the App Store is good for branding anyway if you're Amazon.
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Sure, and I'm not arguing against any of that... I'm just saying that the way for Google to implement "events" is to thoroughly integrate G+ with GCal, so that you can do all those things. And I hope that's what they do, as I - for one - don't want yet another place that I have to pay attention to, to keep track of events.

Thankfully almost everything calendar related supports ical or some export format that Google Calendar can handle, or it'd be a real mess. :-)
Used it for an internal app last year at a certain big blue company. People claim it's light years better than struts, but I would never want to use it in a personal project.
HTC is paying $5 per phone, but they also get protection against Apple. I don't think HTC would've signed the deal with Microsoft, if it wasn't for the Apple lawsuit.
Congratulations! I knew someone was going to call me out on that when I wrote it. Much easier to make pointless observations than to actually contribute, after all.