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Because they're desperately trying to protect the sales of hardcover books, and, in part, trade paperbacks. They don't want to risk cannibalizing sales.

Consumers look at ebooks like another variation of the same product. Publishers don't. To them, it's an entirely separate entity. To them, the question you're asking could be (very roughly) translated to "I don't understand why concert tickets aren't the same price as a CD. It's the same music."

It's a bit backwards, and the same kind of thinking that made the MPAA consider the VCR a threat to movie theaters and the MLB think that nobody would buy tickets to the ballpark if games were broadcast for free on TV.

But I can understand why they're doing it. An enormous part of their legacy business model is wrapped up in hardcover book sales.

As for production costs, it would only be paper, printing, and distribution. Nobody ever thinks about pre-production costs or employee costs in professional editors, typesetters, and jacket design. That's a lot of dough that they have to lay out that still needs to be paid out whether we're talking ink or bits.
Austerity measures on top of lack of jobs for students leaving school and a police state that grabs and searches
young men without provocation but for the color of their
skin will result in unpleasenties.
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This is basically a measure of which search engine promotes Wikipedia links more heavily in their algorithm, not a measure of the search engine's market share....
Is your single-use fee always 250 USD or did you ask a higher number because they took it without your permission?
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Hihi. Yours is exactly the kind of reaction I’m talking about. That inability to understand is always quite funny but let me try to explain regardless.

I’m perfectly happy paying money – even a lot of money – for aesthetics. Aesthetics are something of substance for me. Specifications are only one factor for me.

Design (how it is built) and aesthetics (how it looks and feels), specifications and familiarity are the four most important factors I personally use when deciding what computer to buy and they all are pretty much on equal footing for me. Four years ago, I payed $500 more (compared to a Dell laptop with similar specifications) for my MacBook Pro to get more (much better design and better aesthetics).

You might be able to better understand me if you think about something where for you personally aesthetics are an important factor, something you are willing to pay money for. I would be very surprised if there isn’t something like that for you. Maybe office chairs? Cars? Curtains? Bikes? Whatever it is, how you feel about that is how I feel about computers.

I really don’t want to convince you of that view. There is no right or wrong answer to this issue. Some care for aesthetics more, some care less. (Also: Some like Apple’s aesthetic, some don’t.) There is nothing wrong with all of that, just understand that not everyone shares your view.
In regards to your second question, check out figure 2 way at the bottom of the article where they have a breakdown of made in us with us parts vs. made in us without us parts, etc.
And what is costly about the reflection code exactly? It is just some static structures with type information and function/data pointers. I fail to see how it can impact performance in anyway. The only side effect will be an increase in binary size.
With the proliferation of Internet and Cell phones voters can make informed decisions and directly vote on Bills/Laws
Rackspace support has plummeted horribly from a few years ago. They still charge a huge premium, and act like prima donnas, but they are just not worth it.

I didn't mention softlayer because I did not want to look like a stooge but yeah, that is who I use these days. Decent prices, reasonable support, you would have to give me a reason not to go with them for a new deploy.
The only plausible explanation would be that a large portion of foreign car purchases are from the foreign factories in the US. BMW, Mercedes, and practially all of the Japanese manufacturers make some of their cars here.
I'll try to dig one up. Obviously they won't use such wording. They send out a completely automated message with fairly vague instructions. If you then do what they ask and explain the situation, you get another fully automated response rejecting that attempt.
This means either no human bothered to look into the situation or a human did look at my message, but did not feel the need to type an explanation or even apology for their decision. In stead, they press a big FY button and don't look back.
Maybe it's because I can tell which part of an email represents human effort, that I tend to get more offended by this sort of thing.
Even automated blurbs saying "we're sory if this caused any inconvienience" don't work for me.
Seriously, what kind of idiots are willing to pay that much?

The same sort of "idiots" who pay for Guiness instead of Colt 45. Market uptake comes exclusively from perceived value. Penny pinching only matters insofar as it affects perceived value.
I distinctly remember the Amazon status page (which unfortunately seems to have very little history) claiming that two availability zones were affected during that outage: one was fixed within two hours, and the other remained offline for over a day (and if you were as unlucky as me, was not fully recovered for multiple days, not just 30 hours).

Regardless, you have missed the point of this thread: I have a bunch of servers on standard non-cloud providers (like 1&1), and I have seriously had /one/ outage in the last EIGHT YEARS. In that case, a hard drive (just mine in one server, not half of the known Internet's) failed, was replaced, and my server was back up in a few hours.
They have another version that is silent, dreamplug.
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posting a epic paean

I didn't think it was all that long. I often post things longer than that, in email form or on blogs/websites I own (and probably even here as comments). Seems like an ugly thing to say and not at all accurate.
(disclaimer, I work at Rackspace via the Cloudkick acquisition)

re: 2) There is a product called RackConnect, which can bridge the public cloud which has API based provisioning, and physical servers: http://www.rackspace.com/hosting_solutions/hybrid_hosting/

re 3) I'm not sure specifically what happened in your case, but generally servers are provisioned and online in the public cloud within a few minutes -- If I had to guess, its possible the huddle you were in had some kind of capacity issue or other fault that prevented immediate provisioning. If you ever boot a server and its not online in <5 minutes, I'd go straight to support chat, and they generally can tell you what is going on.
Let's just take for the sake of argument that this wholesale model is "better" for some definition of better. The question at hand is, what right do you, or I, or anyone have to force- and here I mean, using the threat of violence or imprisonment if one doesn't comply- this model onto Amazon, Apple, or the publishers?

Amazon and Apple own their stores. The publishers own their books. Freedom of association says they have the right to decide what terms to do business with each other. We have a long tradition market pricing in this country, where everyone competes for some mix of market share and profits.

There's no evidence that the 6 publishers and Apple have colluded to set prices, quite the opposite-- in the new model the prices are variable, whereas in the previous model, the prices were fixed by one agency: Amazon.

The real change here is that there is more competition. Before Amazon had essentially a monopoly on ebook sales, and after they have to compete with Apple.

As a result, Amazon may have been able to force prices to be lower by using the publisher's assets as leverage to sell more Kindles at publisher's expense.

But now that there's competition in the ebook store market, do you really think that more competition is going to result in higher prices over time?

Looking at other media sold online, over time the prices have come down (inflation adjusted.)

You might want to fix wholesale prices at $10, but in order to do that, you really would have to engage in price fixing of some sort. That info graphic shows that the cost distribution is different, and that difference is a strong argument for ebooks being cheaper to buy - but not for a specific model of selling them.
Yup. See my comment about my wife's blogs above. Sites for absolutely non-technical audiences get 80+% of all their organic traffic, from Google.
Actually, if you don't run test your generator regularly it's very unlikely to work when you do need it.

Here's a doc from cummins, a generator mfgr:
http://www.cumminspower.com/www/literature/technicalpapers/P...

It claims that the generator should be run for 30 minutes every month, loaded to at least one third of the rated capacity. So testing every month is exactly what you want to do.
Yesterday I finally got the button. I was somewhat busy at first, so I just glanced at the games available. I was somewhat disappointed to see time-sink games, but that's obviously very subjective. Of course they had Angry Birds!

Later, when I could spend a bit more time I went back and was presented with a screen explaining that games would need access to my information and tried to paint as rosy a view of that as possible[1]. I clicked through to play Angry Birds and was presented with specifics of what that particular game wanted to access: too much. Why?! I can play Angry Birds on my phone or tablet and not give anyone my info. I declined.

1. "Games on G+ are social" or some such nonsense. Of course games are social! Giving up my private info does not make them more social. The cited examples of showing you which friends have been playing the game you're looking at could (and should) be done by G+ itself, not the game app.
By abusing the error-correcting encoding, you are now relying on your QR code being perfectly rendered and scanned in order to work. You've removed most or all of the error-correcting safety margins.
Yes Joy of Clojure does go deeper, but in my opinion Practical Clojure has, well, more practical examples. Both are great, and overlap in many areas. But for code examples, Practical Clojure over Joy.
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It seems counter intuitive, but I think it has to do with the opening up of the ebook market. Several years ago, Amazon offered the only decent ereader in town--the Kindle. Thus, given the limited market, they could dictate price and keep the market price low because there wasn't much demand.

Fast forward several years and each of the major bookstore chains offered their own ebook reader (Nook, Kobo) and tablets started offering ebook experiences--either through Amazon/Barnes and Noble/Kobo apps or the tablet creator's own ebook reader (iBooks). The market explodes in terms of the number of devices people now read on, and publishers start treating ebooks as an accepted way of offering content--with that comes the high costs in terms of marketing, promotion, post-production costs (do they do anything special for ebooks), that kind of thing.
It isn't labeled in the chart, but the text of the article notes that electronics fall into the durable goods category along with cars, furniture, etc... So they are including all imports, not cherry picking.
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Damn... though not really surprising. To me this exemplifies C++ - it does reasonable things, but in that slightly ass-backwards way that makes it annoying... like a light switch that is installed upside down.
Well, actually, it's shaped like a donut. Which, if you ask me, is definitely indication of architectural merit.
Wondering how much cheaper this makes hydrogen relative to traditional fossil fuels...
If you comment a lot on new submissions that don't go popular then it's hard to even stay above a 2 average.
One detail I find interesting in this is that Apple has not, to date, argued that the Lodys patents are invalid. Some have speculated this is because the terms of their license for the Lodys patents prevented them from making that argument. However, IIRC, Google and Apple got their licenses from the same place: their past investment (more for protection than money) in Intellectual Ventures. I think it is likely that Apple's and Google's licenses have similar terms.

That suggests that there neither Apple nor Google has an restrictions related to arguing the patents are invalid. Instead, each company has made a strategic choice in their response. Apple is trying to solve the immediate problems their developers have by intervening in the current court cases. Google, on the other hand, seems willing to let their developers suffer in the short-term so they can focus their legal resources on the long-term problem. I find it an interesting contrast in styles.
We need a new law that predicts how long it will take for someone to invoke Godwin's law after anyone mentions anything related to Nazis.
Sorry, three years ago it was impossible to find dual core SSD based net books for that price... Care to tell us what model and where you bought this wonder of engineering in 2008? Something doesn't add up.
That's in the letter too. ATT stopped considering building out their own network for $3.8B back in Jan, right around the time they started considering acquiring T-Mobile for $38B.

They decided to spend 10 times more on a process of regulatory approval and service integration that would likely take about as long as it would to simply build out their own network.

The implication being that ATT isn't doing this for T-Mo's network, but anti-competitively to crush Sprint by preventing them from getting T-Mobile's network and customers.
And you'd be wrong as well. NO ONE in all the various discourses covering this nefarious act has ever threatened him nor has anyone called for or promoted physical violence.
lftp can also continue downloads and run multiple concurrent download threads, acting as a download accelerator.

for eg.

lftp :~> pget -c -n 10 http://warez.com/large_file.mp4

will start 10 concurrent download processes (n) and continue (c). lftp is full of hidden gems.
Sounds great, thanks so much!
This is pretty pointless, as final image quality depends on a lot more than just the sensor, especially on a phone, but a better measurement of sensor quality is pixel size or density, as bigger pixels gather more light.

Pixel density is calculated as a ratio of resolution to area, is usually expressed in MP/cm^2 and lower is better.

iPhone 4: 5MP, 1/1.7", area 0.15cm^2, density 32MP/cm^2
N8: 12MP, 1/1.83", area 0.38cm^2, density 31MP/cm^2

As for the lens, I prefer wide angles, but again the raw numbers don't tell you much.
We've had people ask about using it to check up on their elderly relatives regularly, e.g. have the software email them if they haven't responded for a day or so, so it's not strictly about passing.

The features I'm adding are phone integration, which would call someone and email if they didn't pick up after X times, or something to that effect.

My email is in my profile, it's stavros@stochastictechnologies.com.
Social gifting is cool. The only problem with it is that the people who REALLY need the gift are the ones who can't afford smartphones, tablet devices, or computers. So i'd rather give my gifts the old fashioned way.

But i still like the idea in a symbolic sense.
Wonderful. I'll be in touch.
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It just ends up refreshing the page, with the form still filled in (except password fields).
The scale of human spaceflight - an animation to give a sense of proportion
I think the comment average to be a better measure. Some have high scores because they simply spend much too much time here :)
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OT: does Google intentionally delay results after 10 pages? On the 10th page, it made me do a CAPTCHA to prove I was not a bot, and then every subsequent page took a couple seconds to load. It had been nearly instantaneous before that.
<Because missing out on a cup of coffee is not going to really affect anyone involved in this experiment in any significant way.>

No, but it certainly does destroy the experiment in the process.
"When you're done talking, stop"
Clicking through the pages of this triggered google's captcha for me.
Thumbtack is a marketplace for services of all kinds such as home improvement, event services, instruction, etc. We have a number of senior services as well -- in home care, personal assistants, drivers, etc.

You can view our senior services here: http://www.thumbtack.com/browse/family/seniors/

You can email me at jonathan@thumbtack.com if you have any questions.
But then the output goes into a black hole after you close your shell
I used Clojure for 2.5 years. Here are my thoughts.

TL;DR: it's an excellent language, but it's dynamically-typed and that can be a pain.

The language itself is pretty simple. The default collection type is a lazy seq, and that takes a little bit of getting used to, but it's actually a great thing. It allows you to compose filters, maps, et al without taking a hit to performance on account of needless copying.

The language's documentation is mediocre, true, but that doesn't matter that much given that learning a new language is a 6-month (at least) investment. Trust me: if you've never used a functional programming language before, it's more than worth your time.

Some of the error messages are useless, mainly because of Java hangover. Clojure is a very pretty and powerful language built on top of an incredibly ugly one. Impedance mismatches are hardly surprising. Again, this is something that takes a few months to get a hang of, but once you've got a handle on it, it isn't so bad. Clojure is amenable to tracing/printf style debugging, which isn't so bad if you structure your code in an intelligent way. Since the language is mostly functional, the path of least resistance usually is intelligent structuring.

Clojure is a great choice if you're disciplined and willing to do, if not full-on TDD, development with a lot of testing involved. You have to unit test; fast-and-sloppy development will cripple you. It's dynamically typed, and I'll probably always prefer static, but if we accept that the static-vs.-dynamic debate remains unresolved (a lot of smart people with great arguments on both sides) I'd have to give it very high marks within the dynamic category. My ideal language would still be a statically-typed one, but Clojure is more than good enough in practice.
What would you have said about PG's writing before he had started YC, and was still working on ViaWeb? Imagine PG writing back then with the same level of introspective insight, would you have shot him down too?

I think that if you look beyond the messenger, you will see a message worth reading, irrespective of who has delivered it.
I'm a grad student in English Lit, which means I teach freshmen comp to undergrads, which in turn means they want to fight about grades at the end of each semester. One former student, who'd read this essay before I posted it (http://jseliger.com/2010/10/02/how-to-get-your-professors%E2...) asked how often students actually win grade fights, and I relied, "Never, with me."

I preface grade fights by saying, "I won't change your grade" and then talk about the paper to the extent necessary. The right way to get better grades is to do better work next time. Being on this side of the desk has definitely made me more skeptical of the students who said, "So and so was a hard grader / mean / hated me," mostly because those things might be somewhat true but can almost always be overcome by greater effort, at least at the undergrad level.

Also, grade fights can sometimes be won through silence, as James Fallows describes: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/03/-quot-... . His post is titled, "When you're done talking, stop," which might be slightly better advice than "rarely talk." Since learning the silence trick, grade fights have plummeted in length, since now I've learned to just sit there and give one sentence answers once the substance of an issue has been covered.
Surprised no one has mentioned it, but I'm impressed with Starbucks for contacting Jonathan and telling him what they were going to do with the card, and when.
True, but some have higher average comment scores b/c they avoid making comments they expect will just earn 1 point, even if doing so would be beneficial to the discussion.
I've been using dreamplugs. They are nicely done. They aren't tiny like a wall wart, more like a tall paper back book, but I've happily replaced all of my OpenWRT based systems and won't look back.

Get the JTAG/UART device, it will save your ass when you render the poor thing unbootable with a kernel replacement. There appears to be a network boot attempt in the power up, but I haven't seen documentation for it.

One caveat: The wifi range is ok, but not top notch, and when running as an access point it can only support 8 devices, which isn't much when people show up with a phone-ipad-laptop bag.
> The complaint claims that the five publishing houses forced Amazon to abandon its discount pricing and adhere to a new agency model, in which publishers set prices and extinguished competition so that retailers such as Amazon could no longer offer lower prices for e-books.

> If Amazon attempted to sell e-books below the publisher-set levels, the publishers would simply deny Amazon access to the title, the complaint claims.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hg3Qe5XrI...

Similarly,

> Recently, you may have heard that a small group of UK publishers will require booksellers to adopt an “agency model” for selling e-books. Under this model, publishers set the consumer price for each e-book and require any bookseller to sell at that price. This is unlike the traditional wholesale model that’s been in place for decades, where booksellers set consumer prices.

http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/amazon-uk-tells-customers-...

This is the price-fixing Amazon is complaining about: "you can't sell our books unless you sell them at our prices." As far as I know, their complaint has nothing to do with royalty percentages or competition with Apple's iBook prices.

(edited for clarity)
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I had to vote you up for that.

Apologies for the joke -- feel free to downvote. The meta was just too difficult to resist.

But seriously, he's right: after a certain point you start getting upvotes just -- because.

I'm not nowhere near as in the stratosphere as tptacek, but even I see it happen to my own comments from time to time. It was a lot more visible when everybody could see the comment scores.
Welcome, IBM. Seriously
http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/blog/2011/08/the-fed-disho...

These guys call BS on the Fed's numbers, and then ask why the Fed deliberately made this complex calculation in a way to deceive what is really happening
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My most used cli tool outside of the default nuts and bolts is dtrx, the best and easiest file extractor for *nix. No more fiddling with flags or looking up, handles issues with putting lots of things in different directories or the wrong permissions on files. It has saved me a ton of time over the years.

http://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/