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"Games like Combat, Air/Sea battle and Snoopy and the Red Baron were great games on the 2600."

I don't disagree that those were great games. But I don't think they are great games (today), which is the difference I was trying to get at.

Super Mario Brothers was a great game, and IMO is still a great game when I play it. All the old 2600 games that I played for hours and hours and had great fun with back in the very late 70s/early 80s were great when I played them then, but they are not actually fun for me to go back and play now... the core game mechanics of that era can be tweaked to be fun but the originals are still just too raw or repetitive to be fun IMO. eg. I really liked the Pac Man Championship Edition game that came out a few years ago though I don't really enjoy playing the original Pac Man much these days.

Obviously there is some subjective bias here and each individual's views on this are probably colored by how much gaming they've done in the intermediate years, etc.
This is true also because Steve Jobs speaks about it in his Stanford speech, but it's a rare event that you cannot know in advance. No company fires the CEO to let him learn more and then come back to rescue the company.

Moreover Apple went on the verge of bankruptcy before Steve Jobs came back. So it was still a bad decision for the board to fire him.
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What is hard about programming has very little to do with learning a programming language and everything to do with more abstract concepts and ways of structuring solutions. The equivalent of CS concepts like object orientation or functional programming would be types of writing such as essays, or newspaper articles.

Thanks for putting into words what I meant but wasn't sure how to express.
In 2011, the the U.S. government will spend more money directly bailing out Fannie Mae than it will spend on NASA's entire budget.
Firing Hurd was the right thing to do - I will argue that they were late. Hurd was seen as aligning with Oracle and making decisions that did not conflict with Oracle. EDS, conveniently missed Sun acquisition, consumer focus in lieu of enterprise paints a consistent picture. There is a reason Hurd now works at Oracle and Larry did not like him getting fired. Besides show me what he did apart from cost cutting.

Apotheker comes from Oracle's competitor SAP. To that effect he isn't shy of focusing on interests that happen to conflict with Oracle's. To that end, what Gruber is saying is right - the board always wanted more Enterprise focus and that required going against Oracle. That's what Apotheker is doing.

As for missed opportunities - it does not matter. HP just does not have the DNA to do great in the already saturated PC and phone/tablets market. Not having to deal with that means they can focus their resources and capital where they are well oiled to do great. It only mattered if HP managed to get a CEO that can change its DNA - Neither Hurd nor Apotheker were into that. If they could have found a great consumer focused CEO with proven and relevant record, then it would have been worthwhile to risk competing in consumer space when it meant losing focus on Enterprise. Otherwise its just not really smart.

And they are still not giving up on webOS. But the only catches here are they don't yet know what to do with webOS and the Oracle/Itanium problem. With PSG off their bottom line they could now afford to ignore webOS until they find the right thing for it and focus their hardware resources to sell more proliants and fix the Itanium problem. That's the idea.
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As a commentator in the article's comment system mentioned, tablets are amazing to consume content. Much much better than a laptop. So if all you do is look at stuff without contributing more than 10 words a day (typical Facebook user), which what like 99% of the world's population does, iPad is an order of magnitude better than a laptop. Both objectively and subjectively. Objectively, it has much better battery life, is easier to use, easier to carry around because it is lighter, more affordable etc...etc...Subjectively, it is more fun to use, cooler to own and more pleasant to look at. As subjective as these are, it seems to be shared by the overwhelming majority of the economically relevant population. If you visit an Apple store, you will see so many people inside buying iPads, you would think that they are giving it away for free.
I liked Steve Friedl's thoughts on this. (Skip to the Billing heading.)

http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html
I'm not sure I'd relegate PCs+printers to just the "also make" category; they make up about half HP's revenue, and almost 2/3 of its profits.
This is sort of true, but short vowels at the end of words (the case system) are not generally useful for non-Muslim language learners.

Why is this? Well, in the Qur'an, they are written (as are all short vowels). Also in some voweled classical Arabic poetry. But even in formal, MSA, they aren't pronounced!

So you have a grammatical marker that isn't written, and isn't pronounced outside of certain unique contexts.

You can converse in fluent MSA, read virtually any non-religious text, and never need to see these case markers. Of course for Muslims (the majority of Arabic learners) they are important.
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It's all a matter of the journey I suppose. this chap has found his niche and is happy there. My journey was a little different. I started pocket computing with my USR palm 5000, upgraded to a palm III and then ended that part of the journey with a Zaurus. I decided that the form factor wasn't good enough for me to get productive work done and they were really just toys, so I struggled by with laptop and desktop, I got an MSI Wind and really enjoyed it, proper portable computing, then when apple finally launched their much anticipated tablet, I jumped and I love it. Now, since I had fallen out with pocket size computers, I never got a smartphone since I would have considered it a toy, I just have a standard nokia that can make calls and send and receive SMS. My tablet is now a device that gives me great productivity. i'm a bit of a photo buff and have by slr handy, or a little point and shoot nearby, don't care about having one device that does everything, right tool for the job is my mindset. My iPad is used for consumption and for creation, I'm a BA and that involves lots of meetings and workshops, having all project documentation at my fingertips in that situation is perfect, I make big use of mind maps and the software I have for that integrates with the desktop software for continuing the work later on. So yes, I do really need a tablet, it's perfect for me, I waited years and it has delivered proper portable computing that I've long dreamed about. I think that if you have a smartphone, you're perhaps duplicating a lot of the functionality of your powerful little phone on the tablet device, but don't forget the screen size, the thing that turned me off the palm type devices in the first place, that is the winner for me. I don't need it to fit in my pocket. That's my journey and it's a bit different to the author's, so arrives at a different place. The author made it clear at the beginning of his piece that one size does not fit all, the tablet is not something he's willing to get on board with and that's absolutely fine, but he does appear to be drawing the conclusion that no-one needs these devices and it's somehow that we've all been seduced by slick advertising selling us a device that we have no use for. I suggest that the author gives it a whirl, he might be pleasantly surprised.
- Unfortunately you can't set a favicon to a javascript: bookmark

- We need to show the form again because it's the only chance to make corrections to the summary. The obvious solution is to remove the second captcha. Will do ASAP, thanks
> That is the first time I've seen WebGL: what a mess.

That's like saying "That is the first time I've seen assembly code: what a mess."

Yes, it's a mess - it's the lowest level. You don't want to write that kind of code, normally speaking. Instead, use a nice high-level WebGL engine like CubicVR.js, three.js, etc.
First: I lived in China for a year studying Mandarin, and spent 3 years studying at school.

You're wrong in that there is no way to describe characters in Chinese to other speakers. There are certain words you use to describe strokes. The equivalent in English would be something like "there is a cross on the left and a flower on the right." Chinese speakers do this all the time, so I'm kind of surprised you jump to this conclusion when it's clear you aren't knowledgeable on the issue.
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Would it make sense for "set" to be a POST? Or does that compromise "easy"?
> IMHO (1) is incredibly important. In Mandarin, if I want to tell you a new character I have to show you. There is no way to describe it.

Have you actually studied hanzi? It is very easy to describe a character verbally, and if you live in Asia for any period of time, you will see that people do this quite often. There are only 214 Kangxi radicals[0] (plus some variations based upon how much space is available). Clearly not the same as having 26 letters, but not unmanageable by any stretch of the imagination.

The second difference is that characters are "spelled" in 2 dimensions. Once again, there is a set of rules for radical placement, and if you're familiar with these (as you would be if you'd studied Chinese or Japanese), it is very straightforward.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radicals
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I would say that with teh direction Apple is taking Lion (and whatever will come past that) and iCloud, they are also pretty committed to "push[ing] a meshing of the desktop and tablet ecosystems into one OS".
Which company is known for spying its users the most? Yahoo or Google?
George and Derek are right. In my current company, we're finding customer support to be a great way to build relationships with our customers and give them a warm and fuzzy feeling about our brand. We've seen a number of cases already where people have recommended us on Twitter directly after a positive customer support experience. It's powerful stuff.
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it is almost creepy how much of that comment describes me :o
sure, I'm against censorship of any kind, I answered to prove that the title was misleading and that trying to tie the country or government for an ISP mistake was wrong.

sorry if I was misunderstood, it's just I don't like over generalizations and sensationalist titles, I made an analogy to prove the point and it was misinterpreted.

if you check my account you will see that I almost never comment here, just for some specific project and just technology related, I think I will keep it like that from now on.
but then why would this be better than, say, localStorage, which is local? The only purpose to this is semi-persistent cross-domain information storage. It's crazy to use an external JSON-P service to store tweetable-sized messages, when you've got megabytes locally with precisely the same key/value setup. Or, if you're handling older browsers, cookies will get you several KB.
Golem XIV, by all means.
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You mean the 125 resolution? The one Biolcatti admitted having lied to stop from being approved at congress? The same Biolcatti who admitted that "we're doing good.. and perhaps in the future we will do very good"? That one?
There's no such prohibition to sell Clarin. Show me proof about that if you can.
It's more passive-aggressive certainly. The SSL config does need tuning, and frame busters adding. That doesn't make STS any less important.

No modern browser is going to choose such a weak cipher, but because SSLv2 is enabled, a MITM can force it. The same MITM who can abuse the lack of STS.
Apple is certainly pushing towards making the ecosystems inter-operable, which is great, but I don't think they are aiming for a true melding the way Microsoft is.

In basic terms, I think I will be able to buy a Windows 8 tablet/notebook (in the style of the Asus Transformer) in 2012 on which I can run Photoshop and Visual Studio. I don't think I'll be able to buy an iPad in 2012 which runs Photoshop (the real one, not Photoshop Express) and Xcode.
I absolutely do not need one, and I can prove it. :-)

I have an iPad 2 sitting on my desk right here. I use it for developing and testing iPad apps. The rest of the time, it is 100% idle. I have never once used it to watch videos, answer email, or anything else. It's sitting right there--I could use it at any time, but I always reach for the netbook or desktop instead.

(I've used my phone for all those things, though, when I'm out and don't have a computer.)

My reasons are simple: my other devices are better than tablet PCs at basically everything I do.

Other people's needs make a tablet a better choice. So the author can flag all the legitimate reasons he and I don't need a tablet, but how can he claim to speak for everyone else?
I have to say, after switching from Ubuntu to OSX I was not exactly blown away by the UI. Some things were done better, some things worse -- the mac might have an edge but it's a small one.

And while I haven't wasted much time solving arcane problems, that's because the problems I do have seem to have no solution at all. On Linux, I can google for instructions, try a few things, and a few hours later I'll have fixed what was bugging me. On OS X I'm stuck with it.
"Autonomy — a company I’d never heard of before"

Autonomy is a leader in their field
That was similar to my impression, that is not the way I write, but most normal people's reviews would trigger the "deceptive indicators" presented on the linked page.
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The equivalence you're drawing between what a MITM can do with STS and what a MITM can do with SSLv2 is an objectively false one.

I think you've gone on tilt on this issue, so, feel free to the last word.
HP also wants to be in the cloud. After the past week I think they've killed that as well. Who would lock themselves in to HP at this point?
two lines below that line I say

"please don't overgeneralize, this was a court ruling (which I'm against) but don't use it as an excuse to make Argentina look like a dictatorship."

I don't know how to bold but there it says that I'm against the ruling.

analogy tried to prove another point, I think I wasn't clear
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Some of the implementation details

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jp7gf/i_created...
Ah, redis. Good man.
Who is the author protecting by not sharing any actual details? I anticipate an update to the post:

"The game shipped.

I got fired from my job at Dairy Queen in high school, but that's another story!"
What ordinance and yield is it designed to deliver?
I'm tired of HN being so biased when voting on political issues.. If you don't agree, speak up. Downvoting someone is the last resort of those who have no valid argument at all.
Downvoting is good when someone speaks nonsense, or there's something off-topic, or just plain (and provable) wrong. But not when someone's giving their opinions on something.
> In Mandarin, if I want to tell you a new character I have to show you. There is no way to describe it.

This isn't strictly true. Some characters are simple combinations of radicals and other characters and can be sufficiently described as saying "the radical for x and the character for y." For example, the word for hungry (饿, è) is a combination of the radical for "eat" or "food" (饣, shí) and the character for "self" or "me" (我, wǒ).

I'm only a beginning student of the language, so I can't claim that many other characters are as simple to describe.
Perhaps martial arts make the feedback more direct than other areas of expertise.
Till the person who hires the Turkers includes said filter along with the work order.

"Write a good that passes this, this and this filter by a fair margin"

You might try seeing who's hiring Turkers for what. It might give you an idea how much filtering is needed.
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ICBMs have been going roughly this speed for a while now, so anti-ballistic missiles either have been useless for a while, or will continue to work. The shuttle goes a good deal faster (mach 25) on re-entry. And as soon as you strip away the need to land and be re-used (the hallmarks of an "airplane"), your anti-super-fast-airplane missiles become much cheaper and faster than the plane, so even a small success rate serves as an effective deterrent in many cases.

This is a tech experiment. It may lead to advances in airplanes, but I highly doubt it is cost-effective compared to an equivalent missile that just slams home.
I think the Transformer is the evolution of both tablets and notebooks, but you're right Android does need more "pro" apps. But I wouldn't be so quick to switch to Windows 8, either. I believe all computer machines will gradually switch to ARM this decade, as they become more and more powerful, while maintaining an order of magnitude smaller TDP and several times smaller price than similar performance Intel chip.

As such, Windows 8 for ARM will be even more behind Android by the end of 2012, because they can only support legacy apps on x86 chips. The ARM ones will have zero old Windows apps. With Transformer you can get about 15 hours of battery life. With an Atom based Windows netbook you get about 5, and netbooks generally have the best battery life from all Windows notebooks.
2. About 41% of plurals in an Arabic corpus are broken (http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2004/emnlp/pdf/Goweder.pdf). Since most feminine plurals are regular, this means most masculine plurals are not.

7. I don't know what makes you say this. Adjectives in Arabic agree in gender, number and case. The masculine of hadra' is ahdar.

10. This is true for the average Iosif, but if you study MSA (like American students invariably do) these texts really are accessible. A short sura from the Qur'an is taught in the second semester Arabic curriculum.
Or, don't be afraid of IJ, but set your expectations properly; as a coherent narrative, it's only going to start coming together in the final third of the book. Until then, read it as a series of intimate essays written from a parallel dimension.

Don't skip the footnotes. They aren't intended to be optional.
I don't see what the big advantage is of CEOs few have heard of being dragged in to nuke existing companies and rebuild them in the image of the old company he used to work at. Why not just nuke the company out of spite (or alternatively sell off all assets and give to charity if not spiteful) and have the CEO stay at the old place and keep doing the same thing. Same outcome but not as painfully dragged out.

Obviously if you keep doing multi billion dollar acquisitions, and then trash it all and fire everyone a couple years later when you switch CEOS, and then when things get even worse, fire that CEO with a golden parachute and bring it his cousin to do it all again, pretty soon your company headquarters are going to be an abandoned grassy field.

Talk about burn rate!
One way to do it would be to start a group yourself. Whether it's a HN meetup, coffee house coders or Lean Startup circle all you need is to start a Facebook page and perhaps a meetup.com account.

Don't get discouraged if only one or two people show up at first. The first year is always the hardest for a group. The important thing is to provide value. If you do that word will spread and the group will grow.
I'd prefer if you could educate me on how I'm wrong? I was referring to the ability of a MITM to attack the initial negotiation with a downgrade attack on SSLv2. Modern browsers aren't susceptible to this unless I'm mistaken?

All modern browsers are susceptible to the other MITM attack I described though. Unless the website uses STS.

EDIT: It's worth noting that anybody using IE7+, FF2+, Opera, Chrome or Safari aren't affected be the weak ciphers, or by the existence of SSLv2, as their browsers will not negotiate a weak SSL connection. They are all affected by the lack of STS though.
I expected this product to allow me to create a demo of a product (place a tool tip here, after clicking "continue" load tool tip #2 over here, etc.).

Currently it is nothing more than a feedback button placed on top of the page. Make this more useful.
Pretty much every Indian language I can think of satisfies these criteria, actually. The lack of centralization and a generally rich heritage naturally gives rise to this, I think. Also, glad to see other Tamil speakers here.
It's the same as some VCs will prefer to shutdown a startup, instead of selling it for a low price.

If they will sell it and it turned to be success with new owners - others will think this VC is dumb.
If he shut it down - no chances to look dumb ;)
Perhaps so, but in this case you don't have to look too closely.

Autonomy & SAP have similar customers, true. But the suggestion in Gruber's post is that the purchase of Autonomy is a substitute for a purchase of SAP. Which is a bit like saying the purchase of a front drivers side door mirror is a substitute for the purchase of a car.

(Downvotes too, jeez.)
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I would suggest reading "The Futurological Congress", compare and contrast to Dick's "Time Out Of Joint". It's pretty clear Dick was a big influence on Lem's later work.

"Return From The Stars" is also pretty good as I recall. Not a big fan of his early Tichy stuff though (it suffers from his own "Agatha Christie" kind of mediocrity IMSHO).

Of course, Solaris is considered his masterwork, for good reason.

[edit] Also, "A Perfect Vacuum" is a one-of-a-kind treat. And now that I'm thinking about it, "His Master's Voice" does "Contact" one better. (in fact it seems like Contact may have ripped Lem off pretty hard...)

[edit2] Damn, he did write a lot of good stuff. The short story "Non Serviam" presaged the Matrix and Greg Egan's Permutation City.
"And getting out of the consumer space, at a time when there are several paradigm shifts going on, means missing huge opportunities."

For HP, at this time, I'm not sure I agree. Why? It's as simple as Apple is in that market as well and nothing HP (or anyone really) has done has stopped or caught up with their momentum.

In fact I think it's smart for them to transition to the enterprise world entirely. We don't hear about it often on HackerNews or Techcrunch, but that market is massive and HP has been acquiring companies within it for years. They likely make more money in the enterprise market (security specifically) than in the PC business. Hell, they just bought a company called Autonomy for 10 billion dollars. What do they do? Enterprise search and information management.
My segment of the software market doesn't require that I bill people to develop specs/quotes, but honestly, some types of software involve so much research related to the company, 90% of the project worth is figuring out what needs done, not the doing.

I do suggest that as a general rule for the OP, don't do this is a good idea.
Star Trek: TNG started in 1987 and they were carrying around iPad-esque devices in some episodes. I seem to remember Geordi Laforge often having one when interacting with the ship's engineering computer or whatever.

I'm mostly surprised by the fact that people are surprised by this video -- Fujitsu and others have been making tablets commercially for 15+ years. Alan Kay was talking about them in the 70s. The iPad was the right device at the right time (which is hugely important), but hardly a new idea in any way.
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