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The broadband air card is the form of such a card which had been developed to be working with the broadband services. This card had allowed the people to cater to the broadband services where they can
Do you strive to understand your tools, or simply “make it work”?
I wrote a letter to Tim Cook about this (http://mrcaron.tumblr.com/post/10163623845/open-letter-to-ti...), hoping to spread the love.
You could make exactly the same argument about Webkit itself, or about any of the extant HTML engines, could you not? Why did any of them decide to complicate the web by multiplying the number of engine-specific bugs in the wild? Why didn't every browser project just start with the Trident engine in IE?
That's not true - or maybe you have an older TV? I think they changed platforms about 12 months ago.

The current platform looks like this: HTML 5/DOM 2/CSS 3/Javascript 1.8/Flash 10.1 [1]

As I mentioned elsewhere, I don't think their HTML 5 video implementation works properly and you need to use Javascript instead, but basically they have done what you want (except I think it is Webkit, not Gecko)

[1] http://www.samsungdforum.com/Board/FeaturesSpec?rnd=11091322...
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The data are highly usefull for the user too.
Programming in Python has been a joy for years. I guess enterprise people are stuck on the JVM.
Flash still dominates. No JS it seems.
This is certainly the right move for google, facebook, etc, and maybe even for startups who for some reason want to avoid the cloud and run their own couple of one-off servers. For the rest of us in the great middle, direct from manufacturers like HP and Dell is the best option.

I have not had the same experience as you with Dell; we have an established "medium business" account and get pricing online that generally reflects our base discount. We can sometimes get more off by dealing with those salespeople (especially if it's near a quarter end), but in general we get a fair and predictable price, visible on the web site. Servers show up (sometimes later then I'd like) configured as ordered, and just need put into a rack and powered on.

Our "server specialist" certainly isn't the most technical guy in the world, but he knows the hardware line in and out, knows what works, and what other people are using for similar projects.

I regularly buy servers with no OS (if I'm reusing an old MS license), or with Redhat (my standard OS) at a price competitive with others.
Leone then told Arrington, “You’re joining the abundant side of market, instead of the scarcity side of the market…Why you want to join [the world of venture capital] is beyond me.”

Because by being a VC not only is someone else doing the work but you are spreading around risk over many possibilities rather then investing years in 1 idea you have.

And of course it makes sense which is why many successful entrepreneurs after their one or two hit wonders go into investing and don't start another risky business. They only need 1 hit to stay on top and can have many failures in the ideas they invest in.
But form is content in its own right; in a forum, the tone, diction and precision of someone's contribution contains a lot of metadata about their own emotional investment in the topic, relevant background knowledge, and willingness to participate in constructive discussion.

Bugsy's comment may have included some factually accurate content, but his form of expression is a signal of questionable credibility and a potential conversational rathole (such as this has become) should one choose to engage him further.
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That's weird, since I had an iPod from the beginning and I don't remember this issue. So far as I recall, iTunes spat out MP3s and getting access to all of it was a simple matter of using the search function of Windows, something yu had to do anyway even in the days of burning unless you had super awesome memory.
oops, you're right, though I should have mentioned that even France is being affected now, the 5th largest economy.
> Okay. Which graphic card manufacturer would you recommend?

I have had nothing but good experiences with Intel graphics hardware. Windows are wobbly and translucent, performance is good enough.

> Which of your recommended solutions perform decent enough if you happen to want decent graphic performance as well.

A PlayStation 3 or an XBox 360. They are usually connected to larger screens too and you can watch TV on them, as well as play from the couch. That's unbeatable.

> a new version pushed a free graphic driver that didn't work well enough?

... with your specific hardware because it was never properly documented by its manufacturer (who really doesn't care about you) and the distro maintainers probably didn't like to ship a proprietary driver in the first place and switched to a free (remember, freedom is a good thing) one as soon as it worked well enough on the hardware they felt was common enough (tough luck yours wasn't on the list). You can probably install the proprietary driver yourself.
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But you have completely hand waved the argument and its consequences. You have made an argument that CO2 means that it is likely to be warmer.

So? What's the problem? I like the summer.

Obviously the problem is not that it will be slightly warmer. The problem is that ice caps will melt, the weather will change, sea levels will rise, farm land may be harder to come by, species may die, etc etc etc. All of that could end up being very bad. If it is that bad then it is worth preventing.

But how do you go from 'CO2 traps heat' to 'We're screwed!'. That's the part people disagree with. All of these effects are way harder to show in an experiment than simply that CO2 absorbs heat. How do you do a full-scale experiment with cloud formation or the increased hurricanes we're supposedly going to see? You simply can't do an experiment.

This is not to say the models are wrong, just that saying CO2 can be shown to trap heat is not the answer people are looking for. That is well understood. The 2nd and 3rd order effects are what really get called into question.
So in short I don't know. I took a guess, and I did so after weighing what I assume to be the motivations of the actors

Well, that's precisely the wrong thing to do.

The right thing to do, when you don't have enough evidence, is to say "I don't know". You can then go on to say "I think the preponderance of evidence is on one side or another", but you certainly shouldn't go round believing things.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
Where did you find your contacts? People who you've previously worked with? I'd be interested in how those rates compare with say freelancing at oDesk or vWorker.
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Now I am convinced the questioner probably was asking for this figure too. How many Lehmans equals Greece defaulting?
Are you really getting good advice?
Putting a memory hungry framework on a tightly managed platform that has strict, albeit upgrade-able limits makes sense for Heroku, but why would developers go for that ?

From my experience, seeing the java process take more than 200 MB while serving a Hello World application is normal.
Should you deprecate a feature untouched by 95% of users?
Why is having a Falun Gong affiliated site on HN frontpage a bad thing? I don't condone jjp9999's behaviour, just curious what Falun Gong has to do with anything?
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>but you get it cheaper because the people you buy it from are doing it at volume.

Since I've been buying computers I've never seen this to be the case. I have yet to see a single time that buying a prepackaged computer of any brand was cheaper than buying the parts on e.g. pricewatch and building it myself.

Dislcaimer: I've always built machines with an eye towards gaming so maybe at the very low end this isn't the case. I'd be surprised even then.
"This is a pie chart describing my favourite bars. And this is a bar graph describing my favourite pies!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J8QU1m0Ng
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There was a great quote about France's economic reliability in Michael Lewis' recent Vanity Fair piece:

<< The idea he and his fellow dissident German economists have cooked up is to split the European Union in two, for financial purposes. One euro, a kind of second-string currency, would be issued for, and used by, the deadbeat countries—Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and so on. The first-string euro would be used by “the homogenous countries, the ones you can rely on.” He lists these reliable countries: Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, and (he hesitates for a second over this) France.

“Are you sure the French belong?”

“We discussed this,” he says seriously. They decided that for social reasons you couldn’t really exclude the French. It was just too awkward. >>

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/09/europe-2...
Tasker for Android can do all of the things mentioned in the post to create a "bedroom mode", plus much, much more:
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/index.html
(on Android market too but the direct version is cheaper)

It's like a GUI scripting engine for your phone. Very similar to Locale, but you don't have to pony up for extra plugins to do fancy stuff. Well worth the asking price.
Several people have told me that now. Consider it part of the next update if possible
I currently deal with these on my mac by holding ctrl and scrolling to zoom in.
Depends on what you're "freelancing." As a designer, it tends to waiver based on the project but generally I'll either charge an hourly rate of $60, or, just price out the project as a total lump sum. Everyone has their own way, but I tend to go the route that makes it easiest for the client as well as a good move for my bank account.

Two of my favorites for figuring out an hourly rate or how much to charge as a whole:

http://freelanceswitch.com/rates/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/14/quality-price-rat...
The difference between evolution and climatology is the difference between history and speculation. With evolution, you can literally trace evolution through time using geo-dating and carbon dating as fossils change shape. No "real" scientists argue against it (there are religious "scientists" that do though). The impacts of AGW are still mostly speculation. We do not have a huge amount of accurate data from the past (most of our weather records go back only a few centuries, which is meaningless on a geological timescale). There are many real scientists that are skeptical about the effects of AGW (again, the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the...). AGW is mostly about projections - so far, none of the catastrophic effects of global warming have been seen on any significant scale.
> This is a god-send.

That's the problem. I am an atheist. I don't like generous offers of proprietary software.

> Last time I checked, ATI linux diver support was nowhere near as good.

Agreed. That's why I don't recommend ATI either. Last time I checked, they provided proprietary drivers that were also very buggy. Nvidia, at least, provides proprietary drivers that mostly work.

> Choosing to provide users with an inferior open-source driver, because principles dictate it's the 'only' choice, is short-sighted IMO.

I believe the free driver works well on some common hardware. The proper procedure in your case is to download and install the proprietary driver yourself.

Again, you should be voting with your dollars, not complaining about the freedoms you receive.
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Clearly the interest rate paid relates to past inflation rates, but if the goal is to pay off the national debt not just borrow more a little inflation can help things along.

Say inflation is 2% interest rate is 2% over inflation (or 4%) and the bond is for 10 years. 1.04^10/1.02^10 = 1.2143. Now compare that to 3% and major assumption you still need to pay out 2% over inflation well you get 1.212 which is a lower cost. At the same time your debt servicing costs drop. Now it's true that you may need to pay a fraction more than 2% in interest but for small positive increases in inflation it can reduce debt servicing costs significantly. For this to really work well your new debt needs to be well below your debt servicing costs AND you need to hold mostly long term bonds is rarely the case for country’s with debt issues.

Unfortunately, few nations are trying to pay off their national debts and are more focused on maximizing their ability to borrow which is another story.
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I'm assuming you didn't see the screenshot of the "Pear" store. Or the factory workers jumping off the building.
Nice idea. I seen it initially on Forrst. I'm interested by the fact that you plan on being transparent about the numbers. Where do you plan on posting these figures?
How would 37signals fare with a bandit algorithm versus A/B testing?
Flash's general architecture makes it a lot easier to create things like 2D games. You certainly can write great games in JS, but it requires a helluva lot more domain knowledge, as well as a lot more tweaking and hackery. Many things that are simple in Flash, such as collision detection, are not in JS.

Flash is essentially a system for moving and manipulating sprites, which fits perfectly with a 2D game. HTML/JS is an overgrown document layout system, and it shows.
Incidentally, this is the same argument Microsoft makes for the various compatibility modes in new versions of Windows. If Vista breaks an app, and it's due to poor app coding, the users are still going to blame Vista.
I should have said that it tends to inhibit ovulation. I don't believe it's a myth though. It's just not a perfect mechanism.
Parts and labor are built into that price. You are also paying them to build it and for support. Again, you might not need that support and you might not need to have them build it for you, or you might need something that isn't offered in a prepackaged configuration... just like Facebook in this case.
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Any company that doesn't consider the options is idiotic. And that's what they're doing. Considering.

We went many, many years with each company having their own OS. Apple was the first to really make a splash that way. Android comes along with an actual competitor... Anyone that thinks they can single-handedly out-Apple Apple is in for a rude awakening.

Sure, getting your app to work on many different devices can be tough... But getting your app to be popular on a device with 1/100th the market share is even tougher.

I like Samsung phones, but if they drop Android, I'll be switching to something that has it. I actually wonder if they "get it". All the Android phone creators think they need a custom layer on top of Android to distinguish theirs from everyone else's. In reality, I'd be happier with the stock Android... And if I want 'TouchWiz', I'd buy an app for it. From Samsung, what I want is a solid, reliable phone. Leave the extras to Google and 3rd party developers.
There is no live registered trademark in the US for "Final Touch" or "FinalTouch" in a relevant class. There was one in the computer software field from 1992 that has since been abandoned.

The proper way to indicate a claim to mark by usage is to use the "TM" (trademark) or "SM" (service mark) designation which indicates a common-law or state law mark. This is also the proper designation if you have filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) but the mark has not yet been granted registration.

You can only legally use the federal registration symbol "®" after the USPTO actually registers a mark, and not while an application is pending or based on common law rights.
>P.S. The Germans may, at some point, prefer to bail out their banks, as there they have some capacity to draw a line and call a halt.

I think Germany is loving this crisis. The number it's doing on the Euro has been incredible for their export economy. I suspect they'll do whatever they need to to keep this going as long as possible.
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15.99 is too expensive, IMO

Out of interest, would you buy this right now if it was priced at $4.99?
I wouldn't differentiate it regarding fairness.
Salary + Profit == Compensation for the work done. Compensation should be fair.
The price seems incredibly high, sales would probably be better at a lower price point. I would think that you would benefit more from an "impulse purchase" price vis-a-vis a professional utility price.
Buy MeeGo? Has this guy ever heard about GPL? Maybe tomorrow someone will buy Linux or GNU? wtf
This is true. Perhaps competitions like this will help the public realize that Flash isn't dead after all (unlike the countless articles that have appeared on HN and claim this).
Another aspect - pie charts beyond about three wedges are utterly useless to the colorblind. The OP's Microsoft example is particularly egregious in that aspect as well - I can't distinguish most of those colors, especially given the minuscule legend. So the entire pie chart is quite literally wasted on me. A blank rectangle would convey nearly as much information.
If I understand you correctly, you're implying that an industrial-grade server company like Dell necessarily has to work like this. But I assert that they don't. I believe there is a niche in the market just waiting for a modern, transparent, fast new startup that gives you these products at a transparent price, with minimal fuss, no tricks required. Configure a blade rack online, order it, next week it's in your office. It works like that for consumer stuff, let's bring that kind of convenience to businesses.
Several people have told me that now. Consider it part of the next update if possible

Definitely have a play with pricing, but make sure to remember that if you have three times the sales at one third of the price, all you've done is increased your support costs :)
Front-end development work and Django back-end work, $85/hr. Also do basic Ubuntu setup for a typical Django-based site from scratch. Based in Rochester, NY. My clients are all over the place - NYC, SF, BOS, but very few are in close proximity to Rochester.
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The way the authors quantified it was by taking cross cultural surveys. Basically they surveyed men and women from various cultures about their attitudes around jealousy and determined that in all cultures they studied men appeared to be more affected by jealousy.

You are right that there is a rational reason why women should be jealous as well. But women have a more rational reason to forgive their mate, because it is far easier for a man to walk away from the relationship and thus the child.
You can NOT draw that conclusion from these data alone.

You're right, but there is a lot of other data, and a whole new design philosophy that follows from it (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/traffic.html), which I suspect the blogger is aware of but which he has chosen not to introduce here.

His subject isn't actually traffic, after all, but his conjecture about computer code.
Sure. Good luck with the campaign.
I think a good way of stating this is that no two people speak exactly the same language. Even where simple terminology is concerned, everyone defines the boundaries of meaning in slightly different ways, and attaches their own particular connotations.

Most people will have the 'center' of their understanding of a given concept close enough to those of others' that the general case of communication is almost always satisfied. But in specific circumstances, as the need for precision in meaning increasingly presents itself, so too does the likelihood of an edge case in which understandings don't overlap.

With this in mind, a lot of the process of 'getting to know' someone can be construed as learning their language, in order to enable effective high-precision communication.
Uggh. It appears to be blog spam. Complete copy pasta from original source -> http://geeks.aretotally.in/twitter-playframework-heroku
if it works and have stuff built against it, why would you touch it again?
Yes, unfortunately Flash isn't very nice on OSX (CPU usage is very high).
I thought Apple's policy was to reject all apps that claim to donate proceeds to charity.

"You cannot say anywhere in the application description, support materials, or the application itself that some or all of the proceeds will go to any given charity"
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/01/app-store-lessons-...
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Also, the Updates link on the bottom of the home page is broken, points to /update.php, not /updates.php like it should. ;)
I'm aware of the different strategies of roadway safety. However, if the conclusion from the article is true, then there shouldn't be any design philosophy that works, though...
Is one possible angle to sell this to people not using their regular equipment and going mad using a crappy mouse or so on?

I know that I'm not the target audience, but when forced to use someone else's computer for a few days, things like this have briefly driven me mad :)
Did Apple just approve an App that exposes their supply chain practices?
Encapsulation in Javascript
Thought that it was interesting and others might enjoy it as well.
Phone Story is an educational game about the hidden social costs of smartphone manufacturing. Follow your phone's journey from the Coltan mines of the Congo to the electronic waste dumps in Pakistan through four colorful mini-games. Compete with market forces in an endless spiral of technological obsolescence.

You can keep Phone Story in your favorite device as a reminder of your impact on this world.

All revenues from the sale of this app will be donated to organizations working to solve the issues mentioned in this game.
Thank you. I now have peace of mind that no one will physically break in. But I am more interested in remote access! A good hacker doesn't spend time physically breaking into places - in fact, in some cases, he/she doesn't leave a trace until it's too late. So, on the issue of data security, you're telling me that the onus is still with me (i.e., to choose whatever security service you offer - more or less?). Frankly, I'll make my choice a little more simpler - "If I'm ever in a position to choose cloud computing - I think I'll pass".
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For me, it depends on the tool. If I think the tool is internally cohesive, and the underlying reasons for its behavior are sound, I'll learn about them it and try to figure out its behavior.

If I think the tool is a sloppy stack of hacks, I don't care how it works --- I actively avoid the nightmare. I don't want to spend my time figuring out which bad decisions, bugs, and corner cases made it behave in a certain way.
Funny, I think it depends on what propaganda you are swallowing ;)

According to many studies, polar ice is actually increasing.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/04/18/2059204/Antarctic-Ic...
and
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13...