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New Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme Price, Features, Colours, Engine Specification 
Hero Honda is world famous no.1 two wheeler manufacturing company. All the time Hero Honda succeed in market. There are so many models of Hero Honda Bikes in market in all the model one is fully succeed bike is Hero Honda CBZ Xtreme. At this time company launched new model of this bike with new upgrades with new features and with new looks.
New translator app makes sense of foreign-language food menus
And yet, these post PC devices need a PC to sync it all.
If liquidity exists without HFT then it's not correct for HFTers to justify their existence by claiming they are liquidity providers.

I realize the semantics of this can be argued ("existing liquidity doesn't preclude or prevent the existence HFT" for example), but not only do I think that is a wash argument but it also misses the point entirely on the utility of HFT.
Why did Google Apps reject my client's non profit?
I have a client - an animal rescue shelter. They are a non profit and don't have much money. They could really benefit from a Google Apps (Ed/Nonprofit) account. They need to use the Outlook / Sync otherwise I would put them on the free version. I also noticed that on the Ed/Nonprofit version they let you custom brand a youtube channel - that would be very helpful for them, too. They are a real 501c3 and have been around for 70 years.

We got the email (below) back from google with no info on why the request was rejected. I searched around a little and found other stories of organizations that don't have their 501c3 registered with the IRS, or perhaps they have a parent non-profit group and that caused problems. I don't think those things are true, but google's email is so vague and not-helpful it's annoying. The email comes from "googlefornonprofits-noreply@google.com" but at the bottom says "Please include in replies G4NP_Id: xxxxxx". I tried replying to that email address anyway and also to googlefornonprofits@google.com. I did not get anything back from google.

I tried calling their google apps support number but you have to already have an enterprise account with them in order to get a call in pin before you can talk to anyone.

This is really frustrating, especially since the organization is a real, legitimate non-profit. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to get in touch with Google Apps, why they might of rejected it, or what steps I should take going forward?

email from google
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Hello,

Thank you for applying to the Google for Nonprofits program.

After a thorough review of your application for Nonprofit Name, we regret to
inform you that your application has not been approved. To learn more about the
program's eligibility criteria, please visit
google. com/nonprofits/eligibility.html

However, please know that you can still use many of the free tools that
we offer outside of the Google for Nonprofits program. Please visit
google. com/nonprofits/allproducts.html for a list of our free
product offerings.

Please note that Google reserves the right to award approval status to any
organization. Selections are made at Google's sole discretion, and decisions
regarding award recipients are final.

We appreciate your interest in the Google for Nonprofits program.

Thank you,

Google for Nonprofits team
i've been using them for years, and am quite happy. i use them for almost all of my domains.
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Permutation City is definitely hard sci-fi, albeit less hard than most of Egan's work. Ignoring the "uploading" (it not being the central point of the story, and this not being the place to have that debate), his "dust theory" is very well grounded. That's not to say that I believe it (or that he does, see http://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ.html), but that doesn't automatically qualify it as "magic" either.
As a fellow indie dev with some success in the app store, I'm always happy to hear of other indies become successful. I think the App Store has really flipped traditional software sales on its head and made it possible for the likes of you and I to compete head to head with billion dollar companies. It's quite remarkable and I hope this is just the beginning.
The biggest competition for founders is not other startup funds, but regular employment.
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The post PC era has just arrived. iPhone 5 will have over the air OS upgrade. Music on the cloud is coming soon too.
I wonder why the Sun implementations of the examples from java.lang and java.util, which are distributed with the JDK, are labeled "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL" and redacted.
I generally worry a lot less these days. There are other people involved now as well, including a sys admin on retainer, and it's been a huge change. I'm probably more neurotic about it than most people, and definitely more neurotic than I needed to be.

The reality is that Sifter almost never goes down, and when it does, it's usually something outside of our control and gets resolved fairly quickly by our host. Now that we're in a higher availability environment, that's helping a lot too.

The outlook is pretty great now. It was definitely hard at the beginning, but most of that was self-imposed. Now that I recognize how rarely Sifter does go down or have performance issues, I know that I don't need to worry as much. It was a difficult lesson to learn though.
Also recommended: Mug of Vi (http://nostarch.com/mug.htm)

:)
Also, Android devices do upgrade over the air and music on the cloud is already so real
Curious what Mac App Store revenues are like. Can you share any rankings-to-downloads stats for FaceTab and some of your other Mac apps?
I'll stick my neck out here and say:

No.

"Graceful degradation" and "progressive enhancement" have mostly been utter failures. Yes, they're possible, and a few sites and designers even manage to do them well without spending wads of money. But, for everyone else, it just represents an additional layer of effort without any direct benefit to themselves.

There's a point at which we should accept that our pontifications about the "ideal" design, engineered for every conceivable device and screen resolution and software platform, is just completely impractical for the majority of designers and developers.

Developers already are expected to make sites work:

- with and without Javascript;

- with IE 6 - 8, Firefox 2 - 7, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and every other two-bit browser out there;

- with readable text and fonts on systems that may or may not have particular or even common fonts installed, including Linux which can render even decent fonts nearly illegible and including the font-weight differences between MacOS and Windows;

- on screen resolutions varying from 800 x 600 to OMG x AreYouKiddingMe, without horizontal scrolling or wasting lots of screen real estate;

- without compromising people with disabilities or screen readers.

Did I miss anything?

I think these are unrealistic expectations, and I submit as evidence the great majority of websites online -- including the professionally-designed ones -- which fail catastrophically on at least one of those points.

Now, we're to be expected to make these same sites, using the same general design, work on devices with ittybitty screens and radically different physical interfaces?

No.

Here's what I hope happens instead: I hope that the concept of the CMS gets extended a little bit and begins to do a better job of abstracting the content from the design, so that sites can easily manage two or more completely different presentations designed for specific devices. (I understand Wordpress already does something like this?)

You'll have your blog or what-have-you, and your blog will have a mobile version, and a desktop version, and they will be completely and totally 100% separated from and independent of each-other.

Because any attempts to make a desktop design work at all on mobile devices without compromising the advantages of the desktop is going to result in much gnashing of teeth.

edit: I meant to add that I think the "right" way to do this is to continue to make the desktop version of a site the default, at least for now, and then check the user-agent of the request on the server. Let the server handle which layout to serve up, not Javascript, and if a mobile user changes the user-agent on their mobile browser to something which will break sites, then they should expect to get broken sites.
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How will this change OSS development? Do we need additional patent lawyers filing patents for every open source idea? What happens when someone makes a commit today and then mega-patent troll notices this tomorrow? They certainly will beat me to filing the patent.
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I'll followup with the SpeakerDeck folks. I expect they'll have it working soon. I think they got slammed a bit more than they expected, but they're throwing more resources at it now.
Let me be the first one to say that this is one of the reasons why complete offline mode for Google Docs will be a big thing. For companies, Google Docs does not currently solve all the needed requirements.

Good writeup though.
Will do in Part 4!
It's giving me mixed content errors for MixPanel and YouTube (which both have TLS support).
Groupon Sales Team Files Class-Action Suit
Well, the other community grumbling about flash is Linux, and they don't have marketshare enough to matter to anyone.
Every day. In my mind, it will never be good enough. I've found that the philosophy that has worked best for me is that if you're not embarrassed, you've waited to long to launch. (I believe Matt Mullenweg said that, but I've heard it so many places now, I'm not 100% sure.)
> Yeah, that's something you in the US really need to fix.

Perhaps. It'd be tough to swallow the hit in productivity though.
Dozois has a knack for picking great stories. The saddest part is that it's tricky to get past editions; when I find an old edition I don't have at a used book store it's terribly exciting, especially since the quality has been so consistent over the years.
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An international traveler reached into the cup with a drinsk at the airport bar before spending your credit card to a server,
The PDF is hosted at Amazon S3, so server resources at SpeakerDeck shouldn't matter. The problem is the wrong permissions on the PDF.

https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/4e6a452f4932...
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* Customers want higher quality, cheaper cars -> Create a production process that satisfies these requests.

* Customers want better search results -> Create an algorithm that finds better results.

* Customers want clean, abundant energy -> Find out about the thermonuclear reactor.

You're looking at it from the wrong side.

If customers didn't want better search results but instead wanted portals, Google would have died, and Yahoo and Altavista would be about as big as Google right now. How do you know they want better search results? By listening to their needs.

Your product-idea might be the best thing since slice bread, but it's worthless if no one wants it.

PS: I'm not saying Google or Ford used this process, of course. But they are extraordinary companies. Also, if enough companies try, at least some should come close to satisfying the customer's needs just by chance and some intuition. You don't hear about the companies that had a great idea, implemented it, and then dropped dead for lack of customers.
This is worth the read, thanks.

What fraud did you experience?

How did you transition from (presumably) VPS -> whatever -> current high availability hosting. What prompted you to start each transition, "we have enough money to do it" or "we have X, Y and Z problems?"
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Getting a valid patent is an expensive prospect. Today, many times, small businesses innovate, use their innovation, but never file for a patent because of the prohibitive costs.

With this new law, there will be absolutely nothing to stop a large firm, a competitor, or just a random patent troll to notice your invention (which you are using) and then file a patent for it. And then, guess what? You're screwed.
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It's a long but great read.
Ford did not 'introduce the assembly line' to car manufacturing, see:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091102183112AA...

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_line#Olds_Motor_Vehicl...

But he improved on it quite a bit.
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As stated elsewhere, I doubt the payout liability is that large, considering that most employees only get to keep vacation days for a little over a year before they expire.

I disagree with your use of the word scam to describe an untracked vacation policy. An employee at any one point in time will probably have no more than 6 weeks of accrued, unexpired vacation time (assuming they get 3 weeks per year and haven't taken a vacation in 2 years and their vacation rolls over a little bit). This is only 3 pay periods, or just over 10% of their actual pay (6/52 weeks).

I would agree that in general vacation policies are a bit of a scam in that you are promised x days as part of your compensation package, but then are told when they can or can't be used, and resist if you try to use them all at once, and expire them if you hold on to them for too long... Come to think of it, defined vacation days are a bit like airline miles.
If you enjoyed the Gap series, I can really recommend checking out Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey. It has largely the same gritty feeling as the Gap does but is a lot closer to us in technology.
You really can't tell why he emphasized those words? They're stressed. They're said in a different tone than the rest.
> In the 80s cyberpunk was born. Cyberpunk is largely an expression of fears about an Asian (Japanese more often than not) "takeover" of Western society.

I think this misses a huge part of the picture that Gibson, Dick and and other Cyberpunk authors painted (where it differed from other fiction):

1) (Asian) Corporate controlled dystopia - ie breakdown of western-government-controlled world order

2) Information/Data as valuable asset, even commodity

3) Rise of AI and non-human agents

4) Drugs/computing grantings paranormal/heightened state

I'm sure a number of these might have been present in other genres, but these are the hallmarks of the genre as I can see it.
This isn't a neutral report, it's quite obvious that Prof. Astrachan is taking Google's side. If the judges, juries, and media understand the document in such a way to agree with the various claims:

> Google’s implementation of the APIs at issue is not virtually identical or substantially similar to Oracle’s implementation

> The various Java versions that Oracle alleges were infringed contain the same APIs as earlier versions or
versions for other operating systems

> Parameter names are functional and not creative

> The organization of packages is functional and does not contain creative expression

> C#, like Java, is unprotectable, and is also available as an open specification and implementation

> Oracle’s analysis of the files at issue does not discuss their qualitative or quantitative importance, with one exception that is incorrect

I think it's safe to say that it would help Google significantly.
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The fraud was someone that was using us to validate stolen credit cards. They ran about 100 test transactions before we could lock it down. It took a while because we didn't want to detrimentally affect our customers just to stop it. So, it cost us some money in transaction fees, but beyond that, it wasn't a big deal.

As far as the transitions, it was partially cost and having extra cash and partially just being ready for it based on growing traffic or new functionality. It was never the same set of motivations. Fortunately, we never grew so fast that we didn't have time to scale with the growth. So, it was a combination of "things are slowing down a bit" and "we have the money to take the next step" and "we ought to have a better hosting environment".
Well, if the VM has security issues, you'll have to update all the VMs running, never mind that I think it's possible to get to the core OS from a VM.

This is definitely a case to look at OS level virtualization[1], running a dedicated VM just for jailing a process seems a bit overengineered. SmartOS[2] might be interesting for this[2].

[1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtuali...)

[2](http://smartos.org/)
It seems like you're thinking about it in terms of a programming language market place, and you're trying to optimize Java's placement in that market place. Which is a valid perspective, but probably not the one they're coming from.

I think their perspective is more, "Given that Java is the programming language some people will choose, how can we make their life easier?" I think that's a valid perspective as well, since many people are forced to use a particular programming language.
Not to mention the "A/B testing the shit of everything" part.
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It is slow. Why does twitter need so much JS and poor CSS to accomplish so little? They should take a cue from their mobile site.
I'm surprised that there's only one mention. It is an engaging and very fascinating read which explores some of the fundamental aspects of transhumanism.
I also think it is a left-right brain divide between maths and creativity.

I remain skeptical of that. Perhaps my brain is just mis-wired, but I find that there is no real divide. What I do find sometimes is that my ability on each side comes and go in waves. That turns out to be the perfect fit for software development: When I struggle with logic problems, I can jump and work on the design problems and vice verse. That way I can stay at peak performance all the time.
But that's not the same as saying they are not writing Java.
Just try to imagine something so awful, so harmful to <X>, and your horrible generalisation would make sense :)

In particular, what happens when the genre is sci fi and the noun is god?

Clearly, that noun is not to be adored. Religion is for that.

Should sci fi say something nice about that noun? That He really exists, after all? Science is for that, and science until now...

I really think that sci fi should take a clear stance against god.
Gotcha. I passed it along. I'm sure they'll get it sorted soon. If you'd really like it now, shoot me an email, and I'll send it along. garrett at nextupdate dot com.
love tumblr!

(same username, NSFW) ^_^
Simplicity and MVP wins. This is a heck of a lot better than the overloaded design twitter has adopted.
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I guess I don't understand why 'transitory gaming' is a bad thing in the stock market.

I agree that it is immoral for Enron to reduce the supply of electricity, while towns are having brown-outs, just to raise the price. The same is true of hoarding much needed commodities, just to raise their price. I'm not even a big fan of speculatively buying up domain names.

However, stocks can not be consumed. For most people, there is no reason to transact in the financial market other than financial gain.

I don't see how this type of trading automated trading harms retirement investments. High frequency exists because exchanges now allow electronic transactions and automated matching. Algorithmic trading (which generally means automating the execution of large number of shares, such as institutional (retirement funds) orders) have also greatly benefited from same opportunities.

If the complaint is that when retirement funds buy or sell large number of shares, HF guys come in and pick them off -- this is no different from regular day traders (or even professional traders). In fact, large trades have no "right of way" in the stock market. If you are buying a million shares of some stock, other traders will react and raise the bid. This is not a subversion of how the market works, this is the essence of price discovery and how the market is supposed to work.

>I see the market as connecting investors with investments. Spending heavily to leverage momentary arbitrage does not, in my perspective, add significantly to the base function of the market.

But does it take away from the base function? Just because some rich guy is spending money on computers, routers, programmers and mathematicians does not mean the market is negatively effected. Surely the burden is on the critics to prove why HF is bad.
Well, maybe. But a happy and adequately-vacationed workforce is surely going to be more productive, so the loss might be less than it seems (citation needed here, admittedly).

And I guess it might mean a few extra jobs, which surely can't be a bad thing.
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Google for Nonprofits forum

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/googlefor...
Interesting to compare it against goodread's list: http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/science-fiction
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Both Hamilton's _Pandora's Star_ and Vinge's _A Fire Upon the Deep_ are "Modern" sci-fi (though, definitely not hard sci-fi) where computing and networking are important to the story. The plot being A Fire Upon the Deep involves travelling to a planet lacking modern technology and the changes that brings.
@bignoggins - Absolutely, I could never have imagined I would be running a business where we make our own products from scratch, without all the large scale corporate mumbo jumbo.

p.s. great website, good to see you're able to live the dream and travel the world!
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C++ has lambdas now. C++11 is approved and published as ISO/IEC 14882:2011(E) standard recently. Lambda part of that standard is implemented in icc, gcc and msvc. But the difference is that C++ has relatively minimalistic runtime compared to JVM, so it is not nearly as fragile.

Also lambdas for C++ have been under work for a very long time. The first version of proposal to add them to C++0x is from 2006 (as far as I can tell) and it refers to papers dating back to 1988 which discuss adding "Lexical closures" to C++.

So based on that, C++ committee used over 5 years to get lambdas on a release from a proposal. 2-3 years for Java doesn't sound that bad after all.
:D It's much worse than you imagine. The entire TLD .cm (Cameroon) was transformed into a typosquat years ago.

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