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I tried to get into Google+ but there really isn't a reason to switch. I have no complaints with Facebook. They have the people I want to talk to and the features I like. They've made a lot of changes in response to G+. I now have better control over who can see which messages and I can organize my friends into lists. I really don't have the time to watch over two social networks. At this point any competitor to Facebook is going to be a hard sell.

G+ may look pretty busy right now because they opened it up for everyone but I think most people will have the same reaction I did -- it gets old quick.
Treasury keeps paying the debt service with the money that comes in. A lot of program stop getting funded (including, strangely, a couple of taxes). A couple of freedom of information act requests to treasury got the fact there was a plan, but only 17 pages were actually released (which didn't tell a whole lot).

A default would be a huge deal, but not passing the debt ceiling increase doesn't automatically equal a default. The leadership wanted to pass an increase (that is pretty clear from their rejection of some of the more honest spending cut packages), they also are being pressured to not raise taxes but cut spending. The final deal was not what any tea party house member or senator wanted.

"It's arguably not even constitutional" - The Congress is in charge of the budget per the US Constitution, not the President. The US Constitution evens goes as far as saying where such bills must start (Article I, Section 7, clause 1).
I cancelled my membership a while back also -- difficulty in finding content I actually wanted to watch was a huge factor.

It's almost like an insurance company -- they want you to buy their plan, but not actually use it! (Why, then they'd have to pay out to the movie studios!)
Seems too cumbersome. Plus, mixing the resume information with the formatting looks like a maintenance nightmare.

That's why I store my resume as XML (model) and transform it into HTML (view) using XSLT (controller). The XML file includes my complete resume, and I use XSLT to generate different resumes that each display a subset of that information. It's as simple as myname.com/resume/dev or myname.com/resume/dba. The resulting HTML also copy and pastes well into Notepad or textarea form fields. I can also take this same XML data and convert it to PDF using a server-side PDF library.

If I ever get around to updating the code behind it, I'll convert it to HTML5/canvas.
Interesting that geek.com says the picture is from 1995, while the article you've linked here says the monitor was newly announced in May of 1997. I'm guessing geek took some liberties with the details.

EDIT: Not that it matters...just something I noticed.
It's a frame capture from a Doom 3 promotional trailer. In fact, I was the one who captured it and uploaded it to Wikipedia in 2004; it's nice that this article calls it a "classic shot" (that's what I thought too when I saw the scene in the video the first time). With all credit to the actual photographer, of course!
Oh I'm sure I could rattle off at least a hundred or so names of products and services that have no relationship to their relative products, are challenging to spell (assuming you hadn't heard of them before) and sound somewhat similar to other services.
Yep, I meant 9.99, thanks.
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Exactly my point. I think all the speculation about the legal ramifications of printing a receiver is off-base. I see no reason why the government wouldn't view it as just another form of manufacturing.
>That's extremely expensive equipment that you're not going to have at home without a lot of dedication and investment.

You can stamp AK receivers with little more than a hydraulic shop press and a simple jig, followed by either riveting or welding things in place. That's totally within the realm of many home workshops, and people have been doing so for years.
Those new intelligent lists are just great.
A lot of huge corps won't care. As long as they can muddle along (with the help of consultants of course). The phrase that I see a lot of for this is "not our core business".
Some backstory for those not all that familar w/ online poker:

Full Tilt, along w/ PokerStars, has long been regarded as a premier destination for online poker. A lot of marketing presence, a lot of players, a large range of games.

They rolled out an innovative way to play cash-game poker where you never had to wait for a hand. Several thousand people would join a, say, $1/2 game of NL Holdem, and as soon as 9 people were ready to play, they sat and formed a table and were dealt a hand. You fold? As soon as 8 other people fold, bam, you're in another hand. In practice, you never had to wait more than 1 second.

They certainly did make millions in profit on a "rake." However they have an aggressive and lucrative affiliate program that would see them paying out as much as 1/3 of a players lifetime rake to the entity that referred them to the site. (aka "Rake Back")

As an American player, until the crackdown earlier this year, I had no problems playing. When I cashed out, they mailed me a check drawn on a US bank. If I had to deposit more, I could do so from my credit card.

This is a big blow for the credibility of the industry IMO.
I worked on a small scale cluster at a pharma company 6 years ago. The scientists goal was to discover new compounds to patent without having to do the screening by hand. The cluster would screen thousands of compounds simultaneously all day long. It was very interesting work.
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Your mind cannot heal anything.

As some of the other posts have pointed out, the many real, observable actions of stress-response hormones complicate this statement considerably.
I used to work at Amazon in the operations department. The amount of work they do to ensure things are undamaged in transit is pretty amazing, and mind-boggling.

What people see is a brown cardboard box with air pillows, but there is a really absurd amount of technology and science behind it.
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Actual Laws aside, I get goosebumps thinking that this isn't completely sci-fi. Just because you can't print the whole weapon now doesn't mean you can't do it in 15 years or so. I can't wait till home depot is selling you "models" of nuts and bolts rather than actual nuts and bolts!
Why wouldn't a 3D print operator have people/entity sign a legal document stating that placed order would not violate any federal laws and anything which resulted in violating federal law regulation would boomerang back to the entity placing the order?
"I expect more from the BBC."

Don't.

The Beeb is notorious for the poor quality of its science reporting.
>Transferring it is going to be treated the same as any other firearm transfer in the U.S. as well.

i.e., expect the BATFE to get rather upset with you if you manufacture a receiver intending to transfer it to someone else without being a licensed firearms manufacturer.

Manufacturing a firearm for personal use is generally good to go as long as you stay within the bounds of NFA, etc regulations.
I had one night of hitting the sack at 10am after taking 3mg and not sleeping at all (maybe 4am?). The other night I took 3mg 8-9 hours before waking up and I still felt groggy.

I wouldn't deter people from melatonin but they should start with very small doses.
> get to work before 5am

Many warehouses don't let you set your own hours. I doubt Amazon does.

> take more water breaks

These employees were afraid to take medical breaks. I doubt they have the freedom to take extra water breaks without being in jeopardy of losing their job.
It was never fiction in most of the world. America (and the West in general) simply experienced a very brief era where it wasn't true.

The depressing thought for me is that we are simply returning to a historical norm, from an abnormal spike in quality of life for the middle class.
That workstation is an Intergraph ImageStation ZII. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see someone using it: http://www.hansaluftbild.de/website/firma/geschichte1.htm?si...
This isn't journalism, it's useless garbage. The article assumes a clear bias in the way it interprets the data and doesn't bother to ask any obvious questions in hopes of explaining the numbers.
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Weekend hours without anyone else in the office is generally 2-3x (as measured in a BPM database) as productive for me.
Golf may be a terrible example for trying to prove out this rule. There are many folks with near perfect golf swings who never make it in the sport. Golf is largely a mental battle, and if you can't hold up under pressure you are not going to be able to compete. I'm not sure how he is practicing, but I'm guessing he has no where near the pressure you get in competition, and unless you have the experience he would likely crack in a competitive situation. In a tour event a single bad judgment or mental lapse can ruin 4 days of hard work. That's if you caused the issue, golf is not a fair game and a bad bounce could also ruin your day. It is a very tough game mentally, and most recreational golfers are not prepared consistent performance required for competitive golf.

The other thing most people don't realize is how much exponentially better the different levels are. A club champ is not much compared with a mini tour player. Mini tour players are no where near the nationwide tour guys, and the PGA players who can win, or finish top 10 consistently are really really good. If you look at the difference between the #1 world ranked Luke Donald vs John Daly currently ranked #652 there is a very small difference in key stats. Lukes scoring average is 69.47, Daly's is 72. Greens in regulation has Luke at 67.04% and Daly at 61.36%.

One big event in your personal life could totally shake up your ability to compete at these highest levels. Sergio Garcia had to take a year off after being dumped by Natalie Gulbis, and look at the downward spiral of Tiger. He may never gain the confidence to compete again.

I wish him luck but I would bet he couldn't break par on a reasonably tough course from a respectable tee after his 10k hours.
The glasses are 3D LCD shutter glasses. They sync the frame rate of the shutter to the video output using to the box on top of the monitor. This is a old school version of what the 3D TVs are doing now. We had a whole lab setup with active 3D at work and it was truly amazing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Automatic_Virtual_Environm...
http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/flo...

Search for _controlfp.. seems some MS API calls could change it.
Absolutely my favorite resolution, and is what's currently setup on my HP ZR24w, as well as deliberately defocussed a couple of notches to fuzz the text up a bit.

In comparison to the $2000 and $10000 crts, this is a great monitor with an ips panel, a standard sRGB color-gamut, and a cheap for an ips panel price of about $380 right now.

Yeah, I'm happy to be programming now, though 6 years ago was a great time for 'if you can haul it, you can have it' deals on crts.
There are other factors that can affect the accuracy of GPS; for example, receivers tend to be significantly less accurate in a CBD with lots of tall buildings. I've also seen receivers with an error before, eg. one that consistently reported itself as being 150m south of where it really was.

But I agree that by far the more significant problem would be deliberate alterations to the data. It doesn't seem like it would be particularly hard to do so...
Really? When you're not limited to a few out at a time, and when they don't have to be physically delivered to you at a cost of 1-3 days, does the queue per se really matter so much anymore? I can see a lot of different ways to represent saved content for a streaming biz, but DVDs pretty much force an ordering. I almost never use my queue for streaming.

But ratings are another matter. Seems like they could syndicate that data back and forth.
I couldn't really follow this article. But looking back at Thief, it was really ahead of its time. I think games nowadays still cannot match up with its stealth gameplay implementation. I would include Deus Ex in this as well. It made a great use of light and allowed the player to affect the light as well as the sounds they made. Really great game.
my feed is definitely still a ghost town...i think all the tech savvy people i know kind of gave up on it and people like my parents and in-laws etc are not likely to ever join.
It sounds like we really should change the system to where automatisation of those jobs is a good thing.

The situation is simply ridiculous - we can feed everyone, there is way enough stuff for everyone (at least in the richer countries, and longterm, everywhere, I'd wager) and it's possible to automate great parts of hard and gruesome work. And yet, the system demands that everyone works and gets stressed out, even if there is not enough to do - it's not just economic restraints, it's also the value people are given in society.

I'm not arguing against social capitalism here, which seems to work better in large scales than anything else we've tried, but this really is a problem and an opportunity that needs to be discussed more.
If FullTilt is a Ponzi, then any startup is a Ponzi. Investors put money into the startup, the founders spend that money (in part on their own incomes), and based on the company's business model, the investors reasonably expect to get a return on their money.

FullTilt made probably $1M+ per day in rake alone. Even taking costs into account, FullTilt could rake enough to pay out all accounts within a couple years. That is decidedly not a Ponzi scheme, which has no hope of ever being able to pay back its investors.
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Other countries do evacuations like that using military or civilian transports without needing crazy taxation laws.
Would that have been running NT back then, perhaps the MIPS version?

The environment does look like Visual C of which 1.0 came out somewhere in the 94-95 time-frame if I'm remembering it correctly, though it might have been just a tad earlier.
There is a pattern with these posts, as it's interesting that just before Google announces a major release someone publishes this sort of piece, either criticizing Google on privacy issues or competitive issues or describing a product as struggling.

It's PR, someone paid for this and more often than not it takes place right before Google releases something.
The high end from Sony is now and OLED http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/resource.solutions...

(these are mostly used for color grading)
First thing is nope I had the problems like his before I had a computer. Had it when I was a kid and right though out high school, right now I'm staying with my parents while I focus on some products, and am waking around 10am again, thats my naturally sleep pattern 2am-10am.

But I'll agree the computer CAN makes it worse ... because even as the guy mentioned controlling light can be critical. On the flip side it can make it easier to sleep by mentally tiring you, if you have a problem you have to test it and see. Both are true for me.

As for what he said about lighting 100% agree with it. I summed it up the other day here talking about how I created a fake sun rise in my room : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2990669 what I didn't mention was I hid every single light source. My room was pitch black, I rewired my body clock by controlling the light.
Facebook did improve a lot. To an ordinary user, G+ does not offer enough to convince them to switch.
>It's not clear to me if a rifle part printed from plastic at home is usable.

It wouldn't surprise me if it were perfectly functional. The lower receiver on an AR houses the trigger group, buffer tube, magazine, and grip. Not really a lot of high-stress parts there. The barrel, bolt, gas tube, etc that have to withstand 60k+ PSI of pressure are all part of the upper receiver.

Legally, only the lower is classified as a firearm in the United States (meaning they have to be transferred through a licensed firearms dealer if shipped); the upper and the rest of the gun are simply parts and can be shipped directly by UPS/FedEX/USPS.
I gave up on G+ a while ago. Adding screen sharing, whiteboards and all of that crap isn't going to make me come screaming back. G+ just doesn't have it.
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I have to say your front-page marketing was fantastic, with the arrows like a thousand children telling you "click here" -- it almost got a died in the wool antisocial-networkist to sign on. I think the features you guys have built are awesome both from a usability and a technical standpoint, and your pitch was strong enough to get me past my objections to the privacy policy and everything else. I haven't been an active member of a social network since Friendster (and proud of it). I did have a MySpace account for a couple days, and a Facebook account for less time than that, just to check them out.

Thing is, I forgot why I dropped out of those, and it really had less to do with privacy than with this: There are just some people who I never want to talk to again. I know that sucks, but it's true. When I first logged onto G+ I was excited. "Wow, Matt's joined. And he's already got 12 friends! Hey, my mom's on here?! And Alex...awesome."

Then I started scrolling down the list and saw a face I just really didn't need to see again. Then another, and another. Not because I hate them or fought with them, but because they're the kind of people who just talk endlessly without saying anything, and waste my time. And while I have nothing to say to them, I'm not enough of a jerk to be cold to them if I run into them at a party.

I've got no problem being a total dick to people I hate. I got that covered. But when it comes to people I just don't want to spend time with, I do what most normal people do -- I'm polite but distant, and I make sure their access to me and their demands on my time are as limited as possible. E.g. I don't give them my phone number when I move, and I try not to let them see my photo every time they open their web browser.

So basically, I just deleted my account because as much as I'd like to join the hangouts with my friends, I don't want some people to see me, because then I'll have to be an asshole to people I'm just ambivalent about.

I gotta say, I'm a little offended by your audacity, because you're essentially asking me to categorize every single person I've ever had an email conversation with as a friend or a non-friend. That wouldn't be much fun the next time I run into them at a party or a show, would it? But I'm not sure you care about this, since your revenue stream is from commercializing the data that arises from your provision of these relationship metrics.

So again, I do have great respect for what you've done with the interface and whatnot... but the demands that would be placed on my time (and the intrusion into my comfort zone by people I don't want to talk to), all of which are automatically incurred by signing up for your service, would cost more in billable hours than the service is worth. And that's why I'm leaving.
That's still terrifying. How difficult could it be to crack a hash if you KNOW it's only 4 characters?

On the other hand, if your password is seventy characters long, knowing the last 4 doesn't help much.
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Apple makes the computers, slight difference there.
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I read Apple Outsider's "What Netflix Could Have Said" which argues the uses of DVD and Streaming are separate. But I argue, for the common user, they are very similar. The common user wants access to content on their terms not those of the studios. Given release X, if I want to see it, I want it when it is available for method Y. If Y is streaming and Z is disc, I would prefer that such are basically in the same time frame.

The biggest issue with, and one I have a problem, streaming Netflix is "available content". Most things I feel like watching randomly, take Conan the Barbarian, as an example, aren't available. This is a movie from the 80s. 20+ years ago, available? Nope? Why? Licensing reasons.

I am both a Netflix disc and streaming user. Explain to me how the above will be solved? If anything, we are seeing a retrenchment in streaming content. I expect to see less for my money.
Not entirely accurate. The ATF actually specifically requires that semi-auto weapons are not readily convertible to fully automatic by way of a simple parts swap.

A standard, semi-automatic AR-15 will not accept a full-auto M16 trigger group; the M16 trigger group requires an extra hole to be milled in the receiver which isn't present on semi-auto receivers.
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Wow this brings back memories (and really dates me).

I remember when I finally saved up enough lawn-cutting money to buy an AppleCat modem (for a Franklin Ace 1200) for my board "The Pirate Cove" (nothing to do with stealing software, I just thought it was a cool name)

I miss BoardWatch magazine :-)
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It is actually quite possible to print the entire gun, if you wanted to use a metal Selective Laser Sintering machine. They are just cost prohibitive ($500,000+).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering
In my usage G+ is not at all like Facebook.

The big difference is that Facebook is highly oriented towards "small circle of people I know in real life" and slowly opening up things to be more public.

G+ is highly oriented towards public with features to allow more private sharing. It's more like Posterous, really, than Facebook.

The concrete difference is that on Facebook I follow friends and coworkers, on G+ I follow Scoble, Tim O'Reilly, Alton Brown and other people who write interesting, public posts.

My G+ usage is pretty orthogonal to Facebook usage and is more like following blogs in an RSS reader.
Just want to point out that you could have reported missing reports of foreign bank accounts under the IRS amnesty disclosure initiative which just ended on august 9, 2011.

This program also covers 5471's, which hit me pretty hard. If you own even a single share in a foreign business AND your parents own shares, those shares are attributable to you in terms of determining if you have a controlling interest in that company. If you have over a certain percentage, you are required to file 5471's.

I just filed over 80 5471s for various companies for tax years since 2003. My tax accountant said that the IRS has been nothing other than 'foaming at the mouth insane' about collecting penalties, and that it is their attitude that any failure to disclose is treated as an attempt to defraud or conceal information from IRS, and that without exception, IRS always levies the maximum penalty possible. So, that would have been 800,000$ penalties for me.

Bear in mind that I already declared to IRS and paid taxed on any and all income earned from these foreign companies.

I can only hope they enjoy perusing my 400+ page filing. Apparently someone has to type it all in. Love to do my part to keep federal employees employed.

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=210027,00.html
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"If they survive long enough" seems like hyperbole to me. They might stagnate, sure, but that's a very different thing.
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