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I had heard it mentioned before but just installed it for the first time. It's only been 5 minutes and I've already adjusted pretty well to the color balance shift. I thought that it would end up driving me nuts but I think this'll really help. Thanks for the recommendation!
The first paragraph is just silly:

"After years of trying to cut off Linux growth as a desktop platform on x86 and x64 PCs, Microsoft may have actually figured out a way to stop Linux deployments on client PCs dead in their tracks."

I'm quite certain Microsoft has (A) not put any significant effort into cutting off growth as a desktop platform, and (B) If they had, they were almost completely successful, and characterizing it as "trying" implies that they had limited success.
It's really sad how it seems like we're stuck with the 1080p craze for monitors, we've made negative progress in this area, it's becoming really hard to find higher resolutions. Which is weird because normally computer marketing is to absurd levels all about bigger numbers, but the HDTV crap has apparently trained everybody that 1080p is the ultimate in video. Luckily mobile seems to have dodged the HDTV bullet and they're competing on DPI.
chromeos has similar thing, with a developer switch at back basically turns off the signature validation in firmware. what they should worry about is, which CA root to put in there.
I bought a Windows machine from Amazon. The reason that I wasn't able to install Linux was acceptable enough for Amazon to pay for return shipping.
To everyone saying "I doubt anyone will do this": wasn't the consensus also against Microsoft restricting application distribution to their app store?
I worked in Amazon warehouses for two summers during college, doing the sorts of tasks described here. The first year there was no A/C. Actually, it wasn't so terrible. The next year there was central air, but by then there was quite a bit more structure. I was on a 10h overnight shift four days a week. There were traffic lights hanging from the ceilings; if the light was green, you'd go home at 6am. If the light was yellow, you could opt to work overtime for an hour. Red light = mandatory overtime.

It was fairly unpleasant, but I was only there 4 months at a time, and for a 19 y/o the pay was better than other things.

There were indeed pretty stringent rules about keeping up a rate of work. I felt lucky that lifting books at standing height and walking constantly didn't cause the fatigue that using a tape gun for 10 hours might. I don't recall getting demerits but I remember the system (this was 10+ years ago).

When I first scanned the report I thought it seemed overblown. However, the workers interviewed describe a lack of human connection in the face of difficulties. When I did this work, there were expectations, but there were also plenty of pleasant, supportive managers around. I never had any problems doing my work, but I would have imagined more interest and understanding of a team leader if someone did.

This was long, long ago in the history of Amazon. Given their volume today, I can't say I'm surprised at the numbers-focused attitude. It's very disappointing to hear.
That's interesting. Isn't one of your primary benefits (from the employer point of view) the fact that you are a premium supplier of great talent? "Great talent" including "reliable"? If not, what separates you from any other freelancer website?
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I am surprised by the negative comments. I admit that I only post to G+ once or twice a week, but I have some very interesting people in my circles and use G+ about as often as Twitter to find cool/useful stuff to read and experiment with.

All that said, nothing replaces owning your own domain for your content and having your blog as a sub-domain. Own and control your stuff.

Mostly my current use of web search is just searching for runtime error messages or APIs. For leads on new trends, etc. I trust the people I associate with on Twitter and G+ to point me to great tech material.
It's easy to remember but that's about it. It literally could describe anything: oil change service, magazine publisher, board game company.

It's kind of refreshing to see such a textbook, illuminated lesson in bad management in the tech world, when usually all we get to see are the all-stars.
Thank you for this. Sensationalist journalism to stir the pot doesn't bring answers, it just confuses more.
I doubt any major vendor will do this. First off, they don't want to be locked into selling Microsoft-only machines. If they can't pretend Linux is an option, Microsoft can charge them $1000 for a Windows license and there's nothing they can do about it.

I doubt that secure boot is a factor in this, since it would be easy for vendors to disable by default in the factory if they wanted to install Linux.

The point of the article isn't that the machines will be Windows-only, but that dual booting may no longer be possible. It makes a point of emphasizing that secure booting will likely be easy for the user to disable, although that will disable Windows 8 as well.
You should look into HackNY (http://hackny.org). Last summer HackNY paired 35 students [1] up with startups and gave them all housing in NYC.

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Via a quick Google, some of the newer Radeon cards can push in excess of 2500GFLOPs.
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What shipping Windows machine can you not install Linux on? Or are you talking about some sort of hardware support issue?
Sorry, I don't buy it.

No PC OEM has a rational fear of MS doing bad by them, regardless of lock-in. Firstly, MS has no good reason to do that since it would just put the retail price of the PCs too high to sell well, and MS is a volume business and knows it. They're smart enough to know to avoid hurting their own sales. They already know who and how to charge ridiculously high prices per client for software and its not OEMs or retail consumers. Secondly, the OEMs so affected would likely run to the FTC immediately and file complaints of unfair trade practices, and then MS would find itself in a fecal-tornado of bad press and government action that it would surely not enjoy. Thirdly, OEM licenses can only go so high, as then OEMs could just buy and install retail copies of Windows on their machines. In short, this whole fantastical scenario goes against everything that MS has done as a business and everything that MS has done as part of creating and maintaining relationships with OEMs over the past 3 decades, it makes no sense.

As far as the server market, those machines are almost invariably different hardware than commodity PCs. I don't think it's likely that PC component makers or OEMs will opt for Windows-only systems, but I don't think you've put forward a sufficient argument on why that should be the case.
If the biggest cost is physicians then it appears (as an uninformed spectator) that you have a well-functioning health system.

In many systems the biggest costs are administrative overheads and payments to drug companies.
Also, checking for the purchase status of an item that can't be bought would be a cheap and easy place to start.

Easy to get around with a custom crack, but it should actually be pretty effective against a blanket 'just return yes' crack.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, this is silly FUD. Microsoft isnt stupid enough (or evil enough, despite what some like to believe) to attempt to force PC oems to effectively block all OSes except Windows. They know this wouldn't work, and there'd be no point in trying to force it.

Supporting hardened boot is not the same as requiring it. Microsoft already utilizes this for BitLocker. You can still install Linux on a machine that supports hardened booting and signed images. You just can't enable hardened boot unless you use signed images.
1. I love F.lux as well but it is (still) buggy for me, especially on my living room Mac Mini (where it is connected to an HDTV – F.lux never remembers to apply the white-point shift after the display reawakens…).

2. If people would like to see their iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch do the same thing, Apple needs to allow such functionality. Request F.lux support – native or by exposing an API – on iOS by duping #10158436 on http://bugreport.apple.com. (Please!)
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I think the 1080p craze is driven by consumer demand. For the average consumer (not a gamer, not a power user), the ultimate visual experience is an HD movie. There is no need for better quality than HD (1080p), because you won't find a source better than that, so the most sensible thing for a hardware provider is to deliver 1080p at the cheapest point possible. Or to improve on other areas than purely pixel count (colour accuracy, brightness, viewing angle...)

It's hard to keep in mind, but the majority of buyers, and therefore the majority of income, may not be like you.
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> The point of the article isn't that the machines will be Windows-only, but that dual booting may no longer be possible. It makes a point of emphasizing that secure booting will likely be easy for the user to disable, although that will disable Windows 8 as well.

Never going to happen. Win8 will install on machines built for Win7.

Win 8 is not going to refuse to boot on machines that have boot signing disabled.
I don't get it, a Ponzi scheme is an investment program, in what sense is poker ever considered an investment program?
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PowerVR series 6: 350 million ‘real’ polygons per second http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_6

Xbox 360: 500 million triangles per second http://hardware.teamxbox.com/articles/xbox/1144/The-Xbox-360...

I don't understand enough about the two systems to know if these figures are measuring the same thing. But if they are, the series 6 is getting pretty close.
I doubt that investors would be savvy enough to care but it would be a stupid move, nonetheless.

Besides, the server is where Linux matters, not consumer hardware.
Shhh, not so loud! Such thoughts would destabilize Slashdot if they got out!

Seriously, this seems especially short-sighted, as the perception is that MS is getting thrashed by Apple in the consumer market. I think its more about preventing malware from getting ahold of the boot process, side effects be damned.
Are all these MS threads going to be trolled now with people incessantly spurting out visions of MS's doom?

HN, you're turning into Reddit, except Reddit gives me a hide button and a collapse thread button.
The AR platform's direct impingement operating principle has a far greater accuracy potential than the AK or FAL's gas piston (or a piston AR, for that matter). DI is probably the best operating principle for building a supremely accurate semi-automatic rifle. That's why the M110 system is an AR, not just an updated M14.

However, for the next generation of infantry rifles, you're seeing nothing but gas piston systems. Modern piston accuracy is "good enough" for the engagement distances that modern infantry units encounter. Modern DI rifles are "reliable enough" for the field conditions that trained, equipped first-world militaries operate under.

However, I'm not a trained, equipped first-world military. I'm some random dude who'd rather spend more time shooting and less time cleaning. A gas piston rifle is much more tolerant of bad hygiene and maintenance than a DI rifle, and my FAL is still more accurate than I am from field positions.

An AK isn't - I shoot better than even the nice Bulgarian AK-74s or converted Saigas. Most FALs are 3-4 MOA guns, and I'm about a 2-3 MOA shooter, depending on the day. But without an extremely steady rest like you see at Camp Perry, my FAL is more than accurate enough for my shooting.
Hackintoshes a threat to Windows? No offense, but that's laughable. It's been awhile since I put together one but it's such a huge pain in the ass that even most people capable of putting OS X on ordinary hardware won't bother.
Maybe. The point of hiring top dollar people is the skills that can get you a job are not the same as the skills you need to actually do the job. We would tell them straight out - "Look, we're paying you top dollar, and we expect you to produce." But no matter how careful you are occasionally a lemon slips through the hiring process. If he's a contractor you call up his agent and he's gone the next day. Employees? Not so much.

So when contractors aren't an option management switches gears and says "We're providing all these benefits and growth potential. Hire the best people you can get in this salary range." And what you get, instead of superstars, is plodders.
That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the Windows 8 Logo Program, which is basically that sticker on a new PC that says it is certified to run Windows 8.
Yep. Compatibility is extremely dicey on Hackintoshes -- the best seem to be running hardware that is chipset identical to those in Macs.

I'd be more worried about Apple waking up one day and shipping an update that breaks everything.
Yes, and that's the primary reason we chose startups as a source of talent. They're a highly skilled, self-sufficient "swat team" that already have proven team fit.

Nonetheless, renting a startup or (team for that matter) is still a new concept for employers and they are used to paying an hourly rate for consulting gigs. If we start to see way more demand for flat-rate project from startups, we'll move in that direction.
Biased? That article? I thought it a very fair analysis, evenhanded almost to a fault.

You might not agree, of course, but bias isn't about whether you agree or not. It's a systematic favouring of one side of an argument over others, regardless of facts. I don't see much evidence of that in the article, which is a fairly dry analysis of the realpolitik affecting the region and the coming UN vote.
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http://www.amazon.com/Bazooka-How-Build-Your-Own/dp/08736473...

Guns really are not that complicated. I wish I had the time and the cojones to actually try to make one of these.
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Just seeing Thief on here makes me go all gooey inside.

Dromed brings back memories. http://www.keepofmetalandgold.com/upcoming.htm -- The Garden, 2002, FM under development by mr_luc; screenshots here: http://www.keepofmetalandgold.com/ej/gardn/ -- wow, way back.

Dromed was a bear. I remember the 'water brush hack' -- you couldn't make a cylinder with more than a certain number of sides (8)? But if you made an air brush with 8, a water brush with 8 but rotated, and then a water-air, and then a water-solid, you could make columns with lots of sides. I did that process over and over again to make a dome, and then to hollow it out on the inside, too.

I started programming for money around that time and had to leave it all behind. But every few years I've downloaded all of the Thief FM's and replayed through both games and the standout Fan Missions.

Except recently. I can't get it to work on Windows 7, with VMware or any other way.

The impressive things about the game engine were 1) the sound; 'room brushes' to apply different acoustics to areas, which promoted sound design to a first-class citizen of level design, 2) the object system. It was surprisingly flexible, and you could do a lot of very programming-like things because there were various stimuli and stimuli receptors you could attach to objects, be they AI or elevators or other things ...
KeePass: average
Banshee: great

Which ones have you used?
Investors are savvier than you'd think. Even on a rumor that the vendor is doing an exclusive lock-in with MS, I'm sure you'd see the stock price dip. Investors spend all their time looking at news reports in their target industry, so I'm sure they'll notice something as big as this.
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they don't want to be locked into selling Microsoft-only machines.

True to some extent, but they can always create Linux models that just don't include the MS public key.

the need for booting non-standard Windows images will save us.

Customized Windows images should have the same signature since the signed components (kernel, drivers, etc.) will be the same.

the all-important server market

This either doesn't apply to servers or the vendors will just create Linux models.

If Intel chips stop booting Linux

To be clear, that is not what we're talking about. This is an optional firmware feature (and I assume it will apply to all logoed PCs regardless of processor type).
I agree with many of these replies, but I also think that Google was held to a higher standard because of their populist "Don't be evil" mantra, and every time they act like a big publicly owned corporation (which they are), it comes off as personally offensive and disingenuous.'

Apple gets away with it because they've always kind of admitted they were assholes/auteurs.
With the schedule you described, it doesn't sound like you're purely a developer. Either a lot of this stuff needs to move from your plate to someone else's, or you need to accept that you do a lot of non-development work.

Note that of the distractions you describe, a lot of them are things that you would have still had if you were working from home. The emails and the IMs are still there, although I guess they might be more ignoreable since you don't have the threat of the person showing up at your desk. :-)
Depending on what you are working on 15 minutes may be enough time to make some progress, but anything with a moderate level of complexity is going to take longer than that before gain enough context to start.
> If that doesn't work, the need for booting non-standard Windows images will save us. I've never worked for any company that ran a stock Windows install -- everyone rolls their own. If new machines won't boot this image, guess what, that new machine is bought from some vendor that doesn't do this to them.

That's not how this works. It doesn't expect that the entire OS install is signed. It expects that the kernel is signed. "Non-standard" Windows installs don't generally futz with the Kernel. If you work for a company that uses a hacked kernel internally, please let me know, so I can make sure I'm not invested.

> Nobody uses Windows as a server OS

Microsoft's server product(along with its related tools and products) is massively successful. The Internet darlings may not run Windows Server, but many, many companies do.

> If, say, Samsung says "our hardware will only run Windows", then they won't be manufacturing Android phones or Chromebooks anymore.

Why would anyone do that? Even if Samsung sold some hardware that was locked down to only Windows, why would they suddenly stop selling other hardware? There's just no point. They already sell devices that are effectively locked down to Android, but that doesn't preclude them continuing to sell Windows laptops.
It's pretty awesome. I'm going through the italian verbs, it's very useful. Where did you get the audio files?

EDIT:

I noticed some audio files sometimes take up to a minute to load (most play instantly though). Chrome/Win7 here.

EDIT2:

It would help if there were an option to play both Italian and English audio, just to use the auditory memory.
Yeah definitely. We allow you to post your startup with any number of your founders. You can post a startup with only a single founder. And some of the smaller projects could easily be pumped out with a single talented dev.
I agree. They push the lower level movies intentionally.

I've stopped trusting the Netflix so-called "Latest Release" and other lists a while ago and started using http://instantwatcher.com for this reason. Good filtering & sorting features.
Cool! The audio is text-to-speech, we licensed software from a couple different companies and combined/customized it. We tried to make it fast / preload a lot / are using a CDN (details about that in the post), hopefully the slowness isn't typical.
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I think we're actually talking about some paranoid hype written about a blog post written about a slide deck.

Maybe Microsoft will require OEMs to support secure boot to be certified for Win8 (fine by me). That doesn't mean that the user won't be able to disable it if they want, and it definitely doesn't mean Win8 won't run when it's turned off.
Sony had some great CRT monitors. I had two IBM P275's (Sony G520), I ran them at 2048x1536@75hz they worked great for years, the colors/black levels were amazing.

Eventually they started getting washed out (no black), I was able to fix it using a 10-Meg ohm (1/4 watt) resistor.

After a year or so the issue came up again and I decided to get two Lenovo L220x's to replace them.. While the colors are quite good on the Lenovo's (calibrated of course), I miss the resolution and original black levels of the P275's.
There was a certain condition (~ 10 years ago) where if the source file didn't pass the type checker it would be deleted.

Bryan quickly assured everyone that it had since been resolved. =)
I think people really over estimate the anti-intellectualism side of things.

When you come from hard labor you don't have much time to really think about your options. You're 18, you're on your own, you need to feed yourself and pay the rent. You don't have many options. Your family was never in a position to afford college for you, living paycheck to paycheck and all. Theres a vein of fatalism running underneath all of this, your daddy worked in a warehouse, his daddy worked in a warehouse, and you're gonna work in a warehouse too. It is just how it is. It is sad, but it is how it is.
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