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I don't recall spending so much time on learning how to write. I remember we had a book with the cursive letters in big that we were supposed to follow with out pencils a couple of times. One of the first homework assignments I really hated, consequently, my handwriting was always ugly.

But yes, I think kids need to be taught how to write, they don't just learn it by copying from the board. Or maybe they would eventually, but it would take longer. With your argument, why have school at all, why not let kids learn everything by themselves.

Also, I wish there was more emphasis in school on learning how to structure thoughts (on paper or elsewhere). The few bits on handwriting, underlining headlines and so on are among the few lessons where this aspects play a role - most other stuff really is just copying stuff from the board and learning it by heart.

five year olds also need to take notes, for example write down tomorrows homework assignment. Of course you could put the assignments on a web site so that kids could look them up online instead - but I think that would produce a much higher workload for teachers.
I think the idea might be that if there are more Segways, there could be less cars. We're talking about a level of crowded here that's a little less like Its SO crowded in this city that I can hardly find a place to park and a little more like a CAR?! Those things haven't been allowed inside the city limits for years!
I see what you mean about it creating value, and I certainly agree that they are making the market for those ads slightly more efficient. However, it's still the broken window fallacy. Because the user clicked on that link in the search results, they didn't click on some other probably more relevant link. So on the balance, the total value created goes down.
As they put it themselves: "Perhaps maybe write your own command line interface, or a KDE interface."
I second the recommendation for a trip to Europe for a face-to-face-- if you're not willing to spare that expense, you're severely underbudgeted.

With regard to the enforceability of agreements, etc., talk to your lawyer. Again, if you don't want to spend the money to talk to a lawyer now, you're definitely not going to be happy about spending significantly more money with him/her in the event you need to take legal action to try to enforce the agreements....
I think Wallace was the greatest writer of his generation. Period. This news breaks my heart.
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I think he's right, but since his company sells engines he's also got a vested interest in the conversion to software rendering coming to pass.

It's a hell of a lot easier to build up a passable 3D engine from scratch using DirectX + Shaders etc than it will ever be starting from scratch and implementing those same algorithms in software. This will spread the field a lot - the best engine developers will be able to do amazing stuff with the complete control over rendering pipeline software 3D will provide, so the gap between the best engines and average in house ones will increase even further.

Which is a great thing if you develop and license out one of the top 3D engines on the market.
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And Forth is fun. It's a loveable language.

Did you know that 'Open Firmware' uses Forth - as a shell and for configuration code, device drivers etc?
i once felt the same way. it's important to note that "beta" isn't just limited to code, especially if you're building something technically solid yet "experimental" in design (i.e. involving complex algorithms or even game mechanics).
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Just "100"? I can think of 100 just as a former user Reader and Flash Player.
Clicking on [Lessons] provides me with an alert "Error in document.getElementById(adso_tooltip)"
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i personally like how the redesign actually evolves facebook into a useful communication tool.
what browser are you using? and is this from any page other than the main page?
So is face recognition technology good enough now to sort through my photos and tag all pictures that have grandma in it? Any information about it would be greatly appreciated. Are there good algorithms that are free to use, or is it a wasteland of patents?
i really love playing ARGs myself when i can find the time, and i have some ideas on the back-burner for making one someday down the road -- in the mean time i have another project i'm working on, but i would imagine making/executing an ARG would be rather fun -- if you're looking for more info, the people at unfiction.com are great and despoiler.org is a great resource as well...good luck!
I repeat, Dropbox is not what I want unless it provides a command that mounts the dropbox somewhere in my filesystem, no nautilus at all.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic with these or what...

1. You don't have to use the apps at all. I don't. Use webapps on the second to none web-browser.

2. You don't have to use DRM at all. I don't.

3. If something wants to know your location, an alert pops up and you allow it, or don't.

4. Who the hell has any clue what ogg vorbis or theora is. People know mp3. Apple pay like $1 or something to license it.

5. Maybe they are somewhere on the horizon, I haven't seen them yet..
That seems a bit silly. What is wrong with testing an application that is not yet 100% finished?
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"Sarcasm is stating the opposite of an intended meaning especially in order to sneeringly, slyly, jest or mock a person, situation or thing."

I don't think agreeing fits.
Why? Isn't credit a market like any other, regulated by supply and demand? What makes you think interest rates will go up?
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Haha, well, we make no excuses. Robustness and maturity are things that come with time and a whole lot of elbow grease. (Which we are applying liberally to the area.) ;-)
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What's wrong is being in a perpetual state of beta. If you release software into the world, take full responsibility for it. Saying you're in beta is like blaming your parents for bad parenting when you're 30 and living at home.
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i'm impressed by your brevity. a lost art for sure.

real-time control is one place where science is beautiful and fun.
One of the things I realized when working for a social startup is that many of those web 2.0, happy user generated content things make it super easy to listen to feedback. (As in, trolling your OWN site and using it to keep people in the loop is surprisingly easy.)

Pay attention to your heavy users, or the people with lots of friends, or various other metrics of activity. Many times, they can become your friends with minimal effort, and soon they'll IM you whenever they hit a bug, and tell all their friends. The more you know about their lives, and the "problems" that your site is solving, the more focused and direct the work can be.

Yay internet.
Perhaps he should have tried sell the key chains for 5$.
Yes, it was not relevant. But since we are talking about anecdotes anyway..
Beta is a good marketing device. It makes people think they are getting something "Hot off the press".

I don't use it myself, but I can see why some others might.

It's just another meaningless buzzword at the end of the day.
as many others have said, until the internet is as reliable and secure as my desktop, it will not replace my desktop, only augment it. the security challenge can be met. the reliability challenge will be around for a while.
People like being first to get something. They like having an invite. They like getting a backstage pass. They like being specially selected to try some Beta software.

It's not all about being able to blame bugs, it's also a good marketing strategy to make users feel privileged or important.
No causation - compare situation in other countries.
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You are not wrong, but stock prices are a reflection of trouble - just because trouble isn't reflected in a stock price yet doesn't mean there isn't any. Lehman's stock price 10 days ago being proof of that ;-)
And for the general programmer using it - he won't notice much of a difference in what the libraries do under the cover.
This I agree with -- beta has a time and place, and as a marketing strategy it can work. It just feels as though beta is used as a "Oh, my place is such a mess..." kind of excuse.
How is what TBL suggesting different in spirit from PageRank, or web of trust, etc? Giving people some metadata isn't going to "be the start of a slippery slope towards global totalitarianism." Article seems a little bit overzealous.
Try Illustrator and Photoshop on a Mac. I have better things to do with my life than wait.
the title is straight from the source.
To the extent that myspace is a player in music discovery, it seems like it has potential for profit. I have no clue whether the valuation discussed is reasonable or insane, but I do know that myspace has reasonable penetration in the not-tech-elite segment, and good relations with content producers.
I think it will be interesting to see the variety of rendering paradigms that come from this, but on the other side, it seems like the transition will be a bit of a nightmare - having to produce games with a both DirectX engine and a software one to cope with two different sets of hardware. It would also be nice if game developers put more effort into the gameplay than the graphics, but I guess I'll be waiting a while longer for that...

As an aside, has anyone tried getting something like erlang to run on a GPU? I think it would be useful to be able to harness all the computing power of one (or more) PCs with a common (high level) language which is designed for that purpose.
Really? What makes you think they would do that?
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Displaying your lessons brings up an error at the foot of the document

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/lancashi/website/cake/app/views/elements/sidebar/downloads.thtml on line 197

Possibly why the lessons are unformatted?

Also, and this is more a pet hate of mine than a universal issue, I find that 'signin' and signup' are confusing. I would like to see 'register' instead. You also need some more direction on the signin/signup page. For example 'existing users sign in here' over the signin form.
No free downloads, non-starter.

They're still fighting the wars of a decade ago.
Something in my intuition says (though I'm not sure if it's to be trusted), that if your code has the chance to be any of those things, you aren't writing it elegantly enough. The best code I've seen reads as a set of revelations (macros) followed by one short, simple bit of glue that feeds library functions to them. (Of course, those building libraries might think differently.)
I use Adobe software in production every day. Part of me feels comfort reading other peoples "gripes".

At the same time, as a developer, I also sympathize with the development teams at Adobe. I'm sure many of the people on their respective teams take a lot of pride in the programs they send to market, and undoubtedly they fight many battles with upper-management that they end up losing. "Faster? Who cares about faster, add more features!" the man in the suit says. I speculate that much of the blame for the unreasonable bloat in Adobe applications over the last 5-6 years can be pointed to the people writing the checks. After Effects hit rock bottom on version 7, and only recently with the release of CS3 have things started to look a bit better. After Adobe acquired Macromedia, I'm sure there was a lot of merging they attempted, which so far hasn't been very pretty. Perhaps after another version or two, Adobe will wrangle everything together and start releasing quality software again.

Here is a blog post from the Photoshop Product Manager about the dearadobe.com site: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/08/dear_adobe.html
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There's actually several thousand in their site, but that page only lists the top 100. Unfortunately, their page is also chock full of redundant gripes.

Reader annoyed me to no end, but what I discovered (on a Mac) is that there was (almost) nothing that actually required it. The PDF-ness of OS X meant that Preview was darn near good enough for everything, and faster than a jackrabbit.
The 2022 date has been widely misunderstood. HTML5 is scheduled to reach "last call working draft" in October 2009 - that is one year from now. No substantial change to the spec is expected to happen after this. This may actually be an optimistic timline considering the size of of the HTML5 spec.

However, HTML5 is going to go where no W3C spec has gone before: They want to create extensive test suites for all parts of the spec. This is going to be a large undertaking becuse the spec is large and defines a lot of things which is left undefined in earlier specs - e.g. error handling in HTML parsing, which is undefined in HTML4 but is defined in detail in HTML5.

The 2022 date is when it is expected that two complete and interoperable implementations of the spec will exist. This date is of course pure guesswork - when/if this will be achieved depends on the browser developers, not the WHATWG. It may be optimistic to hope that it will ever happen. As far as I know there is not one complete implementation of either HTML4 or CSS2 a decade after the finalization of the specs - much less two completely interoperable implementations.
At the risk of being downmodded, I must ask: why is this article on a site for HACKERS? Seriously, this article is SUIT NEWS all the way . . .
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Bernd Heinrich (biologist and (ultra)marathoner) wrote a book that dealt with this—Why We Run: A Natural History. It's very good (like many of his books).
just enough to appreciate it. i didn't have the math skills to be a controls engineer, but i did design electromagnetic devices for a while, and totally envied the controls people who got to tie all the pieces together - electrical, electronic, mechanical, etc.

my favorite example is the video of the apollo lunar module making adjustments as it approached the command module.
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"seamless sync on Linux"

I wonder if he's tried unison. I've used it for years to keep several mac and linux boxes in sync. It works beautifully and it's open-source.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Exactly. Intel will be providing a reference DirectX driver for Larrabee, which I believe they're considering making open source, so for low end engines it'll be business as usual.
Next on the chopping block is AIG followed immediately afterwards by Washington Mutual. AIG was desparately trying to raise money this weekend and WaMu has been hurting for some time.

If you look at the parallels between the progression of events at Bear Stearns and the progression of events at Lehman, you can draw many similarities to the events now ocurring at AIG.
> What's the difference

In theory nothing, but you have to draw the line somewhere. By eating at a restaurant where the cook uses a pan made in China, you are indirectly supporting the Dafur genocide. So you draw an arbitrary line, which is better than the alternative, which is cynicism.
Well, once the war was over big US companies just switched their production capacity to civilian markets

It's not quite as simple as that; the US was the only major industrial power that didn't need to rebuild its infrastructure from rubble. That gave the US a huge leg up. Granted it was subsidising reconstruction in the rest of the world, but that also served to create markets for exporting to. If it hadn't been for WW2, the British Empire would still be a - if not the - superpower today.
Check out the Institute for the Future: http://www.iftf.org/ and their resident game designer Jane McGonigal.

From their site:

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On September 22nd 2008, the Institute For the Future will launch the world’s first Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Game: Superstruct.
TBLs idea of a "web of trustworthiness" is not new, it has always been one of the applications in his vision of the semantic web. One of the properties of this vision is that the "trust-graphs" will be decentralized - there will not be a single authoritative trust-rating pr site. (Whether we believe this vision will ever come to fruition is a different issue).

> the idea [...] needs to die quickly before repressive governments, and those that nearly are, use his words as an excuse to censor and filter the internet further.

Yeah right, as if repressive goverments need an excuse from TBL to censor the internet. Anyway, they are certainly not going to wait for the realization of "the semantic web" to start censoring.
There are several billion human beings on earth. There is NO society on earth that relies on marathon running to survive. There are very few societies where people are at all inclined to run for long distances as part of the daily culture.

We may have the mechanism to run, but it somehow doesn't really strike me that human beings are made for running marathons. It just seems wrong to me. Marathon running is too taxing for us.

What I think happened is that the core human design was not especially built for marathon running. But at the critical point in history where marathon running was very much needed (for example, when the sapiens started expanding), all the marathon runners survived and took over.

For example, let's say the earth were suddenly to increase the temperature to 48° for the space of one year. A lot of people will die, but the ones who survive will be the ones that already had the capability to survive that type of heat. So even if the earth ever goes back to normal temperature, all remaining people will be people who can survive at 48° and the descendants of such people. So heat survival will become a new trait of all humans, but it does not mean that we actually need it anymore.

So I think that we have this ability because at some evolutionary point, we REALLY needed it. So now we don't need it anymore, but it's still there.
Well, if wikipedia says it, it must be true.

(See that? Agreement.)
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http://www.boondogglefilms.net/aardvarkd.php is something similar, though doesn't quite classify as a startup movie. Nevertheless it is interesting (features PG, Joel etc.)
That doesn't really make it any less annoying. You don't have to use the same title used by what you're linking to and in this instance it would have been great if you had changed it to lowercase.
In most of the world, for most of history, old people have been cared for by their children, or not at all.
It's informative how badly wrong Greenspan was, compared to Buffett.
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It's not just the internet where they want to restrict freedom. The US is now the only nation that allows over-the-counter sales of natural/herbal medications without first jumping thru beauracraticatic hoops. Even then permission is often not granted.
Intersting article that first states a problem (bad search ranking on heavily SEO'ed terms) and then proposes a "solution" (push data to google rather than google pulling data from the site) that doesn't have anything to do with the problem.

Push-to-google might be useful for providing more up-to-date search results, though.
There's a reason I loved Australia when I visited - progressives!

Quite honestly, if you paired typing with auditory feedback for what letters sound like ('s' from 'c' from 'z' from 'sh' and 'sp'), you'd not only help the kids to learn the letters but also how to read. Handwriting doesn't offer that dual modality approach. Further you could pair typed words with the objects to which they refer (think animals), the sounds they make, and other facts about them. I'm actually shocked there aren't teaching programs like this. There must be that I'm not aware of.
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There is actually a movement among homeschoolers to avoid cursive until much later in the learning process. We'll probably such a routine with our kids (and we'll probably have them typing at an early age, too).

I had a very similar experience in school as well. Once I was through with cursive, I never wrote that way again (my signature is chicken scratch). I do, however, still pick up a pen and paper every day, if only to write in my journal.
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I remember a team from my school winning the national competition in Germany and being invited to Atlanta with their Lego Robots. "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology" is as amazing as his work in prosthetics.
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I don't consider the beta to be a release. It is an unfinished state of the product. How do you propose to skip that state? I agree that remaining in beta indefinitely is bad, also, I would not charge for beta software (but it also comes without warranties).
PerplexCity was great - an ARG that gave away $500,000 if you found the prize. They paid for that by selling game cards (difficulty: 30min crossword to a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis).

However, the VC-backed company didn't deliver the second wave as promised and now does something else. It was one of the first serious attempts to commerciaise ARGs.