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Ditto. But Keyboard shortcuts dont work on my Firefox 2 here. Any idea why? For example, CTRL+C / CTRL+V doesnt work.
Is there any big player still trying to make money off a Linux desktop? I thought this issue was resolved long ago. I agree with Shuttleworth, I just don't think this is new news.
Fishy-smelling iPhone dev conference lacks actual developers
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Does it mean we should not elect politicians who are over 39?
I don't think it affects credibility of hundreds of cores per CPU at all. I think 32 cores is about as high we will go in the first phase though. Disk I/O bound applications can't be faster by throwing more cores at the problem. Memory bound applications will flat out around the 32 core limit and then we will have to split up the memory as well into several "banks". When that has happened, we can again improve up to some hundred cores.

There is no reason to "fear" having more cores and I don't think it will affect us so much people are stating it will.
Yes, he does :)

http://capsizedesigns.com/blog/2008/04/bluetripcss-a-fusion-...
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Love and affection boosts a child's IQ level

http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/dec/21iq.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_race
Thank you for putting it in a few sentences.
People usually are lazy to express their agreement with someone, however when we have different views we want to let our opinion be known to the world ASAP.

That's why usually the louder sectors of users/readers/etc are the ones that are not pleased for one reason or another (or the most bored ones). It's very obvious in customer support forums (take for example a MMO forum, 90% of the posts are whines, although it only represents a 20%? of the real playerbase).

Probably the only thing to do to improve quality is write what they want to hear, but then you'd have the group that was previously happy complaining about how you betrayed your own standards, etc. And why should you submit to them and change your ways, in any case?

IMO Techcrunch is fine as it is, it's people who need to shape up and have some manners in 'teh internetz'. Remember that PennyArcade comic? :P
Haha, was thinking the same thing when I read it :P

But I'm not a native English speaker, so I'm not sure if there are any rules to the use of 'she/he' when talking about 3rd person?
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I would bet on Omega-3 fatty acids.
no proof, but enough correlation to raise my eyebrow.
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electing old people is another unavoidable problem with democracy. only the best connected can ever get serious backing, and it takes years to gain that kind of backing.

then there is the problem that the old are out of touch with the needs and desires of "normal people". People become strange once their sex drive deserts them. And it is the sex drive that forms society (desire for maximization of offspring survival encourages cooperation. Animals with extended gestation periods tend to be the most social. Of course it could be that being social allows for longer gestation. chicken and egg.)
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I'm all for an optional up/down vote with more granularity (with one click.) There are ambiguous situations where you get stuck on just voting up or down. For example, you might disagree with a post but consider it important to the discussion. Another typical problem is the +1/bump vote on forums. And "Thank you." A whole thing is the flag for relevancy. It gets messy, but IMHO something is needed.
This is just weak fearmongering by the people who have the most to gain from it. I'm actually glad about the drama, as it means that less of the cheap money will be coming into the software space, giving those who care about real products time to polish, rather than having to release as soon as possible because of the sheer amount of competition.
Uh, whoa? Tax cuts in the United States are generally done without corresponding decreases in spending, leading to a massive deficit, leading to an unpayably large national debt.

You can't simply say 'tax cuts are good' and call it a day- that's a gross oversimplification. "Tax cuts are good when accompanied by a decrease in government spending such as that we have a large surplus" I can agree with.
Make it free and develop a iPhone app people can buy. Or limit the free version and ask a (small) amount for the premium services...
The severity of what has happened can’t be underestimated... What you do in the next 30 days will probably make or break your company. The storm is upon us and the death spiral has started.

Oh shit - I'm just gonna jump off a bridge then, Jason. What's the point of living?
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The celebration of Bush being gone will only happen if McCain doesn't win. I'm from Europe (Netherlands) and I sure hope it won't happen but I don't trust the polls one bit.
Microsoft's Azure means dark days for storage vendors
Arrington is amusing. I can't tell if he's insecure or just immature.
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I'm not sure how you're measuring console success.
For me, Nintendo is the clear winner of the current console wars. Nintendo makes hideous amounts of profit on everything. XBox as far as I understand still makes a gargantuan loss. It's a long term strategy, and who knows, maybe it'll play out for microsoft, but I don't think it's relevant to the question of ms understanding the internet. It just shows they understand getting people to use something and taking a massive loss on it.
Flash doesn't make for a nice user experience. Scrolling, copy/paste, font sizing - all broken.
Also javascript is far more widespread than flash, especially on non pc browser devices.
I don't even want to agree with that. The function of government is to provide essential services to society, and I don't think you can just say that it's better for the economy if you cut spending so it doesn't. I doubt the economy would be improved in a total anarchy, which is essentially your suggestion seen to its ultimate conclusion.

For example, even the Economist agrees that a market economy won't function without clear rules that everyone plays by. And they are also of the opinion that carbon taxes are better than cap-and-trade, because taxes provide better long-term stability so businesses are able to plan and adapt.
I run a small business ($150k/year gross with decent margins) and am building to move markets as I don't like our primary market and think we can do a better job elsewhere. I've noticed a fall-off in recurring revenue with a lot of people mentioning needing to "cut back". The cancel rate on recurring services was about double normal for August and September, but was back to normal in October. Might just be noise though... Personal note, I don't have much money in the financial markets, but a bit of retirement investing spread between Southeast Asia, China, and Starbucks. Total portfolio down 41%. Yuck but whatever, it should be fine decades from now. Business still seems healthy, but we run ultra-lean and focus on margins and amazing products/services anyways. I reckon a lot of "alternative to expensive stuff" businesses could actually thrive in this climate.
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Blueprint to me seems like a conceptual step backwards. While it does still separate markup from style physically, conceptually it's just moving the layout descriptions from the HTML attributes into the classes; there's 0 semantic value to the classes. It looks like the design still ends up being tightly coupled with the markup.

The results are beautiful, and I can see how designers might find it easier to work with conceptually. But from the perspective of a programmer I find it pretty unappealing.
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I've been rolling this around in my head for a bit. Do you think it'd make sense to keep cash positions in a couple different currencies in case your currency melts down? If so, thoughts on which currencies and how much? Which bank/banks?
There are no special people with moderator points in HN, it is pointless to beg.
I wonder if keeping the equivalent of $10k USD in something else might be a good "get the hell out of here and survive for three months elsewhere" hedge for people with a bit of cash who aren't too tied down to their local economy. You can use Elance, Odesk, etc to freelance from anywhere if you've got some in-demand skills. Doesn't take much to survive in Thailand, just getting out and having rent/food money for a while could be huge in a meltdown. I've been thinking over where/how it'd make sense to take a position - Seems like dollars, euro, and sterling might all be linked a bit. Chinese RMB? Yen? Some eccentric country that's still gold-based and can't debase their currency?
I stand corrected. And by someone whose writings I do (mostly) respect.
That's just the universe getting back into balance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

The raw Raven's APM score that would get you in 1962 1-in-1000 level, would get you only 1-in-10 level in 1993.
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There is such a thing as youthful folly, though. I have changed my mind on a lot of things, and I am only 35 yet. I think some experience is good for a politician.
At my last job, I found out that an intern was being paid more than me and my productivity plummeted. Any request I made about a raise was rejected and eventually I left the company.

That being said, that was due to my not feeling appreciated and feeling that I was being taken advantage of.

We all go through slumps. We're writers. Neil Gaiman just blogged about how he had to slog through parts of books and he would regularly call his agent and try to cancel the book so he could work on something else. He's not alone. We all do it.

You think Gaiman would blaze through a novel about the mating cycle of the South American Gazebo? Hell no! Well maybe he would, I can't really say.

Anyways...
In the first example, I tried to make it right. I spoke with my boss and my boss' boss to try and fix the situation. While mine did not end well, you first need to communicate with your boss. The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

The second thing is to keep on plugging. So long as you're making progress it'll get done. It may suck and may not be your best code but it has to get done, it is your job.

Be strong my friend, you're not alone as this thread has shown you.
There is a idéa of licensing the service/technique. The pixlr.com will always stay free.
I know that ie hogs some of the ctrl commands but it should (and does for me) work in ff
I don't think it's neccessary for every guy who wants to start a business to be a salesman. If your main skill is technology, you should know enough about sales to get you so large that you can hire people who specialize in sales. Then focus on your core competency, which is technology.

Sales is not what creates the real value of a company - it's the product. If your main skill lies in creating an excellent product, then don't distract yourself by focusing too much on sales. If you do so, you'll always see your product through the prism of 'sales' and this will change your product.

Every company has to be pulled by two forces - the force that wants a kickass product, and the other that wants to sell it.

So the product guy should say:

* Let's make this tool where one can download and play any song in the world for absolutely free

The sales guy should say:

* We can't make any money that way. Let's put Ads every 10 seconds in each song

The middle ground would be:

* Let's put DRM in the songs.

Something like that. If everyone in the company is just thinking about sales, there is no counter-balance in the company.
A browse integration will bee added soon :)
Also: I'm looking at Argentina as worst case here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_economic_crisis

"In July, 1989, Argentina's inflation reached 200% that month alone, topping 5,000% for the year."

"In 2001, people fearing the worst began withdrawing large sums of money from their bank accounts, turning pesos into dollars and sending them abroad, causing a run on the banks. The government then enacted a set of measures (informally known as the corralito) that effectively froze all bank accounts for twelve months, allowing for only minor sums of cash to be withdrawn."

"In addition to the corralito, the Ministry of Economy dictated the pesificación ("peso-ification"), by which all bank accounts denominated in dollars would be converted to pesos at official rate. This measure angered most savings holders and appeals were made by many citizens to declare it unconstitutional."
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I would assume it means not just leaving yourself wounded and slowly bleeding to death.
No I don't think it would be a good idea for a whole bunch of reasons but it is possible with people having taken it to the prototype stage. Like you I'd spend the money on other things
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"Bottom line: there is zero chance of a short or medium term-rebound. Zero."

I don't see any claim about share prices there. He's talking about economic growth, consumer confidence, investor confidence, etc.

Another way to say what he stated there is: "We're headed for a deep, long recession, and there's zero chance of it miraculously getting better in the short or even medium term."

That's not a statement about share prices, it's a statement about the economy.

Also, how do you know he doesn't have a bunch of shorts on the markets?
I think you're overestimating the short-term impact the election will have.
"we have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future." -- redhat, 2008/04/16

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Well, Gold is the refuge for the doom and gloom nutjobs. You could also invest in canned goods and guns. Actually, if you had your money in the pound a couple months back, traded for the dollar and buy back pounds today then you made some money. Personally, I'm just going to quit reading the news and get some work done. :P
Well, you know - I liked Kevin. We were friends and collaborators and I think in the first half of 2005 we did great stuff. If I had to say who built digg into what it is, it was really a collaboration between Kevin, Daniel Burka and me, with valuable support from Ron Gorodetsky. By the time of the series A we had huge, huge momentum.

It was in a way sort of like the Beatles, just the right people put together mostly by accident and we worked magic. Then Yoko (Jay Adelson) came along, and the ego stroking began. Kevin was a genius, I was just a "contract programmer."

And I'd say the results speak for themselves. Digg is stagnant and boring. Almost every feature on there was actually created in that early 2005 timeframe, though obviously greatly refined since then.

I'm trying to move on, involved in a great project again, with great people, and I regret saying nasty stuff or sounding bitter, but sometimes I'm reminded how much fun it was, and how easily it was turned to not-fun.
In general there are several different textual elements to consider in a design. If you're waiting on someone to type an essay (or 5 full blog entries) before you've even set up your font grids, then you'll be in trouble.

If you're working with specific copy, attention-grabbing copy, then the exact wording of that is on every bit the same level of detail as the rest of the design and it's pretty necessary to have a good rough draft of the wording before you start crafting the appearance.

At the end of the day though, I find myself using Lipsum all the time to very good effect.
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Absolutely awesome - haven't been approached by Adobe yet?
People have been saying that it's unique times and old rules don't apply for all of history, some obvious examples:

* population growth - "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate..."

* dotcom business models

* real estate bubble

* my very favourite - oil price bubble. To paraphrase it went like this "oh noes, it's peak oil, soon barrel will cost over 9000 dollars, the civilization is going to collapse, move rural and start growing your own food, billions will die". It was quite popular on the Internets even just a few months ago.

Past performance of "experts" indicates that for every trend there will be "experts" happily overextrapolating it. Past performance is still the best indicator of future results.
There is not even "not racism". There is just racism.

Everyone's a little bit racist anyway :-)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KBzv6JSm-No&feature=relate...
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In the case of Sentinel, it was in their investment objects and allowed investments ( see this article for more info - http://seekingalpha.com/article/44695-duration-mismatch-at-s... ). If you paid close attention to what they were actually investing in, you might have seen that the prospectus wasn't telling the right story.

In all honesty though, I don't think people would have invested that much differently had they known. People are so used to FDIC insured bank accounts, they don't realize that maturity mismatching in an uninsured account will always lead to bank run. Of course, because of the perception that the government was going to insure the accounts, the government actually did have to insure the accounts. So no one has actually lost money in the money market funds. It was all paid for by the inflation tax.
In fact, the yen and the dollar have been rising in recent weeks. The Pound and the Euro have taken a beating.Hard to say what might happen to the Chinese RMB as the rate is set within a narrow band by the Chinese govt.
the only thing that incorporates "You" into advertising/marketing is grassroots community advocacy and word-of-mouth campaigning.

and that only works when you deliver a product that excites people or causes controversy.

people are only going to promote your product when they're inspired to do so.
Hard to slow down if your going downhill.
Looks like a multiclass text classification problem to me. Adaptive Dynamic Markov Chains or Predictive Partial Matching combined with Error-Correcting Output Codes should handle it pretty well.
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I thought this was going to be a much more insightful / useful article, pointing out 10 different /common/ arguments or sub-threads that you see all the time, such that conversation would be improved if we all avoided starting or continuing them. Maybe with a nice, anchored list, so we could point people to them.
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I'd have an easier time accepting the argument for just existential Otherness. But +1 for Ave Q - I loved that show.
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I like it how the comments on that blog entry are more about the ethics of face recognition.
I agree with you that its a step backwards, but I find that I have to add divs and classes all the type to my html that are there purely for layout reasons. Browser support just isn't there yet for truly semantic markup.
You can discuss biological differences, but you have to do it carefully and extremely intelligently. Eugenics have been used by bad and tremendously ignorant people to do terrible things, and people are rightfully wary about entering the "biological difference between races," territory.

In any case, we're talking about the exceptional students, so racial averages are irrelevant to the conversation.
Mozilla is making millions on advertising from Firefox search and I think the same business model can be applied to Ubuntu. For example, by adding a search bar directly on the desktop.
Do gifted children have the same resources today that they did 33 years ago? Not that I think children with developmental needs should be shortchanged, it is a tragedy that gifted and talented programs have fallen out of style.

But then again, when I was in middle school, a parent sued the school district because their kid didn't get int the G&T program, so they shut down the whole thing.
Thinking about this one further -- I might change it to be more targeted at employers. I think they're the harder group to get on board, and if you get them, and the right ones, then the students will follow.

Maybe something like, "Great minds, at a special, introductory price." ;-)
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Are you saying a services component helps, or hinders the sale?

I could see it going either way, depending on the product and the customer.
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Actually, it's myelin density vs the neural processing speed. It doesn't say anything about whether your mental acuity declines after 39, just that it does things slower. (Which is good, I can deal with thinking slower as long as I don't get dumber. Hopefully my increased experience and accumulated wisdom will outweigh the slower cognitive processes... ;-)
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I have been using surveillance systems to keep an eye on all of my business locations from anywhere I have access to the internet. I bough my latest package from this site and was very pleased with quality and price. They also do wholesale.
given the problems with Vista and the success of Macs with OS X I expect some of the other players (Dell, etc) to start looking at investing money in Linux development so they have a compelling OS to ship with their machines, which tells me there should be plenty of opportunities to make money from a Linux desktop.
"... Why not just make it free?... I have over 13000 hits and 4000 beta applications and growing at about 1000 a day. So what the heck do I do with the other beta applicants to entice them to become clients? What kind of buy-in can I expect? 30%, 5%? ..."

Because the question is how do I increase paying users and the (unstated constraint) growth is increasing which costs. At some time the service has to become ramen profitable.