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The truth is always murky.

The Bosnian cable mentioned only licensed software, not specifically software under Microsoft's licenses. I'd be willing to wager people within the gov't are allowed to use GPL software right along propietary. A key clue as to why this was the case may be in the line "ction to ban pirated and unlicensed software from ministry offices". More than likely, the Bosnia gov't was pirated copies of Windows on the belief that they had no legal obligation to buy the software.

The second article about the Tunisia gov't seems infested with ideological speculation and not actual facts.

The third article is with regards to the fact that Brazilian gov't adopted a pro free software stance, and that Microsoft felt that was unfair to their business efforts. The US gov't did not intervene or arm twist, but an ambassador did offer suggestions on how to create a more fair standard that would allow for both OpenXML and ODF. By the way, as a friend of mine pointed out, both of those are standards controlled by various standards body (ISO and ECMA).
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You probably should go into details. I've never, ever heard of anything remotely close to this happening with an Android device.
Access is also a commodity. That doesn't stop ISPs the world over from making a killing on it.

Yes, it is a feature if you've already got an OS and a bunch of devices out there.

But it is a product if you can do this seamlessly across all os's, and all devices.

Both perspectives are equally valid in this case. In the end to the DropBox guys their product vision was worth more to them than Jobs' feature vision allowed him to pay for it.

Time will tell if that was the right decision, for either party.
Even non-MMTers. If you are from the US, you have to pay your taxes in US dollars, and judgments in court against you are payable in USD.
Exactly look at the Groupon/Google situation

(which is still to be determined in my opinion)
I have a hard time imagining how such a thing would actually work. How would the compiler decide that mutable state somewhere is encapsulatable and somewhere else it is not? A compiler can (very easily in fact) monadify all code for you, but what you get is an inefficient imperative language.

It seems to me that a much better approach is to allow mutable state everywhere, but to inform the programmer of the consequences via the editor/IDE by showing the result of a static analysis that analyzes which functions are pure and which are not.
> What is the difference between you not paying apple or you not paying dropbox?

Dropbox gets money from you paying for dropbox (it's a service), Apple gets money from you buying Apple hardware, iCloud is just there to give you reason to get Apple devices and keep buying Apple devices.

> Freemium offerings are predicated on statistics and dropbox seems to be doing just fine in spite of the freeloading nature of some of their customers.

Absolutely, but Dropbox's goal will still be to push you on the "premium" side of "freemium".
While I agree with your central point that Dropbox faces competition (still, who does't? this isn't inherently bad) note that as of yet iCloud doesn't exactly let you solve the problem of syncing any document across devices. Although I'm assuming this will either become integrated or could be made possible via the iCloud developer API.
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1280x720 in a 4.5 inch device is staggering.

Can you imagine having one of these just 10 years ago? (first ipod was 2001)

Makes me wonder what we'll have in 2020
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Some key points from the article.
The first requirement was " A dual boot system that had free open source Linux with the proprietary Microsoft Windows starter edition with antivirus software valid for a year."

The second requirement was "In its new tender, ELCOT asked bidders to provide only Microsoft Windows and removed Linux from the list."

And a key point made from someone from ELCOT: " “We will retain dual boot laptops to ensure uniformity in the supply of laptops by different vendors,"

Windows was always going to be on the laptops. More than likely, the vendors charge more for setting up dual boot systems.
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"The Police asked the branch staff to close the branch until the protesters could be removed."

The police asked (not forced, compelled or told) them to "close the branch" and the bank complied by locking them inside. It's still fucked up to me.
Great point... our typical deal is a three-year contract.
Yet did HP not announce there would be no more Web OS devices, HP needs to open source this. The more choice the better! I can see Samsung or HTC producing some slick devices running Web OS. Hardware was always a key issue for me, the Pre was slow and boring.
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Agreed. I always wished Dropbox had a lower, entry-level tier for around $5/month. I don't need 50gb. I just need 5-10gb.
> I 100% agree that the government should handle these situations

Isn't that like asking the government to intervene when I notice that my next-door neighbor leaves his car unlocked with the keys in the ignition when he comes home from work?
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... Donut, ???, Froyo...

Was there an Eclair or something in there someplace?
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Amazing the resources that can be wasted on a case like this.

A 488-page review put together by an independent panel which came to the conclusion that the US and UK are substantially similar? How many man-years and taxpayer dollars did that consume?

Extradition among democratic countries should be more or less automatic.
Are you suggesting that the iPhone doesn't compete with those 21 Android devices?
"Houston cut Jobs’ pitch short: He was determined to build a big company, he said, and wasn’t selling, no matter the status of the bidder" Props to Drew. I don't think many other entrepreneurs would've been as zealous and decline such an offer.
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It is quite scary how much one has to learn compared to the old days if you’re just starting off on the Web. I did a post a while ago [0] that features a lot of these. It’s a long list. The games industry went through something similar, where games devs used to be able to write games in their basement, but now have multi-billion dollar budgets.

The web is quite different from the games industry though,and just because the technology is there it doesn't mean you have to use it. We’ve had the power of SVG available to us for at least 5 years (except in IE), and few devs can develop using it (it's not that hard once you try, honest!).

The web is expanding to one of apps, where we can create native like experiences. That isn’t a bad thing. It means people can pick up and use web technologies to make apps when before they would have had to use C++ or Java or whatever. Just because people can write apps on the Web though, doesn't mean there will not still be the demand for web pages, based around pages, articles and content rather than the app model. Both will stand side by side for quite a while yet.

And back to games. They can be made using web tech now, and that along with mobile platforms, and online stores on games consoles and the like have breathed new life into the indie development scene. It seems it is now possible for a few people in their basement to make top selling games again. These is no reason why it can't stay the same for the web too.

Its always better that the capabilities are there for when developers need it, than not being available at all.

[0] http://dstorey.tumblr.com/post/10657722675/openwebstack
On the other hand when you are filming something do you really have a scene in a film that is longer than 30 minutes? Realistically your scenes are much shorter so the utility of having a camera that could shoot longer is probably low.
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It would be nice if the text on the website had more contrast. Being hard to read isn't hip, in my view.
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It's trademark that you must defend or lose. Laches can apply in copyright, but you generally don't fully lose the copyright for non-enforcement. To answer your question, it seems like nothing is a sure thing in these court cases, so there's no bright line rule.

It would seem like licensing would be an acceptable path, but if you licensed to everyone then you would be diluting your own brand and therefore risk losing your trademark.
Technically it would be their channel to control, just as Wal*Mart controls what inventory it carries (in music, for example).

Free speech would not apply as it's not government --but PR would suffer if they did restrict content, I think.

Still, I think if they decided to get into the business of gatekeeper, the gov (and the public) would want to investigate their actions --whether it would be legally actionable I have no idea. I think it would be foolish of them to go in that direction --it would be an opportunity for a smaller player to establish themselves as the non-paternalistic alternative.
What evidence is there that "anonymous" is an actual group, rather than a label that a bunch of folks self-apply when they want to do things?

I'm annoyed at Anonymous because I strongly supported their first action (picketing the Church of Scientology) but every action since then has just been stupid and destructive.
I think it's telling it generates better JVM code than Javascript.
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I'm aware of what "soft SF" is. What I was getting across is that it is much more a rebellion against SF than a continuation or evolution of it.
They wouldn't care

If it sells they make money - laugh at that suckers!

If it doesn't sell then nobody read it.

As some heavy metal band said about their albums being burned in the bible belt - "Those sales still count for the charts"!
How easy is it to get linux running on an iPad?.

I am not quite convinced that the days of the PC are over, but I can see the market being squeezed quite a bit. And none of the devices that are supposedly the future have the same open nature as the PC.
Yes, if this Wikipedia article had existed when I was a college senior I'd never, ever have tried that particular party trick. ;)

Yet another example of how the web makes us much, much smarter.

I estimate that I used a tiny sip, not 3 or 4 ccs, but still. Crazy risky.
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On Twitter, EVB's CEO said they didn't do the site.

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This is interesting. You can manipulate the AST in other languages of course, for example Python. However these ASTs are so difficult to handle that programmers don't really want to work with them (see point 12. on bottom of the page http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html).

I think Paul Graham wrote that any language implementing macros with Lisp-power will effectively have to introduce something that is 'as bad or worse than the parenthesis'. [1] It will be interesting to see how this will play out in Perl6.

However the example given in this article is pretty limited, so I think we can't really tell based on that. It also begs the question 'Why not use a function?', i.e. it is not a case where one needs a macro. It will be interesting to see how Perl6 handles real macro use cases where you have to do heavy AST manipulation. I think here the Lisp syntax is really showing its strengths because you don't have to think in terms of a different representation that you don't have in front of you.

[1] See text after the 1-9 list. http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html

Edit: Better source for [1].
Regarding Haskell's type system, it's not even remotely like any type system you're familiar with if you haven't used Haskell yet.

Haskell is 'meta typed' (not a real term, just made that up). In Haskell, vars have data types, functions have type signatures, and even type signatures have types called kinds. A type signature is a specification of what types of parameters a function takes, and what type of result it returns. A kind specifies how many rounds of currying a type signature requires.

And it gets more sophisticated from there. Languages like Java with just mere data types are baby typed at best. Not even remotely comparable.
Not really directly in my view. People usually first decide if they want an iPhone/Blackberry/Android/WinP7 device then they pick the model. So no I agree with the poster above. I don't think it's a really direct competition on the same level as android vs android phone.
the medium upon which you presented this view was invented for military purposes. It's just a tool, which can be used for good or evil.
so what's to stop someone from resharing an update of hers from facebook to linkedin? i don't see any real difference from circles.

facebook does not allow multiple accounts.
twitter doesn't have that many users.

"niche".
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Hi. I don't understand anymore. Didn't HP kill the tablet and WebOS?

What does this mean? Will there new tablets? If not, why WebOS is being updated?
As a thought experiment, could the effect demonstrated here be used for a transport system on a much colder planet with a much stronger magnetic field (I do realize that these two properties tend to correlate in opposite directions)? What about in our arctic regions, potentially over a magnetic track to interconnect enclosed "settlements"? I'm guessing it would be less cost-effective than other types of transport if even possible, but many times cooler.
It's not the quantity, it's the proportion.

I discovered this when I looked at using Scala for a particular project. The ratio of good-to-unfinished/poor libraries was much lower than for Ruby. It was also evident that code style/programming conventions had not solidified yet; it looked like the early stages of Ruby, where people weren't yet quite sure how to write "rubyesque" code. (Take a look at Ruby's standard library; it's for the most part very much out of date with "modern style" Ruby.)

I see the same kind of uncertainty with some Haskell projects, like the Text.Regex package, which I tried to figure out how to use, and failed, even with repeated google searches to find examples. The author seems to attempt at a certain ambitious programming style based on typeclasses, but since its usage is undocumented (or was, at the time I tried it ~6 months ago) you have to be a level 15 Haskell wizard to untangle its API. Similar Ruby experiments exist, and are eventually deprecated because of "too much magic".

Sure, Ruby developers create way too many projects that are never finished (or equally bad, are abandoned). But the stable of good-or-great libraries is actually very solid. Probably more so for web development than other things (Ruby doesn't have anything like Python's NumPy, for example); if you start a web project with Ruby you can get absurdly productive by just harnessing a few existing gems.
Actually, I'm glad you left it up. Otherwise I wouldn't have had the opportunity to read it.

Of course it's impolite to use someone's name like that without clearing it first, but otherwise your greater message was spot on.

I'm still partially mired in executing below my potential, but I'm working on it, and your piece provided me with more inspirational kick. Thank you.

Also, I've lived the Japanese salaryman life, so I know how it tends to shape you and blind your ambition.
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A lot of the comments, and some articles regarding the issue pose the idea that Microsoft is trying to restrict users from installing other Operating Systems in their own machines.

I personally doubt that is the case. Microsoft has bigger problems, and I don't think they are trying to block other OSes (especially Linux).

Even so, I don't think the "Secure Boot" implementation will get traction. I think, that even though it s a good idea for malware protection, the execution and wide adoption is not that easy. I believe the "Secure boot" thing won't get very far.

Regarding the FSF, I won't comment, I think RMS has tainted enough for me.
Why cannot it be invented in this positive context in the first place then. I can imagine the reason is money and in that sense it just shows how screwed up our world is.
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On a related note, just looking at Android adoption, it's really interesting to see Android devices turning up the heat.

In the US alone: iPhones are 28% of market.. Android phones: 43%:
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/in-u-s-mar...

Compare to July.. 39% and 28%: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/in-u-s-sma...
However the return of mining is hugely favored to the creator and the early adopters in a way that, if joined much later, there is little to no value in it.

So the early adopters could promote them and we can just wait and see. Since the rest of us won't earn much by promoting it, so just mine 1 or 2 BC (still takes some efforts given the massive amount of bot-nets out there) and speculate.
If we did this in the US we would be beaten.
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The haskell wiki link is not adequate, relative to the RW Haskell hard copy index (not avail. online unfortunately), which starts with 1.3 pages of symbol function names (and is missing a few relatively common QuickCheck symbol names).

I was looking for something like the Scala staircase book, first edition freely available online, which has a complete list for that language.
I can see potential for this for things like movie reviews...it would be interesting to see all the moods of people leaving the latest blockbuster film, for example.
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Publishing the names of police officers and bankers seems to me to be a remarkably stupid idea. If people start getting beaten or attacked as a result of the events in NYC whatever support that protestors currently have will quickly dry up as the news changes from peaceful protest to violent riot.
Here's the site - http://webengage.com/

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No - one of the requirements for certifying Toughbooks for Police/Military/Paramedic etc applications is that you can't get around the BIOS passwd.

Take a look in a police cruiser, it will be a Toughbook mounted on the front seat.
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Since when does "leak" equate to "explicitly grant permission to access"?

It is not like the app is getting information that some random hacker can access, at least if you have any privacy controls set on your Facebook profile.
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I like your proposal, especially if it could be expanded a bit:

macro do_in_reverse($value, @code) ...
There's no need to even have tiers - it would be great if they would just charge you $X/GB/month over the free amount.
When digital publishing and DRM technologies will become mainstream and standardized enough, I guess that the industry will have to agree on an open standard for e-books - or risk that governments will impose one by law.

The latter is what I think will - and in my opinion should - happen if Amazon and/or Apple ended up in a monopolistic/duopolistic position with their ebook/pad gadgets while keeping a strict control over what can be sold there. Which is probably what Amazon is trying to do, but in the long run I don't think that would be sustainable (either by market forces or government intervention).

So for publishers the long term real issue is most likely to be how to add value as (mostly) digital publishers, but not how to survive against a monopoly.
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Try harder what? Not seeing bugs I don't see?

Yes, I'm aware what "inputs" are. One property of what I consider well written software is the absence of global state. "External files, and so on." are, unfortunately, necessary for any program, even Haskell ones, to do anything useful.

> Plus, Java's type system is a toy compared to Haskell.

Plus, so what? I'm not even beginning to compare Java with Haskell.
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HP probably wants to keep it updated in case they can sell the WebOS unit.
It also begs the question 'Why not use a function?', i.e. it is not a case where one needs a macro

The (last) example is best being a macro because it avoids running that crazily-expensive-computation() whereas a function would evaluate it.
One police officer, who walked up and pepper sprayed the crap out of 2 20-yo girls who were just standing there, then walked away satisfied he'd done his job. Did you see the video? Real tough guy.

That's not to justify vigilante action against him (which hasn't happened), but I'm sure likeminded individuals are a little more aware of what could happen if you do something like that on camera in the 21st century.

I consider a chilling effect on "assaulting 20yo girls because they're hippies" to be a good thing.
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It seems to be both, it's intended to be the label that folks can self-apply, but in practice it seems there's a core group that are behind a lot of the activist stuff.
Nicely done, thanks.
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>Value is arbitrary. None of the major world fiat currencies have any inherent value. They are backed by nothing.

They are backed by a government which knows that once it doesn't honor the value, the economy (and probably the govt too) is finished.
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Haha Thanks, but sadly the story itself has ended.

Hopefully whats there can keep you entertained well enough on its own.
The argument on the delayed execution issue is that you could just wrap crazily-expensive-computation() in a lambda/sub that is executed conditionally.
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