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The alternative to "supporting SOPA in virtue of membership in the BSA" is "leaving the BSA over the BSA generally lobbying government to enforce copyright protections." That's kind of the point of the organization.

If you don't expect AutoDesk and MathWorks and SolidWorks to leave the BSA just to avoid this kind of second-rate muckraker reporting, then ignore the fact that Microsoft, CA, and Apple didn't leave either.
The Flash Player's "Shared Objects" (aka Flash cookies) are stored in a common directory, so the same Flash data is accessible from any browser (running as the same user). I do not believe Facebook's tracking is this nefarious, but the method would be quite easy to implement.
Is this related at all to the recent "draw to find the unicode symbol" app?
More ethical behavior.
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As I read the article, all I could think was, "Really?". The specs clearly state 1024x600. The marketing material says it supports HD content. That means if you have a video that's encoded in 720p or 1080p that you can play it on the table without converting it.

On a 7" screen, I bet you could barely, if at all, tell the difference between 1280x720 and 1024x600 playing a 720p video, so I don't think that's really a good argument against the device.

However, you CAN tell the difference between a 720p video playing at 600p versus a 480p video being upscaled to 600p. You retain much more quality when downconverting than upconverting. I do a lot of video conversion (re-encoding my BluRay and DVDs for XBMC) and believe me, a BluRay downconverted to 720p looks immensely better than a 480p DVD upconverted.

So, I say "Fantastic!" Now I don't have to re-encode all my x264 encoded 720p BluRay files to watch them on my Nook (well, it probably doesn't support MKV or AC3, but that's another topic).
Sure, there is some room to play but with JPG it’s possible that some photos are not recoverable. If you get the raw output auto white balance is basically completely irrelevant (beyond convenience). No matter how badly the white balance screwed up, it’s always possible to recover (since it’s all software and you are working with the original input data).

But I don’t think it’s necessary to go that far. Even a budget DSLR that is perfectly capable of shooting raw should have great auto white balance: Most people don’t want to endlessly tweak photos. Better auto white balance means better photos, even if theoretically everything could be fixed in post.

Oh, and just because smartphone cameras are nowhere near as good as DSLRs doesn’t mean it’s not meaningful to compare them with each other, doesn’t mean one can’t be much better than another one.
Can you clarify if Spine is actually cross platform (at least to Android if not elsewhere)? A statement of such is conspicuously lacking from the web site, leading me in combination with the giant oversized iPhone pic to believe it is probably not. If it is, you could do yourself a favor and make it more clear.
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To come at that question from the other direction, I sometimes wonder what (if any) anti-piracy bill some tech folks would support. The counter-argument to better IP enforcement often seems to be "change your business model", which is not a policy statement.
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The current CEO of Ford, Alan Mulally is an engineer by trade. I attribute a lot of their current success to him.
If somebody correctly makes a connection from your explanation to something they are familiar with, you have done your job.

If you need to make a connection with something you hope someone is familiar with in order to explain your product, you don't understand your product well enough.
I was thinking I can choose between cars that have different capabilities (small or large, big tank or small, fast or slow) even if the core tech is the same.
If users must visit social websites like Facebook in privacy mode in separate browsers, perhaps they should rethink whether they should be using Facebook at all.
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Disclaimer: I am whole heartedly against SOPA

That being said I think that it is important to raise the level of discourse on this issue in the community and I do not think that this article does much to that end:

"We can, however, show that it does. And somewhat
disingenuously, if I may."

Since when does membership/support of business alliances and/or lobbyists count as disingenious? I do not think you will see any veteran reporters on the hill write that being a member of the BSA equates with any disingenious activity; the fact that microsoft is a member is public knowledge.
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You answered your own question.

If you don't have a good business idea (or if yours is underdeveloped) you try to create a connection with something a person might already feel positive about.
"(I’m not sure what you’d use the memory card for, considering that Barnes & Noble doesn’t even have a downloadable-movie store. But whatever.)"

There's possibly a thrifty caveman or two who rips his own DVDs. Let us ignore those poor little people who don't re-buy their movies as needed.

(They may have also bought "HD ready" 1366x768 screens, the poor dears. Haha.)

I don't like being lied to, but I enjoy snob snark even less.
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Or Go. Though unlike Erlang processes, Go doesn't make mutating shared memory in multiple threads impossible. Go just makes it really easy to never do it.
Apple left the Chamber of Commerce over their stance on climate change. Why is this different? Sometimes an organization that you belong to goes too far.
Finally a list you can use as a computer science graduate to know for which companies you are absolutely not going to work.
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That's a very good place for using public funds, in my opinion.
You are right....The notion that corporations (which is a group of individuals together to achieve a particular objective,most commonly money) have the same rights as individuals(objective:happiness) is the root of this mess!....But I dont know if such an old legal precedent like Dartmouth vs Woodward can be changed!...Not that people havent tried.....http://movetoamend.org/!

This should really be the aim of the OWS movement!
Interesting, because I would bet that there will be a serious web app contender in the CAD sphere at some point. I'm not so sure the OP is off the mark here.
IMHO, that sounds ever more confusing to consumers... Compare the confusing packaging at Best Buy with grids of tech specs to the simple and easy to understand packaging at the Apple Store. I'm turning boxes at Best Buy upside-down and inside-out just to figure out what the asterisk is referring to! Consumers don't need more asterisks.

The fact that a famous tech blogger for the NYT can't even understand that distinction doesn't give me hope for the general public. Tech-savvy consumers will go to the website and clearly see that the tech specs for the Nook tablet lists a resolution of 1024x600.
Grove prices:

5 users: $10/mo
10 users: $25/mo
20 users: $50/mo
50 users: $125/mo

HipChat prices:

12 users: $9/mo
30 users: $24/mo
60 users: $49/mo
100 users: $99/mo

Note the the lowest HipChat plan has only a month worth of archives and no private rooms, whereas all Grove plans have unlimited archives.

Grove is basically twice as expensive ($2+/user compared to under $1/user). In addition to the normal chat experience, HipChat also does voice/video chat, has SMS support, and does file transfers.

I saw many people in previous threads say that Grove allowed you to use native IRC clients instead of their HTML client, but HipChat also allows you to use Adium or any other XMPP capable client.

(Disclosure: I work for a company that uses HipChat (happily), and has tried other chat services like Campfire. I have no affiliation with either company, but HipChat does use some open source code I wrote, and once sent me a nice t-shirt as a thank you. I also helped create speeqe.com which planned to compete in this space year ago.)
Well, the framework comes before the great app. It kind of has to.

I'm making an app with jQuery Mobile right now, coupled with PhoneGap. It isn't going to be the slickest app out there, but it is going to work just fine.
" - and blogging about their values certainly cannot hurt in attracting top notch talent."

They're a microsoft shop. They're not going to attract top talent. Who here wants to deal with that stuff?
I was on the fence about whether being a BSA member was enough to make one complicit in support of SOPA. But I think I've been swayed...BSA's support of SOPA would add a huge weight of legitimacy to the pro SOPA supporters. It's disturbing to say the least.
Maybe it's because I've been up for awhile, but I couldn't make the slideshow move to the next slide with my mouse.

It turns out you need to use your arrow keys.

A suggestion: detect the right and left edges of the browser window, and capture click events to move the slide next/prev.
I've never once encountered a Zagat-related complaint. They seem to have high standards and their ratings have been trustworthy for me for years. Yelp on the other hand.. it's just a big yellowpages where even my own reviews go missing time to time.
The Nexus One/Android is largely to blame for that, to be honest. Android's lack of hardware acceleration means that CSS3 animations are awful-slow.
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Chrome, Chromium and Safari absolutely don't share the same cookies on Mac OSX. This is easily verifiable. Not sure about other browsers... (what other browsers?).

I think you're referring to other applications which embed Safari's rendering engine. I wouldn't really call those browsers.
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> If your class/code/file is so big that you need to hide code to be able to easily navigate (or worse, understand) it, you're doing something wrong.

Wrong. If your class/code/file is so big that you need to hide code to be able to easily navigate (or worse, understand) it, the author was doing something wrong.

You can use tools like this to make it right.
Most outsourced developers are pure rubbish.
I cringe when I have to open a project that was outsourced.

At the small level it's fine, but when building larger apps there are just too many barriers to make it efficient.

Including developer programming and communication skills.
The above comment displays a remarkable lack of understand of what it takes to build serious, featureful, software that solves hard problems.

Almost every webapp I've used is a recreational activity compared to some of the problems the above companies solve.

Particularly amusing in comparison are the antivirus vendors, Autodesk, CNC, and Solidworks. They are gen-you-winely complicated.
I'm all for "good artists copy; great artists steal", however Vidyard has taken it a bit too far: their player is a complete rip off of Vimeo.

http://cl.ly/3J1x213B1z1K3t1M3T2Q

I know there's more going on behind the scenes with Vidyard, however I hate that the Vidyard player gets credit for being "beautifully done" when Vimeo's top notch designers did all the work.
For a writeup of this that includes some gasp! physics, see the excellent Résonaances blog http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2011/11/lhcb-has-evidence-of...

For something slightly more comprehensible than that, but a lot more useful than bloody wired, try Sean Carroll: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/11/14/...

For more LHC/higgs gossip see this recent article from Not Even Wrong http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=4136
I just had a CRAZY session with some random dude. We wound up playing tic-tac-toe together, without saying a word.

edit*-> I guess I'm assuming it was a dude...
If a decentralized DNS plugin is necessary to easily access pirated content, then such a plugin will become as widespread as P2P clients, i.e. pretty widespread.

That's enough of a tipping point: everyone who wants to access stuff which makes a government angry knows to install the "uncensored Internet plugin", and the censorship measure becomes pointless.

It could be made easier if Google indexed .bit content, but even if they don't, another search engine will take up this niche, as astalavista.box.sk did more than a decade ago.

Also, they could sidestep the DNS censorship issue, by spidering the .bit sites, but indexing them by numeric IP rather than DNS names.
Great idea. Unfortunately all of the people I was paired with wanted to draw pictures of penises, scribble over the whole thing, or leave after 15 seconds.
Trend did a pretty decent job with Housecall - I think that was mainly an ActiveX control? I don't know much about the AV industry, but their market (Windows PCs) is being challenged by mobile devices, tablets, *nix, Macs and browser-based systems.
Why is Apple still a member of the BSA? They might as well pull out. They aren't in the business of selling costly software licenses - they give most of their software away, ostensibly to drive hardware sales. But it seems to me there's little that BSA does that dovetails in their interest.
If you're interested in narrowing the location to just sydney - there's a growing FB group called "Sydney Startups" (https://www.facebook.com/groups/sydneystartups/) and a related monthly newsletter which features Sydney Startups -> sydneystartups.com
Sounds exactly like properly evaluating supply and demand to get the result that they want.
Copy pasting like a madman here, sorry about that.

From AI class FAQ;

Will the videos be available without enrolling?
Yes, however you will not have access to any other features of the course including homeworks, exams, discussion groups, and posts from the professors.

So I guess you're out of luck as far as the web app, quizzez etc. All the videos are on Youtube so they will be available after the class has finished
I can't help but wonder if this couldn't be made into an opportunity for those of us who oppose SOPA.

All of the companies in the BSA are big/high value. Nevertheless, my gut tells me that some of the companies on that list are not ones that would be ready to face the limelight of an organized protest. Real or virtual. As such, targeting a few of the more vulnerable companies on that list could make them publicly distance themselves from the legislation, if not outright oppose it.
trademark is not an issue, a good analogy would be like a game app (angry birds). Angry birds is available at AppStore and Android Market, but since it's not available in AppWorld for some reason (I think it can be because Angry Birds maker don't want to develop for Blackberry platform? I don't know...), a company copied Angry Birds and create Angry Farms. that's what I am afraid...
"it’s always possible to recover"

Only if the initial exposure was good.
It's a metaphorical term of art, but also a sentiment among companies. They do treat talent as property, surprisingly often.

And there's often a fair bit of tit-for-tat and specific arrangements about poaching and when it's okay. Which is understandable in such a small, chummy industry (think Silicon Valley venture-backed startups, which are all about networking).

But it's also illegal, and devalues programmers, both monetarily and metaphorically.
I'm not seriously suggesting that two guys in a garage set out to build an index of web pages like Yahoo's - Yahoo has hundreds of people for god's sake.

Seriously though, I do hear what you're saying. But I used the words chip and niche. If I could chip a tiny niche out of Microsoft then I'd be a happy man.

I guess my point, which I didn't make at all clear, was that everyone's trying to get a slice of Facebook, Google, Salesforce, 37signals (all smart companies) when they could be going for these dinosaurs.
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Agreed - horrible performance on a full-blown laptop. Could barely scroll the page.
Ah yes, you're right. I remember old versions of Spotify doing this, and it always confused me.
This kind of thing is never explicitly said, but happens often.
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haha awww. That's awesome! I remember when I first showed the prototype to my classmates earlier this year they ended up killing an entire lecture just using it and the professor ended up yelling at them to stop. I really hope this time around it can catch some steam online.
See, I wanted to mention that but completely forgot about it while writing. (Still, you might have been a little more charitable with me. I think the context made it pretty clear what I was talking about.)

I was only talking about color, not exposure. (Of course there is only so much white balance can do – but if you get the raw data you can do just as much with the color as the camera, heck, you can even throw more processing power at the problem than the camera ever could.)
As soon as I saw this story I thought "DoodleRoulette!".
I'm in a similar situation to this at the moment. I have specialized domain knowledge and - I hate to say this, because it sounds so arrogant - I am the best engineer in my company. And I hate that; in my previous job I was the worst, and I learned something every day from the skilled, generous colleagues I had.

My prospects are limited here because my company won't commit to building a development team in SF. London (our other office) is a cheaper place to find developers, and it's been made clear that the preference is to hire people there. So if I stay I'm likely to be on my lonesome here for some time.

I have some loyalty to my company because they sponsored my H1B and got me into the Bay Area (although they paid me about $30k under the market rate until I found out what it really was) but it only goes so far; today for the first time I replied to an email from a recruiter - we're talking tomorrow...
Just did this a few moments ago. No dicks.

http://i.imgur.com/ZiZAc.png
I think I win:

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Where? Given the nature of past Android I'm inclined to believe it's possible, but I didn't see even a flinch in that video...
Oh, well that's very fair. I'm kind of a handful.
Between AMIs, Configuration Engines, and things like http://susestudio.com/ make it simpler to create auto-scaling infrastructure.

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

Granted that process is still under refinement, but with dedication you can achieve those goals.

Conversely, again with cost analysis, which is cheaper, a developer who can manage all that, or a sysadmin? I am sure there is a curve, small end a sysadmin, large end automation.
I've heard Amazon described that way, but I don't work there so my information is purely second-hand.
Has Scoble suddenly turned anti-Lean Startup?
Startups are Hollywood's new real estate. Smart Hollywood actors (smart anyone) take their fortune, major or minor, and invest it. Actors make their money acting, but they sustain their fortune by investing it, and that has often been in real estate. Now startups are in the mix.
An even stronger result takes into account the birthday problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem).

Claim: No two properly shuffled decks have ever been the same.

Proof: For convenience, set upper bound on # of shuffles = n = 10^23 and number of possible shuffles = N = 10^68. Then the probability that all shuffles are not unique is

q = 1 X (1 - 1/N) X (1 - 2/N) X ... X (1 - (n-1)/N).

Since n << N, even (n-1)/N is small, so we can approximate q as

q = 1 X e^(-1/N) X e^(-2/N) X ... X e^(-(n-1)/N)
= e^(-n^2/(2N))

using the series expansion e^x = 1 + x for x << 1.

Then the probability that any two decks have ever matched is

p = 1 - q = 1 - e^(-n^2/(2N)).

Now,

q = e^(-5 * 10^(-22)) = 1 - 5 * 10^(-22),

to good approximation, so

p = 1 - q = 5 * 10^(-22)

which is zero for all practical purposes. Thus, no two properly shuffled decks have ever been the same. QED
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Well, you do (as of Flash Player 9) need a policy server [1] running, so connecting to existing services is still pretty much impossible.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/socket_poli...
Thanks, I appreciate the opportunity to engage. Apple, Intel and Dell are the misfits on that list, fine. Although by the same logic Microsoft (the equivalent of a webapp developer in its time) should pose no threat to IBM.

For sure, they aren't going to fall prey to a single webapp. But they are being chipped away at - Autodesk is now up against Sketchup. Microsoft is facing Google Docs, iOS, Ubuntu, Android etc etc etc. All those competing products came from acquired startups - I doubt they set out to 'fell Microsoft' , and nor have they done it.

I wholeheartedly agree with you that we oughtn't to let this legislation roll through - I was a bit flippant on that.
That is what good sysadmins do, and rack monkeys are training to do.