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And if so what, I wonder? Before the Euro there was the EQU used by no one, I think, it was an equivalence currency. Still, it did not disintegrate.
The UK is part of the EU, but it is not in the Eurozone and does not use Euro currency. Sweden and Denmark are also both in the EU and, along with the UK, did not switch over to the Euro.
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Yes, but the parsimonious explanation is that neither Democratic politicians nor Republican politicians nor any other kind of politicians are particularly careful with their facts, and which you think are more prone to "lying" has more to do with the listeners than the speakers. The idea that any politician is routinely dealing in truth is laughable... and I don't mean that so much in terms of cynicism per se, but because they really have very little incentive to do the necessary huge amounts of work it would take that would bring them no gain, or even less than no gain inasmuch as it would limit their verbal weaponry.

Just as one example of the sort of thing that makes it difficult for me to take Politifact ratings seriously in 30 seconds of browsing, look at: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/... Mitt Romney gets a "pants on fire" rating for claiming that Obama has apologized to the world for the US on various occasions. To my eyes, it's a desperate attempt to avoid the accusation by deliberately and stubbornly being as naive as possible, insisting that it wasn't anything remotely resembling an apology ("pants on fire" remember, not just "half truth", which I would actually accept just fine on this matter) because it doesn't contain the word "sorry" and never quite fully says "apology". I call it "naive" because in politics everybody knows that there's more to what's going on that just what is being said; would Politifact expect me to be naive enough that when diplomats say they had the traditional "frank exchange of views" that means the negotiations are going well, because nobody said outright they were going poorly? Of course Obama never said "I apologize for the US", but there's rather more wiggle room for interpretation than giving someone who says there were an apology a "pants on fire" rating.

And to be perfectly clear, I see equally dubious straining-at-gnats attacks from conservatives on liberals as well routinely. The only way these "truth goggles" could actually work is to draw from a wide variety of sources and hope the bias cancels.
Yes. RMS was highly critical of APSL 1.0

http://www.linuxtoday.com/mailprint.php3?action=pv&ltsn=...

So Apple revised the APSL to address some of his concerns.
Why not buy instead of simply pirating? If you don't care about the industry and would prefer in the long run to see it die always, what's the difference?
Sometimes I think headlines like this are the cause of a recession rather than the facts behind it. Economy is more about psychology than it is about numbers.

(Of course there were governments and financial institutes which have behaved badly in the past, no denying there.)
Just seems like playing with fire. I get the whole idea of helping humanity cope with an epidemic, but not clear why they didnt just do THAT research instead.
At this point the only reason I wouldn’t home school is because I selfishly do not want to spend all of my time home schooling.

This is a misperception. Under California law (where I homeschooled some years back), one legal option to homeschool is to hire a tutor for 3 hours a day. Not 8 hours, just 3. And there is good reason for that: The one-on-one teaching model is far more intensive than the 8 hours a day where one teacher is splitting her attention amongst 20 to 40 students. Trying to do 8 hours a day of one-on-one instruction would be a good way to burn out everyone involved.

One book or article I read indicated that one homeschooling parent went and observed at school and concluded that only 1 to 3 hours out of the day was spent actually doing school work. The rest was spent calling roll, getting in line, changing classes, going to lunch and so on. It was less time and effort for me to homeschool than to send my kids to public school. (I took my extra time and went to college part-time while homeschooling.)

Best of luck with your decision.
So will the UK be well protected from this fallout?
I see what you are saying here, although I suppose in this example the email client is probably doing some polling tasks in the background making it less likely to be swapped.

Surely it would not be difficult to have a paging algorithm that says something like "this program has no open windows or background tasks in operation you should prefer to swap this application's memory over others", no idea whether this is how it currently works or not?

I suppose there is the overhead of doing the swap operation which you would not need to do if you'd simply dumped the contents of the applications memory on the floor. I guess the memory management algorithm could just swap stuff related to state to disk but dump library code completely and reload this as needed.

Memory is so cheap now that people will usually have more of it than they are actually using at any one time so it probably makes sense where possible to still hold recently used applications (state + libs etc) in there if there is no contention for the memory.

I think my overarching point is that OS programmers are pretty smart , I would be slow to assume that they screwed something up in such an obvious way.
Intrade has it at 8% that a country drops out of the euro by the end of the year.

http://intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=713738
> Nikon S95

Doesn't exist, AFAICT. Do you mean Canon S95? If so, the Canon S95 is excellent.
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have much stricter controls on Eurozone countries

That would require some new treaties, and in some countries, require a referendum, i.e. a popular vote. If there's a big financial problem, you don't want that to hang on the popular vote or some small member states.

have mechanisms to automatically cut expenses/raise taxes

EU doesn't have the ability to levy taxes, only member states.

The cynic in me says that with the ECB bailing out & funding several states, that the ECB already has the power to dictate taxation matters to some of those states already. Let's see if that saves the euro.
Whoah, there. It's obviously not a joke. Dude, you made a good point but you completely lacked any tact. You could have just simply warned the guy that uninstalling the browser may be enough. And I believe he knows that deleting the shortcut icon is not the same as uninstalling. It's easy to tell it was just an important part of the story because to people who aren't tech savvy, deleting an icon is uninstalling as far as they're concerned and the deletion of the icon was probably very significant to his father.

So chill out, man. We may be a community of techies but we can't possibly know it all. What may seem a obvious to you may not be to another one of us. It doesn't mean we're stupid. For example, its like the back end web programmers who know little to nothing of front end stuff. It may seem like someone who knows that complicated back end stuff can easily figure out HTML and CSS in an hour but sometimes not. Just chill.
Additionally, if the weak countries would leave th Euro, wouldn't that strengthen it instead of disintegrating it?

I don't see the strong euro economies having any reason to leave, right?
Greek pulling out isn't disintegration. Germany, to avoid being stuck for the next decade (or two) as the one paying out the PIIGS debt, - that would be a disintegration. "I'll pay all your past bills/debts just to stay roommates" Unfortunately, the roommates need to grow up, and paying their debt has never been the way to help it. [ Note: i don't mean social programs/austerity measures as it wasn't the social programs that run these countries into the ground. Wasteful, inept governments and Big Speculation taking advantage of such governments. Unfortunately, it is old people having their pensions cut off and the likes who will pay for it.]
Seeing isn't necessarily a 2D process; and not just because our vision is binocular. Our visual system is very complex. The hardware is, optically, very crappy. Our image processing and integration software is very complex, much more complex than we really are able to understand at this time.

And it behaves almost nothing like a camera. Even mechanically, the optical projection is very different than a camera makes, or what one would get from a linear perspective projection.

There is a projection, but the "image" is actually composed of multiple viewpoints over time. The adjustments an artist must make for small changes in the model's pose is nothing compared to the varying nature of the mental image you actually "see" inside your brain. It is far from static, and is in fact very dynamic.

Which is why that drawing from life is considered much more important than drawing from a photograph when learning to see.

Note that I'm not knocking the study of structure or synthetic processes like linear perspective. They are important tools and aids in perception and image synthesis. But a good drawing, or painting, or photograph for that matter, is not a mere 2D projection of light and dark. It is an encoded record of a multitude of perceptions, or perception artifacts that your brain then interprets, inside it's magic "seeing" box, which then produces a simulacrum of a perceived event or process.

Else making a good drawing or photograph would be an entirely mechanical process that anyone could make by following a few simple rules. Instead they are like moments of insight into a scene or event.

And all of this is relevant if you are creating software that is going to communicate visually. When you are building your data structures and models inside your head, it is a very different from that which the experience the user has. Your job is to make the important aspects of that model manifest visually, and usefully manipulatable.
The very same agencies that are generating the headlines are leaking the headlines to hedge funds hours before. There is a current SEC probe of S&P over concerns that employees disclosed info about the downgrade to hedge funds hours before the announcement.
reddit had the same problem. We set up a separate server just for the google crawler with it's own copy of the database, so that the queries for old pages didn't slow down everyone else.
The most important gain is the country's ability to print its own currency (pay the country's debt via inflation).
That's such a good idea with both the icon and a browser that looks like ie6 but isn't. Old UI over a new back end. Wonderful! I believe I remember a time when you could skin Internet explorer however you like. Is that still possible? If so, would it be realistic to believe someone can create an IE6 skin for IE9 or 10?

I haven't touched Windows in years and years so forgive me if that sounded naive. In fact, I have a dual boot loop with Win7 and Linux and I only booted into Windows once to download the Linux distro, haha.
The issue with pushing Linux onto unwitting users is many don't understand it's incompatible with their Win32 software and end up returning the computer. Therefore Dell had to put up a big "here be dragons" page in front of the Ubuntu systems.

If this were to actually work, they would need some sort of huge mass marketing campaign which convinced people they actually want or need Linux on their computer, which is very unlikely. Defining your audience as people who want to save the 5% cost of a Windows license cost from their already cheapass PC is never going to amount to much.
>but there's a good reason why Napoleon was the one person who did the most to modernize Europe.

if you mean centralized government of the Empire - i'd not agree, there were other big Empires in the Europe which preserved, instead of solved/improved, the problems. If you mean Napoleonic wars, when i'd agree and add WWI and WWII.
The most convincing argument seemed to me that the way the Euro was set up is simply not workable/secure - for example they can not just print more Euros because of lots of rules.

But that kind of thing hardly seems to be the problem of mixing too many people together, it is simply a flaw in the system.

Of course the initial problem might have been that the system could only be some lowest common denominator of all the systems it tries to combine, making it almost impossible to create something good.

I find it interesting that there are therefore two interesting problems: how to set up a stable currency, and more importantly, how to set up a decision process that produces good results and doesn't alienate everybody.
big fan of wave as a simple collaborative editing system. Live editing is intense, but works great when hashing out ideas on a document. Have used for over a year in a small team working on document writing. Have yet to find a good replacement, so this is interesting. Actually, it's not so much there isn't a good replacement -- EtherPad is quite good, especially some of the newer incarnations of it with slicker UI -- but Wave's 'inbox' feature being able to manage and organize multiple waves under account is the thing keeping me using it. I don't want to have to bookmark all my EtherPad docs and somehow track them.
Not a webmaster, but would like to know:
Does/can the google crawler system send a notification email to the registered webmaster of a website, if something like this happens? This could be deemed unsolicited, but would in a huge majority of the cases be more than welcome!
I don't think the Eurozone will not break up. It will most likely lose some members though. These will either be the larger economies like Germany or the smaller ones which should never have been allowed in in the first place.
Wouldn't it rather make the Euro stronger if weak members would fall out of it?
That's what I wondered - surely the value of the Euro would shoot up if the PIIGS left. However, this might cause problems for huge exporters like Germany.
I tend to keep things consistent. The browser is usually on the top-left desktop, emacs on center-top, twitter and pidgin, on lower-left.
Your example company would eventually be awesome to own. It's annual revenue after y years would be r(y) = 12 * 2000 * 2^y. After 10 years, the annual revenue would $24,576,000. After 20, $25,165,824,000. After 30 years, $25,769,803,776,000.
There are lots of sites that offer the kind of thing you're asking - soundsnap.com is $1/sound, for instance, allowing you to use it royalty free.

I don't think the developers would want the music for their games (e.g. Super Meat Boy) used in other games, especially if they paid for an original composition, because it would dilute their brand.

I don't know what license terms the parties agreed to, though, but it's either up to the developer or the music artist. Either way it would be fairly complicated to bundle - I'm pretty sure the license terms wouldn't be the same for all parties.
Their debts will still be in Euros even if they change from the Euro to new local currencies.
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The problem is that monetary policy is not set on a country by country basis. The economic cycles of countries differ and trying to control monetary policy on a global level leads to policies that do not help any country.
The Euro is a tragedy of the commons. Each individual country can benefit from using the central bank but all share the costs.

Why are there still people trying to convince us that the mere existence of more lenders is a solution to debt?
What? The article is about direct quotes from politicians. There are a lot of things you can blame the media for, but this isn't one of them.
Ask HN: Negatives of HackerNews
HN Readers:

What are some things you feel HN terribly sucks at?
What about the submission/sign up/login process?
Do you feel it should be improved?

Do you sometimes not want to come to HN because of ________?
If yes, why?
In other words, you can't have a single economy without a single government responsible for enforcing the rules.
Currently, the disintegration of the Euro is highly unlikely:

- If each country leaves the Euro, debt (including that with the U.S.) will remain as it is (no change in face value),

- If each country has its own currency, the inevitable devaluation will increase the value of the debt, and cost of interest (on local currency terms), making it impossible for many countries to repay that debt (including that with the U.S., which is well over $350bn)

- This will result in the immediate default for a long list of countries.

Food for thought
Thanks for clarifying. I thought the notices had FBI on them, my mistake.
Indeed, look at all the work canonical spent into speeding up boot and how it a couple of releases later regressed heavily almost back to where we started. Stories like this gives me little faith in Canonical managing to keep on improving Unity.
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One of the big reasons Wave failed at Google was that everyone thought it was supposed to be a replacement for email and it wasn't--it wasn't meant to be and it doesn't serve as one.

Wave was meant to replace a certain way in which we use email, which is a subtle but important difference. It was supposed to replace the emailing of versions of documents around, or the long email threads to organize simple things like getting lunch or dinner. These are things where email still to this day falls flat, and Wave solves completely.

There is ample room for startups to be disruptive using nothing more than the open source Apache Wave software.
Yes, it is a structural problem. Separately, the governments are ruled by politicians that get their mandate from the people. They tried to keep local fiscal policy and yet somehow together have a unified monetary policy. That's the kind of problem that's blatantly obvious from day one. What happened was a series of complexities that were added to these systems of governance that obscured this underlying reality. This trend looks to continue, with more and more schemes using more and more complex policies and products. It doesn't look so good.

Of course, I'm just relating what I've been reading. I can tell you it's been quite alarming and yet strangely placid. Like watching a slow-motion train wreck.

I didn't mean the number of people. I meant the idea of smashing up lots of different systems of government and cultures through byzantine layers of bureaucracy instead of just replacing them with a centralized government (which would have worked very well, probably, but it was politically unfeasible)
I think Nikon P7000 is what he meant!
It's already a recension, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) had said that last week.
The last months the situation in Europe has gotten drastically worse. The expected growth of the economy in 2012 is -1%.
Disintegration refers to the process of removing the construct that is the euro and allowing all (or some weak) European countries to print their own money.

The problem with the Euro comes from the fact that all countries are locked in to the euro and that some countries (those with lots of debt) would benefit from the inflation that would be caused by printing Euros and some countries who saved money (Germany) would loose if inflation was prevalent.

The quickest way to understand the Euro crisis is to understand the concept of inflation and what it will do to each country.

*Alternative solutions that were proposed weeks ago include germany lending to greece or all of europe lending to weaker countries, but those loans required the countries borrowing to adopt tighter monetary policy.

That tighter monetary policy caused riots in greece because they didn't want to loose their entitlements.

The problem is escalating and will likely result in the fall of the European union.
I always launched the terminal using the keyboard, and I think they improved that with Unity -- so it was a speed-up for me.

[And if you're opening a terminal, we can be pretty sure that your hands are heading for the keyboard anyway! :) ]
Still, it worked before. For example Germany used to be a lot of little states with different rulers and different currencies. The money union worked out well. And even within a country there are strong and weak economic regions. That alone does not seem to stand against a common currency.

I suppose even the US has different parts with different economic cycles and different economic strength.
If you can print your own currency you'll be able to pay EUR-debt if you tolerate the spiked exchange rates and the hyperinflation that comes with them (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation ).

Or you can just default ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_economic_crisis_%2819... ).
>There doesn't appear to be a way to turn off the graphical effects to speed it up.

There is. 2D mode.
Headline wrong, twice:

1) Question mark. Recession already starting.

2) Not falling, pushed.
I wish I had any idea what to do with my Euro savings :-(
I don't think an upvote is enough to show that I agree with you. Especially the last sentence. The info is very interesting, but I gave up after I opened the first tree.

Another problem jerf's design fixes is that you have no way of telling which line has a tooltip and which doesn't, and coupled with the fact the tooltips take a fraction of a second to appear waste my time.
Its amazing how many people start with Ruby on Rails first.

To be clear,

Language: Ruby, Framework: Rails

Language: Python, Framework: Django etc.

So, Language is what you actually write as code, Framework is set of frequently used patterns, that is provided as a package to make app development easier.

If you are totally new to frameworks, I recommend going with Ruby on Rails, Coz, It makes many commonly used programming patterns, lot easier (no configurations, as they say). When I say easier, its as easy as one line of code sometimes. Many people say, you don't have to know ruby to start with Rails (which is partly true), but, I recommend learning ruby first before you try rails, because, ruby has many fundamental syntactic differences, that might trip off a lot of people.

Another big difference is, if you learn Rails, you can make CRUD Web applications easily. But, not other kind of applications. Ruby can be used to make native applications though, same with python.

Both Python and Ruby are cross-platform and available for all major Platforms.

Hope this helps.
For me, broken Alt+Tab that switches applications instead of windows is a non-starter. And the top application menu bar.

The rest is OK and I can learn/adapt.
"This is more of an amateur blog post (with nice writing) than an article. Mostly just the author's opinions."

Why do you think that a subjective opinion about a heated topic, with a catching headline and written as if the opinion was a fact, is a sign of an amateur's post?

This is exactly how you get to the frontpage of techmeme. Most professional tech blogs like techcrunch or engadget generate their income this way.
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My favorite quote: "What causes people to be poets instead of bankers? When you put that into products people can sense that. And they love it."
So, his example monad is bad. Indulging in hyperbole and invoking Moggi can at best be seen as attention-seeking behavior and at worst as an underhanded FUD tactic to turn people off the project. Peaker has pointed out the problem with the example monad without indulging in antics. There are better ways to communicate the mistake made in the example program. There is nothing irrecoverably terrible with Roy, but your comment conveys a false impression to the uninformed reader.
Most overlooked feature is the ability to interconnect several Wave servers, the same way you can interconnect several e-mail servers.

That can transform typically suggested alternatives into non-alternatives for some.
I can confirm. They are very glitchy for me too.
How to constrain the number of records allowed? (Wow, serious SQL guruage)