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The strangest thing about the whole 3D cinema trend is that it seems to have sprung out of some anti-piracy / anti-home-cinema idea among the studios. I can't speak for everyone, but for me it is just another reason to wait and watch the film at home. Why would I want to watch a blurry, dim version of the film through a pair of glasses on top of my regular glasses? I did watch Avatar in 3D, and I regret doing so. It's a pure effect, one that adds nothing to the film and for me, detracts from the experience significantly enough to make me wait for the DVD release.

I can't figure out if Peter Jackson is genuinely excited about 3D or if he's in some kind of reality distortion field where 3D will save the art of cinema.
"The main requirement for being able to [create a Sovereign Key] is that the requesting party controls a CA-signed certificate for the relevant domain, or uses a DNSSEC-signed key to show that they control that domain".

I don't quite understand this. If our problem is that CA-signed certificates are not very trustworthy, why use them as the basis for the new system?

Can someone explain the DNSSEC alternative?
Please don't get me wrong here. I in no way think that they're going to be failures, no matter how it turns out. That they're come this far at all already makes them heroes in my book.

Of course they are free to make whatever they want for whomever they want. If they choose to make them from solid gold and sell them to schools for a nickel, good on them.

All I'm saying is that I think an embedded computer that cost so little but still runs the software and has the features of the larger computers that most everyone knows how to program is a bit of a revolutionary idea.

Theoretically, if the demand is present, someone will be willing to fill it, but this is not a product space that DLink or Netgear is likely to explore. It would be a shame if they do indeed reach the limits of their production, prioritize as you suggest, and then we are unable to find out this go around whether the demand was there for 1000 more than they made or 100,000 more.

Like Arduino, the closer they come to getting one into everyone's hands that can create with them, the more valuable they become to everyone.
As for Total commander example, that was out of the box experience, without any tweaks. I just wanted to point out that even when using emulation layer to access Windows native filesystem type, Linux was significantly faster on file system operations.

As for my homework "copy" command, I know that it is not fully replacement to file copy windows command, but if copy operations takes >10min, all those checks and additional tasks shouldn't make IO bound operation take couple time longer than what some student implemented as homework.
I didn't know about the 64-bit toolchain, where can you get it?
I have felt for a long time that Raspberry Pi would be something far beyond the scope of education and could well be re-purposed as a super-economical Arduino equivalent, complete with its own ecosystem of add-on boards, enclosures, power supplies and applications.

Could I see myself getting at least one? Most definitely. I'd pay double for what it offers, and all my hacker friends agree. There's so much we'd love to dig into, set-top boxes, surveillance, emulation and gaming, jukeboxes, audio synthesis, demoscene productions... it's just a fantastic platform I can't wait to get my hands on.

I think they may well deliver on this regardless of any scepticism, although over time it will be at least exciting to see what kind of community is developed.

My only slight concern is whether it will encroach on Broadcom's business too much, perhaps they will constrain orders to set amounts so commercial applications are prohibited, or at least artificially constrained and referred further up the supply chain. That said, it does open up the market more for a similar device.

I do appreciate the fact it is a relatively static specification though - write once, run everywhere is a great place to be.
Daniel, do you still think that following the driver's advice to not look right was a good decision?

I ask because I don't think, in the same situation, I would have been able to resist it, and I honestly have no idea what effect that sight might have.

When you do feel fear on public travel now (and I guess it was even worse in the past), what goes on in your mind? Is it one of those things where you know really that your worry is foolish but you can't help yourself, or is your entire brain telling you that you could be in trouble?
Streaming is simpler and the legal implications are a lot less dramatic, so why would anyone use bittorrent if given the choice?
Amazing writing, thanks for taking the time out to lay out every detail. It is hard to put yourself into an event like this when you at home sitting on your couch watching it on TV. I watch and see numbers (56 dead) and it is hard to really get emotionally involved with people who you most likely don't know when you have such generic details. Reading this, I feel like I was there, even for a moment.

Thanks again for putting something horrible like a bombing in perspective. I'm glad to hear you came out of it stronger on the other end.
Incredibly powerful writing, even more so when combined with that track.
I was in the tube that day (but at a station far from the actual bombs) and probably because of that plus travelling the next day, I saw almost nothing of the coverage or what actually happened. I only noticed that something had happened after exiting the tube and getting stopped when trying to get back down at Piccadilly. It's a strange thought to look back and know that only through random chance did I happen to be on a train that wasn't involved.
An eloquent description which captures the essence of one possible reaction. Mine was different (I live in Israel, had a similar encounter) but the core experience is similar.

It seems cliche, but there is a fundamental truth to the fact that most westerners are simply unaware of what the "I fear for my bodily integrity" sensation is and does to your life. OP's newly-discovered appreciation of how crowded buses present a potential security threat is a great example. It isn't that you suddenly see your life in a whole new light, it's that you regard various mundane things with a new, orthogonal parameter: is this situation more likely to result in harm to me?

Like all things, eventually you become inured and looking at a situation from a security perspective becomes a routine thought passing through your head along with "shit, I forgot to pay the gas bill." Without getting into Israel/Palestine, this is a slice of what living in Israeli society is roughly like.
There are plans for other similar boards in the works eg

http://rhombus-tech.net//allwinner_a10/orders/

Which is higher spec, cheaper and has full source.
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Which version of Windows? In my experience certain things will freeze up explorer XP/Server2k3 effectively indefinitely while on Vista/7/Server2k8 there is a progress meter and everything is stable.
Too much demand is a good problem to have. Raspberry Pi is certainly counting on mass production to meet their target price; and if people still want more, competitors will spring up.
I am also aware that Google getting involved is a bad thing.

That's an opinion, one which I (and others) don't agree with.

SOPA is bad for Google, too. Why shouldn't they be involved? The fact of the matter is that corporations are involved in US politics. Like it or dislike it, it's a fact. Advising anti-SOPA corporations to stay out of the fight just feels like a case of misplaced principles. Suggesting that Google sit on the sidelines severely hampers efforts to get the word out and stir up anti-SOPA sentiment among people who may not understand the issue all that well, or may not be particularly interested yet.

I want SOPA to fail. If Google can help with that, I'm all for it, as long as they don't do anything shady or illegal while providing that help.
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I was going to disagree with you but you might have a point, it's not open source: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs#comment-2220
And it's frustrating to get spammed with blue shells when you're in the lead and not be able to do anything about it.

I wouldn't say anything; a decent strategy for when you see someone else with a shell is to slow down to 2nd place and let the new 1st get hit (which will then put you on 1st again). Timing is essential, though.
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I saw that. I sure hope so. I'd feel a great deal better if the product was more circuit board and less photoshop.

I'd say the Raspberry Pi folks have 6 months, maybe even a year on these guys.
Probably a response to the Stanford courses. I took the course Introduction to Databases, and it was really great. I wrote about the experience here: http://henrikwarne.com
>> it usually takes a significant amount of brainpower only to reformulate your problem to be suitable for std::algorithms

That's true, but the final result generally ends up with less bugs and better thought out algorithms. It forces you to think "what problem am I currently trying to solve?"
Hopefully this is true, I bought a Macbook because my older laptop with a new battery and Ubuntu lasted for less then an hour fully charged. There didn't seem to be any native power-management tools and all the solutions seemed overly complicated and hacky.
Thanks for posting this. A poignant reminder.
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NTFS uses run lists (comparable to extends in ext4) so you would only have more metadata if your drive gets fragmented.
(Which I hope for the sake of comparability is not the case here)
The time you wake up one day, to the time you wake up the next, averaged out over a long period of time. For most people it's right around 24 hours, as it should be.

Circadian technically means every 24 hours, so a better word may have been just "body clock": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#Criteria
Here's to the developers.
wait, is it? The link I pasted was them commenting about the GPU but I can't find a reference anywhere saying whether or not the PCB design is open or closed source
I thought there were sections where your shout powers are required to progress the plot?
I'm not sure there's the absolutely massive untapped demand that is being suggested from hobbyists, though it is going to sell a lot to them (in the 10,000s, maybe more).

I picked up a BeagleBone[1] last week, made by Texas Instruments for £60, which has significantly more CPU power than the Raspberry, 256MB of RAM and has embedded Ethernet (so is more comparable to the $35 model).

So while D-Link and Netgear aren't exploring this area, TI definitely are, and are very much in a position to roll out millions of these devices if the demand is there.

However I think the Raspberry Pi exists in it's current form to drive demand for a bulk order from governments as an educational tool, and if someone ordered either the BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi for every 10 year old child then I think that would be a brilliant step.

[1] http://beagleboard.org/bone
1) Windows FS operations are slower than Linux in general but when you add 'Realtime' Antivirus on top it gets worse.

2) Linux forks significantly faster than anything else I know. For something like Chromium the compiler is forked bazillion times and so is the linker and nmake and so on so forth.

3) Linux, the kernel, is heavily optimized for building stuff as that's what the kernel developers do day in and day out - there are threads on LKML that I can't be bothered to dig out right now but lot of effort goes in to optimizing for kernel build workload - may be that helps.

3) Linker - stock one is slower and did not do the more costly optimizations until now so it might be faster because of doing lesser than the MS linker that does incremental linking, WPO and what not. Gold is even faster and I may be wrong but I don't think it does what the MS linker does either.

4) Layers - Don't know if Cygwin tools are involved but they add their own slowness.
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More likely a balkanised internet. I'll post a link to HN and you won't be able to access it because your country blocks it.

The internet is already balkanised to some extent --- linguistically, and by e.g. the Chinese firewall. Also video --- non-Americans can't watch the Daily Show on Comedy Central's website, and non-Brits can't watch Doctor Who on the BBC's website.

But these are all either predictable or peripheral for most of us. A danger is that SOPA is the start of pulling the English-speaking internet apart into national not-terribly-interoperable zones.
I understand that it is not really possible to make it perfect. And I also understand why you share raw data and it's probably the best way to do it. I just wouldn't make such strong conclusions from it.
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I don't think you can generalize that. As far as I remember Obama got a lot of small donations in 2008 and as a small donor your donations are pretty much anonymous. You don't get any special access for your $100 or less. But people still donated.
Maybe the big donors would go away but I am fine with that.
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>>Daniel, do you still think that following the driver's advice to not look right was a good decision?

Advice: I know people with PTSD and believe it is a good thing if you can avoid getting it yourself.

Personally, I can handle blood. But as a Scandinavian, I have a hard time seeing suffering even for a Westerner.
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I agree with fookyong, it looks like Gmail.

Also after using Kayako, something as simple as that looks (your product) would probably be a pleasure to use.
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I can't find the link at the moment but they did release their previous micro-controller based board but I also read that they would not be releasing the design of the current model.
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Thanks for that. My girlfriend at the time, got off at Euston when they evacuated the station and decided to try take a bus to get to work. While waiting for her bus, a bus exploded not far from where she was standing. Her reaction was to walk through the city to work, asking for directions along the way, walking even past my office. I couldn't reach her because the mobile network went out of action. She didn't want to come to my office because she knew I traveled in early to make it to a meeting and didn't want to disturb me (the meeting obviously got canceled). It's been hard for me to understand the thought process that made her want to take a bus when the station was being evacuated, and made her want to walk to work after that. I think it's been a case of the initial evacuation making her worry about getting to work on time and even though she didn't know about any explosions at that point she was already reacting in a panic. With the trauma of being near a blast, it must have anchored that thought process into becoming the most important mission for her to accomplish.

I was on a train when they started evacuating a station, and I was praying to myself that the train leaves the station quickly in case the evacuation was for a bomb. Little did I know the bombs were on the trains themselves and not in the station, but my initial reaction was to get out of that station and to get out of the train network and away from public places and crowds as quickly as possible. This article helps explaining this thought process to me.
We've done compiler tests between VC express 2010 and GCC (Mingw gcc 4.6.x branch) at work with GCC beating VC express at '-O3 -ffast-math -march=corei7' vs '/O2 /arch:SSE2' for our code on Intel Core i7 nehalem. GCC even beat ICC on certain tests on that same Intel hardware.

What we weren't able to compare between the compilers was link-time optimization and profile-guided optimization since Microsoft crippled VC express by removing these optimizations.

So when someone makes claims that 'VC++ generates significantly better code than GCC' I want to see something backing that up. Had I made a blanket statement that 'GCC generates significantly better code than VC++' someone would call me on backing up that aswell, and rightly so.
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Depends on which FF as the battle mechanic changed for each game

FFVII had (from memory; it's been a few years) a time based system - like turn based, but each character has a timer run down after their turn until their next one. You had only that much time to decide on your next attack, and with 3 of your characters in the same battle things could get frantic on occasion
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That's assuming that they don't enforce government regulated requirements for certification. I'm sure that when this gains any significant traction there will suddenly be quality concerns and we will need to "protect" the students and regulate to prevent chaos. There is only one way cartels succeed without breaking up internally - when they can enforce the contract on the offenders.
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Seems everyone here is talking about "games in the Zelda sub-genre." I'd like to mention an actual Zelda clone (as it's a game I played for years, long ago—I don't know enough to endorse it in its present state): Graal Online.

Graal Online (or just Graal for short) is/was an MMORPG resembling Zelda: A Link To The Past in almost every way. In fact, it was originally called "Zelda Online" until they were served notice by Nintendo (the resulting changes were profoundly minor.) The game went through phases of being first a Java applet, then a Windows executable, and—most recently, it appears—a Facebook and iOS app.

It's basically what you'd expect from a Zelda game: a sword with damage levels and a shield that can deflect projectiles, bombs and arrows, rupees in bushes, Metroidvania-style "dungeon key-item unlocks more overworld" gameplay, etc. On the other hand, it's actually very programmable: it comes with (or, at least, used to come with) a built-in game editor, which can be used to construct one's own 64x64-tile maps, and Actor-modeled "Graalscript" sprite objects. (For example, you can drop any arbitrary image onto the map, and then add hooks for "was obtained," "was selected in menu," and "was fired," and you'll now have a new carryable item.) This content can then be pushed to the server where (after moderation) any group of players can wander in and interact with it. In fact, "outdoor" maps may actually get stitched right into the main overworld. (This is still my gold-standard for the concept of "player housing" in an MMO.) I would compare the usage-experience as similar to a 2D, Zelda-motif'ed Second Life, or a sprite-based MOO.

After a while, Cyberjoueurs (the creators) came to the money-making strategy of allowing people to run the server software on their own (centralized) game servers, charging a fee but allowing people to make money off those "Player Worlds" in turn. This then introduced waves of heavy customization, where little of the original Zelda mechanics remain in many player-worlds (the UI may be overridden at a low level in Graalscript to draw your own GUI, perform your own sprite animations in reaction to arbitrary key-presses, etc.) Because of this, most of the communal world-building aspect was abandoned, which is a shame. It does still seem to play a lot like Zelda, though :)
I'm sure you don't drive a car, either.
Imagine if you had just changed the background picture on the server you accessed to a lolcat or something funny, and left a short text file how you got in, saying that you didn't change anything.

Even better would be to change the password, then leave him an anonymous typed note with it, which would prevent others from abusing the system.

True anonymous reporting is almost as good as whistleblower protection.
That's not an accurate summary. A better summary comes in the last paragraph of the article:

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No, we are all very aware of how Congress works. Whoever has the most money to pay them (why it's not called a bribe, I'll never know) is the person who gets their ideas put into law. Congress hasn't been about the needs of the people they represent for some time now.
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totally agree with the comments mentioned above. As a co-founder you NEED to know where the money is going! even if you are the "technical" cofounder and the other partners take care of the business side of things, you still need access to make sure nothing fishy is going on.

you don't even have access to the business bank account online? that was the first things me and my partners did. to make sure we all have access to the bank account and on quarterly basis review all the income and expenses. BIG red flag that you need to look into.
That is one side of it, yes. Congress takes your money to do a lot of horrible things, like the hundreds of thousands of documented civilians that were killed as a direct result of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

But Congress takes your money to do a lot of things, and some of them are absolutely important, like taking care of the medical problems that older people have.
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In particular, with law enforcement, it's not as much an issue of how much money is spent on law enforcement (though that also matters), but whether the right things are prohibited. There are some things that few people would argue for decriminalizing (say, driving a truck bomb into a building), but a lot more questions past that.
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