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Games seem to be a Windows thing. If you play Games, you must use Windows. If you make games, you must write them on Windows, because your audience is on Windows. There are exceptions to this, like Minecraft running on Java (but Notch seems to be a Windows user anyway).

Games are a big chicken-and-egg issue for Linux and other OS adoption. A big part of this issue is Direct3D vs. OpenGL. While D3D is clearly a superior API, OpenGL is the only choice if you want to support non-Windows OS'es.

So if there were more games (talking about big titles here) for Linux, there would be more gamers using Linux. And subsequently more games would be written for Linux. As there is no initial group of customers (big enough to attract publishers' attention), the situation is not going to change. Unfortunately.
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Then if that's the case it'll show that there /is/ a profitable market for this and someone will surely pick up the ball.
Could you summarize what that is for those of us who can't watch youtube for some hours?
Personally I think linking to a donation form with the members of congress who oppose SOPA and the challengers of those who support it would have more of an impact.
I had an interesting discussion about that with some professors as well. It might not be as bad as on the internet, but it does happen, in both research and instruction, to some extent. One prof I know pretty well, who's a good teacher, was lamenting that his students seem to actively want him to be definitive and un-nuanced. His tendency, which he has to work against a bit, is to qualify statements by noting where his views aren't shared by everyone in the field, where he's speculating past the established results, where he's pretty confident of an approach but there are arguments for alternative approaches, etc.

But students tend to interpret that as weak and muddled, and prefer profs who "tell it like it is", even if that means in a fairly biased and opinionated way. It seems they particularly like it when you make black-and-white statements that would be controversial, roughly equivalent to "there's a debate on this but you don't need to know about the other viewpoint because it's wrong".
Actually, filename wouldn't work because some sites just return 200 instead of a 404, against the standards.
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Trying to write code on a whiteboard is not the same as communicating with peers via a whiteboard. I've never written or seen written anything more code-like than function prototypes on a whiteboard outside an interview session.

Design and flows get thrown on whiteboards a lot, but those are not code, and their creation is not remotely like coding. You are "testing" exactly the wrong thing.
Or like a reporter writing about global warming while owning an automobile... Wait a second...
I'm talking about the guy in the back that tracks all the bananas and schedules the deliveries and orders the equipment and all the other logistics on this banana team. Does he not get paid? Or does this job not exist somehow?

Creating a banana farm takes money. Who is going to do it? If there are no profits then nobody that focuses on money will bother, and nobody that focuses on rewarding labor can get a loan either.

And fine, if you won't ignore the nonexistence of fund managers long enough to answer a question about principles I'll try a different tack. If I invent a banana picker that saves ten million dollars am I entitled to ten million dollars? Value in, value out.
From a Portuguese citizen living in the Bay Area. The idea that SOPA can benefit European countries is laughable to say the least.

Everyone benefits from freedom and openness. When I started my first company in Portugal, companies like Geocities, Yahoo and Download.com enabled my startup. Today Google, AWS and Facebook enable startups all over the world.

If you think that thwarting innovation in the US can benefit some other country, you're not seeing the big picture. It's not about moving servers or people, it's about destroying the most prolific tech ecosystem in the world.
This is one of the most intriguing TED talks I have seen. Thanks for the link.
You should wait - not because you should worry about YC, but because your discussion of incorporation reveals that you are a noob with respect to those topics.

That's OK, you wouldn't expect an expert in tax or corporate law to understand your field of expertise, and you shouldn't imagine that you're going to understand their field of expertise by reading arbitrary pages found on the net, even if you read them very diligently or for a long time.

You should focus on building your business - chances are whatever you do at this stage will need to be redone at greater expense if you do get outside investment.
I've found that ICT has had such a damaging effect on my generation's perception of what CS is and what the people that do it must be like. I'm really glad to see it go. It's great to know that people will get a chance to have some insight into a world which a lot of people would never encounter.

I'd like to think that this was a result of the e-petition started a few months ago too.
The people in your network and their habits might tell more about you than you think. http://www.google.nl/search?q=social+network+graph+analysis .

Not to forget the images tagged with your name ...
Sadly, this will all be reversed in a couple of years by the next minister who will believe that "Children should be taught the essential workplace skills that employers are demanding in the 21st century. Driving schools don't teach their students how to build a car, but how to use one; and schools shouldn't teach their pupils how to build software, but how to use it."

[note: I don't believe this myself, just that the next minister will.]
This makes me slightly too happy. I lost less than 1% in Computing A-Level and am on track for a 1st at university, yet I barely scraped a B at GCSE ICT and have memories of writing ~sentence an hour. Hopefully this will increase university standards as well, the ability to program in the slightest is not a requirement at most UK universities because not every school even offers Computing A-Level.

I consider ICT a remnant of times when every-one didn't have their own computer, and teaching them just to use one was a genuine skill. And if I ever hear of hierarchical marking ever again I will murder some-one (you can't achieve the hard marks without first achieving the low ones).
That's only a minute technical distinction. It is spyware, because the only way to prevent users from doing general purpose computing is to spy in them. Spying, in this case, is defined as "remote surveillance and control". For example, forcing a firmware upgrade when a way is found to get around code signing restrictions.

It is very simple: If you are not in control of a device, someone else is.
I agree that washing machines are great. I've lived in places without them for years at a time. It's doable but hand washing is time consuming and not fun. Phosphates are a separate issue. There is phosphate free detergent. There are low water use machines. It's being solved.

Let's look at another example of convenience that isn't being solved very well: my car.

My car is incredibly convenient. Often I'd rather drive than take the bus. And you can't beat it for hauling stuff around. Better than my bike, for sure.

Cars have freed up the world's pedestrians from footwrecking walking!

But there's a lot going on here. Cars, roads, the death of public transport (cf trolly cars in LA http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/la/historic/redcars/ ). America, at least, was sold on the car by businesses that had a vested interest in seeing the car succeed. Cities dismantled public transport systems at the behest of these same powerful lobbies.

And today our cities are outgrowths of the personal motor vehicle. (Electric cars don't solve anything here, it's still energy being produced).

While I think that you make a point worth considering, I believe that we should error on the side of suspicion when utility, or less nobly, convenience, comes at an initially small cost and is heavily promoted by... whom, exactly?

I worked in advertising long enough to look squarely to the data-finance industrial complex (tongue only partially in cheek when using that phrase) whenever personal information is involved.

Convenience has costs. Moglen may not have the right to judge but we need noisy people that remind us there is a problem.
Programmers suck at politics. Always have, always will. Programmers are so far removed from the wants and needs of the average human we need translators (managers) to even speak with them.

It is even common in programmer culture that we enjoy this great divide between ourselves and the "lusers". We make fun of people who couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.

Similarly, your average programmer couldn't lobby their way out of a wet paper bag. Looking at the average HN/twitter/etc. comment, most of us can't even lobby for a nice office with a view, let alone influence a whole bunch of politicians to change their minds.

The reason 4chan and reddit even remotely get anything done is because there are billions of them. And even they have so far shown practically no real political influence. The two biggest offline influences have been getting Moot to be person of the year and sparking the Wall Street protests ... which have been completely ineffective in getting anything done.
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I wouldn't compare her to Hitler because it would be completely inane. I could venture the same thought regarding the british colonial empire, but it still wouldn't be right.

Any saber-rattling you hear comes from UK's own media.
The Falklands issue is not as current here as you might think.

Even the most patriotic proponents of having the Falklands back are constantly dismissed. The thought of anything resembling to a military action was never brought on the table here.

The press in the UK certainly does put this fear mongering in the spotlight.

As for myself, I wish Falklands belonged to neither country. The Falklands belong to the kelpers.
Any discussion about it won't pay our monthly rent. We've got quite enough issues as it is.

I do take issue when you broadly generalize: "it seems most Argentines are just annoyed they didn't win"

Most argentines are trying to mind their own business. The Falklands fall right in the lowest priority bucket, and I doubt it was even in the minds of the 54% of registered voters that chose Cristina.
If anything, I feel most argentines won't give a flying fsck about the issue. To me, Gorilla-style patriotism is quickly becoming a thing of the past.

I think we're going a bit off-topic though.
Value added tax does not happen multiple times, as it is refundable. In effect it is just a retail sales tax. However the rates are high in Europe, often 20%.
This is really great news. Lots of people in the UK have been pummeling on Michael Gove to make this change and it's good to see that it's happening. With Raspberry Pi and it being Alan Turing Year we can be hopeful about the future of computer education in the UK.
But could anyone seriously claim that children are leaving school and not able to use computers?

I'd guess that the average teenager would be more capable with e-mail and office applications than students of 5 or 10 years ago. Even if they aren't using them regularly, they're at least familiar with most IT concepts.
I'd add TopCoder and Codeforces to the list:

http://community.topcoder.com/tc

http://codeforces.com/

Both of these sites run a few algorithm competitions every month.
The problem is mentioned: where to find enough qualified teachers?
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I'm from England, I left school in 2008 with 3 GCSEs (which is considered failing high school here) and the absolute biggest problem with education here in England is it's not education it's just doing work / remembering information -- not sure if this affects other countries, I would assume so but I've not experienced any other education system.

I had an absolutely fantastic IT teacher, he really cared about technology and teaching and he was the best teacher I've ever had but he was very restricted by the curriculum. This was a teacher who enjoyed programming and could teach it, he could teach complex (relative to the classes intelligence level) computing things and teach it in a way we could understand, but the material he was forced to teach was awful, absolutely awful. For my entire last year of school my required work was (If I remember correctly (this is how awful it was, I do not remember it well today)) write an explanation / brief about a microsoft access database system, the extent of our freedom was to choose the subject (dvd store, grocery store etc) and this was an entire years worth of work.

What we need is two things, teachers who really care about teaching and providing a real education and a good curriculum that promotes learning not consumption (and subsequent regurgitation) of information. I left high school and in the last 4 years of it I really did not learn anything that is useful to me today, everything I need to know today is stuff I was taught early on, the last 4 years was being given information to consume, information that as soon as I left the classroom was absolutely worthless.

The IT teacher I had left the school after a year to teach in Switzerland, I think that's pretty telling. The system we have pushes good teachers away and the shitty ones who are just content reciting material stick around, I would also assume relevant to this point is a teacher I had of Spanish is still with the school, but he is such a bad teacher they re-assigned him after many years to "cooking". Someone the school deemed qualified and able enough to teach Spanish for many years is now using his full power to teach cooking?
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What about blacking out all results and have a button - Support our efforts to fight SOPA to see your results? :)
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While the threat is not so severe for us Europeans, I do fear that if the bill flies it will impact the internet as an entity. It will not just affect Americans, it will affect the world. I'm also baffled by the complete silence in our media about SOPA. 99,9% here is blissfully unaware of the beast...
I doubt FB would do a complete blackout - Google on the other hand..
> I'd guess that the average teenager would be more capable with e-mail ... than students of 5 or 10 years ago.

I suspect the average teenager today hardly uses e-mail at all. Newer, more efficient methods of communication have developed, and e-mail in an anachronism to most young people in the era of texting, Facebook messaging, and tweets.

Whether swapping a powerful, flexible infrastructure for viewing the world in 140 characters or fewer is progress in a healthy direction is a different question.

Then again, we haven't managed to get secure e-mail standardised, solve the spam problem, or reliably prevent malware transmission over e-mail, despite having several decades to work on these problems. I don't think we in the older generations are in much of a position to lecture anyone on how to communicate effectively.

I'm hoping that if this is a genuine effort to teach some computing real skills to younger people, part of it will include some exposure to these sorts of issues so perhaps they can do a better job of it than we have.
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Astronomers are incredibly dedicated to outreach. You can get data used by professional astronomers in publicly-accessible databases on the web. Here's a collection of these resources:

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Open science is hard because science is hard. It takes knowledge to interpret the data. It takes effort to transform the data into something that can be interpreted. And there's a lot of data.
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My IT teacher was similarly skilled and equally wanted to teach usefully and interestingly, and he generally managed to get round the curriculum.

Part of this was that he managed to bend the curriculum to be more challenging and interesting (my GCSE project consisted of researching and then writing up methods of bypassing the school's internet filter system - those who preferred to could indeed do stuff like MS Access projects), and part was finding ways to achieve good grades quickly leaving plenty of free time for other areas.

Possibly the reason he was able to do this was that I went to a private school, I don't know if state schools would allow teachers this much flexibility? That said, my school was/is ranked very highly in GCSE/A-Level rankings tables, and took that very seriously, so as far as grades were concerned he was still on a very tight leash.

He was a very unusual (in a good way) teacher though, like none over I ever had or have ever heard of. In his office (connected to the IT rooms) he had a fully stocked minifridge, originally for himself but he also sold to his students at cost. He formerlly was a programmer for the Canadian air force, as well as a DJ, and would generally play techno music through classes (often loud enough for teachers above to take issue), and was regularly getting in trouble with the headmaster for wearing an ear-ring. Unconventional, but the best teacher any of us ever had.
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The biggest fault I had with AP CS in high school--it was a horrible class throughout, so this was particularly appalling--was that it failed to encourage thinking. Everybody would blindly apply whatever we had just learned and turn their minds off at the first hint of adversity.

A well structured course that promotes thinking is exactly what's needed.
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He was harsh. But reporters should have thick skins. And his harsh attitude delivered...

• for her and her site, a full-length story of the call, garnering inlinks and traffic

• for him, a detailed description of his views, totally beyond the original 'quote in a box' form-journalism role they wanted him to play

• for us, a discussion thread seeded by an interesting, strong, contrarian opinion

Why be diplomatic if that would result in none of the above?

I think you're missing his point about privacy, that "everything they share is held by someone who is no friend of theirs… whose goal it is to make a profit selling the ability to control human beings by knowing more about themselves than they know." And, "You injure other people today also using social media. You’ve informed on them. You’ve created more records about them. You’ve added to the problems not of yourself but of other people. If it were as simple as just you’re only hurting yourself I wouldn’t bother pointing it out to you."

The collectors would like you to think the data you're sharing is 'innocuous' and 'mundane' but they have algorithms and statistical confidences that say it isn't.

On the other hand, I think Moglen is hopelessly standing athwart history yelling 'stop' on this issue. Technology would make these behaviors trivial to monitor even if most people opted out (instead of cheerfully opting in). So I tend more towards the David Brin/'Transparent Society' view, that the only workable adaptation will be transparency/accountability and new social mores, because privacy is on its deathbed.
Agree with your analogy.

We always learn how to pass the driving test, never how to drive. Qualifications and certificates galore. Zero benefit.
When the Internet was started, the researchers had no concept of the Internet growing to become a world-wide phenomenon where bad actors wold also exist on the network. Everyone involved was basically from an academic/research background and the funding was coming from DARPA. Even now, could you imagine researchers at say Stanford and Berkeley devising research collaboration methods that assume that either organization's management/governance will interfere with or act maliciously against that collaboration effort?
Wow, that's quite a straw man you have there.

Washing machines are tools. Facebook is a platform. If Mr. Moglen was attacking the postal service or mobile phones, you'd have a point. But he is talking about a centralized service that gives unprecedented power to the ones in control of the service and the jurisdictions it falls under.

I can stand in front of my washing machine and say, with total clarity, that I'm the only one in charge of it at that time. If I had a facebook account, there would be no such thing. And that doesn't even get to Mr. Moglens deeper point - that usage of facebook spreads the problem into your social graph.

As for the "facebook revolutions" you cite - that's quite a rosy picture you paint there. In reality, those services were used to track protesters and there have been coordinating handouts urging participants not to use social media for that reason. Furthermore, after these 'revolutions' have cooled down, it's still unclear what we will end up with. I would conclude that at most, those services served as catalysts and their convenience came at quite a cost indeed. But it's not Arab Youth + Facebook = Functioning Democracy.