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Ah, good times when BBC Documentaries had actually high quality documentaries. Fascinating how their investigative journalism got all the way down to hunting people who talk trash on Facebook and exposing them. Are these really the most substantial social conflicts Britain has to worry about?
One of the things I loved about the Stargate series is that they took a lot of these questions somewhat seriously. Transporters are used as weapons in Atlantis to beam in big ol' bombs until the enemy eventually works out what's happening and how to prevent it. In some ways you can still tell it's ultimately a Star Trek sequel, but they did a reasonable job of thinking it through much better.

It also doesn't suffer from "Cool Technology in one episode -> never heard from again" syndrome, to give another example of an improvement over Star Trek.

If you've never watched it, I recommend it. It sort of dies with a whimper rather than a bang (opinions on the spinoffs are mixed), but SG-1 was very good for a very long time. Mainlining the first season episodes without commercials and in sequence is really a spectacular experience if you can stomach the "time wastiness". The first couple of seasons in particular really captured the sense of humans being thrust extremely suddenly into a new, huge universe without guides very well.
Microsoft Employee Giving Tops $100 million
Considering that bicycle + cyclist is roughly an order of magnitude less massive than a car, that sounds about right. Of course, cars are also vastly more efficient at converting fuel into work than humans are.
I think it's because people tend to discount what they know.
I always wanted to weaponize the borg. Capture one drone, keep him in statis, and then beam him onto an enemy ship. Wait thirty seconds, and open fire.

The trick is doing it right after it starts assimilating the ship, but not after it's successfully done so and suddenly turns on you and everyone else in the sector...
闇のEメール伝説 (Email Hates the Living) [Video YAPC::Asia 2011]
Yes, absolutely, much deserved credit goes to Oliver Hunt at nerget.com for implementing the equations discussed in that amazing Alias|Wavefront paper (by Jos Stam) in javascript. His work was very helpful for me and he is very much worthy of your attention.
Seconded. It is a common cognitive failure of us the engineering-minded to underestimate how important politics and other human factors are.
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Since facebook allows US users under 18 years of age, don't they have a legal obligation not to host porn?
The difference is in expectations: Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble all sell hardware with their respective brands (Android is there, just very well hidden) and software that's seamlessly integrated into the whole. If you bought an HTC tablet with an HTC-branded OS your expectations would be different than if you bought an HTC tablet with a Microsoft-branded OS. The same sentiment exists regarding Android-powered (and Google-branded) phones that still sport locked bootloaders. I have unlocked mine.

It's also a good decision to unlock your device - the Cyanogenmod version of Android my phone now runs is orders of magnitude faster and more stable than the stock version that came installed. I wasn't happy with the phone before the update, but I am happy now.
A cubic meter of water is 1 metric ton. Assuming the ice is half that dense (from being compressed under all the other ice), it would take about 150 megajoules of heat to melt each cubic meter of ice. And that's just for the phase change - that doesn't include warming the ice up to 0C first.
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To be fair, it might not be the best idea to come in with high-level ideas such as moving to another development platform or changing the code style. That kind of topic is just bound to have some high-profile opposition within the developer community and become political very fast.
Not disagreeing with you, but the point of an electric car is not drivetrain efficiency. It's regenerative braking and emission consolidation.
US company offers a solution to the 99%
It's Antarctica and it's protected by international treaty. Not sure why Russia were even allowed to do this.
I agree with the Grub Now button looking too much like a random image (or an ad) to be the main Call to Action button.

I think removing the bite-mark and adding it as an onclick effect would do lots for UX.
I've seen a moderately serious treatment that suggests that in a fight between our modern military and the Enterprise, the modern military might very well win.

Seems the Reddit-originated movie-bound story Rome Sweet Rome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Sweet_Rome has a similar issue with the Roman military vs well-equipped (but no resupply) Marines gone back to that age. Modernity works up to a point, but eventually it takes "boots on the ground" with massive resupply chains to win.
I have to agree. Getting insights on the small things like this demonstrate to me in simpler terms bigger ideas blogs like this communicate.
>The problem with enforcing secure boot is it is too broad requirement applied to all ARM-based hardware. There would be no problem if microsoft states that scope of secure bootloading is only hardware made specifically to run microsoft code.

The actual requirements are titled Windows 8 hardware certification requirements and are linked below.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/hh748188

I see no mention that the manufacturer cannot make other ARM tablets with Android or whatever. The quote given in the article is misleading in that respect.

What you imply doesn't make sense regardless, if ASUS makes a Win 8 ARM device, they would be forced to lock the Transformer Prime's bootloader? How does that even benefit MS and "lock out" Linux? That seems be actually locking Linux in!
It think it's funny that the liquid water at the bottom is treated as precious, but no one cares about the huge amount solid "water" above it.
It's "4-hour work WEEK" :-)

I loved it. It's a motivational book, but as a disclaimer, I had my "muse" (business with passive income) already running before I read that book. I also had a day job, which I have quit now (actually, by the end of next week). The 4HWW gave me a strong impulse to do the step and quit my job.

And someone else mentioned here already: 4HWW is to give you a mindset. It worked pretty well for me.
But is anyone going to argue that there's a serious quality of life difference between 20 and 100 million?

You're only looking at it from the executive's POV, not the company's. They are looking for the best they can find. It may be worth it to them to pay, $X million more for somebody who scores a 99 on a hypothetical CEO test, compared to somebody who scores only 98. The company wants to get somebody better, and to get that higher quality, they've got to fork over additional compensation.

Of course, companies are frequently wrong in the way that they score their candidates. But that doesn't change the fact that they've bidding on the highest perceived quality.
They are far from over. People cite YouTube HTML5 player without considering how vlogs are actually recorded, processed and uploaded through Flash. As the viewer, it's a nice luxury to say it can all be done through HTML5, but as a producer of content you'd have a different opinion.

Huh? How many vlogs are "actually recorded, processed and uploaded through Flash"?

I don't think many people, and certainly not many professional vlogers, use a Flash based vlog recording and processing solution. (Including both the Adobe Flash authoring environment/flv encoding tools AND any bizarro online flash vlog recording service which uses the computer's camera).
Navigating the Legality of Autonomous Vehicles
At some point, there will be a generation whose entire life history, from cradle to grave, will be documented online.

Soon thereafter, the archives containing all of that data will be made public.

At that point, I think it's plausible that people will adopt radically different attitudes towards online sharing. By the 23rd century personal logs would tend to stay more personal, parents would think more carefully about putting their child's life-story into the public domain, and willfully living in social silos may come to be seen as pathetically parochial.
Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: learning begins?
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Untapped opportunity in personal finance. Where do I find a tech co-founder?
Hey guys,

I specialize in biz dev and seeking a technical co-founder to build out this untapped market.

Thoughts?

Thanks!
I always get a serious 'uncanny valley' feeling when I watch a video of one of these things. It reacts very organically when it stumbles and tries to recover and yet the rest of its motions are obvious mechanical facsimiles of natural movement. Reminds me of rat things from Snow Crash.
as much as I am passionate about developing I share same passion to be paid fairly. I love what I do but that doesn't mean I will do it for you free or with huge discount.
Nice job leaving the rest of the headline off.

I've sold each model iPhone to date for more than I paid for it, even when paying full (unlocked) rate. Apparently people consider there to be significant value in a no contract phone.
You write software, right?

Sometimes the user doesn't know they want something until they see it in front of them.
I agree entirely. I mostly introverted(maybe 85-15). I used to care what others think, it still do, but way way....... way way less, nearing zero. Extroverts by definition need/want others around them, and it's kind of hard to say "I like to be the center of attention" and "I do not care how others, or most people around me, perceive me" together.
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>"DS9 probably showed the most time wasting of them all."

Well, the theme was "To boldly stay where no person has stayed before," after all.
Unsurprising since phones are ditched by carriers after they're sold (orphaned android user).
Overwhelmingly most of it. Most generators run on diesel and not gasoline, and I gave up trying to figure gallons per KwH after a few minutes of googling. But you're talking about converting heat to mechanical energy with a ton of lossage, and then mechanical to electricity with a ton more lossage.

The original article isn't interesting. You may as well say that your mouse has enough energy to recharge your iphone for 10 years, provided we found a way to convert the mass into energy.
I'd hazard a guess that there's a not-insignificant number of Ubuntu users for whom opening the terminal is "a bunch of footwork".

I used to live with a 40-something woman who was fairly technologically impaired, the kind of person you would expect to get a MacBook Air and call it a day. She ran Mint. Now, granted, it was installed by our room mate who was (still is, I suppose) a CS grad student, but she got by just fine with Mint, LibreOffice, and Chrome. Never used anything else, and never had a need to go plunking around on the command line.

I suspect Susan is not alone among Linux users who just wanted a cheap computer that worked and had some nerd install a user-friendly distro for them.
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A little more about the idea would be helpful. What are you looking for?
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A lot of those 116,000 public employees will be managers, or skilled professionals (engineers? doctors? no idea). A public service manager working a 60 hour week would probably make a similar amount in the private sector, and no, they don't have easier jobs. Their jobs are often kind of meaningless (dealing with lots of politics and bureaucracy), but that doesn't make them easy.

If it's anything like Australia, it's low-level public servants who have the best pay. They typically have very little responsibility, great conditions (public execs have unlimited work hours, but non-execs have fixed hours) and no-one competes for their job because it's hard to get your foot in the door.

OK, looking at the data, there's a lot of "stationary engineers" and "sewage treatment workers" on high pay points. No idea why. Maybe they have a very strong union, or it could be a data error. Or maybe it includes some kind of payout, after a bunch of "stationary engineers" were injured?
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Concatenation of string literals can be compiled away.
What do you expect? The author wrote the study for Exxon Mobil.

As others pointed out, you have to divide by about 5 to 7 to account for the losses in going from gas to available power at the wheels. Even then, gas wins against batteries by about a factor of two. And batteries are only getting better very slowly.

On the other hand, the cost per mile for an electric car is less than half the cost per mile for a gas powered vehicle. And the car is actually simpler.

The economics will favor electric cars soon because of this. The car won't be able to go 300 miles in one trip though. But If we have charging infrastructure in enough places, almost all trips can be satisfied with 100 mile range or less.

For a big road trip, you'll just rent a gas car, similar to how today you rent a U-Haul truck for that odd occasion where you have to move a huge pile of stuff.
All Science Fiction writers miss big trends. Asimov missed computers. Whoops! This makes it all the more impressive when they do hit it. And the greatest science fiction renders technology irrelevant. When Star Trek broke racial stereotypes and attacked bigotry - that was a cultural message.
Wow. Let's try to convince people why it's alright for us to use a fuel we know to destroy the environment in countless ways and imply that it's someone else's job to advance alternative, less harmful alternatives to gasoline.

I think using gasoline is fine for now. I'm not a hard line environmentalist or anything. At the same time I don't get how these companies can justify this kind of propaganda. Yes, it is their duty to their investors to make as much money as possible but it's no secret that one day we won't have enough oil to go around. I don't get it, logic dictates that you'd sell gasoline for the time being but at the same time you'd be pumping huge amounts of money into research and development of alternative technologies. The oil company that brings the best alternative to market first has the most to gain in the long term. Articles like this are so blatantly disingenuous and short sighted it makes me want to puke.
As an update, I thought I'd share this with everyone here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57372861-71/bbc-confronts-...
My experience is that Flash executes fine, but it's awful for touchscreens - dragging, zooming, and clicking get all muddied up within the context of a Flash plugin rectangle.
simply because there are less boring things :)
Yes, bicycles are quite efficient. Not only compared to cars, but interestingly also to animals. While a normal human is quite bad at converting food into motion, the system bicycle+human is comparable to some of the most efficient animals. Now, if they had bicycles as well...

[Source: Dad, hobby-bicyclist/mechanic]
Gremlin is a DSL that comes in several variants -- there is Gremlin-Java, Gremlin-Scala, and the original Gremlin-Groovy (which is what's used in the example on the wiki).

Gremlin-JavaScript is in the works and Gremlin-Jython is on deck.
I think you are still missing what I meant.
I think it's a Content vs Pornography distinction. If we wanted to test it, I think the question to ask would be are they blocking explicit text as well, say erotic stories, or even just swear words? I know that some portions of their platform do automatically censor certain words (for example website comments), so it would be interesting to see to what level that policy is policed.
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I read "Star Trek" and thought of the show with female aliens wearing push-up bras and a computer with large blinking lights.

Man, I'm feeling old.
Absolutely. A lot of those no-contract phones end up going abroad, where people are willing to pay heavy premiums for the latest and greatest.
I did read the article, but it's simply wishful thinking to believe that all toxic substances could be flushed from a 3,800m deep hole. They say 1.5 cubic meters of lubricants and antifreeze came to the surface. Where did the rest go?
You're aware that Verizon is also paying Apple right? The $200 you paid for your iPhone turns into $600 for Apple.
>The difference is in expectations

Why should MS be held to the expectations of Linux users?
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The fact that fossil fuels get any subsidy is obnoxious. They're the entrenched necessary evil that needs to be made obsolete. So of course alternative fuels are subsidized, and should be until they displace fossil fuels.

Farming is most certainly a problem, and I fully understand and agree with the Harper's article -- but it is a straw man in this discussion. I merely pointed out that an article authored by an oil company neglected to include the true cost of their product vs. competitors. And, unless the true cost is realized (most likely in the form of taxes on carbon emissions), fossil fuels will remain the most viable source of energy. It doesn't mean I/we have to accept it, there is a better way.
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There is at least some form of publication and consultation these days, though. When Google comes up with SPDY or NaCL, or Apple comes out with HTTP Live Streaming, they publish specs and sometimes submit them to standards, with the result that they're often adopted elsewhere; HTTP Live Streaming has been picked up by Chrome, Android and WebOS, for instance. As far as I remember, Microsoft tended to just make up new things and add them to IE, without a proper spec, and sometimes with no real documentation.
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Or the market was different, or they...

A really significant difference that I rarely see acknowledged in these discussions is that the means of compensation has changed drastically in the last few decades.

It used to be that executives got part of their compensation through perks like generous expense accounts, or country club memberships, or keys to the executive washroom. Changes in tax laws and other cultural norms have eliminated these as such. But the corporations still need to be able to compete for the same pool of executives, and so the money that had been going into those perks now surfaces as monetary compensation.

In other words, much of the apparent increase in salaries is actually just that part of the old-days compensation wasn't reflected as income.
It's legal until you get audited. Then, depending on the quality of your attorneys and accountants, it may still be legal.
What about trailing spaces? They need to be escaped by parenthesis?
Is your android phone that got ditched locked -- and the carrier would not unlock it even after ditching it?
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It's mental illness folks.

We don't accept it because it's abhorrent behavior but these people need mental health help. Getting them to seek help is a nearly impossible task though.
It actually works for string literals only, so you can't do a real concatenation there, with a variable for example. In C it's done at compile time, so you never actually concat those strings, the literals are merged. From what I see it's the same in ruby:

irb(main):001:0> a = "avs"
=> "avs"
irb(main):002:0> "sada" "sadasd"
=> "sadasadasd"
irb(main):003:0> "sada" "sadasd" "sda"
=> "sadasadasdsda"
irb(main):004:0> "sada" "sadasd" a
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):4: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting $end
from (irb):4
from :0
The post looks at the no-contract prices, so it assumes you paid ~$600 for the phone and then sold it for ~$300 18 months later.
IIRC, two ways to inspect the orbiter's underside were developed - an inspection boom that could be attached to the end of the arm equipped with sensors (visual and laser), and a maneuver procedure before docking with the ISS - the orbiter would make a full rotation allowing it to be photographed from the ISS. During one of the first post-Columbia flights, a problem - a spacer which protruded from its proper position between two tiles was removed during an EVA. This rotation maneuver was the most shocking to me - as it showed it never occur to anyone just to rotate the shuttle so it could be inspected with a pair of binoculars. Such an inspection could be conducted as early as STS-63.

In a sense, every shuttle was an X-plane - it was as much a research vehicle as a commercial transport to LEO. One builds shuttles to learn how to better build shuttles and, in order to do that, learn as much as possible.

BTW, I envy you (in a good way, of course) more than a little. Working for NASA is a really cool thing.
It's a good question but not for Etsy. We don't have a paid affiliate program.
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I just reread Heinlein's Friday published in 1982.

He is surprisingly accurate in describing the way casual use of networked computers for entertainment and education is used to track individuals.
I'm experiencing something similar. Makes me value persistence even more.
I am in fact looking at it from the company's point of view.

Anybody who doesn't want the job enough to do it for 10 million but would do it for 100 million is going to SUCK at the job. Period.
Hey, I'm looking for an experienced developer, designer to bring this idea to beta. The closest competitor would be mint.com but even then, they missed this target.

Are you a developer?
Don't forget the ever-present promise that if you give him just twenty more dollars, he'll reveal the secrets to his success.

Unfortunately, the secret to his success IS the act of giving him twenty more dollars.
Am I the obliging who dislikes giving this jackass notoriety? Ignore the trolls, don't feed them.
Wrong order. Small companies change the world and as a result, become big companies. Such is the nature of the beast.
I'm wondering what would happen if the robot would be attacked? How easy would it be to destroy one? The noise makes it impossible to use for anything that requires a certain amount of stealth. So really what is the use case apart from probably being a very interesting project to work on?
That's one of my two must reads on this incident. I can't think of a better examples of how visualization illiteracy can contribute to disaster. The other one is Feynman's account of the investigation afterwards http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0553347845
I'm sorry, I didn't want to refute your point, but I do believe that saying that "Income generating real estate is a recipe to hand your money over to scamsters" is too harsh and partially incorrect.

My father goes to his rental property maybe twice per year, so he most definitely isn't "there". He does have to keep it in mind, pay for repairs, and make some phone calls.

I believe that making money of rent is "earning every penny" because he put all his effort before in creating the capital, but, to make a comparison, he makes the same for his maybe one day a month (plus the initial capital) than I do for a month of work.

So I'd describe it as an "asset that makes money for you without you having to be there".
I wonder how they would plan to do the same thing on Europa? I read about a nuclear-powered cryobot somewhere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryobot
The iPhone is a nightmare for carriers
It is a mistake to think of repression as repression by the state alone
Nobody's talking about taxes here, and your assertions are completely unfounded. Save it for meet the press.