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It isn't just with IP protection, but also CO2 emissions, restricting nuclear technology, military powers.

A big case of 'do as I say not as I do' designed to retain the status quo in the order of the world.
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That is some amazing technology right there, almost fun to read because it sounds like science fiction but it's real.

And privately designed/built/owned particle accelerators? It's definitely a new era.

What if one day the other side of the globe getting sunlight powered the grid for the other half? Of course this would require very peaceful nations on each continent, so even if we had the cost-effective technology now, it would take hundreds if not thousands of years to happen politically.
I have no idea when it was first public knowledge that the Indian Govt were considering this option and when it was finalised. But since Bayer AG's share price in part the markets sentiment of their potential future earnings, and their share price has done reasonable well over recent years, I suspect the market doesn't see this as a major issue.

Bayer's current market cap is a fairly significant EUR45.93bn. So even with the "patent cliff" that JunkDNA discusses, it seems people still expect big pharma to be profitable.
Well, I don't agree with the author.

Why would it be ok for Yahoo and other big companies to use patents "only" to threaten small shops and keep the status quo?

Let them fight between eachother, let Yahoo sue Facebook sue Gooogle sue Microsoft sue Apple sue HTC sue Samsung sue Sony sue Oracle sue ... let everyone sue everyone else. Let the total war on patents begin. Let the big players burn a ton of money on pointless legal battles. And then, and only then, they might push for a patent reform which will level playing field for all players, including new ones.
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Very true, so it's ironic that so many posters in this thread are advocating knee-jerk solutions that hand even more of the pharmaceutical industry over to the government.

Our government is fundamentally broken and the source of a good portion of the problems in the health care industry... so let's sprinkle some more government in there!

Seriously, the government has plenty that it can do by providing more transparency in the industry, streamlining and correcting problems in the Patent office and at the FDA, stopping collusion and price fixing, and examining the length of patent-granting-monopolies to ensure that profiteering isn't too far out of whack.
Nope. Morality is about doing the right thing. Being nice to someone isn't always the right thing. The whole point of this article was to debate whether being nice is the right thing when it comes to linking to tertiary sources.
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Well, ZigBee is what most governments are pushing for smart girds, and isn't totally free it is an open standard that anyone can join.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee

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Not necessarily, if there was some sort of settlement, or G pays Y for executing this patent.
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An entire article and they didn't mention the most important point: All of the "hacking" done by Sabu and his cronies were small potatoes.

If you're going to delve into the world of blackhattery, then don't tell everyone like you're the newage digital messiah. How hard is this to understand? Who in their right mind would create an online identity to incriminate themselves?

I'm of the opinion/ belief that those who do actual malicious hacking aren't a load of egotistical attention whores, hence why it never makes the news.
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Another example: "#34 Be familiar with browser compatibility" - this is just your, developer's job. I cannot imagine expecting a designer to know about IE6 limitations (and tons of hacks and techniques to overcome them).

This might be overstated. How about "know your medium?" If you, as a print designer, were tasked to design a bag for dog food, would you Photoshop your ideas, then tell the production guy it's his job to make it work? Probably not.

As a designer, you probably don't need to know every limitation of every browser, but at a minimum, you might want to work with the programmer and understand what browsers need to be supported, and whether certain designs would require three days of CSS hacks to work in a single browser.
Surely this was market was considered but more likely than not abandoned due to fears of arbitrage?
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That makes sense. Is sales being blocked by investors a common thing?
Me too. I discovered D ~4 months ago and I liked it a lot. But last week I found Google's Go lang, and after days of bench marking I had to admit that Go is much more suitable for almost anything you would do in D (except inline assembly). Save yourself some time and take a look at Go. You will thank yourself later.
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because drugs are a hit based business. a large number don't get through the approval process. your proposal would socialize and subsidize the downsides of an already very profitable drug industry while privatizing the upside
The only Yahoo! property that I care about is Flickr, which I also pay for. It would be nice to find an alternative.

So: suggestions for a social photo archive service which is reliable enough to be the "master copy" of my pictures, and preferably has Flickr import ability?
I don't get you. It looks like they (FB) infringe on some Yahoo! patents. Its not a subject of dispute how frivolousness it is to patent system that sends IM message to email, but this patent is not from 2012.

If you were CEO and seen FB growing like this with $100B valuation and if you would truly believe they use your patents, please tell me what would you do?
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But at least we can try and make them miserable.
And using electric cars for battery storage too for excess power generation.

Just imagine the world if it was 10 cents per watt instead of $1 a watt for solar. I hope I live long enough to see it. Dare we dream 1 cent per watt, just like what has happened with CPU development in the past three decades? Could we have 1 cent per watt solar in 30 years? 50 years? 100?
Some other neat things by and about Mr. Kernighan linked to on this page. Even though this book focuses on rudimentary concepts, I feel like I have to have it on my shelf.
They're in the same data center, because they both run on top of EC2.
Good point. I don't read many graphic-heavy ebooks so it didn't cross my mind. For technical books I've found it feels right at home
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Wait... Is he still talking about the facebook lawsuit?
The more we have companies blatantly showing how unproductive and how software patents are actually hurting innovation, the more likely it is that change will happen.

Just remember though that right now the pharmaceutical companies are massively outspending the technology sector as far as lobbying Congress. (A Senator is a wonderful thing --- everyone should own one!)

As a Google employee I can contribute to Google NetPAC. I'm not sure what opportunities exist towards donations to organizations that directly lobby Congress. The EFF is an advocacy organization, which is a good start, but they are not a lobbying organization per se.

It's a horrible system and it's not a productive way to use money as far as society is concerned, but unfortunately, it's the way the game is structured, and if you don't play the game, you'll get run over by those who do....
NPR this morning they noted that Yahoo did something similar previously with their search patents when Google went IPO and ended up with some Google stock, and of course Facebook also recently went IPO. So, maybe this action is not quite as unusual as everyone is pretending it is.
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Put it back the way it was. That worked very well with a mouse!

Windows 8 is all change for the sake of change rather than a rational incremental improvement.

I REALLY like Windows 8 for the non-metro stuff. They've fixed loads of really annoying broken things from Windows 7. Unfortunately, they broke just about everything else with Metro. If you've ever seen the corresponding Windows Server release (with Metro I shit you not - on a Server!??!?!), you will see armies of sysadmins facepalming in unison. It's terrible.

I'd rather have a Windows 7.5 than a Windows 8 at the moment.
When I did a bit of Play 1.2 dev, I ran into two serious annoyances.

First, static actions make for untestable code. The only way to test this in 1.2 was to do full integration tests. You can't unit test controllers/actions, which to me is a horrible "opinion" to have. Looking at the docs, 2.0 [appears] to make an attempt via the callAction helper [1], but you still can't inject dependencies via a constructor and call instance methods. Static members in static languages make testing a real pain.

Second, JSON felt like a 2nd-class citizen. Dealing with JSON in either the request or the response felt barbaric. I don't see that they've improved things. Auto binding from a JSON request to an object should exist without having to write a bunch of custom JSON serializers...doubly so for outputting json.

[1] http://www.playframework.org/documentation/2.0/JavaFunctiona...
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I love this manifesto. BUT.

This reminds me of a problem I've pondered for a long time now, without coming up with an answer. Why are web pages designed with Photoshop in the first place?

Photoshop was never meant to be used for web design, any more than Visio was meant to make wireframes. It's simply the best tool available for the job, and requires a lot of workarounds and good behavior on the part of the designer.

Spending days or even weeks designing Photoshop comps that then have to be cut up, converted, and manually translated into suitable graphics for coders to work with is inefficient, and often leads to final products that don't match the designer's work. Text is the most obvious example, but I'm sure anyone can think of myriad places where this happens.

Is there a tool that lets designers think about the structure coders will have to build WHILE they're designing the screens? I'm not talking about a WYSIWYG code generator—those have been tried over and over again, and they all suck. I'm talking about a tool that lets designers design, lets coders code, but helps the designer think about what the coder will have to do with the graphics, including keeping text as text, identifying UI elements that need to be reused, seeing how layouts will look when the browser resizes, etc.

If this tool doesn't exist, it sure would be a great project for someone to build.
Good point, Apple is literally the only other company that has ever filed a patent lawsuit.
personal wish: this, with CRUD scaffolding and GAE support, will make Play my dream framework.

edit: this news announcement from Typesafe explains a bit more about Play 2.0: http://blog.typesafe.com/introducing-play-20
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In the USE LICENSED ICONS/PHOTOS, try this first:

http://flickr.com/search/?l=4&q=hamster

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you mustn't have looked hard. Fred is very well known for his views on patents. from that thread:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/yahoo-crosses-the-line.html#...

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/yahoo-crosses-the-line.html#...

more importantly, where is there even a single citation of Fred placing immense pressure on even a single startup to generate a patent?

You should retract your comment, since you made it all up.
Looking at Twin Creeks' website[0], it appears they are in the wafer manufacturing business and are using solar to promote their technology. It doesn't seem clear from their website that they would ever be the ones selling solar panels - but they might manufacture them for a client. They are selling their services, one application of which is solar cells.

[0] http://www.twincreekstechnologies.com/
It's a bit like the 'do not pull' lever in the Photojojo product pages.
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> And privately designed/built/owned particle accelerators? It's definitely a new era.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mass+spectrometer&tbm=sh...

I guess it's just a question of power!
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Raspberry Pi borders on consumerism.

If people want to capital-C Create, they have many other options that are already available, shipping, and well documented. Take your pick. Basic Stamp, TI USB keys, Arduino, Beagle, Beaglebone, Panda, OpenWRT, Chumby, Sparkfun boards, Adafruit boards, $50 eBay laptops, all the plug computers, etc etc etc. Read hackaday.com for an hour if you want to see Creation.

Raspberry Pi is cheap(er) and has an HDMI port on it. The majority of the "creation" I've seen from the clamor is everyone wanting to run XBMC on it and not much else.
Hope to see an updated edition of "The C programming language" for C99.
We're already buying energy from nations that aren't very peaceful, so the political issues may be solveable. I think, though, that transmitting energy halfway around the world would present engineering problems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission
Because I just downloaded Bootstrap yesterday I kept getting v2.0.1 due to caching. I wouldn't even have caught it if it wasn't for svn not showing a change. What's up with the anti-version number visibility trend?
Well, personally, I think the model is broken. One of the real issues here is that there are effective treatments for many conditions which do not get to market because they are unpatentable. For instance, St John's wort, which is about as effective as SSRI's is rarely used because it hasn't been through enough trials.

Claiming that the cost of clinical trials is the major reason that the drugs need to be priced that high is true, as far as it goes. The issue is that the pharmacuetical companies lobby for more regulation to keep out other treatments not backed by themselves. In addition, they focus on drugs that can cure lifestyle choices (obesity, for example) as rich people can afford them and these will provide a good ROI. Malaria, a disease which is eminently treatable is not focused on as it is a disease which effects poor people.

Another major issue is that the companies suppress negative research and studies which show defects in their products. Its an extremely broken system.

What I would propose is the following:

1) new development of drugs should be carried out by private companies and universities.

2) Patents arising from this research should be under a compulsory licensing scheme, based on the outcome of clinical trials.

3) Clinical trials should be paid for directly by healthcare systems, to avoid duplication of research and to prevent the suppression of negative research.

4) Manufacturing should be completely separate companies who can tool up and down plants. Currently, plants get built in anticipation of approval and then shut down if problems arise, which is extremely wasteful.

This would allow the private sector to retain development and manufacturing (but in different companies) and the governments would have much more incentive to conduct good clinical trials, and the results would be public so others could re-analyse the data and find better links with conditions, drugs and outcomes.
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My experience of government "investment" (both UK and EU) in the technology sector is that is has been the most frightful waste of money imaginable.

It's not down to lack of money - but the way it has been spent.
Transportation of electricity around the globe is not neccessary. Electricity usage is considerably lower during nighttime. Thus solar and wind fit in with our natural rhythm quite nicely. And it is also produced near the place there it is being consumed. Another plus.

But still the author is right, we need ways to store electricity and we will also need a much more flexible grid than the one we have today.

The neo liberal FDP here in Germany is trying to kill off the solar market by drastically reducing the fee you get for feeding solar electricity into the system. But we already have net parity, therefore it is feasible to put up a photovoltaic system on your house, when you size it carefully and consume much of the energy by yourself. It simply reduces your utility bill.
If this new technology really halves the price of modules, people for sure will continue installing new systems. Yay!
There's a 'Hyper' key, too ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
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In any case the else: is pointless.
> They are in the business of distributing digital goods with the highest marginal price possible, so they have little incentive to reduce their marginal costs as much as possible.

Oh really? You think that Apple and Amazon don't care about their bandwidth charges? That will be news to the folks from whom they buy bandwidth. You also think that they don't care about the cost of the servers to send that content out?

> you find that even if the marginal cost is not exactly zero, it is close enough that the marginal cost does not affect the pricing across any real-world range of quantities.

There's your problem - you think that when the cost is minimal, supply/demand doesn't apply.

Your "economics" is several decades out of date. Lots of things aren't priced by cost, but by value. Supply/demand works just fine for them.

> When you stop trying to impose artificial scarcity and simply try to distribute with the lowest possible marginal cost (things like Project Gutenberg or Bittorrent)

Ah, you think that bittorrent is cost-efficient. It isn't. It's a way to spread infrastructure costs across a lot of people.

In other words, you're confusing cost and price again.
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Actually, it doesn't. It says "most IT guys are not capable of all the tasks that the higher-ups would like them to perform." - in other words, could the higher-ups possibly wish that IT would support anything from fax machines to cloud to hardware troubleshooting to all mobile platforms to e-mail to app programming to POTS to website design; after all, "it's all computers, right?" (not uncommon AFAIK). Well, good luck trying to hunt all those rabbits; of course there will always be some skillset lacking.
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I can't agree more - I've been doing a non-trivial bit of scala work in the past six months, and the part that seems the most lacking to me is JSON support. Every scala JSON library I've used (spray-json, sbjson, lift-json and the like) requires you to define a concrete serializer class for every single type you would like to move across the wire. I really miss the ease of use of reflection-based parsers like Jackson. I've alleviated a bit of this by writing a generic serializer that uses Jackson under the hood, but that requires every class to use a java bean pattern, and not the more elegant scala case class (or frankly plain old scala object) patterns.

There's a project called Jerkson that is attempting to fix this, but I'd like to see all the major scala frameworks just settle on something good and simple and go from there.
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Did you read his post about the patent cliff?

The majority of blockbuster drugs are about to go off of patent protection. This is where the majority (if not all) of the profit in the industry comes from, as well as a huge chunk of the rests of their costs.

It's an interesting time in the industry but the patent cliff is real and the industry is going to change quite a bit more in the next few years.

The model is absolutely unsustainable - there isn't enough blockbusters in the pipeline to replace the current, not by a very long shot. And we know what is in in the pipeline because remember it takes 7-11 years to bring a candidate from preclinical through FDA approval, so we have a very good idea of what's coming out (and what's not).
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I have been waiting for this update for a while. Has anyone gone through the process of updating from 1.2.x to 2.0 yet? Was the process painful? Did you run into any "gotchas"?
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Or only burning coal at night.

Once solar is significantly cheaper than coal and demand pricing kicks in, a lot of time-shifting of energy use could occur. Right now, night-time electricity is cheaper because demand is lower at night, but if the supply of daylight electricity increases dramatically, any activity which currently benefits from cheap nighttime electricity could be shifted back to the daylight hours.

Data centers currently consume something like 2% of electricity -- it is probably possible to shift at least some of that to bright, sunny days. It may stop being cost-effective to run night shifts at factories, especially if your manufacturing process is energy-intensive. We might end up charging our electric cars at our offices during the day instead of over night at our homes. It'd be pretty silly to fill a battery with solar electricity during the day just to transfer it to another battery at night.

Even without batteries, solar energy could still pick up a lot of our current nighttime energy usage because a lot of our nighttime energy usage doesn't actually have to be at night.
One of the first rules of naming your startup should be: Don't use the same name as a major corporation with over 135,000 employees that's been around since the 1940s.

I tried doing a Google search for Denso because I wanted to see all these "ninjas" and "Japanese characters" that were sprinkled throughout their site. Of course, all the Google results were for the Denso corporation, an actual Japanese company from actual Japan.

Fun fact I did learn, though: Denso isn't just famous for their spark plugs and auto parts, they also invented the QR code. I never knew.
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