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I actually use Windows 8 at home in a virtual machine under Ubuntu 11.10, I have no problems with it. This is why I cannot understand the reaction of "unusable". Is the problem moving around the start screen? Use the scroll wheel. Is the problem swiping to log in? Press a key on your keyboard. Is the problem exiting Metro apps? Press the Windows key (which has had the same behavior for almost 20 years, bringing you back to the start menu). Windows 8 feel eminently usable with a mouse and a keyboard.

When it comes to pouring water on the Internet rage machine, I feel like I should be paid by Microsoft. I'm not praising them, it just seems like facts and reason go out the window when it comes to how much vitriolic and vicious hatred people can pile on. It doesn't matter if your statement is true, it will become true as you keep repeating it.

The only thing that is different is that it is different. It's no less usable than the tired "desktop" metaphor.
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>But the FDA is the most strict drug regulatory body in the world, and the amount of evidence for efficacy that they require from the industry is truly impressive and truly does warrant the billions price tag.

Funny how there are so many SSRI's on the market. Funny how this model results in the conclusion that it's a good idea to give kids amphetamines when they are known neurotoxins. Funny how medical marijuana is taking such a long time to break through into the mainstream. Politics play a huge role in business and tend to turn it into a theater of the absurd.
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Is it that? Or is it that taskbars are so common on mouse driven interfaces, and that is why they are useful?

In other words, are they useful because they're inherently better, or are they useful because that's what you're used to?
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so as long as I do a business in tech, I should not care about anyones patents (or IP in that matter) -- just open the patent book and look what I can steal (sorry: take) from others and use it to build my own tech company.

Okay then.
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I'm not advocating for the proposal necessarily, but it's worth pointing out that a solution could be all kinds of bad yet still better than the mess we have today.
It already is. There are numerous rules of the patent system that were specifically put in there to prevent people from patenting vague, broad, obvious inventions. Sadly, no one upholds that part.
The thing is the digital-to-analog converter would simply add too much cost to the device. A lot of these kinds of boards don't include VGA output because analog is (relatively) expensive, compared to digital.
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I used to run a catchall and the problem wasn't addresses like admin@; it was popular names. Turns out some spammers just take a list of common email local parts and email those names at every domain they can find.

There's a silver lining, though. When I took down my catchall I took the 100 most popular guessed addresses and routed them all to my Bayesian trainer. It was a big help with certain sorts of spam.
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Similar idea (solar cell would be much cheaper if they were much thinner), different process: http://www.naanovo.com/home
Union Square Ventures, of which Fred Wilson ("the OP") is a partner, is an investor in my startup (Stack Exchange). They never put pressure on us to generate patents. They have been consistently anti-patent for quite some time. They have complained frequently that a third of their portfolio is under attack from patent trolls. They have organized fundraisers and meetings which I have attended with Senator Chuck Schumer from New York to press their position for patent reform.

Maybe YOUR stone-age, backward-ass VC thinks that startups should generate patents, but don't tar Fred Wilson with that brush.
finally atleast 1 government has the common sense i was waiting for!
Have you actually used the W8 CP, or read the website? The desktop is still there; and that taskbar is there as well, but it's hard to discover (most of the UI elements are hidden by default, and it's not even obvious they exist). Most of the changes proposed are not UI overhauls, nor Metro killers, but more of a repositioning of various elements when using the system without a touch device.

In other words, you seem to be doing quite the same thing you accuse others of, but in reverse: "you're either 110% happy with the perfect UI in the new release, or MS haters." The UI has potential to be useful, but it currently feels half-baked (and there isn't time to finish such major changes between a CP and RTM versions); perhaps W9 will finish and polish it?
>Google Play shouldn't be a wild-west scenario

Unfortunately, this is what Android is, so this is what the marketplace has to be. I don't have apps on the Google Play market, so I don't know if you can restrict your app to only be visible or purchased by phones known to run it, but there are some apps that slower phones just can't run.

Take Grand Theft Auto III for example (or any other high-end game). You can't expect it to run on an HTC Aria with a 600Mhz processor. Should we stop making these high end apps, or should we expect that there would be some kind of control system to help prevent people from making uninformed decisions?
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That's true. In some cases this happens, for example members of OIN have legal obligations not to use patents against each other at least. But I'm not sure there is any company that took a solid legal obligation not to be a patent aggressor in general.
Don't you think that the drug companies would have found cheaper ways to develop drugs since they've realized that people will still pay them? That would lead to even higher profits.

It's insanely difficult to bring a new drug to market. Imagine all of the crazy combinations of people that take them and if you miss one small group that has an adverse reaction you could be talking 1000s of people that are lining up to sue you out of existence or if you're in another company the regulatory body doing it for them. People around the world benefit immensely from our "inefficient and corrupt bureaucratic machinery" because they get safe drugs.

Also, from the article, "Bayer tried to justify its high price by making claims of high R&D costs, but refused to provide any details". This is just plain rhetoric plain and simple. You see politicians do this everyday because there is no real way to refute it.
I've worked in, and co-founded, several VC funded startups, and even have my name on a patent. Despite that I have never come across a case where the VC's pushed for patents at all, and several where they thought it was a waste of time and money.
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I'm honestly gobsmacked that our model of health and physiology is so primitive that it doesn't use the most widely available treatment as a first line approach, which, as you point out, is the placebo effect. Why are so many resources being wasted on developing new chemicals when the brain can seemingly perform the same functions with nothing? I get that for a lot of things you need a physical intervention, but should this not be the last resort as it tends to have the most side effects?
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I wonder if Facebook would consider offering rewards for prior art in order to crowdsource a defense. I think that's a fascinating way to locate the needle in the haystack. Article One is building a startup around this.

Another solution is MSFT, which has a patent sharing agreement in place with Yahoo and a vested interest in Facebook's success. They could certainly lend FB some much needed IP muscle.
Sadly no way to see tricentennial unless there is a leap in not only medical technology but the politics and cost of it in the USA.

Here's hoping for 10 cents in 30 years.

ps. Isn't it $1.40 right now in 2012? Or are you calculating for off-grid with batteries instead of grid-tie?
I would argue yes. Why stick with a broken design? Just because you're used to it? What about people who aren't used to it? If there's a better way, why not strive for it?
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Hmm, didn't Google announce when the registration was going to open last year?

EDIT: I say this because I have a meeting coming up very soon. It'd be a disaster if the registration opens in the next few minutes and finishes before my meeting's done.
To be clear: the fact that theft and copyright infringement both relate to interference with alienable rights does not mean that they should be treated the same way. A good legal system takes into account that different kinds of infringement on different kinds of rights should be handled differently.

Here's a cool example that includes both civil law and criminal law: in America, if you trespass on someone's property without being told not to, that's a civil violation, and the only thing the owner can do is sue you for any actual damage you caused. But if you trespass after they tell you not to, it's also a criminal violation and they can ask the state to prosecute you. That's why you see warning signs saying "no trespassing - violators will be prosecuted." It skips the first step.

Point being, sometimes the legal system even treats infringement of the same alienable right under entirely separate branches of law, depending how many times you've done it. And with trespass, it's calibrated pretty well.

Copyright in America is calibrated terribly. It's mostly civil rather than criminal (you can tell because it's "RIAA vs." instead of "United States vs."). But unlike most civil suits where you're basically compensated in rough proportion to the harm you suffered, there's this incredibly punitive fine of up to $150,000 for each mp3, which is collected by the civil party suing rather than the government. So it looks a lot like criminal enforcement. It's grievously weird.

(Actually, there is an analogous law I can think of, the Clean Water Act. Under that law any citizen who lives in a polluted area can sue a polluter and recover a large bounty for winning the case, even if the actual damages that citizen suffered are trivial. This basically offloads the work of enforcing pollution laws from the government to private citizens, which presumably made the Clean Water Act cheap enough to pass. And that Act has been incredibly successful -- we've gone from like 2/3 of America's waterways being impaired to 1/3. So maybe the copyright laws are just the right tool for the wrong job?)

Anyway! What's going on is: (1) copyright laws are all screwed up because only one side is at the bargaining table, and that side is panicking; (2) the internet makes copyright laws impossible to enforce, while also (3) greatly increasing the societal cost of copyright laws in terms of lost value to consumers. So we need a new deal. The better you understand the nuts and bolts, the better you can take part in crafting it.
> Please do not give your future 2-year-old marbles to learn physics with. Choking hazard.

You're aware that they put CHOKING HAZARD labels on things not because those things should be kept away from children at all times, but to alert inattentive parents to supervise their children?

The CHOKING HAZARD is not an intrinsic property of the object, but rather of the situation.
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What is the better way to switch between tasks using a mouse?
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How is a minifier different from what you're describing? I may be missing something, but that sounds very similar to what you want.
I think a lot of people are forgetting that Windows 95 had to have this animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UxwAlqCCmk

And still there were a lot of people who eschewed the Start menu and used Program Manager for a long time. One can expect similar cues for the new OS.
Somewhere out there, a business model is waiting to be found.

I hope so, because the current one isn't working for consumers. Even with the billions spent on R&D, it turns out that many of the drugs Big Pharma turns out are no better than placebos. It's not hard to see why: a big company spends X amount on each failure and needs a 10X hit to offset the costs. If one doesn't materialize, it's not hard to rig the statistics to show some marginal benefit for a chosen winner, and a big marketing budget and the placebo effect takes care of the rest. Thanks to this model, we've finally conquered the scourges of restless leg syndrome, overactive bladder, and general anxiety disorder.
I'm pretty sure that scanning US currency, printing it and then sending the result across state borders is quite possibly a federal offense so I wouldn't exactly recommend you do this.
> Of course this would require very peaceful nations on each continent

Or maybe it would create peaceful nations on each continent. You may say I'm a dreamer.... :)
Generally the package is big enough to get all the connections out at a scale that won't irritate manufacturing.

There are tiny packages though, NXP (one of the ARM builders) has a 2mm x 2mm package with a similar ARM in it, but they can only get 16 pins out at that scale, 4 are power and ground, one is clock leaving you 11 pins to rule the world. (data sheet: http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/LPC1102.pdf)
Google said last year that registration would now require a programming challenge. I hope they follow through with this because developer conferences have been over-run with non-developers.

Technical talks are presented to half empty rooms, developers miss out on tickets and have to watch later online while the hallways are full of business people (got nothing against y'all, but there are plenty of other conferences)
How about hating both?

Yes, current patent law is broken, but that doesn't mean that Y! have to use it. If this was a defensive move against a patent claim from Facebook, I'd have some sympathy. But as far as I can tell, it isn't. So I don't.
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Yes it is. It is not about the cost of comparing 2 products, it is about market saturation. When 2010 came, drug A would be off-patent and evidence for using A would be piling up. As a doctor that cares about his patient, one would very reasonably choose drug A over the still-on-patent drug D which is only slightly more effective but since it's new the evidence is weaker (as in -- will this work for the relevant genetic makeup, disease state profile, microbial resistance pattern for antibiotics, is this better efficacy real and not just some shady number crunching by big pharma etc.), nobody exactly knows the long-term side effects, and it's much more expensive. Do you think that the pharma would spend millions to face this bleak market?

(EDIT: this assumes that drug A works "satisfactorily". Drug D still have a chance if it has markedly differentiating features, say if drug A is injected while drug D is taken orally.)

(as a side note, cancer drugs are hot because of precisely opposite of these -- most are fairly new, those that are old are not exactly pleasant to take, there is no "silver bullet" found yet so there are lots of room for improvement.)

Another take on the market saturation is that when the current therapy is simply already good enough, ie. the "silver bullet" has been discovered. That's the reason why there has been no new drugs developed for headache in recent few years (or pain management drugs in general). It's a totally different story when, say, aspirin was first introduced: there is a lot more room to improve on / differentiate from its side effect profile, pharmacological properties, etc.
I am really excited about this but also a bit worried that Java will become a second class citizen for Play development.

The typesafe deal, use of SBT and other scala tools, and the overhead of maintaining docs and bindings for 2 languages all seems to point to an inevitable deprecation of Java at some point.

Hopefully not?
Their beta was incredibly buggy, riddled with compilation performance performance, slow load times, was really not a fun experience. I've heard they finally got development load times in check. I hope they get their deployment process a bit better then creating a zip file and having to run nohup on their start script.
Agreed. Moreover, the benefit is not solely derived by the private party. Assuming that a portion of the revenue goes to lobbying, then already the benefit is for more than just the private party. This doesn't even account for any tax revenue generated by the copyrighted work.
The desktop is there as a backwards compatibility crutch. It's not discoverable because Microsoft doesn't want you to discover it. XP Mode in Windows 7 isn't discoverable either.

I take exception to the "either a lover or a hater" comment. I have plenty of criticisms of Windows 8, like I had many with Windows 7. But if there's one thing you learn about trying to talk some sense into the Internet, it's to not waffle on your position. Look at how quickly people picked up on "one single consumer reportedly didn't like the Windows 8 beta, therefore Windows 8 is a complete failure!" bandwagon. Now imagine the responses any reasonable debate would garner if someone said "I think Windows 8 will be good, but one thing I don't like is..."

Yeah, the very next response would be "see, even Microsoft lovers hate Windows 8!"
You don't need to open the patent book for that.
Patents are written in such horrible language that you should not bother. The signal to noise ratio is pathetic.

Instead - yes, you just open the HN and look what you cak take from others and use it to build your own tech company. That's what you do. Are you new?
> Unfortunately, this is what Android is, so this is what the marketplace has to be.

I don't think so, really. Android is the wild west because it's open source and unrestricted. But the Market is Google's own, proprietary and closed system. They have total control over it. App developers can restrict on a device-by-device basis, but it's a pain and I don't really expect anyone to do that (there are maybe 1,000 devices or so out there). However, you can also restrict based on phone feature set like screen size, hardware capability, etc.

I think we should hold both Google and the developers to a high standard when it comes to marketplace apps.

> Should we stop making these high end apps

Of course not. Developers should stop selling them to people who they know can't run them.
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These are basically the same things that make good code.

• Organising files = project structure

• Resource & layer naming = variable naming

• Using templates & sharing common elements = DRY

• Keeping vectors when rasterising = keeping source code when compiling

• Minimising filters, blending modes, colour overlays, etc. = KISS

• Grid = idioms and “design patterns”

• Understanding licensing = understanding licensing

• Proofreading = code review

• Browser compatibility = platform compatibility

• Conservation of file sizes = consideration of performance
>Almost all the cost in a drug is the manufacturer recouping R&D costs.

Actually that's not true. Big pharma spends twice as much on advertising as they do on R&D:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.ht...

They also spend a significant amount of money on government fines due to corrupt practices (i.e. killing people). They are now the single most corrupt industry, paying significantly more fines per year than the entire military industrial complex:

http://www.citizen.org/hrg1924
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In particular, you'll be interested in the @shadow file type, which keeps two versions of a file, one with the "sentinels" marking the structure and one without.

Warning: in my experience, the "sentinels" are prejudiced against collaboration. Either you put the version with sentinels into Git/Hg/Bzr and the merge of changes made by two separate parties is more likely than otherwise to create corrupt files, or you put the version without sentinels under version control, and then your collaborators lose the benefit of the structure or anything else that has been omitted.
I've long argued the correlation between DOS and Windows vs Windows 7 and Windows 8. It seems no one cares. No, this time will be different, this time people can't change their computing habits.
> Funny how there are so many SSRI's on the market.

Why? What's wrong with SSRIs?

> Funny how this model results in the conclusion that it's a good idea to give kids amphetamines when they are known neurotoxins.

Giving amphetamines to children is certainly debatable but amphetamines are not neurotoxic. Methamphetamines are neurotoxic, especially in recreational doses, but non-methylated amphetamines are not.

> Funny how medical marijuana is taking such a long time to break through into the mainstream.

Entirely different issue.
> ADHD is a load of crap, and diagnosis of it is a purely western endeavour with very little actual merit.

With all due respect, I must ask: have you ever interacted with an individual diagnosed with (severe) ADHD?

Also, please clarify: are you claiming that those whom have been diagnosed with ADHD aren't sick or that they've been incorrectly diagnosed?

I appreciate your time and look forward to your responses on this matter.
Yes human lives are at stake. All the people who invested their stock money in Bayer and plane to retire some day. All the people who depend on the drugs the company makes and so on.
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