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Some of the announced course are due to start as late as February 2013. Since the academic calenders in most universities are prepared well in advance, they need to sign up the profs much before the actual course date. Announcing the courses early will help them gauge the level of interest. This will help in deciding which courses they can offer after these ones.
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Actually, Google has this measurement scale called "Quality Score." Your landing page is one of the things they evaluate to measure the quality score. And your quality score affects your CPC.

You can read more on it here:
http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
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Interessting question, indeed. I'd guess that, for the time being, the existing infrastructure is used. Right now, I doubt there are enough commercial flights to justify a dedicated infrastructure, though I am sure there at least some plans to built one one day.

I assume the economics of the business are pretty much influenced by the infrastructure used, but I'm not an expert on it. Maybe the existing infrastructure is sufficient. Does any body now if SpaceX needs its own launch pads or can they existing ones? Or even better some of the existing ones?

EDIT: They used launch sites in Cape Canerveral, Vandenberg and apparently have one on Kwajalein Atoll, according to their website.
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What if you combined these: http://sizedoesntmatter.com/wp-content/uploads/Picture-92.pn... with the wind turbines?
Free heated water... Am i missing something?

If this is possible i will be the first proud salesperson of this in Israel.
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It's a Google policy called "First Click Free":

To implement First Click Free, you need to allow all users who find a document on your site via Google search to see the full text of that document, even if they have not registered or subscribed to see that content. The user's first click to your content area is free. However, once that user clicks a link on the original page, you can require them to sign in or register to read further.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Agreed, so annoying.

Tried in Google Chrome on Debian Wheezy AMD64 with Intel GM45.

Place feedback and alternative links at the top of the page also. Otherwise users are just left puzzled.
> How do SpaceX communicate with the Dragon in orbit? Have they built their own global tracking/control network?

No, they're using the US government's TDRSS system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_and_Data_Relay_Satelli...), and I think they're also getting support from NASA's ground stations.

> Also, is sharing of ground facilities (fueling, launch, recovery) with other operators necessary for the business to be economic?

I don't think so - it seems like the cost of running the ground-based infrastructure is quite minimal compared to the actual operational costs of launching. Although SpaceX is using some of the original NASA/USAF infrastructure at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg, it seems like they've built most of their facilities from scratch.
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And since they use a standard (RFC6238), there are third-party application that works with it too. I use a J2ME app on my Symbian phone.
Hopefully this book will help me recall all muscle memories I've forgotten since attending Drew's excellent vim workshop.
Oh his scheduler implementation is completely in Lisp. It's just that they needed to make a C++ version due to the research context they are working in. Not a very uncommon problem for Lisp users.
I agree that you don't get my point.

The reason Google hasn't built a walled garden around the internet because they simply don't yet have the power to do that.

You talk as if it was something they could easily have done but have chosen not to. I disagree. They just aren't in a position to do it.

It makes no sense at all to say that innovation on the web has vanished because of the Appstore. We are in in a boom time for internet startups, and we have healthy browser competition leading to web standards advancing much faster than at any time in the past.

There is room for both the open web, and for more controlled environments like the app store or Facebook to coexist and compete with one another. Each offers different tradeoffs.

The existence of different kinds of environment is a good thing. It provides a variety of different economic opportunities, and choices for consumers.

Google would naturally like to have more influence and control, but the reality is that they exist in a competitive environment.
If you have 27 million people in a catchment area, they are going to be using far more than 20 litres per day per person.

Melbourne is a non-desert city in a Western, water-conscious country, that in 2008 was nearing the end of a 10-year drought with water reserves starting to approach the 'panic' levels. The city was on ever-tightening water restrictions and water consciousness was pretty much part of daily conversation. In the end, three and a half million people were using 277 litres per day per capita. What you've forgotten is that many people need industry, and industry needs a lot of water.

http://www.melbournewater.com.au/content/water_conservation/...
The board is there to advise & CEO and provide support, and step in if things go wrong.

In this case it's worth noting that the CEO is also the largest shareholder, so it is difficult to argue they weren't representing shareholder interest.
Sounds a lot to me like you're on the wrong course, and you're not learning about what you want to be doing.

I strongly urge you to find a lecturer in the department and tell them that the course is nothing like you expected, that you're not really interested in the material being presented, and that you'd like to be challenged more, and see what they say. If you're intended to drop out anyway then you have very little to lose from this, and possibly everything to gain.

Tell them that when studying stuff you find interesting you have no trouble putting in the work and time. Ask if it's possible to design your own course of study.

If you go into freelancing, these sorts of negotiations will be essential. If you can't do it now, you need to learn. If you don't want to bother, what makes you think you'll be able to make a living freelancing? Studying something you're not really interested in is nastily similar to finishing the last fiddly bits of a web site before getting paid.

Leaving now is a potential waste of a great opportunity. Look to exploit it before you discard it.
Nice, and I thought this was good:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/living-without-water...
User accessible file system? Are you kidding me? It's one of the great things to get rid of this thing. I see no advantage in there. Especially on mobile devices. Only another thing to understand and handle to get things done.
I can confirm the threshold is still 500, as I just got it in the last couple of days.
If you are arguing for monopolies on ideas, that makes you pro-patent.
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I'm all for pushing boundaries, but this is a classic case of form over function.
Yes, 27 million people in dystopian poverty, or about 1 million average (mean) residents of this rich petrostate. [1]

Getting to the point on costs: it's supposed to be around $2/m^3 in the UAE for desalination, so ~$400/capita/year. It would be around $15/capita/year at 20 L/year, but that kind of consumption wouldn't logically exist side-by-side with billion-dollar desalination plants (if your society is developed enough to have built things like that, it's probably wealthy enough not to be counting fractions-of-a-cent aka. liters of tap water.)

[1] http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/thousands-of-abu-dha...

[2] http://www.zawya.com/story/ZAWYA20100808044642/UAE%20Spends%...
Me too, except for the "mother's living room" part.
Avoidance or evasion?

If a company is compliant then it is up to government to intervene and change laws. However law change should apply to all entities, on or off line.
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The deviceorientation event enables us to pull alpha, beta
and gamma rotation values. Note that these values are
relative to the current orientation of the device. The
image above shows the axes of a phone held perpendicular
to the ground in portrait mode.

Does 'alpha' really run up-and-down the iPhone while in portrait? The first value is usually the X axis, and usually runs 'sideways' of an iPhone in portrait mode.

Unfortunately, each browser implements depth-sorting
differently and, therefore, has its own issues. The best
we can do to combat the glitchy pop-through of underlying
elements is to keep planes away from each other.

Is there no way to enable depth testing? ie: Using the zbuffer for per-pixel depth read / test / write? You can avoid depth sorting that way, at a small performance cost, and the result looks better.
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Oh, thanks for correcting my misunderstanding. So in general, sell "min_price" really just means sell "price"? Or are there circumstances that it would sell above that price?
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I think you'll find it hard to get them to pay much more for your service, especially if they've been paying customers for less than a year.

I'd advise seeing it as a learning opportunity, how much of a loss do you make on these users? Are there any ways you can cut costs to compensate?

Other wise, try raising the price for new customers to a point that if the old customers were paying that you'd make a profit. I bet you won't see a drop in revenue
Actually, "Tax evasion" generally denotes something illegal. "Avoidance" is the correct term here.
They have already allowed certain product vendors access to the write API - more details here - http://adwords.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/third-party-tools-to-h...
Poor man's lockbox: create a second account, enable two-factor only on that account, set up filters to redirect those emails to that account and delete them from your main account.
It seems to have worked for people you're quoting. Why the doubt?
I doubt you'd care for hot water in the dessert. You could just fill a black bag. Cool clean water is probably preferential.
That's a nice solution, but it's specific to their platform. The title made me hope for a platform-abstract solution.
On the website it is still listed as "Beta". Is it actually 100% finished?
Great, but you can't read the footer.
Not surprising - and he's right in a number of ways.
It gets pretty cold at nightime I've been told...
The same concept could be added to any "floating" IP style platform though, like Openstack or Amazon EC2. Shouldn't be hard to add it to Openstack at any rate!
There's a slight disconnect between the PR and spec sheet, which predicts an output of 1,000 L/day in a "temperate zone" (60% relative humidity, 25 ºC), or 350 L/day in a "desert zone" (30% r.h., 35 ºC).

http://www.eolewater.com/assets/files/PDF/Specification%20Sh...
Yeah, they went link-bait on this one.
Nice and nostalgic, but a few inaccuracies;

Firstly, it could do the basics very fast.

...if you had a fancy TV that cached the carousel index pages. If not you type in the page number you want and wait for it to cycle around in the carousel. Which could be pretty slow on Oracle, as all those holiday ads played out.

If you were amending a page, it went through instantly, when you change something on the web, it may go through instantly. Or it may not.

But if you're authoring for the MHEG interactive service on Freeview then it can get pushed straight away. Apples/oranges comparison, really.

Secondly, it provided an instant and BBC-certified timecheck, accurate to the second

As does Freeview, and all other DVB platforms. Most TVs have a button to tell you what time it is.
Bamboozle really exploited the potential of teletext. They could have had a text-adventure game on there. More people must have played that game than anyone realized, every time I hear a nostalgia discussion about teletext somebody says..."you didn't happen to play that quiz thing on Channel 4 did you?"
> it's an all-in-one approach Microsoft's rivals have chosen not to pursue.

They haven't persued it because nobody wants an "all-in-one solution". My desktop is not a tablet, and my tablet is not a desktop.
This books is just brilliant. Drew is an outstanding speaker, teacher and author.
Indeed. But Eric Schmidt doesn't get to whine about e.g. education in the UK, without ponying up the cash.
I like the idea of taking the water back out the sea and placing it in underground aquifers. Some are are seriously depleted through industrial agricultural farming.

Would be nice if you could just pull a cloud or two down from the sky.
Agreed, this is a terrible article. There is no plan detailed, nothing is questioned (like the whole "reinvention" bit -- Microsoft reinvented themselves because they put solid coloured regions around their icons? And then takes a swipe at Google for apparently not doing something so profound?). Bad.
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You could use solar water heating as a vector to trap the suns heat in an underground heat store, that you then release at night. How cold does it get?

Edit:

I just tried to find out about night time temperatures. On the wikipedia page 'desert', it suggests it only gets as cold as 0 degrees C. Although I did find a remark that Antarctica was technically a desert.

I just camped out in temperatures below 0 weekend gone, and it wasn't that comfortable, but I was staying under a thin piece of plastic. If I'd have been a bit better prepared it would have been much more bearable.
Eventually more powerful tasks are coming to the tablet, though, especially as people look to replace desktops with it and pads gain hybrid features (e.g. plug in a mouse, bluetooth keyboards, etc).

And in most ways they're already there. Angry Birds? Yeah, it has that. Video editing? For the consumer level, iMovie and competitors are as rich as they've ever used. 3D Games? Yeah, that's been there for a couple of years. Maybe they intended for a more intensive example?
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Did you use an application specific password for Adium login? When you enable 2 factor auth, you need to generate those password for every app you use.
Create an "Application Specific" password on Google (as the article mentions). This will let you bypass 2-factor in the case of a client application like Adium as Adium does not know how to accept the 2-factor OTP.
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I do want an all-in-one solution, like outlined in the article.

A smartphone with enough power to run "regular" applications and a dock I can plug it into for charging, peripherals and a monitor.

Of course the current smartphone OSes are not suitable for that task, as is demonstrated by the Transformer series, among others.
Also found quite a few spelling errors in my first (and only) cursory read-through. And the "subscribe"-button doesn't change my mouse pointer (in Firefox), although the example blue button just above it does. That felt weird.
IMO it's a shame they stopped development on Bespin. It felt so smooth and fluid to code on because it used canvas. You totally forgot you were coding in a browser. Ace is great but it just doesn't feel the same eh.
This is no rocket science, I've implemented it years ago on an EC2 cloud managed with Scalarium. I'd expect any self respecting sysadmin to come up with such a solution.
I always thought that was just filler.

HR to engineer: "Your requirement list is too short, our ad won't look important enough."

Engineer to HR: "Fine, here's some more buzzwords to fill-in the blank space."
Yes! That's the first thing I thought when I saw this article. My family used to play whenever a new quiz went up.

There were also other pages with jokes where hitting 'reveal' on the remote control toggled the punchline.

None of the other pages we visited ever seemed to make as much use of the remote buttons as the 'games' and fun items did.
I use the red button on BBC news a fair bit, but only after I hooked my set top box up to my router. It pulls everything in over IP then.
I was hoping for an open source project rather than a $200,000 product, but that's just me… Besides, Javascript being the main supported language is a put off to be honest. But there goes my $1.
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Wow this means a lot, thank you very much!
It is indeed buggy and FF lags like crazy. The Chromium team has looked into some of the issues and many of them have been fixed in Canary; give that a go!

No, there isn't a way to access everything without a 3d capable browser. This was more of a time constraint than anything else.

Thank you for clarifying the depth-sorting issue. I've perhaps overgeneralized in that area. So, will browsers render interpenetration differently based on the hardware?
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I'm talking about what I want in a device and OS. The file system isn't directly in any of the default apps, and nor is it visible in most apps. But if you want a file browser, you can install one easily; and nor is data siloed inside specific apps when it doesn't fit into predefined categories like Photo | Video | Music.

That's right: I want control over my data. I don't want apps from third parties thinking they're in control of my data.
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All this is doing is having multiple IP addresses for that server. The fact that it's done through port translation is mostly irrelevant. It isn't getting round the fundamental problem that without SNI (which is out because of WinXP) there's still a one IP address/one host:port restriction.
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VirtualHosts on the same Apache setup can run different HTTPs certs as long as each host is listening on a separate IP address. So for at least some people facing this problem, the simplest solution may be upgrading to a standalone server with 5-10 assigned IP addresses.
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I don't see anything that fundamentally distinguishes google from these other companies other than their present strategic position.

There is I think a difference in company culture. Sure, it is not something you can measure like market capitalization or dividends, but that doesn't make it insignificant.

It is common for people to say that all big companies are equivalent in that they just look for the best strategy to maximize shareholder value, which they have to do by law. I don't think that's the complete picture: there are humans behind every company, behind every decision they make. If Larry Page and Sergey Brin believe in an open Internet, that will strongly influence what strategy among many they choose to maximize shareholder value. Well, as long as they have a controlling stake, which might be for a long time seeing the recently announced stock split.

But it's not only board members who determine how open a company is. For example, developers have their say in what technology or protocol will be used for a particular project. What they propose might depend on their personal views, and what passes as a valid argument (e.g. openness or standard compliance) depends on company culture. Personal views and company culture obviously depend on who gets hired, and that's a matter where anyone (developer, HR, etc.) might have a say. If Google employees have a bias towards hiring people who embrace open technologies, that will have an effect. And if Google's image tends to attract job applications from people who believe in an open Internet, that will also have an effect. This culture thing is probably more stable than a strategic position.
A smartphone that is able to hook up to a keyboard and monitor and run a simple word processor and spreadsheet; and some calendar / scheduling software; and some email thing (either cloud based web client or traditional server client) - that's a smart phone that many people would buy.

Supporting it in the enterprise environment would be tricky. You don't want users loading their phones with malware and then bringing that infected phone inside the network.

And, really, I'd be happy if the phone was decoupled from the rest of it. A phone and something like Raspberry PI would do me fine.
The best explanation I have heard for why analysts exist is because the market demands them. People want to read about this stuff so someone has to write it.
I don't hold any love for any of them, but I downloaded Windows 8 and it recognised my 8 year old pro audio interface and it just worked, legacy hardware is a big deal, people don't all have money to throw out all their stuff.
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I do believe that is the intention with this demo. From the first paragraph in the article:

Each year we abandon browser support and throw a “Pshaw” in the face of semantics so that we can play with some emerging features of modern browsers.
I think that the issue is related to this Chromium bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110457
The article says the turbines are 30kW, not 300kW.
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"Where essays are required, especially in the humanities and social sciences, the system relies on the students themselves to grade their fellow students’ work, in effect turning them into teaching assistants. Dr. Koller said that this would actually improve the learning experience."

wonder how that would work
You're fighting a losing battle. These people are personally involved in HFT or the financial industry in general, so naturally they'll try to justify what they're doing with whatever distraction-bullshit they happen to think of.

Sure, I can't know this, but it's a safe assumption. Whatever. Feel free to downvote and flag my post to bury it again, HN. Stay classy.

The army of PhDs from elite schools working for the financial industry are too smart not to realize that it's full of shit. How could they not see the relentless greed, and the sociopath douchebags in charge for what they are?

They'll be aware of bad/immoral/illegal things being done all around them, but hey, the salaries in finance are pretty fucking ridiculous and they get to work on challenging problems.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/high-frequency-minutes-hft-exp...

Just like you said, in the real world, someone trading in the real economy does not make trades thousands of times per second. And I bet HFT bringing spreads down to $0.05 doesn't help anyone without a HFT machinery of their own.

But here they are, on Hacker News, bullshitting/distracting us convincingly time and time again.