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I don't think I contradicted myself at all.

I said mostly operating outside the ability of Americans to restrict (some aspects do, some aspects don't). And I said I think it will help, if the globe pitched in to restrict the US Federal Govt. There's no contradiction there at all. The push-back by international powers would accomplish international restriction of the Feds that US citizens cannot short term (US citizens mostly have no influence over New Zealand justice, nor trade relations with Singapore, nor military relations with Japan, and so on and so forth).

It would take a very large cultural shift to get the US military out of Japan from our side (it would take more than just a new President). Japan, however, can and should kick the US military out tomorrow morning. Ditto Germany.

It's better if you stop thinking of America as a 'normal' nation, and start thinking of it as an international superpower that has 180 military bases around the globe, with its fingers in every pie.

Americans for example have zero influence or control over the Federal Reserve. You'd have to turn congress inside out to then get laws passed that reach to the Fed. Other nations can however change their relationship with the Fed and its banking arms.

American voters would have to reform the entire government top to bottom before they got to restricting CIA activities in Italy (for example). Italy however, can get started on that tomorrow morning.

The US Government is extremely large and powerful, and it has a superpower's reach globally. It makes perfect sense that it would help if the rest of the world pushed back against its international abuses.

Let me provide you an example: I can vote for a congressman, that single congressman cannot realistically stop the NSA at this point, the NSA has a budget equal to the budget of Greece. It would take a complete government overhaul to restructure the NSA, and that will take a long time. Other countries however, at their choosing, can immediately alter what they allow departments like the CIA or NSA to do in their jurisdiction (and or at least make the effort to push back).

The US Government is not one thing, it's a massive entity with many powerful heads that operate independent of each other.
It's a DisplayPort that will emit VGA signals for a passive adaptor.
Lucid dreams for me were a side effect of other things. They didn't effect the quality of my sleep, which was already very poor.

My sleep apnea was such that my brain "woke up" about 45 times an hour. This kept me from ever experiencing full REM cycles. One of the more jarring side effects is that, unlike other folks, I when I went to sleep I dropped from wakefullness directly into REM sleep without anything in the middle. This meant I would start dreaming immediately. I was able to remember extremely vivid dreams when someone would wake up up about 5 minutes after I'd fallen asleep (sometimes less). This slowly allowed me to realize I was dreaming after I'd fallen into this "fast REM" sleep.

Thankfully, the sleep apnea is treated now and I no longer suffer the somewhat debilitating side effects of not getting REM sleep. For me those side effects were constant drowsiness, inability to focus, falling asleep while driving (smashed into someone at 75mph at 3 in the afternoon because of sleep apnea thankfully my car was lower than theirs and I just slid under them and smashed up my hood), irritability, etc.

This is way off topic but anyone who thinks they might have sleep apnea should totally get checked out. There has been a huge quality of life change for me since getting this treated.
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Some people simply like running for the pleasure it gives them. I guess it's the same with weight lifters. At some point the physique is a side-effect of one's regulard and healthy practice.

Note that sprinters as well as endurance runners have to lift some weight at one moment or another. When I run my first half-marathon I was surprised that my arms were more sore than my legs.
I really wish they would have provided Google TV features with the Chromebox...that would make it compelling from where I sit.
Now extend that to making memory reads predictable and prefetchable, and RAM is suddenly also free.
hmm, is it only me that see the obvious solution:

those who want to quit -> quits -> happy!

those who want a job -> takes the emptied position -> happy!
Stop asking "how will they make money?"
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It has to splash down near the recovery vessels to be recovered. It's a much smaller target than "the Pacific Ocean".
It's hard to know, but its like anything else, with practice you have increase your odds of success.
Whilst I agree to an extent, it is still useful to have some idea what the machine is likely to be capable of.

For example, does it have enough USB to accommodate a mouse/keyboard as well as an external disk and a digital camera?

Can I plug it into my Monitor and my HDTV at the same time?

Or does it have sufficient oomph to run HD video or graphically intensive games?

At this point google will be targeting early adopters who will be more tech savvy, and also hoping that they recommend it to their family and friends.

Until we can offload close to 100% of our computing to the server, specifications for client side machines will still be relevant.
I've only had one or two fully lucid dreams. In one I realised I was dreaming, I could not get myself to wake up. I was then convinced I should kill myself to wake up, but could not fully determine if I was sleeping or not, so why take the risk?

Unfortunately, clocks and text seem to work in my dreams. Another reality check is covering your mouth and nose and trying to breathe. Supposedly, this is a good test as in a dream you'll keep breathing. Plus, it's unobtrusive, unlike turning lights on and off at offices and other people's houses.
You weren't immediately aware that this was a desktop version of the Chromebooks that you've probably heard of?
> I'll admit that this is getting into slippery slope territory, but I can see a lot of OEMs using this "feature" because, hey, it worked for Apple - it can't be that bad⸮

It worked for Apple on iOS devices. Macs are fully open, despite having TPM devices and a potential trusted boot chain for some time.
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Anyone who hasn't heard Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper describe a nanosecond should check out her classic explanation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
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But seriously you can something with cheaper and better specs for less that $329 to run Linux.

But as small and quiet and that can drive two 30" monitors?

I have an Eee Box running Linux; it's physically larger, only supports one monitor (as far as I can tell), and the hardware video decoder can only do 720p. (The hardware video decoding is important because the Atom cannot decode 720p H.264 in real time itself.)
"he's found a closed-form solution of a 2D projectile with friction proportional to the square of the velocity"

Your phrase there contains more actual information than all of the news articles linked from HN so far. And your links provide most of the details that I was curious about.

This last dupe is particularly egregious. The linked article is simple plagiarism, and the illiterate author's attempt to rearrange some sentences produce some choice gibberish.
Your statement confuses me. Where did all the existing businesses come from if 'people' did not start them in first place? The costs of starting a new business might be dropping considerably, but this hardly the first time in history that entrepreneurs were being so greatly rewarded.
Yes, that's what's at trial here. But in the post I replied to, I was taking issue with the insinuation that "OF COURSE that's what was happening here!" As if to imply online storage with easy download is inherently about piracy.
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On a similar note, the image sharing site min.us[1] will display your local copy of the image you wish to upload in place of the uploaded image as it is uploading. Gives it a feeling that it uploads absolutely instantaneously, even though it also gives a real progress bar.

[1] http://minus.com/
Really, a lot good people can't quit their jobs a try something like that because they have families and couldn't afford to pay others work on it etc. etc.

I'm sure if it took off, they'd get to be project lead with a nice pay increase - which is much better than would done otherwise, because they were never going to quit (well not least till their family grew up).

Also, who knows they could use it as springboard for project #2 - the sequel usually makes more money than the original movie.
Benefits have a huge impact and should definitely be considered as part of compensation / hiring. 401K matching - as you said above, if you're getting a poor match with a bad set of funds, then a company that offers a large flat contribution regardless of your contribution (say 6-10%) and had access to thousands of funds / direct stocks would be preferred and provide a significant benefit to you.

Similarly, benefits like Dental, Medical, etc especially if you've got a family means less risk and money in your pocket if it's paid for and you have a great plan. While it would, of course, be better to just get "straight cash homey" and try to deal with it yourself I would argue that benefits are still a signficant factor in the job decision process.

As for the foosball table et al - that's more a cultural thing and less a direct benefit in my mind.

That said - totally agree that benefits are secondary to the dream and the vision of the company as a part of one's decision.
I present to you Grace Hopper handing people nanoseconds out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8

:)
Agreed. The Data Structures courses we had were among the best courses we had. I think it's great to learn how to implement them once.
nice specs, I would put Debian on it and use as a portable network analyzer. I'll probably do so as soon as it's available in my country
Maybe I'm missing something, but why should it have been oracle SQL?
I don't think it has much to do with consumerism, but rather how your perceptions shape your expectations. If it is 'difficult', we expect it to require a relatively increased amount of effort (see: time) to complete. This is only heightened when the task is something we are unfamiliar with, and have no idea how it should work.

For example, encryption - I, and apparently the people in the above example, have little or no understanding about how it works at a fundamental level. So if I was having something encrypted I would expect, due to ignorance and having it's difficulty on a pedestal, that it would take a reasonable amount of time to complete - certainly not instantaneous.
I would be interested to see the mathematics behind their claim that a picture password is more complex than (what I assume is) a typical android log in password. I would imagine it would be a little more tricky for any malware to capture a password. Capturing and determining which mouse clicks (for the PC case) are significant is considerably more difficult that analysing the output of a keylogger.
EDIT: I stand corrected.

The numbers seem to have been evolving and the original source seems to be that page.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://norvig.com/21-days.h...
It depends on your perspective.

Pricier than a postpaid plan? Sure.

But on the other hand the 16GB iPhone 4S will cost $499.99 from Cricket, which is $150 below what Apple sells this model for unsubsidized.

Good luck ever reappropriating this phone for use on any other carrier.
It's true that US public spending is larger per capita. Several times bigger than many successful european countries. It's a problem and deserves recognition.

However, it is not "120%" of the problem as you suggest. Military spending is similarly out of proportion (arguably much moreso) and military spending consumes much, much more of our federal budget than healthcare.

I'm not objecting to the idea that we need to fix our health care system -- you are right on. I'm saying that it's not "120%" of the problem; defense is, and has always been.
Well first, you're right, you can't _prove_ something like that to yourself. But in that case, what's the difference? (Unsolvable, usually irrelevant philosophical question, I suppose.)

Second, folks claiming to astral travel are, as far as I can tell, just lucid dreaming. Otherwise, we'd see more cults doing amazing things because they could go around and view secret plans, codes, passwords, and whatnot.
It's an Oracle-focused database blog so it was probably a reference to what his articles are usually about. (Just a guess.)
That's why schools like RIT have a Software Engineering program. Learn the basics of CS, then go build real software with it.
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Apparently not. Our billionaires continue to offshore their cash to countries like Switzerland.

And the fact that our companies continue to do exactly the same thing, also proves this out. There's no major international bank that won't take on lucrative accounts with our mega corporations.

What you're talking about is wishful thinking at this point.
... like benefits at all.
"It helps to know some music theory if you write and perform music, but a lot of very successful songwriters and performers get by very happily with just enough music theory."

This is an absolutely bogus comparison. Music does not need to be maintained, music does not need to be troubleshooted or debugged (and thus, reasoned about), music does not solve a problem(1).

Music is an artistic expression, while computer software isn't.

(1) Writing soundtracks for movies, for example, can be considered solving a problem with music. It also requires music theory knowledge because soundtracks have to convey particular emotions at particular moments.
Intel "Core" is a brand that's got nice soft rounded-rectangles and friendly blue lettering. It's designed to appeal to consumers. They don't have to know what it is exactly, they just have to recognize it and buy it.
There's some interesting discussion about how long copyright terms should be to be economically optimal here: http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyrig...

It arrives at a figure of 15 years, which seems quite sensible to me..
We've been thru all these battles before. Look for the viable/profitable solutions already achieved.

How long to "iTunes Match" for MakerBot et al? 3D-scan all your stuff, your rough scan is "matched" to an existing high-res model on an all-licensing-settled server, so you can download and "print" all the copies you want for private use.
I'm happy that, finally, people are not shoving 'movie-os' in computer scenes anymore.

The first time I saw real stuff in movies was in Antitrust, then in Tron: Legacy and finally here.
The difference is that music and movies can be translated into digital format, which makes copying effectively free. 3D printing is physical, not digital. Every copy you make will require raw materials and will cause wear and tear on the printer. That creates costs.

Those costs will probably come down over time, of course, but nowhere near as fast as the cost of digital duplication has. The price of plastic doesn't obey Moore's Law.
Just barely less amazing. Still like finding one particular mosquito in Pittsburgh?
As long as they're understandable, corrections are just noise for everyone reading.
So I don't know where's the contradiction you mention: the author simply says that a global push-back effort would go beyond what American citizens alone are able to do.

the rule of law is gone

What? Quite the contrary, the "rule of law" is stronger than ever.

And that's precisely the problem, as the justice system needs to calm down on passing and enforcing laws that restrict our freedoms and constitutional rights. And the institutions that enforce those laws need to remind themselves that people should be innocent until proven guilty.

The only nonviolent solution is to leave the country

That's not a solution at all, because the U.S. has so much influence that many countries simply bend over and deport you in the blink of an eye.
wow one of the worst articles I have seen on this subject.
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I wont lie, turning it into an HTPC was the first thing my mind went to.
The incidence of headline editing (vs using the original headline) seems to be on the rise. This original article didn't have the greatest headline either: "SpaceX Dragon ship aims for Earth" but would have been better and slightly more accurate. Dragon had not begun its fall when this was submitted.
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Writing applications: go ahead, program by the seat of your pants.

Architect a solution to a big problem: theory comes in very handy.
a) global address space for all computer data for all time? how big does that need to be?

b)yes, but in those messages are references to data. How do you reference that data across computer address spaces? Right now, we use an URI that is based on host/path/resource semantics. How do you get path/resource without a filestystem like construct?

c) I'm not following you.
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If anything, the Disney example is in favour of short terms: as it is, Disney could now just sit on their bottom and keep selling what they've produced in the 60s rather than creating new content.
What about L3 Cache?

What about Memory Access on another NUMA Node?

What about SSD?

Does a mobile phone programmer need to know the access time for disks?

Does an embedded system programmer need to know anything of these numbers?

Every programmer should know what memory hierarchy and network latency is. (If you learn it by looking at these numbers, fine...)
What is interesting is that we think of Facebook as a social networking company, but they are mostly a hacker company whether it is hacking social networks, photos, servers, phone, etc. They have a similar culture to Google except coming at it from a DIY, teach yourself, pull it apart to put it back together again better angle and not a academic PhD research angle.

Facebook is a global company and if they come out with a phone it is most likely not going to be pointed at the US market alone. They will be developing a phone aimed at the developing country markets where they have much of their traction. My guess is that the phone will have a low price point so that it is affordable to anyone in the world who wants it who currently doesn't have a smartphone. This included with mobile payments is what Facebook is after, they want to own the global mobile market.
Yeah, I get that, hence my hesitation. If you check, I've never done it before. It's just that if I were writing in a foreign language, I'd want it. Even when writing in English, if I make a stupid mistake I'd want a correction. It would be nice to have a way of pointing out the mistake, allowing the person to correct it, and then it all gets tidied.

I "time bomb" corrections. Regardless of whether the person fixes it or not, I delete my comment within an hour or so, giving them the option, and yet removing the noise.

And I suggest we do that with this exchange as well.

Added in edit: Correction made, and I'm deleting my comments. I'll delete this one shortly too. Thanks for your reply - I'll keep it in mind."
Arthur van Hoff (who wrote the first Java compiler in Java, developed AWT and HotJava, founded Marimba and more recently Flipboard) developed a user interface tool for the NeWS window system inspired by HyperCard, that was called GoodNeWS, HyperNeWS and then HyperLook.

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html

It used NeWS PostScript both as its graphics model and its scripting language, and it extended the HyperCard Object=>Card=>Background=>Stack delegation model to send messages over the network to the client (what we now call the web server -- the terms client and server have switched place since then).

Wikipedia describes NeWS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

In many ways NeWS had an excellent design for thin-networked clients

+ moving much of the processing to the display

+ allowing clients to reduce network traffic by defining new operators

+ separating graphical user interface semantics from client program semantics.

+ the PostScript drawing model, which is far easier to use and more powerful than other graphical APIs, even compared to ones being used 20 years later.

NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS:

+ used PostScript code instead of JavaScript for programming.

+ used PostScript graphics instead of DHTML/CSS for rendering.

+ used PostScript data instead of XML/JSON for data representation.

I worked with Arthur on developing HyperLook into a commercial product, and used it to port SimCity to OpenWindows on the Sun workstation.

Here are some brochures, manuals and articles about GoodNeWS/HyperNeWS/HyperLook, and the HyperLook SimCity manual:

http://www.scribd.com/collections/3512581/HyperLook-Manual

Micropolis is the open source descendent of the original SimCity code that I ported to Unix.

http://www.micropolisonline.com
What kind of copyright reform would you like to see? Is it to do with the years a person has copyright on something?

My ideas:

• Copyright lasts 10 years from creation, maybe extensible to 20 or 30 if you pay a fee based on the amount of years you want extra. As with the existing system, copyright is instaneous and doesn't require a registration fee.

• Similar to trademark law, "everyone else is let away with it" should be a defence to copyright infringement. (e.g. You are being sued for using a P2P network, but you can find lots of people who weren't sued, ergo you get off the hook. This happens with trademarks)

• Bring the law into line with what the general public thinks are moral, e.g. format shifting, time shifting, should be legal.

• Gradual "Creative Commons-ification" of all copyright. After 10 years, all copyrighted material is also available as a CC-BY-ND-NC (creative commons, non commercial, attribution, no derivates) licence. After 15, CC-BY-NC etc.

• A work is only copyrightable in a country if the original copyright holder is commercially exploiting it (or was commercially exploiting it in the last ~5 years). Films made in the USA but not available in, say, UK, are copyrighted. If a book goes out of print, and you can't buy it, you can't photocopy it.

• Loss of copyright if there are too many false applications of DMCA-type take down notices for that work.

I have no problem with corporations holding copyright, artists should be allowed sell it.
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