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There's a couple problems I see with that, although it's always an interesting discussion to me.

First off, what if I create a song all by myself then on the way back from the studio I die in a car accident? The song goes on to make millions, played on every radio station. My estate sees none of that money. There has to be some kind of time allotment (life + 10 years or 25 years, whichever comes first, that kind of idea).

Secondly, corporations must be able to hold copyright over works created by their employees. Lets bring this into the software world: I create a program while working at my company. Right now, the company holds that copyright. Doesn't matter who created it; if it was made at work, the company owns it. Artists are the employees of their record label. It would be awful if I could use company time and resources to make software then turn around and sell it to their competitors.

It would make sense to me to draw a line between "creative works" and "business need", where a creative/entertainment copyright would give the studio a license to the song but copyright would remain with the creator, while non-entertainment business needs would have the copyright transferred to the company immediately and permanently.
Megaupload is a lot like limewire. They did the bare minimum, like honoring the occasional take down request, but make no real effort to minimize file-sharing of copyrighted content. This is clearly unethical. (unless you don't believe that sharing copyrighted content is unethical, which seems to be a popular opinion these days).

Compare this with how Apple sells iPods. iPods and pirated music go together very well, but Apple makes a real effort to get people to pay for music.
How can it be 100% faster at anything? This is mathematically impossible. If a task used to take 100 seconds, 1 second (an unlikely improvement!) is just 99% faster.
When you're dreaming, it feels real, but as soon as you wake you realize that it was not. In a lucid dream, it feels like a dream, and that feeling persists through waking. Perhaps you will wake in a moment and discover that your present feeling of consciousness is an illusion; until then, you kind of just have to trust it.
I believe the answer to that is that lucid dreamers have a token symbol they regularly keep in real life that cannot attain a specific state in reality; if they keep this token so persistent in their life that it inevitably ends up in the dream, they can interact with the token to determine the dreamstate by making the token do something impossible. This boolean answer hopefully trickles up to you just enough to go "whoa!" without waking you - at which point you're free to dream about the 3 things people do with lucid dreaming.
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Exactly, I get to 10 tabs and it grinds to a halt. That's 10 sites with nothing more than text and a few images (hardly 5 plugins)....its seriously underpowered as is and with the new UI update its as slow as a dog on the Acer.
Agreeing with you here.

Apple is great at identifying context. A lot of people don't realize that Apple does "sell specifications", because they're mostly exposed to Apple's advertising, which rarely uses specification. However, when you get to their website, they recognize that you're probably looking for more detail. That shows an understanding of context.

There's another contextual difference they play as well. Have a look at their pages for traditional computing hardware, then have a look at their pages for iOS devices.

Traditional computers:

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

http://www.apple.com/macmini/

iOS:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Notice the difference in pitch? There are even identifiable differences in the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad pages. Which one is closer to a traditional computing device? The iPad. Which page is more specification oriented? The iPad.

A lot of lip service is given to Apple's avoidance of specification, but I think too many people treat it as a black & white scenario: you either do talk about specification, or you don't. Like many stereotypes, this focuses on the wrong distinction. It's not a matter of do or don't, but a matter of when and why. Specification isn't the best way to get customers interested in your product, but once the customer is in the door, you do need to be prepared to communicate the specifications clearly and in a relatable way. Apple is very adept at identifying that transition and guiding the customer on their way to a sale.
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The canisters had little parachutes, so it's not quite as amazing as it sounds.
Copyright should only be long enough to encourage creation of content.

Back in the days, when things moved a million times slower than they do today, 14 years was more than sufficient to encourage mass creation of content. No author's life plus plus bullshit. 14 years. That's what you got to monetize. No more.

I see no reason it should be anything more today.
I would like the length of copyright limited, but I would also like the extent of copyright limited. I think fair use should be expanded significantly, particularly for non-commercial uses. I also think anticircumvention laws should be scrapped: violations should be based on the illegal use of digital lock breaking tools/techniques, rather than trying to make it illegal to possess or discuss them.
Yes. MU was created to share files. It is not illegal.

Were you, back in the day, suggesting BASF, or who ever, should be prosecuted for selling blank cassette tapes? Were they for illegal recordings, or just recordings?

Presumably too, since google can search specifically for torrents and offers a great way to store files, that it too should be shut down, founders arrested and servers seized?

What happens when encrypted RAIDed cloud sharing happens?
"I have yet to come across an intricate system that did not have a designer, and it would be illogical for me to believe the universe just exists."

This is called the Teleological argument for the existence of God [1]. Its been around for a long time, is the basis for creationism and intelligent design, and criticism of it goes all the way back to David Hume. Its just a weak argument.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleological_argument
The problem with the actual charges, from what I read, is that the emails show that MegaUpload was trying to do the absolute minimum necceesary to comply with the DMCA. They were, in fact, not actually living up to everything that they had to do to under the DMCA and are thus guilty of copyright infringement under civil law, but the government decided to press criminal charges instead, and making a good faith effort to abide by the DMCA is enough to get out of those charges.

EDIT: A better explanation: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/02/is-megaupload-a-l...
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> do not involve US companies in your business.

Actually, there is a whiff of a trade dispute brewing between Australia and US about this.

> "the US has accused the Australian government of misleading its agencies about the Patriot Act’s scope, and warned that its [cloud service providers] should not be barred from competing for the work."

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/trad...
As a lucid dreamer, the difference is pretty obvious. A memory of a dream feels like just that, a dream. Remembering a lucid dream feels more like a memory from everyday life- I remember actually being 'there'.

Waking up directly after a lucid dream makes it even more apparent, to transition from the dream-world into the real world with no apparent loss of consciousness in between.
Sort of annoying when sites throw up a big overlay on content I can see rendered just fine because javascript is turned off.
I find it hard to believe that they didn't negotiate a contract which would provide partial credit if things happen to go pear-shaped (or rather, pancake-shaped) at this point.
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That's from 2011. Amazon's James Hamilton wrote about it in 2009, and it comes from a presentation that year by Google's Jeff Dean:

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/17/JeffDeanDesignLe...

EDIT: this is wrong, Norvig's page pre-dates Dean's presentation http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://norvig.com/21-days.h...
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I used to get them quite a lot a few years ago. First thing was usually white noise followed by the "lucid dream".

The funny thing is that when you put on a nicotine patch right before going to sleep the dreams become way more accurate. I guess it has something to do with dopamine. It's like having a lucid dream... in HD ;)
The government doesn't have to monitor the site. Just the threat alone of confiscating servers so that regular users lose access to their data is enough. Dotcom can totally win this case, restore his service, and the government hits him again six months later over new infringements. That's a risk many will not take.

In my opinion this action has possibly ruined the future growth of cloud services. I've always been leery of using a third-party server you do not control and the government showing it has no problems shutting that server down, whether it has anything to do with you or not, is a serious problem to consider.

Plus, since hosting services will often put multiple websites on the same box then that's a potential problem to consider. One we've seen before.

What if this happened to Dropbox? What if this happened to Apple's iCloud? Sure, people will say that will never happen but history is full of people saying similar things.
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Look around for "vim grammar". There were a couple of posts recently about this subject: basically you should consider Vim's commands/motions/text-objects/count as the lexical parts of a language that you combine to form phrases.

This a simple example of combining commands in Vim, first in English, then in Vim-speak:

I want to turn this line into a paragraph, make it UPPERCASE and duplicate it 10 times.

yss<p>vitgU10p
gU$yss<p>10p
...

Like for everything in Vim, there are many ways to do that. The optimal order is not always the most natural but it's often close and it's almost always faster than in other editors.
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Someone should add basic numbers like ns count for 63 cycles modulo and that type of stuff -
That'll help bad devs realize why putting another useless cmp inside a loop is dumb, and why alt rows in a table should NEVER be implemented by use of a modulo, for example.

Yes I know that's not latency per se but in the end it is too.
I get what you're saying, but if the tech is left untouched, any advancement gained in a few decades time will likely be less impressive than a few decades of commercial and niche amateur interest. No one is saying let's shut down factories yet. (I don't think.)
If the money is returned, I hope Dotcom gets megaupload back in it's top file-sharing spot, and shoves it in the face of the US Govt. who have clearly fucked up big time.

It does seem as if the Govt. was desperate and, without any correct process or concrete evidence, scrambled to shutter the site and Dotcom as fast as they could. And now it will hopefully backfire, and the internet will rejoice.
Not true. There isn't a major international bank that will turn away American billionaires. Large accounts are extremely lucrative, and far easier to manage because you can keep active watch on the account activities.

Far better to have one billion dollar account, than 1,000 million dollar accounts.
The article has a section on dream interpretation. This is bunk Freudian stuff. Even if it were true that dreams had meanings, it would be difficult to prove scientifically. Just a warning before people start attaching meaning to something where there is none.
I agree. "Photocopying" an object is still way more expensive than buying it.

The price of machines, especially for plastic printing, can and will probably go down (1000$ seems high, I think the small ones are more in the 400/500 range right now). The price of material ? I don't see that happening.
Being slow because it is underpowered is different to what I'm referring to - becoming slower over time because web technologies move past the capabilities of the hardware.
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Be careful who you listen to
Vim - because its everywhere and controlling it doesn't require much typing (I suffer from hands problems). Emacs - because it's so extensible and I prefer ELisp over Vimscript.
They're using general labor statistics to demonstrate some kind of specific point with the tech sector. This post doesn't make any sense.
The bigger issue in embedded deployments of Linux is that it's often not just a vanilla kernel with some userspace apps tacked on: there are typically at least some custom device drivers in the picture, and these aren't userspace.
I've been using a chromebook at home as a mostly-primary computer, replacement for a 13" MBP w/ SSD (which cost ~$2000 when it was new).

The only thing that's weird is printing, but for 90% of "generic internet stuff" it works fantastic. ChromeOS just updated last night and I haven't even had a chance to mess with it.

It will even work mostly-ish as a web-dev terminal as it'll do SSH as well as chrome developer tools (although it is slightly hokey).

I'm a 15+ year linux user and I don't mind using the chromebook at all AS AN ADJUNCT TO A REAL COMPUTER!

A ChromeBook is ~1/10th the cost of a "real" computer, is SSD by default (only I think), is great for "kitchen computing", great for travel (just turn on password-protection and it gets very good battery life, and you don't mind if it gets lost, stolen, or damaged and it's very lightweight).

It's got a lot of advantages even for a power-user, although it doesn't (yet) replace a "real" computer / linux / osx box.

The things I've used my "real" computer for since then have been seashore (gimp), inkscape, video editing, printing, and some minor gaming, and I've had the MBP for 1-2 years and the chromebook for ~6 mo.
Windows 8 to add to your convenience
Post Windows 8 Developers Preview, it is clear that Microsoft is all set to redefine the Windows experience through Windows 8. With tablets becoming increasingly popular over traditional computers, Microsoft is taking its operating system to work on the mobile space. Windows 8 promises lot of new features for both home and business users. The security and manageability features would be the USP of the new product.
To put this into context, open source was previously deigned not acceptable in large swathes of government due to procurement and liability problems. HMG civil servants have mostly developed an inate and enviable skill in blame deflection, non-answering and political maneuvering mostly due to the politicisation of their day jobs. It's an odd world out there.

So by forcing them to consider FOSS this is the government's attempt to put it right. If they just told people that FOSS was now acceptable, people in some parts of HMG would still use closed source software in case the wind changes again.

What's bad is that departments appear to be excessively pressured into open source, which is not a good idea. It's important to go for the best tool for the job and the things you can manage the most effectively, which might not always be open source.
Get in contact with a mortgage broker and have them shop you around. If they can't find a bank for you, no one can.

They can be shifty guys, but unlike in most instances they usually lie to the bank and not to you.
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I don't know, what if they need to edit a report with a company template someone made in Word? There are full fledged PC for sale at less than that price. Salespeople are often on the move and would probably use a netbook I think.
The power of habit:

1) Notice how patio11 isn't commenting here.

2) Closes tab.
I wish I got the new ipad that's for sure. The first generation ipad beats the pants off my Acer chromebook and its got even worse with the new shiny UI.

And remember $300 over here (sunny Britain) is more like 300 quid, which is more like equivalent $460!! over there ;)

No one I have shown this to would buy it and they think im insane for doing so.
The real question is: Why does it tell me "JavaScript for Mobile Safari is currently turned off." when I'm on Firefox on Windows.
Hum, I call BS. Direct injection reduces greatly the need for warming up, and almost all modern diesel engines come with direct injection.
For anyone thinking about watching: the presentation is incredibly good. The name is kinda misleading -- they talk more about modern x86 architecture and actual numbers of various algorithms than the lock free algorithms themselves. Both of those guys have a high emphasis on measuring and testing to improve performance.
+1 to CS: APP (Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, by Bryant and O'Hallaron). I thought Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennessey was dry and better suited to EE's. CS: APP, on the other hand, really sucked me in - and I'm not the kind of guy that typically gets enthralled by CS texts.
This is dangerous thinking, IMO. Look at where we are with other media (music and movies).

Years ago, the same thinking was applied to music and movies. "Well, this isn't a big problem, because duplicating the content is expensive and time consuming." The technology advanced, and now copying digital goods is very nearly free from a time and money standpoint. Should we wait for things to get as sideways as they are with music and movies before we put some weight behind reform?
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"Sell the dream and sell it hard. It’s your dream vs. their dream. Benefits are no longer a factor. The best dream wins. Good Luck."

I've hated for years how words lose some of their original meaning/intent. "benefits" is one. A "benefit" of working at XYZ company is that you get ABC handed to you at no charge. Fair enough. But when all jobs (in particular fields) come with 'benefits', there's no 'benefit' any more. I dunno - the word just bugs me. Oh, maybe it's because it's not a 'benefit' - it's just something that they're providing to you, whether you want it or not. More often than not, it's not a 'benefit' to me or my family.

"Scholarship" is another one - having "athletic scholarships" seems an oxymoron, but that's for another day...

Yes, your 'benefits' packages don't matter to me. Not really. Not much. Matching 401k contributions are nice, but often they're restricted to some lame company with too-high fees and poor choice of investment options. Healthcare? Currently, I can get it for half what most companies are paying, and personally, I think the continued involvement of employers in providing healthcare insurance is distorting the market way out of whack.

So... sell me on the dream. Tell me that your vision and ability to execute on that - and where you see me in your company's execution of that vision and we'll talk.

Hint: "Looking for senior PHP developer to work on our Magento store! $75k plus foosball table and weekly movies with the team and XBox in the office!" isn't it.
I think if you're worried about whether or not you use modulo to calculate alternating table rows (and you don't work for Facebook), then you're almost certainly optimizing prematurely.
Most consumers don't even know what an Intel Atom CPU is. A large portion might have some vague brand awareness of Intel, though, so mentioning Intel is good in general. For a consumer product to succeed you can't sell it and market it to only people who know the difference between different processors. That's a very small group of people.
Because they've been spying on my iPhone! I turned it off about 2 hours ago, and now they're broadcasting that fact to you? WTF?
Agreed, I think the real lesson is: reading is 10x cheaper than branching, so if you can do something with 10 non-branching ops it'll be just as fast as a single branch.
> Yes, I am sure Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank with the $99 that RedHat is going to pay them.

This is probably a foot in the door towards more cumbersome and restrictive measures on servers, where security matters much more and where the big money is.
Great write up! Thanks for sharing.
Personally I've used Megeupload many times to get entirely legit mods for video games. They were almost certainly engaging in copyright infringement, and if they'd gotten sued for millions of dollars I'd say fair's fair. But that wasn't what happened, instead a frigging SWAT team was sent in to raid their facilities and all their gear was taken, and the they were charged with felonies which they weren't, in fact, guilty of.

Yes they were criminals, but the response was way out of proportion to the crime. Its like some cop is walking down the street, sees someone clearly speeding, and pulls out his gun and tries to shoot out the car's tires. Catching the criminal isn't worth the chance of someone accidentally ending up dead.
"It would require proving that the print shop knew what the students were doing"

Exactly. It would require proving. The article is arguing that it did not happen
oh, ok. I thought that is what you might have meant. These are prototypes so far I think. Hopefully the production version is less weird looking. :)
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For those looking for an easy way to begin forming new habits, I'd definitely recommend professor Fogg's "3 Tiny Habits" guide. link - http://tinyhabits.com/.
Just to be clear, caffeine is commonly used as a legal performance enhancer for athletes. The cross-fitter who doesn't consume a cup of coffee (or three) is few and far between.
Doing the bare minimum to properly follow rules set by someone else is not unethical. They were doing the bare minimum as outlined by the rules. If that's not enough then the rules need to change.

If I gave you a list of twenty things you can do and I state that you only need to do five of them, are you unethical for only doing five? Now add to that where I pay you money on the first five items but then you pay me money for every item completed after that. Are you unethical for only doing five?

You can say that their efforts at doing the bare minimum were making them money and I would respond that's more the reason to change the rules. A business exists to make money and will follow the rules as best as needed to keep making money. Whether the rules concern civil laws, criminal laws, and tax laws. You can see this throughout the business world, it's not a new concept.
And thousands of other companies too, right down to little-old 90 person Ember where I work.
"Today, there is another competitor that hiring managers have to compete against: Entrepreneurship."

For the first time in the history of civilization, people are starting their own business.
No thanks, more trouble learning the basics of Zen Coding than it would take for me to just hand write that HTML.

If it works, don't fix it.
Modafinil definitely has a similiar effect, if you sleep when it's active..
Chosen better for what? They certainly chose a good title to get people to click...