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The well known must have authors don't self-publish directly on amazon, they have publishers who handle all that sort of negotiation for them. And part of that negotiation surely includes talking amazon down on the delivery fees.

However, authors who publish heir work through a publisher also don't make 55% royalty, so the author of this blog post is still better off than he would have been.
Mirror of The Oatmeal's post (annotated letter from the lawyer), since the site is down or slow right now:

http://rorr.im/reddit.com/r/funny/comments/uwp0d/8d937aaedad...
As a Linux desktop user, I want to agree with you.

As a Linux desktop user, I'm not sure that I can.
In my former life in US-GEO (MapPoint, Streets & Trips, 1997 or 1998) at Microsoft, one of the tools I worked on normalized data sets from disparate vendors. One of the largest jobs we had was figuring out mappings from the "north" of one vendor and the "north" of another, as the vendors for high-quality data sets varied from locale to locale.

Frequently, you would need to rotate and transform the data to get it close enough that the geometry could be snapped together. This usually required some manual intervention; nothing like the human eye for detecting an array of streets suddenly had a 1 degree kink where it crossed some stitching line.

Our licensing for the data sets was very strict, and deformed the products in interesting ways, as you might imagine.

My fondest memory of working with that group was inserting POIs - we all got a POI, provided it wasn't obscene or something. I named a feature close to where I grew up; sadly, the POIs were culled every edition.
> With audio, it is seriously child's play. Compression is about as CPU intensive as you can get with audio outside of voice recognition, and it just isn't there.

Don't do much audio work, do you? Between softsynths and DSP effects on 32+ tracks, professional-level audio workstations will eat all of the processing power available on pretty much any modern CPU and ask for more.
But remember, they're charging that $0.15/MB even for people who don't own a 3G-capable Kindle. In those cases it really is roughly a 120,000% markup over an already profitable service.
With a higher dpi screen, he can lower his font size and still get a functional increase in screen real estate, potentially.
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Found a deal.
Nonsense. Comparing a Lenovo X220 with equivalent specs, it comes out slightly cheaper on the Lenovo side. There are minor differences on both sides (eg thunderbolt versus replaceable battery) but going for SSD, same RAM, same CPU, similar screen size, the Lenovo comes out at $1216 and the Mac Air at $1349 (in Australia).
If you get 4x the clarity, then you can reduce the size of various things, font size, window size etc. So while the concept of resolution as you know it may not have changed, you can easily put more 'stuff' on the screen – more real estate.
Well, here's the approach my business is taking:

1) You can bill up-front for major features development. If someone wants a major feature they can may for it. This reduces the risk of software development because much more of the development is being paid for up front. However the revenue doesn't scale and it's subject to boom/bust problems. This being said it's a great strategy to mitigate financial risk in product development.

2) You can find areas where #1 doesn't work and come up with some sort of customer agreement that does scale. The nice thing is that if that area really doesn't work (updates to payroll for example) for reasons inherent here, then you won't have someone else release something like it fully on an open source model and have to compete with free.

So the way I look at it is that I get some things for free (financing for development), my customers get some things for free(software, upgrades on main packages), and this then creates a market for services I can charge more for because the overall package is less expensive.

ERP is huge business but the thing about it is that going with an open source approach brings benefits to smaller businesses that are currently reserved for huge businesses. A multi-pronged approach to revenue here (consulting, subscriptions, support contracts), allows you to take advantage of network effects between these things, cut risk, and still maintain general scalability of revenues.

If others want to do this with LedgerSMB I would generally advise against competing with core, long-term members of the community. You are more likely to succeed if you carve out a niche for yourself in an area that's not being done or is underdeveloped (MRP would be a good example with LedgerSMB).
My guess is it'll still be unreasonably blurry – I'll be happy to be proven wrong.
Getting OpenID working was pretty trivial; getting additional info from the ID provider (name and whatnot) is messier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

Osborne Computer announced a future product that would outperform the current line. People waited, rather than buying what was currently being offered. In the meantime, with the drop in sales they ran out of cash and went bankrupt.
>Huh? Their 15: is 16:10 too. Lenovo lets you do 1920x1080 on their 15" while the highest resolution from Apple is 1680x1050.

At least they are 16:10. It's 16:9 all the way with the new Thinkpads. The 1920x1080 resolution is actually a step backwards. I currently own a 1920x1200 W500, sadly with a broken display backlight. Apple's highest resolution at the moment is 2880x1800, which is also 16:10.

I know that they have supply problems. It's just sad that the work-laptop line par-excellence can't even get enough supply for at least 16:10 displays.
As John Medaille put it Santorum preaches to the choir but drives the congregation out of the church.
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The point of this change was to add controls for managing trusted installation sources. So, you can use the enterprise policy support to push your installation source out to all your users, or install the extension as part of your Chrome deployment.
I don't think that's accurate. The thunderbolt displays include a power supply with a magsafe power OUTPUT for charging a mac laptop plugged in to the thunderbolt cable, so it logically follows that they must have their own AC input.
> I'm certainly very intrigued to see how it looks because 1920x1200 at 15" would be ideal.

Ditto. My concern is the same as the author's. Any antialiasing while looking at code drives me nuts, so I use a pixel-perfect bitmap font and turn antialiasing off. I'll have to play with a machine at the Apple store to see if it'll be noticeable when using a "scaled" resolution.
Because 32GB is the supported max for the lower end Mac Pro. The higher end ones support up to 64GB officially, 64GB and 96GB respectively are the actual maximums.
Display technology has been stagnating for decades. The "retina" display (if it is as good as promised) might be the first display that matches the quality of ancient IBM flexview displays or rarities like this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors

So I'm having issues with the statement that technology continuously improves. In many areas that's just not true.
It's improving the base model look and size for the majority at the cost of adapters for the outliers. Apple has always been consistently designing for mass market appeal for the past decade. If you are an outlier, Macs are not for you.
It's amazing to me that you don't know how to type that into Google. Or should everything on here be catering to the lowest common denominator?
"derp, pressed back too much"

"wait, what was that page I was just on?"

"wait, did that page really say that?"
"the planet’s ecosystems, as we know them, could irreversibly collapse in the proverbial blink of an eye" seems like a fairly straightforward clearcut negative consequence.

They're worried that ecosystems (those networks of interacting species) will collapse (meaning the ecosystem dynamics change and the vast majority of the species who rely on and compose the ecosystem go extinct).
This prospect makes me more interested. Learning theory is nice, but I'm interested in these topics primarily because I'm interested in the data and that requires proficiency in a good tool.
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JavaScript, but I recommend you learn the bad parts so you'll be able to recognize them when you see them. Remember, most of the code you'll be working on is code that other people have written....You'll spend more time reading other people's code than your own.
> Hey we have homebrew nowadays :P

When I'm on a Mac, I'm a ports guy. MacPorts is probably the first thing I install on every Mac I lay my hands upon. That, iTerm2 and Cathode (who can resist that?)

> And microsoft is actually really generous towards students, I can get basically any software except for office for free.

The first one is always free. They will only bill you when you actually need what they offer. Chances are, when you do, you won't be able to easily move away.
Should be able to and "will" be able to are different things, though.

Technically, you could just choose a 9pt font or something for text display, but everything else is going to look huge by comparison (window decorations, toolbars and whatnot).
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I think the increase in resolution wins out for the 15" HD vs. the HiDPI.

However, the 17" 1920x1200 is probably still superior (due to physical size) in the "luggable" mode. If you for some reason can't rely on an external monitor, the 17" could easily be better for some uses, even compared to 1920x1200 scaled. IPS vs. PVA might be enough to tip the balance for the new one (one of the main advantages of a 17" would be sharing a screen with someone else, but the wider viewing angle of the IPS screen would win for that).
This is absurd. Spend five minutes comparing an iPad 1 to an iPad 3 and you will quickly notice that a retina-quality display allows you to comfortably read much smaller font sizes, thus providing an increase in effective screen real-estate. Sure, the new retina MacBook has a logical screen size of 1440x900 -- but why would I care if I can now set my Terminal font four points smaller and see just as much as I do on my clunky 17" MacBook with a 1920x1200 screen.
Thank you so much for this! I have looked for a workaround for the last four years, literally.
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While I think his claims of high delivery charges are fair, I don't think it's right to call it hidden. When pricing your book in Amazon's self publishing (I am assuming here he went through KDP), it calculates in real time the delivery charge and estimated royalty based on the price you input. There is also a blurb on the right side of the same page explaining the delivery charge, and how it applies to the 70% royalty plan (and now there is no delivery charge for 35% royalty).
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This blog post seemed pretty levelheaded to me.

I think in general people can be levelheaded thinkers in one domain and dogmatic in another. So maybe ESR is dogmatic about other things, but this doesn't seem to be one of them from my perspective.
Awesome book btw, careful with this though:

"I did make 3x though Amazon, but if I had gone through gumroad, I would have done double the revenue."

Not nearly as many people know about Gumroad or use it, so for any given marketplace, some percentage of the buyers in that marketplace are potential customers but they are stubbornly proportional. If Gumroad has 10% of the customers that Amazon has and you get 2x the revenue per book sold, you will only see an increase proportional to 10% of the sales at Amazon. As a worked example

219 Amazon customers $5.10 per book -> $1117 in revenue
22 Gumroad customers $9.25 per book -> $209 in revenue

It's the area under the curve that is important. In a traditional publishing arrangement you would give a bigger 'discount' to a big seller (say Barnes and Noble) vs a boutique seller like 'World Books'. One has 10,000 stores, the other 4 stores. Because while you get less per book, you sell more books and make more overall (price * volume, not just price).

So I seriously doubt you would even have matched the Amazon revenue, if you had gone through Gumroad and precluded Amazon.

So when you look at it you need to sum all of the sales, and all of the margins, and you will get your 'average selling price' or ASP. This will help you understand how much you can profitably 'invest' in putting together a book. As your reputation grows, if you garner an audience, then you can 'count' on more total revenue per book and take some of the guesswork out of the planning.

The other part of the equation is time, since it takes a while for people to get the book and recommend it, there can be several months of 'growth' before you really know what the market for your book is.

I totally understand that you were surprised had the additional charges that Amazon specified but didn't make clear (and that Apple does a better job of this I think is a good thing since they are the competition). Unfortunately PDF is a horrible book format as it pre-computes for a given render and that means that it looks like crap on readers that don't fit the mold. Epub is much better, as is mobi. For what its worth the last time I was looking through the Writers Guide (one of my daughters is looking to creative writing as a career) selling 1500 travel books if you weren't Michelen or Fodor's was a 'big' title, so selling 300 pretty much right off the bat is huge. I wish you great success!
The Fed was founded because in fly-over country the financial system was rickety. Off the coasts, banks were regularly going bust and taking people's savings with them. This almost always happened during harvest season when demand for currency was high. In the urban centers the banking system was working fine. The problem to solve was a ridiculously inefficient and inept banking sector in large swathes of the country.

As soon as the idea of some sort of federal level reform got going the House Of Morgan and friends seized control and the Fed became a tool of the major banks, which were already working fine, to increase their profits and control. Almost from the start it was the case the Federal Reserve Bank of New York really ran the system, which was entirely not the original idea. The idea of the Fed originated from a temporary problem unique to a particular period of American history, but was immediately usurped by clever power and money hungry people.
The terms are plainly outlined in this table right here, which I found after 10 seconds of Googling:

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A29FL26O...
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I was thinking about it, but then I just bit the bullet and got the top iMac, ordered 4GB with it, then ripped out the 2x2GB from Apple and put in 4x8GB. It's acceptable, though sometimes when I am churning data I wish I had more than 8 threads.

Having to deal with opening up one's computer and also occasionally losing a half a day to tracking down proper kexts is not my idea of cost savings. (I'm not afraid of it, it just sucks and absorbs my only non-renewable resource.)
One of my favourite centres is:

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They really didn't like it the last time that The Oatmeal talked about funnyjunk (and was highly linked to, commented about and other google-juice-accumulating indicators), or at least that's what the lawyer's letter indicates. Why should this time be any different?
You clearly don't understand the idea of screen real estate and how this display will be used on the MBP. They don't intend to use smaller fonts for instance. They are simply going to scale the fonts to the same life-size as a 1440x900 screen. They'll just be crisper.
I'm a web developer, and I use the back and forward buttons* all the time, especially if I'm being lazy. For example, if I'm shopping for something, rather than opening a whole bunch of tabs, I'll just bounce back and forth using forward and back. I think I do this especially when I'm farther away from what I want, and as I start to zero in more, I start opening more tabs at once so I can compare.

Also, from some usability studies we've done at my job, it seems that most people are almost completely unable to deal with window management. We rolled out functionality for a while that broke the back button (poorly-implemented infinite scroll) and found that our pages performed very poorly, because people would lose their place and just leave. We kind of had assumed that most people would use tabs, but that turned out not to be the case at all.

Anecdotally, watching my mom use the computer recently was enlightening. She's been using computers longer than I have, and is very savvy with certain things (e.g., she still knows how to use Excel to solve problems better than I do, and I know Excel pretty damn well.) She seems to use browser tabs sort of like "processes", rather than "threads". For example, she'll have her "hotel search" tab, her "rental car" tab, and her "flight search" tab, and within those tabs, she'll stick to that topic, using the back buttons to look at different pages. When I switched spots with her, and started spawning a whole bunch of tabs from each tab, she started to lose track of things.

* Edit: actually, I almost never use the buttons themselves, but I use the functionality as I described. I use mouse buttons, gestures or shortcut keys, rather than the buttons.
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About $8.60/month with a 3 year buy in. Not bad.

I will try one for a few weeks and see what kind of performance it provides.

I was hoping that Heroku's new PostgreSQL service would be a good option for a hosted easy to use database but I have lots of small projects and Heroku's offerings are per database not per virtualized database server.
RMS is not a fanatic. People portray him as a fanatic. Is Gandhi a fanatic? But, it would be easy to portray him as a fanatic, as an enemy to corporations. We need more people like RMS.
Is there any chance that FunnyJunk has played the Oatmeal for promotional purposes here?
I think if we just keep saying it, it'll happen eventually.
thinkpad T420 user here running archlinux.

i agree with none of these points, actually, except #1, which i wouldn't know about because i'm not using dual-mode graphics card.

"2. inability to use multiple monitors" < incorrect. i use a docking station with a dell u2711 hooked up to it. pressing fn+f7 switches correctly between external, internal, and external+internal with no problems.

"3. some ports being unusable" < incorrect. every port on my thinkpad is usable, including the ports on the docking station.

"4. audio glitches" < incorrect. my audio works better with my u2711 (via display-port audio) than it does over my macbook air (via display-port audio). why? because i can control the volume via the volume control via linux+pulse whereas OSX artificially restricts me -- it tells me i can't control the audio levels via mini-display port unless i'm using an apple display.

"5. hand patching required to keep the laptop stable" < incorrect? by this, do you mean updates? don't all OSs benefit from updates? if you mean configuration, udev (now systemd-tools) found everything correctly on my thinkpad on the first go. this was the case when i recently ran ubuntu 12.04 off of a flash drive as well.

"6. poor support for X11 even with simple intel integrated graphics" < incorrect. i have the intel HD3000 on my thinkpad, which runs everything pretty much the same way that my macbook air (with the intel3000) runs them. flash video at fullscreen with no tearing, etc (in fact, flash runs better on linux than it does on my macbook).

regarding battery life, i did have to do a bit of tinkering there. but that's because i'm a bit power-consumption obsessed. i used powertop to show me what needed fine tuning, then wrote a power management script that changes my computer's parameters depending on whether it's plugged in. the result: an idle 7w power consumption (with wi-fi on). that's roughly the same power consumption i get from the macbook air, which is an ULV chipset. battery life for windows on my T420 is ~10 hrs. with linux,...~12hrs.

"no competitively priced linux laptops"? my T420 was $1000 with a 2520M processor, 1600x900 resolution display, 160GB intel SATA 3 SSD, and 8GB of RAM.
Whenever you posted is working pretty good, it brought me here to comment.
Anybody who's following $AAPL knows that the stock market is always underwhelmed following these announcements. AAPL dropped quite a bit after the iPhone was first announced.
I agree that Visual Studio is an excellent IDE if you are targeting Windows and that SQL Server is a very good RDBMS, but why would anyone, except for some disgustingly wicked form of auto-flagellation, actually want Exchange and SharePoint?
Ironically The Oatmeal is down. Presumably because so many people want to give him money that they've DDOSed his website.
FunnyJunk is apparently responding quietly on their site, as just searching for the word 'oatmeal' results in no search results (that wasn't the case when this blog post went up). According to people I know that use the site, you cannot add comments with the word 'oatmeal', either. They also deleted every single linked image he exhaustively listed.

I have a hard time resolving litigation like this with the fact that the truth can change in minutes, as Web sites are fairly easy to edit. It's just scary.
You can get the Dell U2412M for $300. Reviews seem good; e.g. http://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=showfull...
Wouldn't the extra crispness allow you to use a smaller font than you normally would? I understand that the OS defaults are going to be the same visual size, but there's nothing stopping a user from choosing smaller fonts.
No. There are monetary and performance gains for using Linux on servers and embedded products. As a result, OEMs have a financial incentive for making sure those products run Linux well. No such incentive exists for desktops.

Apple incorporates the cost of OS X into selling hardware. Windows' licenses are effectively free for OEM manufacturers.

Dell is the only major OEM I know of that offers a Linux laptop and I'd guess that division is in the red. The original Asus EEE PC was Linux only and spawned the netbook revolution, but Linux only did not last very long once the market took off and Microsoft intervened.
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