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> There will be tremendous recoil though when layman VC's realize their investments are so very risky.

Do you really think laymen understand risk, though? Casinos make billions of dollars each year off people who can't correctly model risk even after risking, and losing, large sums of money. Of course, VCs wouldn't put their money on black at the Roulette table--but VCs (and stock-brokers, and investment-bankers) model risk for a living, whereas the median layman micro-investor will have given their one or two investments maybe five cumulative minutes of thought in their lifetime.

To put it another way: there's a sucker born every minute--but no-one stays a sucker for very long, once they've been burned. This means that, when there is friction to investment, the suckers will slowly drain from the pool until only the sharks are left; whereas, when fiction is low, each sucker leaving the game will be replaced by a new sucker joining in, fresh and naive. When 90% of your revenue comes from people who have never invested in anything before, you can build your business model on the mob's irrational overconfidence in your ability to deliver.
The issue is that the answers are (yes basically) universally different regardless of whether both options are provided, but that statistically speaking they are identical.

The foible of humanity that makes the answers different is that we first "rebase" our expectations to the 100% chance, rather than considering our current position to be the baseline.
I agree, but there are times when you might want to check. So "Speak For Yourself" was founded by two Speech Pathologists [1] and they have been working with Autistic children for years. PRC's product seems to be the market leader (and of course its patented) and perhaps in part because it is patented it is very expensive. They had to have seen one, I expect they have even used them, and I would speculate they thought "gosh these are too expensive we could make an iPad app that is much cheaper."

Now if you are going to develop something, and it seems "easy" to do, and the existing product is expensive. I think a quick patent check is in order before you start. Here is a very real tale from my own life.

My sister owns a treadmill, its boring to walk on it, she and I both have iPads, she said "I'm sure you could whip out an app that would play a video of a walk that I like while I'm walking on the treadmill, that would be so cool, I'm sure lots of people would love it." I agreed, and the new iPad has bluetooth support that is compatible with various pedometers, so I figure hey, we can even tie the video to the walk and if we encode it in a street viewish way you could turn your iPad left or right and see various scenes along your route. Then we could TaskRabbit folks to 'take a hike' where something which is a cross between a Hero2 HD and a disco ball, and put together walks. Cool idea right? (well I thought so) and I wondered why the hell isn't this already out there? And there are kinda sorta things out there, and there are very expensive screens for treadmills out there. So I thought, why not check the patent database. Sure enough the whole space around exercising + video has the CRAP patented out of it. With feedback, without feedback, with advertising, without, on treadmills, on bikes, on rowing machines, on simulated ornithopters. Basically that is why that App doesn't and won't exist for another 10 years. It sucks, and the people who own the patents are leaving a lot of money on the table since they overprice their products because they 'can.' And in 2022 all that stuff will be free and clear and everyone will have one.

So you do your research, you figure out a way to do what you want to do which doesn't infringe. Document it. And then you go to market.

[1] http://www.speakforyourself.org/About_Us.php
It doesn't appear that Maya has the fine motor control for the level of complexity of sign language that she would now need. Using SfY she is constructing phrases of increasing complexity, I get the impression that sign language is a useful tool to her, but has reached a limit (for now)
The point of multi-factor authentication is not that the additional factors are infallible. Rather, the point is, when one factor fails, there remain other factors still in place.

When RSA was compromised, accounts in which RSA was used as an additional factor remained protected by their remaining uncompromised factors - allowing time to replace the RSA factor.
Any tips on applying as an intern? Are the online applications a decent route? Sorry; not entire on topic, but I've wanted to intern there for years.
I think the term 'bubble' is sensationalist. The author is trying to say that crowdfunding is not a panacea and can do things the normal paradigm wouldn't support, but at one point people may do something stupid and back projects that shouldn't be backed. There's no reason to believe that the community can't select for the best projects (I'd say there's a bubble when every garbage project gets funded)
I meant what I said more literally than you took it.

Apple doesn't obstruct her from using Android. She can choose not to use Apple products.

Edit: keep in mind this is what I was replying to:

They reserved for themselves the power to obstruct the author's use of her own tools, which should be a human right second only to food and shelter.
Most of them are identical. The capitalization and line joining shortcuts are slightly different.
Wait, what now? You're blocked from reading a story, from inside the UK?
I wish the cheap was in brackets, as this spells doom for profit margins completely for OEMs. They don't have the scale of Apple.
You still missed yesterday's bump. It'll be less than a year.
Odd how the history played out. Mac OS X began as NeXT's OS (NEXTSTEP). When NeXT failed to get market traction with their high-end proprietary hardware/OS platform, they abandoned hardware and became a software/OS company. Microsoft already owned that space however. When NEXTSTEP the OS failed, they sold to Apple, became Mac OS X and later iOS, and went back to being a high-end proprietary hardware/OS platform. Microsoft however, long successful as a software company, is now facing the prospect of having to compete as a complete hardware/software platform, something they've never done, and something that Mac OS X (as NEXTSTEP) failed at previously.

I guess it just shows that neither strategy is necessarily the "right" one. It's all about providing what the market wants, when it wants it.
This was my experience as well. I was very surprised by both: my inability to accept my knee-jerk (because I knew it was a "trick" question) and b.) the 2 minutes it took me to puzzle out why it was 1.05. Which surprises the hell out of me, as I've had more than my fair share of high level math courses.
I bill hourly for some clients, daily for others and fixed project basis for others. My hourly clients are some of my best.

If you don't have systems setup for tracking time without overhead and producing invoices on that basis it can be difficult but we do so it works really well.

I think your repeated flogging of this particular dead horse is mis-guided and mis-leading.
Looking at this and the video of her using it, I can't help wondering if Maya and her parents wouldn't be better served learning ASL.

ASL is much richer, faster to actually use and doesn't depend on an external app...

Regardless of this, I'm getting increasingly uncomfortable with Apple's practices when it comes to their App store. Legally, as far as I know, they only need to act on a court order to remove the app and don't need preemptive. So, I don't understand the reasoning behind removing it now...
Well one of my political suggestions to 'even' the playing field was to create a certification date for a project after which no lawsuits could be brought against it. This would give the project planners a way to budget the years of litigation, and once they were certified they could start and continue until they were finished without interruption (except for the usuals, weather, labor disputes, and material shortages).

I've gotten some positive feedback for that but have yet to find someone willing to actually submit it in a bill.
Yes, at home we will not be printing circuit board and chip hardware in 10 years! Current maker-style single unit manufacturing is very limited as to the allowed input materials - and current trends do not indicate a solution in just seven years.

A typical smart phone or laptop contains an astounding number of nano-sized parts made from otherwise hard-to-manufacture chemical compounds.

After the singularity, I suppose that robotic logistics will make possible local on-demand customized manufacturing from a very efficient supply chain. Think UPS or FedEx but orders of magnitude more automated and efficient - as input to your locally-shared "maker" - which would be a completely automated robotic CNC, machine shop, electronics fab, paint shop, testing rig, etc.

Where manufacturing plants are located, and the degree of customization offered, appear to be functions of the cost of labor and the cost of transporting various inputs and outputs. Post singularity economics may very well favor localized manufacturing when the customized output product is needed tomorrow.
What about sign language and other traditional approaches to being mute? It seems like relying on electronics alone is a dangerous solution.
Windows doesn't come with support. The manufacturer has to handle it.
Actually, I just tried something today. I was looking for fares to the SF Bay area (OAK, SFO or SJC) and Kayak found fares(with taxes) that were 30 dollars cheaper. Flexible search isn't easy with the current Hipmunk UI.
I have never seen ANY tablet that works well outside on a sunny day. Need an e-ink tablet for that market, though I'm not aware of any besides the Kindle which isn't really a general purpose device.
With $8M in funding, Lemon wants to be your mobile wallet
He was a philanthropist. He just did so privately.

Many anonymous, large donations have been attributed to him.
Does Microsoft come to your school's career fair? If so, find out who the recruiter assigned to your school is and e-mail them. Your academic adviser might have this info or you could probably get it from a previous intern from your school. I don't know how the online applications work, I assume I applied online, but after doing a couple dozen applications, it all blended together.
The difference between scientologists and theater majors is that scientologists charge extra and add aliens.
Youtube video of OS X Mountain Lion with more likes than views?
At this very moment the video[1] has 304 views, 401 likes and 22 dislikes. Isn't it supposed to count as a view every time you open a video and it starts playing automatically?

[1]http://goo.gl/m2XOX
Ouch -- I wonder how cloud providers will respond to this. Rolling updates across all their boxes to update the Xen hypervisors? Think about the magnitude of the problem if your someone like Rackspace/Linode/Slicehost/AWS!?
> third party apps will also be updated for free.

There's no guarantee that 3rd party developers will provide a free update. They could release Foo HD alongside their Foo app and make you buy it again.
I think the best solution is to port the code over to android. You might be disallowed from selling your app on any marketplaces, but there's nothing preventing you from running it on your own device.
Not just different departments, different professions: 4 weeks in development, 4 weeks in test, 4 weeks in project management.
Who makes the retina display? Samsung or LG?
I can't say what the best way to apply is, but if you send me your email (see profile) and optionally a link or description of what you've done/what you are interested in, I'd be happy to pass it on to a recruiter.
don't forget a lot of money and promotion. I think that's at least half
Windows 8 for PC may cost more like $100, but the OEMs can offset that with crapware.
It must become a hardware manufacturer to compete with iPad.

Is Apple a hardware manufacturer re: the iPad? Do they have chip foundries, LCD plants, manufacturing plants?

As you know they certainly don't.

Samsung, on the other hand, does. They make their own...everything. How is that working out for them? Are they destroying Apple with their profit advantages.

It is never so simple. It is actually ridiculously complex, and cargo-cult hand picking of attributes of leaders and losers (while ignoring all of the exceptions) is seldom a useful exercise.

Microsoft has the choice of competing with Android on the tablet low end, or of competing with Apple on the tablet high end.

Another rather questionable analysis, sorry. The iPad dominates because it's cheap (options like the Xoom have been, perversely, more expensive). In what universe is the iPad the "high end"? Further as prices do move down, Apple most certainly is just as heartily in that competition, and we know that a 7" iPad is not far off.

Microsoft needs to make a product that people want. It's as simple as that. Android had faltered on tablets because it was, simply, a terrible tablet OS. It is becoming a very credible contender. Is Windows 8? Time will tell, but I see little to competitively sell it over either ICS or iOS but a lot of hot air and futurist speculation about how Microsoft will somehow leverage their other markets to take over the tablet market (a strategy that has failed miserably for them, but here we are again. How many people actually want Office on a tablet again?)
There is going to be a bubble: it is a natural, necessary stage that comes with enthusiastically exploring a new space. (If there isn't a bubble, some people aren't trying hard enough.)

People are going to be ripped off. People are going to lose a lot of money in ventures that aren't rip-offs, but still just fail, because that's the nature of new things. (Because the expectations will be so high, and the investor understanding of the downside risk so low, lots of these people will loudly complain and allege wrongdoing where there is none.) Some bad actors will enrich themselves.

And yet, crowdfunding will still be a rich new source of innovation and wealth, even with the growing/learning pains.
I would definitely add Google to that list as well.

Their continued support of Motorola Mobility's behaviour in abusing FRAND rules is unconscionable and has the ability to undermine the entire industry.
If Office Metro is half as good as the current Microsoft Office, it will be worth $85 by itself.

I say this as someone who doesn't own any Windows licenses. (Except a Windows 7 starter OEM license for my netbook.)
"What kind of business model is that, shoving ads in peoples' faces?" said one Microsoft intern, who asked not to be named.

Doesn't Microsoft wish it had a big advertising business also?
I don't think I would ever work at Microsoft, but I feel especially that way because of leadership like Steve Balmer.
I guess we've reached the nesting limit. The people in question are trying to hang sociology and group theory onto those theatre exercises. The "tutors" are, well, let's just say really odd. How can I find out more about those original theatre exercises?
Why not leave Maps ? Because Google wasn't going to provide the APIs necessary to implement turn by turn navigation.

Why not leave Voice Recognition ? They do. Apple didn't implement their own custom voice recognition software.
Worse than even the expected "Cringely level" of analysis. Bubbles (despite appearances) aren't pushed by inputs; they're pulled by expectation of outputs. That's why, roughly, the pace of VC dollar inputs is a lagged dependent variable on recent M&A and IPO volumes.

(If you don't believe me check out the MoneyTree historicals at https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/MTPublic/ns/nav.jsp?page=histor... Notice that the deal volume roughly matches a 1-2 quarter lag on the stock market's performance.)

Crowdfunding has no exit mechanism. There will be no bubble because there's no "pull" effect.

The critique "derefr" provides below is more apt. There will be fraudsters who will try to prey on the fact that nobody can afford to do much diligence on a $1000 investment.
Because you lose the intimacy of start-up culture at scale.
Thanks very much, I will buy it then. I have no interest in anything DRMd, it has been nothing but trouble. MP4 is the way to go for paying customers, since that's what the non-paying customers get after all.
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I'm confused, how has this helped your career? Has it helped because your nerd passion is trying out new technologies on the weekend? How would publicly embracing a non-work related hobby help one's career?
But then Microsoft never obstructed anyone from using Macs instead. That line of argumentation didn't seem to interest the courts much.
Rand had a term, 'metaphysical justice' that covered this sort of thing. If you're a company that writes software for closed ecosystems like iOS, you can't complain if the owner of the ecosystem cuts you off.

Ditto if you buy an iOS device; the _feeling_ of security and the easy discoverability that come with a closed ecosystem come at a price, and that is that a third party (in this case Apple) really controls your device, not you.

It's just really sad that Maya's parents discovered the above in such a harsh fashion :-(
Right - I can't imagine spending any of their _own_ money on a Mac Pro. If you are a gamer, you go build one of your own systems, or have someone like JNCS (who built my gaming PC). If you are Joe Average consumer, you buy an iMac for the home.

Hard to see anyone but a Pro User (for whom dropping $5K on a machine that just gets the job done, and sits their for five years doing it, is the goal) buying the MacPro. It left the sweet spot for personal purchases of Macs (if it was ever there) a couple years ago.
Recruiters don't come to my university (that I know of), so I applied on their recruiting website (http://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/us/tech-internships....) and got a position as an SDET. I actually just finished last Friday and have to agree with AdamTReineke, the experience started great and only got better.
All of the sane discussion of recent bubbles that I've seen here and elsewhere has been careful to narrowly pinpoint the bubble activity to company valuations as defined by VC and other early-stage funding, not the market cap of public companies or the overall economy.
I wouldn't update to a major new iOS version (to avoid incompatibility issues), but there's no reason to turn off WiFi or not sync it. Like Google with Andriod, Apple has the ability to remotely remove apps from devices, but unlike Google [1] [2] I've never heard of them using it and I can't find any articles that suggest they have.

I assume that it's only for malware (given they haven't removed tethering apps, for example) so I wouldn't worry.

1. http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Uses+Its+Remote+Kill+Android...
2. http://www.neowin.net/news/google-to-remote-kill-malicious-a...
So why does a daily rate avoid this? It's just a larger unit of measure. It seems to me that you're really advocating charging for the value you provide, so you should quote a price for the project and leave any units of time out of it.
It's also available on Blu-ray: http://shop.indiegamethemovie.com/collections/buy-the-movie/...

And available in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/indie-game-the-movie/id5224...

I'm tossing between the iTunes and direct download honestly. I like how Apple has it tied to my account and it will be always available (at least I'm assuming at this point). I can then stream it directly to my Apple TV without downloading into iTunes directly.

However, it's only 720p where as the direct download is available DRM free and in 1080p. I just have to wonder, what is VHX? Do we have to worry about them going out of business and I can not longer download the movie? I know, make a backup, but the convenience of these iTunes digital copies that come with the Blu-ray's have spoiled me.
transhumanists == a bunch of people who are unhappy with their bodies.

I don't mind it though as much -- I am much more disturbed by the prospect of a tyrannical or even "Friendly" AI some of them seem to be fond of.

Ignoring the implications of an AI that may be required to support a transhuman, I believe that one could draw up a very pragmatic argument why transhumanism could be useful even to us, embodied souls. What you described as inter-generational memory via things like history books and Wikipedia is good but not perfect (the classic example is that history gets written by the victors). A transhuman living for thousands of years would potentially bring a fresh perspective to the table, even if that perspective was imperfect too. Just the way both a free market and an ecosystem can benefit from a diversity in their pool of ideas/genes, so can humans.
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HAARP

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Why do living things die?
Yeah, turning up the volume or strumming harder isn't exactly going to fill out that frequency spectrum.
The whole thing sounds like a ridiculous PR piece. Microsoft is changing the world, I tell you, by trying to get a piece of the pie of someone changing the world.
I don't necessarily disagree that big companies can't have startup atmospheres, but a small startup usually has a lot more on the line. The relative lack of funding and the pressure to execute well is much more of a reality at a startup than it is at Microsoft.
Yes, statistically they are identical. However, the fact that people consider the significance of the objects and the context of the decision isn't a fault of human intellect.

Really, stating otherwise is a fault of human analysis. It's a game theory problem I think (likely a variation of the stag hunt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_hunt). It's a paradox only because Armchair mathematical intuition fails to explain it.
Re: Memory - http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Mac%20Pro%... gets you 64 Gigabytes for the MacPro for $800.

I'm presuming most Pro Users kick their box up to 64 GB without thinking twice about it.
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Microsoft campus consists of over 120 buildings and tens of thousands of employees. Nobody here thinks they are part of a start up.