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I'm not quite sure what you mean by "state-of-the-art", but I think you're over-representing Apple's relative quality. I've used various versions of OS X for significant amounts of time, but I've never seen what makes them so much better than everybody else. Gnome and KDE aren't perfect, but Apple isn't any better. (Seriously, I can't have a full-screen program on one monitor and normal programs on another, and that's the state of the art? I hope not.)

On top of that, I've found that most of the problems with KDE (I haven't actually used Gnome much) have been consistently eliminated in newer versions. When I started using KDE around 4.4, I was annoyed by several little details. Somehow, even without any input from me (I'm really lazy), almost all of these little issues were fixed in subsequent versions.

For example, the GTk build of Emacs can only be resized to the nearest character--you cannot have a window that overlaps has half a character off screen in either direction. This actually makes sense for Emacs; certain normal commands and interface elements would not work properly if you could resize that way. Normally, this is not a problem; however, if you used KDE's fullscreen shortcut, it would properly hide the borders and maximize Emacs, but it would leave a strip of desktop visible because Emacs can only be sized to the nearest character. This was a little annoying, but certainly not a horrible problem, and yet it was actually fixed shortly after I found it. Now fullscreen mode fills in any stripes like that with the correct background color, even taking things like transparency into account.

Over all, KDE is still the best desktop environment I've used anywhere. Given the relatively smaller amount of resources behind the project, I'm very impressed.
Ha, I wasn't aware of that. Still an extra step.
You set it up once. After you get through that hour long process you've got a great system that is battle tested at many large shops, with plenty of domain knowledge on the Internet.
But when the tire wears out, you don't have to go to a special service ship just to get a better set of treads!

This mac book lockdown is akin to them locking out the tires of a car, so that the average person cant change it themselves, even tho theres no reason to do so other than as an anti-competitive measure.
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You're a student. You don't really know much about computers. You need a notebook to type papers on. You have $500. What are you going to buy?
There’s a palpable fear that Windows 8 will stumble out of the door.

If push comes to shove, you'd think MS could easily make the Windows 7 desktop the "default" look and feel, and let you turn on the Win 8 look via a setting. But then again, isn't the whole Windows 7 desktop just one click away anyway? This whole article seems like its vastly exaggerating the issue.

There's a good article here comparing Win8 to Apple's first release of OS X (with its built in MacOS 9 classic mode) ...
http://www.osnews.com/story/25691/Windows_8_s_desktop_mode_M...
You'll be eaten alive by taxes if you're not careful, but yes, you can do it.

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If you're really just looking for a merchant account, make an LLC and get one in the name of that. Far cheaper, but will require the redo when/if you want investment.

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What is "Metro"? Server 2012 does use the new start menu, if you want to call that "Metro"
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This weekend I just sat down and coded away. This is the result.
I have tried to make it as fast and clean as possible.
Have a look
> I personally believe art's purpose is to create and distribute beauty.

With that definition, yes, "my cunt is wet with fear" would not qualify as art. However, there are a variety of definitions of art. Look at Tolstoy - he says something is art if there's an emotional link between the audience and the artist, or at least, that an art piece "affected" a viewer. In that definition, the emotive reaction of the "my cunt is wet with fear piece" (one of disgust and confusion) could qualify it as art.
That's a nice essay.

I believe you missed a "point of importance and ultimate goal" of the open source movement: to preserve and enhance the market for proprietary software.

On that goal, free software and open source are diametrically opposed.
Totally. I don't even care if someone sees it and I'm happy to explain if they do. It's a lifesaver.
>Not 0, but vastly less than the cost of discovering and getting approval for a new drug.

I'm going to need to see some hard data on both sides before I'll simply accept that claim.

There are also alternative solutions we could use besides granting the first company a total monopoly. For example, generics could be taxed early on in order to subsidize the approval process for new drugs.
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"For most people, replacement would be a better choice then upgrade."

i dont believe so - they are marketed to as being the better choice. However, a small upgrade (e.g., an extra stick of ram, a bigger SSD) is really all a consumer level user would need for a computer to last a bit more than 5 years. Obviously, this path sells less. But then you ahve to ask, why is it that you need to buy a new computer? its such a waste if the current one is only slightly slower, and a small upgrade will make it last another couple of years.
Ah, then they are calibrating their CGM (likely integrated into the pump, as they are likely using either an Animas Vibe (outside the US) or a Metronic Minimed Paradigm). They aren't calibrating the pump, they are calibrating the pump's CGM vis a vi their meter via finger stick.
He provides one example - Vienna. Where I live the transport companies are privatised but realise that by providing the data to Google they get more people using their services.

When Apple releases ios 6 they will have to create a new app just because Apple doesn't want to be compatible with the existing feeds that these companies are already providing.
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You just edited the post but at 30ft wide I was a bit skeptic about anyone "shaking" Guernica at Picasso :-)
Oh, if only the problems were just drivers and sluggishness (both of which my wife saw). Nevertheless, she stuck with it for almost 9 months until Vista, while trying to repair a routine unclean shutdown, managed to render itself completely unbootable. Given that we had to start over anyway, I ended up buying an OEM copy of XP Home for her. She was shocked at how well her laptop actually worked (since we'd bought it with Vista in the first place).
I also think that something fails to be art when it is not intended to illicit an emotion reaction from others. Perhaps many of the artists in that exhibit chose things that gave emotion to themselves and made no attempt to create empathy in others. Or maybe they were going after a small subset of the audience - who knows?
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You know what they say about foolish consistency.

Unification of UI makes sense where modalities are similar. But touch vs keyboard vs mouse are very different modalities. The first demands a few large areas with gestures; the second demands something very much like a terminal; the third, much more densely packed areas without gestures (because large mouse moves are far more imprecise).

I have Windows 7. But I never use the start menu's search functionality, because I have a terminal; if I want to start an app by typing, I'll do it from the terminal. That way, I get completion for application arguments, I can write scripts to shorten more complicated launch sequences, etc. That's because the terminal (+ shell + friends) is set up for typing; a search box is laughably primitive in comparison.

Meanwhile, my start menu doesn't look anything like yours. I'm running Classic Start Menu, with programs classified by function: Development, Work, Games, etc., just containing the main icon. I use these menu items when I'm being goal directed, but more importantly, it saves me the effort of having to remember any names at all. Menus are optimized for scanning lists of text; in this way, they're far superior to ribbons when looking for an unfamiliar command.
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This looks awesome. Anyone know of a similar project for MongoDB?
Thanks. I believe that ESR himself denies this view. But a lot of OSS supporters are of the view that the enemy is Free Software and not Closed Source/Proprietary software.

By the way, I wrote that essay purely dispassionately and without trying to favour either view. Just presented my thoughts after a lot of reading up on the subject and interviews of RMS and ESR and internet discussion forums.
Seems like C# is doing the same, and more effectively.
Not exactly. There's multiple types to divide by multiple kinds of zero, and multiple ways to accomplish it. Remember they're Num, they're not integers

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9354016/division-by-zero-...

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/m7agm/why_doesnt_ha...
You're a Type 1 on metformin? That's highly unusual. Or are you Type 2?
Windows 8, now with your choice of start menus.*

* Start menu not included. Applications may cost extra and/or come with adware or other malware.
Nice presentation. Here's a more complete list of all markets in California (searchable by city or county) in case you want to expand: http://cafarmersmarkets.com/index.cfm

In addition to those, there are a couple more Urban Table markets not listed: http://www.urbantable.org/#!MARKETS/cdsb
> He knows desktop windows can be as bad as he wants, and nothing will change.

If that's the plan, he's in for a rude shock. Given the Vista experience, Microsoft has probably room for a mulligan. They'll bleed a few users, but it will be a flesh wound. Most people who really care won't have trouble skipping a release cycle like they did before (plenty of them haven't upgraded to Windows 7 after all). But if two versions in a row suck, if there's no light at the end of the tunnel... people will have plenty of places to go, and they will.
I originally had it as a "print" but the Schama story had it as a post card. My post always pointed out the painting was in New York.
"We'll handle technology over `here, we'll do social issues there. We'll have separate mailing lists with separate discussion groups, or we'll have one track here and one track there. This doesn't work. It's never been stated more clearly than in the pair of documents called 'LambdaMOO Takes a New Direction.' I can do no better than to point you to those documents."

www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
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There are ideas, notions, feelings, etc. that cannot be adequately expressed through statements alone.

Hence, art.
That's a good question that i had previously noted for followup, but I never followed up.

slide 50: how does agda check termination.

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~sweirich/ssgip/main.pdf

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/terminator...
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I don't know of one that covers as much as this course, but for node beginners this is pretty good: http://www.nodebeginner.org/
I was making my implications explicit. I'm saying that your original thesis that manufacturing cost was a significant deterrent to doing it differently was wrong, because they're never going to use regular screws, they're going to make them custom to fit the case, so making them with a different head is not an issue of manufacturing cost at all. But sure, there must be some reasoning behind their decision, most things they do are deliberate. If there's nothing user-serviceable, then they probably save money from people trying to open their computers up, screwing them up, and then trying to pass off the problems as manufacturing defects. I don't see anything nefarious in that - their user upgradeable computers are really pleasant to get into.
Don't listen to this guy if you own more than a couple servers.
The two processes aren't unrelated. Plenty of good ideas came into the .NET world via F# and then flowed to C#.
Yes, it is smart. On many levels, even the long run.

I think you might not be aware that a very large percentage of drugs in the West emerge from publicly funded research... sometimes even 'basic science' research. While pharma does do its own R&D, it mostly just farms promising leads from academic research.

Where they do shell out big bucks is in the cost of performing clinical trials. This is a regulatory cost. While I think trials are a critical step, I'd be surprised if costs here couldn't come down substantially through means that don't involve R&D. Maybe India could offer something in this regard?

India's pharma companies might be a lot more 'innovative' if their academic science and government spending on science were stronger. This might just be a matter of time.

Finding a different way of manufacturing a drug can be very innovative work. Trust me, the chemists that come up with these organic syntheses all too often consider themselves geniuses.
Power failures caused by lightning strike are relatively easy to test with platforms like RTDS [1] (I am not affiliated to RTDS).

I know that you can test in real time your electrical protection systems for almost all the possibilities you can imagine (thousands of them), for example: faults in your high voltage utility distribution system, breaker failures, coordination of the protection systems, lost of your back-up generator power. I don't know their systems or their philosophies, would be interesting for me to know why they don't parallelize groups of generators (at the backup system), so, when one generator fails, the power load are balanced to the others (and using well known schemes to avoid cascade failures).

[1] http://www.rtds.com/applications/applications.html
To compete with Apple directly on the desktop you need more than a good UI. You need Microsoft Office, Adobe Create Suite, and other staples of the computing world.

This is why many argue that Microsoft agreeing to produce Office for Apple back when Apple was nearly bankrupt was far more important to them surviving than the money investment.
Yes, generators must be run priodically. However, not all data centers actually put the full load (or any load at all) on the generators during non-emergency periodic testing.
cool..thanks, let me know if there are some stats which are missing and might be useful.
>2. The profile of users don't reflect who they truly are. It represent what they want to be, or at least how they want to be percieved by others. Admittingly this problem is also present when doing surveys.

Do you realize that you are saying what you think people are?

Which is which? who they really are and what they really want to be. Is Clark Kent real or Superman real? This is why sociologists have day jobs.
Anything without appropriate context is hard to "get."

Think of how often you have to explain something to someone when they react unfavorably. The problem with the pieces in this collection is that they are lazy. They don't come from a sense of expression; they use shock value to get their effect, and the result is often met with hostility.

I had a similar reaction when I saw a fluorescent light on the wall as a piece in the Met in NYC.
You are not getting down-voted for speaking ill of Gnome/KDE but rather for making a completely subjective statement as though it were established, objective fact.

I have used OS X as my primary OS for long periods of time (totaling about 15 months) on two separate occasions and I currently use XFCE. For me, OS X is unusable garbage.

Am I somehow fundamentally defective as a human being? Or do I just have different preferences than you? The latter seems far more likely to me.
thanks, i think the javascripts can use some bundling love.
That makes very good sense. The problem is, a lot of us have been to modern art museums, where you'd think that next to every piece there would be an explanation as to the X, Y, Z, A & B that you mentioned. But there never is. So why is that?

You must admit, it's not a crazy idea that they are being intentionally opaque because the decision of what art is "great" and what is "crap" is not being chosen out of merit, but by the whims of an insider few. Is it really so hard to believe that the artists who are considered "hot" right now are just better at working over these insiders who pick the winners and losers?
...unless they plan to monetize your information, hence first requiring your concent to it...
we can easily extend this for MongoDB, if you are interested lets connect.
I'm not sure this is true. It seems to me that people who don't have insider knowledge end up with stuff they like -- they aren't lining up to pay $350k for something they don't like or understand. Ironically, they're probably ending up happier than some collectors trying to speculate who end up with the B.S.

On the other hand, collectors who are rich, dedicated, and informed are a huge component of the total money spent on modern art, and are big players (iconic example: the Guggenheims). They can end up having a tremendous influence on the art world.

Bottom line: don't feel sorry for art collectors. And if you collect art, buy what you like! Not what people tell you you ought to like!
You must be a joy to hang out with.
"Without mathematics we cannot penetrate deeply into philosophy.
Without philosophy we cannot penetrate deeply into mathematics.
Without both we cannot penetrate deeply into anything." _ Leibniz

> Math is a symbol game

So is logic.

> philosophy is a discussion of human problems.

No. It's not.
I just can’t shake the feeling that Windows 8 would be better off as two separate operating systems.

Bingo. Apple succeeded in mobile because they were forced to break entirely new ground. Frankensteining Metro and the old desktop UIs together makes about as much sense as WIMPing the XBox.
I'm curious: do you have any examples where Krugman is flat-out wrong? There are many cases where the people whom he criticizes are. His predictions have been more right than wrong, imho.
the screenshot has been resized, the text is much larger otherwise.

agreed on the scales.
Agreed, and it's also integral to the question of what is and isn't art.
The author's point was that you don't need many years of experience or talent to do the "art" he presented in his piece. Just about anyone can "produce" "art" like this. That was his whole point. To claim you need years of context to understand 50 year old woman throwing cash on her vagina is stupid.
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I was reading this response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121446

to the post about "how to learn to develop exploits" and thinking

that this kind of lateral thinking may be highly beneficial to software developers.

I wan't yo to please suggest books/resources about the topic,

and to share if you have experience training this kindof thinking skills.
> Things like citation support

http://download.zotero.org/integration/Zotero-LibreOffice-Pl...

I've written grant proposals and papers published in peer reviewed journals with LibreOffice and that plugin.
No-one will build it unless the software is there to support it. Microsoft has to jump first.
This sounds like some butt-hurt gamers, passing a law because they don't like Diablo III.
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Totally correct -- In our data center, and many of the universities that we work with, will have a right hand (RH) and left hand (LH) power feed for a dual PDU server, switch, router, console server, etc. You will typically run a power bar on the right and left hand side of the rack and wire then accordingly. You will have dedicated beakers, panels, UPS, and generator, etc for the RH/LH side. If you ever need to service a panel, then you can safely cut power knowing that everything will still be powered by its partner. This happens once and a while and allows you breathing room if you need to replace a breaker or a power feed fails. We also test our generators on a monthly cycle to test for failures.

I also wanted to address you point about batteries. We have a device on each battery that monitors it's state. So we can find faults before they cause the entire UPS to fail.
You didn't try OS X long enough. This is more likely.
> Something something Mythical Man Month something something

if you remember (or read the actual article), the mythical man month says nothing about the problem you quoted. It is often mistakenly taken out of context to mean that more people on a project doesn't make it faster.

Mythical man month actually says that a project already running late, won't be completed faster by adding more people at a later date, due to communication, and coordination problems.
If you planned out the work for 5000 people (a hellova plan!), then this problem won't occur...in theory.
But what's really going to bake your noodle later: Is it more sophisticated to have broad acceptance of contemporary art or to call out bad attempts at art that are relying on your need to feel sophisticated for acceptance?
Sure, they can be wrong about that, but up till that point their feeling is that they hate them. Hatred is not necessarily a permanent state.

Incidentally, I neither bungled anything, nor am I playing word games, nor have I been "trained in philosophy". I thought most people knew that hatred is an emotion, that emotions can be based on subjective perception and that perceptions can change over time.
Whether you like a work is a purely subjective experience. There's no Art Guy In The Sky handing out ribbons. It's up to each of us to decide what we like and don't like.

Having said that, the best way to learn to appreciate visual art is to learn to sketch. You don't have to become Leonardo, but simple observational drawing is a great way to train your eye and brain to see better and as a side benefit you will understand a lot of the language of art better.

Not the only way by any means. Reading art history, looking at paintings from different periods, reading articles on art theory can get you going too. Talk to other people about the stuff they like; especially the stuff that puzzles you. Don't automatically assume that they are "faking it" or "being pretentious", though they may; people are people. But if a lot of people are interested in something, there's often something worthwhile there.

If none of that appeals to you, and you just want a simple, visual experience, look at art, admire the stuff you like and ignore the stuff that leaves you cold. Looking at art is a lot like listening to music. It can be a deep, technical experience, or a simple, enjoyable way to pass time.
I've been battling this for...years on here.

I gave up. There are many corpses leading down this path.

These people want their affirmation, not reality or actual knowledge.

If they did, they'd be reading a book, or a paper on databases instead of HN.