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Hmm, well, I'm not really sure if you are attacking me personally or the game. If you've read my other posts in this thread, it's pretty obvious I'm not in that "bright-eyed bushy tailed phase". I quit because of time and the fact that it's internet spreadsheets in space. If anything, I can proudly wear the "bitter vet" badge who will probably never play Eve again.

I would argue that the alliance you are a part of is more important than the amount of time spent. I got to do some really cool stuff because I was part of Goonfleet - which was very well organized and interested in playing all the parts of the game...not just the shooty parts.

You are also leaving out all the history that happened after that single "disband alliance" event. Did it suck for their alliance? Sure. What happened after that? They rallied and led an impressive one-year campaign to retake their homeland.

What other games allow for a year-long campaign against other players, keeping everyone involved actively engaged and interested? There were battles so large that the servers crashed, because there were several thousand people playing in the same system at the same time.

Hilariously enough, the same thing happened to Goonfleet (our CEO went rogue, deleted alliance, LOL). We were booted from our homeland as BoB took it back over. Guess what happened? Player engagement rates went through the roof. The alliance had been stagnating and people were quitting...after the exodus many players rejoined and started being active again.

My point in all of this is that the people who gravitate towards EVE are the ones that find this kind of gameplay enticing. It makes it so much more interesting than WoW or any other fluffy MMO where there is nothing to lose.
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"Hey, we had this developer working here making serious stuff. And you know what? Nobody ever cared to look into what he had going."
I found this : http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/06/22/padmapper-craigslist-ceas...

So no it was not bye bye.
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Have a look at "Locavore" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locavores ) idea, it's the idea that people should eat food produced locally, rather than eat food that was grown on the other side of the planet and then shipped here. Look at locavore sites/magazines. What language do they use? There is overlap with the green/environmental/eco-friendly movement here (No C0₂ emissions transporting your dinner! No wasted packaging in your dinner. etc.)
Actually, it only demonstrate it's possible for them to be leaked. This is a rather obvious conclusion.

However, if the signing keys remain valid forever and signed binaries don't have to be re-signed when keys expire, you have essentially an infinite amount of time to leak (or crack) the signing keys and the likelihood of a leak will approach 1.

I am much more concerned by the increase in computing power than with leaks. The value of a valid signing key in a UEFI secure-boot world is high enough to ensure someone somewhere will spend inordinate amounts of money and/or computing resources to obtain a valid key. How much does leaking a key cost?
I wonder if you could pitch it as "Stop big corporations from controlling your food supply" angle? That's sort an advantage of open source and/or open hardware.
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It is different, but there are similarities: the more debt accrued, the more resources that go into servicing that debt; the more debt accrued, the less likely you are to be able to secure additional debt.

A US defective of $10T required 6% of the federal budget to service in fiscal year 2011. Currently, accrual of debt is outpacing both inflation, and increases in revenues.

This might still be fine _if_ the additional debt has a positive impact on GDP growth, but that's not entirely obvious. Japan has been in a similar situation for two decades. 25% of their national budget is used for servicing loans.
They switched from common lisp to python, which is an entirely different beast. CLisp is an awesome language, and obviously has the same roots in McCarthy's work, but they have different advantages/disadvantages (the library situation is better on the JVM, for example).
I agree with you to a point, but would maintain that a significant amount of behavioural and cultural data coming from the "5 button" research, would also apply to touchscreen devices.
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> it took government-level resources

This year. The next year, it will be half as much. In 10 years, a thousandth. Are we willing to expire boot signing keys every couple years? Are we really comfortable only governments have such power because governments can do no wrong?
The current plan is to use one made by SSBV:
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Our engineering partner, GOMSpace, is also almost finished developing their own CubeSat GPS, and have expressed interest in flying that on the satellite, so we may switch over to that one.

Cheers,
Joel
The article adds nothing of value and the use of different names for the same machine is nothing but an attempt to do some SEO.

How is this on the front page?
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The positive side: Nokia made Qt LGPL. Full stop.

Thanks and goodbye, but thanks!
That he did, but his belief can be summed up with this quote..

"The net of science covers the empirical universe: what is it made of (fact) and why does it work this way (theory). The net of religion extends over questions of moral meaning and value. These two magisteria do not overlap, nor do they encompass all inquiry (consider, for starters, the magisterium of art and the meaning of beauty)."

And he's quite simply wrong, they do overlap as science has something to say about all of those things. Religion has no claim on the realm of morality and meaning, nor does it provide any actual answers on the subject, nor does it serve as a guiding light on the subject.

Gould is trying to play nice because he thinks religion is valuable to many people and he doesn't want to offend. I do not believe his position honest, merely political.

As for what the church thinks, they're going to rationalize no matter what, their opinions simply support my original statement.
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Next to being baffled that this comes out into the world, I can only laugh at this. Be careful what you wish for USA, You want cyber warfare? You just got it.

Just imagine, somebody with the intention to do harm having control over drones like that. It would be the ultimate remote strike, using their own systems, thát would rock their world the world!
I've been reading large chunks of that and it's both good and bad. The good parts are where he sticks to his core strength of anthropology -- it's filled with fascinating descriptions of how commerce and law worked in various societies, ancient and modern, from the Irish monks who sat down and figured out the precise compensation that you need to pay if one of your bee stings another man [the regular price of the sting minus the cost of the bee] to the spear/cloth bartering festival slash orgies of some Aboriginal tribe. Lots of fascinating stuff there.

He is on much shakier territory when he starts to enter into the economists' domain. He's probably correct when he declares that the inefficient pre-money "barter economy" has never actually existed, but then he breaks his arm patting himself on the back to say he's smarter than all the economists who always use this as an example when explaining why we have money.

When it comes time to actually try to explain debt itself, he's really lost. He starts the book by posing a question: how is it that the language of debt got so wound up in the language of morality; by extension, why do we think it's immoral to not pay our debts? He never seems to come around to the obvious answer: that a debt is a promise, a promise of money later in exchange for money now, and that breaking your promises is seen as immoral because it breaks the reciprocity that underlies almost all human interactions. He seems to have a mental image of "debt" as something that a loan shark puts you in so that he can break your legs afterwards, rather than the vast majority of the world's responsible debt arrangements which wind up beneficial to both parties.

Anyway, I'd say Graeber's "Debt: The First 5000 Years" has some interesting bits but a bunch of flaws. And this comment is only this long because I don't have an account on Amazon.
No arguing that working on setuptool to improve it would have been better but the thing is that Phillip (setuptool) hasn't been cooperative (to say the least) and Tarek ended up forking. At least that's how I remember it, so in that light, everything on your article is true but setuptool had to be "rebooted" as pip.

I think that pip + distribute intended to be a pragmatic approach you're calling for and that distutil2 is the cleanup/rewrite/redesign you said should happen after. Except it's not as clean cut as "repair setuptools with as much hacks as necessary and then rewrite the implementation once all design decisions have been finalized".

That said, you're completely right, use cases were forgotten and distutils2 might have started too soon. Hopefully your article sparks interest in those others use cases.
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Right, if you look at what Tyler Clementi was saying on and offline before he committed suicide you'll see the same sort of thing. (not trying to draw too many comparisons here)
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Actually in the audience, pretty cool to have it live streamed
I cannot believe that they would use Windows to control these drones. I wonder how the due diligence went down for that decision. It's reassuring to hear that they switched the controllers to Linux.

I don't use Windows for work or development purposes (I have 2 windows machines at home used as iTunes machines), so my question is: are there Windows versions available that are stripped down? It just seems that the amount of exploits that come out per week/month/year for Windows would get in the way of operational missions.
Well, there are both retrograde and anterograde tracers. So you can trace from either target->source or source->target depending on your choice of tracer.

These tracers are used to map circuits because they are passed from one neuron to the next via functional synapses...which means that any neuron that is stained must have been in contact with a previous neuron, etc etc.

The "connectome" is built up by injecting a limited amount of tracer in a single region, in multiple animals, to provide a mapping of that region. To get the entire brain you need lots and lots of injections in a very large number of mice (and a lot of technicians slaving away over cryostats).

To your point about not labeling synapses and gap junctions: those are relatively unimportant when considering wiring diagrams of the brain. What is more important is knowing which partners a neuron synapses onto. You don't really care how many synapses are involved unless you are looking at single or clusters of neurons, nor can you really measure it without some other method (e.g. electrophysiology).

Caveat about tracers which often goes unannounced: the staining of a tracer in a secondary neuron is only as strong as the connection between the primary and the secondary. Which means that a neuron who synapses strongly will be much brighter than a neuron that synapses weakly. Similarly, tertiary (and quaternary, etc) neurons become progressively weaker stained as the exponential dilution of the tracer kicks in.
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It was vacuous, basically an extended resume for the presenter, mixed with empty platitudes about principles for clojure evangelism. And worst of all in terms of wasting my time, it was misrepresented. It comes across in the blurb as a talk about the contexts in which Clojure has been useful to startups, and the presenter represents it this way in the introduction, when instead it's "here are these vague descriptions of how I effectively evangelised Clojure in each of these startup companies."
He's unsatisfied with his 'old' MBP 15" (previous gen) because "it always made me feel like the old fogey at tradeshows where everyone else had something 13-inches or smaller".

Stuff like that defies parody.
That's so sad. In fact, in my opinion, Qt was the most valuable thing of the entire Nokia.

Google should buy Qt. if Android was based on Qt/c++, not java, then Android would be the perfect platform!
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Connectomes are only a small part though. Individual neurons are still largely black-boxes. So you may know how they wire, but you still need to figure out how they respond to each other locally, regionally and across the whole brain.

I agree though, it's cool stuff and definitely the way forward.
Thanks for the good explanation.

However you end your comment by an unfounded claim that more socialism tends to imply perverse incentives. The same could be claimed of capitalism (or probably any other ..ism), see the banking sector and American healthcare for good examples.

In the rather socialist Denmark (where I happen to be from) when you break a leg you go to the doctor to get it fixed for free, and then you call your employer and tell him you won't be working for the next week, but you'll receive your paycheck nonetheless. When you get a child you take 9 months off work with full pay so that your offspring can get a good introduction to life. When you're out of a job the state will take care of you indefinitely.

Despite of this denmark has a consistently strong economy, is one of the richest countries in the world, and has for many years been in the top three of both the happiest country and the least corrupt country in the world.
"My question is this, if Trolltech wasn't part of Nokia's strategy anymore, why not just spin it out?"

Because they think it will bring in less than what it costs them to sell it?

You cannot just put a "on sale" sticker on part of a company and sell it. It will take an effort to find a buyer, and one (likely a larger one) to define what the sale will contain (patents? Copyrights? What source code? Which employment contracts? Pension rights? Etc.
or maybe canonical should buy Qt.
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I think it's pretty obvious who did it...Skynet!
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I'm not joking here but windows is absolutely rock solid and is as secure as any Unix variant if you set it up correctly. If you don't, it's Swiss cheese. Windows is only insecure because they've set it up like that to aid consumers.

They do stripped down versions such as windows embedded. You can strip a desktop install down to virtually nothing as well and it is very secure. It is however beyond most people to do so.

By changing the platform they've effectively saved their butts by pointing at the vendor. The real problem is incompetence and cost cutting.

I predict rootkit drones next as they haven't actually solved the real problem.

edit for the morons who blindly Downvote this: I spent a number of years building secure systems for the UK MoD. There were no attack vectors at all of any kind human or network, so the fact they were infected was purely incompetence.
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I agree. They seem to have reinvented Maemo/MeeGo on every release. You can't really have an ecosystem around that.

I don't believe being (yet another) Android OEM would have done them any good either. Microsoft was the way to go.
We're well into speculative territory here. Are we suggesting that the coroner was aware of his homosexuality but not of the fact he was a brilliant mathematician?

I mean, the coroner must at least have known that he had a chemistry lab, working with dangerous chemicals, in the house. That's way more unusual than gaying it up.
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It is so easy to find just plain wrong information on the internet these days. The problem is people don't know what they can and cannot trust, so it continues to perpetuate itself even amongst more intelligent people.
In the audience as well - feel free to drop questions here! I'll ask them for you if they are reasonable.
Certainly, I couldn't have done what I did without Haskell, or with more traditional languages, like C++.

The most challenging task I've done with Haskell, was to find the right combination of parameters in orden to sum an array of satellital images, preserving a set of constrains. I couldn't have dreamed of doing that without Haskell. It was the right choice for the job.

When they discovered the tools I've used, they recognized the problem, but they treated me bad, so I search for another job.
Hey I solved them all on the first try! Does that mean I'll pass Theory of Computation next spring?
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this is essentially described in "Money as debt" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544 If you ignore really low production value, it's a really informative piece on how modern money works.
Your response has absolutely no connection to anything I said. It's rather impressive in its unrelatedness, actually.
Sure, it's a little ridiculous, but I think it's the equivalent of being a hardware fashionista. If you review hardware for a living, it's not (only) about being practical.

You are correct that it offers little insight to the rest of us, but that sort of obsession is what gets you a review like this.
"E.g., a new farmer with no track-record might have to promise me twice as many potatoes in exchange for a deer haunch, due to the risk that I might never see any potatoes at all."

This part of our system doesn't make any sense to me. What makes you think someone's gonna have more incentive to "pay up" if they now have to work twice as hard?
Wow, the whole point of bitcoin is freedom. You're essentially arguing that this freedom is cool and all, but we'd all be better off if with less of it.
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It's a pretty comprehensive review. Page 16 on the battery life at various workloads was important to me.
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It would be a shame to interpret the blog in that way.

I believe the author (Tomi Ahonen) gives a window into how most businesses product management and marketing work for good or for bad.

Companies start with a technology base for a product and hire pretty smart people to look at the market and identify the features which will sell more units or the segments they need to target. The decisions are usually very fact driven because they have to justify in terms of a business case, and in general I think Ahonen is factually very solid.

If you looked at the figures and facts from 2008-09 I don't think you'll find much wrong and public position of Nokia (outside of the US tech community) was pretty strong.

However, the fundamental problem about relying solely on this approach is that it is a. very reliant on execution of your engineering org. b. takes no account of the ability of engineering to scale c. remains susceptible to disruptive big-bang technologies.

This is why product development organizations need a coherent personality rather than be treated as factories and prescient leadership.
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Both the tech founders I know strongly believe in patents and depend on them to protect their inventions.

I think the view you're talking about is really only prevalent in internet startups and the like.
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Both high school and college can prepare you for a lot of things. My friends that chose not to go to college took jobs in construction that they apprenticed for. When I was graduating, they were moving up the ladder too. All of a sudden, we had paychecks. A consistent flow of money that we earned and could count on.

But schools don’t teach you the finer points of managing that paycheck. It’s all sort of random. How much to put here, how much to save here, what about a vacation or retirement? How about my student loans? Rent? Utilities? Oh my gosh, I have to buy a car! Panic and anxiety can set in. You are afraid you’ll make bad decisions.
Patents as a tradable commodity enable valuable specialization. If you're an inventor who specializes in, say, LCD technology, you can come up with a new technology, patent it, and sell it to companies that use LCD screens. If patents weren't transferable, you'd have to go into the business of making cell phones, laptops, etc, which isn't your speciality.
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The argument is that it's Congress's job to define patent law, not the judiciary's.
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You don't deserve that downvote. Obama has been crowing in the NYT about his sK1Lz in cyberwarfare against the Iranians. What did he expect to happen?
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Keep in mind this is a great primer on macroeconomics, or how the economies and money supplies of societies as a whole work.

It's equally fascinating and important to learn about the basics of microeconomics, the other side of that coin (pun intended), or how individual people and businesses make decisions about production and consumption. You've probably heard of the laws of supply and demand which are really important for understanding things like how and why prices change and why some businesses and industries are more successful than others.
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That's what they're doing already is they take the guns off, which makes the drones perfectly safe.

I can't think of any significant event in American history regarding airplane crashes, either, so this should work perfectly.
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It's a pejorative among conservatives, not among liberals.
The US most definitively does not want cyber warfare, which is why a bunch of military types have been going around for years warning about the possibility and the need to harden systems against it. Cyber warfare is bad news for the US because it's one of the areas of warfare in which the US doesn't have an obvious dominance.
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