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The market is not working properly: it's not, to use the term of art, clearing. Buyers look at what sellers (domain-squatters) are offering, say "well screw that for a game of toy soldiers!" and buy a substitute good (a green-field domain name). The sellers are at fault here: they're not willing to lower prices, and as a result, buyers don't go to them, but instead resort to substitute goods.

As other replies note, the market for domain names has some unique features - but I also think that it's important to note that you're wrong when you say that it's "working properly."
That's because it's not free. In general, you get what you pay for.
Wow, excellent work!

The only thing I would change is the black and white space photography. While it's very cool, the grayscale lunar landscape photography doesn't quite convey the feeling of future to me... it feels a bit too bleak and desolate to me and maybe even depressing. I would consider adding a splash of color somehow (they are the designer, not me!). It would take a little of the edge off of something that is mass-consumer-oriented, in my opinion.

But regardless, the concept and the work is fantastic!
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We could debate whether this would "work" on a practical level as if this was a Powerpoint presentation for Steve Ballmer and we're supposed to predict how he'd react. But I'm really just finding myself appreciating the "space/science fiction" metaphor for technology.

Steve Jobs has often quoted Apple as "advancing the human race." I feel like this takes it to the next level. I felt myself wanting this company to exist just on pure principle. Whenever I read older science fiction, occasionally I'll recognize the story is supposedly set somewhere between 2000-2100 A.D., and yet we wear spandex and zoom around with FTL travel and fight aliens with lasers and make food with replicators, etc. And I'll smirk and think, "heh, he was way off," but beneath that cynicism, there's just a bit of regret that we just didn't actually evolve in that way. And I guess this is why the branding here resonated with me so much -- it touched that part of me and convinced me that this company could make all that reality after all.

As an engineer I feel like I have a hyper-literal mindset where most branding and advertising just washes over me. I live in a world where it matters what things "do," not how they "feel," so some guys playing volleyball with girls in bikinis while drinking Coors Light just washes over me as a bizarre way to stay hydrated while at the beach. But as I said earlier, I wanted this company to exist. I wanted to feel the things that this branding made me feel. I wanted to strap myself into this spaceship that this company was building and fly wherever it would take me. Practically speaking, that company probably won't be the one we all know as the bloated monopolistic entity that makes most of its profits from boring office productivity software.

But this made me wish it was.
No. If you have any Windows installed on the machine, then you just start upgrade process from it, then after EULA screen, you choose Custom Installation and then reformat the disk and continue with installation.

For Windows 7, if you have machine with empty disk, then you start installation of upgrade version, but do not provide product key and uncheck 'Activate' checkbox. This will install Windows in trial mode. Then, start upgrade setup again and let it 'upgrade' OS... After that, you have activated Windows on the machine.

For Windows 8, I am not sure if process of double installation will work.
Burning Flipside here in Texas has had a lottery system for the last few years due to not being able to exceed 2500 people on site or be under the TX mass gathering law. They make the lottery a little inconvenient (sign up in early January, mail in a money order during one week later in the month, have the MO returned if you don't get tickets). They also have a no scalping policy and regularly go after sales on Craigslist and other sources for more than face value.
Apple mid-90s might have been _trying_ to do everything, but they weren't getting there. Yes, they had a lot of products, but they were mediocre and lacked the installed base and mindshare of Windows. It is easier to focus when you aren't walking away from successful markets or customer expectations.

Microsoft nowadays Does Everything because it is evolved from a corporate strategy of dominating the OS space by providing users The Way to realizing the potential of computing technology. They wanted to provide CIOs and developers with the basic foundation, so they had to offer tools for all sorts of stuff.

Its future position is eroded as browsers "embrace and extend" to swallow up much of the daily activity on the desktop, leaving those users free to look at devices on dimensions other than satisfying an OS utility requirement, and as the iPad carves out a consumption-dedicated computing space.

Surviving into that space will be a very different challenge than Apple had. They have to move from successful businesses into new computing usage paradigms. Those involve a kind of user-experience focus that Microsoft hasn't previously needed, and couldn't match with its strategic utility role in the first place. It will take a very different vision and focus than what brought them here.

I agree that slapping a new logo on the current structure won't do much. But if that new branding is aspirational, its most important audience might be Microsoft's own employees, telling them that their past successes don't matter so much and that they have to get into a different frame. And quickly.
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I get your point, but I'm talking about a multi-decade time horizon. My impression is that emerging markets are just lagging the first world, not permanently trapped in 1995.

Even if they were, I'm not sure my point's different: if Microsoft's major future market is only those parts of developing nations where bandwidth is unreliable, they're pretty much doomed. That's a niche business, and won't yield the kind of revenue that lets them sustain their hegemony.
Awesome designs. Microsoft rebranding experiment outshines their own branding but that work pales in comparison to your other works. I wanted to keep looking at your other designs. They simply please.

Have you pitched to Coca Cola and Microsoft? And why isn't someone already making the divine Powder watches or the Pal? I haven't had the chance to read through the text and comments on those pages. Maybe they are already in production which they should be~
Indeed. And what is the incentive for an artist to allow his/her fans to have their wealth extracted by a third party? None. It only makes the fans less able to buy things from the artist in the future.

Louis C.K. is cultivating/nurturing his fans like a gardener cultivates/nurtures a plant. That clearly includes not letting insects eat the leaves off of a plant one intends to get an ongoing crop from.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but none of those logos is nearly as simple as this one. For example, I wasn't taught a formula for calculating their area in elementary school.

Are there any successful logos that really are this simple?
> Link?

Go here: http://www.ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?ParentID=1

Check out the GOMZ/LOMO sections.
MPAA "lobbying" the VP of US, and then the VP ordering the shutdown of a company from another country on behalf of MPAA (illegally it seems, from recent news).

I think this would be called "corruption" in any other country but US.
One difference between science and math is that you can't prove anything "correct" in science.

To be fair, you can only prove something "correct" in math to the extent that it agrees with the underlying axioms. In broader scientific fields, an assertion is just as "correct" if it agrees with the underlying models.

In mathematics, you can challenge the validity of axioms, which is usually a pointless thing to do, or you can point out, as Goedel did, that some assertions will remain unprovable within any given framework of axioms. So the math guys know where they stand, at least.

In many areas of science, the experimental method is becoming less and less useful over time. Particle physicists need to know how well the Standard Model agrees with reality, because so much of their future work will depend on assumptions that can only be tested against the model. (We won't see a bigger-than-LHC facility constructed anytime soon, put it that way, and that was the case even before the recent global financial problems came to light.)

Similarly, the work of climatologists can be, and has been, attacked because it depends on models, and the map is not the territory. As with the Standard Model of particle physics, an assertion can be shown to be unequivocally true or false within the bounds of a given climate model, but not in reality, because we only have one Earth to experiment with. In both climatology and particle physics, the lab door is now locked. The models are all we have to go by, so it's really important that we get them right.
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This seems like a nice use for augmented reality. Once we are all wearing Google Glass clones, they could automatically superimpose the decoded QR data next to the code.
What would need translating for code improvements? They're forcing themselves to do more translating by showing a "not supported" message.
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They wouldn't. That's why law's so much about intent and interpretation--to avoid trivial workarounds like that.
metro really needs more pallets. I would prefer a RGB color picker. This seems very doable.
You can support all the standards you want but it won't help you if the server sends you a gimped page because your user agent string doesn't contain "Webkit."
Only took 4 attempts, but I finally was able to submit it.
They are doing a service to anyone who buys scalped tickets, who is happy to pay extra rather than not go. Competition at this price is lower. I know many people who have happily paid well over face value on several occasions. Of course everyone would rather pay an artificially low price. Wanting a better deal isn't the same as the premium being extortion.

You may not like scalping but there's no point being blinkered about it.
It's an old known economic axiom that a vibrant used product market makes new products more valuable.

The software industry has been both ignorant of economics and too greedy, thinking they can make more money by killing the used market.

This will obviously change things but only in so far as it brings software closer to every other type of product.
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My takeaway from this: CERN's cafeteria beats the shit out of ours! Years ago I had the chance to visit there and didn't, talk about the road not taken.
Use the widest established terms possible: "tap", and "tap and hold".

1. Observe that the feedback bar above the blue area is orange.

2. Tap and hold the blue area.

3. While still holding, tap and hold a different part of the blue area with a second finger.

4. Observe that the feedback bar is now green.

5. While still holding with the first finger, stop holding with the second finger.

6. Observe that the feedback bar is now orange.

7. While still holding with the first finger, again tap and hold a different part of the blue area with the second finger.

8. It is expected that the feedback bar be green at this point. However observe the feedback bar actually remains orange.
Oh god. I admire his pluck. But the headline is killing me. Lean != cheap.

Toyota is a major source of the Lean philosophy, and as the world's largest car manufacturer, they spend plenty of money. They just continually seek to deliver more customer value per dollar spent.
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A telling quote from that article:

"Is Ballmer going to be another John Sculley, who nearly drove Apple into extinction because the board of directors thought that selling Pepsi was good preparation for running a computer company? The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don't understand."
I've been an engineer at Amazon for some years.

I started in a worse-off team, but I moved to one since that succeeds and is insulated from politics. We're on the margin of the dependency graph and own our whole stack from pageview to database. We also have end-user customers, which gives us a North Star that seems to help.

Without denying any of your experience, there are many Amazons inside this big umbrella. Probably hundreds of autonomous (more or less) teams. The good and bad about working at a place like this are not evenly distributed. From what I've seen, when it's bad, it's really bad. But it can be good too.

My advice to job seekers would be: get some inside scoop on the right/wrong teams to join. Failing a person you can talk to, ask about the level of pager activity and how independent your team is. With high visibility and high rewards come high pressure. It was wrong for me and it could be wrong for you too.
They wouldn't, this is a personal gripe.

(although I guess they might use it for transitions?)
Discover magazine hosted a conversation about this very question.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/03/20/...
>Also, for the installed hardware base, Windows is and has always been the most consumer-friendly operating system on the market. It's certainly not perfect, and it might not suit power users, but it more than serves its purpose.

I'm going to disagree with this on the base that "A generation has primarily grown up using it" does not necessarily means "consumer-friendly". Not to say that Mac or Linux or Plan9 or iOS whatever is objectively better (although I think iOS would give it a run for it's money, from personal anecdotes regarding computer-unsavvy people), but if you had a generation that grew up running primarily Mac at home, at school, and so forth you'd be calling that the consumer-friendly OS.
I think Andrew's take on Microsoft delivers the right kind of futurism for consumers. It is sleek and simple. Straight lines, and angular corners seems to convey speediness, responsiveness, practicality and productivity.

I think I can relate to you when you way the design is Orwellian in one aspect. The slate design is so stripped down from its original logo that it doesn't really convey Microsoft anymore. It is so simple that the feeling that conveys what Microsoft really is, isn't found in the logo.

But perhaps, that is how Andrew hopes Microsoft would be seen to the public. Sure Microsoft has a huge division doing enterprise stuff, but to consumers, that isn't always the ideal way to present your company. Maybe this is a step in the right direction.
Thanks for sharing this reference, lmm. Pretty solid guide. I'm pretty new to scala so I'm looking forward to reading through this.
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If this design makes you uneasy and go "But that's not Microsoft!", slap your gut and tell it to listen because that's just the branding talking. Take a step back and recognize that EVERY emotion you feel about Microsoft is arbitrary. Branding is just the mental handle we use to talk about the automatic emotions we get. That is the tough part about branding: it happens unconsciously. It is that surge of instantaneous feeling that bypasses logic.

Engineering brands is reprogramming everyone's gut reaction. Our "gut" reaction feels right by definition (a tautology) and everything else feels wrong. It is only with conscious thought can we fight it.
We as web developers know the power of the "default". Imagine that! Being able to set everyone's default setting to a selection of your choosing is like a superpower.

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Changing brand is always an ugly business. For example, think back in high school about the personal brand you exuded on campus.

One day, you decided to start dressing in jeans and wearing a motorcyclist black leather jacket everyday. You get comments like "But that's not you! Why are you trying to be someone else? Stop being a phony." It feels impossible that you'll ever be accepted as a badass motorcycle jockey. The next day, you drive an actual motorcycle to campus. People see you driving a motorcycle. In the coming weeks, you offer rides to select people. Those people now start raving about your motorcycle and how "cool" you are.

We revisit the same campus 3 years later and people can't imagine you not as a badass motorcycle guy. You might ask, "Did you know that I use to be a nerd?" They reply, "But that's impossible! There is NO way that's true."

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Ask a teenager: "Did you know that Apple use to be a terrible company with mediocre computers, losing money and weeks from going out of business?"

Answer: "What? But that's impossible! I don't believe you."

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For Microsoft to make a big change, it should be that big, sudden announcement of that branding change. It will appear unfamiliar, it will appear strange, they might even appear phony. That's when the process begins. In the coming weeks, Microsoft publicizes new products that incorporate their new paradigm. Sleek, minimal, digital, modern. They even snag a few early adopters that try out the new products. You start getting friends that rave about the new products.

It is during this process that you go from feeling that its impossible that Microsoft is cool, to feeling that it's inevitable that it's cool. That is the magic of branding: the ability to reprogram the gut to have one thing be absolutely right and have everything else feel wrong, unnatural or impossible.
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The only thing here extra is Steve Balmer, get him out of the picture if you want to go to the future, otherwise, I can't wait to have my hands on genuine touch screen computer that win8 will provide.

Oh, so this not official MS rebranding, well it should be, and kudos to that guy who made it, great work. Love it.
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There's no guarantee that nature is complicated--it's just that current models of nature are complicated. But any sort of model that you can begin to understand without tons of math has to be at least somewhat intuitive.

So what you're asking isn't so much "Why is nature complicated?" as "Why is nature not intuitive?". And the answer to that is simple: nature is not intuitive because intuition is a very pragmatic tool evolved to deal with the macroscopic world you inhabit; it would not make sense for it to be optimized for understanding particle physics!

Also, our understanding is simply not complete; it might turn out that there is some relatively simple underlying system and we are merely describing part of the second or third-order effects so cannot see this underlying pattern.
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The web can do that?
I think that the sci-fi thing fits better with some modern Linux distros.

The freeness of Linux reminds me of sci-fi settings where humanity has moved beyond money, a lot of Linux enthusiasts have this kind of starry eyed idea of building the future and having complete control over your device is very empowering. You can really feel the super-computer attached to your keyboard.
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Hi, I needed a side project to teach myself Django & AWS but couldn't think of anything Earth-shattering to work on... After searching and coming up empty I decided instead to build the kind of events site I've been waiting for for about ten years.

Though events sites are a dime a dozen, after all these years I still haven't found one I like. None seem to focus on what I want to know--what are the fun (and best) things to do today and this weekend?

I'm wondering, can such a mundane site pay for itself? It's been fun implementing all the ways it could. I would appreciate some ideas on the premium services front.

Also, would anyone be interested in renting the app for use in their city, on something like Amazon Marketplace? Finally, if it doesn't get traction on its own I'm thinking of open-sourcing it to see if hosting/consulting are a possibility.

Would appreciate any thoughts, and thanks for your time.

TL;DR - I've made an (events + reddit + meetup + gmaps mashup) prototype for fun and hope to turn it into something.
They are discontinuing Google Talk Chatback and the article says to use Meebo, but most of the Meebo services are being discontinued as well. What is a good alternative?
The only reason this is not an issue with Go is that the language is too young and the reference compiler only supports static linking fot the time being.

The moment the compiler starts supporting dynamic linking the same will happen to Go.
1) The reason the Olympics works is that you can rank people accurately down to within miliseconds

Aside from things like diving, ice dancing and synchronized swimming, though supporting your statement those activities are absolutely loaded with controversy because the subjective nature -- as opposed to the objective reality of a stopwatch -- leads to endless differences of opinion.

Ranking makes sense if you have objective measures. In this industry there are staggeringly few, especially for large internal teams working on parts of a whole. Everyone has agendas and imperfect knowledge, everyone has bias and self-serving judgments.
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The Python side's actually really easy and well-supported: Python can run code from a zipfile, so tools like `py2exe` or `pyinstaller` get you down to Python interpreter + zipfile. That's two files, but only two files. I don't know if there's similar stuff on the Ruby side.
While I would like advanced science programming, I think the BBC is not the right medium. Particularly, as the material gets sufficiently advanced, it targets a progressively smaller audience. At some point, it is better to have this on the internet than on TV.

It's the same logic as to why there aren't any interesting TV programs about, say, programming languages, but you can find good content on Channel 9 (not really a channel :P) or Google Tech Talks.
Not bad, but I doubt they'll do anything about their branding or logo for a while--they just recently switched to the one that looks like the Ames Window... and as we all know, that's an illusion.
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This sounds like something that I would take to small claims court. For something like this, it's probably unlikely that they'll even show up and you would win by default.
This is why I stick to my *nix boxes.
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> On the other hand, if the appstore didn't exist then mobile developers would still be begging for crumbs from OEMs.

Is that in the same imaginary universe where phones before the iPhone had tiny black and white screens? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1519377)

Because in this one there were several third-party mobile application stores and distribution platforms.
That would be bad for the people that sold their tickets for face value ($45) to recoup costs, though. He has no way to know what the resale price was once someone shows up at the door with the tickets.
Oh, I don't doubt he's earned the bad reputation-- just goes to highlight the degree to which they bungled the arrest and prosecution.