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I think Zynga will be a very hard stock for wall street to understand for some time. Since it's revenue is so tied to usage (meaning unpredictable after hockey stick growth flattens) and since usage is so tied to external factors (e.g., Facebook Open Graph changes), I think it will be a very difficult company to forecast. In general, it's tough to be a public company if you can't have some predictability to your financial results.
Absolutely right. I was just trying to point out that the monopoly in this context isn't some sort of dysfunctional side-effect, but part of the intended mechanism.
Type checking at method dispatch is the only part of the equation (literally, in the case of Fortress) where the JVM would come into play. Everything else happens ahead of time in the compiler.

With InDy, the JVM can do a one-time check, verifying whatever security invariants the language has put in place, and after that, the MethodHandle is in InDy's polymorphic inline cache and the security checks can be skipped on subsequent calls. All subsequent calls dispatch at Java speed and can be inlined by HotSpot just like any other Java method.

Writing your compiler on top of the JVM using InDy might help make this clearer!
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The last game i purchased from Steam was roughly a little over a year ago and up to that point any game downloads would take days. I'm not on any kind of uber-fast connection (10mb) and never had any issues with any issues streaming or downloading content from any other service.

P.S. I have heard of CS:GO which is nothing more than old CS:Source with improved environment. It isn't a bad game by any means, but it is lagging behind multiplayer shooters like CoD, Battlefield.
Where does the patent troll company get the patent? Either they invent something or buy the patent from an inventor or from someone who bought it from an inventor.

The problem with patent trolls is that they are too often working with patents that shouldn't have ever been granted in the first place, and that it's so expensive to defend against a lawsuit, it makes sense to just settle silently.

There are many things wrong with the current implementation that can be fixed without throwing out the whole notion of intellectual property protection for inventions.
"Buckyballs are small, powerful round rare earth magnets that are sold as toys and desktop accessories."

Hot stoves, grills and harmful toxins aren't toys and there isn't a normal use case where a child would use those. It can happen, but it's not intended.

A toy's use case is playing with it. This particular toy is causing problems, where other toys aren't. I see no problem in banning them. We aren't a full-on libertarian society, we make choices, not always to everyone's liking.
For rarely launched apps, hit the Win key and start typing the name

There should be an app for that. It could be called... oh, I don't know, how about COMMAND.COM?
I don't understand Twitter's rationale behind this one; killing the app implies that your user experience is greater as you follow more people. I tend to have experienced the opposite. Twitter should be stressing about user experience more than getting as many people to follow each other as possible.

That having been said, there are dozens of other unfollow apps out there that work just fine.
I love this. Gabe rules.
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That's a great question! Downloading a 1GB file, I peaked at 65 Mbps download rate just now. It ramped up slowly over a period of a few minutes. I was connected to 58 of 60 peers to get that rate.
IIRC, this was one of the elements of the WinFS project that Microsoft worked on as part of their Longhorn project. In the end they could not get it to work, dropped WinFS, and Longhorn came out as Vista.
If this is in my city, I will be so upset. I just signed up for a year of comcast :(
Yep, I wasn't able to install the Command Line Tools from the Xcode Preferences. It works if you do it manually ... by downloading the Command Line Tools from:

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Absolutely. Also, according to Searle's argument, submarines cannot swim.
In general I would agree, however I feel that this is more of a reaction to poor infrastructure than a land grab "let's control everything" move.
I guess I know your bias because I'm biased towards mathematics as well :).
this is interesting; I mean, it's not cheaper than a used bike, but buying a good used bike in that price range is a whole lot more work than a trip to wal-mart, and usually requires a fair bit of tune-up work before it's ready to go.

I recently had my mid '70s early '80s junk steel frame bike stolen from the parking structure beneath my condo. I wondered why someone bothered; I mean, when I put the bike away it had two flat tires and badly needed a tune-up; And it was stolen from a bike rack that was packed with mostly better-looking bikes.

I mean, two flat tires; it's not like they were just looking for a quick ride to the liquor store.

But yeah, there is value to a cheap bike I could pull off the rack and just use, something easier to get working than a used bike. (speaking of, I'm looking for another <$100 steel-frame bike if anyone is getting rid of something.)
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> The disgraceful FRAND abuses

When has Google, in and of itself, abused FRAND? The only actions I know of happening on FRAND patents are things grandfathered in from motorola - are you blaming those on Google? I think it's far too early to judge Google's behavior wrt to patents. We have to see what they do in their own right.
The headline is misleading. He was talking very much, from his vested interest point of view. He was not dismissing the quality or value of win8 for consumers.

But he is allowed to be a bit upset: Steam is effectively not allowed on Metro.

And there was loyalty between Valve and Microsoft. In general, he dislikes the verticalisation in the market; how consumer devices will all be (media,game,app) consoles. But to see Microsoft make this move, just hurst more, when your company has invested so much in the windows ecosystem. And lets not forget that without Steam, pc gaming would have died completely 5 years ago.

Personally, i dont like it either. I think its anticompeteive in nature, and bad for innovation. Appearantly operating system vendors are becoming the new cable companies, charging for access to consumers.

But unless one of them (apple, google, microsoft, amazon) has a monopoly, its not illegal to operate in this manner.
Can't knock TC for releasing recently-updated numbers. Do they put too much emphasis on funding? Perhaps, but this post is not evidence of that.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Of course it would be preferable to have true structural separation in service providers, having a competitor that has interests that are not aligned with most content publishers is a pretty good consolation prize.

While Google has products that overlap with legacy content publishers, that doesn't appear to have made Google enthusiastic about keeping bandwidth prices up, and content under tight control.
I enjoyed Zynga games for a while, but there was a change at some point along the line where you could no longer play the game as it was designed without spending money. That's when I stopped playing.

It's fine to have the spend-money parts as fun add-ons. I might even spend a dollar or two here or there on such things.

But I will not play a game that tries to hook me in for free but then requires me to purchase pieces of it just to play it as it is designed.

That's a tricky line, of course. I'll play WoW sometimes, and I pay for that. But I'm not paying real money to give my character some spell that's required for basic play. For a funny hat or a cool mount (that's functionally the same as a free one), sure.

Greed, for lack of a better word, killed Zynga. They pushed it too far.
I like especially the fact that now I can use initializer lists to fill a vector (just like in Gcc).
Noone seems to have hit the nail on the head yet, the reason's quite simple.

Routing.

Let's say you have an IP of 202.20.10.5 and you live in New York.

Your ISP allocated 202.20.10.x to New York

Your ISP owns 202.20.0.0, and advertises this over BGP

When someone tries to reach you, they first lookup:
202.20.0.0/16, the closest match.

Then then know to send the packet to your ISP, who sends it to 202.20.10.0/24 (New York), who then routes it to you.

How about if we use mac addresses?
So let's say your mac address is: EW:34:AO:QW:RE:80

How would someone be able to find you? If they needed to do that, then:

1) Your ISP will need to advertise EW:34:AO:QW:RE:80

2) They send the IP packet to your ISP, who routes it to you.

If the ISP has 1 million customers, then it'll have to advertise 1 million MAC addresses in its lookup table...

Instead of just 202.20.0.0/16 (one entry)

It's not scalable to use MAC addresses for Internet use.

On the other hand, if you're talking about a local LAN, then yes, MAC addresses are used, and is actually already being used, for networking.
I can't wait for part 2. I wish there was a book written about the early days of Blizzard or Westwood Studios and those kind of great companies, kind of like the book Masters of Doom about id Software, or Revolution in the Valley about Apple.
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There are a lot of windows-only apps in the business world.
More amazing, given that over half of the companies are from last year and this year, and it is mostly agreed that they have only gotten better and better by Demo Day.
I think it is more about anitcompetitive effects.

Consider a service competing with Youtube; will they have the same streaming performance when delivered over Google's fiber as Youtube? It might even just be accidental (say, Google colocates it's services with its fiber infrastructure) - but it could easily give competitors a big disadvantage if they can't get access to the same performance as Youtube has.
Fiber is just a convenient waveguide for certain electromagnetic frequencies. Bad for others.

That said, your understanding is a bit "off."

Amateur Radio (HAM) has microwave frequencies available for use that would be VERY effective for point-to-point wireless internet. We even have frequencies that are very close to the existing bands and there would be no problem running LTE over those frequencies. The problems with amateur radio are regulatory, not technical.

Generally speaking, the higher the frequency, the higher the attenuation. Of course, the higher frequencies are better suited for the kinds of modulation rates necessary for high bitrate communications. So there's that.

But all of this is besides the point. No technology exists in a vacuum and must compete against others for particular applications and for particular cost models. That's why telecommunications engineers have no hair and bad tempers. This stuff is hard.

For "lower" bitrate communications, wireless is the hands-down winner. The cost to deploy a network for a given level of service to a range of end-stations is just so much easier and cheaper that lots of other nations skipped over building a wireline network and just went straight to wireless. Mobility of the stations is almost a secondary concern.

Once you get to the point where your communications are less intermittent and higher bitrate, it's really a question of how far you need to go and how much/how often you need to communicate.

Lots of LTE stations are connected to a central office (router) via fiber (gigabit ethernet mostly). Lots more are connected via point to point microwave. Backhaul of bandwidth is something you dont hear talked about a lot but it's a big part of why it can be hard to get LTE/4G/WiMax into a particular location. Economics are a big part of that equation.

SO, I wish the Google Fiber guys well and I hope they succeed, but the telecommunications market is so broad and complicated that it would be foolish to look at one company's efforts to shake up a single market and equate that with a sea-change in how the broadband market works.

edit: I met Milo Medin (who is now running Google Fiber) and he offered me a chance to work at @Home way back when. In retrospect, I probably should have pursued it.
In my case it is definitely one of the limiting factors. Try editing your family's latest HD home movies over the 2mbit upload speed that comes with most cable plans.

Good software support is another hurdle; I believe AeroFS is one of the companies working on this, though since I'm fully comfortable with sftp et. al. I never signed up for their beta to find out.
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Assuming reasonable privacy and security practices, of course.

How about an in-kernel or FUSE Tarsnap driver? Are you reading this, cpercival?
As far as Zynga stock owners and traders are concerned, it is by definition a surprise. If the loss had been expected then the price would have gone down earlier.

Alternatively, one could argue "hey, I knew that a large loss was possible, but consider that a large unexpected gain was also possible, so the price I paid last week as fair". In any case, the loss was not certain.
There is not much difference in perception to a normal customer between 50Mbit and 1Gb - the former manages two 1080p YouTube streams perfectly well with quite some headroom for extra misc traffic. Torrenters will always crave more bandwidth, but even there its going to be tough to fill 1Gb downstream.

But all of that is missing the point. The internet is not just a better TV with cats - it has true full duplex communication!

It's hard to believe because the monopolies in control of the last mile will generally offer you tons of downstream with little to no upstream. In some cases, the upstream is merely enough to send TCP ACKs for when you use all of your downstream. Its a natural move for these big old companies because upstream traffic from customers is more expensive for them and they are still stuck in the mindset of the "media consumption machine".

Google, of course, realizes that 1Mb of upstream is bad news for Google Hangouts and terrible for uploading 1080p video to YouTube. And all kind of distributed systems benefit tremendously from matching upload and download bandwidth.
I can't recall ever experiencing auto termination on Lion or Mountain Lion throughout the DP previews. My hardware is nothing fancy -- 2011 MBA /w 4GB of RAM. What are your specs? Do you often have memory hungry applications open? Most of mine are pretty modest. I'm just curious what would cause such different results. Auto termination should definitely be the last resort and most low memory footprint apps should be totally excluded.
I've been a lifelong user of apple OSs and I honestly think Snow Leopard was the peak of OS design. I'm planning to stick with it as long as possible as well :(

Although I wish people would stop being so dramatic about the demise of general purpose computing, that's sky-is-falling talk and I don't think it will ever happen.
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That is a real concern.

But the cure is found in faster service: With fast connections you can host your own services.

What we really need is multiple competitors in connections this fast.
I would tend to agree. Google has been extremely monopolistic lately. The only reason for Google+'s and Google Chat's relative success is shoving it down the throats of users of GMail's throats. Google mission has moved from organizing to controlling the world's information. I really liked the former, and I'm pretty scared of the latter.

I want fast fiber. I also want to avoid another evil monopoly from taking over the computing landscape. I miss the old, trustworthy, don't-be-evil Google.
http://i.imgur.com/kiXss.png looks like a downtrend
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None of those things are true. Microsoft will not limit what you can install, take over your bios, or control your boot. In fact, windows 8 is the first windows to play nice with Linux boot loaders. Windows RT (aka tablets) is the only space where bootloaders will be locked. Don't get me wrong, locking it down anywhere is a shitty thing to do, but spreading misinformation is also a shitty thing to do.
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Until December last year the fastest I could get was 3mbps. I was then able to double to just under 7mbps. I'm also forced to pay for landline service I don't want or use as part of that giving me a total bill of $65/ month ($5/mo less than when I had 3mbps plus phone line).

I live in a city of 60,000 residents 20 km from Silicon Valley.
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I don't think the two points you make: tied to usage and external factors, equate to difficult forecasts. Look at airlines, they are definitely tied to usage, empty planes and bad routes impact revenues; and external factors come into play with things like fuel costs and union negotiations (at least in the US). The things you list as making them a "hard stock for wall street to understand" are actually what make the sharks see right through zynga's value proposition/bullshit.
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Simply take 3 zeros in the price tag to match dollars. There's even 220 dollar display!
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I always see Safari as a small GUI around vanilla WebKit -- i.e. Safari basically is WebKit. (Chrome on the other side has pushed it much further and WebKit seems to be only a part of it.)

From the history of WebKit, I also got the feeling that Apple did one of the most important work to modernize it to compete with IE, Firefox, Opera at the time it was released. Afaik, KHTML was not really as far.

Under this view, I don't really see your point. This work by Apple (WebKit/Safari) and by KDE is now part/base of one of the most important browsers, Chrome.
Of course not. Like so many desktop Java apps, it will look and feel like Java, no matter where it's running.
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> This move might be good for Google, but I find it somewhat alarming as a consumer. Those who control or curate content (Google, NBC/Comcast, Facebook) should not control infrastructure.

I don't know about you, but I'll take Google over Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, etc. any day of the week, regardless of their conflicts of interest. Google has a proven track record of doing things in my favor.
Foundries are incredibly (insanely) expensive to run, and Samsung Electronics runs more than anybody but Intel. Given the sheer volume of business that Apple does with them, it's likely that Samsung literally cannot afford to drive Apple to a rival foundry without either ruining their foundries' financials or massively driving up the component costs for their own products.
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The US made the problem worse by the pro-patent policy from 1980's.
I also think the US companies have an unfair advantage in trials (eg. optical fiber Corning vs Sumitomo)
I am hoping Apple, the crown jewel, getting badly beat with patents will make US reconsider their pro-patent policy.
There are also a lot of apple-only apps in the business world.

And how many business apps are being built for windows right now, compared to the number that are being built of iOS and osX right now?

I guess that the latter has much more activity...
For whatever it may be worth, installing from the preferences worked fine for me. I heard other reports of failures, though, and assume it's related to the massive number of people all trying to download Mountain Lion at once.