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Why? An HDCP capable display can show content without HDCP or with HDCP so in what way is one that only supports non HDCP inputs better?

The only benefit is if only a small minority of people have HDCP displays then it makes no commercial sense to mandate HDCP for content. And in my view it is too late for that.

Edit: Note that it wouldn't be a show stopper for me with a product like this but I would regard HDCP support in a monitor to be a benefit.

Edit2: Added missing word to second sentence.
Or Apple, or Google, or Amazon. Steam is, really, just an app store. And that's becoming part of the platform in the modern world.

Frankly I think the sanest option here would be for MS to simply buy Valve and turn them into the "Windows App Store". But I can't imagine that happening given all the internal churn that would be required to eliminate all their existing online purchase junk.
There was a time when it was actually popular on Facebook, and many people were playing it, including myself for a time.

It just got old. You can't spend that kind of time on a single game forever, and since a significant part of its value was social, once friends stopped playing, everyone stopped playing.

They were right to buy Draw Something and WWF, because that is truly what everyone is now playing. But that's all it is—that's just what they're playing right now. Unless they can innovate and come up with or buy a new concept and monetize on it quickly, they're truly screwed. The popularity cycles of these things are measured in weeks or months at most. And it's hard to keep doing the same thing over and over again—it's not a business model I would bet on. The stock price reflects my opinions quite nicely here.
Thanks for the feedback! Grubwithus dev here. Have you seen the create-a-meal interface, released about a week ago? One of the main issues we were facing was the lack of a restaurant for user created meals (which deters grubbers from booking), but we've solved this by allowing the creator to select a restaurant during the process. Now meals have a restaurant from the get go, which is appealing for grubbers. Not sure if this what you were referring to, but the revamp has been well received by organizers and bookers alike.
well it's 2012, the overwhelming majority of users have JS enabled
Steam is already competing with very strong entrants (Amazon, Gamestop/Impulse, Gamersgate), and seems to be doing well. Microsoft hasn't exactly hit the ball out of the park with Xbox Games-on-Demand, I'm not sure how much they really have to worry here.
And KHTML was based on the KDE HTML Widget. There's always prior work. But that's not particularly relevant to my point that it makes absolutely zero sense for Apple to discontinue their browser.
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Search is the opposite of an organization tool. It's a tool that allow users to avoid being organized.
What are you basing this on? The quote in both the linked article and the AllThingsD piece indicates that he said "I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space." He isn't just talking about Valve.
It doesn't follow that we will be able to do it, nor even that it is possible, but before the understanding that flat universes contain zero energy, the claim that you might manufacture a universe would seem to completely absurd. Where would you get all that energy? Especially if energy is conserved?

As it turns out, it doesn't matter if energy is conserved, because a flat universe doesn't have any net energy, and consequently they can come into existence without violating known conservation laws.

In any case, you don't have to take my word for it. Look up Alan Guth, the MIT cosmologist who invented the inflationary universe theory. This is his claim.
I got the same impression so far. Take the Metro Windows Update for example. It failed for for me repeatedly without giving any reason until I found the same functionality within the "classic" Control Center where I had to allow the system to reboot in order to install the updates. This is simply a horrible experience in every way.
Nothing is forcing you to use Metro. In fact, only apps that have an UI designed specifically for Metro will use the Metro environment. Everything else will run in windows outside of Metro, just like they do in Windows 7.

Only the new start screen (which replaces the start menu) will expose you to Metro. But in my experience with the Release Preview, this start screen is pleasant to use and still allows for keyboard search like in Windows 7 as well as keyboard navigation.

You can still use your desktop in precisely the same way you're doing right now. Nothing has changed there.
It is unfortunate that this kind of information has been spread so widely about Windows 8, but it's just not true.

The desktop is still there, icons are still there, overlapping windows are still there, the only thing gone is the start menu, replaced with the metro launch screen that can launch both desktop and metro apps.

There are still some issues with the two different environments, especially the difference in look and feel, but it still works well.
Which is devoid of many of the other features that I want, which are available on android phones.
Yes.

No.

I won't expose you to my horrible taste in music [1] if you don't expose me to yours.

[1] Think dab of Kate Bush, mixed with Steve Earle and Slaid Cleaves, seasoned with the soundtrack from 'Black Hawk Down'.
This argument does not make sense at all. Almost everything we do or own in the real world is based on one form of hierarchy or another. Work (CEO > Executive > etc.), Home (Parents > Old Siblings > You > etc), House (House itself > rooms > closets in a room, etc.) These are not just labels and there is nothing geeky about them either. They imply a certain order or sequence of things that can not just be moved around. If there is one thing that we as people are good at, it must be hierarchies.

Tags on the other hand do not imply order of things. They are more about how you'd describe or how you relate to these things. For example you can have a 'favorite' tag and apply it both to your sibling as in 'your favorite sibling' and one of your closet as in 'your favorite closet in your room'. It says nothing about the order of these things just that your like them. Also, tags can be somewhat temporal as opposed to hierarchies. For example if we take a folders and files example, I can have a top level folder called projects which contains sub-folder for each project I've ever worked on. In each of these sub-folders I can then store the project-specific files. I can use 'current' tag to tag the project I'm currently working on. When I finish this project and get another project, I then remove the 'current' tag from the just finished project and move it to the new project leaving the hierarchy intact.

The point is not to use folders when you need tags or use tags when folders are required. The best files system would be the one that allows you to use both as situation demands.
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This will be great on my blackberry, all the other free weather apps out there suck.
I'm pretty sure Valve wouldn't sell to MS for any amount of money.

Gabe is a billionaire, and left MS to do his own stuff. And Valve culture sounds incompatible w/ MS culture.
The worst problem isn't competing with the Microsoft marketplace--it's not being able to compete. And that's exactly what Windows 8 Rt threatens. Microsoft has decided to emulate Apple and be evil on tablets.
A business catastrophe, not a usability or market catastrophe. "I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people."
I like it. Design seems a little dated - its missing the rounded-ness of today's apps - but very functional. How do you plan on seeding enough entrepreneurs and angel investors to make it useful? Sadly, I think if you used the word "crowdfunding" you'd have people signing up in droves. Any plans to explore that avenue?
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"Microsoft is charging between 20 to 30%" - I think that's too much, it must be much less than that, but I don't know for sure.
I feel like the "serendipity creation" is overall at a good level. I overhear conversations about startups, design and programming in general all over Chicago. There are Geographical clusters. From my personal experience there's only 2/3 "locations/buildings" that I know are the startup buildings. And Chicago is a super small city. I run into people I've met at meetups on the train and downtown all the time by chance.

It's an enjoyable location :}
I have long felt similarly to you (minus the "no glare" part), but I bought a Crossover 27Q and have been thrilled by it.

I spent $800 on a high-quality 24" 1920x1200 BenQ about 5 years ago, and now it's playing 2nd fiddle to my 27".

As a programmer, it really bothers me that 16:10 is all but dead. However, when you go from a 1920x1200 to a 2560x1440 monitor, you're not losing vertical space - you're just gaining more horizontal space than vertical.

My other huge gripe is anti-glare coating. If you are in control of your lighting, AG coating does not benefit you - it just blurs the picture. A screen with no AG coating gives a crystal clear image.

The BenQ FP241W was one of the best rated & reviewed monitors when it was released. I'm thrilled to replace it with a "cheap" Korean monitor, and look forward to replacing it completely by adding a 2nd Crossover next to my current one. The big issue with the new monitor is longevity - my BenQ is still running perfectly, I hope I can say the same for the Crossover in 5+ years.
This was a very well written comment on ZNGA nearly 2 months earlier : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4101906
I kept it in my bookmarks to go back to.

The essence is that Zynga makes its revenue selling fake stuff, and the size of its market for its stuff is its users, and if they lose users their 'value' has to go down because their total available market got smaller.

This struck me as potentially a very durable way of measuring value for 'information goods' type businesses. I don't see anything in Zynga's latest results to contradict this analysis.
Many people say that they have this or that application that keeps them clinging to windows and for me it has always been games. If it weren't for games, I would never use windows on any of my personal machines again, let alone purchase it. Linux distros don't even sell their products yet somehow are better thought out than any version of windows.
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Not a good year for investors in newly public tech companies... of big IPOs in the past year, Zynga is down 70% from the offering price, Facebook is down 30%, and Groupon is down 55%. Seems like the investing public screwed up and massively overpaid VCs/founders for the shares, by a total of about six billion dollars.
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There's an aura of Victorian-era sexual guilt around what is described by the research as a natural by-product of evolution.
PS: Fuck you, I wasn't even talking to you, I recommended a book to someone. You lack the brains to know when someone isn't interested a debate, because you're an ass.

PS: You're still an ass, and you don't know what appeal to authority means. We have to be debating and me relying on him to make a point for it to be an appeal to authority. As I clearly indicated I wasn't interested in debating the subject, you can't accuse me of logical fallacies, a point I made previously but you failed to grok because you're an ass.
You're right, and I also wouldn't trust anything he says about Windows 8 since he has a vested interest in keeping easy distribution restricted to Steam. He will face no such competition on Linux.
I put pepper on pizza. If you have meat or cheese on your pizza, adding salt is just too much (for me).
The difference being only one of them owns the platform steam gets practically all of their revenue from.
Spot on. More likely Google fit, than anyone else. "Engineering rules" culture and almost "flat" hierarchy.
Just my 2 cents, but I did not/do not know what gittip is. The above link invites me to sign in using github, I'm extremely cautious of logging in using github anywhere as my personal account is also my work account.

Any page where I can land and be asked to log in should do a better job of saying what you do, especially where trust is involved.
So...Steam is a closed platform as well. We have a game on Steam, and I can tell you that the sales on the Steam platform are much better than the other open ones. One of the reasons for this is the big user base, but the closed nature of the platform is also a large factor.

Kinda seems like the pot calling the kettle black.
> In Win8, they will have to compete with the built-in windows marketplace, where most games will published directly.

Has there been any talk from major publishers/developers that they're actually looking at the Windows 8 marketplace as a serious option? Steam seems to be very friendly towards developers/publishers in terms of pushing out updates, cert, advertising. Plus, Steam has pretty good support for customers. What will the Windows 8 marketplace offer or do better to provide the sort of incentive needed to attract big players?
Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/07/20/maki...

Store fees are calculated on a per-transaction basis as well. These fees are based at 30% of the app price, until your app reaches $25,000 or equivalent of lifetime sales (aggregated across app sales and in-app purchases) when they change to 20% of the app price.
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Both! If the universe is flat, then it was always infinitely big. And, according to the inflationary universe theory, it expanded faster than the speed of light too.

In this case, you have to think of "expanding" as being like stretching. I.e., things within the infinitely big universe rapidly got farther apart from each other.
This is exactly what happened with their OMGPOP (Draw Something) acquisition. It was an obvious hit but not one that was very monetizable and the popularity has declined after paying a ridiculous sum for it.

This is all explained better here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2012/07/25/oh-zyng...
I've got a 27Q and it is excellent. The housing is metal, the stand is solid (if lacking in adjustment, but other models offer more adjustment - I replaced it with an Ergotron MX arm). It's very basic - just a DVI port. Crossover has multiple models offering different stands and different connectivity options. The major unknown at this point is longevity, but other than that I would recommend this without reservation.
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I know that everyone has been careful not to mention Chomsky's political beliefs, but I am suspicious that this is actually partly about Chomsky's political beliefs, which I think are more in line with reality or at least more egalitarian than Norvig's must be, since Norvig has been running one of the hegemony's greatest tools recently. I see a parallel between the general derisive dismissal of Chomsky's academic views as being simplistic with the type of dismissal commonly given to a Chomskyish geopolitical viewpoint. I see this disagreement as a surrogate for the very different geopolitical worldviews.

I doubt that Chomsky is really so hard line about his old approaches to AI as we are led to believe, although he is probably farther behind the times than Norving.

I actually think that even Norvig is just applying recent contemporary AI to AI problems, but still is part of an old or establishment guard himself as far as AI goes. I think that the real cutting edge AI research is called AGI (artificial general intelligence) research.

The generation/category of AI research or machine learning that Norvig is tied into is much newer and steps beyond the earlier traditional AI that Chomsky might have been involved with, but the AGI researchers are a step beyond Norvig's clique. And the AGI researchers are, by the way, very optimistic about the Singularity or at least the likelihood of human-like and probably super-human artificial general intelligence in the short or medium term.

I mean the Norvigish machine-learning stuff isn't completely disconnected from the AGI stuff and completely behind and I assume it will result in extremely capable AIs relatively soon, but the AGI approaches will probably prove to be more powerful and more humanlike since they are closer to human models.

Take a look at what Brain Corporation is doing, or Numenta, or the OpenCog project. That stuff is beyond Norvig and friends' approaches.
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Ubuntu Software Center isn't a direct competitor?

If anything he risks footing a lot of the effort to get developers onto Linux (see: Valve openly talking about working with GPU manufacturers to improve the quality of Linux drivers) only to have it benefit people that choose to distribute outside of Steam.
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To lure in would-be developers, Microsoft is establishing an attractive revenue-split model that trumps what Apple delivers to its App Store and Mac App Store software partners. The Microsoft split starts at 70-30, between developers and Microsoft, respectively. This is the same ratio Apple offers, but once an app has proven its success by garnering $25,000 in sales, the split shifts further in the developer’s favor to 80-20.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/windows-8-store-intro...
I whinged about this to our partner rep who made some calls - apparently they fixed it for RTM.

Whether or not that is bullshit or not, I don't know.
another solution to that problem is avatars.io
The dearth of 16:10 monitors available bothers me, but if you're going from 1920x1200 (or less) to 2560x1440, you're still gaining vertical space - you're just gaining more horizontal space. I replaced my 24" 1920x1200 with a Crossover 27Q 27" 2560x1400 and absolutely love it.
Why are HNers so dense when it comes to fundraising? No, the treatment doesn't come off at all sounding like profits or income. Yes, fundraising is definitely a point of success. Why do HNers have such a hard time with this? Money is an important resource for growing companies! Sheesh.
anybody tried produce cheese from human milk? =)
That works fine until you want to open a file with several different applications. For example, you might want to open an html file with several different web browsers and a text editor.
Jeez, nik, the person wrote "venture _fund_" and you're comparing to individual deals?
>It is unfortunate that this kind of information has been spread so widely about Windows 8, but it's just not true.

Well, it is and it isn't. Native Metro apps do more or less behave the way he's describing. The thing is, almost no native Metro apps exist right now, so you'll spend the vast majority of your time in traditional desktop mode anyway.
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I haven't seen the Yamakasi's or the Achieva Shimian's in person, but I have a Crossover 27Q and the monitor housing is sturdy metal and the stand is sturdy as well. Still overall very lightweight.
I can tell you that it would be very hard for Microsoft to make me choose to use their app store over Steam without resorting to anti-competitive tactics. Steam, from a gamer's perspective, does almost everything right, and I have a huge number of games "stored" there. Then again, laziness might trump for most people.
> Shouldn't it be 13 2 = 26 across?*

I guess this depends on how you define "across". Our Hubble sphere is all the space around us for which light has arrived. If the universe is infinitely big, then yes, there are things that we can see that are 26 billion light years from each other. However, they can't see each other, and so they are not causally connected to each other, even though we are causally connected to both.

>Is some space aliean on the edge of the universe going to see 13 light years in all directions?

An alien at the edge of our Hubble sphere will live in a different, overlapping Hubble sphere, from which they will see 13 light years in all directions around themselves.
It's a great illustration, this story, about how seemingly unimportant decisions can be made that then get carried down through a company for years into the future.
More like Perl and SmallTalk.
If you would have read the article you're commenting on, you would know that the buttons do work. It was just a case of Jeff Atwood (unintentionally) spreading lies.
Ubuntu Software Center isn't a direct competitor?

No, because it's DRM-less.
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I was going to reply that UBC doesn't support paid apps, but apparently now it does.

That said, Valve appears to be going for a play based on being a cross-platform app store (Windows, OS X, Linux). It's not obvious to me that they can add much value that way (after you've gone to the work to implement support for three platforms, submitting to three app stores is not a lot of overhead) but we'll see.
>It failed for for me repeatedly without giving any reason until I found the same functionality within the "classic" Control Center where I had to allow the system to reboot in order to install the updates

Wasn't this on the Beta product? Why is everyone talking as if it's on the RTM version?
LZO requires 64kB of memory. I've only have 16kB total. It looks like FastLZ requires 8kB. Still looking for something smaller.
Well, the patent holder is either the inventor or acquired the patent from the inventor. If we assume that the inventor is a consenting adult and didn't give the patent away under duress, I don't see any problem with that.
Steam has little to worry about in regards to the Windows App Store. They just need to keep pushing platforms, keep securing great titles, and RELEASE ANOTHER DAMN HALF LIFE 2 EPISODE. Exclusively on Steam of course.

Steam is pretty great and it's not easy to replicate. See "Google Play."
The pink highlighting is probably a result of using http://html5boilerplate.com/.
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Ice cream, yes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/25/human-mil...
Thanks so much for the article. I grew up on W2, C&C and after 15 years, it's always nice to know how it all came to be/worked in the back ground and the little details of it all.

"Work, work."
Pretty funny the price of the e-book on Amazon is the same as the price of an Ars Premier subscription for a month which includes the same e-book.
I think, like many things, it is all about how you sell it. I have seen programmers with Masters be dismissed because of it, and another with a Ph.D. that he left off his resume trying to avoid the stigma.

No one wants to hire someone as a coder who is only in it for the money. Since most of us still working for someone else are at least partially in it for the money, we are often polite and lie and promise we're not gold diggers. I don't think that people with Master's degrees are even inherently less interested in the work; it is just harder for them to get away with the conventional, polite lie that we are utterly happy where we are.
That comparison is insulting to rubbish.
That's true of almost every big computer monitor. My HP ZR30w has a couple display port inputs, and the 30" Dells around here have a single DVI connector. Neither have OSDs or support any resolution other than their native.
I could write Steam in Lisp in about 10 minutes
How can a smaller monitor be heavier? It's all electronics"

That is so far off it isn't even wrong.

1) Electronics generally become more integrated, reliable and lighter as time passes. This is generally a good thing.

2) On most monitors a significant amount of weight is in the mounting hardware. Some use structured plastic, some use smaller steel parts. One isn't better than the other, but they do weigh different amounts.
Long-term, yes.

Short-term, if they can still get their games through Microsoft's own market, they won't care.
Nobody expects the underwhelming earnings report!