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He's only interested in the redistribution of source code, that is where his definition of free ends. Simply license the code so you can and the art so you can't and RMS is find and dandy with it. Tight controls on artwork to make money off of is good but tight control on source code is evil.

The closest he gets to extending out of his little bubble is that copyright should be 10 years only and then everything is public.
That is a very weird use of the word "only".
Your comment is about child porn, not about TFA. Please stay on topic.
The solution is obviously to make the user fill in a captcha whenever they click on an ad to confirm they are indeed human
Thank you for giving me something to share with people who tell my kids to focus on sports.
> Do you think we're going to still be using the Windows 95 model in 10 years?

I sure hope so. It's ideal for laptops and desktop PCs, or at least none of the alternatives are good enough.
I've taken apart a couple of discarded pianos. The saddest part is cutting the wires with a wire cutter (watch it, they whip outward) - the sound is so mournful and haunting.
Actually, I find that real pianos tend to be more forgiving of sloppy techniques than fake pianos are. In particular, I tend to partially depress keys while my fingers are resting on them. On a digital piano, they will often sound whereas they do not on an traditional piano.

That could be because I learned on a real piano, I acquired sloppy habits that a real piano forgives. Perhaps people learning on a digital would learn different sloppy habits that only a digital would forgive.
Forty years ago, you'd have to call a guy in a blue suit for help with your computer problem. Now you have to call a guy in a blue T-shirt.

I'm half expecting a Samsung ad featuring a quasi-Nordic Olympian person with a hammer. And a large screen.
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Agreed that if you want to be able to watch recent shows on non-desktop systems, Hulu+ is a good choice. (Added an edit to previous comment.)

I just don't understand the statement "It complements NetFlix well in that regard too." in the context of your previous comment. Hulu+ complements Netflix in a different way than it complements iTunes. While Hulu+ offers a way to get a lot of iTunes content for a flat monthly rate (albeit with commercials), Hulu+'s advantage over Netflix is getting newer content.
The problem in Canada is that the major ISPs own the Canadian distribution rights to many of these popular programs. There is no incentive for them to provide them over the internet because they:

A. Want to reduce their network bandwidth costs

B. Want you to pay for their TV services in which to watch said programming
Obviously you can't police the world, but if there is a system that prevents abuse that they have the ability to use, I see no reason not to use it.

Also, this has nothing to do with legality, only TOS/privacy policy violations that you agree to when you sign up.
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Yep, this is a major part of GNOME3 that most people haven't yet noticed. Thanks to it being done in JavaScript, you can hack your desktop like a web app: https://cannonerd.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/hack-gnome3-like-...

This includes stuff like reload (Alt-F2 r) and a reasonably nice data inspector (Alt-F2 lg).
I assume he means piano by "instrument", and "would play a vintage violin" by "would".
The UI confusion come from the shadow projected on the selected thumbnail. If the thumbnail is located in a dark region of the picture, the shadow become invisible, it's thus impossible to quickly recognize where we stand in the thumbnails stack. The horizontal translate is too small to compensate.

You could draw a small white circle with black shadow under the selected thumbnail, or simply swap the thumbnail for a white circle when it's selected.

I think the thumbnail are also to small, we cannot easily distinguish details by looking at them, so they serve no purpose.

Great pictures.
Aww, no pre-order available on Amazon?
If there was ever a Kickstarter project (And I say this as a backer of several kick starters, check my ID) - that was destined to failure, this is it. Unrealistic schedules, overhyped expectations, poor communication. Of course we'd all love to see something like this happen, but disruption has to happen more organically. You can't just announce that you are going to build a competitive console in eight months. These things take years - particularly given all of the obstacles (Store, Controller, Development Platform, DRM) that exist.

Most of the kick starters that I find are successful, are those which _already_ have a fully functioning prototype that people are able to use, work, play with - and the kickstarter is something that lets them do this at scale.

The kick starters that are for the R&D/Development almost never hit their targets - even for projects much less aggressive than this one.

Plus - the budget is tiny for all these sub-projects, particularly because they are going to have to pay for all these consoles out of it. It's a train wreck in the offing.
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Want something to be used? You have to think about user experience. You have to think like a marketer or a designer. What I see here is a lot of people evading the issue because it involves human beings. Technologies do not become popular until somebody includes the user in the design equation, and only popular technologies have large impacts.
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I fail to see how this is similar unless you have proof that someone filed a complaint and Twitter failed to act on it.
He smiled. “My dear girl, in Culture history alone it has been about nine thousand years since a human, marvellous though they are in so many other ways, could do anything useful in a serious, big-guns space battle other than admire the pretty explosions… or in some cases contribute to them.”

“Contribute?”

“Chemicals; colours. You know.”

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Common sense says that published corporate email addresses don't qualify as private.

I wonder if Twitter will ban me for posting your "private" Hacker News username?
This is my new parser. You change stuff in textarea and click submit to view changes. Sorry if it's not 100% there and the way I present it is simple, just was excited to share somewhere. I will use it to replace bbcode/markup/textile on future sites. I can easily add dsl-like forms, like table and list in the above example, to the parser for generating things like graphs or exploiting html5 features with less typing. I posted this last night but deleted it because it had an issue where it would stack overflow if people spammed it because I was accidentally doubling the macros every loop. Even though it accepts css, it should be safe to use by users. any tag can use css. It's on a cheap vps for testing, the parser and server are both written in erlang.
I haven't been following Ouya since the initial hype, but wasn't one of their initial talking points that they would only allow free games?

I guess they're doing paid games now:
"But that’s not the end of it: We’re promising to deliver Final Fantasy III like you’ve never seen it before – Hironobu Sakaguchi’s third installment in the role playing game franchise will be updated to exploit OUYA’s high-definition resolution in glorious graphic detail. For those of you who are new to Final Fantasy, we’ll offer a free demo so you can give it a go!"
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I might be completely off the track.. But as it is games we are talking about of which mostly attracts the <18 year old audience...

How many of those have a credit card readily to pay for apps and games on an android phone?
So it's AirPlay without the flexibility, WiDi without Intel's backing, DNLA without the install base, and they have to define and implement and debug any controller scheme you might possibly want to send over the air. Good luck.
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I want you to get downvoted for the Hitler reaction video reference. You know what I'm talking about.
"In other news... Ikea now offers an upright piano: only 37 flats and 19 hours of assembly."
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When I worked there a couple years ago, requesting a custom Windows build still took overnight, if you wanted more exhaustive testing than just xcopying a couple binaries.
As others have said, guns don't kill people, other people (and Chuck Norris) do.
Unfortunately, the right to privacy has this side-effect of allowing people to hide from others really nasty things. But it will always be like this: laws and rights protect both well and ill-behaving people. Giving those up would, however, harm all of us.
Almost all advertising systems/platforms today self-optimize when you are bidding against other advertisers vying for limited ad space. It doesn't matter how you bid because at the end of the day there is an expected revenue per impression (or per thousand like an RPM) that is used to determine how much exposure you get.

For example:

CPC - You bid $1 per click to a sign up page for more information on your product. You get a conversion rate of 10% so after spending $10, you get one sign up and the CPA cost of that lead was $10.

CPA - You bid $5 per lead on the same system and observe the same conversion metrics. Now assuming the clickthrough rate was the same on that ad network, they only made $5 after the same number of impressions shown vs. the CPC model. The effective CPC they made from sending over 10 clicks was $.50 instead of a dollar.

The ad platform will eventually optimize itself to give you a lower share of impressions if you bid the $5 CPA because it can normalize expected revenue/returns regardless of bidding models. This is why with a lot of CPA deals, they require a test period to suss out the economic viability of your bid before they will commit to delivering a large amount of impressions on a CPA model on your behalf.
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I wonder what would have twitter done if this happend in March 2011, and the e-mail address in question was that of a Libyan secret police "executive"?
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Limitations of message size won't solve that because the messages will be broken into hundreds of pieces, just like they are on Usenet. In theory you could limit the total amount of content coming from an end point, but it's probably not feasible in an anonymous system.
I agree. Twitter always felt weird for me because of its broadcasting nature. Makes sense if you are a celebrity or a business and you need to make an announcement or something to a lot of people but not for me. There is so much junk and noise around these days that I'm struggling and always on search to find quality content. Since the rise of internet everyone has been empowered to be a writer, as opposed to older times where you'd need to be more committed to publishing to be able to publish anything in the first place. The quality has diluted, the volume has increased many times and we are busier than before, that's why things like Twitter doesn't really appeal to me.
NBC Olympics Executive’s Email Wasn’t “Widely Available” In Google
Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand has posted an article regarding the claim by Guy Adams about the NBC official's email being "widely available".
Danny says,
'There remains the debate over whether sharing a corporate address is one that’s not personal and therefore not a violation of Twitter’s rules. I’d say no. Just because someone has a work address doesn’t make it not personal. It’s their personal work email.'
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A repost and a broken link.
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While certainly anecdotal, I attribute 99% of my opengl knowledge to the extremely comprehensive WebGL 101 videos by emoller. The video was two hours long, but it took me about 8 to get through as I copied code, made changes I liked, and made sure it compiled at each milestone.

Of course, opengl/webgl isn't a language, and the hand-holding might be more necessary.

Finally, all of his code (each finished milestone, of which there were at least a dozen) was available on github.

For the lazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me3BviH3nZc
Very cool. I don't have many Haskell coders where I spend my time, so it is nice to watch how someone with more experience tackles fairly basic programming tasks. The guard window and quickcheck in particular were eye-opening.
Yes. Exactly that. Thanks.

I think this is currently a big missed opportunity for Gnome 3. The ability to extend the shell using JS is huge and the project has done a terrible job publicizing it. I was just googling around for it and had fairly hard time finding good, official docs on how to build an extension... If they dialed that in and got the GitHub crowd excited, they'd have a vibrant community in little time.

EDIT: Wow. The one click install from Chrome and auto activation is really nice. I clicked the link, approved the extension install (system dialog) and, BOOM!, pretty charts and graphs!
I wonder if Mountain Lion's Airplay feature kind of forced Hulu's hand.
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Having moved several pianos, I definitely get the enjoyment of being able to destroy one. Ususally about 80% of the way through the move "accidentally" dropping it seems like a good idea...
Seconded. Devote a short episode to tools, but don't mix the tools and programming too much.
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So, since people can put kiddy porn on images, images shouldn't be allowed at all?
> Never blame the tool.

We can predict how a tool might be used by various users. We can also look at how similar tools have been used historically.

If, empirically, certain tools tend to be mis-used in familiar ways, it's just ignorant to say "don't blame the tool". It's a straw-man. When people "blame the tool", it's typically short-hand for arguing that the creators and distributors of the tool share some of the blame for its misuse, along with the abusers.

I.e. there's a long history of tool creators playing dumb / innocent about the predictable and likely abuses of the tools they create. There's an equally long history of these abuses, so any such arguments are to maintain cognitive dissonance, or made out of pure ignorance.
This may be an even harder thing to achieve, but how about making Steam a virtual environment that runs on bare metal or under windows/mac/linux? That way all games are written to run as a virtual environment in the same virtual host.
The one-man orchestra is today's dude with a keyboard that can easily play all the instruments of an orchestra.
Great suggestion, that's on par with what I had in mind. I was not implying OP should have a 3-minute segment on vim commands. Maybe just casually say "and I'm going to use :tab which allows me to select multiple lines and line up the equal signs" or something similar.
agreed; there are some things you just can't learn without proper training, but if it’s something fairly straight-forward, you can get pretty far in studying common practices and trying things out yourself.

there’s a huge wealth of knowledge out there in just looking around you. my approach (not a pro at all) when designing anything really is just to look for cues from others. there are a lot of resource-rich players that have invested a lot in UI/UX design, and, the great thing here, is that much of the pay-off from those investments is freely available; just look at their products.

this is especially true on the web where it’s so easy to find and compare sites or apps related to what you’re doing. if you take the time to examine them closely and look for commonalities, you’ll generally find many of the more successful sites share a lot in common when you get down to fundamentals (though they may look and ‘feel’ very different). the ‘artistic’ aspect of UI/UX gets the majority of attention (and, in my opinion, is the hard part to master), but what makes or breaks a design is usability, and that you can learn fairly easily.

at the very least you end-up with a product that works; and this is the most important element in UI/UX. from there you can learn to perfect it and make it look amazing, but that takes time and experience.
Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand finds out more regarding the claim by Guy Adams about the NBC official's email being "widely available". Although a google search for his email (at this moment) yields thousands of results, prior to the whole uproar its a very different story.

A very reasonable post about this whole issue.
Thanks Danny !
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The personalised advertising is not extreme at all. This technology already exists it's just not widespread. My companies parent recently had a company get together where they demonstrated it! Scary stuff if you ask me.
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Where are you interning? Banks? I've "interned" and worked full time at multiple start-ups, there's no difference at that level other than the pay, if you know what you're doing or have a passion to learn it.
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uh... you made three fairly different predictions of possible outcomes. You were almost guaranteed that one of them would be true. I'm not sure that is all that significant.
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I'd assume that Ouya would get (S)NES emulators fairly quickly, if it manages to launch successfully.
While I agree with all this, there is one thing Apple TV has that makes it a must buy in my case... and that is Airplay. Whatever slack it has now, I can simply make up for by screen mirroring (ie. use Amazon Instant Video) from my Macbook Air using ML Airplay.
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Why has this issue resurfaced? What has changed?

I thought that the windows 8 certification for x86 required that users should be able to disable secure boot.
If Ouya is supposed to be a medium for indie game developers, that medium already exists with Android and iOS app stores, and arguably Steam as well, so there really isn't anything to disrupt. If it ever comes out, it's likely just going to be a piracy console.
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I find this really stupid on Microsoft's part. I operate a dual boot solely for the purpose of using Windows for gaming. With Steam potentially coming to Linux, I'll just drop Lenovo as my vendor of choice as go with a vendor who supports my OS of choice, Linux.
A list of assertions from the film:

Ayn Rand was very influential to the Silicon Valley of the 90s.

There was a dream of large scale cybernetic/emergent self-regulation enabled by computers, which would do away with hierarchical organizations and government as we knew it.

This "Californian Ideology" held that government would need to become a facilitator rather than a regulator.
Bill Clinton was originally opposed to this ideology, believing in the regulatory role of government.

Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan had been a follower of Rand's philosophy since the 1950s.

In 1992, Greenspan convinced Clinton to cut government spending to lower interest rates and grow the economy, the opposite of Clinton's original intentions as president.

A belief emerged called the New Economy, which said the booming economy would be different than previous booms because computers could calculate risk in a way that enabled more feedback and self-regulation.

In 1996, Greenspan noticed that rising profits were not tied to rising productivity, and warned of a speculative bubble. He then reversed this outlook due to political pressure.

Implied cinematically: Rand's affair with Nathaniel Brandon, which she considered rational, had parallels to Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

The rising economy of the 90s prompted a speculative boom in Southeast Asia. Concerns about this were intercepted and put down by Robert Rubin, former head of Goldman Sachs and believer in computer self-regulation.

Carmen Hermasillo (Humdog) raised concerns about cyberspace not being a utopian platform, but rather a corporate profit center for user generated content.

The speculative bubble in Southeast Asia collapsed at the same time as Clinton became entangled with the Lewinsky scandal, leaving the treasury to deal with a fiscal crisis in Indonesia.

Indonesia signed with the IMF, but their currency collapsed anyways. The IMF loans were really to pay off western investors, who then left.
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