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CHANGE

Change something significant in your life. That might be your job, where you live, or even your position at the company you currently work at. It might mean a new hobby or a big new project.

In my opinion it's not about being positive, it's about having something to be passionate about. If you don't, CHANGE until you do.

Of course, much easier said than done.
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It says right there in the link you provided that the marginal cost is the change in total cost that arises when the quantity produced changes by one unit.

We're discussing the mass entertainment market, where total costs are dominated by fixed costs. Do you seriously think it's disingenuous to take fixed costs into account? I'd say it's far more disingenuous to just ignore the bulk of your expenditure.
If it was a content id takedown (which it sounds like it was, and Ars thinks so too), the DMCA is not involved at all; Google's content id system allows takedowns that do not use the DMCA system and thus do not expose the filer to a perjury charge. Google might penalize the company some other way, but it doesn't seem like it from the outside.
In my opinion, is slow. And I bet you -or others- have room for increase performance by 2-4x in next years. Even without SIMD intrinsics (autovectorization-friendly code is OK, though), but with proper data structure usage, better code L1 cache usage, increasing data cache hit ratio, reducing function/pointer indirection, reduce data cache pollution, etc.
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But the olympic organizers need a way to pay for their $70,000 lunches, which totally justifies this.

http://www.businessinsider.com/no-one-knows-who-was-behind-t...
Express-resource is cool - I haven't gotten the chance to use it in a project yet so I can't comment too much on it.

Our app isn't grouped strictly into resources, though it's something we might be able to benefit from. Currently we use different pieces of middleware to load whatever items the route needs.
You have to understand what Visa is competing against; it's not against the other card providers, it's against cash.

Considering how much money they have spent to be a sponsor I don't think they count their return to happen during the Olympic period, this looks more to be a habit forming thing (when you go out their aim is you'll go for your Visa by default).
you really, really should never write things such that task priorities must be of a certain arrangement for the thing to work properly. It's very bad form. Also, from the link "Tasks on the Pathfinder spacecraft were executed as threads with priorities that were assigned in the usual manner reflecting the relative urgency of these tasks." Yeaaaaaugh! "PRIORITIES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!" - Morbo.
> James told the officer he received the pill from a friend at the concert, but that he had never tried Oxycontin, and intended to give it away.

Probably better to not say you intend to give it away. Better would be to say that you were going to take it home, Google to find out how to safely dispose of it, and then dispose of it.
Yes, in the way that there are practical uses for a fair amount of mathematics in general:

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/10334/what-practical-appli...
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I'm reading Speaker for the Dead on a real, physical book at the moment, after buying and reading Ender's Game on Kindle. Why? Because Amazon won't sell me the Speaker ebook in my region - but they're happy to sell me books 1, 3 and 4. Well done guys.
I think this is a bad move and an example of feature creep. Were users really asking for this? The problem was that the stream was overloaded with irrelevant projects you may have watched on a whim. It seems like they solved that with the notifications drop down. I'm not sure what the point of Starring is.
>In socialist Europe, banks own YOU!

Americans have a lot more personal debt than Europeans. 'In Free Market America, banks own YOU!' would be more appropriate.
I agree.

I've always thought it was a combination: a thank you that the person took time to talk to you and with you about the position (especially a non-HR employee), a follow up to the interview if there were other questions or to send a work sample as discussed during the interview, and to state again something that marks you as a fit for the position.
> All I really see above is some hand waving

No. I gave you very specific reasons why I believe what I believe. You see hand-waving because you don't want to argue against my reasons, which are clear and logically consistent.

> yet for some reason some other person (musician) somehow is in the wrong for expecting other people to pay for their service and time it took to create their music for your entertainment.

They are not wrong. I like how you put the word "service" in there, because, in fact, they do get paid for their services. Try to hire a musician to put on a show, and you will have to pay. That physical and finite service is owned by the musician, and he trades it for money.
I have no complaints with the open source self-hosted WordPress. You see the benefits of a great platform, together with the benefit of owning and controlling your site.
When you sell tiny metal balls to teenagers on the auspices that those teenagers will scrupulously prevent them from being made available to toddlers, or else those toddlers might die, it's probably easy to argue that you're affecting people besides the immediate purchasers.
Do you happen to have illustrations and/or numbers? I was planning to actually look everything up and work it out when I got home from work, but it'd be nice to have confirmation of my results, too.
Haproxy supports websocket. What are the advantages of using Hipache instead of Haproxy?
> Firstly, the merchant still gets the sale and is happy (it's like boasting about getting 20% off at Bed Bath and Beyond).

True, but they would have gotten more money had they held their ground. I was still going to buy the item, sometimes I abandon the cart accidentally because I got distracted.

However if you shove a discount in my face assuming I'm about to walk, I'm going to use it even if I was just about to pay full price without hesitation.

> This is to say: you have not found a loophole; you are not a concern to the merchant; no one should be frightened by this tactic because of your story.

Assuming the 15%-20% is all extra markup, this is true. Also it's not "my story" for the record. Sites like retailmenot index cart abandon strategies. Way more people are going to use that discount than just those you intend. If that's an acceptable loss, then great.

It's still not necessarily a great idea depending on your business.
like any other VC, i'm sure they're hoping for a one hit wonder.

going the premium account route might be more feasible. Sell premium tutorials, assets, etc. But you're going to need a huge user base in this case.
I've got a Visa debit card through CIBC, but it confuses every merchant I hand it to, so I'm not sure it's even worth it.
So did Borders. Was it book piracy that did that, or digital distribution?
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We have a game that's currently in review by Apple that hopefully will give a sense of just how good these games can be:) The median for games on the App Store is also a lot higher than $200 - in the thousands of dollars. I think we'll break even fine on plenty of games and by virtue of opening up iOS game development to so many potential talented developers we'll have the opportunity to publish real gems.

Only time will tell whether the model works. I'm curious - what cut would you say we should take?
I absolutely wouldn't recommend it.

Thermoelectric generators are far far less efficient than simple generators (say a Stirling engine). The benefit to them is that a) they are very compact and b) they need no mechanical parts.

It makes sense to put a thermoelectric generator in a satellite or rover because the mechanical parts found in a traditional engine are typically very heavy and more likely to fail.

So if you aren't concerned with a couple dozen pounds and the occasionally maintenance call, just use a wood-burning generator. You'll save about an order of magnitude on costs.

edit: what you're looking for is micro-cogeneration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroCHP)
The thing is, nobody is forcing them to upgrade. Except for the RSS thing that was a dubious way to handle it (maybe being more clear on ways to get out a OPML file).

Apple did inform, maybe in a way too opaque. But they did inform it.

On the topic of corporations. I may not interpret it as americans have the "corporations" rhetoric. But the feeling I have as a whole, from the author (Anthony and comments) was very paranoid.

Even calling the backend of OSX has "The Terminal" was very narrow on his scope to explain the problem of this trend and what we loose.

From where I see it, let XQuartz (partially supported/founded by Apple), Google (as seen on iOS6 Youtube.app removal), do it outside the OSX/iOS release schedule, even Apple did it for the iBooks apps and Podcast app.

Having old software stalling progress is just bad for all.
More sophisticated programs (fewer false positives and false negatives), smaller devices, batteries that last longer between charges, etc.
also it has a kickstarter-y feel.
I think the OP is looking at using their stove as the heat source, not a nuclear battery.

On that note, the idea you're talking about was actually considered for a little while for public use until the dangers were found to outweigh the benefits.
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Used as a plot device in a movie called "How I ended last summer":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588875/

I enjoyed it a lot - it's got that real bleak outlook that some of my favorite Russian cinema has, and some _spectacular_ cinematography.
Correction: I used the front hazcam images from http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/
Is this the new era for start-ups with investments becoming a real commodity? Interesting times indeed.
Right now Titan traversals run locally and communicate with the back-end Cassandra or HBase datastore via Thrift, but they are working on moving the traversal code inside the Cassandra/HBase JVM so you can run Gremlin traversals inside the distributed cluster rather than than pulling the elements over the wire.

See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/gremlin-users/6GYiHn3QR8g/81...
Visa should be reviled for what they did in the Olympics.

"Am at the GB v UAE match, and there's a serious problem with Visa. All the cash machines are turned off as they accept non-Visa cards, and the Visa-only card payment system has crashed. There's a lot of frustrated people here with no money and no food for two football matches. No one wants to do anything here. Very annoying, lots hungry and thirsty people here."

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/london-2012-olympics-blog/20...

Also, pre-Olympics they had the games zones remove all non-Visa machines.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/jun/01/visa-cuts-atms-l...

"Visa confirmed that it was replacing the existing cash machines at various Olympic sites with machines running on its own system as part of its exclusivity arrangement as a sponsor. The move means people with Mastercard credit or debit cards will not be able to use the ATMs to withdraw money."

Gold in the Corporate foot shooting event goes to.....VISA!
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Totally valid. We do multiple comparison protection on ANOVA post hoc tests, but not across all analyses.

Ultimately we'll need to address this. Hopefully doing so (automatically) will differentiate Statwing from other stats package, where one is quite free to shoot one's self in the foot (and one often does).

We'll count this as a vote for the prioritization of that feature.

Thanks for the comment, really appreciate it.
you seem to be adopting Zynga's model of ad spending. Is it sustainable in your case? i.e is the revenue always more than the ad spend
Is probably research. First test what happens when you have exclusive payment areas for a limited time and see if anyone kicks off really badly and if the fallout from doing so costs more money than what you make. If not, roll out to more events to try and establish a new standard practice, while keeping a very close eye on social indicators and the bottom line.
I think it's dependent on the individual Tim Hortons. I don't go in them very often, but the ones near me are Mastercard only.

My local No Frills supermarket is debit or Mastercard only - no Visa credit.

Makes me think that Mastercard Canada must give good rates for low-value high-volume transactions.
if i was missing a form I'd have filled for extension probably a week before april and noted the parties that were owning me forms on the request.
>They already exist, problem is the penalties don't kick in unless you counterfile to restore your content, and then take the original requestor to court for filing notices in bad faith, something that requires one hell of a case to prove.

I have long wondered... if I remember correctly, when you file a DMCA counter notice, you have to say under penalty of perjury that you believe that the original notice was filed "in error". Would that potentially interfere with a later claim that the notice was filed in bad faith?
>but I'm sure that Visa has run the numbers and has a sound business reason for doing this.

As someone who worked for an advertising Agency with a big bank as a client, I think this is probably not the case. A marketing ploy usually starts with a reasonable idea and then slowly morphs into something horrible as it makes it's way through various departments; market research, legal, management etc.

This campaign probably started as something entirely different, was rejected by legal and then manipulated at the last minute by someone client side who realised they could force consumers to use their cards.

Some companies have tight, well researched, single minded marketing(eg. Nike). I don't think many banks do, and from what I've seen of Visa's marketing I doubt they do either.
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Right now I'm thinking about a stove, but this nuclear battery has me thinking.

I am wondering if it would be possible to buy or build such a nuclear battery.
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So how long before they can predict the future to be at the right place at the right time every time?

It's certainly how interesting how critical a good setup can be to get a large skyscraper to actually work well. If they take too long to get to the people waiting then they need to leave or get to work. The old game SimTower is actually a pretty decent simulation of this kind of effect (if not still overly simplified).
What's that ?

Create a platform with no apps, no media store, no ecosystem, no gaming integration, no cloud based services, no developer story, no payment platform etc etc.

Supporters of Nokia's failed Meego need to understand that there just isn't room for so many mobile platforms.
Here's some nice charts on this theme. http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/debt-britannia-with-16-...

You aren't doing as badly as you think.

[edit] I assumed you were based in america, but apparently you are in sydney, sorry for confusion and random assumptioness. However, this means that according to the first chart on the page I linked, you guys are doing worse than the americans on household debt. Not that I can point fingers from the uk, cos we are either screwed or up to something fiendishly smart. But if it is the latter, I have no idea what it is.
I would say that a message coming from my future sell would probably be treated differently than a message from somebody else in the present. Unfortunately, that "treated differently" would probably involve my past self seeking psychiatric attention.

You could say something to your past self that would verify your identity in an attempt to make your words carry more weight, but I don't think there is much you can do to convince a past self that you were not a figment of their imagination.
No, but I would definitely look up at the sky to see if it was raining before believing him. I only believe weather conditions that are given to me by people who are intelligent, respectable non-shills.
Yup. And for takedowns, legitimate or not, that takedown other non-infringing content.
I'm curious... does anyone know where all this money from sponsors goes? The IOC is supposed to be not for profit. I understand hosting the Olympics is very expensive and that the LOCOG wants to recoop some costs, but this is ridiculous. It's going against the IOC's Olympic Charter at the very least...
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This a thousand times.

It's the olympic commity that agreed on such terms, they are to blame. It does not exempt Visa and McDonalds from being assholes, but if you allow assholes inside your house, now its your problem.
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Sure, there are both interesting and practical uses of mathematics.

However, venn diagrams are not synonymous with set theory. Venn diagrams are a type of visualization, and once you're dealing with 11 overlapping sets... I don't really see the utility, since these are not human friendly and don't help viewers understand the relationship between sets and their intersections.
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Consumers learn something crucial from this marketing campaign: that American Express and certain other credit cards are NOT accepted by some merchants, so it's a good idea to get and always carry a Visa card -- by implication, the only card accepted everywhere.
I'm not sure how things would work out in the present; from a historical perspective, turning the screws on drink seems to have had ill-side effects (such as the rise of organized crime). How could they be less regulated yet not be susceptible to corruption by organized crime? The only way I can see added regulation is via higher taxes (which seem to be quite high already, but I suppose more is okay).

Drink and smoke have age, seller, purity, potency, health warnings, advert restrictions, etc. All deserved, but I'm wondering what else they could be madated to do before making the enterprise lucrative to circuvention (org crime).
When I think of practical uses for a venn diagram I think of writing labels in each distinct section... this doesn't seem very practical in that regard.

What would be really cool (and practical) is if all the different segments / sections were of relatively similar sizes.

Anyone know if there's a way to draw that? The examples shown in the article have really large areas and really small areas...

EDIT: It seems venn diagrams lose their "functionality" after 5 sets. After that they are far too complicated.
This was informative if only because I was previously running the Arch image and Haskell is a nightmarish carnival of terror on there at the moment unless you cross-compile. Primarily my interest in Haskell has been in using reactive-banana so I wanted recent a recent version of the platform. Anyway, this made me try out Raspbian and everything's working out great.
At this point I would think we all expect something ground-breaking or at least exciting from Amazon with any announcement they make. An Amazon game studio with a launch game that consists of "social" picture hunts is definitely not what I expected when I visited the link. Disappointing.
This not only seems true, but demonstrably is true. CPSC worked with the vendor of this toy for years getting labels and notifications out; the reports of children requiring debilitating surgical procedures to remove tiny little rare earth magnets from their GI tracts increased over time.
There's a LiPo technology called "thin film lithium" which is claimed good for 10,000 cycles - assuming one charge/discharge cycle per day (and incorrectly using earth-days for simplicity), that'd give you ~27 years lifetime from the battery. (I wonder if this'll end up with the same "over engineered" reliability that let the Spirit rover last over 6 years when intended for a 90 day mission?)
Visa gets to to do this because the IOC and the sponsoring city allow it.

Hate on Visa (because they don't have to do this), but hate on the IOC as well, and on any city government that OKs this sort of shit.
Your credit card always has exact change. If you lose your credit card, you don't lose any money. Errands suck.

Why not remove an errand and a hassle from your life?
I wonder if Extreme Tech is getting paid to give Apple publicity. I can't think of any other reason (well, besides fanboyism) for gratuituossly using the brand and model name for what is just a common board/CPU combination.

Hey, you know what we should call any device built around an x86 core? A Windows machine with a chassis!
I'm not surprised at all. This is a company-wide philosophy that they should be the only CC processor.

I once did some contract work at Visa. At the time, I only had Mastercard and American Express. Went to their work cafe, tried to get some food, but was told (almost rudely) that they only took Visa. No cash either. I could buy a pre-paid card that can't be reloaded at one of the nearby kiosks (for 3 dollar fee per card). Needless to say, I went somewhere else for lunch.
This title can also be read as a really absurd immigration article.
For improving your git-command-related efficiency, you could always use the excellent git-sh by Ryan Tomayko (CTO of GitHub): https://github.com/rtomayko/git-sh
Camel's marketing of cigarettes to children is a huge issue.
This isn't set theory.

(Venn diagrams can be interpreted in a set theoretic way, but this isn't particularly useful within set theory itself, and the symmetric and simple properties of the Venn diagram are unnecessary for this interpretation. We've had a construction for a simple Venn diagram of n curves since Venn's original paper -- it's the symmetry that's new.)
Tower is pretty awesome too if you aren't wedded to the command line. I can do things in seconds that would take me awhile to figure out how to do on the command line.
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> People pirate media because they understand they shouldn't have to pay for it. We pay for services rendered (Netflix) or goods delivered (DVD's). Everything else is either tax or extortion.

People pirate media because they can. We pay for services rendered (Netflix) or goods delivered (DVD's) because we can't get away without doing so due to technical and/or legal constraints. Everything else is rationalization.
This article contradicts itself, or is overtly intending to mislead its audience; the article itself points out that the product is marketed 14+.

The problem isn't that 14 year olds will swallow magnets --- although they might, since CPSC tracks reports of them being used to hold fake piercings. The problem is that 14 year olds often cohabitate with 2 year olds, and 14 year olds aren't renowned for judgement and organizational skills.
Certainly to build one the theory behind it wouldn't be tough, it'd operate on the same principles as the stove setup. To buy though? There's a story of a boy scout who did something similar as part of a personal experiment in the 90's. (Before getting raided out of fear by the FBI) Will have to find that story again.

In almost every country the materials required are tightly regulated and getting permission even in a lab environment is tough work. If you can work out the legalities and safety, I'd be interested too!