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> How they must have laughed about that one back at MS HQ...

Until they lost the lawsuit...

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/news2/microsoft-and-spyg...
Thanks! Gonna have a look at that.
This. Very odd.

The real problem is that they are showing a tiny period of time. Global warming levels out a bit now and then and then keeps on going. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Temperature_Anomaly... around 1965-1975 it didn't really go up much. And a graph of 1935-1945 might make you think we'd conquered global warming forever and that we could all get on with building the global socialist utopia or whatever. Sadly long term trends in complex systems aren't nearly that easy to form conclusions about.
DCMA'd ya in one. Just like the new apple charging cable. SUCKER!
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The profits from charging everybody a few bucks a month for a photo storage service should be much greater than the profits from selling hardware.
And context for the comment above: It is very common to sneer at Daily Mail readers as a way of demonstrating your own right-on, progressive credentials.

Daily Mail readers are largely right-wing, but that doesn't by definition make them wrong.
You said Dapper works on MonoTouch—did you make any changes to it? I've read[1] there are quite a few problems with it so I had to choose Sqlite over it. I also found this[2], not sure if it helps. What's your experience with Dapper/MT?

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8223837/using-dapper-in-m...

[2]: https://gist.github.com/1115206
Yeah, I believe that europe is actually a big market for that. Would be interessting to see if the ancestry.com guys hit the same fogy barrier the 30-years war presents in most of central europe. What I never imagined was that there's enough of a market to come up with a 1.6 billion company. Job well done though!
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I completely zoned when I saw "Killing it Bro". That and 7 "Zucs" in 1 paragraph and I'm out in 2 parrys brah. Learn to write and maybe more people will read it.
Kudos to xkcd.
I don't get it. I'm not going to wear this to work, partly because my boss would think I was a spy and partly because my work life simply isn't worth recording at that level of detail.

So then I take it with me places on the weekends. But, I already take a high quality camera with me most-places (courtesy of my smart-phone) and it takes pictures at EXACTLY the right moment, it doesn't miss the shot because of a poor-angle, bad light, bad composition or bad timing. At least when it does, it's my fault.

To me this seems way too niche to ever succeed. I expect I'll be wearing one though in a few years time :-)
Another reason not to procrastinate on the name, logo, etc: Almost everyone starts more than one product/company. Most of these fail. I seem to remember that 30% of YC companies change their product during YC.

I can tell you from experience - the 5th time that I had to come up with a name/logo for a company, because I switched to a new idea, I already understood that this was not a productive use of time.
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Really? If the equivalent cash is being paid as the cleaning service costs you'd rather pocket it than just not be bothered to clean? I think I'd be happy to spend that money on cleaning and it's probably cheaper with write-offs for the company to get the cleaning than give you that salary. The article made it sound like this just gave employees more time to do things they actually enjoyed like spending time with their kids versus cleaning their house.
This story has hit the mainstream press and I am sure it will be bad for business...
You find it bizarre that the cloud providers' marketing strategy has worked? I find that bizarre!
I guess I'd rather have less photo quality and less space requirements. For this specific use case, I guess 3 Megapixel would be sufficient, and then save it not as jpeg but in jpeg2000 or another wavelet compression, at best with a solid compression rate.
But this has a social app! This is a kickstarter project! This gives you the amazing opportunity to upload automatically every single moment of your life to a server on which you have absolutely no control! But they will be marked as private so totally safe! /irony

http://blog.ryankearney.com/2012/10/never-give-your-informat...
Wayland can eventually fill the role on Linux perhaps. X11 is built to run on many more operating systems.

This is my main issue with Wayland. Whence portability?
The Daily Mail, however, is often wrong and frequently guilty of the sins I list above. Demonstrably so.

Sometimes, we sneer at something not because it makes us look good (or, as you put it, to demonstrate "progressive credentials", and your assumption that I want to do that is insulting and ignorant, thank you very much), but because it genuinely is dross.

If you like, I can balance the equation by criticising the Guardian for its ridiculous adherence to leftist views despite the most ferocious evidence in its own pages, or we can do the Economist which suggests less regulation as the solution to almost any problem that exists.

Edit to respond to comment below: Of course it's doing something right. It's selling newspapers. It does it by, as I said, flattering its readership and presenting them emotional sensations that confirm their beliefs. That doesn't make it worthy or correct. It makes it admirable only in a "magnificent bastards" kind of way. They know what they're doing and they do it very well.
So was the Daily Mirror.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/dec/06/daily...

And I'm sure you can find articles in the Guardian supporting Soviet Russia.
you had me at unfolding.
Look at the 2 fake comment at the blog page :)
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Not to mention that most Apple devices can't harm anyone else - i.e. there is no third-party liability that Apple may have to assume (or buy insurance to cover) if you (a free 'test driver') harms someone else with their test product.

This $300 is definitely not unreasonable.
You're missing the point: The graph is the same for the period of time which the editor selected. But he carefully selected the left (past) cutoff point to be on the same level as the right cutoff point. But in the original data, there's a steep incline at the beginning of the graph.

Now I can't vouch for the data or that the original data doesn't have a steep drop-off just a little before the snippet we're shown, but this is a prime example how choosing the sample properly changes the result dramatically.
Back in my college years, the first time I tried the Vim editor, I couldn't quit the editor, but was knowledgeable enough to kill Vim's process.

And yet, later on, when understood the editor's philosophy, I felt enlightened.
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Lots of papers print stories that are demonstrably wrong, though. And the Mail does cater to the lowest common denominator sometimes, but then that is the business of being a tabloid.

And it is one of the most popular tabloids in Britain, and one of the most popular websites in the world, so I would suggest that it is doing something right.
Just don't forget to turn it off on your vacation...

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/09/arma-iii-developers-ch...
I don't know if it's as simple as a left vs right wing thing.
The telegraph for example is relatively right wing and does not seem to attract the same sort of ire.
the source and spec are available here:

https://github.com/tomjakubowski/fbaas/tree/sinatra
I don't read the Mirror either. Though I find it hard to believe that the Guardian supported the Soviet Union.
How bout you, you know, take a regular vacation. You know, go out, see some small portion of the world instead of going there, shutting the door and pretending it's an interesting neighborhood of San Fran. I've found that just going around and doing other stuff is a major catalyst for ideas. For instance, I did most of my negotiation in Peru via a calculator. A $1 calculator, just typing numbers. There's gotta be a way to make that much more social and inefficienet and tie it up with marketing synergies! Seriously!

But actually seriously, when I go do actual things, I start to get real ideas. GTFO
It's a cool idea. Think of it as Study Abroad for hackers: you're doing what you'd be doing at home, but in a new place with new people, enriching yourself personally and — because there'd be other hackers there too — professionally as well.
I don't have the figures to hand, but it's interesting to also note that while their print readership is as you described, their online readers are even more heavily female, and also much younger (average 25 to 35). I had their media pack not long ago, I'll see if I can dig it out.
I may have been wrong on this one, seems Nokia is indeed intent on bringing WP to those countries: http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-announces-inexpensive-lumia-5...

However, 200$ is still too much.
My guess is that anyone filling out a survey and asked if they want what they will likely buy again to be cheaper, they will agree with it. So this may not be an accurate question.
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Here is a story from the other side. My wife writes and publishes business book summaries. She submitted about ten of those to be published on Kindle. Amazon happily published some of them in US market but decided that the content was "public domain" is other regions. Now I would have understood if they would have said "copyright violation" but "public domain"?

Our email correspondence with them was very similar to the one reported in the original post. They will repeat the original mail 2-3 times and will walk away after that leaving you with no answers.
That is true, but then the Daily Mirror is a left-wing tabloid and doesn't get so much opprobrium, even though (as the news today tells us) they were also guilty of phone-hacking.
> The good thing about being with someone is that : being with someone ALONE

Isn't this a case of if you don't like it... don't use it?
From a hardware standpoint, completely possible. The problem is trying to write that code for a non-standard architecture. These cheap Chinese processors often completely lack even minimal documentation. See this great post:

http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2012-March/0...
This I did not know, but it doesn't surprise me. If you can tell me which sections these young females gravitate towards, that would be very helpful; do they go for the bitchy celebrity gossip (which is frequently noticeably harsher towards female celebrities)?
AFAIK in mormon heaven you get to be god of your own universe so you should just be able to recreate whatever you want.
I wish i was more qualified to identify the myriads of cliches in their video. Hipstery shaky 70s-ish looking nostalgic video, rounded edges, yellow plastic, heavy SLR.

But really, this seems like a cool idea for a phone app, why the extra hardware?
The reviews seem to suggest it does pretty well for video playback, the GPU might well be more powerful than the atom one, which wouldn't be hard!
Right...and have sold tens of millions of gasoline cars.

For the attention that is required to encourage people to take a leap from gasoline to electric, it makes more sense for them to focus on their own stores - rather than working with third party dealers.

That's why Apple has their own stores too.

Look how that has worked out. Most profitable retail space on the planet, by square feet.
No, it just employed spies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Journalist_alleged...

:-)
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Your comment is confusing. The Daily Mail IS right wing. That said, the Telegraph relies much less on emotional response and raw propaganda, and also does not seem to dedicate a vast amount of its time (almost as much as the Express does on house prices) to dividing the universe into things that cause or cure cancer (or sometimes both). I couldn't care less what the Mail's political leaning is; its a style thing rather than a (lack of) content thing.
> The minutes of the 31 March meeting

Before that meeting, some of the scientists have been "used" by various politicians and high-level civil servant in their public speeches and interviews with the media. There are records of the director of the nation-wide emergency task-force being being interviewed and saying things like "After these afternoon quakes there is nothing to be feared, I can assure you. My fellow colleague and quake researcher can tell you the same", and one of the convicted scientists cues in "Sure, there is nothing to be feared. Indeed, these small earthquakes have released a lot of energy, making a big earthquake impossible". _Impossible_. That is not correct scientific communication, that is being the wingman of a politician being interviewed by national TV.

The same board of scientists have been found legally responsible for other similar statements, for example for not green-lighting the evacuation of the student's campus. The engineering students noticed strange cracks on the walls and notified the emergency task-force who replied: "First, the building is safe, we have had it tested few month ago; second, they said on TV that there are not going to be big earthquakes". The main building of campus collapsed.

The government imposed a "everything is safe, do not worry" view. This was a political decision and the board members let the politicians use their scientific credibility for their political agenda. This is what is being punished here. It is their behaviour and the words they said on TV that is being addressed, not the content of the technical minutes.

Anyway, there is a point of the sentence that is a bit scary. The whole board is being punished, not just the head of the board and the others who spoke before the meeting. The court considers the board a single body, and this is a bit strange and worrisome.
They are 1,366x768 resized to 600x350 for me, which I guess could ha started as a retina thing.
Sick of seeing video conferencing using SUPER HD IMAGES to show the broadcasting. I doubt it even looks that good in lab conditions.
As cool as this is, I'll be interested once we have always on audio, video and GPS, with-- while we're day dreaming-- a post-process that analyses the data and reduces it to a day summary complete with transcribed conversations, things you saw and people you met.
You could make similar claims about say The Guardian, or people who get their news from Reddit. Personally, I find the echo-chamber on the left to be far more worrying (Not to mention their constant condescending sneering, looking down on the "idiot" masses).

Look at Reddit at the moment.. endless discussion about how the only reason anyone could vote for Romney is "uneducated voters".

In this case, both graphs look completely stagnant. Perhaps The Daily Mail did choose their start date to tie the numbers up nicely. Maybe they even rounded the start and end figures so that they could claim the numbers are exactly the same. But whichever way you look at it, the graphs are stagnant.
I've ordered one of these, along with a 64GB high speed SD card, will definitely be giving this a try.

The only shame is that the Chromebook doesn't seem to come with a UHS-1 [1] interface, just SDHC/SDXC

http://www.integralmemory.com/faq/what-uhs-1
And this is why math is not supposed to be patentable.

Too bad the USPTO "forgot" that.
> The fact that Amazon can do this is

It is detailed in the contract few people bother to read prior to signing!

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> The problem? Microsoft has your operating system,

> Google has your email, eBay has your stuff, PayPal

> has your money, Amazon has your books, Facebook has

> your social life, etc.

.

The problem is YOU GAVE each of those entities information out of hand with misplaced trust.

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> We need to push for a universal option for arbitration

Push for less inane contractual terms first. Then change the cultural ethos of wrong-tolerance.
I can't even fathom how awful it would be to date with someone that has such stringent "requirements". What happened to falling for someone awesome who you meet and get on like fire with?

Honestly, if she finds someone based on this, good on her, but she sounds extremely boring.

"Favorite Artists: Nickelback"*

Instant red flag.

I mean, this sounds like something I would have done as a desperate 14 year old (and IIRC probably did), so I guess if she's at that level of relationship-development, then she has a long journey (and ideally should have begun it earlier) but hopefully she'll realise how catastrophic this is.

It's not even the idea of putting a "dating request" on a website, but the way in which it's done. If you do go that way, you have to show people who you are not who you expect them to be.

Thinking about it, and I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but I wonder if she's on the autistic spectrum. If you look at the post, "personality" is reduced to a single line which is shorter than the list of "devices" she owns. It could explain the whole nature of the post. Hmm. At the very least, she's an introvert.
-"But to save yourself time and troubles, just place them all the time"- Or to save even more time, just put semicolons before raw expressions (not very common at all) and omit them everywhere else. ASI is a feature not a problem like many people make it look like. A good informative article nonetheless.

;(function(){}()) // Common IIFE
'use strict'; // need semicolon here

// Not very common without an assignment
;'string'.method()
;[0,1,2,3].method()
;/regex/.method()
I've been using it for Android development for about 8 months and I've got no complaints so far. App startup time hasn't been a problem, and I'm getting good levels of code reuse across Windows and Android.
But the UK Met Office agrees with the Mail article author.

'We agree with Mr Rose that there has been only a very small amount of warming in the 21st Century. As stated in our response, this is 0.05 degrees Celsius since 1997 equivalent to 0.03 degrees Celsius per decade.'

And they correctly note -

'However, we do suggest that measurements over the longer-term are more representative of the trend in climate due to the influence of natural variability over shorter timescales.'

http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/met-office-in-...
That "steep incline at the beginning of the graph" isn't big enough, or over a large amount of time to be worth caring about.

Look at the charts. They're stagnant.
Given that the Windows 8 version is a complete UI rewrite (it has to be) there isn't much to make worse, I guess :-)
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I know this position disagrees with what everyone's saying but here it is:

- scientists need to be held accountable in a court of law

- safety must always come first

- evacuation, while seemingly over the top, should be a way of life in an earthquake zone.

Who survived 9/11? Those who evacuated regardless of the risks and advice given at the time.
The latter may even be a valid reason. At least when universities here (Germany) are given a certain budget for certain things they have to use it up, lest they get less the next year. So there often is a rush at the end of the year to spend all remaining money on office supplies and other things that are not strictly necessary or need renewal, just to not get cuts the next year.
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Now we see Microsoft's marketing department, always these smiling, good looking, ethnic diverse, people with too perfect illumination and image coloring. There is one guy at Microsoft who thinks this is the only way of making pictures.

It always looks so artificial and impersonal. Also kinda boring. Nokia is worse, it's similar but only people in their twenties and "hip".
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"All pictures you transfer to Memoto’s cloud service are stored encrypted. The pictures are only visible to you: only you can see them and only you can change them."

Is this real client side encryption, or is it Dropbox/Hushmail style encryption where they can do a little server side trickery in order to obtain your encryption key if the US government compels them to?

I'm just thinking how useful it would be to law enforcement if they could just specify a location, date and time and go through pictures taken there for evidence.

I hate this whole idea. It's inevitable that it will happen, but I hate it nonetheless. You wont be able to go outdoors without being constantly recorded by strangers. My only hope is that the popular services manage the technology such that we don't end up with databases that governments, or organisations can read private data from.
Depends what "right" is. They can certainly sell a lot of papers, no doubt. But do they help make create an informed electorate? Which is the most important function of a free press.

The biggest problem I have with the Mail is not whether it is biased or even that it makes mistakes.

My problem is more that they will often print a headline and first paragraph or a story that makes some claim that is often refuted in the article itself. I feel that this is intended to deliberately mislead those with lower critical thinking abilities.

It's amazing the number of times I've had to correct people on stuff like the legal status of Sharia courts. Of course I can't blame the mail for all of this stuff, there are plenty of other papers and blogs doing the same thing but the mail seems to be the flagship for this sort of journalism.
DM left out the first 8 months of 1997. Intuitively, it's fair that January is colder than September, but HADCRUT4 is temperature anomalies, so that's probably what went wrong.

That said, I think the article cherrypicks some (it seems to me) very minor issues, adds in an appeal to their own authority, while neglecting to explain why the conclusion that there "was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures [in the last 16 years]" is wrong. You can cherrypick any value within one year of the beginning and end of the graph that will show anywhere between ~0.3° rise and ~5.5° fall.
I wrote a program to plot temperature data a while ago, although it's from the GHCN rather than the HadCRUT4 data set.

https://code.google.com/p/tempgraph/

The square gridding method which they appear to have used in HadCRUT4 introduces problems with singularities, but even with a better gridding method the anomaly results are broadly in line with the conventional view about global warming.
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You may not like the left leaning stance of the Guardian, which is fine.

To compare it, however, with The Daily Mail is a bit ridiculous.
Very few apps call the X api directly. Nearly everything uses GTK or Qt, which they'll still be able to do, except that behind the scenes GTK/Qt will hook into Wayland on Linux and X elsewhere.
Yeah, this is a much better way to put what I said in my comment. The requirements mean shit all when it comes to actually loving someone, because you have no idea who you'll fall for.

Also, she neglects to express any kind of sexual preference. If you're going to make a point-by-point requirements list, surely sexual behaviour should be on there, what with it being an extremely important part of relationships (unless you're asexual, of course, but that's important to note too).
> absolutely corrupt shit hole

While it's corrupt, labelling it a 'shit hole' is going way too far.

For those interested in a detailed book about what's good and bad, and what needs to happen, I'd recommend:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008F86HBK/?tag=dedasys-20
So now every scientist is just going to sound the alarm every time. How does that help anything?
I'd be interested in who isn't guilty of this crime. I didn't warn Italy of the deadly earthquake - did you?
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