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I'll take the bait: Yes an external cab company should be able to come into SF and compete with the local firms. The SF regulations have expressly been rigged to support a local cartel and are morally illegitimate.
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...nice to know such things can happen ...but I've never been bitten by it so far :)
This was clearly going to happen. News at eleven. Not that I agree with the fine, but it was really deemed to happen.
Not really. Birth control reduces the number of people born.

I'm not saying anything about motives or whether it's the right thing to do or not, rather simply pointing it out.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jul/11/ric...

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/Search.aspx?meta=MDCont...
So it's a double-whammy of Cult Personalities who are all afflicted with Not Invented Here syndrome. I can see how that would lead to some massive problems.
You can just go to Peru, Bolivia or anywhere near them and check if you are insured whenever you get into a 'taxi'...
The Rise and Fall of Stalin's Atlantis
"Eight hours labour, Eight hours recreation, Eight hours rest." That's me now.
Here's some more background around Petr
http://www.quora.com/Petr-Mitrichev/What-it-is-like-to-meet-...

And some discussion around Russia and China dominating in coding contests
http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-from-Eastern-Europe-and-C...
Collatoral damage of our surveillance state
Dude no offence, but if you're his age (like me) you went to school in 1991-1992 and graduated in 2001-2002, not really "soviet era".
> This is why we should protect poor people

This is paternalistic, and worse yet, it doesn't work, i.e. rich people "protecting" poor people. What indeed does work is a free market (and that includes a free jobs' market), meaning free access of all (rich and poor) to the benefits of exchanging goods and improving one's life.

What the European Union (and to a lesser extent the USA) does now when it comes to Africa is border-line criminal, what if with Europe's protectionist policies when it comes to its agriculture and its immigrant policy. Imagine if those 2 million kids that get saved by the Gates Foundation instead of being forced to remain in conflict-prone Northern Nigeria or Kenya or Uganda were given the chance to come and work , legally, in Europe. Or what if they'd really have a chance to sell their agricultural goods on the same European market without having to fight countless protectionist measures designed to protect the raising of cows in the French Alps.

(if it matters, I live on the fringes of said European Union, and in my youth I used to live with under $1USD per day for at least a couple of years)
My experience in china was the same as the 2 commenters above... 2 most popular phones you see in Shanghai or Beijing are Galaxy Note (because you can enter chinese signs directly via pen!?) and iPhones!
They were AWESOME.

However his next big thing 'Noby Noby Boy' was just too weird and kinda pointless for me. He's certainly one to watch, and I'd probably shell out for his games regardless, but he's not 100% guaranteed to make something great each time.
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VLC Core is LGPL
This mean that VLC could be back on the AppStore.
#1. For us, the top 3 are GoAPK (anzhi.com), GFan (apk.gfan.com) and Tencent App Center (http://android.myapp.com). Between them, they're >90% of Chinese 3rd-party app store downloads.

#2. The biggest hurdle is that everything is in Chinese. I'm not sure how hard it would be to get paid if you're not in China, but as athgeo says, Chinese users really don't like to buy paid apps - even in the iOS app store our free-to-paid ratio for China is literally 10 times worse than the US, and Android is even worse because the users are less likely to have money. So it's probably best to concentrate on ad-supported apps.

#3. If anyone has good advice on this, I'd like to hear it.
Matthew gave an awesome talk on UEFI at linux.conf.au 2012 [0]. A thoroughly entertaining and informative talk on issues including secure boot, but also other issues with UEFI. It even got voted one of the best four talks at the conference, so he did the talk again at the end of the conference. This was great because I missed it the first time.

My favourite quote from the talk was:

"Files contain code, [and] code, as we all know, contains bugs. Always. So from this we can conclude that UEFI contains bugs. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, other than the Linux kernel which obviously contains no bugs at all ever." [1].

[0] - www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U (Keep in mind this was in January, when there was still a lot of uncertainty about the UEFI Secure Boot/Linux situation).

[1] - http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/australia/untested-buggy-ue...
They bought Logic and most Logic fans will tell you that they've mostly just dumbed it down and dropped the price since then, turning it into "GarageBand Pro".

Not really much of a feather in their cap, particularly if you compare it to what the competition has been able to accomplish in the time timeframe.
Australian commercial TV is the worst
But anyway Google makes money off of every new user on the internet!
That's some disturbing shit you've written there.

You're disclaimer makes it even worse.

I don't know what would be a constructive thing to say, except maybe that being a decent human being is based on believe and conviction, not logic. You either decide that every human being has infinite value (if you're inclined to attach a value to a human being), or you try to find reasons to diminish someone's value by slicing them into a narrow set of more or less cherry-picked dimensions. At that point we're talking about abstractions, not human beings anymore. At that point we lose a big part of our own humanity.

I feel bad for sounding so aggressive, but your kind of reasoning makes me feel like throwing up, because it opens the gate to all kinds of atrocious behaviors.
4's argument isn't just traffic congestion, it's also parking congestion.
I hate the Gates foundation.

You know what would help those kids a lot more than your medicine? Copies of all existing textbooks in an electronic format and access to all of our patents.

When the polio vaccine was created the inventor refused to get a patent for it, saying no one has the right to own it just like no one has the right to own the sun.

I just find it very hard to support the Gates foundation when I believe that it is playing by the rules to make the founders look and feel good instead of actually challenging laws and cultural assumptions, which it truly should.
Looks cute - like something that deserves to stick around. Although the game didn't seem all that interesting.

What they probably need is better feedback on how to make it more engaging, and some way to port their work out of Flash... which could be doable with some ingenuity.
Now you've made me sad that I can't see the 503 error.
Depends, when you look at it another way $20 a month is almost your own virtual server with windows on it.
Bejing, is a subset of China, so it's not a good representation of total population. I bet most of China's population is (still) in rural areas (migrating occasionally to the city).
I wonder if it would lead to lower prices. Here in Sweden where basically anybody can start a taxi company the end result is that most companies a grouped within a couple of bucks of the two big taxi firms on the low end of scale plus a few companies charging two or even three times as much, and operating on the assumption that enough people (especially tourists who don't understand the taxi system) will simply jump into the first taxi they see without looking at the price. I've yet to see anyone trying to break into the market by significantly undercutting the big players.
Sure, but (a) the Romans were quite a big deal to the Jews as "Judea" was part of the Roman Empire and (b) it's reasonable of the parent to bring up the Jews because it's an interesting counterpoint to using the Romans as representatives of what people did back then.

The original article could have mentioned this but does not.
Awesome guide, thanks a lot!

Since the WinXP is just a single exe file, UnrarX cannot extract it. Any idea to fix this besides extracting it on a Windows computer?
How to tell stories with data
Hadoop Startup Platfora raises $20 million
Your right of course but if IE 10 will be around 1 year (http://www.favbrowser.com/preliminary-internet-explorer-11-a...) we will be glad for ever bit of performance it has...
The title is misleading.

The OP tests the browser in three benchmarks, two of them are performance related , one being written by Google, and Chrome beats IE10 in that one (IE10 being the fastest in the other).

Additionally the conclusion makes me think that the OP has a bias toward Chrome.

I nevertheless think that Chrome is faster, however I am annoyed by all this IE bashing.
Seriously man. God bless the Japanese. Their work hours are horrible.
From the Reuters article, "Panicking civilians ran for cover and the death toll mounted quickly. Ten people including three children were killed, the health ministry said, and about 40 were wounded. Also among the dead were an 11-month-old baby and a woman pregnant with twins."
Cute, but Australian TV has produced far worse -- its soap operas, its shamelessly 'topical' prime-time dramas.
And Kraken gives Firefox an edge while IE 10 leads Robohornet.

Frankly, it's all about what the benchmark tests and in what way. All browser vendors optimise along some benchmark and that's what they are good at.

The bottom line is that pretty much all of them are fast enough to do most of the things you're doing with them.
Request Tracing in Cassandra 1.2
Worth reading for the second half of the article which argues that streaming services are "divorced from music" and not financially helpful to musicians.
a. this is so beautiful and well done... what we've come to expect of Chrome Experiments.

b. If you haven't already, Toggle the spectral index... so sick
So it pays a salary, therefore it's moral? Seems a terrible argument to me.
>> As a player, I'd rather pay a small sum once to avoid the virtual currency - and find other ways to create whales (e.g., as suggested, more like content creation, sponsoring and some vanity items).

Except that I bet you wouldn't. Most players when asked say they would prefer a "fair price, pay once" model. Yet in aggregate they act very differently. If that weren't true we wouldn't now have a market where:

1) Seemingly most people complain about F2P

2) F2P is increasingly the most successful model

I think the people annoyed by monetization efforts are a relatively tech savvy, vocal minority.

>> it often seems that the rest of the players (the 99%, if you wish), have their experience hampered by constant dangling of offers in front of you.

I don't think that's really the case. Again, vocal minority.

But let's say it is. Speaking as a game developer now, we don't have to present the same experience to every player. A "cheap" player may be nearly a lost cause for direct monetization but valuable for word of mouth. If they're not buying we can actually scale back on the amount of ads presented and instead gently persuade them to, say, post their high scores on Twitter. If you're the type of player that likes to brag, then a prompt with a pre-filled Twitter post won't annoy you at all. It's not hard to figure out which player is which and it's not hard to adapt in-game marketing efforts to suit that player.
They are still trying to be innovative but products like this won't save them:
http://www.sony.co.uk/product/personal-3d-viewer/hmz-t2

Yes this is actually a product available now from Sony. Innovative yes but not really likely to succeed. It also contains the personal home theatre system although the screens aren't transparent.

Now if they were really joining things up they would be making it into a gaming system to make a lighter, better resolution less laggy virtual reality system than those that knocked around in early nineties. That might actually sell some systems.

They need to be profitable in mass market products. But they can't differentiate there any more. They are relying on Google for the software (Android phones and Google TV) for their cutting edge models. They don't have the same degree of in house manufacturing to develop products and production processes at the cutting edge like they used to (Samsung do) and they aren't as good at managing/negotiating outsourced production as Apple are.

They do have content but that needs to survive as a business on its own and does exclusive deals with MSO's for TV and Film and anyone for music meaning that there is little exclusive to offer with their products whcih don't even get a much better deal than competitors.
There is no such thing as intrinsic value, whether economic value or moral value, whether of goods or of people. Value is subjectively assigned by people, according to the push and pull of their own internal motivations.

So it is meaningless to talk about value without asking: valued by who?

Some people (say, my family) are hugely more "valuable" to me than others.
> The problem isn't technical, it's a philosophy that treats every device as an opaque special case, rather than factoring out the common parts and abstracting out the differences.

IIRC, the Android kernel will merge with mainline by 3.7. At that point, all such problems will be solved.
Ireland Abortion Scandal: Death of a Pregnant Woman Prompts Soul-Searching
Netflix's 720p streams use 2.3GB/hour, which would certainly put you over 5GB. I'm not sure about their lower quality streams though.
I won't usually leave a comment like this, but well done! That's GrammarNazi^3 (which should sound like "O. G. to the 3" in your head), and is why I originally love the Internet.
The problem with this argument is that anti-competitive regulations that restrict the size of the taxi market probably do not maximize government revenues. The government would probably receive greater revenues if it deregulated the market since more people would take cabs, albeit at somewhat lower fares.

The more significant dynamic behind regulatory capture is the simple fact that the groups who are most interested in taxi regulations and the membership of CPUC, and who are most incentivized to lobby for advantageous laws and to try and get friendly people on the Commission, are the very taxi firms being regulated.
I believe your position is derived from one with an almost heinous lack of empathy.

Human beings are all equal. Each life is worth just as much as another. This is a fundamental fact of life. Not a single one of us was created in any way different than any other - human procreation itself is the grand equalizer. Where once was a man and/or womans pleasure, is now another man and/or woman. From that source, we are all derived, and thus: all equal from birth.

The 'value' that "Africa" has, is completely and utterly arbitrary. The arbitrary nature is derived entirely from cultural ideas and ideology, which worth is also completely arbitrary, depending on its proponents ability to carry the idea forward. The idea that Africa is 'poor', that Africans are 'uneducated/uneducatable' and so on .. these are just ideas, not based on any real fact.

The fact is, any kid in African Village #21239 has just as much human potential as any other kid in the world.

Life itself, is the rarest substance in the universe. What Life, itself, decides to do about that, is derived from a near-infinite ability for Life, itself, to decide. Once "African Village Kid, Age 9" starts learning to code on the Linux Kernel, for example, the ability to decide, equally as a species, can be observed.

And it is this fact on which 'equality' and 'worth' depend - nothing else.
Release the source and let the community continue?
I agree with the sentiment about all lives being equal.

That is why I enjoyed challenging myself to think about it purely from an economic perspective one day. We were on the plane, and the guy next to us was studying "humanitarian economics". It is somewhat related to the issues that the gates foundation has to think about when distributing their funds.

There was some curious dilemmas you need to face, and most of them seem to be faced by removing yourself somewhat from the moral aspect, and thinking purely about assigning a monetary value to them. The bit that I remember was thinking about the financial value of a human life, as determined by its remaining potential. What this means is [0]:

- Small babies: haven't invested much time and effort into developing them, so they are not worth as much.

- Teenagers: Have spent considerable amount of time getting them ready to contribute to society.

- Older people: Although there has been a lot of effort invested in them, and they have contributed a lot to society, there is only so much more "potential" left.

Another interesting thing about this approach, is that in a funny way, it mimics the sentiment of Belinda's statement of all lives being equal. This is because (equally aged) people from Africa and Australia have the same monetary value according to this.

[0] - Please don't hate me! I' actually quite a nice person, I just found this interesting :) It's not how I normally think about people.
You seem to be following an utilitarian moral theory, others may propose a consequentialist or hedonistic or religious assessments of human value. The one thing to remember about ethics is there are no absolute moral rules.
Oh I'm sorry - logic is clearly subordinate to fuzzy terms such as "belief" and "conviction" - I mean it's not like many bad things have come at the hands of belief or conviction - not at all. Logic has nothing to do with bringing the world out of poverty - people's gut reaction should instead be relied upon to make life or death decisions - Numbers? What's that?

I mean there were the crusades - but really that was the exception. Religion? Exception right? There was the Holocaust there I suppose. And a bunch of other genocides. A couple of global wars and unsubstantiated racism. Oh but please - let's continue in just believing things without evidence - because that's worked so well - relying on intrinsic gut reactions.

Belief and conviction - a boon to humanity - in all its forms!

/sarcasm

How the hell is what I've written disturbing? I'm slightly perturbed at your reliance on unsupported thought models getting us all killed just because you believe in something. I'd rather not rely on people's beliefs - they are notoriously flexible.

I've indicated that a) poor people should be protected, b) that humans are long-term equal and c) we should work towards helping everyone - because it's good for all of us in the long run.

What's so surprising about that?

Does this not align with your views?
The document you cite as [1] does not, in fact, say anything even slightly like "people are just a drain on natural resources". Here are the first few things it says: (1) "Family planning saves the lives of mothers and infants." (2) It "can significantly improve the health of women and their families." (3) "It can save millions of lives per year."

The page claims -- I don't know whether it's correct, but actually that isn't relevant for this purpose -- that universal access to contraception could prevent about 90k maternal deaths, 640k infant deaths, and 14M unsafe abortions, per year.

The only thing on that page that at all resembles "people are just a drain on natural resources" is this: at the end of the page there are five "Additional benefits for society": reduced HIV transmission, reduced pressure on natural resources, improved education and employment opportunities for women, improved economic growth, improved status for women.

So. They give many reasons for supporting family planning. They say it saves lives and improves health and helps the economy and improves the status of women. Tucked in towards the end is the remark that, by the way, it also reduces "pressure on natural resources".

Do you, really, think it is fair to summarize this by saying they think that "people are just a drain on natural resources"?

Personally, I think it's grotesquely dishonest.
Really Google, really?!

Check the CPU capabilities for fscks sake! This is CPU features 101. Read the manufacturer's manual, they point that out.

Sorry for the aggressive tone, but this is really idiotic. Checking CPU string is worse, more buggy and less compatible EVEN among different CPUs from the same vendor!

"Because our system is potentially vulnerable to incorrect x86 implementations"

Fine, check the capabilities FIRST, then check the string. Not the other way around.

Same thing for the "firmware developers" who check for Windows and Red Hat at the string. Someone needs to buy a large batch of these and return them as being defective.
The essence of OOP is the Interface, the human interface, which conforms to human brain, rather than machines. It's all about the conceptual framework to abstract out complexity into the names corresponding to what we're trying to program in the first place. That's it. All the verbosity and complexity of OOP is the secondary effect to actualize the particular implementation of the Interface.

On the other hand, the fundamental particle of computing is indeed, not object, nor class, but a sequence of bits. However, the fundamental particle of programming, or collaborative programming so far, has been based on the idea of objects. If one has the better idea, it would be about making the Interface more friendly to human brains.
(justification to read my post here: at the end I argue richer people have higher moral value!)

Many of us think its 'brave' and 'correct' to say "all lives are equal value" in the moral sense. Its a 'sexy' thought to have as it seems liberal and its simple, but it is ultimately wrong.

Our actions are what define us, so a person who performs good/selfless actions that benefit others should be defined as higher value than a selfish murderer/rapist.

If lives were equal value then taking the life of a child would be equally as bad as taking the life of an 80 year old - but most people do not think that way.

Your value (in the moral sense) should simply be a function how much good you provide to the world. This leads to the difficult issue where because we can in fact buy "good" (by buying anti-malaria nets for children for £5 a pop) you find that those born into wealth have a higher capacity to perform "good" and therefore, on average, have a higher moral value by this definition.
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Try adblock.

Google's ads are the last on my list, when it comes to being invasive or annoying.
There was a development philosophy failure as well in the part of Linux, that was corrected by Linus.

No breakage of existing functionality is accepted anymore when fixing ACPI bugs.

ACPI bios developers are still a thousand monkeys banging at a keyboard apparently. (And yes, I have some experience in trying to work with them)
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