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The $60-up-front retail games that we uphold as shining examples of "doing it right" are still awesome six months later. Every game in this category I thought was awesome right out of the box, I was still playing and still enjoying years later.

But I can name several free-to-play games I thought were awesome a few months ago that I've completely given up on. It's not because they lacked replayability, or because they were less awesome than I initially thought. It's because the games changed, not in ways that improved gameplay, but in ways that increased the pressure to acquire various consumables.

In the free-to-play games I initially enjoyed, I'd have happily spent money on expansion packs -- permanent add-ons that let me experience more of the same sort of fun as the original game. But instead, the games keep changing to be more of a joyless slog, and then they offer to let me skip the slog and get back to the fun for a few bucks. When the game mechanic becomes so dull that it makes sense to charge players to avoid playing, it's no longer a good game.
With that sort of password, screen smudges become a problem, more so than conventional ones. Shoulder surfing also seems a bigger problem.
I would suggest that any employer who puts value in a W3Schools certification is not somewhere you want to work.

The HTML quiz[1] they recommend to prepare for the certification test includes questions like:

5. What is the preferred way for adding a background color in HTML?

* <body background="yellow">
* <body style="background-color:yellow">
* <background>yellow</background>

(hint: none of them)

10. How can you open a link in a new browser window?

* <a href="url" target="_blank">
* <a href="url" new>
* <a href="url" target="new">

(hint: two of them)

[1]: http://www.w3schools.com/quiztest/quiztest.asp?qtest=HTML
Yes and also 4 rovers on Mars, and 12 astronauts on the Moon.

The problem with the MCO disaster wasn't mixing up units, it was a sub-contractor failing to follow a specification properly, which can happen for any number of reasons. Also, it's not the only way that such missions can fail. Let us remember that since the mid-90s there have been 2 failed US Mars missions as well as a failed European mission (the Beagle 2 lander), a failed Japanese mission, and 2 failed Russian missions. As well as one and only one successful European mission and 8 successful US missions.
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No, nobody is an atheist when they're born. Atheism is the conscious rejection of the existence of god. Agnostic, more likely.

Yes, religion is by definition irrational. Humans generally aren't very rational beings. Love is irrational, it makes us do irrational things, but I'm sure we can agree, on the balance, love is a good thing. Thus dismissing religion on irrationality grounds is not very meaningful.
No - kilograms. Even my parents use Kg.
The most important avenue of creative work is derivative works.

Copyrights essentially ban almost all forms of derivative works -- thereby depriving society of the most important form of creativity.

Also, old works are mostly lost to society -- whereas if they were easily distributed they could compete as free works with contemporary copyrighted works, thereby driving the competition and thus quality up.

Whether or not you get to control distribution of the story you wrote, in fact, whether it is your story at all -- is subject to debate.

A world with short copyright terms (or perhaps even no copyright terms at all) might make some authors less rich -- and it might make the world of content available to everyone much richer, too.
The real pain starts when you use derived units. How many pascals are there in a pound per square inch? And what is the ratio between DPI and pixel per mm^2
Soccermetrics.com - will the name stunt their growth to just the US market?
Exactly. Especially the assumption that wireless can fully replace optical fiber shows how little understanding of the physical limits he has.
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Wow. I am really ashamed to admit, despite years of SitePoint, Mozilla Forums and StackExchange use, that I have never come across the MDN :/
This is quite convenient I'll agree but my satnav tells me how long it's going to take and bar traffic, it's quite accurate.
Those aren't separate definitions. The second is simply a justification of certain forms of racism as worth the harm they cause to the victimized group because of the benefit to the disadvantaged group; it uses the first definition you gave in defining itself.

So yes, by your own definition, complaining about the lack of non-white people would be racist -- but worth it.

It's also worth noting that there is a difference between complaining about a lack of non-white people and complaining about the existence of a certain amount of white people on a panel.
> Some just turn on the TV whenever they are alone, some have to socialize and can't stand being alone, others do drugs.

Actually, I've had it pointed out that you'll see people crinkling bags, shuffling feet, coughing and clearing throats, and so on if you're in an otherwise silent room. I know that I'm guilty of it sometimes, and when I stay mindful and clamp down on it, I notice someone else picks up the slack.
Isn't azure more of a PaaS than a IaaS?
The problem is that having conference speakers who happen to be disproportionate in race does not immediately translate to racism.

To say that the composition of a group of speakers is "designed to maintain & reinforce the institutionalised power structure among races" simply based off of the proportion of races of people in the panel is a logical leap that is not necessarily warranted.
Apple just controls for the quality/experience they want to offer.

The various PC vendors have control over the hardware and software for the trackpads; they could make them good if they wanted to, or if they knew better. They just aren't "detail oriented" on a corporate scale.
Is anyone else getting tired of the endless predictions of the doom of the PC as tablets take over?

Tablets are wonderful for "consumers": People who want to use apps, read web pages, etc. They just aren't useful for actual WORK: If you want to so much as write a letter, you'll long for a real keyboard if all you have to hand is a tablet.

If you want to sit down and code.. well, I can't see xmonad and vim going touchscreen-based any time soon :)
But you do HAVE to use it! Start computer - Metro, Open app - Metro, Search for something - Metro, Shutdown/Restart - Metro, Windows Updates - Metro, Control Panel - Metro, switch apps - Metro, and more. It's a real PITA when you get the huge goddamn Start Menu when you want to do something simple...

And even if you do reduce that to a minimum (which is possible), it's still stupid - here you are working with 4 windows open on something, completely forgetting that you're on 8, you want to do some random simple operation and BAM - METRO IN YOUR FACE! :-)
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> If you've ever flown on a plane, altitude has been given as feet and distance in miles.

I've been on plenty of flights where displays and cockpit announcements were in metres (altitude) and kilometres (distance + velocity) - as well as Celsius for outside temperature.
I don't see why facebook absolutely refuses to make it simple to unfriend or unlike something or something.

Let me rephrase that, I know why they make it difficult (more connection = more data), but it really detracts from the experience. I don't want to spend 3 hours clicking on individuals profiles and clicking 4 different times to do one action (the "friends link", individual profile page, the "unlike" and the confirm button).

I know, speaking for myself, I use facebook drastically different than I did a few years ago, and I would love to clean up some of the friend list I've accumulated over the years.
I don't agree at all - some people require stillness and quiet while others don't. My most creative moments have been drunk in the early hours with music full blast. Others in a quiet office with everyone gone home. If society has become louder, then that's the new morality, otherwise there would be 'noisy' carriages on an otherwise 'quiet' train ;-)
It was more ageist than sexist. It was a pretty standard "get off my lawn and turn down that music" comment.
If you think this benchmark is impressive... just do some I/O benchmarking. It blows EC2 away much harder than it does for CPU. ZFS on local disks with SSDs for L2ARC, and no virtualization overhead (this obviously applies to SmartOS). Oh, and the performance is predictable and doesn't vary in time. And you have DTrace to understand your application.
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"If your only concern with a conference is about the panel diversity then perhaps the conference is not for you."

This sounds like a straw man argument. You've created the fictional idea of a person whose interest in a conference is solely the diversity of the panel, as if there are people who don't even care what the conference is about or have any idea of the subject matter; they just like seeing different kinds of people on panels.
True with display sizes although I'm interested more in resolution than size.

My trip computer does litres per 100km. I drive a Citroen C5 and it has kph on it as well as mph. My satnav usually reminds me if I'm driving too fast (in kmh which is handy) and that results only in me watching out for speed cameras and the fuzz :)

I don't fly - I drive if needs be. I frequently drive around Europe as it's easier than dealing with flights and a damn sight more comfortable, reliable and cheaper than flying. I can drive to Leipzig from London in about 10-12 hours.
http://www.bmj.com/content/328/7455/1545

White people are under represented relative to the population in UK medical schools in this study

http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7647/748

Women out number men in western medical school

Will we ever see drives to increase white males into this profession? I doubt it

There are female interest groups to promote women in surgery, female only exam practice etc despite them making up the majority. Could there ever be male only revision sessions? Of course not, that would be sexist

(My partner is a female doctor)
I see 11 invitations to "read more". Thanks, but no. I waste enough time as it is.
Well, you get what you pay for. That's the difference between some random dude and a pro. I deliver my v1.0 products optimized and documented. Analytics is pretty much a requirement these days, executives absolutely need to know how their app performs.
There is confusion over what atheism actually is. Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#Implicit_vs._explicit We are born (implicit) atheists.

I also didn't say we should dismiss religion because it is irrational, I said people who were religious were irrational. I believe that still stands.

If anyone asked, I would say we should dismiss religion because it is harmful. Harmful to our stability, harmful to our advancement, harmful to the people that follow it and harmful to the people stuck in it against their will (either country, family or society). Today the negatives of religion far outweigh any good it can do. There was a time and place for religion, but we have outgrown it.
I'm gonna be puking all day because of that quote.
Yes decent ethernet structured cabling is somthing you do once and you only need to plug and uplug cables if you do a mjor renovation of your building.

That is sort of comment of a "sub" who thinks they are leet becase they have sucsesfully connected there mac/ipad to a single consumer AP.
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well, this is exactly what I get from all those who are complaining. To me, they seem more interested in sex/gender/race of the speakers than WHAT is going to be presented.
Actually it wouldn't in my Citroen C5. The fuel efficiency peaks precisely at 60mph/100kph. Something to do with the power transmission ratio.

I get 2.83l/100km or 83mpg in old money out of that if I don't drive like an asshat.
You're complaining that SmartOS doesn't ship with inferior technology? That's not a valid criticism. Perhaps a valid criticism might be that Joyent doesn't make it clear enough why prstat, DTrace and SMF are superior to Linux alternatives, and where would you find documentation for all these things. It's understandable that you searched the SmartOS wiki, but the Oracle Solaris documentation would have been better if you were not familiar with Solaris.

Joyent has to make the experience better by streamlining documentation, not by compromising its core values that make SmartOS great. The quality of the Solaris documentation is great, it's just not organized how Linux people expect it to be and they don't know where to find it.
Actually, thinking in terms of largest total return for a project (ROI is infinite if your I is 0).. I can't think of too many projects that have had larger returns.

Probably the iPhone? Maybe some Cars (camry? Model T?) Maybe some really big mining/oil operations? What else is in the same league?
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> Hate speech and anti-discrimination laws have drastically improved the lives of millions of people in the UK.

Cause and effect, dude. This happened in the same time frame in virtually every single developed country on earth with different ways of approaching the issue. Chances are that being more tolerant was simply just an idea whose time had come.
I like the core thinking behind your definition of racism (that we should all self analyse and take affirmative action to fix problems), but I don't think it's necessarily helpful, or even logical to define racism in this way. If we all went around with highly specialised individual definitions for emotive terms then we're not communicating effectively, and probably needlessly annoying each other. I'm not sure I agree fully with any of your definitions of racism really. The sort of racism under discussion here is simply and obviously a) believing in racial inferiorities and then b) discriminating against them. Of course there exists a spectrum of racism here, and where observed actions appear on this spectrum is probably the most lucrative area to look at. Rational discussion can only occur once terms have been agreed and defined, and using your own definitions is not all that constructive.
Indian concept of religion is so much different than the west that it may come shock to you. And it doesn't stop at religion, culture has a very big part to play at it.

Coming to law, Religion plays a role in the law too! Because its the cheapest and fastest way to get justice compared to the traditional courts, where it may take years and your whole savings will be wiped out before you get a judgement. For example Muslims have some thing called as Personal Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Muslim_Personal_Law_B... , Which applies to many things like marriage and especially law dealing with personal issues.

In the state of Haryana there are Khap panchayats(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khap)

With such a large country. And thousands of languages, cultures etc. Such diversity in nearly every walk of life be it clothing, food, festivals etc. You can never say/do anything signification without disappointing few people.
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Few paragraphs down, he mentions how tape units use magnetic platter technology same as hard drives.
Indeed. MM/DD/YY is used informally and for datapoints (e.g. the Date field when you sign a form), but any time you are writing formally (e.g. a letter) you use Month DD, YYYY.

It's almost like MM/DD/YY is the abbreviation of "Month DD, YYYY"
It doesn't matter. What matters is the sponsors spooked and pulled the money. Show over.
Bless you, Captain Hindsight! I assume you shorted or put INTC to profit from your insight.

Seriously, this post-season quarterbacking helps nothing but your own karma. The people in charge of Intel are intelligent, incentivized, and they've given the problem a lot more thought than you have. I realize our economies are ludicrously inefficient, but a single comment on HN is not going to outsmart an Intel board member.
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Apple cannibalized old products because the successor was mostly the same, but better. The argument around Intel is that success in the Atom line would hasten a repositioning of the microprocessor market that would inherently weaken Intel's position, so they are attempting to stall that repositioning as long as possible.
Curiously enough, this Sartre quote (originally l'enfer, c'est les autres) is used in a very different sense from what it originally meant. Typically people like to quote it as an allegedly-educated way of saying all people are annoying - when originally it was nothing but the end of Sartre's novel "No Exit" in which one of the main characters is baffled by the fact that hell doesn't need torture devices but just a group of people you can't escape for eternity. The "can't escape for eternity" part is key.
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You left out 'privacy'. FTFY.
I usually turn the thunder and lighting on and listen to this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVraVgzC9U

Maybe not quite so peaceful :)

Edit: My mistake, I'm normally on http://raining.fm/
I don't see where the author predicted that? He predicted the death of consumer Desktops, not PCs.
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This got me thinking about the whole Windows ARM port and x86 compatibility. I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but, why the hell didn't Microsoft make use of .NET for cross-platform compatibility?

Have developers write applications in C# or any other language supported by the CLR and let .NET work out the x86/ARM differences.

I'm sure there are valid technical and possibly political reasons this didn't happen, but I still find it very strange that Microsoft went to the trouble of developing this entire platform/framework/ecosystem just to ignore it when the opportunity arises to actually make good use of it.
A4 has an aspect ratio of 2:3, not 9:16. The iPad is 3:4 which is significantly closer to A4 than a weirdly tall portrait widescreen tablet (3:5.33333)
Thanks for the insight. You are right that our primary target right now is traveling, because it is the best place to start. It is the easiest use case for which we can automate the process (based on photo metadata).

According to our study about sharing memories between FRIENDS and archiving memories, it comes up that the important parts of the story are who attended the events, what happened a what were the most important events and other related stuff (where, weather etc).

We tried to visualize what happened and the importance of the events (if you take a lot of pictures in a short time it is sure that it there was something interesting) in the chart to create the visual aid not textual to better understand the story. Yes I agree it is not enough clear what the chart is, we have to make definitely some improvements here.

WHY and other story related stuff are a bit tricky for us. We have to consider the usability point of view, how much time the user wants to spend in the creation process. Is it 5, 10, 40min? Other point of view is the target audience. Is it me, the author, to recall the memories? Is it my friends to share the story? Is it a public "blog" for all the people I don't know? You friends already know a lot information so you can trade for simplicity. We tried to solve the WHY issue with the description field to the event, but you are right that it should lead the user to input the information in a way that he creates the "real" story.

Thanks for the book tip, I'll definitely read it.
I never used any cloud computing but hell that's slow. Just tried the "sort five million numbers" on my desktop and it took under 5 seconds (something above 5 in VM). I tried it in python though.. but I imagine ruby's performance would be about the same in this regard.
I have to say, I sympathize with them. I tried libreoffice, but I just could not keep it up. MS Word is annoying enough for me, LibreOffice adds that extra annoyance. I just wish we could move to a markup system like markdown or restructured text with split editors that generate the document on the fly on a different pane. Plain text! Plain text!
In fairness the tweet that presumably started it all originated from San Francisco.
Good call. This is one of the reasons why I currently prefer the government in Australia over the opposition. They are rolling out a national FTTH network [0], rather than the opposition which seems to think that wireless broadband is the way to get fast internet into homes.

As an example of the attitude of the opposition (from 2009, but their views are the same as far as I'm aware) [1]:

"What they are proposing is the effective re-nationalisation of the fixed line network in this country ... But it certainly should not please the rest of Australia to have the re-nationalisation of a fixed line network in this way, particularly when there will be some $20 billion at least of taxpayers’ money put at risk in an investment in a particular fixed line technology which many have noted will take another 10 years to roll out. And by then we have no idea what the capacity and possibilities will be with alternative communications technologies—most particularly, of course, mobile and wireless. There is a massive flight from fixed line to mobile and wireless broadband going on right now. What will it be like in 10 years time when this thing is finally built? I suspect this will be one of the all-time great white elephants this country has seen."

[0] - http://nbnco.com.au/

[1] - http://www.openaustralia.org/senate/?id=2009-05-12.77.1&...
The chairman of Press Council of India and has written to the Chief Minister of the state of Mumbai (Maharashtra) to intervene and sort out this issue citing "freedom of speech" Article 19 (1)(a) of the Indian constitution [0].

[0] http://ibnlive.in.com/news/katju-writes-to-maha-cm-on-arrest...
Squeaky wheel gets the grease. These people are clearly willing to complain. No complaints about what is being presented implies only that they are satisfied with what is being presented; it does not imply that they do not care about it.
I travel two hours each way to work to London, and likewise, I sit in the quiet carriage.

I've been that person to stand up, walk over and have a quiet word, but all to often I'm met with hostility and shock that we should even dare to police our own quiet space.

The regular commuters in the whole are respectful and as the writer alludes to, treat the carriage as their personal quiet time, but as Brits, confrontation such as this is a cultural misnomer, we just don't tend to do it and I can't think that I will ever feel happy about having to do so, much more I just wish people would be more respectful.
If you can't deal with obnoxious people, you probably shouldn't be using the internet...
Here's the non-mobile version - http://news.yahoo.com/15-current-technologies-child-born-tod...
The things you are complaining about -- top vs. prstat, dtrace, upstart vs. smf, clear and comprehensive documentation vs. man pages written in an afternoon or blog posts on the internet, apt vs. ips -- these are things that are objectively better on Solaris in a quantifiable way. If they make you feel like you're working with Windows 98, I don't think the problem is with the tools, but somewhere else.

A few days ago there was an article about Linux monoculture. It's even worse than that, it's an Ubuntu monoculture.