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The OP is begging the question. The Release Window never had anything to do with technology. Its has always been about money. Money is not an "analog era relic".

Obviously the content producers have considered doing away with release windows, and for now have chosen not to. Its safe to assume they've decided they'll make the most money this way. So why? That is a much more interesting question.

Some things to think about:

1) iTunes/Amazon/Google pay the content producer each time they sell something (basically consignment), instead of making a big purchase upfront and then reselling the product (like DVDs, or even Netflix). The DVD model seems much better for the content producer, as the DVD saler is taking some of the risk whereas iTunes/Amazon/etc assume none of the risk.

2) Cannibalization is a bigger issue than we might think. Streaming with no release delays is basically an a la carte model. Its likely this would reduce the content producer's total take.

Chris Dixon has a great article on why bundling can be a win for both sellers and buyers here: http://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-a...

3) The author is probably overestimating the increased sales generated by an earlier DVD/streaming release.

4) Not everyone is willing to pirate content, simply because it is illegal to do so. For some people, not being a thief is more important than seeing Homeland Season 2 right now. Thus the growth of piracy may be limited in a way the OP does not understand (not by viruses or technological hurdles, but just because some people don't want to be pirates).

Perhaps there's a model where simultaneous releases do make more sense for the sellers. I'd certainly welcome it. But its not obviously better for the sellers, and protecting your revenue stream is not equivalent to being stuck in a "wasteful rear-guard fight for the preservation of an analog era relic", as the OP claims.
We're still talking about a woman who posted the following piece to the foundation's frontpage for lulz: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1901

Yes, the guy was out there -- but does waving chat logs like this around for people to gawk at really belong on the front page of a supposedly educational foundation's website? It sure did get linked around, so it's certainly advertising... but by no means is it educational and it's still very much the general antagonistic and lulzy behavior I've come to expect from these people and how they choose to run their community and maintain their web presence.

At the end of the day, the RPi only feels 'educational' flavored for marketing for me. It may not for you, that's cool too. People are going to do educational things with the RPi, but they're going to do it in spite of how the RPi Foundation are running things since now the meme of this board being 'educational' has been cemented.

... Though given they're already talking about on their own blog[1] how the board may not be around in a few years, I suspect we'll have another 'educational' board (with a new Broadcom chip, natch) to purchase for cheap. It'll be just as revolutionary as the others on the market at the time, I'm sure.

[1]: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2519
Which is basically an artificial pushdown of car prices.
Here's a great guide to writing clearly/concisely:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y8862uack1he3f9/How%20to%20Write%2...
Elements of Statistical Learning is Hastie's book. Between it and Bishop's book (i.e. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning), I prefer Hastie's for clarity of exposition. In particular, I find that ESL better conveys the sort of intuitive understanding of _why_ a method works that facilitates practical applications and extensions to novel contexts. Though, there are topics for which the increased equations/explanations ratio of Bishop's book is useful.

I've TAed my university's graduate ML course for the past couple of years, so I've read most chapters of these books in some detail and have hands-on experience using them to help people who are looking closely at these topics for the first time. Interestingly, SVMs are actually a good example of when I'd suggest both books.
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/45776/why-do-...
Non-math person here. Wait, so you're saying it's easier for humans to prove complex theorems than computers? That's nuts.

Doesn't that mean that verifying proofs is then based on a super handwavy process where a bunch of researchers come to a consensus and say "yes, this is correct"? Ugh!

What if they all overlook some crucial aspect because of the way they were trained, or their entrenched / ingrained assumptions?

When you describe a proof with words like you say, aren't there quibbles over semantic things? But I thought the whole point of a proof was that you leave nothing to semantics. Everything logically follows from each other.

I thought the main issue with proofs systems was that encoding the concepts into code was tedious. Could we maybe have a common database of well-known proofs, axioms, concepts etc, so that you wouldn't have to rewrite common ideas from scratch? Like a package manager with proof-libraries?

Or is this an issue with the expression power of proofs languages?
...Unless your target audience knows those acronyms. (And, by the way, "USP" is technically an abbreviation; it's not an acronym until it is pronounced as a word rather than as the letters that comprise it.)

Writing well is not about the writer; it's about the writer knowing their audience. The more you know about the people you're writing for, the better what you write will resonate with those readers.
Hakdell is easy to reason about for meaning, but hard to reason about for performance: like math, where no one thinks about performance. The folks over in applied math and engineering worry about things like computing an integral quickly and accurately, while the pure math folks are showing how to split a sphere into two exact copies of itself using an algorithm that requires an uncountably infinite set of actions.
I lived in the Caribbean for a while and this kind of bribery didn't happen in some countries, did happen in others, and "expedite fees" were universal, as well as generally being charged more as a foreign person. How they defined foreign was amusing, as a native of a neighboring island was considered a foreigner, and another native from the same neighboring island was a local, even though the latter had lived in Miami and NYC for most of his life.
Are you saying that you personally test on hundreds of devices, or just that you saw a photo of a huge table full of phones on a blog once and heard that someone somewhere does that? No one does that. It's a dumb argument, stop it.

Is testing on Android more expensive and occasionally more error prone than on iOS? Sure. But make the case sanely with real evidence, please. This is just flaming.
I completely agree. I consider myself lucky that I don't rely on Python for any production code, so I can do all the work that I want in Python 3 despite most resources being focused on 2.X. I'm considering switching back to Django for certain client work though, so the experimental support in Django 1.5 was quite timely and might give me a chance to go through it and see what needs work. Hopefully some of the Django devs have the time and can see the benefit of investing in support for Python 3.
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Interesting. Does that provision also cover those operating unsecured wireless networks?
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The only apps that are limited to being exclusively available through the store are formerly-known-as-Metro apps which are generally more similar to iPad apps than OS X apps in functionality and emphasis on touch. The comparison is complicated because Microsoft's POV is that one OS can compete in both sectors, but no move has been made to close down the desktop on Windows 8, and it is as open as ever.

Full disclosure: I work at MS, my words are mine only.
Perhaps the main issue lies with the relative inability to detect the presence of support: https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/Undetectables

Android Gingerbread devices do not support it, and they are still the largest percentage of Android devices accessing Google Play: http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

So it seems that a user agent detection and fallback for Android < 3.0 devices is still a great necessity, and it is difficult to say just how many other devices fall into this category.

This next link is the most comprehensive list of support I could find, and although the support does seem widespread at this point, there are probably still too many user agent unknowns for someone wanting to make a mobile friendly library around the feature:
http://caniuse.com/#feat=contenteditable
I have a math background, and I've found Haskell to be very confusing. There's a lot of syntax that's not like other programming languages or mathematics, which makes programs very dense and hard to read. (Perl and Ruby suffer from similar problems.)

I'd encourage you to try Python. Its syntax is simple, natural, powerful, and very similar to mathematical notation (I'm thinking of list comprehensions). If you want to use Python for mathematics -- in the sense of an open-source replacement for Maple/Mathematica -- I recommend Sage [1].

[1] http://sagemath.org
So Android is an open app market? Why is there restrictions on what you can put in it then?
Apple, I have no experience.

Amazon, from my personal experience, is average. For example, one of their products used an official picture that was different from what they sent me. The customer service agent basically said I had to CAREFULLY read the fine print and the picture was wrong. Yes, the company which invented "One Click Shopping" wants you to carefully read the entire product description for a common product while if I go to Wal-Mart for the exact same thing I can immediately see what I'm getting. I got the issue resolved but it wasn't an enjoyable experience with them making them making me feel like this was completely my fault and they were faultless and doing their best to avoid resolving any problems. Which, from my experience is - average.
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Why? It's a fluent interface.
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http://www.androidcentral.com/what-sideloading-android-z
Good luck to all using the patent system, you are going to need it soon.
I was expecting some concepts for the D Language version 3.
It's not a verb.
Android will soon be the linux of the client-side world. Ubiquitous, cheap OS. Facebook HQ wants to get into all Android devices, not just the mobile phones, hence the push on their employees. "eat your own dog food" is a good strategy for any software house.
You're confused, the main technology here is not html5, it's a combination of javascript and css.
I meant private schools as in high-schools. Didn't realize you were talking about schools for adults.
So you turned on billing? ;-)
Good to know it was getting so many impressions at the free tier, GAE is undervalued by the community me thinks.
These tutorials have been excellent so far. Do you have an RSS feed that publishes when new tutorials are ready?
Come on, come on, come on. Not to be an rms clone, but Linus Torvalds did not create Linux in the sense that this article implies.
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I'll add to this list my all-time favorite writing companion: Virginia Tufte's "Grammar As Style". It's been out of print forever, which is tragic, and, when you can find it, it usually sells for over $100 - even in rough shape. "Artful Sentences" is meant to replace "Grammar As Style", but I prefer the original. If you want to tie all the rules together so you can understand why we even have grammar in the first place and how truly magical grammar can be to shaping a sentence or paragraph, track down this book.

Interesting: Virginia Tufte is the mother of data visualization guru Edward Tufte.

(Other good books for writers and writers-in-training: "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamont, Stephen King's "On Writing" and a collection of letters on writing by F. Scott Fitzgerald, also called "On Writing". Oh, and please don't hate on White's "Elements of Style" --- it may be old, but it's foundational.)
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I believe the idea is that sensory input happens far lower than our conscious mind (I.e. thoughts we perceive in our head). Our reaction to input: what we notice about a picture, what we hear- can be compressed to 16/40bits per second.
Do you have a write up of your enterprise experience somewhere? That'd be very helpful, and we're all going to be rather forgiving of the form if the content delivers. :)
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If you read comments to the post, the proposed solutions are:
self-healing film for tiny holes; baloons that move with the air flow and plug the holes with their bodies for medium holes; and evacuation to a safe place for a huge holes once in a century. It is a Russian blog so most ideas reside not in the article but down in comments :)
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The giant asterisk with B2D is that you probably need a service component. There is a reason that github, mixpanel, etc, are all hosted services and not standalone apps.

Selling developer apps that are not coupled with some proprietary, hard to replicate service is risky because you are serving your entire dish to chefs who may just decide they don't like paying for it and would like to just make it themselves (and even give it away for free.)

There are plenty of opportunities for innovation in standalone tooling (like editors and code factoring tools) but outside of the Microsoft ecosystem it seems to be an uphill battle to get adoption of commercial software on developers' desktops. Maybe this will change.
Cool, although I remember when the Dojo Book was the primary documentation for Dojo Tookit before there was any reference. It was quite a frustrating experience. While books like these are useful, the book format is not a great main source of documentation for a library or a framework.
++ on "HR doesn't understand the tech"

I had a phone interview once where the person on the other side was (the hiring side) was trying to suss out my skills.

"Do you know real-time object-oriented programming?" they asked.

"Well, I know object-oriented programming, and I've done a lot of real time stuff, so: Sure."

"No, I think you're trying to fool me. Please answer truthfully, do you know _real-time object-oriented programming_?"

"Yes."

"I don't believe you."

Things went downhill from there. The interviewer clearly had no idea what they were actually asking, and it was impossible to express any competence other than to repeat buzzwords.

Bottom-line is: That company missed out on a great employee. They utterly blew it.

[Yeah, I know you only have my word for this. Suffice to say that I have enough objective evidence from subsequent projects and employment that I know I'm not Dunning-Krugering myself.]
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are you the same tokenadult from the CC forums?
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Except that totally overlooks the fact there are parts of the world where they could implement their own MPEG-2 decoder legally as they do not have software patents. Instead, because of this blob system without documentation they're forced to pay for it. How is this in any way not contrary to goals of education?
Frankly, I've always thought that these sorts of competitions are useless predictors of success. So many of the "winners" of these competitions are building unsustainable businesses capitalizing on current trends and not on prescience.

Good on you buddy :). Please do update us on what you do to promote your business instead.
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The problem is this common analogy is completely off base. When you steal from a store, that store had purchased a physical product from a wholesaler. This is know as the "cost of goods sold." The store maintains an inventory of product for which they have already paid a significant sum of money in order to place it on the shelves.

When you steal from the store you remove an item from their inventory which they cannot sell. The cost of that item that was already paid now has to be covered by profits made up from selling other items in the inventory, thus increasing (albeit very little) the price of the rest of the inventory.

In other words, the physical good is moved from one place to another, depriving the original owner of its value.

File sharing, on the other hand, has no marginal cost to each "copy" of a file. If I write a song or software and put it on the internet, it costs me nothing if 1 or one million people share the file (assuming it's not my bandwidth to pay for). Also, if one user downloads my file it does not disappear or transfer from me to them. I do not have to manufacture another item. File sharing is copying. Stealing is transfer of ownership.

So, you cannot directly compare file sharing, which has no marginal cost, to physical items that have a marginal cost of production. What owners of copyrighted works are trying to recover are their fixed costs in producing the work.
Math person here.

>Wait, so you're saying it's easier for humans to prove complex theorems than computers?

Of course! If proving theorems could be readily automated, this would have been done already. Indeed, automation has succeeded for some kinds of problems (e.g. google Wilf and Zeilberger's "WZ method" in combinatorics for a particularly successful example)

>Doesn't that mean that verifying proofs is then based on a super handwavy process where a bunch of researchers come to a consensus and say "yes, this is correct"?

Basically, yes.

>What if they all overlook some crucial aspect because of the way they were trained, or their entrenched / ingrained assumptions?

This happens surprisingly rarely. It helps that we are trained to constantly question our entrenched assumptions.

>Could we maybe have a common database of well-known proofs, axioms, concepts etc, so that you wouldn't have to rewrite common ideas from scratch?

Various books fill this purpose. But the problem is that theorems are difficult to encapsulate. For example, a theorem will say "Assume X, Y, and Z. Then A and B are true." and you need to use it in some situation where Z isn't true, but some appropriate variant of Z is, and any expert would know how to conclude that A and B are true. This is when the handwaviness comes in.

Mistakes do happen. But surprisingly rarely.
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We can't prevent this from happening but we should not force it.
It's halfway as bad as using child porn fear to censor "pirates". Even half of that is still very bad.
Speaking of archaisms, especially in case of video/film content, there's also one other thing... exclusive licensing.

Seriously, exclusive licensing has absolutely no place whatsoever in the digital market. Yet they're still generally bundled with physical licenses like DVD rights and whatnot and then you end up with digital stores region locked to a single country because they haven't "licensed" it to stores operating in other countries or they have licensed it to some entity in said country that doesn't give the slightest toss about serving people in a nice digital manner.

Think about it: if exclusive licensing didn't exist for digital distribution, all TV shows and whatnot would be given out to any interested party. It could actually be feasible to have some real competition on what entity gives you the best service instead of what entity has the most content licensed. Sure, we have that now too, but I'm fairly certain that this would accelerate it quite dramatically.

And the biggest reason why digital exclusivity is completely dumb is because it isn't actually exclusive. If your content is popular, it's bound to get pirated, and they sure don't care who or what might happen to have an exclusive license for legitimately streaming or selling that particular show in whatever particular country an user might be downloading from. Keeping up this game of pretend about "exclusivity" does ultimately no good for anyone.
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Better listen now until it will get shut down by the music industry... "Tom Hannen, David Vella and Henrik Pettersson took every number one song from the US Billboard charts since 1890 and turned it into an interactive remix. 'The end result is eleven minutes of (mostly) beat-matched automated remixing from 1890 to 2012,' they say." Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/24/music-hack-day-london-2012 -- "The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_charts
Thanks for the recommandation, the one I was talking about applying to is IED http://www.ied.edu/

I agree with your remarks about university, however I'm not sure if this applies to the majority of courses. Anyway, lately I have been trying gain knowledge by reading books that are non-programming related but instead focus on personal development, etc. so I think I know what you're trying to say.
Great post. Media coverage in silicon valley is slanted towards great financial success. It can aggravate the envy in any of us.

The most successful people I know are remarkably disinterested in money as a motivator, and mostly view it as a tool. In most cases, a tool to give control over the work they do more than anything else.

Statistics are a useful reminder of the actual incidence of super high incomes in the country. Reading about silicon valley it's easy to think that loads of people are making $100M left and right. But actually it's closer to one in a million:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Census_income_discrep...
>That would be USB.

It was USB. USB floppy drives.

(http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/five-disk-floppy-raid...)
This old dead horse doesn't need any more beating, but apparently the obvious has to be stated once again:

when you copy a digital "good" you don't deprive its owner from it. Therefore this is NOT stealing in any way. Not even remotely akin to stealing.

Let's get it straight a last time (I hope): if you have an apple and I take it, you haven't got it anymore. Digital goods are INFORMATION. When you give me an information YOU STILL F*CKING HAVE IT. By your twisted way of thinking, people reading headlines in papers at the store are burglars, and so are people reading the time on your watch without asking you first. This cannot be the case. This shouldn't be the case. This won't be the case.
I really like the 'level of fearlessness' analogy. That's my main reason for wanting more money. My actual material needs are pretty low, and my material 'wants' aren't much higher.
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I kept jumping through the article trying to find their definition of the term but I have to infer it from reading the article.
This is rad, thanks for that.
Sorry, perhaps this wasn't clear in my post. B2D (Business 2 Developer) refers to SaaS being sold to developers.
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