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"As long as Google is actually losing money on every Android device sold (due to the patent licensing)"

Seriously, where the hell are you getting your "facts"?

Google is not losing money on Android.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/14/the-android-income-statemen...

I'm getting more and more convinced now that you're trolling this thread.
I'm not sure, a quick Google seems to indicate it may be or sort of. I know often when one player leaves the entire map load screen will reset, so it appear someone is a "server".

I know my connection is good, low latency but CoD is worse than ever but nothing on my end has changed much in fact it's a better.
I've been using sshguard, but I like the sound of these.
> Android is completely subsidized by advertising revenue

This is why being open source is such a beautiful thing. Yes, Google could falter and stop developing Android, but the code they have put in Github lives forever. They could also turn completely evil and start misusing Android in exploitative or evil ways - but they can only do that to a certain extent before someone will pick up the baton, fork Android and replace them. The loss of the Google parts of the ecosystem would be huge, but you can see from the products that are on the market that are unblessed by Google that even without any Google involvement, Android is completely functional and useful OS.
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Great idea -- here's a slightly modified version that works on Ubuntu: https://gist.github.com/4238621
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Hip hip...
I really hope that if AMD dies the HSA Foundation for heterogeneous computing won't go with it. Hopefully ARM can take the leadership for it and continue their work.

http://hsafoundation.com
> Engineers are often accustomed to knowing more about science than the average person. It can be very easy for them, with the best of intentions, to convince themselves and others that they know more than they really do.

I agree, but that's true of scientists also, many of whom have a very narrow specialty in modern times and may not be qualified to speak outside their field of expertise. Example Nobel Prizewinner William Shockley and his now-infamous lectures on the topic of race:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley#Statements_abo...

BTW I agree with you that one can make too much of a person's degree, especially when compared to actually understanding the topic to be discussed.
GChat is pretty much just plain jane XMPP. You can host it for free with any of the online services w/ your own domain.
Initial thought when browsing through the site was, "A mobile app would be handy." Looks like you guys got that covered.

Something that would be really nice is a demo of the app in some shape or form. Ideally, a demo account that would give me the option of following a tutorial to get a feel for how a typical workflow would be, or just play around on my own.

A demo video could show how it could be used as well, but ideally being able to play around with it would be nice. If anything, the demo video would get me intrigued enough to sign-up and try it out.
A math IDE. I think Wolfram Alpha may do just that, then again dealing with formal maths is not my thing.

An IDE makes sense if it can encapsulate the symbols and terms you're conveying. How many programmers sit down with notepad or vi and write huge programs? Yes, some do (and I have), but it's far easier with the IDE.
Seems pretty absurd to think that they'll be actively supporting a product for another decade without putting out any new releases... then again Microsoft and I have never seen eye-to-eye about how to sunset and subsequently retire software.
On the topic of Markdown.. here is previewer I wrote a while back: http://marky.devel.io It includes a few extensions for my common needs (click the Show Example link in the preview area). It comes in handy for seeing how things _will_ look (like GitHub READMEs) or for creating quick syntax-highlighted code samples for copy and pasting into slide decks.
Microsoft's hit and mostly miss marketing aside, the company itself is pretty open and engaged for one of it's size. Lots of employee blogs, hosted forums, public bug trackers, early and long-running open betas. They'd been crowdsourcing crash dumps for years before anyone knew what "crowdsourcing" was.
I doubt that we're talking about insecurity or lack of confidence; but rather the lack of a certain type of egotism. In my experience at least, gifted people tend to avoid egotism altogether.
This isn't just Dropbox deciding to hire Guido, it's Guido deciding to work for Dropbox and, perhaps most interestingly, deciding NOT to work for Google anymore. Surely a company the size (and type) of Google could come up with some pretty amazing projects for an engineer like Guido to work on if he got bored but, for some reason, Guido left. The reason could be something as boring as a big raise or a shorter commute, or something more interesting (a new internal policy to start replacing Python with Go, a clash with one of the big shots that leaves Guido forever on the shelf in the celebrity trophy case, or whatever.)

I'll have to admit I'm curious.
Um, did you look at the numbers? The physics does work out, at least to a rough order of magnitude. That may not be enough to make it a practical success, but it's enough to make "crackpot" unwarranted.
Any tips in how to use this on the iPhone, as obviously the keyboard shortcuts are a little tricky.
Believe in grace. Be grateful for the things you have in your life, be forgiving of those who wrong you.

By being grateful, and sometimes you have to really reach out to find something to be grateful about, you appreciate the goodness in your life.

By being forgiving of the situations and people that wronged you, you let go of the hurt. Sometimes forgiving can be really difficult to do, but if you can, the hurt will fade.

Neither of those two things require that God exist, or even that life is anything more than random chance. They are however thematic in a number of theologies. In my experience though people who practice them are happier than those who don't. Sometimes it is easier to practice those things if you imagine there is a power greater than yourself. It gives you something, or someone, to thank for the things you are grateful for. It gives you something, or someone, to hand off your burden of hurt to when you are forgiving.

Sometimes it just gives you someone to talk to when you're not sure who you can talk to.
I'm slightly surprised to feel this way, but upon reflection, I actually like rms's rebranding of DRM as "digital restrictions management".

Calling DRM "Digital rights management" is about as accurate as calling prison "freedom management".
> I think it must be the shock that comes from being at the top of one's high school, then arriving at MIT and no longer being head-and-shoulders above most of one's peers.

Yup. Some stats for a recent MIT entering class:

97% were in the top 10% of their high school class. 100% where in the top 25%.

25/75 percentile SAT math: 740/800

25/75 percentile SAT critical reading: 670/770

25/75 percentile SAT writing: 680/770

Only about 9% who apply to MIT are offered admission. I'd guess that the ones that get in aren't the ones who had to work hard for kind of scores listed above--they are the ones for whom those kind of high school achievements come easily, giving them time for the challenging projects and activities beyond the standard high school curriculum that made them stand out to the admissions people.

They now have to actually work hard for "regular" classes. Half of them find that their best effort lands them in the bottom half of the class. That is indeed one hell of a shock.
The Collapse Of Microsoft's Monopoly from 95% to 20% of Computing
I'm pretty sure different economic systems could be simulated in MMO games for the benefit of mankind.

Let one game shard run with central banks, and the current economic system where banks create new credit through thin air. See how that affects the economic system in the game. How it affects house and asset prices, commodity prices and purchase power.

Let another shard run free banking with competing currencies. See how that affect asset prices, commodity and purchase power.

In yet another game world within the same system evaluate Bitcoin and see how that affects house prices, commodity prices etc.

And in another world use hard currencies such as gold and silver as purchase coin, simulate that there are limits on how much gold and silver can me mined.

Let the game worlds run for quite some time! Then evaluate which of all those system lead to the most prosperous game population, choose that for the real economy.
Either you do not get sarcasm, or very, very good at it yourself.
To save it to your clipboard, yes.
My wish came true in less than one day! Check it out https://github.com/blog/1347-issue-attachments
Isn't spyware you don't have to use and can uninstall just software with a feature you do not desire? I'm completely against the feature, but I don't see why something must be done about it? Feel free to add whatever features to your software you like, so long as nothing requires me to use it. There are plenty of linux distros, desktop environments, etc.

Edit: typo.
They actually are working on iOS 5 right now according to their mailing:

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition for iPad is currently English only, with additional languages coming in a free update. The iPad version also requires iOS 6, but iOS 5 support is coming soon!
I think you are clearly mis-reading what I am saying. Laws apply (thanks to the constitution) to all people individually, equally. That being said, there are levels of abstractions about why laws exists (ie, public policy rationales). Most rules are not written to tilt outcomes toward the more sophisticated, specialized market participants (although undoubtidly some are in practice if not theory). On the contrary: If information assymetry exists, they exist more often to obviate it (ie, the general securities laws). None of this has to do with what you seem fixated on (grok the difference between investors and speculators).
It doesn't search the Internet. If it searched local files and Google (and maybe Amazon) it would make some sense, but (by default at least) it only searches local files and physical Amazon products, an absolutely bizarre grouping.
The problem is that a cryptographicly secure rng generates all numbers with equal probability. Non-cryptographic rng s have no such guarantee, so even given a truly random seed and a single value taken from the rng, one might still know something about the distribution of the rng's output that will allow them to know what values are more likely to have been produced, therefore allowing them to launch a brute force attack using the most likely values first, reducing the number of attempts they can expect to need in order to find the correct key. That is not to say that one cannot use javascript for secure key generation, however one must make sure that the algorithm used to convert the truly random entropy into a useful random number is secure.
I pasted this above as well, but they're working on iOS 5 support:

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition for iPad is currently English only, with additional languages coming in a free update. The iPad version also requires iOS 6, but iOS 5 support is coming soon!
This is a good point.

I believe, that in the end, the browser will win. The Mozilla OS on phone will go somewhere, and many many apps will move into the browser, both on the low-end phone hardware, and on high-end laptop hardware.
MIT is the anti-Lake Wobegon. None of the children are above average.
I believe up until recently that was correct, but that may be changing:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/106217-manufacturing-bo...
I moved to NameCheap after 1) The SOPA ordeal and 2) I noticed GoDaddy made me want to destroy something beautiful.
3 seems to be a magic number. I think eventually Microsoft will have significant share of the mobile/tablet market.
Yeah, but that doesn't sound artisanal.
sorry but honestly, i aint like subdomain (subdomain.live.com) let's just drop it.
My Nexus 4 is bigger and better than my iPhone 4s, in everything except absolute hardware quality, though it's not far behind.

Jellybean is fantastic, and provides a stable glitch-free experience, with significantly better performance in key apps such as Exchange integration that are a key part of my daily usage.
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Pinto beans are cooked in bacon? Well now I do want them!
Horace Dediu of Asymco has produced a much better graphic and analysis to go along with it: http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-person...
Thank you. This is the best description of the concept :) I also think that the existence of the permanent rule in the game (unique moves) makes it more engaging.
For those with a scientific outlook, there's no need for the God hypothesis, and lacking evidence, the null hypothesis stands in its place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis

Science is not about what we would like to believe, but what the evidence supports. The scientific outlook is so successful that it defines the modern world.

None of this can be used to argue that there's no God, only that there's no evidence.
Nope. In Bartok you're allowed to explain the rules, although asking a question is penalised.
This is an old chestnut. Mathematical notation is terse because mathematics doesn't consist entirely of notation! Look at any book or research paper; you'll find a great deal of text surrounding equations. Comparing this to code is nonsensical. Unless you're reading something in WEB, you are much more likely to encounter code than comments. There are certainly some unfortunate conventions and cruft in mathematics, but every generation of mathematicians rewrites in part what it inherited from its forebears.
"And what makes you think the switch works?"

Now, correct me if I'm wrong here... but isn't Ubuntu open source?
Right. I'd like to see the calorie count for one of these "hack" burritos.
> Wouldn't believing nothing is out there, be believing in "something"?

People who don't believe in God aren't claiming there's "nothing out there", only that there's no evidence for this idea. That's quite a different thing.

Consider Bigfoot, for example. People who adopt a scientific outlook don't say there's no Bigfoot, only that there's no evidence. This summarizes the scientific "skeptical" outlook -- no evidence, no credibility.
Say what you will, it took me more than four minutes to find the power button on the Xoom.
Los Angeles is leading the charge on this. West Hollywood banned the sale of pets two years ago. Los Angeles city is doing so now.

http://www.examiner.com/article/los-angeles-poised-to-ban-sa...
UO at its high point should have been the best game ever made. The problem is that it was super laggy and buggy the first few years, and then they started making terrible design decisions after 1999 or so. So it never really hit its full potential. I don't play games anymore, but I doubt if there's anything better today.
1) Hard to use for mere mortal users (QA, testers, normal users posting issue for an App, etc. 2) If uploaded to another site, the images are under a different protection domain (for protected repositories.)
Finally this is (seeming) insanity is brought to the spotlight.

Here's to hoping that between invalidating trivial patents like these and initiatives like Twitters "Innovator’s Patent Agreement" (which requires all inventors to agree before a patent can be used offensively), the current situation will finally come to an end.
Sometimes it is as simple as confusing different kinds, such as H1N1 vs normal flu vaccines.
I had a similar experience. I owned five houses in the desert and basically had a player city. For a while I was even a counselor before they found out I was 14.
I was going to get this on PC, but 20 bucks for a game a still have sitting on my shelf is a bit much.

OTOH i will jump on it when it comes to Android, not only a much more reasonable 10 dollars but i think the touchscreen experience might add value in its own right.
I miss UO. I used to work from home, so I had a box set up that would run a simple c program that would send keys to repeat a macro based on what I wanted to train, but at random intervals. I did this because I wanted to keep up with my buddy, who had the time to actually play. But I also had a small bit of code that I injected that would scrape the text. I would set my character on a boat, and then when a mod would show up, it would beep from the PC internal speaker (so I wouldn't get caught if my wife turned down the volume on the speakers). I can't count the number of times talking to some directoe or VP while this high pitched noise came across on a conference call while I panicked to explain the noise, have a conference call, and type enough to convince that I was a person. I miss that.
Reread parent post more carefully.
There are plenty of Chrome plugins that ask for the same permissions. Hence, the trend.
Would be awesome to have this in my office and hide from my boss whenever he is coming to give me some assignments...
I wish I had something like this 10 years ago.
switch to Ruby?
password - something you know and then forget and cracker dictionaries also already know

key (sw or hw) - something you have and then lose,or malware finds the spare copy under the mat, or turns out to be flawed as reported by academic cryptographers or as designed by NSA

OAuth and federated login - one password to rule them all and then make malware devs happy when they phish you

browser "DNA", keystroke analysis, behavioral analysis, pictures of kittens - something you collect amd then malware "in the browser" clones and drops on botnet

2 factors - 2 somethings that keep IT admins and vendors employed and then users log in to Facebook and circumvent corporate systems using more user friendly services

smartphone - something that you have and then gets malware or lost or stolen or hacked via bluetooth

everything the end user could possibly do conveniently is simply projecting an illusion of security

anything that is inconvenient will drive away users (there's a reason Amazon has 1-click)

i suggest Facebook or G+ and adding a big lock png next to your FB login button....end users will feel very safe, i assure you

if you get traction - then hire/partner with very skilled developers who know how to write (or better reuse) high quality, secure code; add a very skilled network and systems security minded ops person to your team for best results

if no traction - well, then...ummm....

YMMV
The gender breakdowns are of particular fascination.
You realize that Asymco post is just speculation and the chart is based on that speculation, right? Those individual bars aren't based on any directly related facts or financials. He's very clear about that.

By the same token:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/507961/android-takes-of...

Back to my overall point, here's another example of Android devices simply not making a very good showing when it comes to actual usage: http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/27/apples-ipad-drivin...

Considering Android's larger user base, measured usage numbers like those have almost all been abysmal. iOS even accounts for ~10% more web traffic than Android in North America and that gap has been widening lately. That's a serious problem that you shouldn't hand-wave away if you truly care about the future of Android.

Personally, I don't have a horse in this race. I think iOS, Android, and WP8 all have strengths. You seem to be angry at me for pointing out the flaws in focusing on raw Android activation numbers (many of which don't even have a data plan!). I don't understand why. It's not my fault that back-loading the profit is not viable for large swaths of the global mobile market, but I don't think that's a very controversial statement.
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I agree with your point in general, but given this statement from the post:

> Start with some basic web research. You should be able to understand at least the big issues in every field you present onstage. Wikipedia is your first stop to gain a basic background.

(emphasis mine) you might be expecting too much of the TEDx organizers. If they're referring these people to Wikipedia to evaluate the speakers credentials, probably reading off the degree name is closer to their capabilities than evaluating the scope and prominence of their research.
If you're pulling a pure python package (like Django, Tornado or requests) then you're golden on any platform python is available for. If you're pulling a python package that contains C bits (like PIL, msgpack-python) then you'll need the compiler toolchain and associated libraries.

Luckily, most such packages (the popular ones at least) can be obtained in other ways (PIL through a win only download, or get a pure-python alternative like msgpack-pure-python).
You refute my statement that they make almost nothing with an ARPU of $1.63 and a 500 mil profit? seriously? Microsoft made over 20 billion net profit in 2011 and Apple has an ARPU around $600.
Wow, that looks terrible.
I'd really like to agree with you but unfortunately, pg has previously stated that down voting was OK to express disagreement. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Because apparently it is still up and running, costs money, and is owned by Electronic Arts? See uo.com - That aside, it seems technologically feasible.

Also interesting are the free/unauthorized reverse engineered UO emulators that continue to run today, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online_shard_emulation
I said "almost" nothing. about 500 mil last year. Compared to the 40 bil or so apple is making that is almost nothing. Microsoft made over 20 bil last year so I'll stand by the almost nothing.
Many of these mechanics weren't in there during alpha/beta/launch, but came shortly after. But the essential part that was always in there is 'you will die, and get looted' which never happens in modern games.
This is not the same. Google Sync has nothing to do with built in iOS mail client - which only supports 15 min fetch from Gmail.

Correction: It actually is. Gmail is accessible via Exchange on iOS which supports push.
It's not that easy. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's easy.

Sure, you could put up a Kickstarter for it and get a bunch of money behind the project. But historically, using the premise of building an MMO as a way of raising a bunch of money will result in failing to build that MMO.

A programmer who has experience and talent also has no incentive to recreate UO (think about the modern-day incentive structures for hotshot programmers), unless he was one of the original players. And sadly the overlap between "players of videogames" and "the best game programmers" is actually quite small. Carmack, for example, doesn't play games. Most of the talented gamedevs I know don't actually play them.

Maybe it's a challenge I'll take on.
Well, since the install base from the article was > 1.5 billion, and you yourself cited a 1/3 pirate rate, that makes > 1 billion sold....