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See also abandonware or emulation of older systems. It's technically illegal for me to go download a copy of System Shock, but the company that made it is long gone, and the company that bought their assets isn't doing anything with it.

Illegal? Sort of. Immoral? Not really.
I remember when Bill Gates came to Romania to launch their Microsoft branch here, and in front of the public the country's president himself told him how helpful the pirated version of his Windows has been for Romania. It was quite hilarious and a ballsy thing to say to Bill Gates.

But I think Microsoft and Bill Gates have learned to accept that, because imagine if China, India, and all the other poor countries out there were forced to use the free Linux instead of the pirated version of Windows. Then Windows would've had 50% or less market share in PC's, and that would've meant they wouldn't have had a monopoly in browsers, nor in Office anymore. So having Windows everywhere, even pirated, has helped Microsoft a lot to get its monopoly position.

I think in the next decade, it will be Android which will be what Windows was for all these kids in poor countries. It will be much cheaper to even get the hardware for it than it was to get a PC 10 years ago, and this time the software will actually be free and open source. I truly believe Android will revolutionize the world in this sense.

It's unfortunate that Microsoft and Apple are trying to slow it down right now, and make the devices more expensive than they should be through bogus licenses and lawsuits, but they won't stop it.
I am willing to bet a very sizeable percentage of that 47% fall into a "Has a shotgun in the attic which they were given 20 years ago and forgot about. Does not own any ammunition." category, or similar.

Still going to be a very large number that are more "active" gun owners, but I think 47% is likely something of an overstatement.
Search is nice, but for organization linux tends to sort programs much better in the menus(by category rather then by company).
If a kid goes through the trouble of learning how to download, crack, and install software, I see that as a good barrier of entry for someone to start learning a piece of software. If you are going through all that trouble, chances are you are really interested in what you are pursuing and there is a bigger chance you may pursue a career in design/dev. And when you do enter the field, your employer will purchase licenses for you. I know that if I didn't pirate software as a kid, there is no way in hell I would be working in the web now. Also, when I was learning, I pirated all of my software. Now I don't have a single pirated program on my PC. And I gladly pay $50/month for the Creative Suite.

Or the software companies can release 'lite' versions of their software intended only for personal use and then rely on employers/schools and people purchasing the full versions to make most of their money.
I see it as more of a matter of where to draw the line than a big philosophical disagreement. In practice, as far as I can tell, most people (meaning something like >90% of the public) believes in restricting possession/manufacture of some items when they cross a threshold that is deemed too dangerous to allow unrestricted individual ownership. The main disagreement is over where the threshold is.

For example, a majority of Americans think that owning a handgun should be on the "legal" side of the line, while owning a cruise missile should be on the "illegal" side of the line, and owning a nuclear bomb or stockpiles of chemical weapons should be even more on the "illegal" side. People in other countries may draw the line somewhere else, for a variety of fairly complex reasons, but afaict it's still the same basic framework everyone's operating under.
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It's true that our basic needs haven't changed much. We 've become a little more brainy but our basic needs are served by relatively little technology. That's because humans haven't evolved visibly since ancient times. Our way of life will truly change once we start altering ourselves in substantial ways. The future will be very cool in a world where people can grow wings at will.
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>> It's being used right now by manufacturers to make custom parts in things like jet engines.

That doesn't appear to be true? They've announced they're intending to do it, they've bought a company specialised in it which suggests they're serious.

I can't order a 3d printed fuel injector for my jet engine today?

My point still stands. This is all just hype right now with nothing to show for it.

Another poster made a good point that it's a cheaper, more versatile, home-sized equiv of a CNC router / lathe. Looking at it like that makes a lot of sense to me.

It drastically limits the scope of such devices though from the current hype.
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They need to change their ways so we can spend time and money investing in new technology, not supporting an ever growing span of obsolete systems.

They don't have to, but they they will ultimately suffer along with all consumers.
Drag to/from the top of the screen to maximize/restore a window. That's worth the upgrade alone. For me, the per application audio volume mixer is worth it alone as well.
org-public? Never heard of it.. any tips/links on setup?

I've been trying to get org-publish + org-blog working recently, but haven't had time to tie it all together right.
> surely Jonathan Ive and co can make a beautiful iMac that's a couple of centimetres thicker.

All previous models.
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That's a bizarre comment. No need for conventional weapons, because you can just nuke people?
unless you have domain knowledge

I came here to ask if someone with "domain knowledge" could explain the significance of this research. You had it, and even used the same magic words. Thanks!
>I'm saying you should try and figure what works for you.

And I'm saying that that's the same mantra that homeopaths, chiropractors and other peddlers of pseudoscience repeat. "Figure out what works for you" has implications dangerously close to relativism. To find out what works, you need science. "Try it yourself" isn't science.
Arthur Clarke is one of the futurists that has imagined things right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYgdX2PxyQ
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I always find these sorts of essays curious, here is a guy who is eating lamb and noting that the fork is an old invention. Except that the lamb he is eating is probably from New Zealand, a country that is mesopotamian ancestors couldn't even imagine existed, much less imagine trading with. He might as well remark that his sperm is using the same sort of gamete structure that was fashionable in the neolithic period. That isn't the point.

The future is going to be new, and different, and it is hard to predict. Your phone (for some definition of phone) can give you answer to nearly any fact based question you can imagine. Right now, in under 500 mSec. The future doesn't look different when its entered into gradually, it looks hugely different when it is punctuated.

So if Taleb really wanted to 'check' on his futurist mantra, he should pick a number, 10 years, 25 years, 50 years. And then 'spend a day' in that time by removing everything in his possessions, environment, and activities that were not created or possible at that previous time.

I would predict that its a matter of opinion as to whether the future is or is not 'cool', most people would agree that the past sucks. :-)
You're right, Jason has fixed it as you can see here: http://bl.ocks.org/4183701
I'm exactly the same way unless it's an email I am interested in or if it's from a sender I care to hear from. However, if it's an html email from a sender I care to hear from, but I open it and I have to scroll sideways just to see parts of the image... I will delete it immediately, and won't download images from that sender in the future...

Responsive emails probably won't help with emails you don't care about...But, emails you are interested in, it can make all the difference.
Totally agree with this, it isn't a computer to most people, its a TV. When is the last time you "upgraded" your TV without buying a completely new one?
Has technology really made your life significantly better?

How many of us still get in cars and commute to work, sit in an office, as we are monitored by our boss, drive home through some awful commute. Then eat some processed food because we didn't have time to go to the grocery store and get some fresh food. I'm sure there are plenty on this site who telecommute and bike, but that's not the norm.

A lot of what is If talked about on this site is really not a big deal: some new library to make some flashy display; or some new iphone/app thingy; or some new way to get eyeballs to look at a web page.
> You were wrong! Answer for よ was: re

I'm just taking japanese for the first time, but I swear it's "yo".
As I said, I don't know the safety systems of CANDU :)

Large heat sink buys you time to get the cooling working again. Ultimately the heat must be transferred out somehow. In modern reactor designs these systems are usually designed to passively for very long times. With CANDU's it is very likely to be the case too.

In nuclear engineering one must always consider also the chance, that not everything is working as designed (like the destroyed diesel generators and external power sources at Fukushima). PRA (Probabilistic Risk Analysis) is used for that. PRA analysis are used for detecting most vulnerable systems in a nuclear power plant and this information is used to design new safer reactor types and to update the old ones little by little to be still safer. Harsh weather, seismic activity etc. is also considered in these analysis, but sadly in Fukushima even detected vulnerabilities didn't lead to improvements in time.

Even, if everything is done as well as possible, there is still a chance (although with modern designs almost arbitrarily small) that under certain conditions all the safety systems will fail. An ultimate example of such an event, would be a 100 km meteorite smashing the plant to atoms.
I totally agree with this article. I've been playing a lot of video games in the past, always with the T.V. on, all while doing my homeworks and reading my school notes. I failed a few classes during that period of my life, and I finished pre-university a year later than expected. It turns out that it didn't pay off at all.

At the moment, I'm in University while working full-time, and my grades are where they should have been years ago. I'm getting As most of the time, and I believe it has a lot to do with how I handle my tasks. Since I'm only doing two classes at a time, I try to focus on one a week, on the other the next. I try to never work on two different subjects on the same day and I even force myself to avoid reading some article and trying new things because it would take my focus away from what I really have to do.

Dedicating our attention on one subject at a time always turns out better.
There are a couple legitimately useful new features in the NT6 line. From my POV: the new WDDM driver model prevents a large class of crashes caused by faulty graphics drivers. ASLR and DEP. Moving all the window drawing and compositing to the GPU to free up some CPU time. Compatibility with newer DirectX software. IE9+, or even if you don't use IE, a modern trident for all apps that embed mshtml. The new task manager in Windows 8 is legitimately useful. GetTickCount64() is guaranteed to exist. The wonderful Consolas font.

None of which, by themselves, are a particularly compelling reason to upgrade. But Windows 7 is absolutely a worthy successor if you ever do decide to rebuild your system in the future, and with ~3G of ram the performance implications will be negligible (they're negligible on much weaker hardware than yours).
This is a factual disagreement, hopefully a resolvable one.

Take a look at this book by David MacKay, Cambridge physicist. He presents detailed calculations on each energy source and, despite being anti-nuclear in initial orientation, agrees by the end of the book that nuclear energy is far cheaper and more scalable than any other renewable.

http://www.withouthotair.com/

"Please don’t get me wrong: I’m not trying to be pro-nuclear. I’m just pro-arithmetic. — David MacKay"
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> Unlike most other paraphilias, hybristophilia occurs almost exclusively in women.

It's not just my own observation, it's a belief widely held in society.
Author of DocPad here. For a bit of history, DocPad was created 2 years ago now out of my utter frustration with all the other static site generators - frustration from not being able to use it for anything besides trivial use cases (Jekyll is the worst offender here). Building DocPad, it's goal has always been to set you free, ensuring you never hit another brick wall or constrain yourself. That's why we're seeing it used for such an awesome wide range of use cases easily and freely - personal sites, company sites, huge corporate sites, web applications, chat servers, whatever. Because of its plugin system and that it is built with express.js, you can extend it easily as well as add dynamic (re-render on each request) abilities when needed. Well worth checking it out if you got a while, here is a great intro video to it: https://vimeo.com/53755097

My advice to other people considering making a static site generator - please don't make another compiler or caching layer just like the rest, anyone can do that. But if you want to make a large difference, one that you can't do alone, then see if you can team up with an existing project, they'd certainly welcome your insights and probably have a ton of ideas already - the conversations will always be valuable for all parties involved, and the end result for the world will be much better quality solutions rather than just merely more solutions.

Cheers, Ben.
OOC, why do you say "as a software engineer, I know these queries won't work"? What is it about those queries that leads the engineer in you to believe they are hard (not to say that they aren't, it just seems to me that Google provides remarkable results for many objectively tougher queries).
On the contrary, the cheap solution is "assume there's a way to make guns hard to get in America. See, isn't that better?" Yes, maybe it would be better, but you assumed away the hard part.

There are already 300 million guns in America, and a deeply entrenched culture in favor of keeping them. That is the initial condition we have to work with. Saying "just be more like country X" isn't a solution at all.
It's not a hardware limitation. Any processor you'd want to use today supports PAE, since it was introduced with the Pentium Pro. Even if some pre-ppro box in some utility closet is still running, its motherboard probably doesn't support anywhere near 4GB, so it's irrelevant that the CPU doesn't support PAE. Linux for 32bit CPUs supported >4GB using PAE page tables for a long time before 64bit consumer processors went mainstream.

It's partially Microsoft trying to segment the market, and partially concern that a larger address space visible in a 32bit OS might/would trigger bugs in device drivers or perhaps other software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension#Desi...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...
It's still way beyond 8-bit BASIC. I think the BASIC interpreters that ran on small home computers of the late 70's and early 80's were in a sweet spot between being high-level languages (variable names, strings, arrays) and being close enough to the metal to illustrate things like conditional branching (no multi-line IF's demanded the use of GOTO's for conditional branches).
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The smartphone was probably predictable from the early 2000's at the very least.

Thinking about smartphone predictability reveals a pattern that might apply to other technologies: an actual dip in predictability caused by technological progress. If you leave out the always-internet-connected aspects of the smartphone, you still have a very small and portable device with books, amusements, up-to-date reference materials such as maps and encyclopedias, current periodicals, and real time voice and video communication. If the Internet did not exist, the iPhone would still have been a breakthrough product. A web-ignorant but otherwise capable iPhone was theoretically predictable half a century ago, but the technological reality of the intervening decades (ugly low-res screens, huge devices with pathetic capabilities, painfully clumsy input methods) depressed our expectations to the point that when it finally happened, it was something of a surprise.

AI may be another area where decades of technological disappointment have narrowed our expectations and reduced our ability to imagine what the future will bring. Someone transported from the 1960s might be better at predicting the future of AI than anyone who lived through the intervening decades.
Unless programming is a hobby for you, I would recommend you look for a job that has mentoring built in. I remember that at Google -- which hires pretty decent coders to begin with -- there were plenty of both educational and 1-1 opportunities to get better. In fact you had to pass a 'code readability review' with senior colleagues before you got access to check in any code.

If changing jobs is not an option, then, yes, remote coaching/pairing works pretty well. Lately, I have been starting remote study groups to master new technologies with other developers. Take a look here for an example: http://scalafp.pbworks.com and http://scalapro.pbworks.com
I don't think that being one in 10,000 people to "help bring down a bank", is the same as going to someone and executing him.
If you consider 73 to be short, then I wonder what you would think of 10-15 lines of code. Not to exaggerate, but you can actually achieve this with 0 lines of code in Flash using just Movie clips.
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I am hoping for an update on that from Charles, because that article was written based on the the previous version of the spec.

I think that the latest refinement spec addresses at least some of the issues he raised.
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Maybe yes, maybe no. Some CANDU negatives I'll chip in though: CANDU is one of the more successful vectors to creating nuclear-armed states; and it's not all that reliable - the uptime of the Bruce reactors is tolerable if you adopt a flexible definition.
It's not revolutionary, but it does a lot of things right and has more features that what you mentioned above:

* maintains a semaphore of currently processing requests, and will immediately fail a request if the semaphore is full.

* tracks service latency and other statistics for you

* maintains a circuit breaker to immediately fail requests if the breaker is open (based on statistics)

* watches for health to be restored of the 3rd party service and allows requests to it again.

* built in request isolation via threadpools

* built in request collapsing and caching

Overall I like this cause it's a great demonstration of how to think about, and engineer for, failure in a distributed system.
Running fine on my 5 year old laptop.. Taking about 10-30% cpu.

The implementation is short enough to paste in this comment. I find d3.js almost magical. About the closest actionscript toolset would be prefuse flare. D3 was designed as a direct descendant and improvement to that generation of toolkits.
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There was an excellent essay George Orwell wrote in the late 40s titled The Bomb and You. It's on the relationship between technology and the power of individuals vs groups. He talks about how some weapons such as swords took a great deal of training to use well and tended to concentrate power. Other weapons such as muskets brought power to the since they were cheap and easy to use. Many modern weapons such as air craft carriers have been even more concentrating in nature, requiring the resources of a state to construct, but he was initially terrified that the bomb was an exception and would mean the end of civilization.

In time there probably will be something of that destructive power that small organizations or even individuals could create.
@neya Yes, I would like to see an example as well of you doing this in Flash with less lines of code.
I promise to make one with 0 lines of code by tomorrow. Please send me your e-mail, I'll shoot an email once its ready!
There are avenues to acquire Office inexpensively.

* There was a $60 sale on 2007 for students.

* I was able to get a copy of 2010 for $1 for home use because I also use it at work

* You can always purchase a used copy of 2003 for cheap. It's dated, of course, but not really outdated yet.
I thought d3 used SVG, not HTML5
McAffe is not sane. Have you read about how he injected bath salts into his system? Wow!

Looks like too many bath salts have really screwed him up and made him paranoid, as well prompted a murder.
The framerate is abysmal on an iPad3.
Just to back you up on the history side:

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." Thomas Jefferson

"The ordinary subjects of property are well known, and easily conceived... But property, when applied to ideas, or literary and intellectual compositions, is perfectly new and surprising... by far the most comprehensive denomination of it would be a property in nonsense." Lord Gardenston in Hinton vs Donaldson, 1773
> Otherwise your local Toastmaster group is going to be a much more effective way to improve speaking skills.

This is probably accurate, but speaking skills are only part of presentation skills. A lot of what this group will help with is structuring proposals, structuring the actual presentation, working with talk reviewers, understanding CFPs, finding topics, finding audiences for topics, etc.

The mailing list can't help you with your enunciation, but it can help you turn a one paragraph thought into a structured outline.
HYPERsonic means Mach 5.0 or higher

Whoops.
If you explore the topic, there are solid reasons from performance, to vm ports, to readability for why refinements have been curtailed. I'm quite happy with this. The original refinement support would have held ruby back, even if it had its uses.