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True.. moreover with 160GB of drive space, it should hold all my music and videos :)

Infact, since it is networked nicely, it should be easy to control it from a wifi enabled handheld device
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And remember its the Atom that it's packed with. Feedback from EEE users have been that video playback is pretty decent
I do. Google Chrome and Safari both open PDFs very smoothly on Windows. Even in Firefox I am not sure Scribd is an improvement over opening plain PDF (it shows a progress indicator, but it might as well take more time to open in total).
The advantage of using the app store micropayments is that users don't have to create a new account somewhere and put their account info in your app. They can use an existing system and have a one-click buy option.

It'd be interesting to see what will result in more profits. My guess would be that the increased sales on the iPhone outweigh the higher profit margin with the alternatives. This depends on your costs too of course (e.g. copyright fees for eBooks)
I think they should have taken this alternate Open path and coupled it with business-as-usual in the rest of the organization.

So they lose revenues in the normal part of Sun because those customers now pickup their SW for nothing essentially, and instead of Sun then laying off employees, they are shifted into services. One area goes down, another goes up.

Hardware at Sun then becomes less focused on manufacturing, and more about building a community of external implementors by providing good HW designs and support.

I'm thinking theoretically.
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All I can say is Timer Warner / AOL. Not a popular opinion, but I really hope Sun dies. I'm probably not up to snuff on their product lines, but I know they've developed and promoted the atrocity that is Java and I think they're quickly killing Mysql. IBM, on the other hand, has proven itself as a company that can reinvent itself over and over and have been doing some very cool things. They're one of the few classic companies that still do actual long term R&D without the requirements that they crank new products out in the next 2 years. It would be really bad for them to buy Sun.
Sun has some amazing engineering staff. They produced such wonders as Dtrace, Sparc, and ZFS. If IBM were to buy them and take the good portions it would be a huge boon to IBM, Open Source and the software/computing community.
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Sun was undervalued and even at the price IBM appears to be offering, Sun is a good value.

Why? Sun still has elaborate R&D, strong balance sheet, multiple revenue streams. Granted, it had overpaid for many acquisitions(I am looking at you MySQL) and hasn't figured out exactly how to leverage all that OSS into income.
It appears too awkward to use as an interactive shell, and looks more like an alternative to perl or python --- what advantages does it have over them?
I have a few problems with this. Their attempt to block wikileaks is so that no one can see the URLs they blocked. This is a bit of nonsense - no one can argue for the websites - so in effect they can block everything they want.

If they have a judge that decides which URLs are blocked maybe it would be right.

> The news comes after web forum Whirlpool was threatened with the fine for posting a hyperlink to a blacklisted anti-abortion website.

Hmmm... Why? Can they at least give a reason why a site was banned (except promoting a dissenting view)?
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Lawn Chair Larry is the man. What a brilliant yet completely insane idea!

I especially like the part (not sure if it was mentioned in the Wiki article) where commercial airliners were reporting a man in a lawn chair at 15,000 feet. I would have loved to be eavesdropping on some of those cockpit discussions. Hey Bob! Say! Is that a man in a lawn chair over there next to that cloud? Whah?

If I'm not mistaken, they've started an annual race or something in his name.
Not yet! Crikey, give it a day or two.

Although, I have used it quite a bit to look up contacts, and to search for an email. I found the email search a bit wanting though.

Overall a huge improvement, I just wish i could press cmd-space to activate it.
As much as I love his enthusiasm and balls for going on the show, he was pretty terrible. Still good to see 'one of our own' up there! Kudos.
What should IBM do with the Sun brand once it cherry-picks all the good parts?
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It seems some people[1] actually manage to live off of donations, others from ads on their games' homepage, direct download[2] sales and so on.

But these all seem like fairly unlikely ways to actually make enough money to live off of.

Does somebody here actually make a living as an indie game dev? Any tips for motivated young programmers trying to break into the field?

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[1] http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=31614

[2] E.g. Steam, direct2drive, etc..
Can you click a button and make Google index new content on your site?

Do you use Google video search before you use Youtube?
On one hand, people despise services that start out free and turn to be completely paid, but on the other hand, they appreciate services that start our free and later introduce some paid services WHILE still continuing to offer the existing services for free.
Dtrace is an incredibly technology. Debugging performance problems in production is literally a dream come true.
It's really cool that he's able to make a successful living making indie games, but it definitely is a labor of love. So far, he hasn't broken even on it, and it's a two year old game. He spent around 120k, and made around 116k.

It really looks like it needs some more promotion though. He said that the original game sold a lot of copies on other sites. But this one was just released on his site, and mainly marketed by word of mouth.
I've put small/niche little projects out the door with less than $500K of my own money, and I've seen hardware startups blow $40M with nothing to show for it.

I didn't give the full breakdown, but the numbers I used above also take into account that you're building an actual company. Where you're paying people vs. having people work in their spare time, and you have other overhead (rent, etc.). Also accounting for a moderate PR and tradeshow budget, which would all be typical if you're trying to build a Consumer Electronics product, even with the ref. designs and such out there today.

There are a lot of variables involved, and a lot of places to save money. Prior experience on your team also works in your favor.
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Principle probably doesn't come into play when the majority of people want to consume or share information in the form of text, video and imagery. Using Scribd or Youtube is very much a proof that people have found an easy way to share their information. It seems you're confusing "don't know how" with "aren't doing it while abiding by the principles they should have".

I agree with what you wrote yesterday concerning weights and measures. "Leave people to use what they want to use."
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Haven't there been recurrent musings on Hacker News about getting a bunch of friends together and buying up a whole city block in Detroit?

Wow. I remember discussing that exact idea with a hacker colleague back in probably 1995 or so.

Buy a block. Fix it up. Surround with barbed wire fence.

I friend of mine that I haven't caught up with for about 10 years now owned 4 houses on Appoline last I knew. He probably owns at least a dozen now. He had them setup almost like "rooms". One had the PC and TV on the first floor and a gym in the basement. He "lived" in another, one was for his mom, and the other for a cousin.
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I just finished reading it as well. He plays the same abusive games with stats and data that he does in his other books ("science by anecdote", if you will), but it's still a good read.

There's a lot to be said for talent and hard work, but there's even more to be said about circumstance.
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+ No it's not, it's just resting.

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+ It's pining for the fjords.

... etc.
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Java is strong (while not most 'hacker's cup of tea) large amounts of buisnesses like it. I could see IBM cleaning up some of the less pleasant sides of it and continuing to support it slash push it under the Sun brand.

If they were to rebuild the Sparc line this could also be done under the Sun brand. I could see rebuilding sparc to be useful particuarlly in response to the latest Intel AMD debacle. If they made something like KVM (kernel virtual machines) more strongly built into the hardware this would likewise help them push the line.

IBM is a smart company, they could definitely create a decent buisness plan to use Sun to their advantage.
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"I am confused about how foreign banks got stung, what with all their superior regulation and all."

Foreign banks had subsidiaries in the US or UK which could participate in unregulated derivatives trading.

Isn't that what happened in the famous 1995 collapse of Barings Bank as well? Enormous losses from speculative trading were made in the Singapore market by the local branch of Barings, which led to the insolvency of the entire UK-based bank.
I'm aware that there was a discussion about the other extreme on HN a month ago -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482257 -- but I need to vent off a little. Forgive me if I go off on a tangent.

I've recently graduated from a high school in India and I haven't spent a day thinking about how idiotic the education system is here. I wish I could have been a part of a culture that encouraged well-roundedness and recognized passionate kids, rather than one that exclusively rewarded academic performance. Having spent some time at an elementary school both in the US and in India, I can assure you that there is a great disparity in pedagogy even at that level.

My school wouldn't give a rat's ass about those who didn't get awesome grades. And doing so required one to allocate a disproportionate amount of time to rote learning. I would always rather spend time hacking (and perhaps slacking), like I have being doing ever since I was 8.

It's hilarious to see what gets passed for extracurricular activities here. All "club presidents" are just required to set up a 15 minute inter-house quiz containing 10 or so questions.

For four straight years, I was never picked by my teachers to be president/secretary of the computer club, even though I was known by my peers as "the comp guy", and had won competitions, etc., etc.. Some four random sycophants who got better grades than we were chosen instead. The shit really hit the fan last year, and my parents decided to talk to the principal about this. The principal was overly defensive, and said the faculty was looking for "leadership qualities" (for conducting a stupid quiz, yeah right). Of course, they never did anything in the first place to create these "leadership qualities". A month later, during a parent-teacher meeting, my parents and I were taken to the principal, who blamed my parents for making me a complete introvert. She couldn't see that possibly the school's fault, considering that I had been there for 11 years. And whenever I've won some sort of a competition, teachers would tell me "you're wasting my time, and shouldn't have any hobbies at this young an age". I've qualified for my country's training camp for the IOI this year, and I'm fairly confident I will get a medal. Will any Indian college notice this? Nope. Hell, even my school won't notice that.

Thankfully, I have parents who can afford to send me to a college in the US. I've been accepted by some decent but not-so-selective public universities, but I don't think the really good schools will admit me, because I have mediocre grades and no "leadership qualities", and I respect their decision: in this discussion, brandnewlow has reassured that the admissions process, despite a few idiosyncrasies, is pretty good. Plus, there isn't really much of a cut-throat competition for getting admission. Hell, I learned a lot just by applying. For instance, writing a few essays, showing them to others for advice on how to improve them, and repeatedly editing and proofreading them were things I had never done before.

Sorry for this terribly incoherent rant.
Wow. That's pretty cool. We already have one webcam in one office but for the other office I might recommend this. Cheers Steve0.

Barring an IP webcam do you have any other suggestions?
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"basically get $.98 per REC that you make"

Okay, so this comment made me actually go and dig into the site. I think this is a perfect lesson in marketing. The front page of AmieStreet says absolutely nothing about the rewards program, it only mentions the variable pricing. Even when you click into "How it works", you have to click on "Rewards" specifically (and you can't click the big picture marked "Rewards", you have to click the small text in the sidebar), and then the description of how it works is confusing (do I have to buy a song to Rec it?).

Compare that to popcuts: on the front page, in big red letters "Buy a song. Get paid everytime it sells again."

Anyways, even now knowing how it works, I still think AmieStreet gets it wrong. The whole point of the market-based approach should be to incentivize buying in the long-term. AmieStreet only incentivizes it early, and it encodes directly in the price information about whether or not I should buy. If the price is already higher, why would I buy? I know that I'm not going to make any additional money off the song, and I feel bad because I didn't discover this music (I'm a follower, late to the party, the greatest sin of being a music tastemaker).
It looks quite good if you view it as returning somewhere between 35-50% per year on invested capital. However, it's hard to guess what shelf life of the product will be.
The SR-71 used something similar to go supersonic,

'After take off and the top up the Blackbird will perform a manoeuvre called the Dipsy Doodle, here it passes mach 1 by a climb to 33,000ft followed by a sharp dive to allow the aircraft to traverse high drag transonic range without using a lot of fuel. The aircraft will then climb to at least 60,000 ft.'

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_blackbird.html
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IBM has the POWER lineage of RISC CPUs for servers, which has consistently beaten Sparc in benchmarks for at least the past eight years or so. POWER also has the advantage of having a shared ISA (and thus shared R&D) with IBM's PowerPC-based mainstream products, e.g. the CPUs used in Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Thus I think that Sparc will be among the first casualties if this merger goes through.
It's been suggested they were doing some sort of ESN sniffer attack to try to clone and steal a cell phone's ESN to make illegal calls. The area they were driving through is filled with apartment complexes with lots of college-age folk in them, so I imagine there were a lot of cell phones active at the time. After that it drifts into espionage sort of things or cyber attacks, but I don't even have an explanation for why or how those would work.
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What kind of games do you want to make?
For web based games there really seem to be three models ad supported like urban dead, freemium like mech quest, and portal paid like anything on Yahoo games.

In non web games it seems to mostly be try to get carried by enough third party distributors to make enough money at the 10-20 dollar price point.
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For arguments sake, if sho had 10gb of <7yo children in sexual acts distributed amongst photos and videos on his computer, would he be guilty in your opinion? Sho - I would like to hear from you too.
2 points, based on personal experience: One, particularly in PhD programs, faculty must ultimately associate itself somehow with the student. And not as an institution but as an individual professor, as supervisor or co-supervisor of the thesis. The places are fewer. The demand on the time of the professor is higher, per head. So there is virtually no room for "legacy" or "bring home the doughnuts" type of admissions. Think about it: the professor must ultimately sign his name on that kid's thesis or, even more publicly, publish together. Perhaps some professor profits individually and then makes a strong case for such a student because he figures his reputation is worth X amount or because he thinks the student is OK anyway, but institutionally I'd say no.
Two, in master's programs, the likelihood of such admissions is higher. And within master's programs, I'd say MBA has a pretty high incidence. But don't forget, in particular in this setting, MBAs are not there for "education" in terms of books or skills or intellect. It's there for making connections. And so, legacy "kids" are kind of legitimate because they bring, almost by definition, already a very valuable asset with them.
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Geneforge, and Avernum servies of games are extremely good. If you are an RPG fan and havent played them, you are missing something.
(though I am pretty sure if Jeff did not make these games, my GPA in college would have been much higher)
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I know I said I was done, but, you know... someone is wrong on the internet.

You seem to be of the opinion that Twitter's purpose is to "post short messages".

Um, yes. Because it is. And yes, that's why people use Twitter, along with the fact that a bunch of other people use Twitter (which would go away if they shut their doors, wouldn't it? So that bit's kind of irrelevant in the context of this imaginary scenario).

Also: You agree with this, go back to the part of this thread where you said "Twitter provides a very simple way to pass along messages."

Now I'm done, for realz.
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These people will find a good home elsewhere. Sun, as a company, has been floundering since the dot com crash. Their most popular stuff is free and many people choose cheap linux boxes over heavy duty sun boxes. The investment bank I used to work for is a good example of the heavy computing world dropping Sun.

A merge with IBM would solidify their irrelevance if you ask me...
The biggest problem I see with intercepting a SR-71, is not getting another plane up to the same sort of altitude but getting the plane in the right piece of the sky, taking the wikipedia stats as an example, Mach 3.2 (2,200+ mph, 3,530+ km/h,1900 knots+) at 80,000 ft (24,000 m), if your interceptor take 2 minutes to get up to 80,000 ft, even doing some sort of zoom climb your aiming at a point 73 miles in front of the SR-71 position at take off, and I would expect the real world time to be longer from detection to interceptor at altitude. So you could only do it with a large radar network to track the SR-71 plus airbase in front of the current flightpath.

Then even if you did launch a missile it would not have an easy job of hitting the target
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Most of the 120K was his salary, so just breaking even is a significant accomplishment.