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I'm going to disagree slightly.

The primary "DRM" in this game is not DRM in the sense of something that attempts to control your computer in such a way as you can not make copies or run an unauthorised version.

The DRM here is about moving game logic to a server under EA's control. I think this is the correct way to do DRM in that it works and does not require locked down client platforms or invasive rootkits.

I would much prefer to pay for something as a service than have some third party try and take control of my computer. After all, people don't complain about 37 signals , google or World of warcraft for their business models which essentially amount to the same sort of "DRM".

The issues here seem to be that:

EA didn't plan for the demand and make sure that enough servers were available.

Since there is no monthly service fee, there will come a point at which it is no longer economical for EA to run the servers. This will make the game unplayable unless there is some plan by which they will release the server software for download after X years.

There are certain expectations built around the SimCity brand, mainly that the games have high and timeless replayability and that they can be played in isolation. I wonder if the game had been named "Simcity online" would have changed the reception?
So the typical experience is a "conversation dominated by awkward-to-arrogant, entitled males..."?

How is that not sexist? It's like someone saying gender (female) studies classes are filled with by stupid-to-ignorant, entitled females.
As a teacher, I'm somewhat sad that text will be less important, but I can't say that I blame Facebook for emphasizing images over words. While it might be nice to tell 7th graders that they should be able to write because the internet is based on text, it's always been true that any day that might change. And it isn't like writing skills will be less important, just harder to explain to insular children of the middle class.
The sun below the horizon is still a source of diffuse light, the crystal is used to find the angle to a source of light and in northern latitudes with long twilights the sun produces a glow long after it has set.

See: http://www.livescience.com/16831-viking-sunstone-crystal-com...
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I dunno. The videos don't even work on my Windows machine, as I don't have Flash installed over there. If I wanna see promotional videos, I run on over to Youtube.
Because for some people it might actually be worth it to buy a $200 and pay $60+ dollars a month for a more premium service, than $600 and $30+ for a cheaper deal.

Outlawing locking phones would drive phone prices up, I'd think.
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Yes that's exactly. you got it right,If you are JS developer, you still need to learn about "understand $scope and $resource, $http etc," features.

If you feel my comment about Angular is completely Unfair, I agree with you and will delete it. But here is my argument.

Why Angular is not Javascript:

1) The code written in Angular javascript gets compiled into javascript.

2) Tough to extend Angular and implement features that are not supported by Angular. Please Try adding new features on your own, then you will feel the pain.

3) Mixing bindings between the markup and script is not a good way to add bindings. Bindings should not be mixed with Markup (Unobtrusive JavaScript).

4) I felt Google is doing the same mistake they did with "GWT". They are not thinking in terms of issues faced by other JS developers, That is why jQuery is still pretty popular (Plugin based approach)

While developing client side app, each requirement is completely different and you really don't need a framework to address all this. But you need libraries like Backbone, jQuery ...etc as per the requirement and backed by open source . This is why, i love Backbone,jQuery ..etc

I worked on 4 applications with each having its own simplicity and complexity that uses Backbone. Never faced any issues, Community is very supportive.

If you have done R&D on JS MVC and like Angular than Backbone JS (Ember JS always confuses me too), Please continue with your work. Because there is always a nicer way of doing things in Client side :).

P.S Here is one of my project in Backbone JS (https://github.com/pradeepin2/bbquiz)

Please share your toughts, Why you prefer Backbone JS over Angular JS ? It will be very helpful.
Former game-dev here: Simulation programming is one of the most viable exits for developers looking to get away from the game space.
I suspect this is a consequence of this not being an existing battleground and there being a small core of people intensely interested enough to help write legislation supported by a broad enough base to convince legislators that they can buy some votes at the polls by supporting this. The only people who will pay attention to it are those who might sign the petition, or the cell phone companies.

Obscure special interest issues are easier to detect constituent consensus and come to agreement on in general.
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Also, once I clicked the link to your About page on the left, the only way to navigate back to the post was to refresh the page...
I like the categories that created via filters. Try clicking edit on Skim HN. It drills down into HN than just the front page. Also, the lessmeme.com is a filter for excluding links that are also were on Techmeme.

It'll be cool to have some filtering capabilities in a native HN application. As much as I like the HTML & web, I also like using native OS X apps.
I've got to add that this is pretty much how Intel's x86 processors were reverse engineered [1] for use in Soviet IBM PC clones like Poisk [2]. Most resources on the Web talk about clones of CPUs up to and including the 80286 but I am told there was at least one successful attempt at cloning an earlier version of the 80386. The smaller sub-1 µm process used by Intel for later 80386 and 80486 units proved too much, however.

[1] http://www.cpu-world.com/info/exUSSR-chips.html

[2] http://www.oldcomputermuseum.com/poisk.html
I'm yet to see any of these command line tips show (GNU) tar with the -a (--auto-compress) tag

# compress a file, tar will automatically compress it according to the file extension you use
tar -caf archive.tar.gz file1 file2 ...

# extract a file, again tar will automatically pass it through the right decompression program
tar -xaf archive.tar.gz
In order to regain trust in banking, what is needed is a real change in culture, embedding integrity and eradicating the 'what can I get away with’ attitude. - Iain Coke, Head of Financial Services Faculty, Institute of Chartered Accountants (UK), September 2012. As quoted in http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/libor-scandal/9574676/Lib...

We need to rethink as a society what banks are for, what exchanges are for, and what clearing houses are for. If they are for the profit of the few at the expense of the many now, that is because it is the business model we have permitted. If banks, markets and clearing are protected because they have a social function, we should make certain that social function is adding value. If it isn't, then we need some new models and some new rules. - The London Banker, July 2012. http://londonbanker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/lies-damn-lies-an...
I can't speak to anything like IP or user agent, but they're not doing anything with cookies. You can put their JS code:

https://js.stripe.com/v1/

Into a JavaScript beautifier:

http://jsbeautifier.org/

And see that there's no mention of cookies at all, and, their server won't see cookies from another domain.
According to the Wikipedia article on the Iceland spar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_spar): "Further research in 2011 by Ropers et al., confirms that identifying the direction of the sun to within a few degrees in both cloudy and twilight conditions was possible using the sunstone and the naked eye." So it could probably work closely after sunset or before sunrise, but not at night.
Yes I think we have decoded their lingo.
I'm curious what reply you had gotten about their 1,000 startup initiative. Have the filled all the slots?
Is linode announcing their own netblocks under their own ASN, though? My impression has been that you have more diversity of immediate upstreams than linode...
Who are you friending that is reposting spam?

That's the real WTF
It looked like maps from GTA
>Because for some people it might actually be worth it to buy a $200 and pay $60+ dollars a month for a more premium service, than $600 and $30+ for a cheaper deal.

So have an early termination fee that constitutes the amount of the subsidy on the phone.
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At this point we need to be more worried about the economic consequences of the next crisis big banks will create. Compared to that danger, I think the breaking the banks one is pretty minimal.
I do not think that this paper proves anything about Viking navigation.

While the researchers seem to have been able to prove that the found crystal is Iceland spar, it was recovered from a Elizabethan shipwreck in the English channel from 1592, centuries after the magnetic compass started being used in Europe. While other articles on the topic claim that they suggest that sunstones would have been destroyed in Viking burials, I think that the lack of similar crystals from known Viking ruins is troublesome.
Nice. First 3D-printed replica wins my vote as a teaching aid and generally cool retro hack. We need more of this offline tech stuff.

Combine a compass and other navigational tools, and I see an interesting evolution as a sort of retro, creative-commons, git-forkable hacker-army object.
A much better fix for this is actually shorter than the proposed legislation. All you need is to add one line to DMCA 1201 that says it doesn't apply in the absence of infringement or to tools that have significant uses other than infringement.
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It's pretty much how modern ASICs are reverse-engineered today - mainly for patent infringement investigation.
>PHP frameworks (I don’t want to talk about the last one)

In an article about web programming languages.. really?
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Here's a thought: if you can't get your act together with servers during a launch, stagger the launch. IE, when you buy your game, you have a place in a queue, and when there is enough server capacity to support you, you are let into the system. That way, you can change gamers expectations such that they are being let into an exclusive party, not that the game that they purchased is defective.
Isn't this what paypal does? If so aren't paypal dealing with fraud as well?
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off topic..but does Amazon hardware department need people? I have a cool phone/tablet design..a convertible 5" phone that can turn into a 7" tablet.
Incredibly cool! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the explanation. I've also been using v1.1.1 for a while now and the release notes weren't particular enlightening as to the differences. I don't plan on changing our workflow since it's working and tested, but I did change the link to the JS file from our servers to yours.
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It's not bad but it feels too formal and restrictive. 23rd rule is that there are no rules for an author to create something really great.
I think some of the argument against this, is (per those making it, and I find myself in some agreement) that you are locked (obligated) to the contract, regardless of what you do to the phone.

One use case for unlock-at-will (or no lock) proponents: The user is in the U.S. and has a GSM phone. The user travels to Europe. Roaming rates on that GSM phone are very expensive. If the phone is unlocked, the user can purchase a European SIM and take advantage of local, European rates (probably using a "preloaded"/"reloadable" cash-balance SIM).

The user is still paying his US$60/month or whatever on his home contract. S/he is merely avoiding high roaming rates while traveling, without having to purchase a "disposable" phone that 1) Probably has less capable physical specifications and does not have any of the user's data; 2) Is more likely to be discarded and become a disposal problem / waste at the end of the trip.

Unlocking is not just or primarily about post-contract use, nor is it about escaping a contract without compensating the provider for the unpaid portion of their subsidy. It's about being able to use the phone the way you want, once and as the obligations one has committed to have been met.

And... it potentially helps the waste stream / disposal problem, by allowing the transfer of older devices to other parties who may be happy to use them, effectively extending their useful lifetime while avoiding now unnecessary production of additional units.
I explain this in a comment that's a bit further down the page but here it is in a nutshell:

* You're right that this is very similar to our previous offering. At its core, the encryption logic is the same.

* While both libraries offer an object which will encrypt your data, that's literally all our previous offering did. New helpers used in conjunction with data attributes eliminate the need to write custom onSubmit handlers, making your integration far simpler.

* We host the JavaScript, making linking directly to it an option.

These things make our JavaScript library substantially easier to use. That, plus the fact that we now recommend Braintree.js over Transparent Redirect motivated us to rebrand it.
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You wonder if it could help other things, I know Steve Jobs was a proponent of taking it to expand ones mind...
We use this where I work. Passed several million dollars through it last year. Works pretty good.
It is very different and that is exactly the point. Experiments are not supposed to mimic the natural condition in which an effect is found, they are supposed to isolate the effect being tested and eliminate all confounding variables.

It might be the case that the "sense of being stared at" is real but it could easily be a combination of ordinary senses. By isolating the confounding variables scientists can determine whether this is an independent effect.
Fair concerns. An interesting and not entirely unrelated tangent is that of the nearby Basques. In Salt: A World History, Mark Kurlansky presents a theory that the Basques preserved their ancient and linguistically disconnected culture by bartering salt-preserved fish gained from the vast stocks on the Atlantic coast as protein stocks to neighbouring peoples during the European winters. Evidence of such tools may lend some further support to this theory.

(Edit: I just noticed he has also written The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation... that's definitely on my list now!)
I just signed up to post this comment and upvote, out of sheer excitement. I also upvoted Stripe.I was blown away by Stripe's dead simple API, I mean they put it right in your face, and it works.

However, the deal breaker for me was Braintree's two business day payout. I hope this still applies for Braintree.js. However, if somebody can convince me otherwise then I'm willing to listen. I'm just super stoked for both services.

Also it seems that Braintree has much more experience and established. If it's good for 37signals, it's good enough for me.
In US, at the beginning of XXth century Stanley Kaplan had the similar admission problems. This experience motivated him to start Kaplan SAT preparation business. Few decades later it evolved into Kaplan Inc. (includes Kaplan University).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kaplan
Your probably right, but maybe if you are doing all the calculations for everyone in one place you can start to make large scale use of dynamic programming techniques over time?
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Employee evaluation forms is not a good metric to evaluate performance?
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US senator talks for 13 hours to pressure Obama over drone strikes.
Well all physical systems are actually nonlinear; linearity is something we use when we can.

I would call those types of nonlinear control toy problems compared with nonlinear systems like the climate or society. But agree that we just don't know the equations or the variables.

I still would argue that at least with many nonlinear systems, they are intrinsically unpredictable the farther into the future you go because of their sensitivity to initial conditions, self-organization and nonlinear internal dynamics.

I'm referring to the statistical long tail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail

For more details:

http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~aaronc/courses/7000/csci7000-001_...
Thanks to the OP for posting this. I want to read it to my kids, so they understand how lucky and spoiled we are.

I think the persecution of the Jews in any culture is wrong.

And so is the persecution of any religion.

I think the freedom of religion, including the right to pray in schools, on T.V. and radio, in government, etc. is a freedom that the U.S. was not only founded on, but what people have died for, and I am grateful for that.

I'm glad that things have changed in the former Soviet countries. I wish that things weren't changing for the worse here.

I have to put up with people telling me about "separation of church and state", which was never meant to be interpreted as it is today. If you can have atheism practiced in schools and taught by teachers, I should be able to have prayer in schools and religion taught by teachers. That is separation of church and state. No one should tell me what I can or cannot do as long as I'm not impeding others' freedoms and pursuit of happiness.

And I put up with my government that:

* attempts to restrict our freedoms in the name of protection

* tries to act in our best interest, but never actively asks what our best interests are

But, we are spoiled. I'll take my every phone call and Google search being scanned by the U.S. over the crap people had to put up with in the Soviet Union before.
> evolved into Kaplan Inc. (includes Kaplan University).

And now it's a scam so that the Washington Post Company can receive money from federal student loans.
But that would annoy some groups they don't want to annoy.

Instead, they are doing the smallest and least objectionable thing possible, in an attempt to stunt any legislative momentum around his broader initiative.

This is how the game is played. Now he has to make a move to try to either broaden a political coalition (he has the industry part down) to go further than what the administration explicitly supported, and deal with the silent but definitely existing industry coalition that is opposing it, or accept the smaller "fix" and use it to establish the legitimacy of his advocacy efforts, and save the actual legislative fight for a time when their isn't as much industry opposition.

Despite what folks here may think of congress in general and their intelligence, they are usually quite good at politics, or they would not be playing at this level.
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I'm sure the supercomputing community would love to hear how communication costs and Amdahl's law are pretty trivial.
Should be useful when playing family feud. ;)
I doubt they are using EC2, probably buying servers in bulk from IBM or whoever.

When you centralise you also have other advantages, such as being able to cache the results of previous computations. So if you can structure the computations in such a way as to be fully or partially reusable you can memoize and scale much better.
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Go is very similar to Limbo. Seriously, really similar, because some of the same people wrote both.

Limbo is a programming language that compiles to instructions for the Dis VM, which is what runs the Inferno operating system.

Inferno came about as a way to use some of the good ideas from Plan 9 in other devices, such as telephones and set-top boxes.
Apple has silently removed creating itunes account without credit cards
Thank you for posting this. I like such stories, even though I have never been to the former USSR. I once was working with an (incredibly skilled) C++ guy who was a former officer/engineer in the Soviet army. He told me similar stories.

Apparently one day he had to take an examination. What they did was an army radio transmitter, an AK47 machine gun, and they shoot some holes in it. Then they handed it to him and said: Fix it.

Another story he told me was about a friend who was in the submarine navy. Days before his university courses would start they got an order to go on patrol. And then he was underwater for a year instead.

Also the stories how new soldiers were assigned to bases thousands of miles away from home, apparently so they don't desert and go home etc.

I find all that very interesting. It's so different from my experience in (West-) Germany. Everything was easy in comparison here.
I see that you are not a risk taker.
When you figure out how to 3d print a birefringent material, let me know. In fact, when you get a hobby-grade 3d printer to print something you can actually see through, let me know.
tried doing it from my iphone and iTunes on my mac, registering without credit card is not possible, one addition is paypal integration.

so even if you want to use only free apps, you need to have a credit card now.

I was creating this account as I wanted to download Fitbit app which is not available on Indian app store
Actually... here's the hockey version: http://vimeo.com/57632265
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> I'd argue that NULL is, from a logical perspective, the single most broken feature of SQL.

It is worse than that: it's a feature of the underlying relational theory by Codd.
Yea, that isn't it at all. Pandora has been on the brink of bankruptcy for years. This is a new start to try and make the business work by figuring out their licensing cost structure.
There a lot of movies available via YouTube...me thinks lobbying helps.
Very funny, LOL :). Answer these simple questions with out googling (Be honest :)) and score 80% to get a reply from me.

1) Is MVC an OOP concept ?

2) Is JS an Classical or Functional language ?

3) How does JS support Closures ?

4) What is Unobtrusive JavaScript and why its so popular ?

5) Is it necessary to add declarations in markup or templates to implement bindings in client side ?

6) Differences between Model Backed View and Markup Driven views ?

7) which should be fat in MVC model or controller ?

8) How does multiple controllers in JS MVC App are controlled?

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Your dream about opening apps with URL is already true for many apps. E.g. the URL
yelp:///search?terms=karaoke will open the page you used as an example in the native Yelp app on iOS. See http://handleopenurl.com/ for more examples.
LIFX gets all the love these days but there are actually quite a few other projects along the same lines.

Visualight: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leifp/visualight is another crowdfunded project and is Open Hardware.

Spark Socket:
http://www.sparkdevices.com/ takes a slightly different approach and you probably can guess, puts the intelligence in the socket separate from the bulb.

Bluetooth bulb: http://www.blueclickhome.com

Greentech 6LoWPAN based system: http://www.greenwavereality.com/solutions/connected-lighting...

Light by Moore's Cloud:
http://moorescloud.com/ - A larger ambient display.
Westwood was failing and wasn't going to survive on it's own. It's a sad fact but EA bought them up in order to save the franchises and the jobs of many developers.