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It's not about principles, it's about economics.

This is a matter of price discrimination. Nvidia wants to be sure they have a chance to sell their gear to every single person who has money to spend on graphics cards at a range of price points.

Consumers have smaller wallets than professionals, but both have similar needs. So the company performs a "hack" that allows them to extract maximum revenues from each segment.

Let's take this to an absurd extreme. Sennheiser did this by crippling their low-end headphones with a piece of foam to limit audio quality. Savvy audiophiles simply popped open the cans and removed the foam. No quibble with that, right?

For me, companies have every right to practice price discrimination by fiddling with their hardware. And I think consumers have every right to mod that hardware. A few tinkerers are unlikely to break a meticulous price discrimination model like Nvidia's, and I think it's probably a net win for the company to have a chunk of their userbase who love them so much all they want to do is tinker in this way.
Does anyone want to apply to YC with a novel idea: make computers for people who make money using computers?

I actually thought about this. A nice, rugged computer with a good keyboard, sturdy construction, great pointing stick hardware and 16:10 display.

All of which ThinkPad just isn't right now.

Unfortunately, my financial options and also my experience is very limited in this regard. If anyone proposes a project like this on Kickstarter, I'll be the first to throw money at it.
It is great that you have realized your time is precious.

This realization can be paralyzing -- you might start over-thinking everything trying to make up for lost time. Don't do this. Sometimes there are no shortcuts in life. And trying to take one could actually take longer.

The good news is that you are interested in doing things and are willing to give it a serious try. Just pursue your new interests without worrying about your "lost" time. If you can immerse yourself, you will catch up sooner than you think.

Taking a data structures CS is a good starting point :)
The first two examples are examples of incompetence on the part of web developers, not Firefox developers.

A website breaks with images turned off? It's a broken website. Websites are supposed to work with images turned off. That's one of the first things a web developer learns.

A website breaks without Javascript? It's a broken website. Websites are supposed to work without Javascript.

We sorted all this out when the hot technologies were ActiveX, VBScript, Java, and Flash. If a web site requires anything more than plain HTML+CGI for its core functionality, it is either broken or it is not a website.
I've never seen or heard of these before. They have a decent number of locations (one is quite close to where I live). I'm not sure why they are not pushing this harder. Having to pick up a parcel from their stores between 9 - 5, monday to friday is the only painful part of using AusPost.
Stop it. Christ, life is what you make of it now. So yeah, you cod have done this or that. Doesn't matter. What matters is what ou do from now on. Where do you want to be in the next 5 years? Get busy. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Get some discipline going and just plow through. The only difference between people that get shit down and those who whine about their past is that the doers do. It's your choice.
Is this basically BufferBox but in Australia?
That is a good point. Something I really wouldn't have even thought of before even though I knew about the hard drives part.

In the post he says:
"the GTX 690 and the Quadro K5000 (same GPU) and, get this... the K5000 is only single GPU and clocked some 25-30% slower then the gaming card, what a joke"

so wouldn't it be downgrading the card to make it usable on linux? maybe not idk much about linux, drivers, hardware etc.
Looks like it.
For reference, Australia Post is the equivalent to the USPS.
Great information. You increased my knowledge and my appetite.

I'd say that the computer code analogy is how most people understand DNA: a set of constants with values. This is how DNA is generally portrayed.
> If the company you store your wallet with is hacked you lose everything, if your laptop is stolen or your dropbox account is hacked... it's as safe as keeping cash in your apartment. If your bank fucks up your money is (almost always) insured.

What unthinking person leaves his bitcoins with a third party or on a computer? Would you leave your RL wallet with a stranger? Would you leave something easily stolen in public?

Store bitcoins in a paper wallet until you need to use them. They'll never get lost or stolen unless one is just as careless with the paper as they might be with their live keys.
So how big are these NEOs anyway?
> I am rooting for Dell here. Now when Lenovo is gone, their Precision series is probably the closest one to take advantage of this.

I love the Precision line. If only they made a 14" laptop... I would never buy ThinkPads again.
All this talk of chemical drinks and medical foods and intermittent fasting reminds me of the saying about another diet regimen: "Do vegetarians live longer, or does it just feel that way?"
When "binning" refers to the practice of putting premium prices on parts that test as being capable of operating at higher clock speeds or lower voltages, that's good for the consumer. When it refers to die harvesting - selling the chip with a defective section disabled - that's also good for the consumer. When it refers to crippling a chip that has already passed QA, it's a symptom of insufficient competitive pressure. The best example of this is when Intel offered a $50 software upgrade that would enable HyperThreading and more CPU cache. What NVidia is doing here probably isn't as bad - the premium associated with Tesla and Quadro parts goes toward driver features and QA that is irrelevant to the consumer market.
It seems every company screws up on binning, sometimes repeatedly. AMD and Intel and nVidia have had 're-binning' issues on a lot of hardware.
Unfortunately, the "great pointing stick hardware" will likely run into some IBM patents. None of the other machines with pointing sticks have ever been able to get the same natural response as a TrackPoint, I believe partly because of these patents.

What a deal: Lenovo doesn't want to make professional machines any more, but they won't likely let anyone else use the TrackPoint patents.
I wouldn't mind being able to purchase the magnet set I played around with.
False.

My mother just passed of cancer, she was on a feeding tube for 8 months consuming this Abott liquid food. It was shipped in cases just like anything else - cardboard boxes - and delivered via foil-boxes just like the portable milk that you see at any starbucks, though it required no refrigeration.

However, this substance was not made for taste buds and it smelled fairly bad.

They have different types depending on what caloric intake was prescribed by the doctor.
It's possible for nvidia to replace the resistors with one-time-programable memory ,and program it at factory. And it's cheap, it's being used in $1 FPGA from silicon blue.

And they'll probably do this in their next chip.
>WIND mobile is the company I'm talking about.

So kind of like I was saying then... their coverage map has more holes than coverage. But they still get to charge about as much as the big players by offering no contracts, and it doesn't break the cartel because customers will never switch to them in large numbers as a result of the poor coverage.

Why do you expect price competition to ever be a profitable strategy in a concentrated market? If you lower your prices to gain market share, so will your competitors, and so lowering prices doesn't actually gain you any share, it just lowers everyone's margins. Nobody has any incentive to be the first to do it.

> If it requires a big player, then a big player will do it. Granted there may be a longer period of suffering.

Maybe if you wait long enough. But if the waiting period is measured using the geological timescale, it may be prudent to weigh other alternatives.
If people hacking their hardware were a significant threat to the practice of binning, hardware manufacturers could simply make it more difficult and dangerous to hack.
Get your parents involved. Don't bring anyone in just yet. You are young and have not dealt with too many evil people.
Overall, have fun. This is your chance to do something few eer get to enjoy.
Tell HN: Hacker news is now #5 search result for "hn" on Google
This is down from #1 last week. As a person usually getting to HN through Google search, it's hard not to notice.
I actually used a Toshiba Tecra a long time ago (circa 2005) that had a pointing stick with response very close to a TrackPoint.

I don't think it would be impossible; only difficult.
hey ronan =)

I just came here to say the same thing. However, I dont think Drupal is right for most small projects either.

I think Drupal's ideal use case is when you have a small community site where you will have many people creating and curating content.

Anything smaller, and you can probably get away with Jekyll or some other static site generator. Anything bigger, and you need to look at building a custom app in django, rails or my current fav.. node.js.
I'm 30 and I wish I could say I spent the last 9 years of my life programming in an obsolete language, but I didn't even make it that far. I just finally got my first site off the ground a few months ago, and I still have a ton to learn before I could even try to get a job as a developer.

In spite of all this, I feel pretty good about the future. You should too.

You can get a world class CS education online, for free. If that's not enough, there are online colleges with decent CS programs. It's not too late.
We unified the clickpad by integrating the trackpoint buttons into the elegant glass touchpad, making it appear even larger and more streamline. The trackpad now has five buttons which you can customize for Windows 8 gestures via the device driver.

Hardcore long-time ThinkPad fan. This breaks the way the computer is used.

I don't even know what I'll do. The only other quality hardware maker I know is Apple.
Because our world is imperfect and justice not always finds the guilty. In this case, his karma finally caught up with him. He was guilty, he behaved like an ass and he got 3.5 years, even though if he didn't he probably would get much less. I can see EFFs point that 3.5 years is too much too, though I personally feel very little sympathy to Auernheimer. If he wises up, he'd be out in less than 2 years probably, if he doesn't, well...
Writing PHP for living? Are you an atheist or a believer?
As stated in Steko's quote above, that costs ~4x as much as soylent. Note also that the numbers for soylent don't include packaging or shipping. If you made a commercial version with preservatives etc. the price might be comparable.
That ugly trackpoint (that red dot in the middle of keyboard) and that extremely irritating swapped position of Fn and Ctrl keys are the two things that keep me away from this otherwise excellent laptop. (Though the Fn and Ctrl keys can now be swapped from BIOS, but why? )
I love MacBooks, but even I am a little disappointed the new ThinkPad is more like a MacBook.
I once saw a networking IC that had a key strap-in pin multiplexed with an indicator LED, so if you wanted to change the brightness of the LED by varying the resistor value, watch out because you'll change the device behaviour! Good times...
There were unlocked lanes as well as the ability to use Quadro firmware with 8800GTS cards (which offered improved IQ in apps like Autodesk 3ds). As you allude to though, I'm pretty sure that the professional workstation cards are of a better binning.
Funny thing about the stickers: my current two ThinkPads (W520 and X220 Tablet) had three stickers each: one was Intel, I think the other was Microsoft, and the last one was Lenovo Enhanced Experience.

The Intel and Microsoft stickers came off easily and cleanly.

(Pro tip: Use the plastic toothpick from a Swiss Army Knife. The flat point is just right to get under the corner of a sticker and lift it loose. Then the rest of the sticker is easy to peel off.)

The Lenovo Enhanced Experience sticker? Quite a bit more tenacious. It was a real pain to get it loose at all, and then it left a bunch of residue behind. Some kind of Enhanced Experience!

I hate stickers.
It's a public issue, so any client who thinks AT&T sucks can go to one of the other providers. What you want, put people that write bad code to jail? You'd need pretty roomy jails then. May as well jail everybody who ever wrote any code at all - some of it most probably is bad.
No, that was not an option because of the track point.

Now that the track point is ruined, it's an option.
Complete agree, also the idea of self hosting content in order to save a few $ is really not something we can ever expect - nor should we ask for it IMO.

One of the best features of the app store is that from the consumers perspective its smooth, reliable and just works. Having lots of "cheap" app developers trying to save $100 / yr by hosting their app bin's themselves could results in an unreliable market place that ultimately drives people away from it.
And another one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395112

Looks like every article on the net about it will get separate topic.
The entire basis of morality is that we're capable of reciprocating our moral duties to each other. Animals can't reciprocate, therefore they're exempt from morality and we're exempt from giving them any moral consideration.
I rebooted mine as well and got @ 2.27 GHz, so I guess that they probably haven't gotten to your server yet.
Disagree. What could you possibly call a computer, that's not just arbitrary and dumb? Yoga is one of the worst names I've ever heard for a computer.
I think people get nervous about talk like this because the "make everything muppet-proof" movement has gotten so much traction in the wake of Android and iOS.

UI designers are empowered, and "power" technical and business users suffer for it. My iPad is easy for my two-year old to use... But it is horrific for more many types of tasks that computer users do every day.

Firefox definitely carries a lot of config legacy... But going too far the other way is dangerous too.
Woman Kills Five People For Not Accepting Her Friend Requests On Facebook
Agreed. Your rationale and mine align, but are in opposition to the person I originally responded to, who suggested a blanked prohibition on violent punishment against non-violent offenders.
Any idea on the licensing issues? It would be great if Google "released" the source.
Of course there's a way to give the item value - pass it to someone who is willing to pay for it with dollars. Likewise, the value of your bartered goods can be calculated on a dollar basis by examining what other people for the same goods. Really, how dumb do people think the IRS are? These are like middle school pranks for getting out of doing your homework.
This was compared to software that ships with all the features but requires a serial number to unlock the good ones. However I think this is different, and I think modifying hardware in this way is considerably more moral than using keygens to unlock software. It's hard to exactly state why I feel that this hardware mod is entirely moral behavior while software piracy is not but it's hard to put my finger on the right words. I think it's possibly something to do with Locke's notion of property rights and how one has an ownership claim to that which he created by his own labor. Am I the only one that feels this way? Sorry to ramble.
Android has none of those monopolies by comparison (although Google Play still appropriates 30%, but at least it's not mandatory to use it)

Developer programs are supposed to be a loss offset by the higher amount of sales of your devices due to having more apps thanks to the developer programs.

Paypal, Stripe, 2checkout etc. process transactions for 2-5.5% fees, not 30% (of course 2-5.5% is also extortionate, but that's mostly due to the VISA/MasterCard duopoly, also very evil, and the horrible idea of credit card chargebacks).

Bandwidth is 0.10$/GB, so it would be another 1% at most for most apps, and doubling and rounding would make 15% the very maximum acceptable cut, with 5-10% a more reasonable one.

But of course most developers are themselves complicit in exploiting the userbase with obscenely pay-to-win games, trivial apps that are $1-2, in-app purchases and more, so they are basically content to share their loot with Apple in exchange for Apple's approval of their dubious practices and protection against their users' attempts to not pay.
One possible future: Bits exist physically on my hardware. I get to twiddle them however I want. Furthermore, I can speak freely about having done so.

This reality is at least partly responsible for the emergence of software as a service. Can't crack what you don't have.
Actually I think that's exactly the point... it somewhat limits the amount of crappy apps that could get to the approval stage.
So if one were to buy and sell some small amount of bitcoins, would that make one a Money Transmitter in need of a license?
For the past few months my GeForce 450 drivers have been acting up, and my computer was actually unusable until I disabled just about all hardware accelleration for the card.

Is it possible that the new drivers for this card are so unstable just because nVidia is trying to thwart this type of hack?

If that's the case, totally unacceptable to cripple my machine just because they want to prevent other people from altering their cards (which I will immediately begin to look into how to do myself now).
Not a big fan of the changes here either.
However, I must note that this:

"At the same time we added a living element to it with a new LED in the logo middle giving it a “heartbeat” of sorts. It’s functional too, showing the PC’s status of on or in sleep."

This feature has always let me distinguish my high-end T420 from other cheaper, worse models which have the ugly red led.
With T420 I somewhat feel like this is the last good Thinkpad of the T-series, but of course I am biased.
The Signs of God's Existence
Here's context:

The guy behind me to the far left was saying he didn't find much value from the logging session that day. I agreed with him, turned around and said so. He then went onto say that an earlier session he'd been to where the speaker was talking about images and visualization with Python was really good, even if it seemed to him the speaker wasn't really an expert on images. He said he would be interested in forking the repo and continuing development https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/talks/.

That would have been find until the guy next to him...

began making sexual forking jokes

I was going to let it go. It had been a long week. A long month. I had been on the road since February and PyCon was my 5th and final conference before heading home.

I know it's important to pick my battles.
I know I don't have to be a hero in every situation.
Sometimes I just want to go to a tech conference and be a nerd.

But...

like Popeye, I couldn't stands it no more because of what happened next:

Jesse Noller was up on stage thanking the sponsors. The guys behind me (one off to the right) said, "You can thank me, you can thank me". That told me they were a sponsoring company of Pycon and from the photos I took, his badge had an add-on that said, "Sponsor".

They started talking about "big" dongles. I could feel my face getting flustered.

Was this really happening?

The rest of the story I've posted on my blog:
http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont...
Messaging is more of an 'app' thing than a website thing. Comments not working just makes me call it one of the minority of badly-coded sites. There is absolutely no need for scripting just to have comments.
Funny wording. Wonder if he would draw different conclusions if he were told he was in the bottom 10% (equally possible, disregarding margin of error).
Nice hole you're digging yourself into there.

The tide is coming in though.
The Secret Service is actually the agency tasked with protecting the dollar. SS is under DHS now.
Casino cheats used house CCTVs to score $32M
It's relatively easy to eat 4000 without trying? How many meals do you consume a day and what do they consist of?

When I did weight resistance training in tandem with intense cardio training five days a week it was still difficult to reach my needed caloric content (which hovered more or less around 4000).

I mean, I'm not saying you're lying, but how is it easy for you?
Conrad24: this post made my day. I have dreamed of a script that would scour eBay and amazon finding products available via "buy now" that we're being resold on amazon for some configurable profit. Or vice versa. I figure with some initial investment and monitored training, it could get good enough to just cut me a check every month. Since high frequency trading has destabilized the stock market, this could be a better high risk investment.
>The tight asses have decided that if you want this feature under Linux you have to get a Quadro which has Mosaic support :palm:. So naturally I decided to look at how mod the card...

I just absolutely loved reading this line. I had been away from 'hacker culture' for nearly two decades (probably ever since I became serious about my studies back in middle school and I stopped 'having fun' with my studies and interests) and finally seem to be growing back into the mindset. This kind of tinkering, exploring attitude is so wonderful, even just as an observer to this story it makes me feel like I'm regaining my childhood innocence again.
I was 36 when I graduated from college and became a VP of engineering at 44. Now, I am going to be 50 and I am about to launch my first startup. You are still young and have a lot of life ahead of you. It is what you do from here that matters. Do what's at hand. If you feel that college, or online courses, will help you, take classes and get started. As you have already learned, the time is going to go by either way, so you might as well be moving towards your goal. Stay focused on your goal and you will get there. Best of luck.
Right, because thats how it happens. /troll.
Endoself is correct.

That's the problem with HN. It is clear when someone's arguments have no foundation in modern economic theory and practice, yet these arguments get thrown around with a false sense of certitude. I cited the textbook definition for "value," and yet you argue that it's dependent on supply and demand, which ignored the fact that the definition of value that I cited is precisely what makes up demand.

Person A is willing to pay $200 for a watch. Yet the market price of that watch is $20. Just because that person saved $180 does not mean that value of the watch to person A suddenly and magically fell by $180. Clearly this person found $200 worth of utility in that watch, or else s/he wouldn't have been willing to pay for it at that price.

> "Instant" in the "10-30 minutes" sense, and anonymous in the "you can be tracked" sense...

Now your arguments are focusing on semantics.

EDITS: clarity and less snark.
I got this

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 3.05352 s, 65.9 MB/s

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Agreed - you've spent your dollars on an actual physical device. Then find out you've paid for the same components as a professional model, but can't use it. An article here on Wired is on the same subject ... http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/you-dont-own-your-cellp...
The spam is the 1 Satoshi (0.00000001 Bitcoin) sent to players to confirm a loss, whereas a win they send a healthy amount back (The winnings)

At the moment Bitcoin cannot handle lots of transactions made with its smallest unit. This is being called spamming the block chain.