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So developer comfort takes precedence over user choice? Or are you saying options are just way more difficult to implement than they are worth (considering the small proportion of users actually take advantage of them)?
Same here but I'm still holding out hope. I recently wrote a blog post comparing my experiences with both Digital Ocean and Linode and both companies ended up commenting on it. Linode hinted that there'd be a few changes coming soon that'd please me. Considering I mentioned RAM and pricing I want to believe they were hinting that they really were planning on bumping up the RAM for current customers. They didn't say anything we haven't heard them state publicly before but even so, I'm still holding out hope. I think more RAM is probably the number one request and they'd have to be living under a rock not to know it. So I'm hoping that maybe they're playing it close to the chest for now until all the other upgrades are complete and then maybe they'll increase our RAM when it's all over. Who knows. We can always dream.
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Perhaps it's missing a 'reset' or 'return defaults' button.
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The body text font looks really bad in Chrome.
My personal favorite is "The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce", on SV's early days.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/content/noyce.html
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Lame blog post. Totally wrong, and the user didn't go far enough to solve his own problem. px1999's reply about SPF/DKIM setup should be looked at. If that doesn't work, you can contact google and let them know the problem.

"The Cloud" as a robot that can't be interfered with by the operating company is a stupid notion. If that were the case most cloud and SaaS companies would go out of business because they'd never be able to fix problems that come up. Most systems can be looked into, and can be tweaked in numerous ways.
It's actually quite simple, but requires a lot of question asking to figure out.

Hackers move easily between different levels of abstraction and believe that things in general can and should be understood. They try to never stop asking 'why?' and this leads them to find places where the system is incongruent. Many of these realizations are benign or even progress the system, and the advantage gained just helps the hacker succeed within it (eg. pg's main use of the word hacker). But some realizations contradict a foundation of the system (like insecurities of its central nervous system!).

The system is built on abstractions, takes them for granted, and reacts extremely harshly when they are broken (for this is an existential threat). The system can only understand a broken abstraction in terms of the abstraction itself, rather than in terms of underlying reality. Hence we end up with phony blame-shifting terms like "identity theft" instead of reality-based "fraud". Meanwhile, hackers see the failure of the abstraction in terms of the underlying reality and have a hard time seeing what the big deal is - just reprogram the abstraction!

Most people's thoughts are contained mostly within the system, having been indoctrinated into it from birth (constant rote memorization in primary school, blind repetition of contradictory facts, scolded by adults with tenuous justifications every time they don't follow the pack, etc). So they take what they're told at face value and follow along, all the while never seeing the whole picture and hence remaining afraid of mysterious agents that can take advantage of them for what they don't understand. If they're told that a collection of email addresses is a threat to their way of life, they'll actually believe this because they lack the broad framework to analyze the truth of this statement. They'll instead trust the system and assume it's correct, feeling that if it were indeed wrong they would no longer be able to take anything for granted.
That isn't what I asked about and isn't really helpful
While this is true, at the same time the article points out another external factor of games shifting to mobile and at the same time completely ignores the fact that EA is just utterly disconnected from what the consumer market actually wants.

The fact is that what the game market needs is the flexibility to play games how, when and where they want - this is the point of games - to be an enjoyable and accessible escape into their stories.

By consistently blocking users from being able to access the imagination time that games provide shows that you don't understand the intrinsic value that games provide to people.
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"OK, but any journalist writing on legal matters should know that the statutory maximum is not a good guide to the likely sentence in the event of a conviction"

It is, however, frequently used to intimidate people into giving up their rights. There is a reason that more people go to prison each year than could possibly be sentenced by a jury of their peers, and the maximum penalties allowed by the law is one of them. Let's put it this way: the four men in Norfolk who pled guilty to a rape and murder they were entirely innocent of did not do so because they were insane; they were simply terrified of the possibility that they might be executed (and the exhaustion of many hours of berating by the police did not help).
Excluding t1.micro instances you are getting a fixed, dedicated amount of CPU per instance, CPU is not a shared resource on EC2.
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Yea, it's nice to see. Though the cynical side of my brain is thinking that Veber backed down because they knew their customer base is basically all techies and they might not want to piss them off. If Veber was in a different business line and had branded and trademarked let's say their line of high performance tyres, I think they might not have backed down so readily.

Still glad it worked out, Veber deserves credit for that no matter the ultimate motive.

Edit: Guess I'm mistaken, thanks for the correction duskwuff
it is being implemented as an extension...
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This reads to me like the classic market share pitch--if you get a big enough user group, you're bound to get rich someday. A lot of Internet companies have thought this way in the past. Only a few of them have actually made it happen.

Google has made a ton of money from search, but never made much money from maps or Gmail on the desktop, despite massive market share. I don't see any specifics that explain why it will be different on mobile.
Similarly, Tropo has long had support for inbound and outbound SIP.

http://blog.tropo.com/2010/03/09/does-your-cloud-provider-of...

(Disclaimer: I work for Voxeo Labs)
Imagine, people like to complain via hyperbole with twitter.
#notsurprised
I like the disable images in my toolbar. Each to their own.
"the most popular survival horror franchise of the last five years"

That's a pretty small sample set right there.
The Glassbox engine was designed to be easily moddable. The problem is the games 'online' nature leads EA to ban people from making mods to keep people from cheating. There was a huge disconnect in the grand vision somewhere.
The way Opera deals with this is to have opera:config be a searchable webpage with hundreds of options that can be changed, nearly none of which can be changed from within the main Preferences UI.

Firefox could have an about:config page that's a webpage with a list of every crazy little option that could be changed and the remove all the little used options from the Preferences UI.

I don't see a need to completely eliminate the option but put it somewhere only advanced users will go.

(P.S. I find the web interface with a search box significantly more friendly to use than a native listbox control as is currently used for the advanced options).
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How about facebook (specifically messaging and paging also no likes and comments for users without JS)? I know, you probably don't use it but I know quite a few people who do.
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Perhaps so, but it still seems unscientific. I even left out that an even better test would be if you had identical history in both browsers (which I know would be inconvenient to set up). I honestly do not understand why I am being downvoted.
Happy to see Kandan found its second wind! Thanks for all the work you're putting in :)
"Can you say a hero?" has such an involving prose. And luckily that "site's re-renderer" allowed me to read that text without having to read it with black text on blue background and a 186-characters-wide column
Ok, some more info on the issue -- could you please follow up there?
"And that, Neo, is how computers became self-aware and learned to exploit human brain-cycles, eventually resulting in the Matrix."
So true - and sadly so common. If I had my way every website for a program/ide/library/plugin/whatever would clearly state on the front page just what the hell it is!

Glad to see Pharo making such excellent progress - they're doing wonderful work.
Not economical to the customer. . .I don't think private companies would necessarily find it economical to deliver letters to very sparsely populated rural areas - at least not using current technology. And I don't think it would be worth it to them to invest in researching more advanced technology that would make it more economical to the company. The potential customer base would be too small to yield a decent of rate of return on the investment, let alone the expected actual customer base. Look at other areas where nobody is in the market and there are no legal barriers to entering the market and there are still geographic regions without service providers. . .mass transit, retail. . .
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~10% general computing improvement is great, but I wasn't impressed by the progress made with Intel's new GT2 graphics architecture.

An incremental improvement to HD 4000 doesn't replace mid-range mobile graphics cards at all.

Considering that GT3 will only be available mostly in the quad-core configuration, this means mid-range laptops will still require power hungry graphics cards to run games reasonably.
seconded, I doubt many a sane person would use Python for IO bound concurrency, they should definitely be looking at Rust (in the future slightly) and Erlang (currently the defacto standard for easy-of-use concurrency).
Not if your brain is used to doing modular arithmetics since childhood. :/ Python whitespace and Lisp parens seem trite in comparison to that. I just get 1-based indices more often wrong that I get 0-based indices wrong.

(When doing things like "given an interval of indices a-to-b, partition it into n subintervals so that every element of the original interval is in precisely one of the sub-intervals, and the lengths of the intervals are either the same or as close to each other as possible", I find the "count from one, bounds are inclusive" model horrible. How do you express an interval from a with the length of zero? It's just <a,a) with half-open intervals. What, <a, a-1>? So many special cases with the <a, b> model...)
Thanks! haha I'm actually not sure
How many of those million copies were sold before the launch (pre-orders)?

Also, the current game is not being sold on it's own merit. If we'd never heard of SimCity before this game would not have sold 1M copies. It's because the nostalgia that many people have had playing the different city games from the mid '90s that's carried the current game so far.
I just watched Tim Ewald present this and it sounds incredibly complicated.
Man. I worked for newspapers for several years - it's so sad. But publishers have to adapt.
Dead Space sold two million copies as of August 3, 2010.

Mirror's Edge sold more than two million copies according to an EA court document released October 2010.

BF:BC has sold over 2.5 million copies according to VGChartz.

BF:BC2 has sold nearly four million copies. Oh, and it's a sequel to BF:BC, so that franchise lives on.

And these are games that the free market rejected?
The Euro is an experimental currency. Don't invest time or money in it that you can't afford to lose. Hackers can break into your account and steal your Euros in the middle of the night if you don't secure your wallet so never store your Euros with a third party.
"He's charged with the faithful execution of the laws, not their interpretation."

In practice, though, the executive can pick and choose enforcement priorities. Case in point: the DEA ramped up the effort against medical marijuana in California after the Obama administration made a deal with the pharmaceutical lobby, to win support for the Affordable Care Act. Within two years, the Obama administration's DEA had raided more medical marijuana dispensaries than the previous administration had in all eight years.

Virginia recently overturned its law that forbade unmarried opposite-sex couples from living together. Nobody had been prosecuted under that law in many years (at least not as far as anyone knows), and only one person had been threatened with prosecution. The police in Virginia certainly know that unmarried couples are living together and having sex with each other; they just have other laws they are busy enforcing.

The idea that the law must be enforced without any exceptions or leniency is the sort of far-right, law-and-order thinking that has turned America into the world leader in imprisonment.
really? what does it look like? I'm using chrome and I thought it was rendering ok..
Don't read it, I guess? I don't know any other way to do it, unfortunately. I'm sorry I wasted your time.
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Go was designed for concurrency from the start and even has null pointers and lots of mutation, this makes the concurrency problem easier to solve because you have more control over state.
I've known about this method for a long while (back as early as 2004), but I've always found it easier to actually mock it up in HTML/CSS and then make changes on the fly. It might be my personal skill level that makes the difference, but it worked out better for me.

(My favorite design sessions remain the ones where I sat in a room, projecting my laptop onto a screen, and speed-editing CSS and PHP while my boss made suggestions at the front of the room. And then I'd go, "So, like this?" and refresh.)

Not really recommending it so much as saying it's a thing that can be done.
In some cases those addresses are used but they are NATed behind different public IP addresses. (No, we can't use 10/8.) But now that each /8 is worth almost $200M, just wait for a slow quarter and those addresses may find their way to people who need them.
I think the key here is that people ALWAYS complain about Lua indexing from one. Aside from that, not having a huge standard library is the second complaint. There are debates that come up all the time on the Lua list about what would be best, but I think those are really the main complaints people have.

Large standard libraries would mean huge potential for security holes in this case; they've locked features down to only support things that they could make secure.

And starting from 1 you can get used to. LuaJIT doesn't even REQUIRE you start from 1; it'll optimize arrays you start from zero. And even vanilla Lua will accept 0 as a table index; it just won't treat it as an array (for ipairs() or length).

But if you start asking people for complaints about JavaScript, you will find people complaining about operators acting wonky, auto-type-conversion problems from hell, and even odder things like [1].

Lua is just a cleaner design. I am stuck using JavaScript when I want to work on the web, but knowing what an elegant language CAN be makes me enjoy it a lot less. And don't get me started on how ugly NodeJS is because JavaScript doesn't have coroutines...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3401074
Definitely up there with one of the coolest things I have seen this year.
That's why you do the scanning from someone else's router. :-)
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You would pay $100 for a BioWare game, but how many other people would?
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Nope:

"The people that need to do these things should use add-ons, or at the very least an about:config tweak."
Are you sure about that? I thought that yields across C functions were added in Lua 5.2. Not to mention that in a controlled environment like the runtime that Wikipedia exposes to you, you can take care of avoiding exposing APIs that would allow people to code themselves into a corner like that (if the C calls are leaves, you're OK even in 5.1).
Ugh, I really don't feel like explaining. :P

Long story short: bureaucracy.
Highly recommended. Although I'd encountered all of the concepts in the book beforehand, the way everything's put together really got me thinking. It's a little bit pricey at £50, but it sits at home nicely on my bookshelf.
Seems like the best way to combat this "always on" surveillance is not by hiding signaling behavior, but by generating noise. If you intentionally create lots of bad data, you reduce the value of the data to the people buying it and using it.
Ugh, just give me back my candybar qwerty already!
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That is different though. Buying a phone doesn't allow you to make an exact copy and then sell it, but buying a copy of wired does allow you to use it to prop up your monitor, use it as insulation for your house, or anything else you decide to do with the paper.
Long-term thinking is actually a big part of politics in the United States. Quite a few fights revolve around it.

Debt and entitlement fights are about how policy decisions made today will affect the solvency of programs like Medicare or Social Security decades from now.

Intellectual property fights are about whether making IP less lucrative will affect the rate of innovation over the long term--again, looking at decade time scales.

Tax fights are about the long-term impact on economic growth. No one thinks taxing the rich a few more percentage points will kill all the businesses overnight. The fear is that over time, it will reduce the pool of available capital to fund "big bet, big risk" investments.

Even fights over social issues like gay marriage are about the long-term moral health of our society.

A lot of these are expressed as short-term fights over self-imposed deadlines like the fiscal cliff, the debt limit, or the continuing resolution. But the reason the fights are so vicious is because both parties believe they are the ones truly thinking long-term.
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Digital Ocean may be cheap but I honestly think both Linode and DO are on even footing right now. DO has to be cheap to make up for what they lack in a web UI, IPv6, less CPU cores to work with and just all around lack of established trust (they're super new and I for one am slightly wary). Oh, and their network can use some work too. I can get a bit slow sometimes.

Linode is expensive but they give you lots of control in your account panel, you know they'll be around for a long time, excellent support, IPv6, and on and on. Not that DO is bad though. They've got SSDs which is awesome, they're cheap, free snapshots, and so on.

I'm a happy customer of both services and I don't think one is better than the other. I think both serve different types of customers. For me, personally, Linode is where I go to host my serious projects - the money making ones. Digital Ocean is where I go for a quick, cheap server to mess around with. I have one "main" server on both services but I trust my Linode more. Maybe that'll change as Digital Ocean matures.
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The pastebin has been de-obfuscated and manually cleaned up significantly compared to the original that's bundled with the game.
Chrome on Windows looks janky: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=e7y05l&s=6
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So just to be clear:
If I have a reserved instance I'm not using there is a CPU sitting somewhere doing running HLT cycles?

Wow.
But most won't, because if they said 'the statutory maximum is 25 years but most convictions draw sentences of less than 5 years,' people would not think it's that big of a deal.

Listing only the maximum is a good thing because phrasing the range of penalties as you suggest is a variant of the "Door in the Face" technique. In absolute terms, 5 years may seem incomprehensibly ridiculous for what amounts to digital graffiti, but when readers are skimming through an article they'll see "5 out of 25" and think, "How generous of the prosecutors to knock off 80% of the sentence!" This is not the desired outcome.
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Ironically, it's the lack of options that keep me from using Mozilla's other product, Firefox for android. Things like not being able to set a home page, not being able to choose between thumbnail dropdown tabs and regular, always-visible tabs, and most notably not being able to turn off history have resulted in me using different browsers on Android. It's very frustrating.
and luajit isn't 5.2 :(
Please open your issues at https://github.com/Mikkeren/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition/issues...

And contribute your fix.
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But an iOS phone is a general purpose computer? (The discussion was relating to iOS devices, in addition to Macs.)

A PS3 is just another computer in your home. It just happens to be locked down and branded.
>if they said 'the statutory maximum is 25 years but most convictions draw sentences of less than 5 years,' people would not think it's that big of a deal.

I imagine people convicted of manslaughter also don't typically serve anything like the statutory maximum. But we calibrate our expectations and sense of proportionality based on the maximum because that's the number that gets published and compared to penalties for other offenses, and actual sentences are often set in proportion to the maximum, so changing the maximum has the practical consequence of changing the result in typical cases.

>As a matter of fact, the mean sentence under the CFAA (as of 2008) is only 6.8 months.

If you get convicted of a felony and sentenced to probation, you still get a felony record. I don't think we should be making felons out of people who have done something that deserves to be punished only with probation. The maximum penalty is extremely relevant because that's what makes it a felony, even if it bears little resemblance to what happens in the typical case.

>It's a bit pointless demanding reform of the law without any context for how it is actually working in the real world.

By the real world you mean the court system, but what about the real real world? The maximum is what you read in the statute when you're trying to decide whether to break an unclear law for a good reason. It probably has more influence on the behavior of people in the real world than the unpublicized actual outcomes do.