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I love apple products but at 200$ willing to buy one for my whole family.

I would like map app prebuilt on it
It's easy to belittle other people's efforts, but that doesn't mean you should.
Back then it was even more! ;-)

Part of this affordable "life on the road" concept might also be the fact that gas prices in the US are about 2.5x as cheap as they are in Europe.

(this is always a fun conversion: https://www.google.com/search?q=1.70+euro+per+liter+in+dolla... not sure if that's the most recent gas price here, but it should be about right. This gives $8.36/gallon, and a quick google for gas prices in New York tells me they pay $3.60/gallon)
It's not about "cozy" or "relaxed"--regardless of my thoughts of how cushy or stress-free an environment should or shouldn't be, SpaceX is at the point where simply you are reducing the productivity and effectiveness of your employees, as well as their health. They are more likely to make mistakes, which in the case of space exploration, can be life-threatening mistakes. There are quite a few articles out there describing how lack of sleep (not to mention stress) cause people to react similarly to how they would if they were drunk (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/05/sleep/max-text). Less social acceptance of drunk employment, but similar danger and productivity loss.

I think you'd need to provide more explanation of why you think the Grasshopper wouldn't land if SpaceX's employees were permitted to get a full night's sleep. Why is SpaceX different than NASA? As far as I know, no one ever worked those kinds of hours at NASA, and certainly not for years on end--maybe for the week before a space launch. I know if I were an astronaut, I'd much rather the people at mission control were well-rested and alert rather frenzied and terrified of management, falling asleep at the controls.
> And Facebook has no obligation to disclose breaches, not legally, anyway. Where did you get that information?

Really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_breach_notification_la...

For someone repeatedly making demonstrably false assertions, you are oddly sure of yourself. You're not even challenging a viewpoint here, you're just straight up talking out of your ass. You should stop doing that.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the $25k/yr figure was...do they have health insurance? How did the pay for the delivery of their child? What happens when medical and other emergencies happen?

I assume they have savings for that, but it doesn't sound like they have any bandwidth for saving. Does it all depend on the market?

Anyway, too risky for me, but good for them.
Agreed. Not everyone is aware of OpenOffice (or even if they are, of what the .odt extension refers to), and PDF is probably the best way to go.

If you're really against proprietary formats, why don't you just create a simple HTML/CSS webpage, supported by all browsers?
OTOH Hersheys chocolate syrup made in India (by Godrej) tastes better than the imported US version. Don't know why, iirc the main difference in ingredients was invert sugar in the Indian version and hfcs in the US version, or maybe it's the quality of the other ingredients.
Thanks for posting about this. I know I've found the resulting conversation helpful, and I bet many others have as well who are looking for meaningful work with a sustainable lifestyle.
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And combined with the exorbitant rent those guys pay.

I've talked to a New Yorker visiting Ljubljana, he was extremely excited about getting a flat for 1700eur/month because that was about half his NYC rent. It was probably one of the ten most expensive flats you can get in Ljubljana. And we have exorbitant rent prices compared to the rest of my home country.

So yeah, I can easily see how an american would think living on the road is super cheap compared to staying home.
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Doesn't have all the functionality - it can't play TTA properly, there are limitations in its cue support, playlist/queue/search don't interact the same way they did in amarok.
I wear glasses and despise contacts. I guess I could get laser surgery, but I'm used enough to glasses that I would never bother with the cost or risk.

I don't see how this is very different from wearing glasses.
I think part of it is that for NPR, "smartphone" resonates with a larger audience, while Ars Technica or Slashdot might be more specific with "Android phone" or even "Nexus One".

Also, its a Linux phone as well, standing on the shoulders of all of the years of work poured into making an awesome kernel to build operating systems like Android off of. And the rocket used to launch the satellites. And microsatellite launch programs (like cubesat).

At the end of the day sometimes to get people interested in an article, you just need to find a simple human way to connect to their life--or in this case, their pocket.
Anyone find the "Anna, marry me?" comment to be a tad sexist? /ducks
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> I have had a few relationships break down just because my gf would never understand that I will argue for everything just for the sake of flexing my brain.

...or perhaps because you just wouldn't stop arguing. Making a relationship work requires adaption from both partners.
This is a pretty common practice for huge comapanies where executive wealth is mostly created by company stock value.

This was pretty common with Steve Jobs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Wealth
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If anyone is interested, see deadbeef for the linux equivalent of foobar2000: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

(But personally, I use MOC: http://moc.daper.net/)
Uhm, is it? The screenshots I've seen are full screen Android and 16GB storage? Or do they still ultimately rely on... a BT connection?
A couple of differences.

First, vision is much higher bandwidth. You can glance at a notification and immediately know that you have a message, who sent the message, and how you received it. Takes half a second. Bluetooth earpieces are only suitable for sustained conversation. They are social faux pas because you are having a sustained conversation with someone else. This is not the case with HMDs - someone using a tool like Glass is actually more focused on their task and less distracted overall because they spend less time switching contexts. Citation: http://dmrussell.net/CHI2010/docs/p1695.pdf

Second, glancing at an HMD is fundamentally different from pulling out a cell phone because you're not looking away from the other person. It is difficult to emphasize how important this is to people who have not done work in this field. It is looking away that breaks conversations, not doing something else. Conversation continues to work as long as the other person thinks you're looking at them. And having an HMD on is close enough that people don't react to you jumping away into glass-land to look something up or jot down a note. This one doesn't have a citation, but I have spent several years taking classes from the guy who now runs the Google Glass project, and I can tell you this from direct experience.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: please, please try these things before you dismiss them. Social interaction is sufficiently complicated that experimentation is the only way to predict how people will react to something. And the experiments show that Glass works.
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Everything in those quote is correct. It wasn't part of our game plan at the time. It was never our "game plan" in general. In fact, at the time, we were planning the strategy for a fundraise.
In the Czech Republic there is a similar common belief – that the goods that foreign compainies sell here are lower quality than what they sell in richer countries.
Yes, and even if they had resources and interest to distribute it rapidly, I'd venture to guess that $200 would be underpricing it.

People might say they're prepared to pay less for it now than when it's reached some adoption and they start feeling the social pressure of "everybody has it; I must get one." For now it's probably more of a futuristic toy to them.
I think that regulatory oversight happens on the national level, at least in Czechia it does. An also, food can be low quality but ok from regulatory point of view (fast food, some non-organic food, etc.).
What other people have already mentioned: They are much less performing than x86/amd64 currently, and a lot of the ARM cores really suck these days when you want them perform CPU-intensive stuff: My i.mx6 and nvidia-tegra overheat without additional cooling. And look at the raspberry-π: The ethernet-controller/usb-hub combo eats about as much power as the CPU!

Then, the state of "board support packages": In contrast to x86 you cannot run a linux-kernel as-is, but rather it has to be patched for that particular board (in most cases): The linux-kernel has to be supplied with a lot of information on compile-time that is commonly provided by the BIOS on your typical PC. Furthermore a lot of the peripherals present inside those tiny ARM-chips have to have their drivers added:

Now the Raspberry-π again, due to its popularity and enthusiastic community excels: You can basically get distributions with modern (now: 3.8.x) kernels ready to install. But if you are stuck on i.MX6, you get to use a patched 3.0.x-kernel (+2000 patches), with nvidia tegra it's at 3.1.x. [at least that was my experience with industrial boards up to a few weeks ago].

- https://community.freescale.com/thread/300881
- https://developer.nvidia.com/linux-tegra

And those kernels tend to break in interesting ways as soon as you try to add your specific features, like getting a certain PCIe card to run with the i.MX6, or fiddle with the i2c-busses (on which power-management chips are present), ... and just are much, much, much less well-tested as the mainline kernels you are used to on "normal" PCs, or even the other more mature mainline architectures such as PowerPC (does anyone still use sparc/m68k/...?).

{Side-note: That's also the main pain for the independent android ports, such as cyanogen-mod. They normally get stuck on missing kernel patches, sourcecode, ... even though it's just "an ARM" chip.}

Of course, this is not at all a problem if you are happy with the stock BSP kernel/distribution and just want to compile node.js or mplayer for your board.
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For someone who wears glasses, it isn't, as far as I can tell. I don't, though.
interested in working on a Google Glass product/app....ping me if anyone's working on anything or has any ideas?

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I name them as they are, in lowercase. Occasionally in Camel Case, in the event I have, say, a getter/setter.
I personally dislike pressing the shift button to write stuff in camel case, it breaks my flow of typing (weird, I know.)
Although I'm not very impressed with the Ada Initiative, that talk should have never been accepted because it had nothing to do with the focus of the conference. It was not about security. It was also at B-Sides, not Defcon.
It is looking away that breaks conversations, not doing something else.

You ARE looking away. And depending on how many messages you receive it could be just as irritating to the person(s) you're with as constantly checking your phone. Least of all the constant doubt about whether your conversation is being recorded or not.

I am not disputing their unquestionable usefulness I just have doubts they will be acceptable in most social situations.
I wonder what will happen when Google Glass goes consumer for Explorer upgrades. When Google released the Nexus One, I hopped on board and was satisfied until I went through two recovery requests on the power button. Google Glass is quite a chunk of change. I understand the value in their utility and scarcity, but come time when Google releases the Glasses at a consumer prices, I hope not to be disappointed by the same feeling of getting left behind.

Does anybody know if and what upgrade options will be available for Google Explorers when they release the consumer version?
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He used to evangelize Microsoft because he worked for them. Now he's paid by Rackspace - so his enthusiasm is not bought here.
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Kickass developer/biz dev guy located in LA..looking to team up with someone/a team and work on a google glass project...hardware or software...

If anyone's interesting, ping me @ james@livcard.com
Well it is Robert Scoble. The guy is more easily excited than a puppy on adderall.
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IIRC there was a class-action(?) lawsuit against the banks which was with regards to the forged documents in the mortgage scandal (The one where people forged the signatures of people who had signing authorities when they lost the chain of ownership for properties under mortgage - this may have been 2008-9)

At that time, the bank(s) were batting for a settlement which I believe was opposed by the then DA of New York and 1 more. Most of the other DAs were on board.

I forget what happened to that particular lawsuit though.
I guess they'll have the opportunity to buy the consumer version like everyone else. What's wrong?
I agree it's the same on a danish keyboard
No, they are not "acting out misogynistic discourses", they are being horrible people. And let's be clear that it is no fault at all of men.

By the way, "sexual policing" comes from sexual competition and evolutionary psychology, which comes from thinking with your ovaries instead of your brain. In much the same way idiot men's one-upmanship comes from thinking with the testicles.
This is, in reality, almost just mocking everyone else in that they, the primary shareholders, do not need a salary. Never understood why we are supposed to care about this gesture or laud people for it.
Some more explanations would help to get a better understanding of what you propose without having to signin
I don't follow him too closely, but it seems that Scoble likes everything new. Some will be flops, others (eg, Instagram) will be hits.
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"Embrace challenge and shun convenience for its own sake"

This line really resonated with me as the real success he discovered.
Are there any Glass users around here? I have a basic question. Can the wearer see a video? I ask because I've seen captured video, still images of ... still images, etc. ;-) Conceptually, video is similar but I want to verify that video playback is in there.
From having tried Glass, I can affirm that you do indeed look away.

If any of you are wearing glasses, try looking at the top corner of your frame; that's the same motion needed to engage with Glass.

You'd effectively completely break eye contact with the person you're talking to and motion as if you're looking at something completely different. It's the equivalent of getting distracted by a cool car while your friend talks to you and you have to say "sorry, I saw a cool car, go on".
Thanks for this Mike. My work is more efficient, more enjoyable, and better because of d3. A lot of this relies on your quality, clear tutorials and documentation.
Could you expand on why you need a image with a kernel? I rooted my nexus 4 by unlocking the boot loader, installing cm recovery, and flashing a zip that just contains superuser and busybox binaries. Is there a key difference with Google glass?
Yes, but I don't think they've ever claimed that the picture quality of the camera was great. They emphasized on the camera a lot because taking pictures with the Glass is way more personal than taking a picture with a traditional camera. After some time, when you go back to look at the pictures you'd taken, you live those moments again the same way you remember them, from your point of view. This was my take anyway.
Re (1): I am a developer. I do several different things a day. It's an ideal moment, do do 1 short thing in between 2 different long tasks. It's a nice distraction, a time to empty your head.

So, unless you're spending your whole day on one single huge feature all day, there are plenty of opportunities for short breaks.

But I agree that having interruptions at random times may be counterproductive.
Thanks ddagradi + bgentry. Jen from Heroku got back to me shortly afterwards.
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I have given a lot of thought on this subject as well. I think the first few months will go nicely, putting money into savings and spending wisely. But I have a feeling that keeping up with the lifestyle is hard for most of the people. Your pace is frustratingly slow, and you really need to trust that the lifestyle you are living will pay off someday.

Just to scratch my own itch, I've built a finance independence calculator for my daydreaming needs

http://yourdream.io
Star Wars is not really, really stupid - that end of the spectrum belongs to James Bond.
On the flip side, if you get placed into the punishment brackets its back to dota1 style game play.

Which is significantly annoying because there is a bug where you get disconnected from dota. Your only fix is to shut down steam, and I've had to turn off my modem and restart it.

And theres a 5 minute timer waiting to ban you if you are either AFK, or not earning EXP.

Then theres the bans for being a noob on top of that. As a result, its currently sub-par to on par with Dota 1 for me.
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Because of our planet and everyone on it.
Scoble is different from you and me. His job is (or was) to attract as many people and as much attention to Rackspace. By being a whore for every new platform he did that really well.

A normal person builds his own brand at hisname.com, but Scoble sorta sells his attention-getting services to others.
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> Their hard-earned success was much easier to come by than a
women whose achieved the same level of success.

But perhaps the men never wanted to be engineers and society forced them. It wasn't easy for them to give up their dreams. But they did because of evil society.

It goes both ways.
And that's bollocks, because social structures - including all the "Kinder, Küche, Kirche" stuff - evolved to keep the selfish gene on top.

They had the same sort of social structures in the middle ages, but if you were one of Queen Brunhilde's knights, how exactly were you on top? You were utterly expendable, Brunhilde was on top.
Ah! I shouldn't feed the trolls.
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I bought 20+ cans Aptamil online from an international student at a nearly double higher price than it is in Germany supermarket last year,although my wife gave sufficient breast milk to my son.Yes I am a nervous parent too.There were so many babies poisoned by milk powder in China.No one really trust manufacturers and Gov of China,even those officials themselves.
You know,there is only one market on this little planet.Those manufacturers produce best products survive and get stronger.
They can buy Gov and the Gov can deceive or even threaten people,but what if everyone buy nothing from them?
Brno resident here, I can whole-heartedly second this. I'm not sure why this is but I've seen and heard it plenty of times.
The technologies aren't the only important part; one should consider that a cellphone is talking to an antenna a few miles away, compared to the Glass talking to a device a feet or so away.
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Also this statement is quite awkward:

IRC messages are short because they are simple ASCII text strings in a specific format.

First of all, encoding issues are a major pain point in IRC. Luckily most people use UTF-8 now, but the transition from legacy 8-bit encodings was not easy. Considering the history of IRC, I don't believe that IRC ever used plain ASCII.

Secondly, what is XML but "text strings in a specific format"? That's incredibly vague statement to begin with.
Not to mention the organs it's nearest to in your pocket
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I've had good experience with a rotating on-duty developer in at least two different companies I've been at.

The developer would be the only person that CS (and others) can come to with questions. He would not be expected to be very productive and would generally deal with small ad-hoc bug fixes when not acting as internal support (Which it really is). He'd also be responsible for various ad-hoc and maintenance tasks. The rest of the team would then be free to work uninterrupted on development tasks.

We'd have some sort of token (a teddy bear or whatever) at the designated developers desk, so everybody would know who to go to.

Of course it does cost a full developer "resource" at all times, so this probably only makes sense once your team reaches a certain size.
Rather irrelevant in the GHz range, where density is much less significant than the chemical bonds and conductivity of the material. In fact the soft tissue would likely be a better absorber due to a higher concentration of water.
Yeah I understand that but whats the point if the quality is not good. Good Idea. Poor execution.
In hindsight, I really could have worded my original question better. It didn't even occur to me that the way I worded the question implied maintaining its position, my bad.

I was just curious if you could get the balloon to maintain an altitude within low earth orbit, without concern for where the balloon actually drifts.

I was imagining a way to get the balloon to behave as a buoy at sea (not anchored), floating above the thicker atmosphere the same way a rubber balloon or raft would drift at sea.
To someone in Hong Kong, this doesn't ring true at all. iPhone users are abandoning the platform in droves in favour of Android, in particular the Galaxy line.
You could've put your money in a company that made 200x instead. (VC's don't have unlimited capital.)
The idea is great, but the price will stop anyone non-professional from using it... unless they're from, like, Norway.
org-mode also does it.
Eventually, if the market will be very wide, I guess there will be Google Prescription Glasses (you decide the name). For the moment Glass can be detached and put on top of the frame of your current glasses (bonus: hipsters with big frames, won't even notice it!).

I Totally agree with the first iteration concept.
Finance is a game of imperfect information. Most investors only has access to published information such as companies quarterly reports, so obviously, if you have an information advantage (by being an insider or knowing the next LIBOR rate) you can translate that into guaranteed profit.

Contrast finance with sports betting. If you bet on a hockey team, you have almost complete information about any variable you can imagine. The career of each player, how the team has performed so far, how far the away team has to travel (you use that to estimate the fatigue of the players), any player injuries and so on.

Surprisingly, sports betting is both more transparent and much more fair than finance because everyone has access to the same information. Sure, someone might know that the ice cleaning machine in the arena is malfunctioning so there may be debris left on the ice which may negatively effect one star players skating abilities and be able to exploit that information advantage. But it is marginal in comparison to the huge advantage traders and insiders can acquire in finance.

My point is that looking at finance as betting makes it much clearer what is going on. Some of the players have an information advantage and are exploiting it. The rest are getting screwed.