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Fortunately I am no longer in the spot where I have to order things from halfway around the world to save a few bucks but I can just go to dell.com/dell.nl and order what I need for my job.

I'd feel if I still had to scrape the bottom of the barrel in order to get the tools I need for my trade at 48 that I'd be doing something seriously wrong :)

It's good those cheaper options exist, me, I just buy what I need at the list price if it's tools, I have one of these at home and one of them at work. It may be a bit more expensive but the time spent and possible frustration on trying to save $500 on something ordered from far away just is not worth it to me, especially not if it were to break at some point during what would normally be the warranty period. I guess at your price point you could simply order yet another one as a spare :)

I have the same attitude towards cars (even though I'm perfectly capable of fixing just about anything), food and a few other items. In some ways this is a tremendous luxury and I am well aware of that.
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The monthly costs on personal 'tools' are a material issue.

There are a tools like CodeClimate or Creative Cloud that I think people are not using personally because the costs are too high.

I believe, with tools like that, that if you make the 'personal use' fee trivial you get a wider base that will go on to introduce it commercially at work - so you net more over time.

20 years ago, as a student, I made this case to IBM on OS/2, I won 'letter of the month' in the internal magazine - they didn't change the pricing for personal use.
I'm just curious why this was surprising.
It seems fairly straightforward.
Was the surprising part that someone wanted to put it in hardware?
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Yes, even with regulation we have some pretty appalling behaviour by pharmaceutical companies.

The benefits of regulation means that when we discover that behaviour we punish those companies, and warn other companies to stop doing it.

It is sub-optimal, but much preferable to freedom of access to any snake-oil sales-people.
"Responsible disclosure" shouldn't be up to a financial incentive. It's up to the law and basic ethics.

The real choice is between a 4.5k bonus or a subpoena. If you want to try the other path, go ahead....
I'm not sure how the government intervening even more in different companies has anything to do with my point.
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"Announce Windows Phone 7. No multitasking despite all competitors having it, no application fast resume. No major applications that competitors have. No turn by turn directions. No front-facing camera."

Honestly I think Windows Phone 7 was a case of blatantly copying Apple. It came out at the end of the iPhone 3GS' life which had exactly "No multitasking despite all competitors having it, no application fast resume" and "No front-facing camera". Windows Phone 7 even threw away the ability to sideload apps which was a staple of Windows Mobile in favor of an app store only approach.

I think Microsoft made the mistake of thinking that they could pull off what Apple did with iOS, which is silly as Apple spent years building this unique position through the iPod.
As a sort-of new entrant, Microsoft can't afford to start off with something that isn't ahead of the competition by a significant margin, no company in the mobile space other than Apple or Google can do this right now.

There also seems to be a lack in ubiquity across their products and platforms.

I remember when they had Windows Live Mesh, Windows Live SkyDrive and Windows Live Sync only to later merge them all into SkyDrive, then they had Silverlight for Windows, Mac and Moonlight for Linux along with Windows Phone 7's flavor of Silverlight and the XBox 360s flavor of Silverlight (used in ads) only later to can everything and now Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and the XBox One all run the new Windows Runtime but don't have the same app store nor can they run the same apps for no apparent reason.
That's completely ridiculous for a number of reasons. First, the usage of fact is not regulated by SI or something, it has a number of definitions and connotations. Second, stating that all facts must be stated with tautological and temporal boundaries is beyond pedantic.

"I have two legs at this moment of Planck time, and not before they were formed in the womb and not after any possible incident in the future where I lose one or more legs."

No. If you measure something, those measurements can change. Yes, the new measurements do not overwrite the existence of the old, that's generally understood. If your measurements change, you change clothes. That makes sense.

On top of all that, the original quote is "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions."
I'm not going to change the way I speak based on who I am speaking to. fine, accuse me of speaking wrongly by telling me why and i'll accept it. I made a bit of a bold statement, an I appreciate people correcting me appropiatly by giving me valid reasons why my statement is wrong. But basing your argument on an appeal to authority is just a logical falacy and is annoying.
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I wonder how much Microsoft pays for articles like this.

Seems like an easy way to make some extra cash. Doesn't even have to be convincing.
> I know plenty of unmotivated individuals that would love to sit around with a bunch of other lazy-asses and be fed 3 meals a day. For free. Don't you?

No. I know absolutely no people who would choose to be put in prison simply because they would be fed. I cannot imagine a wealthy society (and make no bones about it, our society is wealthy enough that people can be fed) which would permit that.

> It has to strike one as the number one place that you do not want to go. I can't imagine this world if it wasn't.

Try visiting Sweden some day. Or quite a few other places in the world -- almost any country other than the US, which is quite competitive for the world's worst prison system.
To be fair, any process can have breakdowns.

I'd like to see a video of their complaints process. :-)
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Similar Sharp costs $5500 [1]

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234078/Sharp_to_laun...
Assuming the valuation of companies is a Zipf distribution, I'm not sure the median value is very useful.
Sina Weibo's Newer Censorship for TianAnMen Anniversary.
Nice idea, I'm planning on using my fu money to run TV adverts countering the non-sense claims made by other 'hydro-nano-bollocks' pushing adverts.
It's not a bad solution, but I don't think it's the best solution. Obviously, the thing that sticks out as being the most inefficient is that the small (or default) image is always loaded. This means that for tablets and desktop browsers there will be an extra image request that is never used. Not too bad, but on a page with a lot of images this could add up.

I haven't personally tried it yet, but it seems the best option out there at the moment is the Capturing polyfill by Mozilla (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/03/capturing-improving-perfor...).

Another thing I would suggest the team think of is not loading images by browser width only. If we're tying these libraries to the idea that they improve performance by optimizing which images are loaded - so that you only transfer the necessary amount of KB per page view - browser width is a bit removed from what you want. What you actually want to measure is the user's network speed (which can be done with libraries like Foresight.js : https://github.com/adamdbradley/foresight.js). Loading large images on a slow network isn't going to be good for performance. By using both browser size and network speed, you can optimize images for mobile devices over 3G or those connected to WiFi. Or desktops on broadband versus desktops on 56k modems.
Cloud Computing is still the perfect solution.

The problem isn't technology, it's the states unwillingness (or inability) to adapt laws to the future or reality. Combined with excessive law enforcement where they seem to be compensating for their failure to actually stop technology.
> people who do not deserve rehabilitation, correction or edification

Wow. I know it's a matter of philosophical debate whether such people actually exist[0]. But it's a matter of wilful ignorance to pretend that anything but a tiny minority of the US prison population falls under that category.

I think they don't. There's people that would be a really bad idea to ever let back in to society (say, a Breivik) but for a lot better reasons than "does not deserve rehabilitation/edification". Then there's people for whom rehabilitation is pointless because they're so mentally deranged they're not going to get better. Obviously such cases are the minority and very rare.

Also, did you consider to think: If your homeless prefer prison, that might not be because your prisons are too pleasant, but rather how you treat your homeless? Why are they left without "an opportunity to move up in the world from rock-bottom"? It's a ridiculous argument, "we can't treat group X humanely because then group Y who we also don't give a chance will want it too"--what?!

It's those lowest rungs that a society is judged by, you know. Whether the average American has a better life means absolutely zilch as long as you leave your schizophrenics begging and mumbling in the streets, and keep people in solitary the way this article describes.
Good point. Maybe the title should be changed to "most frequent" stressor. Either way, I think the main point of (and research behind) the article is pretty valid. Would you agree?
Moscow, Russia: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=moscow&hl=en&ll=55.75...

Tokyo, Japan: https://www.google.com/maps?q=tokyo&ll=35.689143,139.695...

Tunis, Tunisia: https://www.google.com/maps?q=Tunis,+Tunisia&ie=UTF8&...

Monrovia, Liberia: https://www.google.com/maps?q=monrovia,+liberia&hl=en...

Niue (a tiny island nation 1,500 miles off the coast of New Zealand): https://www.google.com/maps?q=niue&hl=en&ll=-19.0103...

So yeah, I think it's pretty global.
I created a mildly popular LAMP Stack template for Vagrant using Chef [1].
Proud of every single one of the 40 stars. Hehe.

[1] https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/Vagrant-LAMP-Stack
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Unless he had a full backup of MegaUpload at his house, it's not going to be 25 petabytes of data. MegaUpload was hosted in the US and any data stored with their hosting service would presumably be outside of the scope of this case.

As far as I understand this ruling is about his personal data, confiscated when they raided his house.
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I'm guessing looks like it's built to solve the problems of serving HD images via a CMS?

For static hand coded images media queries will suffice but once you start dynamically serving images it gets tricky fast, especially when faced with users that don't know/care about HD images issues.

Combined with some code to scale images to the correct size on the fly (with caching, etc) I think it could be pretty useful.
It's not even as if the content is being added by javascript, it's just markdown which gets parsed by js... the content is there, it's just being hidden by an inline css rule. That's the most annoying thing to me, although it's probably to prevent a FOUC.

It is html though, but not really proper html. They're sending the html5 doctype for instance, but not declaring a content type, and I think (but i'm not certain) that the xmp tag is all but deprecated by now.
The idea of the police having to "sift" though all this data it's impossibly hilarious.

It's like they have a court order that tells them to spend their day watching porn.
> Solitary confinement is now so obviously a form of torture that it's surprising this is still controversial. Future generations will surely look on it the way we look on past barbarities.

There might be some ethnocentrism here... I might be wrong but it seems to me like you make an assumption about this generation that is only valid in US. I live in Europe and when I think about people I know, there is nothing controversial about it and we don't have to wait for future generations - we consider it barbaric now and as far as I know it's illegal - I mean people can be put to cells alone but they can read books, they have right to go for a walk with other prisoners for an hour and stuff like that - when I talk about solitary confinement I mean conditions described in that article.

I am not trying to be judgemental here - I just think that for some Americans it might be interesting to consider that in some countries things like solitary confinement or death penalty can be looked at the same or similar way that you Americans probably look at punishments like stoning to death or cutting off hands.
Sure. That was envisioned as a problem too back when the Internet was created (or maybe I'm just giving too much credit after the fact), so they structured the technology in such a way as to circumvent the problem.
It's a short term issue. When I mean short term it could last at least 20 years.

I earnestly believe that society is trying to find boundaries but technology is updating far faster than a democracy can change the rules.

I live in the cloud now for the reasons like many do: price and features. As much as I want to follow the principles that you have set forth, Drobos and quality hard drives are expensive when I can rely on Evernote, iCloud, Everpix and Vimeo for securing my data at a far cheaper price and less problems.
So a 24" Retina Thunderbolt display at WWDC is pretty much a given, then.
"so if you want to release your app on four platforms you need to test it four times."

Wouldn't submitting 4 separate apps require the same amount of attention (if not more)?
On top of all that, the original quote is "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions."

I don't disagree with this statement. That's not what was said.
Technology should be made to be resilient to bad laws. The Internet should protect us from government overreach, not magnify the effect of it.
This shouldn't be the case. You can be spectacular at X and still very good at Y and Z.
Even more likely, that broader view and experience would help to be specacular at something.
> "Our prison system is probably near the top of that list,"

If by "our" you mean "the US" then I'm already of the mind that it's bizarre and barbaric and I doubt I'm alone.

In many ways it strikes me as suffering from problems similar to those in our older (now largely dismantled) system of insane asylums.

Both sought to address a very serious problem, for which we only have flawed solutions to choose from. And while we don't have proven-better alternatives for many of the problems that arise [1], it -- as a whole -- is progressing to a place where the system has been corrupted into a larger problem than the one it's trying to address.

[1] Though when we have for-profit industry lobbying legislators based purely on their profit motive, it's foolish not to say there are proven-better alternatives to many of the problems. To say nothing of the prison-rape culture and our societal response to it.
Are you using just the one Pi for all of that? Not done any serious benchmarking but my tinkering left me with the impression it would be fairly unusable with all that running on the one machine.
Why? A Raspberry pi is nothing special - it's just a cheap computer.
I hear you. There's a lot of things I don't bother to comparison shop for these days. I'm in that place where I can order them from Dell and pay the 300% markup.

I just felt that earning effectively $1600/hr in terms of time spent selecting a weird Korean monitor was an effective ROI.

When I'm billing that much I guess I'll feel differently :)
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> You're either a black/grey hat or a white hat. Either you're a white hat and believe selling to malicious hackers is fundamentally wrong and you wouldn't do it at any price, or you're a black hat waiting for the right price.

> The purpose of reward schemes is to reward white hats, not to compete with the bad guys for the black hat discoveries.

How many other industries are there where individuals with valuable skills routinely volunteer to help multi-billion dollar corporations despite no guarantee of reward?

These people are doing work that typically warrants a six-figure salary or several hundred dollars per hour, and they're doing it almost entirely because it's the right thing to do. And Facebook should reward them well enough that they'll continue doing it, not only because it's good for the security of Facebook and its users but because it's the right thing to do.

I don't know how much Facebook has given to the other 65 people who disclosed exploits this year, but it will be innocent users who suffer most if they all share Yvo's sentiment.
When in a hole, stop digging.
A number of people definitely found their way through the toolbelt code to use the API previously, which is amazing. We hope by giving a stronger focus and some proper documentation that we can make it much more accessible to more and more people.
This is great! I probably annoy my friends with how much I tell them I wish there was an (affordable) high-resolution monitor available.

In fact, the retina MBP's screen is the only reason I switched from Windows to a Mac; that display alone was worth it.

Looking forward to a non-pixelated future. I'm surprised ASUS was the one to take the initiative though!
Have you tried Sublime Text 3 beta? I know that it is suppose to support support Retina under Mac OS X.
CNET claimed that they have an insider that stated that the XBox One has a publishing environment similar to the XBox 360 where only large companies can submit apps.

Hopefully this is changed before the Build conference comes around.
Yeah I'm planning to create one long alarm mp3. It'd start with ambient sounds of slowly increasing volume, then some motivational recording reminding me of my resolutions. Finally plain old annoying alarm.
Cool way to find out and visualize which smartphones your friends are using!
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I was referring to social games
Quality is about on par with price for those Korean monitors.
I've been sub-namespacing conventions of MVCs, too.

new GlobalNS.App.MicroViews.TableRow extends Backbone.View
new GlobalNS.App.Models.TableCell extends Backbone.View
...

Essentially you can namespace to Babylon from existing conventions and build "interaction models" (complex namespaces) for standard digital content types like "lists", etc., from say http://pea.rs

JS and Hypermedia have always been in harmony. Other boring ideas: https://github.com/nerdfiles/nerdfiles_net_dev/blob/master/t..., https://github.com/nerdfiles/nerdfiles_net_dev/blob/master/t...
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Stick XBMC on it, link it to your speakers, and use it as a remote controlled air-play enabled media player
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The same as we charge everyone else? In fact, big companies often pay less, not more, since they can buy in bulk.
I currently run node.js on the Pi, as part of a mobile device game controller. It works quite well, albeit just being a prototype.
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our domain is blocked from being shared on twitter, for reasons we can't figure out. It's practically impossible to get any assistance or response from Twitter.

all we want is to understand why our domain is blocked/flagged. google diagnostics marks it as safe. if there's something we are doing or have done thats wrong, we just want to know so we can resolve it and stop doing it.

if anyone can please help us, i would really appreciate it. I'm not really sure where else to go, any advice would be helpful

Thanks
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There is no "sending messages" to them. There is only the futile attempt to whisper in a hurricane.

Do it if it makes you feel better, but don't expect change.
My understanding is that the Pi lacks real audio hardware on the analog output. For audio heavy projects you should consider a USB sound card.

Edit:

This looks promising: http://dbader.org/blog/crackle-free-audio-on-the-raspberry-p...
I just bought a 2560x1080px monitor just to discover that there is no way to use it with my laptop. It seems that most laptops are limited to 1920x1080 despite that the graphics card may support higher resolutions.
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This is the only thing you should keep in mind: the more naive and ignorant you are, the better!
That's possible, I'm just going by what someone at the company told me. Haven't looked into it further.
8ms, according to the OP.
What's the dark side of Silicon Valley?
Asm.js is no more an open standard than PNaCl. While I'm sure others disagree, PNaCl is much cleaner in design and with more predictable performance. It's the one I'd like to see win.
Obviously. Though the options appear so shockingly poor that they limn generalists as idiots (i.e. option a), hence my sardonic posit.
I spent 6 continuous months on Sealand with one other guy (who I avoided as much as I possibly could, saw him about 3 minutes a day if I didn't correctly time my hallway trip to avoid running into him).

Lots of space, and the Internet, though.
Maybe a bit premature, but I'd say you're spot-on in execution. This is almost certainly how Apple will bring Retina to the desktop: A 24" 1080p @2x, which just happens to be the same resolution as the emerging 4K standard. 27" is too big for 1080p-scaled UI elements, but 24" is just about right (and being Retina, you'll no doubt be able to crank it a bit higher if you give up the pure 2x multiplier).

If they launched this summer, I think it'd be a $2000+ display, which is probably more than Apple wants to enter the market at. In another 6-12 months, I can see them being able to hit something more like $1499, which sounds about right.
I would do c) if it can be done without hassle, then e) and then g). The load balancer should do e) by default - don't forward to broken servers.

g) takes time and concentration, and you don't want any interruptions while debugging.
I used mine for a similar purpose: allowing my grandmother to watch certain Spanish TV shows over the Internet. The shows are actually freely accessible online, but she doesn't know nor wants to learn how to use computers (which I completely respect!), so I made a simple UI controlled by the TV remote that downloads & displays them.

Incidentally, I used an Arduino as an USB-to-Serial converter for a TV remote receptor I had built when I was 15. It's a waste for such a simple purpose, but it wasn't being used for anything at the moment.
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I suppose that good people can make a[singular and non-violent] mistake or error in judgement which can run them a foul of the law. These people don't require reform. They are typically leaniently sentenced, pay for their mistake and move on.

I also suppose that others are more habitually and fundamentally anti-social. These people are not worth the effort of trying to 'save'. The brains have literally been wired for this behavior[over the course of many years]. They must be removed from society.

There are also those somewhere in between natural-born killer and 'busted for pot'. These people are responsible for their own personal choices. If they keep making bad choices of their own volition I have no compassion for them. [I say this from first hand experience dealing with a close relative who is a lifelong fuck-up.]