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Did you read the link? The point is that they AREN'T really worth that much. My brother buys his xbox games (I stick with PC/Steam mostly) from gamestop and trades them in within a week or two if the multiplayer isn't exciting.

So, to him, a game is NOT worth 60 bucks. The 60 dollar price point has nothing to do with him. He pays between 30 and 40 max, usually only playing B rated single player games years after the fact.

Adding DRM isn't going to magically increase the value of a game to the customer. That's not how a market works. The market currently has decided that a video game is worth something per person, on average. Let's call that $40 per game (just an example). So, with the DRM, you sell two $60 games for every three $40 games. Still the same $120 except it all goes to you instead of the first sale to you and the next two to Gamestop.

If MS can assume (or predict, or hope, or whatever) that more of their sales will go directly to them, then they have an incentive to drop the price of their copies of the game because they know that a gamer probably has a fixed budget for gaming and they want to maximize their value.

I don't have numbers but I would be interested in seeing what the average price per console game actually paid by a customer is. My hunch is that the DRM isn't expected to increase the overall sales, in fact they might decrease BY DESIGN. But MS doesn't care about overall game sales. They care about 1st sales. So they might get a bigger piece of a smaller pie and still make out in the end.

Sidenote, Steam's success came from no legit competition, better prices (allowable, in part, by their DRM) and great marketing but I agree that Microsoft's strategy is more likely long term.

....all in all, though, it just feels shitty to have something physical in my hand that I can't really sell to someone if I want.
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Shame all they need to work around it is to have 2 or more cameras pointing at the same spot (which is usually the case in London.)
Hmmm so this and a combination of my anti-depressants should make for a real treat. I don't see how food is so fundamental to enjoyment.

Regardless, the man behind this admits it's not about completely removing the traditional meal but rather removing the time spent in trying to find a nutritional meal. So meals become more about enjoying food, the textures, the smell and the company rather than worrying whether that $30 lunch is going to be enough to satiate your hunger and nutritional requirements.
AFAIK everything on Android runs on the Dalvik VM.
I agree. Especially since he isn't the first. None other than Scott Adams of Dilbert fame marketed a burrito with the exact same goals a while back. Combined with water it was to be a complete food source with first adopters potentially techs who didn't want to bother with food. The name (no joke): "Dilberito". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito
Everything the guy did just screams amateur. The first issue is posting information about a deal before a contract has been signed. However, I'd argue that the bigger issue is the $40 price tag that was slapped onto the iTunes upload service. The record label is already making money off of its customers through sales on iTunes; why on Earth would you cheapen the service by making it seem like anyone with $40 cash-in-hand can become part of the iTunes catalog? The fact that the author made $200,000 (!) in iTunes service sales alone says a lot.
BlinkBox or Netflix? In the UK you might want both
wrong. The claimed patent is on BRCA1/2 DNA, not cDNA. Process doesn't matter for a molecule. DNA is DNA is DNA. It doesn't matter if it's made via the cDNA process. It doesn't matter if it's assembled de novo using oligonucleotide assembly. The MOLECULE is patented, not the process.

Again. It's the molecule that is patented, not the process.

I'm going to say it once more. It's the molecule that is patented. Not the information. Not the process. The MOLECULE.

"If the gene information previously exists in nature, ALL equivalent forms (DNA, mRNA, cDNA, even tRNA) should be excluded from patentability, because they are beyond obvious once you know the nucleotide sequence, and they are equivalent (in terms of information theory). "

Fine, that's what you believe. However, that is not what the law is. Molecule patents say nothing about information, "equivalent" forms, and have a different definition of 'obvious' than you do. There's a very good reason for them to be defined the way they are, too, because you have to be careful when dealing with legalities. The law has to be (and often fails at being) explicit with these concepts that can be gray, because the way you're treating them is very ill-defined.
That's another problem: crossing all your T's but getting no response. My profile is complete, too, and I'd write personalized requests but almost never would get a response, much less a positive one. After writing about 100 requests over a few trips/years and getting 1-2 "yeses" and 3-4 "thanks but can't" responses, I stopped trying to be hosted.
I don't think Apple would have to provide support for running it in a VM. How much damage do you think it would do to their reputation if people were complaining that running it in a VM was unreliable? 95%+ users wouldn't care (they would dismiss it as nerd problems), and the other 5% would be happy if it was good enough to run things like Safari for testing. If they ever want to be taken seriously in a business environment (outside of the creative industries) I think it would be wise of them to consider this. It can't be much worse for their reputation than completely blocking it.

I don't think Microsoft building Office for Linux would be a waste at all. Photoshop, Office and Steam games are the big three I see from Linux users complaining about a lack of software. Not all Linux users are fanatical about free software. The question is - what is more important to Microsoft, Office ubiquity or keeping corporates on Windows?
That was the best part.
So can someone clear up what model this replaces or competes with?
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The pressure differential for vacuum isn't enough to be dangerous by itself. The dangerous thing about vacuum exposure is that at that pressure your blood will boil at body temperature.
Java, as a language, is pretty easy to learn. If you already know the standard library from Scala/Clojure, even more so.

That said, some parts of the ecosystem that are built around (Enterprise) Java are real behemoths and the companies may actually be looking for experience with a particular framework/library than just generic Java experience.
> Not long after this, Oracle acquired Sun and along with it, MySQL. One of the MySQL founders didn't like this and started a fork of MySQL, based on the GPL'ed source.

Based on his constant whining BEFORE the Oracle purchase, that guy would have ended up starting a fork anyhow.
Yep, that's what I ended up using, and it works very well. I especially like the interface (well, by Java standards).
I'd say Meetup but I don't think it is what it used to be. Too many "business" groups these days.
They're not getting replaced, so you're not paying for it.
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When I come across exceptions that get silently "eaten" I want to throw the dev out of a window. I've lost days of my life tracking down inscrutable bugs only to find something like this: catch ( Exception e ) { /eat it/ }
Now if we could just get Google to play nice and release apps for Windows Phone...
I think it's time we give up on the idea of communicating privately over a centralized network. Wiretapping was invented only a few years after the invention of the telephone[1]. It won't be stopped by technology and certainly not by legislation. People need to get used treating the Internet as a public space: cover your mouth when you cough, don't pick your nose in public and don't communicate sensitive information over the Internet.

The next big thing (hopefully soon) will be communication through a decentralized, infrastructure-less device.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_tapping#History
I agree with everything you say. But I am also reminded of all the highly accomplished people, who, looking back on their lives, say that "the only reason who took this on was that we had no idea how hard it was going to be."
It kind of is, considering modern times. The concept of a "secret" government facility is not an unknown thing anymore. Everybody in the area, and possibly anyone interested in such things, knows the building is a government building. People may not know what goes on in there but it's a known government building. Shooing people away from taking pictures of the entrance doesn't really do anything other than annoy people. Unless they are chasing down every person who might have taken a picture and seizing the film then it is a pointless exercise. Chances are you can get all the info you need from Google Maps, especially if the street view was done to the area.

It's like the humorous attempts of the government to keep Groom Lake a secret. I lived in Vegas for a time and it seemed obvious that everyone knew for years something government was going on out there. From the unmarked white planes that left the airport, the special gate at the airport that only certain people could use that had guards that refused to answer any questions, the spot overlooking Groom Lake itself that was open to the public for years that allowed you to see everything, the photographs of nuclear mushroom clouds in the distance with the Strip in the foreground (people even had parties based around the bombing schedules!), and the modern method of using Google Maps to look at the area to see the runways and bomb craters.

My favorite example is the old movies where characters believed you were a spy if you happened to know that the CIA was headquartered in Langley, VA. Come on, everybody knows that.

Shooing people away from taking pictures of a nondescript entrance to a nondescript building is just a show of force and authority.
They say it's very quiet from the outside during takeoff, but has there been any word on what the cabin noise is like, compared to the A380?

That's the main reason I'll choose an A380 whenever possible. It makes a big difference in how exhausting and miserable a long flight can be.
A short article that is not actually fluff, for once.
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Encrypting email would only make sense if both sides are equally encrypting it.
If you're using the most paranoidal encryption, but your email buddy does not - than it's all just plain silly.

But even then if Joe and Bill suddenly got smarty-pants and started encrypting their communication - NSA would get suspicious and will find out what you guys are up to via other channels.

"The best way to hide information - is to convince others that it does not exists"
--Me
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way to go on the link baiting while at the same time dissing link baiting.
Competes with the B787.

Doesn't really replace much. I'd say the A330, as it's a twin, and wide-body. In fact, it's called 'XWB', standing for 'extra wide body'.

Better fuel consumption and better cabin for passengers. That's pretty much everything these days… B787/B737MAX, and A350XWB/A320NEO for the two big players for new generation (aside from B777-300ER and B747-800 as "renewed classics" for Boeing, and A380 and A330 for Airbus).
Airbus plans are a silly source of pride for me as a French 30-something. They're one of the very few tokens of pan-European success in tech and engineering. Airbus being a subsidiary of EADS, a company that works across European lines (Germany, France, the UK), it's living proof that despite all the natural hurdles and bickering, we can still be competitive and innovative as a continental entity.

I wish there were more examples like this one in the midst of this silly Eurozone crisis.
So you're cool with what the NSA is doing?
GPG support is actually one of the very big things that has kept me using KMail even with Akonadi's rather poor support for POP3 w/ filtering. Being able to expand that web of trust even to businesses and among the tech-savvy would be wonderful, if only to increase awareness of the idea that things which need to be secret from unintended viewers (including, but not limited to, the NSA) need to be encrypted.
They do work for us. Look at SOPA. Once it became clear that it had the potential to be a national issue (i.e. might cost them votes), various senators and representatives began to publicly voice concerns about passing it.

Change isn't easy, but it can be effected.
As much as I'd love to live in a Free Software world, I'm happy to just take steps toward it by using proprietary software on top of a Free operating system. The ability to run the OS on any hardware I want (within reason), swap in and out components like DEs, and run any compatible software I own on it is more important to me personally than the apps being open source.
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There, I saved anyone else a click. :-)
It's hard to say which products of listed companies are supposed to be nutritionally complete (i.e. meal replacement, not supplement). Do you know of any?

Browsing through the pages:
Complan - explicitly states you should have normal meals in addition to the product ("Avoid missing meals completely − you may not feel hungry but your body still needs nourishment")
Medifast - want you to eat at least 1 cooked meal daily
Optifast - not available for retail (or at least the webpage claims so)

I'm looking for a replacement for the main meal, not breakfasty/lunchy things, which none of these seem to provide. Though perhaps I misunderstand their ads?
To be fair, the Mac-mini rack has real purpose: http://hackaday.com/2012/12/09/160-mac-minis-one-rack/
That's not a line, that's a bunch of stuff you think is over it. Fine, but where's the line?

Supporters of such surveillance have a fairly simple test, and one that's more or less supported by current law and Constitutional jurisprudence: If it's metadata that must be voluntarily exposed to a third party (e.g. a pen register) it's unprotected by the Fourth Amendment. As to actual data, if it crossed national boundaries because one participant can be reasonably determined to be outside the U.S., it can be examined for the same reason your luggage can when you cross the border.
It makes sense to wonder. After all, when you find out someone lied to you once, you tend to doubt everything else they've ever said. That seems natural. And while the scandal is in the air and our elected officials are doing their initial "what scandal?" dance, our conspiracy theorists are in rare form, re-iterating their practiced denouncements.

I would take care to stay focused on the actual issue and not get distracted by conspiracy theory bullshit. PRISM is bad enough. When our wingnuts start babbling about how this is just like <insert conspiracy theorist bullshit here> and trying to "demand answers" there, they weaken our position. The feeling you have now thanks to PRISM is, apparently, addictive. But the last thing you want to do is align your position with a bunch of easily dismissed nonsense. Attack the problem you know about first. Discover more problems later.
You think women can't be serial rapists/murderers/whatever?
I can see concern of people being photographed entering and leaving the building, but even then it's silly. If someone wants to know something of these people then just follow them from work. If the person's identity and involvement of what's going on inside needs to be secret then they shouldn't be seen at all entering or leaving the facility.

Also, it isn't that photography "is" a crime but that it "can" be a crime.
The outgoing chairman of the FCC was interviewed recently [1] and alluded to new ad hoc networks created by cell phone users, to be used in times of emergencies where networks get overloaded.

[1] http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12968
Or just people with good reviews...
PS: The ultimate solution would be to use Tor-based email (similar to tormail.org) at both sides AND encrypt it from both ends.

Then NSA does not know who is communicating and NSA does not know what they are talking about.

Problem solved.
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Yes for at least two reasons. Firstly, holding your breath can cause you to pass out. Secondly, holding your breath while the pressure is decreasing can cause an embolism (air can enter a blood vessel in the lung) which can form a clot and kill you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_embolism#Gas_embolism_in_di...
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This isn't anything new, and is a huge problem most businesses offering a freemium model face. Before ditching your free plan you should (obviously) evaluate for yourself what is bringing in the money. If there are little to no upgrades from free to paid then there is a good chance you are not distinguishing the two enough, not offering enough added value on the paid plan, not doing a good enough job driving your free users to the paid plan, or that you need to limit the free plan in a different way.

You can also stop offering a free plan and use a paid trial at a reduced cost or even $1, or just offer a no hassle 30/60 day money back guarantee.
> Pages handles MS Word formats well

Does it? The people that I've known to try this have all complained to me about problems. Not sure if this is a compatibility issue or Pages itself (and not sure if it's just my small sample of friends).
Try this chrome extension: http://bit.ly/13sD6TY
First, find out the reasons a monitor would make a high pitched noise, then work backwards to find out why this happens in your colored output scenario.

I think it might have something to do with capacitors, I had problems with my video card or mobo making high pitched sounds and I think I remember reading that the capacitors were making the sound. It only happened when entered a game or app that made heavy use of 3d rendering.

So my guess is the app that outputs in color is making your monitor or video card enter a state that uses a lot of power, or otherwise for some reason causes the high pitched sound.

I could be totally wrong though.
> I guess many would suggest that is exactly what we have right now. Just more subtle, opaque, and deniable.

I can't see how anyone who has studied American history could think that what we have now even approaches what existed at the time of McCarthyism. McCarthyism required a level of public acquiescence and homogeneity of thought that could only exist under the threat of Soviet domination and nuclear holocaust. The bogeyman of terrorism doesn't have nearly that kind of grip on the public consciousness.

Heck, just look at the wars that were justified by the two fears: Korea (36,516 Americans dead) and Vietnam (58,209) versus Afghanistan (2,229) and Iraq (4,488). Not to minimize the causalities of those wars, but if you can measure the power of a scary idea by the number of U.S. soldiers that die before the public puts a stop to the war, then there is no comparison between the specter of communism versus the specter of terrorism.
It seems like no matter what you do, it will always be possible for someone to tap into a wire or node between point A and point B (unless some revolutionary point-to-point information teleportation is invented). So isn't the next big thing just the strengthening (or proper application) of encryption?

Otherwise, how can a "decentralized, infrastructure-less" system really guarantee any privacy beyond simply making it more of a hassle to wiretap?
I upvoted you and then immediately thought...

"Oh wait... women can be deranged killers as well."

So.. yeah... this woman probably knows what she's doing.

Only wrote this comment because I can't take my upvote back.
Unless I'm mistaken there is a law, FISA. It even uses warrants with judicial review, and FISA itself has been publically known for awhile, so it's hardly some fait accompli. The people have bought in, whether on purpose or not.

So, people aren't complaining that this is illegal, per se, they're complaining that there shouldn't be that law at all. Didn't you watch the Daily Show clip from the other night?

P.S. When are people going to stop calling those with a view not 100% aligned with their own "apologists" and acknowledge that there might even be different conclusions that reasonable people can reach on a topic?
Can we just ban medium.com links already?
To be fair, the lungs compressible and more like a balloon than a bowl of water.

I can assure you, you can exhale upon ascent when inverted.
(source: me, who used to log plenty of hours below 150fsw breathing mixed gasses).
Very good point. I lived in Cuba for a few months. I was surprised to find that people were very open and vocal about their discontent with the economic situation.

I eventually figured it out. Those people didn't matter. They weren't doing anything. Just venting steam.

As soon as someone tried to actually change things, that's when they get bopped on the head.

Most of us aren't activists. But we depend on them to drive change. If they get stifled, we get stifled.
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I wanted to show HN about a new Wordpress plugin (my first software release) that I developed. It's an integrated multivariate testing system that is built directly into Wordpress (compare to Optimizely or Convert). It uses bayesian experiment design to maximize conversions during the experiments. I'd love any feedback.
> You've checked Hughesnet

I say this as a former customer... Hughesnet is an absolute joke. Looking past their incompetent installers (who provided me with a major leak in the roof over my kitchen) and their horrible uptime (clouds in the sky = service outage), at it's best the internet service could only be described as painfully slow. Super high latency, constant dropped connections, poor throughput and to top it all off customer service that I'd rate as equivalent to cell phone providers.

Please, do yourself a favor, and stay far away.
Why silly? Pride is a very strong motivation. The important thing is that pride for our own successes doesn't become hate for others' successes.
Wagu (or Wagyu) being the breed of cattle used in Kobe beef

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagyu
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Just posted a Blinkbox vs Netflix comparison here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5880185 We can do more if there is interest!
I recall reading somewhere that Office's biggest competitor was its previous version.
The line is dragnet versus court order.
I understand, but OTOH I was actually happy finding out this wasn't a real article when opening it in twitter, and thought some HNers would appreciate the feeling as well.
Are these Edward Snowden’s ARSTechnica posts?