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If wear is really weight to the 4th power, than buses are horrible ideas.

A 20 ton bus starts out 160,000 times worse than a 1 ton car.

If you get 13.3 people off the road, and people weigh 150 pounds, then you have taken off 13.3 units of car wear, but added 34,000 units of bus-wear (going from 20-to-the-4th to 21-to-the-4th).

If the argument is "reduce road wear" and damage is proportional to weight to the 4th power, you want lots and lots of smaller units over bigger units.

EDIT: I did some more math. Assuming a very light 5-ton bus, adding a 90-pound person to it is the same road wear as adding a 2.18 ton vehicle to the road. O(n^4) is nasty.
Once its standardized anyone is free to safely implement it from the language specs, which they don't even have to do since they are free (and encouraged) to use the open-source implementation.

Dart wouldn't exist or have anywhere near the technical excellence it has today if it wasn't a sponsored project. Its existence also doesn't prevent any other browser vendors from trying the same thing - it may even encourage it if it yields noticeable end-user improvements.
Assuming you actually are competent, this is a non-issue. I reported to someone younger than me for five years. No big. Seriously.
Why should downloadable games be different from physical media games? Both are the essentially the same bits and bytes. Why does it matter whether the bits in question are delivered via sneakernet or internet?

Enabling resale of digital goods has very high risk of crashing the market, as they almost by definition do not degrade in use. Historically the second hand markets have been limited by local availability, but internet removes such barriers for digital goods and that makes the situation very different for games compared to conventional items such as books.
Yes, confirmed: http://news.xbox.com/2013/05/qa
I agree. I was looking forward to buying a game and being able to play it completely offline without a disc. The disc would just act as a way to get the data onto your hard drive faster than a download.

I'm annoyed that they are removing this functionality. While I don't like being prevented from reselling games, I have never resold one that I've bought, but I HAVE had a disc get scratched after bumping my Xbox with my foot. The only solution is to buy another disc, which sucks.

Still, I think that they should push the online distribution model by selling online games at a CHEAPER price than the disc. The reason I currently buy discs instead of the online downloads is because the downloads never go on sale. For example, you can get Halo 4 on disc for $20 right now, but it's $60 on Xbox Live.
Excellent stuff, and so are Blue Jeans cables.
> Activation code becomes tied to the account until traded.

So, like: I should be able to just directly say "Give my Halo 5 license to bornhuetter" and then my disc stops working because my console doesn't have a license and yours can then download the digital copy or put the disc in and have it "unlocked" with the license.

I think that could work, still would require an online connection for any NEW games though, which I think MS is trying to avoid rather specifically (the blowback from overseas guys playing consoles, etc)
It's also worth noting that Paul Buchheit worked at Intel before Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Buchheit and I remember him railing about big companies and the sort of sclerotic bureaucracy that prevailed at big companies.

I think Paul also wanted to pick an idea that would prevent Google from becoming a typical big company. But I don't recall there ever being any sort of "Google's strategy leans it toward evil; we need to avoid that" undertone in Paul's suggestion. In my mind, it was more like "avoid how almost all larger companies naturally end up being."
This is a pretty bold move by them. They're essentially getting rid of all the changes to the DRM set up from the 360 (which also has DRM; this isn't a complete removal), including all the beneficial changes. Of course, they weren't that compelling to me and introduced a lot of confusion about how they would work and exactly what limitations would be put in place.

Looks like they're still going to struggle with the Kinect privacy concerns, but that's more of a PR battle than an actual privacy one. You can turn off Kinect, but you couldn't turn off the Xbox DRM system.
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I really don't understand why they aren't trying to do something in between.

If you download/buy a game from xbox live you can virtually lend it and a connection is require to lend the game (and temporary disable your access to that game). If you own a physical copy you can lend it as you did before. Everyone's happy and if the new system is that good and the consumers are happy then maybe the next system could be through xbox live only.
Huh? I have claimed housing benefit when genuinely unemployed in the past (though not for some years). All they need is proof of address, some form of ID ,a statement of earnings/benefits and details of any dependents etc.

If you operate a cash only business with no paperwork there will always be a temptation to under report earnings.
I don't think so. ssh allocates a ptty and programs write to that, which ssh then proxies back to you. There's a middle-man.

These programs couldn't write directly to the port 22 TCP socket you use to connect, or their content wouldn't be encrypted or have the other various SSH beenfits.
Wow, that nearly brought a tear to my eye (which probably says more about past abusive C&Ds I've seen than this one in particular)
This is absolutely what happens when you find a successful long-play strategy and position yourself right. DDG is probably never going to be as big as Google, but it doesn't need to be. There is likely a growing group of people that doesn't so much like the idea of Google tracking them down and using their information for other things, or governments getting that information. A small portion of a huge audience could likely be millions, certainly enough to support a business, even if it's not a huge business.
Person A puts disc in, phones home, and installs. Person B puts disc in, phones home and finds out that the game is already registered.

Person B can't install unless Person A phones home to de-register. Person B can use a partial code to check if the game is registered.

Not rocket science.
> It's no secret that technology disrupted journalism’s business model, and it has yet to recover. What's puzzling is that the disruption seems to have created lots of losers but no new winners within journalism.

And I stopped reading...

drudgereport.com (~1.3M a year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Drudge#Drudge_Report)
They got some patches from the finance department and Google were really insistent on adding big integers to JS so it looks like they're using it for currency. Woo... exciting.
Uh, yeah, just require to deactivate the disc before sale. That's reasonable and doesn't have the intrusive feel. This isn't hard.

Edit: I see, if the DVDs are identical then that's not possible. But plenty of software comes with a serial anyways. Just make the serial transferable, problem solved.
with the Kinect complaints notably absent. Considering how flimsy both the Kinect and the XBOX360 are, there's no way I'm buying an Xbox One if I'm required to have mics and cameras connected at all times, nevermind the privacy issues!
This is a terrible idea!

I have a month to compile a list of the most popular first and last names and popular e-mail names and get a bot ready to register them all.

Once registered, I can then attempt password recovery for these @yahoo.com email addresses at the most popular web sites across the Internet that rely on established identities (ebay.com?).

If JamesSmith@yahoo.com ever used his yahoo id to register an account on EBAY.com, or with another online service, now is my chance to try to steal his online accounts by requesting password resets on these services and assuming his identity.

Now, to build a bot that will do this thousands of times!

Sites with 2 factor authentication may be immune to this, but these identities will now be unrecoverable to somebody who has used his @yahoo address as his recovery e-mail address, even if he doesn't check it often.
And what does the quote have to do with the current discussion? The implication is that the given examples are evil.
The original plan let you designate 10 accounts that could play any of your games (although only one account plus the main could play a game at once- no buying one copy of Halo and then having all 11 of you get online at once).

The check-in is required in order to remove old games from your account, not to add new games. It's to make sure you still have the license to the game that you're playing. That's far more generous than Valve's "no you can't sell used games ever"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_Market,_San_Francisco
Thanks, I enjoyed the post, and I think it reaffirms the idea of controlling your own destiny. People seem to be missing the point just because they can't see past the post title.

You can be whatever you choose to be and you don't need anyone else's permission. If you can show an employer that you produce good work and that you are relentlessly resourceful and tenacious, then why wouldn't you deserve it?

Nobody discounts the value of a design school or a computer science degree. But there are other paths, as proven many times over by leaders in the field. In 5 years, imagine how good she'll be, and how little anyone else's opinion will have mattered.

(Also, shame on you shitheads with your judgement on her work. Constructive criticism is one thing, being vaguely dismissive is another. No jerks allowed.)
> Unless you're implying that... my disc stops working because my console doesn't have a license

That's exactly what I'm saying. The console has to phone home every time the game is installed or de-activated.

The requirement to phone home every day, or for additional payment is completely unnecessary from a technical standpoint.
I'm not a lawyer, but is the P.P.S. portion some sort of thinly-veiled reference to the way the original (c&d-sending) lawyer perhaps works with the township?
Some people viewed a series of actions and statements from Microsoft as showing contempt. Simply changing a business model to one more acceptable to consumers does not remove people's emotional reactions and suspicions about motives. Time (assuming no other mis-steps in the immediate future) can cure a lot of this, but, as you may have noticed, an awful lot of people's personal identity gets caught up in their consumer electronics purchases.

Microsoft messed up so badly that many people themselves as being on the xBox side of the "holy wars" that swirl around
consoles "converted" to Sony.

A brand is a powerful tool. It might not be logical, but people do build emotional connections with brands. As with any power tool, you want to be careful and avoid cutting off your arm.
> I would have liked to have seen if Microsoft's move would have led to cheaper per game pricing like we see on PC.

We don't see that on the PC. Most big-name publishers largely charge the same on all platforms. How much was Diablo 3? Assassin's Creed 3 for PC? SimCity? These games all had always-online DRM, yet they cost just as much as an Xbox game.

I would put the chances of the Xbox One's restrictions leading to cheaper games very close to zero. It seems actually more likely to me that gamers would end up paying more on average in a market where the supply and pricing of used goods is tightly controlled.
Dart compiles to just JavaScript that works in all browsers, and if a browser integrates the Dart VM, it'll run faster.

asm.js is just JavaScript that works in all browsers and if a browser integrates an asm.js compiler, it'll run faster.

Yes there are deployments steps needed to serve both Dart and JS to browsers: Those steps are:
1. Include both the JS and Dart in your static resources.
2. There is no 2.
Oh, cool. That's very interesting. I curse it because it seems even more insidious and because I can't believe the next gen of consoles is even shipping with an internal optical drive... but I digress. Thanks for the link!
Which is why the discussion should be about the policies and rules we need to allow good uses, but prevent bad ones.
Yeah, what Solomon said. For the moment, Dokku is focusing on the same sort of stateless apps Heroku supports and considers running databases a separate concern. For now you can run your databases, etc on the same host, in Docker containers, somewhere else, just out of band from Dokku.

But I'd love to hear your thoughts on how Dokku could better support datastores.
Cardholders name is PCI data. So in most cases the customer?s name and the cardholders name would fall under the auspices of PCIDSS. This is definitely a breach.
Wait, what? My sympathies for maintaining legacy GWT, but that isn't at all equivalent to Dart except in that they both have JS compile targets. Go is at least a somewhat more reasonable comparison, but still isn't great. The biggest problem with any legacy GWT project is all the widgets people loved to make and use which grafted unnaturally to JS and the DOM, and certainly not the code transpiler, which is all that really matters here.

Dart is lead by Lars Bak out of Aarhus, which IIRC wasn't even a Google office location before they hired Lars to do V8. Even if some people transfered over from GWT, I doubt it would be many, and I don't see how it would have substantial impact with someone like Lars at the top.

And it's been 7 years since GWT was released. Yes, yes, enterprise needs whatever, but many web technologies fade away over time. It sucks if you were an early adopter and were heavily invested, but at a certain threshold, no one cares anymore. Is YUI's nearly negligible update rate a sign of Yahoo's fickle attention span? No, because no one uses it anymore (sorry YUI users), and at a certain point you have to cut your losses. If the community is self sustaining enough, it can pick up the slack with these open source frameworks, but if it's not, I really can't manage any indignation. It happens sometimes.

I'm not advocating using Dart in production (I would advocate just learning JS if you're targeting browsers anyway...), but this critique is specious at best, not least because the SDK is apparently just entering beta, so it says right on the tin not to found your production pipeline on it.
Taksim Tech: A Postcard from Turkey
When he's cashiered, the waffling talented Mr Ballmer will at least be desired at a International House of Pancakes.
> The reason Microsoft is doing this is not what you think it is.

I assumed they were succumbing to pressure from their customer base... what was I supposed to think the reason was?
is it possible that you are using their usual username?
Not making a case against Excel, more against J2EE consulting really...

Although I admit I have no idea how it could be possible to create a bug free Excel sheet. It's funny that people avoid programming like the plague but somehow manage to produce Excel sheets, which seems to be a million times harder.
Don't buy discs! MS said that digital purchases will have same priority as retail discs. Why do you want a disc anyways, except for resale or slow connection? Everything I get for the 360 is via download, and I don't have to worry about discs. Still have to worry about license transfers, which is gonna be the same under any system where the publisher controls the terms.
Is there an expert here that can explain this valuation? They only sold 22k 3D printer and they don't really innovate agains't open-source 3D printer.
Actually dart2js compiles a "Dart-like" language to JavaScript. The "dart-like" doesn't include big integers or operator overloading on numbers.
Can only hazard a guess that this must be some bizarre form of SEO or something, because this is a known issue that could be fixed in probably 30 minutes max, which they have received complaints for...
So what is the point of the once per day online requirement?

And what is the point of restricting used games?

There are no technical reasons for these (as I have explained in other posts), and so people are justifiably were livid.
> On the other hand, it always, locally, makes sense not to challenge claims and let some other small company deal with it.

I would argue in favor of fighting back in most cases, even from a local standpoint. "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." How you behave towards bullies sends a powerful signal to other bullies. Your response can either encourage more bullying, and thus a cycle that ends in your own destruction, or ward them all off.

I very much agree with your comments overall, though.
Statistically, and in my experience, drug dealing is not a violent crime. They're not going to start knocking over convenience stores. Some of them might scrape together enough capital to start a retail store. Prices and profits are going to take a long time to fall, so most of them will just keep doing what they're doing, except with a little less risk, and they'll be able to keep their cash in a bank, and theoretically pay taxes on it. If things reach the point where it's not really profitable any more, then those people will have to get a real job.

The idea that they will turn to some other criminal pursuit...yeesh. It's like you've never even met any dealers. Imagine that tomorrow, the government made your job illegal. Would you be like, "Well, that does it. I guess I'd better start brushing up on my raping, murdering, and insider trading," or would you maybe not go all-out breaking whatever laws you could? It may shock you to realize that because the hypothetical dealer is breaking the law in one respect, he is best served by not breaking the law in any other respect, in order to not draw attention to himself.

Lastly, we don't have to speculate what will happen, there are countries which have decriminalized drug use -- US states too. Marijuana has been decriminalized in Alaska for almost 40 years, although no one seems to know this. The sky has stubbornly refused to fall.
Stratasys acquire MakerBot
Same here. The majority of our SaaS users are non-paying (and will never pay because of their user role). With the new plans, we would immediate go from $50/month to $400+/month. That's a lot for a bootstrapped startup and would be one of our most expenses services we pay for.

We would be happy to pay even $99 or $149 a month, but increasing the price 8-9x is a big jump, as great as the product is.
Thought about it, but doesn't sounds quite right too: Yahoo didn't use these identities, it provided them to the users.
Anyway I don't want to be pedantic here, just as long as it was clear what I tried to say, and nobody misunderstood that I accuse Yahoo literary selling its user accounts to the third party, I am happy. :)
Don't forget the browser itself, if you use Chrome.
US and Russia Sign a Pact to Commincate on CyberSecurity.
Just last night on IRC I was commenting on the stinkeye I received at a company once when I suggested their tagging functionality mimic Stack Overflow's. Even though their product was a multiuser version of something that had existed at 1:1 scale for a decade, never did I hear it described in terms of what already existed. Based on more than this one example, I am convinced that there is a beautiful-farts narcissism in startups today where everybody thinks they're doing something new when they're really just making a drag-and-drop Megaupload, in-browser Sublime Text, Flickr-with-animation, or whatever.
It's not just a population map, because you're effectively looking at the relative usage of each platform in different geographical areas. If it were a map of just iPhone users and you went: "look, all the iPhone users are in rich Manhattan" then the XKCD comic would be relevant.
Statasys is the company that unilaterally suspended a leasing contract for one of their more professional targeted printers after the leaser used it to print lower receivers and other various gun parts.

I'm not too sure they are up to par with the freedoms open source is meant to afford.
You'd probably need more than tape to render the microphone theoretically useless.
> Whoever you are, you sound condescending rather than helpful.

Fixed that for you.
You actually wanted just one fry?
Where is the Steam Box? I would pay Valve $800 if it guarantees 1080p@60 games for several years. Both the XBox One and PS4 likely do not have enough power to do that for most games.
There's something to be said for being in the right place at the right time, but they've done a great job of going above and beyond to embrace this moment. Great work.
Does Google pull links from Gmail and attempt to index them?
I am wondering how they knew to index these pages with random URLs (the "security through obscurity" employed by ClickBank and defended in the support ticket referenced in the comments here).
Surveillance history belies 'trust us'
Google, FB, MS secretly pay ISP's to avoid traffic congestion to their content
Thank you for the correction — I was thinking of ARC and weak references when I made that comment.
The Xbox 360 released at about $500-$550 as did the PS3. The price was likely not the reason your friends were considering abandoning Xbox. It was the poorly communicated DRM restrictions and Microsoft's initial reluctance to do anything about it.

I would have been one of the people quick to abandon the platform, but now I'm considering purchasing the Xbox One. I'm sure some of your friends might be reconsidering as well.
I'm extremely biased as I have been using NginX for many years now; however, I've got to completely disagree with you.

NginX's configuration is beautiful, elegant, and concise. It kicks the ever living crap out of configuring Apache or Lighttpd (the two other HTTPd's I have extensive experience with). It seems so strange, because it's different.

NginX's configuration language is declarative. If is imperative and actually using if inside locations in NginX creates an inner location and executes a mini language to process.

14:42 <+merlincorey> !ifisevil
14:42 < ngxbot> please see above

Please see http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil for more about that in particular.

Finally, I have to disagree with OP... NginX has great documentation, written by Igor himself initially (and edited by the community) available here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/