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I'm on the complete opposite boat - I think the laptop experience generally sucks still. Battery life only recently got improved to a great point in the past few years, but performance is still generally lacking.

Meanwhile a great desktop lasts longer than ever, is cheaper than ever, and does everything extremely fast. I have a 5 year old desktop that outperforms a lot of laptops out there, including my new Macbook Air & my work laptop (not even a month old), and that desktop pales compared to my half year old desktop (which costs maybe $200 more than the 13" cheapest Macbook Air).

I think part of the shift in the market is due to the great state desktops have become as long lasting devices (& thus declining sales), and some of the improvements on more mobile devices - I'm highly skeptical of any call that the desktop is going away anytime soon though, because the mobile experience is still seriously lacking in the sweet spot of performance, battery life, weight, and price.
How about to stave off the problem of duplicate requests, all documents satisfying FOIA requests are published on a webserver permanently?
My friend met this guy and told me all about this a few months ago and I totally thought she just bought some random dudes BS ... but wow was I wrong. This should be a movie.
Doesn't work on mobile.

....oh.
Unless Opera are building themselves their own little Firefox OS kind of thing they're pretty much fucked moving forward. On the desktop their move to webkit successfully destroyed every reason to use Opera and doesn't measure up against rivals, and they've been netscaped out of mobile.
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I agree wholeheartedly. I'm a paid customer, I'm loving the service (support too), and this is the only thing keeping me from telling people how great FastMail is.
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Great to see somebody talking more about the ins and outs of open access research. (Dr Leek is also one of the instructors in the data analysis courses on Coursera, FWIW.)
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This thread is way off the front page so maybe you won't see this but I thought you might find it interesting.

'look', when not part of any phrasal verb ('look at', 'look for'), is actually a copula in English. A copula is a linking verb, the paradigmatic example being 'to be', that can occur in the pattern (subject) (copula) (adjective).

That's what is happening in sentences like

"The man (subj) looks nice (adj.)"

Whereas with any noncopulative verb we need an adverb

"The man ran quickly.", "The stocks fell rapidly.", etc.

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

What's interesting is that if you look at the list of English copulae above, you'll notice that many of them ('smell', 'sound', 'feel', 'taste', and 'seem') are capable of the same kind of inversion as 'look' in their participle forms. So...

"The chicken tasted funny." and "The chicken is funny tasting."

"This song sounds sad." and "This song is sad sounding."

It's a little more awkward to think of examples with 'seem', which is curious since it's the only one of those six copulae mentioned that isn't sensory in meaning.

TL;DR: 'looking' is definitely not a standard adjectival participle, since it can't function as an adjective on it's own, but instead needs to follow another adjective. Another excellent example of how words do not conform neatly to part of speech categories.
Given that the terms change from what the worker originally agreed to - for example, a lot of these work camps don't bother paying the workers, and freedom to roam is curtailed - it's more analagous to slavery than indentured servitude.
> Unfortunately I think Windows is still positioned best to make this happen.

As a user who has been very impressed by the combination of http://elementaryos.org/ and the fact that Valve/Steam has recommitted to Linux, I think Windows is on the downturn and Linux is on the upswing.
>All games are rigged by someone, so you have to do a bit of cheating to turn the odds.

Just don't get caught. And if you do get caught, make sure you have enough money to not get thrown in prison for years or decades. Make sure that if you do get thrown in jail, you have a hidden nest egg to return to. Make sure that if you escape jail but not civil fines, that you still have a hidden nest egg to return to.

>Maybe this should be a template for the poor.

Wait a second...
So, a hyperbole not to be taken literally. So why post it, boredom?
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>Personally, I sort of like the thought that if somebody releases a crap app and gets a bunch of 1-star ratings they are likely going to stick for awhile. Harsh, I know, but it does give companies some incentive to get it mostly right at first.

>Speaking of, something I'd like to see is a developer ranking.

It would discourage releasing early and often, something that's hard enough to do already. I think I'm finally starting to get it through my head/ego that I need to just say "good enough is good enough, release it into the world and get feedback instead of spending 3 more months 'perfecting' it." Knowing a single app with bad ratings in the beginning could bring me down for years would just be another excuse not to ship.
There will be no justice for that kid. Nobody will be held accountable.
Mantle still doesn't solve input, audio, and a number of other services that DirectX provides in a unified way. Also, potentially AMD only, which has a smaller share than both Intel and nVidia.
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Larry coded that up probably. Don't make him feel bad! ;)
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It's the discounting of luck, as described by the Fundamental Attribution Error. The line you quote is about as short an example of the error as is possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
My Thinkpad X300 running Linux is about as perfect a PC as you can get[1], except for the missing SD card slot. Then Apple came out with the Air and Lenovo just lapped it up. I'm sure the X1 Carbon is nice, but it wieghs the same as my X300, has a chicklet keyboard and costs about $1500 more at current prices.

The X300 was the Ultrabook before the word Ultrabook even existed :)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Race-Perfect-Ultimate-Portable/dp/...
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Wow, what a terrible way to go - I would think adrenaline would play a part in that, and what part of the brain the bullet went through.... unlucky
When your entire commute is stop and go, I don't see much hope in merely retraining the drivers. Self driving cars, on the other hand, can really optimize how limited capacity is utilized in developing countries like china (stuck in traffic right now in Beijing, which is way too normal here).
This post is actually devoid of factual content as it stands. Please don't take it as an insult, read on:

Media Player Classic uses codec decoders you have installed on your PC, VLC ships with everything it needs to play your videos. In other words, you should not be comparing VLC to MPC, but rather VLC's underlying codec library (from ffmpeg, I believe) to the active codec decoder being used on your Windows machine.

For example, I too use MPC on Windows to get better video - but that's because I have CoreAVC installed and MPC uses it to play h264 content. CoreAVC blows everything else out of the water in terms of performance and quality.

What codec are you using on Windows w/ MPC?
Correct, a member of the same small POS group as 'smelling', 'feeling', 'sounding', 'tasting', and 'seeming'.
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Have been a paying customer of Fastmail.fm since early 2003. It just works and I hope it continues to for many years to come!
In order to be motivated enough to kill other people, you have to get your head into a pretty weird place. Religion is one path there. The religion that happens to dominate countries full of desperate people is... Islam.

I think Christians have a bigger body count than Muslims over the course of human history, primarily because the Europeans happen to be Christian. Hard to think of any religion that hasn't been used to justify a bunch of violence and murder. The violence by people quoting Islam today is mice nuts compared to (a) the crusades, (b) the protestant reformation, (c) the colonization of the new world.

You should really read Guns, Germs, and Steel before claiming that there is something special about this particular religion. Get a little sense of history. Islam in the 600s was amazingly progressive. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_inheritance_jurispruden....
I'm a big fan of Fastmail, and I'm tentatively excited about this announcement.

Missing CardDAV/CalDav sync ability is sorely missing, so it's good to see the developers talking about it.

I'd also like to see (and would pay for) options where the data is located in other countries, away from the United States. It's really symbolic, but also practical: I'd like my data closer to where I live.
The article is a giant pile of stupid. Umm...I think my Air is a nice laptop. It's packed full of Intel stuff. Why the anti-Intel rant? He's dumb or a liar. Intel doesn't care whether Apple/Intel wins, or Microsoft/Intel wins, or ??/Intel wins.
The countries could enforce/create laws and protect these people. To suggest that they have no power in the situation laughable. They cannot be absolved of their responsibility for this issue.
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I didn't read the article yet, but some further reading/listening for those interested:

-'Freeway' Rick Ross on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast:
http://vimeo.com/41214597#t=123

-Rick Ross, the rapper, was actually a correctional officer before his rap career took off:
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So, uh, do you have a blog or Twitter I can follow you at? You honestly brought up some remarkable points and have great ideas!
Thanks for making this software. I have been trying to add a RSS-ticker and stream my video for a month...using ffmpeg. Even after posting on ffmpeg user gropus, I got no useful responses.

It took me 5 min to do the same using VLC.
There are a couple Bluetooth and infrasound options for pressure sensitive pens for iPad/iPhone. Not as good as a Wacom sensor built into the display itself, but they are there to some degree.

The issue is the same on Android. Android devices are so cutthroat that an extra 25$ cost to include the pen and screen sensor will sink your product and not including the pen just makes it into an accessory no one has. And even then you won't beat Google's whitebox or Amazon's loss leader hardware pricing.

Samsung is really the only successful Android device maker with a built-in pen, and they already pour ridiculous amounts of money into things no one else but Apple can, like marketing, so it isn't surprising. Although an infrasound pen works with any Android, just not as well again.
http://web.archive.org/web/19980505193923/http://www.altavis... is wrong.

Try this instead: http://web.archive.org/web/19980505193939/http://www.altavis...

GoogleScout wasn't around until 1999: http://googlepress.blogspot.com.au/1999/09/googles-new-googl...

Also, I think 'Cached' used to be called 'View old version', having done some research.
You should not paint all countries in the Middle East with the same brush.
My understanding is that they do if it is available. Fraud is the most accessible flavour of white crime that I'm aware of.
This is the best answer I've seen (speaking as a control systems engineer who develops industrial software for a living), and a big part of the reason I'm not keen on software developers calling themselves engineers. When your software crashes and causes $XMM worth of damages, injury or death, and you're held personally liable for that in a court of law due to your status as an engineer, then I'd be willing to accept the Software Engineer title.

The title implies a certain amount of rigour and due diligence being applied at all stages of a design, as well as compliance with all relevant standards and regulations. This is audited by certification bodies and explicitly stated by your signature on any document or code you sign off on.

Personally I think this is somewhere that software development could head in the future, but there seems to be too much disagreement on coding best practices to standardise them, and anyway I doubt most people would be willing to pay the cost associated with this, for the majority of software.
It is legalized slavery. These middle eastern countries are well known for that. That's why they are recruiting the poorest of the poor from rural areas in Asia.

Foreign workers have 0 rights there. But hey these guys are US allies,the leader of democracy and the free world... they cant be bad , can they ...
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Doh! 1kW/meter^2. Apologies.

More closer to the equator, less in higher lattitudes and/or where topography (valleys, canyons) or weather (fog, clouds) interfere, though even diffuse sunlight can provide significant power.
This is the huge benefit with the console wins to AMD that Carmack spoke about at Quakecon this year. Sounds like thanks to the new consoles, this will put AMD in the driver's seat. Everyone else will be stuck on DX or OGL. If NV/Intel implements Mantle it may well require a hardware change, since AMD defines this API going forward.
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I don't do twitter, but I have wondered what it would be to write or read a longer work composed within the limits of 140 character chunks - parceled out over time. It is not so much the size limitation on tweets as it is the disconnect between them that causes the dissolution of bigger ideas.
Anyone find and read this yet? http://goo.gl/LWJrAl

I am a skeptic and just looking at this site makes me question it.
I don't think many people used Opera because of it's rendering engine; they used it because of the GUI and high-level features.

Moving to webkit just let them focus on what actually made them unique to their customers.
Ah, but the opportunities available for the poor to grab what they can will likely have them facing the rough side of well-financed and increasingly militarized police force.

You can play by your own rules but the reality is that if you do so as a poor person you will end up being fucked by the law. Subversive unethical behavior is solely the domain of those who can afford to commit it or those too shortsighted to care.
You can select the classic interface on the login page. I agree, it feels more usable than the fancy version.
Well that is the sort of FUD that Microsoft is counting on. That people recommend XBox 360 or XBox One controllers for their competitor's products. The average user isn't very tech savvy and then will fear that the XBox controlled might not work with their SteamMachine system or that it will be difficult to set up, and that the Steamtroller isn't as good as the XBox controller, so they will have to avoid all that fear and uncertanty and just buy a Microsoft XBox 360/One at Best Buy next to the XBox controllers and ignore the whole SteamMachine because of it.

The same thing happens when you recommend Linux to the average user, get a Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse to use with Linux. Well why aren't there Linux mice and keyboards? Can't I run Windows apps on Linux? No, well sort of, you have to install WINE and then if it is on the compatibility list, er ah look Linux has their own apps most are free and do the same thing as Windows apps but have a different user interface. Steam works on Linux, but only has 100+ Linux games, but if you run the Steam Windows Client under WINE some of not most of the games might work if you add in some exceptions to the built in libraries, etc. Then they just buy a Windows 8.1 PC instead of installing Linux over their old one that runs XP.

I really hope that SteamOS and SteamMachines catch on and port most of the Steam games to Linux, so I don't have to deal with this nonsense to my non-technical friends and family members. I hope the Steamtroller or whatever is as good as if not better than the XBox one.

Oh yeah I had friends and family members who bought a Macbook, and then ask me how to install Windows apps on it. Run Bootcamp, repartition the hard drive, reboot, stick in your Windows CD/DVD or USB stick and install, you now can dual boot Mac OSX and Windows. Then they don't know how to select it and forget what key to hold down, sell it and buy a Windows 8.1 tablet instead.

Basically if you are expecting an XBox, buy an XBox, if you want a Windows PC/Tablet buy a Windows PC/Tablet. If you want something else that is different and new, and might have a lower footprint OS that runs your games faster, and you don't care that it isn't an XBox or Windows PC/Tablet then try the SteamMachine and SteamOS. But please don't try putting XBox and Windows game disks into the SteamMachine!

Remember the average person that goes to Best Buy is a 'sheeple' controlled by FUD by the news media and other megacorproations to just part with their money on whatever new geegaw gadget they come up with as long as it is a 'trusted brand name' they are familiar with. They go to Best Buy because they hold their hand and tell them what they need to buy. If Valve was smart, they'd make a deal with Geeksquad to partition part of their area into a Steam Store that they can assist people with SteamMachine issues.
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Yeah there are great beaches in Dubai... and a lot of slaves building fancy hotels too, see , that's not the same.
It's not exactly 140 character chunks spread out over time, but perhaps this comes close: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein's_Mistress
> Intel isn't willing to go after software.

I think it would be silly for Intel to build their own OS from scratch; it would be expensive and probably lead to their demise (ala Nokia).

They do hire software engineers to e.g. make Android work on x86 and make Linux servers run well on x86.
My experience getting a personal code signing certificate with Comodo was just as bad, but their support had the English language skills of a 5 year old and they offered fewer options for verification.

For me, they couldn't even find my phone number on my bill and asked me to highlight it and re-send it. Plus, they were absolutely fixated on getting a phone bill that showed the logo of my service provider. I've had the same phone number for 10+ years and even offered to arrange for them to call my phone company and verify the info.

Nope! After days I got fed up and used Photoshop to merge an old paper bill that had logos with a current PDF bill that didn't have logos. They don't care about verifying your identity. All they want to do is follow a pre-determined checklist of criteria so they can cover their ass and take your money.

As an added bonus, the Windows 8 SmartScreen Filter treats personal code signing certificates that aren't popular the same as unsigned code.
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I think you mean the Asus Eee Note?
http://www.asus.com/Eee_Family/Eee_Note_EA800/

And dammit, that looks perfect for notetaking/sketching/etc. :(
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They can, but it may require a change to their hardware (we don't know yet). And if they do follow AMD's lead here to catch up on performance gains, AMD is in control of the API so they know exactly what's going to change when.

Major coup for AMD. This is a CUDA that will affect all gamers.
> You, like a real rich person, start to attribute success to your own individual skills and talents, and you become less attuned to all of the other things that contributed to you being in the position that you're in.

Now let's do a simple switcheroo on this one: "You, like a real poor person, start to attribute failure to external causes, and you become overly attuned to all of the other things that may or may not have contributed to you being in the position that you're in."

So which one is the norm? Is the norm poor people attributing failure to external causes (as well as other people) or is rich people attributing success to themselves the norm? Or is the truth somewhere in the middle perhaps?
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They don't bash electrons together; electrons are much too small for that. Normally larger particles are smashed together, like atomic neuclei.
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100% share of the next-gen console though, which is what counts for gaming.
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The new docking station and ability to drive high resolution displays is a lot more important than sites are recognizing. We can finally truly have 1 machine for everything on the go and docked at work or at home. No doubt it'll likely be more of a pleasure perhaps in a Surface Pro 3 that would be lighter and even more powerful.

I don't really see the current crop of convertible laptop/tablets as solving this problem due to low perf and the fact that I'd never be able to code all day on those cramped keyboards.