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We are pretty much done with CPU speed advances and compiler optimizations. If you use an Intel i7 with the Intel C compiler, there might be a few percent left to optimize, but not much. Free lunch is over for a decade now.

You might get more cores at the same speed, but even that seems to be limited due to heat issues.

You can get more efficient CPU (e.g. SIMD instructions) but the compiler cannot optimize for them very well. Some people say implicit SIMD is a bad idea anyways.
You can filter reviews by device for devices you own. See: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.worldiety.a..., for instance. Check out the reviews section. Click on it to expand and notice the reviews filters.
Lucasfilm will combine video games and movies to axe post-production process
"technology industry"?
It's a fair point, though it may depend whether there is any "official support" for his actions.

If it's just someone acting on their own for fun, the amount of money Apple invest in China might suggest that they have some sway should they choose to use it.
The basic problem isn't so much having a standard distribution of rich and poor (a large bump in the middle with tails on either side), what's happening now is we are trending towards having a big pile of poor people, relatively speaking who are wage slaves and can't afford basics like rent and health care, and another much smaller pile of rich people who could give fuck all about everyone else. Our system works pretty well when the rich are slightly have mores (slightly better house, car, etc) but when they just cleave off of the rest of society, there isn't a good outcome to be had there.
Yes. You have to alter your Apple-iD or go to Apple's website to "unbreak" SMS on your new non-Apple phone. I'm sure that makes sense and is everyone's first guess when they first end up in a situation like this.

Sarcasm aside: There are comments unlike like yours, which takes it as a granted that everyone should know about these things and how Apple does everything internally.

Ironically enough, they perfectly highlight the self-centeredness of the Apple community and ecosystem. Which was the one thing I complaining about in the first place.
I've found that now I have a big phone (or small tablet) I don't use my kindle. You can cover the range with something like that (what I really want is a 6" phone/tablet, but it seems no-one's making those, so the choice is either a 5" big phone or a 7" tablet-that-makes-phone-calls like that ASUS thing) and a light 11" "ultrabook", which means one or two fewer devices to lug around.
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No, he is saying that most of those votes are irrelevant to the current downloadable version and should be treated as such, the actual score is posted as an aside and is moot.
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Vista tops out at 9. You may or may not care.
I think you missed the </sarcasm>
no, the idea for the article comes from the changes in iOS7 that have improved the number of our downloads. So it affects all apps that started a few years ago.

But it's also true that I'm a perfectionist myself, so if we have spent thousands of hours on the app, I want it to have the fair rating. And with the current algorithm it hasn't.
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Really? So if a customer was paying you $5 a month to run a VPS, you wouldn't shut it down if say... it was hosting child porn? Or if it was sending so many spam emails you were at risk of having all your other customers' servers impacted?

And if you did have some automated system and various criteria for detecting likely abuses, if someone got shut down under those terms, would you tell them exactly where the line was? Or would you keep your detection methods to yourself?
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The Beauty of Diagrams (an excellent BBC4 documentary) is worth tracking down if this kind of thing floats your boat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w5675/episodes/guide
google changed from eclipse to intellij IDEA because it just supported android so much better (imho), even before the switch!

I m constantly amazed at the quality and integration IDEA has for everything - from google appengine, gwt, spring/javascript/css/html, to heaps of templating languages…the list is endless….
FWIW modern flexbox techniques also work in IE 10, you just need the right polyfill since that browser uses a slightly older version of flexbox syntax. For examples:

http://the-echoplex.net/flexyboxes
The problem is not the average rating. The problem is the faked ratings. I think it's not normal that a lot of ios applications has five starts. It cannot be that a new app that anybody knows about it has a lot of positive comments.
I believe that SpaceX would have no problem securing funds from either BRIC, Arabs or even AlQuaeda for that matter.
I never actually saw that giveupandusetables website but found this: http://ajaxian.com/wp-content/images/giveupandusetables.png Is that the page?
The trick then is to get clients who know they just want to "have it taken care of", and have much higher billing suppliers (IP lawyers, pharma experts, etc). In that case, they don't really think twice about paying for process in advance of coding. Pharma is a good example.

Being a contract resource for a software company, where management tends to think everything related to software/IT is "easy", is a guaranteed shitty project. They'll second guess and micromanage everything you do. And then when they burn through their OPM, they'll screw you.
please correct me, but I thought $ receives it's backing through the oil market.

If one purchases oil, one needs to pay in $.
oooh... looks like someone has a case of the mondays.
The article stated that as much as 600 million USD in trades were made in that 7ms window. The S&P 500 rose 1.2% as a result of the announcement, giving an essentially riskless gross profit of around 7.2 million USD, if one were to buy before and sell after.
There's another programmers joke:

With months of coding we can save ourselves a couple days of planning.
I mention that in the site; however, in my testing their implementation isn't as good as I'd like it to be. To be honest, neither is IE11s :(

http://www.browserstack.com/screenshots/78ef12e58dd1ba200600...
if you have a middle mouse button, you can press the middle button to do column edits, column paste/edits.
I always found funny that war has rules, when people are just trying to kill other people no matter what.
That's actually my point: the general layout is so idiotic that you even don't look critically at the meaning of each representation. Indeed I did not notice the mistakes you mentioned.
Which is exactly why I don't anyone of these "hackers" deserves the bounty people set out for this.

It explicitly states "prints lifted like from a beer mug" and so far, all I have seen were prints lifted in a laboratory setting. Nothing real world about it.
and it isn't very expensive either (for a professional coder that is).
I think at a very least, votes older than a certain time should not be counted unless a new version has not been released.
The obvious question is: did you try other RDBMSes?
Fortunately, we also have all the 17" 1366x768 notebooks, so there's that.
For those wondering about the significance of this announcement:

As several people have noted, what matters for solar PV isn't efficiency but cost per Watt. The maximum available energy is 1W/meter^2 at ground. Single-layer PV efficiency is on the order of about 40%. Mutliple-layer cells can reach a maximum of around 80%.

Even with existing efficiencies, the land space necessary to dedicate to solar power for all electrical energy needs is reasonably small. A percent or so of the Earth's surface. The hard part will be fabricating the PV and/or CSP (concentrated solar thermal power) plants to collect that energy, estimates run well over $100 trillion globally (Jacobson & Delucchi).

A key limiting factor in solar, wind, and other intermittent renewables is storage (or baseload / standby power). Assuming you'd want 7 days' total energy output on reserve, there's quite literally not enough lead in the world to build storage for just the US, let alone the rest of the world. Pumped hydro storage is very efficient, but sites are limited. Biomass similarly doesn't scale to present populations. Geothermal is good for 5-20% of power demands depending on locations (and some places such as Iceland might be able to export energy). Thorium reactors look like a plausible bet but require development. Liquid metal / molten salt batteries (such as Donald Sadoway's designs) look like they're both cheap and abundant enough to make the grade, though they're still under development as well.

Solar power does have its equivalent of Moore's Law: Swanson's Law. Solar PV costs fall by 20% with each doubling of capacity. It's held since the 1970s and looks likely to continue. Effectively, costs half about every 3 years.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/12/daily-c...

In short: this is mostly of significance for applications in which space and/or weight are at a premium: satellite or possibly solar-powered aircraft (ultralights or airships most likely). For ground-based generation, look for costs to come down further.

And pray for highly effective storage solutions.
Well for one thing FF Meta isn't free or Free and is probably also trademarked.

Having an OFL (Open Font License) font of high quality is a good thing.

Also OFL licensed is Andika (http://scripts.sil.org/andika) which I'm using in an app for children as the letters are mostly in the form that they would be handwritten was the best I could find in a few hours searching (free and paid) and most of the licenses for use in apps looked very expensive.
If one purchases almost anything one needs to pay in $.

I was speaking in terms of fiat money which is not backed by precious metals anymore.
You can solve the vertical alignment problem pretty easily using display:inline-block
Are there async drivers for e.g. mysql yet? Last time I did that I had a very nice async spray frontend, but it was all backed by a pool of regular blocking threads because that was the only way to use the database driver.
and the success rate? and value delivered?
How about:

The report hasn't been disclosed because they are busy with normal operations.

The report hasn't been disclosed because they were pulled away from it to do some more urgent business, and since then it has been forgotten and/or important evidence has been lost.

The report hasn't been released due to turnover in whatever group would be responsible for producing the report, which has caused the loss of important tribal knowledge regarding the event.

As an outside observer, it's hard to say which it would be. However, I do find it unlikely that there would be a gag order - there is little surveillance data to be directly obtained from kernel.org, and attempting to backdoor the kernel itself would have a high risk of exposure and an extremely high risk of blowback from other governments who use Linux. Even if the NSA or CIA or some other TLA were behind it, they would have taken steps to ensure their identity would not be exposed in any investigation in the aftermath of a successful backdooring; there's no sense then effectively telling people who they are with a gag order (and then risking that someone might choose to violate the gag order).
Do the IRC transcripts sound like he thought that this information should have been shared by the server? Your interpretation would have weev thinking that AT&T intended to make this information public, that having it public was fine, and there was no complexity in what he did to get it.
IOS 7 spanks Samsung's version of Android in user experience rating
It's still bad. The only other option is blocking the audio channel to use WASAPI.
"8. Insisting on doctor’s notes in order to take sick days."

Is this common in the US? Even for a single day?

I'm in the UK and my contract states (from memory) that I have to get a doctors certificate after five contiguous days of sickness. I'm fairly sure thats been the same for all other companies I've worked for.
> How are dark environments a big problem if you can see the buttons?

You can't see your hands.
This might have been the lamest commercial I've ever seen =) Who's the target audience anyway?
Win Phone 8 didn't do very well either.

After using iOS 7 for a few days, I confess I like the minimalism in general, and looking back at iOS 6 things seem heavy and clunky. But it's all a matter of taste. Sadly I've never really had an Android device at hand to see what it's like to use; I'd honestly be very interested to try one out for a few days.
I wouldn't call this innovation... it's cool, yeah, but let's stop using the word innovation for each cool feature created
thanks for clearing up..i thought you guys had some sort of collaboration that yielded in the free Android IDE but this is even better. Well deserved!
Here is an anecdote about the Netscape Open Source release which became Mozilla.

> When we created mozilla.org and released (most of) the source code to Netscape Confusicator 4.x, Netscape's lawyers made us go through a big "sanitization" process on the source code. Largely this consisted of making sure we had the legal rights to all the code we were releasing, and making sure every file had proper and accurate copyright statements; but they also made us take out all the dirty words. Specifically, "any text containing vulgar or offensive words or expressions; any text that might be slanderous or libelous to individuals and/or institutions."

http://www.jwz.org/doc/censorzilla.html

Even John Carmack was pressured by the lawyers when he open-sourced Doom 3.

http://www.techspot.com/news/46391-john-carmack-releases-doo...
I'm referring to the actual use of those words in the business everyday life to refer to a business 'chart', not to the use of those words in general. Of course the words "graph", "chart" or "data visualization" did not suddenly pop up at specific moment in the recent history. In your analytics, "graph" might relate to graph theory, linguistic, or music.
+1 to this. I installed Witch when I started using OS X, but as soon as I found out about Cmd+~ I uninstalled it.
tl;dr: not with GPU but possible with ASIC
Needs a tour page! Also I can't make out what the coins are poking out from in the logo.
I'm not updating until iOS 7 has been properly jailbroken, which may take more than half a year.
AKA Seagull Managers ("Fly in, make a lot of noise, shit on everything, fly out").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_manager
Thank you! learners need IDEs too!

(not a learner, but back when I coded .NET I couldn't have lived without resharper. Quite excited that I can use PyCharm now too!)
How you can write code if you don't know what you're writing. Reading those programming books perhaps gave you the idea of what to write about right?
This is like a parody of innovation! It looks like a concept project mostly. The key to making anything like this comes from how well it is integrated with the software, and audio production software is really hard to get right.

There is a need for physical controls for music software control (or any software) and there is a fundamental problem. The amount of parameters and functions that need to be controlled is vast. It will quickly overwhelm a control surface with limited amount of controls unless a lot of thought and design is put into the a method of switching the function of the controls. These types of controls are still virtual!
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That's exactly where we are heading. Data discovery made accessible to anyone via chart interactivity. Soon.
That is awesome, thanks! I think in my situation I'm better off not using that filter, as I don't have a phone that lots of people seem to have. :D
And they have a filter for newest version, too. Maybe they should mark reviews that aren't for the latest version, perhaps by changing the font color to something a little lighter.
(It does super suck that you need Google+ if you want to write a review though, they force that on us, so I've never written a review myself nor will I.)
Not true at all. Your statement about available land is correct of course, but the important part of picture is that the soft costs for construction of solar electric power plants are already much higher than hard costs. And, improving efficiency is a great way to cut them.

Imagine a 10 MW power plant built out of panels with 10% efficiency. If you replace them with 20% efficient panels, you increase output 2x without measurably increasing soft costs - like land provision, fixtures on which the panels stand, installation work, insurance, etc. Only part that will increase will be inverters (not a particulary big item) and thicker cables connecting it to the grid. So, soft costs per watt will fall by 40-45%.

So, given that the wholesale price of solar panels now stand at 40 cent per watt, and even in cheapest countries the complete plant is $2 per watt, increasing efficiencies 2x means building a 2x more powerful plant for about $1.4 per watt (soft costs fall from $1.6 to $1.0 - i.e. they slightly increase but power output doubles) and hard costs stay the same. Big deal.

And almost all of the progress in solar power costs we can have now lies in this field - increase of panel efficiency, not decreasing their costs. Even if panels were free, costs won't fall much...

Of course this article bears no relation to that - these are high concentration cells, and cost to build collectors is already much higher than just buying enough of flat panels... better show me a non-concentrated cell with at least 35% efficiency.
The first thing I got in mind is the Status bar. Now you have access to the full screen, status bar included. You may have some gap between iOS 6 and iOS 7 on this level.

Also this link may help you --> http://roadfiresoftware.com/2013/09/developing-for-ios-7-and...
A version/ratings graph might really help here. That will also dissuade devs from frequently releasing updates to hide the fact that their product is sub-par. If you have a whole bunch of recent releases with a handful of early 5-star ratings that are glowing with praise, something is fishy.
Can be turned off: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/08/changes-to-chromes-...
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The new Web MIDI spec allows hands-on devices with sliders, dials, XY pads etc to be accessible from javascript.

While the majority of MIDI controller devices currently target music apps it will be interesting to see how hands-on devices can help improve interactions with other types of app. As an example, here I tackle the fiddly business of graph navigation using a standard plug-and-play MIDI controller and the latest Chrome: https://vimeo.com/74886850
Would a simpler way to put it be that if you make something fast and do it lots of times, it's difficult to speed up. If you make something slow and it's done significantly less times, there's the risk that someone will make it a lot faster?
My guess would be that Amazon are counting on them then buying movies, apps and books to make up for it.

This feels like a response to poor user engagement and given that on-going purchases are a big part of Amazon's aim for these devices that would be a problem for them.

Remember too that this could / should be a one off cost to Amazon for each Fire user. When / if your parents like the tablet and upgrade in the future, you'd hope that they then had enough familiarity not to need it again.
Doesn't work for me, generates an error in the console "FB is not defined"
Yes, I had this impression once.

It's like a very long function that returns nothing and has no side effects.
If you would have actually looked in the menu, there is a default shortcut.

CTRL+K,CTRL+Y to mark current selection (or if no selection word under cursor), then CTRL+D to map next occurence.
And possibly not with ASIC given the potential of multiple vendors worth of ASIC's coming online at roughly the same time. I believe at least one has shipped the bare hardware.
This has a potential if Microsoft opens up the architecture and allows other companies to create their own touch covers. it will automatically boost Surface sales if big name software companies produce customized touch covers to work with their applications.

Think for example covers for video editing software, CAD etc
Galaxy Note II has a 5.55" screen, it rounds to 6, right? And Galaxy Note 3 has 5.7". Close enough?

And then there seems to be Galaxy Mega with 6.3" and 5.8" screens.
Then well and good, but alas situations where that will work and deliver business value are rare enough you can easily spend a lifetime as a professional programmer without encountering one.
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Hmm. Linkin Park's DJ? How much more C-list can you get in terms of DJs to endorse your product. If Armin van Buuren plays a set in Ibiza with a Surface, I might possibly give it a bit more credit as a serious device. From a DJ and producer perspective, MacBook Pros and Mac Pros are still king. I don't know the specs on the surface, but I would bet running a full Ableton setup on the surface would be a bit stressful on that OS. Serato might run on it though, so the wedding DJ market might eat this up while the real producers and DJs will stick with their laptops, MIDI controllers and USB/FireWire mixers. I've never played in a booth that was so small that a Surface would be the only thing that fit. This Surface thing is going simply be a marketing pull like iLife is for Mac.
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Send the document to DO. Waiting for them.
gate keeping is a means to obtain profit. If you controlled it all, like the old media companies used to, you can make a lot more profit. but with the advent of the internet and p2p distribution, it's becoming hard to control, and this they have completion.
It's free-to-play with paid additions, 'premium accounts', etc.
I like the story of how Linear B was deciphered better http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22782620 - no Rosetta stone, but more like cryptanalysis; Alice Kober built frequency tables and discovered patterns which (with a bit of insight and guesswork) led to Michael Ventris cracking the code.
I was senior consultant, but for a two man organisation. The other man was the owner. Later on he told me I wasn't up to standards to be "senior" consultant.

He then became the sole member of the business :-)
I also remember the time when they were rare, held what seemed like incredible amounts of data and were very expensive as a computer accessory. I have some Amiga magazines advertising disc burners for around $4000 in 1991. My Amiga had a 20 mb hard drive, floppy drives and no optical drive (a read only drive was 600-800 and somewhat pointless for most everyone).

Arcade games based on laserdiscs were quite impressive to me as a child, such as Space Ace. That title seemed quite futuristic in 1988 in no small part due to the giant rainbow disc it flaunted.
>You won't find one, given that it's not true.

Really? :)
http://presstv.com/usdetail/189661.html

>Are you actually asking if accidentally killing innocent people is better than routinely and intentionally killing innocent people, like this:

An innocent person dead is an innocent person dead. Regardless of whether it's an accident or intentional its still wrong. 'Accidentally killing' hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the name of 'all that is good and great' is disgusting.
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> It's just shocking — absolutly SHOCKING — to see how many artists expect to get paid for their work

This is so backwards. Getting paid -- as in getting compensated for work -- is usually something you have agreed upon _before_ you do the work.
The story ultimately ends when Anthony decides to switch to Litecoin mining, and gets rather burnt by the whole experience.

http://reckoner.com.au/2013/07/my-three-months-as-a-litecoin...