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Microsoft had this as their aim with "Windows Longhorn", announced ten years ago this month, but failed in their task and released instead Vista.

Here's some relevant snippets from http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/06/window... ...

* ... Longhorn would integrate .NET into the core Windows platform. .NET FX, as it was known in the company (with "FX" standing for "framework") would give way to WinFX, a Windows Framework based on the same technology. Among other things, this would include a brand new way for writing user interfaces, codenamed Avalon, that would be thoroughly modern, vector-based, and hardware-accelerated. Windows itself would be written to use WinFX for its user-visible programs—Explorer, calculator, and so on—and, going forward, .NET would be the way to write Windows applications. Win32 would still exist for backwards compatibility, but it would be frozen and left static.

* Longhorn would have been the end of the old ways of writing Windows programs, and the dawn of a new era of modern Windows development, one that was not hamstrung by design decisions made ten or fifteen years prior.

* As we all know now, Longhorn never shipped as such. The project grew enormous, unmanageable, and broken. Around the same time, Windows XP, on which Longhorn was based, was being ravaged by hackers. Microsoft poured its resources into making Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 tolerably secure—an effort that culminated in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1—then, for the most part, started development of its next operating system, the one eventually to ship as Windows Vista, all over again.

* One of the biggest losers in this developmental reboot was .NET. Windows Vista, though radical in some ways, abandoned the entire "WinFX" concept. Avalon did ship—it's now known as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)—but as an add-on to the operating system, not a core part.
Revenue which pays for the FREE service. If the choice was gmail with ads or no gmail I know which I'd choose.
"One is to provide a feature for the end user. The other is taking the user's private communication and using it to make money for Google."

Assume this is true for a second. I'm not aware of any legal caselaw that has ever drawn such a distinction for the acts in play here. So I guess i don't get while people keep saying this like it should or would matter.

(I can't really opine on the case itself for obvious reasons)
The average IQ produced by natural selection depends on the environment. There is no ideal level of intelligence apart from environment. If the Earth had a uniform climate, terrain, and so on from pole to pole, this presumably would not be the case.
Elementary OS is built on Vala, a language syntactically similar to C#, but compiles to C. Not trying to detour you from C#, but it might be a better option as even Singularity is not entire C# (the lower level stuff).

http://elementaryos.org/
In its short life, Bitcoin has outperformed every other asset on the market and is holding its value. It's up almost 10x from where it was this time last year.
That hasn't been the case for me, its often more relevant than when I'd been searching on Google. Like I said, I switched and haven't been back. I'm a lot more productive and the ads are much less intrusive too.
Gould has been exposed as a fraud.
From my cursory review of Rust, they're getting a lot of things right. One small example: in C#, you can't properly stack-allocate things like strings, because "reference types" get alloc'd on the heap, end of story. A function might decide to store a reference later, so stack alloc isn't possible. The CLR implementation doesn't do escape analysis.

In Rust, the type system encompasses things like who owns a pointer, so you can keep memory management simple, while choosing performance-oriented paths when needed.

The CLR itself is actually fine with a lot of such things (nothing stops you from stack allocating a string "by hand"), it just doesn't help you out. IL is pretty expressive and can translate C in a fairly straightforward fashion. So "C#" by itself has some drawbacks, but they could be patched over with some interop libraries or language extensions.
I wrote something like this a few months ago.

Depending on Google Spreadsheet for uptime monitoring is nothing more than just a fun hack. I'm surprised that some people here are taking it so seriously. If you're using a script like this, then I hope it's just to keep those single dynos from falling asleep :)

It's also subject to Google Docs availability, my script sometimes fails to run with only a "We're sorry, a server error occurred. Please wait a bit and try again." email notification.
>Bitcoins can be divided into 10^8 small subparts called shitoshis

Stopped reading there, do some research. First off they are calles satoshis, also that limit is far from hard.
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Apple makes 45% of all profits in the PC market. Nobody else comes close. That isn't a small segment - they are the clear winner.
Believing everyone is tabula rasa when it comes to intelligence is one of those white lies society tells itself to make itself feel better. Of course the environment one grows up in is important but this article is kidding itself into thinking it is the primary factor.

We inherit so many other traits from our parents, why should intelligence be any different? What makes it so special that it requires a convoluted explanation that rests on so many assumptions?
> Saying "Children aren't born smart" is equivalent to saying "Intelligence is determined entirely by one's environment", if I understand the claim correctly.

You don't understand the claim correctly. The claim is that environmental factors (particularly being talked to) are essential to development of intelligence, not that environmental factors determine intelligence entirely.

The distinction between necessary conditions and necessary and sufficient conditions is pretty critical.
It's a coffee pun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungo
Elementary OS is a Linux distribution. Linux is primarily written in C.
The _only_ reason they provide the feature is so they can make money. Why is this so complicated to understand? Google isn't a charity. They are not obligated to provide anyone anything (unless you pay them. And you can get rid of the ads if you have a Google apps subscription AFAIK.) Do not equate government with a company: their aims are completely different.
Excellent question.

But if they really are going to be a healthy contributor to the whole community, then it makes sense for them to pick one and contribute to it. Who knows what's actually going to happen! I don't want to get my hopes up, though. Graphics support sucks in Linux for (presumably) some economic reason - maybe Valve entering the market is just a hedge against Windows locking down their software market and they don't really care about Linux or at least not about the wider community.

But Gaben has said some pretty promising things. Who knows. Very interesting and exciting, isn't it?
I'd love to see freebsd support for the install scripts. Last I looked support was in its infancy. Maybe I should revisit.
Just a quick note, for what it's worth.

I work for an ISP/MSP. In addition to our servers and network, we manage those of many of our customers. We would never pay $10/month/server for this and neither would our customers. There was a time when we probably would have -- when we deployed on bare metal -- but with the rise of virtualization it's simply no longer possible. Whereas a customer might have had three (physical) servers a few years ago, they might have 15 or 20 now ("one task per (virtual) server") and that makes your product unaffordable.
Sorry - this has nothing to do with the profits being shared by a plethora of companies. Apple receives almost half of the profits in the PC market. The rest is divided between your plethora. Apple chose not to serve the unprofitable part of the market.
How is upper body training helping him jump higher?
This new psychology fad, "grit", is getting a lot of press, and it should -- it's likely to have some substance behind it.

The old fad, called "Asperger Syndrome", isn't getting much press any more, especially after it was way overdiagnosed and fell into disrepute -- and out of the new DSM.

Guess what, boys and girls? Grit, and Asperger Syndrome, describe the same symptoms and behavior -- a dedicated focus on a few, or only one, interest, and an indifference to personal relationships when compared to a personal objective.

All that has changed is that psychologists think "grit" is a good thing, where they believed Asperger Syndrome was a bad thing, a mental illness.

Conclulsions? Psychologists know which side of the bread the butter is on. And psychology is not a science.
What's "intelligence"?
Would making money to pay for the services the users use count as being towards the benefit of the user?
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I looked it up on Wikipedia. You may have overlooked the fact that MS abandoned this project and that it used assembler, C and C++ to build the foundations. So the exercise has shown that it is possible, albeit with a considerable amount of non-C# code. But I think they also learnt that it isn't a particularly effective. There isn't enough information on Midori, the "commercial" successor to Singularity to make any assessment.
Well, they tried with the Kin, right?
Rewards cards are 100% about selling/analyzing that data.

There are billion dollar publicly traded companies who specialize in mining consumer data (something for example, highly valuable in pharmaceuticals).

I'd be curious to see the laws preventing CC companies from doing the same. Most likely the data is anonymized when sold.

"Big-data" marketing is heavily at work in the background of our society.
You are contradicting yourself. You say that fill stack companies are hard to keep going and yet you say that non-full stack companies come and go even more easily.

By your logic, non-full stack companies are even harder to keep going.
CER is part of the hosting work done for SQL server integration (i.e., SQL server hosting the CLR), not Singularity.

For Singularity, they used an extended version of C# called Sing# (based on an earlier research project called Spec#)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_Sharp
In many ways Microsoft in the early 2000's was a bit ahead of the trends in operating systems and mobile devices.

They probably failed because they were competing against themselves and were just too big and compartmentalized.
There's a basically an open laundry list; its fairly extensive in terms of tracking patterns/usage to violating their own "don't be evil" policy. Bing doesn't have nearly as much paid placement, but that could be economic vs policy.

Like I said though, I don't use either :)
Canonical's explanation is on this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/Spec
Look at fleitz's answer. Maybe you could download Singularity and use that as your base. If you get really good at it, there might even be a chance at a job on the Midori team.
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“Google’s alleged interceptions are neither instrumental to the provision of email services, nor are they an incidental effect of providing these services. The Court therefore finds that Plaintiffs have plausibly alleged that the interceptions fall outside Google’s ordinary course of business...”

From the e-mail case, but this logic would generate the relevant distinction. Their initial legal positioning seems open to question, but only time will tell.
I come from a unique environment that has allowed me to draw some very interesting conclusions.

I am from a family of 3 children. Two adopted and one "unexpected" natural birth.

One of the three of us has been in prison many times (and we have no other relatives that I know of that have ever been in trouble beyond the occasional speeding/parking ticket).

The other of the three of us is a carbon copy of their biological mother (dress sense, social sense, taste in music/books/films, mannerisms, extreme anti-social behaviour, etc) - they hadn't spoken until my sibling was 25 - so that was 25 years without contact, visibility, etc - and they still turned out to be a near carbon copy.

I followed in my parents footsteps in many ways, more than I realised at the time.

All three of us agree that we got the same toys, the same lollies, same schooling, same opportunities, etc... so we can only put the differences down to nature - and I can tell you that I'm a big believer that nature plays a BIG role in defining what we are...

I've often said "we don't just LOOK like our parents, it's also the nuances in the structure and wiring of our brains".

I have a few kids of my own, and while they are quite different (nerd v/s jock, introvert v/s extrovert, etc) - there are many similarities, unlike my siblings and I.
C# by default doesn't generate native code. C# generate CIL (Common Intermediate Language), which only gets turned into native code at runtime by the JIT (Just in time compiler).

That being said, it is also possible to generate a native image (using ngen) to transform CIL into native code for a specific machine. But that approach is the exception more than it is the norm.
I never realized that simple graph functions can translate to animations... mind.. blown.
The GPL and MIT licenses both protect your freedoms to modify and distribute the software for any purpose. The "raging debate" is about whether or not derivative software should also be required to protect your freedom.
Wikipedia link[1] and a download page[2] which looks like it belongs in the era that this paper was published in.

I actually really like the idea behind this, and it seems like it became a fairly big thing in the 90s with it being bundled with IE 3 - 5. I might just try it out to see how it performs seeing as I am a budding comic author

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
[2]: http://www.mermeliz.com/cchat.htm
As someone who has synesthesia, a background in engineering, and currently studies music technology, I'm pretty confident saying this has nothing to do with the former. I'm genuinely confused why OP called this synesthesia.

Synesthesia, by definition, is the _mixing_ of your senses. Letters having colors, smells having personalities, music tasting like cheeseburgers. NOT, using a spectrogram to display audio.

I can sort of see where OP is coming from, but I think it's a bit farfetched to call this synesthesia. As fluidcruft said, a more suitable title would probably be "Audio Analysis with Signal Processing Algorithms" or something along those lines.

Regardless, it's still a pretty impressive project.
There we go, I knew the name was at least public and I was to lazy to login and see what it was called.

I'd love to know more about Midori as well.
You just have to replace it with something. You usually look at porn when you're bored, so you wont if you're really busy all the time. http://reddit.com/r/nofap
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So we "simply can't know" whether the title should be taken at face value, but at the same time the parent's point is a "useless nitpick" because it's irrelevant to the main point of the article. Nice.

If we "simply can't know" what the point is, then how do you decide what's relevant?
It's the thing that blank slatists say can be improved by a better environment when they're not busy claiming that it can't be measured.
I'm not aware of any legal caselaw that has ever drawn such a distinction for the acts in play here. So I guess i don't get while people keep saying this like it should or would matter.

Law is always a distant second to morality. Sometimes it catches up, sometimes it doesn't. But to define what is right by a lack of previously established law is astoundingly naive, bordering on self-serving. Even when there is precedent, it doesn't necessarily define the morality of a situation, e.g. slavery, driving under the influence and women's suffrage among many thousands of examples.
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They key change they dragged their heels was creating a new UI toolkit centered around touch interaction. That created a huge third party software gap vs iOS and made their devices look hampered.
According to the judge the wiretapping statutes allow only interception that is 'instrumental' to providing the service to the end user, and she specifically stated the opinion that the exception is not intended to be broad enough to permit any arbitrary business model.

That's why people keep mentioning it.
"Let's say Google is guilty of scanning email text for ads."

that's not the question here. google scans the text of email so they can deliver relevant ads. they freely admit to that, have never tried to hide it, and have been doing it for 10 years with little to no public concern about it. The only question to be decided here is whether scanning your emails for the purposes of advertising counts as wiretapping.
Very good post, thank you. I wasn't aware of the Avalon -> WPF relationship.

I'm a fan of .NET and it would have been pretty awesome to see it take such a large role in the OS itself.
The notion that "if at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again" is hardly a new psychology fad: In fact it's a very old school approach. Also that's different than Asperger Syndrome because repeat behavior and other symptoms aren't exactly the same thing as grit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(personality_trait)
So you don't actually want to address a legitimate question.
Then you didn't read the judge's opinion. The wiretapping statue apparently does make such a distinction.
I want to like meteor.

It sounds like the installation script, aside from handling the MongoDB and node setup, could be treated like a typical node package. Based on the fact that meteor has no package.json, seemingly none of those core packages are installed via npm either.

I may be alone in this, but I guess I would just prefer if my web framework expected me to have the interpreter and database installed, and used the package manager already provided for this environment.
What I got from reading the excerpt of Judge Koh's response in the article was that she was maintaining a vertical separation between the business / activities of sending and receiving mail and other business activities. From my following, I'd imagine that filters and priority inbox and other details would be related to the business of sending and receiving mail.

If Google can win the argument that the way they're using their interception and reading of messages in serving personalized ads is a part of their everyday business activities, it seems to completely undermine the purpose of the law. Google, with G+, is trying to itself be a single unified product with all of these features. Social networking is a feature, videos are a feature, websites, blogs, instant messaging and email and targeted advertising. If Google can say that displaying targeted ads is a part of their normal business activities, then what activity does the law against wiretapping actually protect against?

If Google can read your email for the purpose of enabling a tangential feature of displaying targeted advertising to you, how does that same logic not apply to me if I claim my normal business activities are delivering your mail while opening it, reading it, and selling useful information I find inside of it? I could say it was essential to my business, because I actually deliver for free and just pay my bills with the info I sell.
I think you may be blind to over generalisations... Can you show me the causal link between psychologists and this 'disorder'?
No kidding. One of the first epiphanies parents have is the fact that their children are as smart as they are -- all they lack is experience. :)
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According to the judge, quite possibly not because it's not instrumental in providing the service.

And also because such an interpretation would allow any business model based on exploiting the contents of the users email for profit, which is clearly not the intent of the wiretapping statute.
Acquiring a high-DPI scan of a fingerprint from someone's phone, printing it to a sheet of plastic with a high-DPI laser printer, then making a copy of the print out of liquid latex doesn't sound easy unless you're in the business of pentesting. Taking a picture of someone (or lifting it from a social network) to access their device does sound relatively easy.

If I was the kind of person who was worried about someone accessing the contents of my phone, I'd simply turn off touch ID and use a long password (or spend less money on a phone that didn't have a feature I wouldn't use).

I've gone down the route of using both a long password and touch ID simply because touch ID works so reliably - I've never had to enter my password. That way someone either needs my long password or a physical copy of my fingerprint to access my device. I'd say that's much better than the 4 digit numerical code I relied on previously - which had been seen by friends and family.
( I work for Scribd )

This is extremely valuable product feedback. You are completely right that the Scribd product delivered a terrible experience in this case. And the reason goes to the heart of one of the most difficult product design issues we've had: combining user generated and professional content.

An explanation is not a substitute for a fix, but in a nutshell what happened here is that you found copies of Frankenstein that had been uploaded by users. While the books we receive from publishers are ePub formatted and reflow nicely on a phone with controllable font settings, many user-uploaded works are PDFs.

We definitely do not a good enough job of messaging whether content is UGC or publisher, PDF or ePUB. We are working very hard on this. In the meantime, if you want to keep trying the app, here are some simple tips if you want to look at books only:
- You can search through books only (click the books tab in search results)
- Look for the "verified" badge which appears on publisher-provided material
- The content browseable from http://www.scribd.com/browse/books is only publisher provided books.

I'd love to hear more product feedback - this was very helpful for us. Feel free to email me directly (email is in my profile).
It would have been nice to use the standard term to describe it, if only to make it easier to find more details elsewhere.
Fascinating.

"Daddy? Why does the firecracker go up?"
"That's a very interesting question! Why don't we try to find out. Let's remove individual parts of the firecracker one at a time and find out what makes it go!"
It's a short, vague explanation that, other than a correction for a significant inaccuracy in the original version (which I think demonstrates a serious lack of research!), has had no update since it was originally published several months ago, despite the almost universal criticism of Canonical's reasoning by the community. I don't think this is particularly coherent.
Simply Google "gould" and "fraud" and you will have hours of fascinating reading.
Terminology quibble. _Authentication_ is what's tricky. Authorization is no problem.