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My question is not so much "Is it an acceptable substitute for current controllers?" Rather, I'm curious about whether it enables developers to do things that traditional controllers cannot do. This review is really about backward compatibility. It seems to be backward compatible enough to be worth buying for a niche game that requires it since I can still use it for traditional games. That's what separates this from say, a guitarhero guitar. The backwards compatibility will make it more likely to succeed, while opening doors for innovation.
I'm one of those people that prefer automation

I'll actually wait slightly longer for the automated checkout at the market, mainly because I want to see it in more places.
PHP must be more functional and use concepts of Functional Programming but without lost current features.
Cute animal picture
This is a funny picture of an animal that drinks coffee!
I guess it depends, if you're sniping you need a lot of accuracy. Then again, I can't say I've never ultied a creep...
It's all about value-add really regardless of whether someone assumes it "comes from Apple" or not. If it's obvious what the value-add for your application is in the app store, then pay-up-front works. One problem is, 5 screenshots and non-rich text descriptions really make that hard.
Yes I think I misunderstood, thanks for correcting.
Deconstructing motor skills
Well, that's just good design, I don't think they were explicitly thinking of the controller.
In fact, I would be very surprised if that were the case, as it goes against what my own reporting has established.

Which makes me wonder why they aren't.

At the least, I don't see anything illegal about their scraping public facebook info, and they can easily gain access to the private stuff as we've learned.

So why wouldn't they populate their old-school social graphs with new-school social graph information?
She has no idea what a backbone is, of any kind.
Flip-side on the IAP suggestion: I despise ads, but if I have an app with ads I can't bring myself to buy an in-app purchase to remove them for an app I probably won't use that often. Whereas if the app was just $.99 to start with, and it looks decent, I'd happily buy it even if I don't use it much.

I wonder how this attitude would differ depending on whether you're an early adopter of the technology or whether you're just getting your first smartphone. I come from the Mac sphere where it's entirely reasonable to spend a lot of money on a good app (I'm considering paying $90 to upgrade to the latest OmniGraffle for example), so buying apps on a phone where most are super cheap doesn't seem so bad to me.

Either way, I think losing the paid app market is a Bad Thing. Quality apps are expensive to make, but I have an expensive phone; I don't then want to load it up with cheap, ill-designed apps. It doesn't matter how good the phone is if the apps are crap.
(a) Yes.

(b) This is more complicated. Most of those scientists actually are funded by the American taxpayer, through grants, but that is not what I was arguing about. As I explained elsewhere, I was speaking of NASA-affiliated projects, and I noted that the original poster did not appear to distinguish between these and projects in which some researchers had simply used data NASA released publicly. Regardless, all the work the researchers did is irrelevant, because they do not get any of the money from the journal paywall; that all goes to the journal publisher. The work the peer-reviewers did is also irrelevant. Peer review is done by unpaid volunteers, at no expense to the journal publisher. A journal publisher doesn't even have to pay someone to contact peer reviewers, as that work is done by journal editors, who are also unpaid volunteers.

(c) Yes. "They" refers to the scientists. Authors receive no money for journal publication.

(d) Yes. The journal publisher holds the copyright because the scientists signed a document that says so; not because of some general principle. Most journals require copyright assignment before publication.

Nothing here is between me and the scientists. Again, if I have to pay to get that article, the scientists do not get the money; the journal publisher does. There is no question of whether scientists deserve any money because of all their hard work; they don't get any money regardless.

The journal publisher is able to force paid access because of an antiquated arrangement that dates back to the days when journals did bring something to the table: typesetting work and equipment, help in the costly task of dissemination of knowledge, and being an important part of the archiving process. Today they bring only prestige, which matters only because of internal promotion and tenure decisions in the scientists' organizations.

All that has to happen to fix this is for research organizations to insist on free public availability. This benefits everyone except for parasites on the knowledge-dissemination process (journal publishers), who are currently able to extract money due to an outdated system.

Now, whether a private university should require open access to its research publications is something that is up to that organization; I wish they would, but I cannot insist. OTOH, I have no problem demanding that tax-supported granting agencies and tax-supported research organizations make such requirements. The NIH already does. NASA and the NSF and others need to do it too.
On Android a common method is free / prime. A free version has basic features while a paid prime apk acts as an unlocker for advanced features.

Haven't heard of removing a free app and replacing with a paid. That doesn't make sense or work for anyone. That free app is an essential promotion. The only downside/difficulty is all the user support. Free users can be pretty rough.
I have been using SRS to learn Mandarin Chinese for the last 2 years now and I can also verify it is extremely effective when used correctly, and when understanding its' advantages and limitations.

I think sentences are also a much better way to learn than learning single vocabulary words, because they show the usage of the word in context. This is very important for speaking naturally and idiomatically.

Once you get beyond a beginner level, choosing a direction of study can be a little difficult. My technique is to find sentences or phrases from conversations I have with people, books/articles I read, and from movies/television shows - and then input it into the SRS. Preferably, each sentence has 1 new novel phrase or vocabulary word. Although this can be time consuming it gives a huge benefit. Let me give an example:

Question side: “問題是。。。你不覺得這樣，很。。。虛偽嗎？"

Answer side: 虛偽 (xūwěi - hypocritical, artificial)

So, in this case the second last two characters made up the word that I was unfamiliar with, so I put that on the answer side. The huge benefit is that I found this sentence in a book I am reading - so every time it comes up in the SRS, I not only recall the sentence, I recall the context of the story (in this case a dialogue between two characters), and this has a double reinforcing effect. In the same way, that if a TV or movie character says a sentence over and over again in a video, it will cause you to remember the scene of the sentence, and at which part of the story the movie was in at the time.

The contrast of this method would be to find "pre-made" decks of cards for sentences in the language you are learning, but I find that it is harder to remember the items when the sentences are not as meaningful to you.

A key point for using SRS effectively is to use to review material already learned, not to learn new never before seen material. The article itself even mentions this.

(Also, Mnemosyne is my SRS of choice http://mnemosyne-proj.org/, but Anki is a good choice too.)
Wow! Have you published those?
I've known about or guessed at the Snowden revelations for years now, and I think you're personifying a complex system by saying "Surely some person must be in charge!"

The truth is that it actually seems to just be a clusterfuck of many people interacting, each pursuing their own (usually ambivalent to good) intentions, and that no one really is running the show.

Which in many ways, is more terrifying: if someone is in charge, then all we have to do is change who is in charge to fix the problem; but if the problem is that even with good intentions, there are problems with scale and complexity that mangle them in to monstrosities like this... what can we do about it?

You can always behead a bad king, but what do you do about human nature and the problems of scale?
Nothing to be confused about, if you realize the underlying rationale - which is not that they can’t pay the military, but that if they don’t, or threaten not to, that can be used as leverage for whatever else they may want.
Moleskine or typewriter, because they change how you approach writing, since you can just delete five paragraphs at every whim. You both think more and less about what you write that way.

I say Moleskine specifically, because there are a lot of shitty notebooks where the writing might even fade over time.
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Seems like an argument for a sensible trial system, not IAP. I've got no problem with using IAP for a sensible trial system, but it is much more commonly used for smurfberries.
What's more, there would be a lot fewer people around if computers weren't helping us grow food, generate energy, cure diseases and move everything around just in time. The more I think about it, the more I think computers are a sort of virus and we're in a symbiotic relationship with them.
It's not just discovery. The land grab is over and established apps are well entrenched. There was a huge first-wave advantage for mobile apps. We just barely caught the end of it ourselves, so we're doing ok.
From the article (emphasis mine):

Analysts were warned to follow existing “minimization rules,”
which prohibit the N.S.A. from sharing with other agencies names
and other details of Americans whose communications are collected,
unless they are necessary to understand foreign intelligence
reports _or there is evidence of a crime_.

The NSA got a green light to dragnet Americans' communication on behalf of the FBI. Simply stunning.
> It's not clear that there's anything at all that they could have done differently that would have made them successful.

Other than running their business more rationally to give themselves a better chance, I think that's about right. They could have been the third touchscreen OS, but they just didn't make it.
That's funny, I was thinking about doing something like this just yesterday. Guess I'll continue working on my Game instead, someone has executed this idea pretty well.
I've previously had good experiences with ProVoc (and now iVocabulary, a fork of ProVoc) but stopped using it and instead use Duolingo now because I lacked a good flashcard resource. I didn't have the time to think up new flashcards and learn them on a regular basis. Where do you get your sentences from for Anki? Is there a good repository online that you'd recommend (preferably with some kind of community review)?
To get over the hump of learning hiragana and katakana, I think you're better off using any mnemonic trick you can find. That's how I learned them as an adult.

This site looks like it might be on the right track. http://drmoku.com/hiragana-free/
Those in the bay area can try the Covered California calculator, which gives more details on the actual plans that will be available:

http://www.coveredca.com/shopandcompare/#calculator

As I am currently self-employed, these plans make insurance a LOT more affordable for me.
A recent UK study ran by the government(I can find source if you'd like) found absolutely no difference in nutritional value between organic and non-organic food. Organic food might be more tasty,but if you actually look at nutritional values it is identical to non-organic food. Read as: non-organic feeds hungry people just as well.

I am not saying that organic food is pointless - heck, I buy organic onions because they taste better and I buy organic milk and chicken meat because I vaguely care about how these animals are kept. But I do not subscribe to an idea that everyone absolutely has to eat organic food. It is not only non-essential, but I think it might actually be impossible.

Edit: Found the research: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19465692
I actually think their tobacco section is a little buggy. On Chrome on Fedora 17, I wasn't able to get the tool top to pop up to see how "tobacco usage" is defined (some states define it as use within the last 12 months, some states define it as use right now).
I'm pretty sure CoD and CS both involve aiming a crosshairs. That's the only thing that's really relevant to this discussion.

As for Starcraft, you're right, it wouldn't work; not because of the pointing device, but because a gamepad doesn't have enough buttons to manage all the hotkeys. In my original post, I called out FPSes specifically for that reason.
> After this time I think that jobs and professions will again be available and that many people will be qualified for them. Perhaps even more jobs.

Like what?

The problem is that we're creeping up the capability ladder, and it will only be a few decades until the robots can do the math, science, design, engineering, and assembly of new robots, which can in turn produce any other objects.

What's there for humans to do?

The real problem is that robotics makes humans unnecessary for economies to function, and we'll need to change our social model to account for that.

Or just let a huge swathe of the people starve.
The current use of automation in car manufacturing does not
preclude the future capacity of building more cars by any means.

Your so called "efficient farming" does increase the yield of calories per acre at the cost of killing of the microscopic ecosystems in the topsoil and bankrupting farmers. The only thing those practices are good at is to increase the margins of fertilizer and pesticide producers.
I do way too much web browsing (Opera with the text-wrapping setting) for the smaller screen of the 9900, I think, but I never tried it. Strangely, I can't get Opera to work as well on the HTC One, and don't much like the built-in browser.
In my experience it's gradually gotten worse over time. Up until someone in 2010 charging people $1-3 up front worked well for me. Then sometime in 2010 it slowly stopped working as more of the 'top' apps switched to a free with IAP model. Consumers didn't want to pay up front for an app from an unknown developer when people like EA were giving their apps away for nothing.
I would love for something like this to be open source. Where I can contribute and create a better launcher as a community. This is a great start. Would love to contribute more.
Click on the picture, it links to "facebook.com/4" (=zuckerberg), etc. There are several gaps in between the first 50 ID numbers. Probably some early test/fake accounts as well as people who deleted/deactivated their account. Eduardo Saverin (co-founder) has id 41 and Joe Green has 42.
Do you know what power is? That's the first step to not being powerless.
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"Each generation is best defined by its fears"*

*butchered, don't know the original author of the quote I was trying to find and can't find it via google, but I know it's there somewhere
One thing I think he overlooked was the benefit of cross-promotion through a proven track record. Had he held on to his old apps, he would have been able to leverage them to promote his new app. Now he has to start from scratch, using only his blog to promote it.
Awesome. Glad you like it. :)
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Obama Care "costs" more than their calculator because the "$100 a month plan for those making under $50k" cost $1,200 but doesn't give the plan holder anything until they incur $10k in expenses.

Basically you Lose $1,200 that you could have spent on healthcare. That $1,200 is a lot when you consider that many of the people with out healthcare end up at the Emergency Room for simple things like Strep Throat and end up paying $500 instead of $80 for a doctor's visit.

The best analogy I can think is like the Poor who opt to be unbanked. Many of the unbanked do so because the fees in banking are greater than what the fees are at the Check cashing places because a single overdraft charge.

Obama care is really just bankruptcy insurance, and that is kind of what bankruptcy is a way to not lose everything if you can't afford it.
> The OP says it is easy to take Thoreau out of context, because he is so quotable, yet continues to do this very thing!

This was also a joke, which was very clear to me from reading it (I wasn't there). I thought it was hilarious how straight he played it.
Mythbusters banned from talking about RFID
I clicked 3 zones before finding myself in front of a dick pic.
You can try the driver released from Microsoft http://sqlsrvphp.codeplex.com/. Haven't tried it myself though.
Is this fake: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/clinkle ?
Android initially did not use touch. You can, in principle, build a non-touch Android phone even now, though some apps won't work well.

Android did a very good job of adding touch, but that just shows that if you have a well-architected UI stack without a lot of legacy apps that would have funky behaviors, adding touch is very do-able.

Had the Android team done a less-thorough job adding touch, history might be very different. Microsoft is painted into a corner, with desktop apps adapting poorly to touch, and developers adapting poorly to "Modern" apps.
I must admit to not remembering how I handled kana. I know I did not start it until I was a decent way through the heisig book. I only remember even that because my mother was doing a masters in the university's German/Japanese department and one of the Japanese professors mentioned how odd the order was.

Don't worry too much about kana. It feels impossible now but it will become second nature. At some point you will hate it when someone uses romaji since kana is so much easier to read.

I do remember using the "Remembering the Kana" book: http://www.amazon.co.jp/Remembering-Kana-The-Hiragana-Kataka... which I can recommend 100%. The 3 hours claim is accurate from what I remember but do follow the book's suggested breaks.
There's really nothing new here. There was only a brief window during which you could immediately charge for mobile apps. Desktop software has relied on try before you buy for a while now. Mobile has simply matured.
Oh, an ass.
Recent Developments in Deep Learning
They absolutely would. As I said above, "the NSA is supplementing its email-and-phone metadata database with... Facebook profiles."

The point I was making (perhaps poorly) is that the NSA is surely bulk vacuuming up public Facebook profiles and using its relationship with AT&T/VZ/Sprint/etc. to do fiber taps of poorly encrypted or unencrypted data in transit. But there's no evidence of direct access to Facebook/Twitter/G+ servers or bulk downloads of private data from social networks.
I'm not sure I follow. With Logo, I can see what the turtle/pen does at each moment of execution. That was the point, right? (Now, this has the cool slider idea... but really I'm not sure that helps understand any better than just having a reset and stepping each line again.)

Would it be cool to have this "at large" for a full stack of software. Possibly, but I'm not completely convinced yet.

Edit: Seeing how you can "slide" numbers is also kind of neat, but again, I'm not sure it really helps understanding. If anything, I would think this is somewhat confusing, as I have to grasp changing the numbers treats is as if that number was changed on previous iterations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmj-9XlDzY
No... I got hung up on the idea of whether I wanted to try charging for the music decks, and never fully decided. Plus I want to clean up my git repositories before I consider releasing them. One of those low-priority todo items that nags at me once in a while. :-)

The Coursera decks I would absolutely release but I need to finish a course first, and I need to make sure they don't have assignment answers in them I guess.
I'd like to learn Mandarin.

Can you give details on how you're doing this?

Like what you use for initially learning the material and what you use for SRS?
It is cool, but the irony is, the IOU stuff will soon be mimicked by Bitcoin with 'colored coins', and Ripple will lose the last major feature it had over Bitcoin. And at that point - who wants a pre-mined backdoored e-currency which can't be made anonymous or used places like Silk Road?
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My issue with those on-screen gamepads is that I drift. There's no feedback about whether or not I'm centered on the dpad for example. It sounds like little nubs would fix that pretty well.
I'm not trying to be snarky, but, "Being an Entrepreneur", and, "Be very much like Thoreau"are two very disparate goals.

I would very much like everyone to read Walden - it's a wonderful, incredible, life-changing book. But the feeling I get at the end is not, "Man, I should start a business, where people can post up images of things they want! And then other people can see if they want them! And then, then! We can advertise!"

The feeling you get, after reading the book - well, the feeling I got was more, "I'm still in this system, I want out, I can't, the world is truly monstrous". We can all live in our own little cabins in the woods for a little while, we can all do our own little civil disobedience - but like young adults, most of us grow out of it, because to hold this course is very hard and greed is a very easy trap to fall into.

If you like Thoreau, one of the most obvious path to take would then be Emerson and his essays. They're all wonderful, but I don't know what lessons you learn from them can be applied to "start a business with someone elses money that hopefully goes public", except that that itself is a fool's errand. I don't know what either would say about social media or whatever it's called know, execept that it's simply abstracts the real nature of actual interaction, into something that's lost the important parts of it. What would Thoreau say about working so long hours typing away at a keyboard? He would say that's the worst thing at all: work only as much as you want, and no more. That's a whole chapter in Walden. How many people here, truly do that?

Things to think about.

and also, what a lame title for a talk - there already WAS a Walden Two, and, for a sci-fi book, it's not half bad. Kinda weak, but worth a read [0]

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

And it itself was a take on how to bring Thoreau idea into a community setting. It's a little more than, "Write journals!", and "Know Yourself!". This talk - trying to take a masterpiece book, and apply it to your life, and trying to talk about it in bite-sized chunks.... it's not working for me. Show me, don't tell me.
They spent a lot of time in their announcement talking about how they know that model is terrible and how they've tried to address its shortcomings using haptic feedback. Presumably, the final product will be nothing like thumbing over your iPhone.
did you make your own cards? or are pre-made cards available?
I know tons of quants that create value. They just don't work in finance.
As a European (Dutch to be exact) that has put up with a very similar universal healthcare, the numbers are actually about the same for me - based on income, I get about the same amount of tax credit here. I'm guessing the conditions of said insurance will be different - no deductible is mentioned for example, while the Netherlands has a 350 euro required deductible.
There's even a https://www.facebook.com/NaN :)