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"HTML5" publicity helps marginalize those few who still argue that images, animation, audio/video and rich interactivity have no place on the web

I don't understand what he means by this. I'm assuming he isn't articulating his thoughts well. For as long as I remember there were images, cheesy animations and background music on pages around the web - long before flash and shockwave.

Does he mean that some people argue Flash is bad for the web because it's contents can't be indexed by search engines? Now that is a different story and a losing arguement since Adobe itself has admitted it's an issue.
Technically, Amazon isn't paying the tax, it's collecting it. The NC customer is paying the tax.

And if NC is like other states with which I'm familiar -- CA and TX -- the resident already owes a 'Use Tax' on the items bought from Amazon. That tax is hard to enforce, and most people think nothing of ignoring it -- so in a sense Amazon is just assisting tax evasion by the residents who do use NC services.
That was in reference to IE6 which was a pain in the ass to support and required a site to be written with tons of exceptions.
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Fun, but more likely: bug wakes up, gets into local water, has no remaining natural enemies (what with it being 120,000 years and all), and completely overruns indigenous species.

Hope they're taking adequate care.
Without a sales tax, a state has to have higher income tax or property tax levels. Both can do more to drive away high-value industry than broad-based consumption taxes.

But if a non-regressive tax system is your goal, let's analyze Amazon's loophole for its progressivity:

Who benefits most from tax-free online shipping? It's definitely not the poor, who don't spend a lot on high-dollar, easy-to-ship-across-state-lines products bought with credit cards.

When rich people use this loophole to save money on their books/ipods/electronics/housewares, in-state retail businesses that employ less-skilled people and pay other taxes shrink. Because the transaction base is smaller, if there is a sales tax, the rate has to be higher -- and that covers things poor people buy with cash.

There might be a federalist argument for preventing individual states from compelling sales tax collection, even if states are allowed to charge a use tax or delivery fee. But there's no progressivity argument for using the tax code to favor distant online retailers over local businesses.
"Working in secrecy makes you feel like you're about to pounce a revolutionary new idea upon the world and take it by storm."

I wonder if explaining your idea to someone means finding inexact words that end up making your plans seem less majestic or even plausible.

You hear yourself describe what you're doing, and start thinking, hmm, maybe this isn't such a great idea after all ...
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I can't find any mention of this in medical news sources; it sounds interesting, but the fact that it's being reported primarily by general interest media leaves me a bit skeptical.
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You can tell the quality, just turn over a jar you'll see a water bubble float up. The faster it rises the lower the quality. The raw type has none of that, just the good stuff.

Humans have been eating honey for the longest time. It's probably the best sweetener.
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If it just makes implementing languages with decent performance and good GC easier, then it has benefited us tremendously. If it can additionally free a language developer from the hurdle of "there's not that many libraries yet" then this is also a good thing.
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I'm still on the 30-dray trial and I'm considering paying for it.
This is good news for people who are against software patents. Are you entreprenurial types for or against?
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Here's the source (I think): http://www.springerlink.com/content/7607jn7q1817018p/?p=0a8e...

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Against, personally.
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Use taxes weren't imposed until after states noticed out of state purchases and were justified on the basis of "we're not getting sales taxes". Hence it's reasonable to look at the justification for sales taxes.
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> Local governments hate retirement villages ... they don't own property (b/c the units are "leased" not owned) so they don't pay property taxes.

The owners of the retirement villages pay property tax, just like every other owner. The local govts collect said tax whether or not said owners manage to get money from their tenants, so govts don't care either way about lease/rent/owner-occupied.
The assignment of check marks is just silly. What a worthless comparison.
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I'm surprised. Obama doesn't usually do things that are outright stupid.
As a former analyst at a venture capital firm, with all due respect, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Regulation doesn't make VC any less attractive for LPs, who provide the funds. As long as there are people who want to commit to the asset class, there will be VC funds willing and available to take their cash.

Furthermore, registration with the SEC increases paperwork, but not in a way that does anything other than provide additional transparency. It's a bit of a pain in the ass, and maybe it means the CFO has more work to do, but to say this is dumb or will kill innovation is misguided. It's the same damn paperwork that every mutual fund has to file. It won't make or break any decent-sized fund.

Everything the NVCA says in their position paper is right (http://www.magnetmail.net/images/clients/NVCA/attach/VCandSy... [PDF]), but excluding VC funds from regulations when you want to look at PE and hedge funds - which can and do pose systemic risks, as we saw with LTCM - is impossible given that all three share the same basic legal structure: LPs and a GP, where the GP is the manager of the fund.

The societal cost of overextending mere registration requirements to VC funds is far outweighed by the cost of not having greater transparency into their PE and hedge fund siblings.
Well, it won't be in 1.1; the feature window came and went without significant progress on that ticket.

I have a suspicion, though, that (like many things people commonly claim Django's ORM can't do) it is possible to come at this through lesser-known/lesser-considered features. Off the top of my head I can think of two approaches.

In either case, I suspect the key thing to do is write a subclass of django.db.models.sql.query.Query which properly applies schema information when constructing the SQL (Query.get_from_clause() is probably the place to start).

Given the Query class implementing the proper behavior, the two approaches I'd look at are:

1. If schema information is only important for some models but not others, a manager class with an overridden get_query_set() (which returns a QuerySet initialized with an instance of the schema-aware Query) can be applied to the relevant models.

2. If schema information needs to be applied to all models, a subclass of the database backend can have its attribute uses_custom_query_class set True, and then the backend's query_class() method will be called to obtain the default Query class used for all queries from that backend.

Down the road, maybe somebody who really needs this feature will step up during the 1.2 feature-proposal window and work up the necessary bits to have Django do this natively.
I added up every material possession I always dream about: two really nice houses, a speed boat and a yacht, tons of furniture for the houses, about 6 cars and trucks that I love, etc.

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The way Obama is currently conducting his presidency has a lot of parallels to what happened when Rosie O'Donnell took over McCalls magazine. The magazine was a strong brand and publication for 117 years. Drastic changes were then applied, including re-branding as "Rosie Magazine", and was destroyed in 17 months.
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It would be pretty hard to empower regular consumers with the ability to design their own cars.

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"hopes to improve mobile payment methods, security, privacy and user interfaces and, chiefly, to enhance the ability of corporations to use mobile devices to interact with customers and employees."

well it's attacking the right areas... can't wait to ditch the wallet and cards and just carry a phone around
"[V]enture investors have been trying to solve the mystery of how they could possibly threaten the financial system."

Couldn't a case be made that venture capital helped fuel the dot-com bust?
You can, but you won't due to network effects involved.
As a sideline observer (but one with a lot of exposure to hedge and VCs) I think it may also be good for the beneficiaries of the capital - 'start as you mean to go on', and all that. As you say, it's not like you're going to have to get some bureaucrat to approve your investment decisions.
It is both. #1 happens before the action, during research and development of tactical speech, and #2 happens during composing/talking -- your audience won't believe you if you don't believe it yourself, and it quickens your responses considerably just by being in the mind-set.
And how many sites would that ever apply to? Like, 10 total sites?
The dot.com bust didn't create systemic risk for the whole financial system. Some foolish investors lost a lot of money, but that was about all.
"If you can't figure out what that is..."

That != to the product idea. The following posters got it right. Clever.
>> I've actually talked with people about this. The ones who express safety concerns tend to be concerned by trucks and most don't consider cars at all.

> And, yes, I'm concerned with the prevalence of truck-sized vehicles.

That's nice but irrelevant because we're not talking about you. We're talking about the motivations of people who buy big vehicles. You remember them - you want them to do something different.

Those folks are concerned about actual trucks. Cars don't much register. We can argue about what they should be concerned about, but what they're actually concerned about is pretty clear.

> Look, I'm not pretending to have a significant sample size, or rigorous methods, but in terms of people I've observed in Houston Rush Hour, it's more like 100's.

And that's exactly my point. Your observation just tells us that a lot of people commute alone. It doesn't tell us what they do with those vehicles the rest of the time.

That's why I asked you how you know about their other usage.

Or, do you want to argue that their other usage is irrelevant? It's fairly easy to show that the economics of multiple vehicles are tough....

> Been over in Europe lately?

Not in the last three years, but yes, multiple times, one time being three months in Demark. I've recently been spending time in the Caribbean, Mexico, the Philippines, and the ABC islands. I've started to pay for trips to the Galapagos, Fiji, and the Baltics.

I'm not sure why this is relevant, but since you do, let's see your passport log.
The dot-com bust, while perhaps having something to do with the wealth effect that jacked up asset prices, neither posed a systemic risk to the financial sector nor affected non-participants in the market (housing excepted, as always). To blame VCs for the dot-com bust is akin to blaming Jose Canseco for Barry Bonds.
> I love HTML 5, but I can't imagine any of the features to be "killer" enough to make users switch to more modern browsers.

Funny you should say that. Users don't really care about features. What they care about is being able to view the content.

Flash is so popular today only because of services like YouTube. It only takes a YouTube to make HTML 5 popular, and speaking of YouTube, guess who owns it ;)

> Adoption of HTML 5 features will occur as rapidly as they're introduced into IE

Complementary to the point above, Microsoft doesn't have any options but to implement it, otherwise they'll lose more market share.

Not to mention that plugins can be developed by third parties for IExplorer to add HTML 5 functionality. Google already started doing that with Gears.
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With a fixed amount of money, people tend to invest less money to risky business. People without past success are more risky. They just follow the common sense.
Muscles have their own glycogen (polymerized glucose) reserves, independant of blood glucose, and impossible to mobilize directly for anything but muscular activity.

I'm not sure, but I think that's the point of these high carb meals.

If I'not mistaken, they also eat pasta for breakfast, delaying the use of these reserves.

Pasta are easy to eat in large quantities, and require little energy to digest.
In defence of the dotcom bust, it had very little time to embed it's make believe assets into other parts of the economy. Perhaps if it had inflated slightly slower, it would have managed to affect non internety investments.
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You basically have four real options for real time analytics, and they all either cost money, or are in beta and soon will cost money.

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At the end of the day, you need a 3rd party to perform benchmark tests and publish the data. It's not necessary for the manufacturers to do it, as long as it's available. The 3rd party in question could sell their data to CNET, etc., as an income stream.

An industry standard test that each manufacturer runs themselves is too hard for a computer. Too many variables. For example, the FTC has a test for speaker manufacturers to measure speaker power. What do I define as full power? I can make the speakers go really, really loud, but they sound terrible. Where do I take my power measurement? The FTC defined 10% THD+N as the max distortion allowed, so your power measurement was how much RMS power you could produce at 10% THD. However, what happens if you have a subwoofer and satellites? How do you get them all to max power at the same time, since for high frequencies, the woofer isn't doing anything, and for low frequencies, the satellites aren't doing anything. Well, you mess around until you find that magic frequency at your cross-over point where both sats and sub are at 10% THD. OK, fine, but when do you measure the power? As things heat up, amplifiers and wire and speaker coils get higher resistance, which lowers your output power. Somebody wanting to game the system could take their measurements quickly, while everything was cold. OK fine, the FTC set forth that the system had to have been running for 10 minutes at full power, before measurements are taken.

So, this is just for a lowly speaker system, and we've had to go through all of this. This is the test that the manufacturers run themselves and advertise their product with. Even with all this, there are companies that don't play by the rules. They give instantaneous power, peak power, or some other crazy power that they dreamed up over sushi and sake. Many don't bother to even list a power rating of any sort. Bose comes to mind, but there are others. Apple didn't do this either, perhaps they do now.

So, now for computers, imagine how difficult it would be, when you have variable wifi power, transmission bandwidth, distance from router, router power, variable monitor brightness, display resolution, refresh rates, variable hard drive access profiles, variable CPU loading profiles, etc. There's no way you can trust the manufacturers to not game a system so complex.

Get a 3rd party to do it and publish it.
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I'm surprised. You managed to press send before adding any justification or references to why you think so.
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According to that article BMW was breaching Google's guidelines. No such thing can be said for Experts-Exchange. The simple fact that you don't like Experts-Exchange should not be any reason for Google to remove the page.

I personally don't mind the EE pages. They tend to have good answers from time to time. I have a bigger beef with sites like mysqlperformanceblog.com that frequently get their search result pages indexed. Pointless crap.
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An open suggestion to the authors/producers/publishers of Founders At Work (which I'm reading at the moment):

What do you think of writing a book 'Founders That Almost Made It'? Using a similar fashion, but talks to startup founders who almost made it big, but didn't quite make it. Perhaps they had to exit via Plan C rather than Plan A, or they just quietly wound down the startup.

Following the adage that people learn more from mistakes, perhaps it'd be just as useful to get information on why they think they failed, than to read about those who have succeeded wildly?
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No, he's using a common PR tactic. HTML5 has been getting some good press, and he's scared about it hurting Flash. So he's highlighting what HTML5 and Flash have in common by essentially inventing a fictional common enemy[1], and using that to say, "Hey, if you like HTML5, you'll love Flash!"

[1] I'm sure there are people who actually take the invented position, but it doesn't really matter here.
That's because it's not new: putting honey on wounds has been a household cure for centuries. Reports like this one pop up every once in a while. Actual effectiveness and usefulness are nothing compared to perceived properties.
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Yeah, because if they were real, with all that such a thing would imply about the health of the dollar, the treasury talking head that pronounced them fake would certainly have admitted they were real.

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OR..

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Does anyone know the technical details of how this works? Can I still trick it into thinking my laptop is my iPhone?