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see them taught

I think it was done that way once, but somewhere around seventies people dropped or moved this to advanced courses. You can't immediately solve a transformer in differential forms like the way you can by mindless symbolic manipulation over the standard formalism.
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That thing would rip your feet off if you got in its way.
Yes, that just seemed like a PR gimmick. Given the current hardware, if I have two other iPhone users near me, and I flick at one of them, how does that work? Doesn't seem like the compass would be accurate enough.
And don't forget Lenovo / Dell XPS / etc all being sold online / direct to businesses.
We are "hackers" who build things for others.

They are "hackers" who take from others.

We are to be encouraged and admired.

They are to be caught and punished.

We do the right thing no matter how hard it is.

They do the easy thing no matter how wrong it is.

We love turning nothing into something.

They love turning something into nothing.

We get a rush when we see something appear for the first time ever.

They get a rush when they see the same thing disappear again.

We will persevere no matter what it takes.

They will quit when no one notices anymore.

We will leave our mark.

They will take someone else's mark away.

Don't confuse us with them.
Um considering two of these three were manufacturing-related jobs I think it is inaccurate to apply that conclusion across the board. The article does not mention 50-year old white males who have BS or higher degrees, let alone professional degrees. Since education and unemployment are inversely related, I doubt things are as dire for educated adults.
Depends on what sort of knowledge you're trying to get. If you just want to be able to point out constellations, I would recommend The Stars by H. A. Rey (yes, the same guy who wrote Curious George). It's unique in that it displays the constellations in a manner that makes them actually look like what they're trying to represent (which ends up making them much easier to find). There's also some good descriptions of the mythology behind many of the constellations and some other interesting features in the sky that can be picked out with the naked eye or binoculars. There's also a section at the end that discusses the celestial sphere (how the sky changes during the seasons, the ecliptic, precession, etc.).

If you want something with more depth, I highly recommend Night Sky from St. Martin's Press. It's a little 300 page field guide that will give you a comprehensive introduction to the heavens and basic astronomy and provides you with enough data to go out observing with. The first quarter of the book is devoted to introducing the fundamentals of astronomy from the celestial sphere, to coordinate systems, to telescope designs, to the magnitude system, to variable stars, and stellar evolution. The rest of the book contains star charts, detailed descriptions of each of the constellations and interesting objects therein, and information on the planets. The only problem is that the book is a bit old, so the tables of data (sunset times, positions of the planets, etc.) are now out of date. Nevertheless, it's well worth buying.

If you would like a more serious introduction to astronomy and know some basic physics and calculus, you can do no better than to read Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by Carroll & Ostlie (affectionately known as BOB -- the Big Orange Book). It's about 1500 pages long and covers absolutely everything in astronomy. It's clear, comprehensive, and will likely tell you everything you need to know.
Decline of great online communities starts with "funny". Reddit is hilarious and I couldn't spend 10 minutes there.
Here's a link to their research paper, if anyone is interested. http://www.media.mit.edu/cogmac/publications/orkin_aamas2009...
To figure out how the payment system worked, Grand hooked up an oscilloscope to a parking meter and monitored what happened when he used a genuine payment card. He then analyzed that data by hand, and wrote a software program that would emulate the smart card. After some trial and error, he finally figured out what his program needed to say to the meter in order to work. Then he built a card that would replay the same data, using a programmable smart card called a Silver Card.

A replay attack? Someone hasn't figured out encryption yet...
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I just had my first go on it. I stole a beer and the lobster from the counter. Does that make me a bad person?
Actually, this is definitely Hacker News. Finding a way inside a system and beating it is interesting and clever. Actually doing so improperly is illegal and immoral, but that doesn't make the act of security penetration any less "hacker worthy."
This is like saying that someone who takes notes on paper, then subsequently loses those notes when the paper manufacturer steals the paper back, is to blame for losing the notes because they didn't take a photo copy. It's a total cop-out.
For me, the issue is that Amazon purposefully deleted his notes. They certainly must have known that this would be a side effect of removing a title from a Kindle.
True on the backup front, but I must admit that I probably wouldn't have thought about that.

As to the DRM on Kindle, it has bee known, but I don't think their ability and willingness to delete a "legitimately" purchased book remotely has been until this incident. Isn't this the first time that a book has been deleted over the air?
My Aunty shoulder surfed me the other day .. "you're not one of those there hackers are you [...]". So I got chance to explain hackers vs. crackers for the 100th time.
"Many of the issues can be solved" .. that is why I love Android and open platforms in general. You see a problem, you are free to go fix it. No need to wait for Apple.
I have a certificate in GIS, so I'm impressed that ESRI is using it. I guess I will have to look into it. Thanks.:)
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If you ignore the global economy, the magnitude of the sub-$1000 PC market relative to the $1000+ PC market, and the fact that you can run Windows on an Apple PC, then this article makes sense. Otherwise...
There are cheap things on ebay that let you connect both power and headphone at the same time. All the accessories for android are very, very cheap on Ebay: batteries, cables, dongles, cases, charging docks, etc.

I personally use a Nokia stereo bluetooth to listen wirelessly so no worries about the headphone socket.
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This is so wrong, but somehow, morbidly amusing. I certainly don't think the adds are obtrusive enough to have my sig read "suicide death 9/11 murder", but each to his own...
Thunderbird seems like a more elegant, cheerful solution.
The conclusions of the study were strong, and dose-dependent. I.e. casual exercisers did much better than couch potatoes and heavy exercisers did much better than casual exercisers.

The groups were significantly different. The "obese" people in the study had BMIs of over 30. The "very obese" group had BMIs over 35. The "thin" people had BMIs under 25. Similarly, people with diagnosed hyper-tension were compared with those of low-risk blood pressures. A variety of fitness levels were examined, ranging from couch potatoes to daily (but not competitive) runners.

The study found that fitness had a protective effect against each of the other risk factors. In fact, the only other statistically independent predictor of mortality for men and women was smoking.

>Also, have the results of the study ever been replicated?

Yes. There have been a number of very large studies that have produced similar results.

S.N.Blair et al. 1989 "Physical fitness and all-cause mortality" JAMA Nov;262: 2395-2401 (over 13,000 subjects)

I.M.Lee 2003 "Physical activity in women: how much is good enough?" JAMA Sept 10;290(10) 1377-1378

C.D. Lee, S.N.Blair, and A.S. Jackson 1999, "Cardiorespiratory fitness, body composition, and all-cause cardiovascular disease mortality in men." Am J Clin Nutr. Mar;69(3):373-380.
by that logic, we should count all the Firefox extension downloads too
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Bread machine. Pick one up at a thrift store for a couple of dollars. Thrift stores always have bread machines because people love to buy them but never use them.

Put the ingredients in the bread maker, let the maker raise the bread and then throw the loaf in the oven to cook. Great bread for pennies.
You know, that kind of attitude really really irritates me. It's a "don't trust anyone/anything" type of mentality that leads to a lot of unnecessary paranoia. We live in a society of trust. I buy a DVD, trusting the company has given me a disc with the movie I want, viewable for years and years, but if it suddenly executes some sort of self-destruct code, I am at fault for not making copies?

You might say it's wrong on the consumer's behalf in putting that much trust in a company, but that's the society we've come to live in, and, not including the small percentage of issues like these that occur, I think it's safe to say the trust we give has spared us a lot of worry.
I have explained the difference so many times that I've lost count. It's too bad hackers get such a bad rep.
Not funny me thinks, but much better, in a modern art sense interesting, very clean concept. He should do 20 of them and see what evolves out of that.

And thanks for the cover!
I feel the same way, but this is a tip-of-the-iceberg issue. what happens if you're working the cloud and MegaCorp zaps your thesis/subscriber database/whatever? Yeah, one should back up but part of the idea of cloud computing is you pay for availability and security. It may be a frivolous lawsuit, but it's probably going to be an important test case unless Amazon settles.
This article makes no sense. Microsoft never releases an OS? (What are Vista and Windows 7?) Apple is prefectly good except for the evil AT&T not letting iPhone users use Google Voice? (What about all the other apps Apple blocks that have nothing to do with making phone calls or using data?) Before the iPhone you couldn't install apps on your phone? (Hello, Windows Mobile and Blackberry, you guys apparently didn't exist until after Apple invented you.) What?

Anyway, if you don't like Apple's business practices, don't do business with them. They are not going to change. Change is in your hands. There are plenty of other smartphone OSes that will show you your email, twitter, and Google Maps. (Not many fart apps on the other platforms, though, I admit.)

If you are a developer, it's clear that nobody is making money off iPhone apps, so there is no real reason to keep clinging to the platform. The gravy train has come to an end -- the iPhone is not especially amazing for users, and it's not especially amazing for developers.
Isn't there a conflict of interest if a firm is introducing you to their investor network but then helping to craft the agreements? Or is this degree of cross-fertilization common and even necessary?

Still, if there's that prior relationship between the firm and some investors, how can we be sure our interests are being best represented?
Unless of course you're an international student, in which case earning more is illegal, while spending less isn't.
Am I squatting because I've registered a few tens of domains (and paid for them, faithfully, every year), but haven't yet gotten 'round to the projects I registered them for?

Yes -- just like a trademark.

Are you going to take my domains away because my paying work takes up too much of my time?

If they were important to you, you'd use them -- just like a trademark.
I think you bring up a very interesting point. Microsoft is indeed tightly embedded in the enterprise. If they ceded the home PC market to focus on the enterprise, I suspect they would see much better revenue growth. Enterprise needs often emphasize things that are not really high on home users' lists: remote installation & configuration, customizable user security policies, integrated calendaring and email, etc...

To be sure, MS is certainly doing a lot in the enterprise space: SQL Server, Sharepoint, Outlook, and IIS just to name a few. But little (if any) of that stuff translates especially well to average consumers who have no need for such products. In spite of that, MS persists in having all these consumer distractions that are money losers and sap time and resources to support and promote (see: Zune, Xbox). But frankly, that's not really what they're good at as a company. I mean that as no disrespect to the people on those teams, but the company itself is just not consumer oriented. The consumer side of MS products always feels "bolted on". It's just not part of the culture. They just need to start being OK with that.

If MS could realize that they don't need to dominate every corner of the computing world in order to be a competitive company, it would be a huge start to getting them back on the right path. Remember when they wanted to buy Intuit, and then came out with MS Money to compete against Quicken when that fell through? That sort of thing makes little sense, and collectively those small things distract a company from its mission (to be fair, they recently killed MS Money, so there is hope).

Here's hoping they turn it around. The marketplace needs competition, and a toothless Microsoft wearing a "kick me" sign is not helpful for the industry as a whole.
I attended a talk by Chris Tarnovsky at last year's Defcon. It was the best talk I went to, and the main reason why I resolved to go back to Defcon -- unfortunately I won't be able to attend this year, but if anyone from here is going , I advise you not to miss his presentation.
So raise your kids in Esperanto? Or does it really matter that much in the end?
Losing weight is not the only measure of health. If it were, crack heads and anorexics would be ship shape.

There are plenty of other things to worry about beyond our weight when it comes to health.
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I think the OP is completely ignoring Microsoft's previous years financials (strong consistent growth since before Vista and after) and instead basing his argument on two data points (and not the whole data set) and pointing and saying the sky is falling.

It appears that Microsoft can blame their quarterly's on the global financial thing as that is a valid reason, when you take all other financial data points into account. Saying it is all Vista's fault is a straw man argument, given ALL of the data shows otherwise.

If anyone cares to look at the actual financial data, rather than making wild claims, you would notice that Microsoft's Growth alone last year was about half of Google's total revenue. Sure, Google is doing fantastic, but that's not to say Microsoft is completely F-ing it up (like the Author claims when comparing the two).

Secondly, I won't dispute the figures that Apple are outselling Microsoft in the >$1000 market, because I don't have access to all the figures but I personally would expect that would be the case given that is the market Apple targets. I would suggest that if the Author wants to take a realistic view of Microsoft's position in the computer market, he should look at TOTAL machines sold, not just one market segment.

It would be like arguing that Ferrari dominate every other car manufacturer worldwide because they make the most cars that are red that come from Italy...

[Disclaimer: Not a Microsoft Employee or Fanboy, just sick of propaganda]

EDIT - fixed an error with Google/Microsoft revenue/growth comparison
The cards that do crypto cost 0.05 cents more each. Think of the profit margin erosion when you sell them for $5 each.
Fine.

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Apple has turned computer sales into a question of quality, much like the Japanese manufacturers gained control of the domestic car market by making it a question of quality.

Meanwhile, there are businesses that still want to run full screen 16-bit DOS programs in emulated Windows XP on 64-bit Windows 7. Windows has become a metaphor of the Russian Matryoshka nesting dolls.
Hey guess what - I'm one of those 91% consumers who bought an Apple computer (a Macbook pro to be precise) this year. Now, guess what OS I'm running? Not OSX that's for sure.

I'm also not really sure what DF's aim is here beyond recycling the favorite talking points of Apple fans.

Vista sucks - check.
Windows 7 is a do-over - check
Consumers love Apple - check
Mac's can run Windows - check
Laptop hunter Ads are lame - check
PC's are $700 pieces of crap - check

There's nothing really new here. Just some viewpoints with questionable objectivity while conveniently ignoring the fact that a) The vast majority of computers sold do not fall into the "$1000+ at retail" category and b) The majority of users are perfectly happy with both Windows and their sub $1000 machines.
type inference

Guy Steele's ‘Fortress’ language is headed in that direction.
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I would say that since it's quite possible to be skinny and eat enormous amounts of fast food, fast food cannot be making people fat.

What? The fact that some people eat enormous amounts of fast food without getting fat hardly means that fast food cannot be making anyone fat.

Additionally, you seem to be assuming that skinny = healthy, and fat = unhealthy.

Finally, I'm fairly certain that studies have shown that as western fast food restaurants expand internationally into new cultures, incidences of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease all rise in those cultures.
> Besides, the problems now at CentOS are administrative.

When the lead developer disappears for a month, without saying anything. Another developer leaves, disgruntled. Nobody knows what happens with the money from donations. Those are very serious problems. The kind of problems that kills a project.

I am sorry for overreacting in respect to Redhat. I know you guys are great. We use your product. (Although we do like CentOS more for us dev people and for testing, because it saves us tens of thousands dollars ;-)
Do you realize how much those damages could be?

Yes. That Amazon chose to break the Kindle platform to the extent that they can't cease infringing by merely pulling the book from sale is their problem.
Agreed. I wouldn't be very surprised if we were seeing Bill Gates returning to the cockpit again to sort things out in five years or so.
I dont really understand your point, just because someone can fall over and break their nose doesnt mean I should not get in trouble for punching them in the face.

They arent being sued because the device randomly malfunctioned, its because they intentionally deleted users data, remotely.

While you call that a well advertised feature, I missed it on any of the promotional material or adverts.
It seems a little misleading to compare myspace's overall uniques with the email-specific unique counts of the other providers. It implies a 1:1 ratio between uniques and people who are going to go through the relative (I'm sure they've made it as easy as possible, but nonetheless) hassle of switching to a new provider.
Agreed here. I don't know how common it is, but since OSX purchases can't really be separated from hardware, and the hardware is basically vanilla x86 in a snazzy case, it (theoretically) doesn't prove anything.
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

There are only 6 million businesses in the US?

I thought that the "over 90% of the desktops running Windows" is an old figure from the (Microsoft backed) Gartner Group. The large firm I used to work for was partially bought out by Microsoft, and so we used Microsoft. How about a more realistic (and up to date) figure of how many Windows machines vs Linux/phones/game-consoles/Google/Apple/etc machines?

As for "The Enterprise", beam me up because the majority of servers are Linux.
> Losing your homework is not reason for a lawsuit,

Why the hell not? Work is work, no matter your age, and clearly homework has value (artificial, but I digress) given the importance teachers have tied to it.
I know that HNers will scoff at the citing of popular literature, but I find the arguments in "Diet for a Small Planet" and "In Defense of Food" quite compelling when it comes to "traditional" foods. Traditional diets are developed to make best use of the ingredients available in a region and are often the healthier than "scientific" diets. A good example is Mexican food. Corn and beans together make a complete protein.

I think that tradition, like cuisines, is an ever changing thing, however.
Completely true about apple vs msft.

I'm not sure I agree about the furniture implication. Maybe practically nobody cares about furniture, but the suppliers do. If they sell 90% of all office furniture at a great margin, they are a successful company. Commodity implies close to perfect competitive markets. That is not the case here.

Anyway people buying servers care. They may not be cutting edge, but they care what they use.
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Maybe it's time to take the whole Ritalin and stop breaking them in half.
You don't have to be available - "sorry all our technicians are occupied at the moment we can fit you in tomorrow at 2".

They either go somewhere else or wait, you get to sound like a bigger outfit and one that's busy. Plus you didn't lie to them, even if you're watching telly that counts as "occupied".
This is something I've been saying all along - and Sony too. Last year someone at Sony lambasted the Eee PC, saying that netbooks will destroy the industry by causing a "race to the bottom". People fought against that idea - and many loudly proclaimed Sony to be a sore loser and sells overpriced crap.

Quote here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9879798-7.html

And then it turns out they were right. The netbook has absolutely gutted the over-$1000 PC market to the point where Apple is now the only real player. Margins are thinner than ever and I would not be surprised if manufacturers start keeling over from selling too many netbooks.

I mean, that's what happens when you give up the business of selling kobe beef and get into the business of selling grade-D ground beef...
This guy should poke his head out of Safari and discover Firefox with Ad Block Plus before embarrassing himself.
It seems like it is a bit of a leap from this to anything with an internal mechanism, which you'd have to disassemble and scan piecemeal, as far as I can tell.

That said, one step closer to the matter replicator, which is great news to me.
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Too much pomposity. Modded down.
0.05 cents more each, or $0.05 (5 cents) more each?
In the hard-hit manufacturing areas of Ohio and such, where the local Owens Corning plant has just laid off a lot of people, there are waiting lists for jobs at Walmart. No, Walmart is probably not hiring there.

There is not an endless supply of low wage survival jobs at the bottom of the market. That's why even illegal immigration is slowing.