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Movies are as much (or more) a visual medium than an intellectual medium. Visuals are every bit as important as ideas. But visuals are the easiest part to convey in a trailer, and the lightcycles are the coolest visual element of Tron.

It's kind of like how in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, they kept the Viper launch tubes because it was an awesome visual, and they had the scanny-red-eye Cylons. It didn't keep them from cutting to the heart of the ideas of BSG (survival and escape from a mechanical, inhuman enemy) but the visuals were just as much at the heart.

Let me put it this way--if there was a Tron movie that was perfectly true to the ideas of the original, but without any lightcycles at all, that would be just as wrong as making a Tron sequel that's all about lightcycles.
Sadly, Wikipedia mode does not eliminate the need for a web browser.

I was hoping for an Emacs command to load a Wikipedia entry directly into an Emacs buffer.
I think you're right on all counts, but.. I was just so into the original movie and the games (arcade, discs, and INTV DD) as a kid that the trailer still makes me giddy!
With Bluetooth in the tablet, you can have a keyboard and mouse when you want them.
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Here's hoping. I do want it to work. I'd love a new, good Tron movie.
If you liked that analogy then I have some "Great Quality" CDs to sell you.
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Uh, I read your first link, and it didn't provide any reason whatsoever to make the government's case seem stronger.
In Safari 3.2.1, all I see is a big blue empty rectangle. Works in Firefox, though (of course).
Will anyone pay for anything?
There's always w3m.el: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m#In_Emacs
Not Unix but my boss tried to add a new drive to our company/dev server raid array this evening and wiped everything out. Hopefully the backup restore works tomorrow :-\
I'm still trying to figure out why iTunes only talking to iPod is (according to Palm) any more of a USB agreement violation than Nikon Capture only talking to Nikons, HP printer software only talking to HPs, or any other vendor software/vendor hardware combination that only works with the vendor's devices.

Palm's confused if they think a compatibility check is a violation as opposed to, say, faking a hardware vendor ID.
USB hardware IDs and network MAC addresses clearly have to respect the vendors' address spaces or the hardware standard falls apart.

Seems more likely this is a play to, yes, have the Palm device get press, but also ensure their site gets Page Rank from all the unique news articles' and blog entries' inbound links.
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My wife's employer has that sort of high-handed approach to control of employee behavior. I'm rather astonished that a progressive, 2.0, "open government" administration chooses that sort of avenue to security/leak-control/discipline (or whatever their actual motivation).
Hot water return systems are not part of "normal" residential plumbing. They are energy wasting, obnoxious high-end stuff that you expect to find in what they call a "McMansion". The electric pumps they use last much less than the 10 to 20 years you mention. A plumber who considered himself a craftsman, say having given up a higher paying computer job to build nice plumbing systems, would not install one.

But if he did, it would not cavitate. If you have observed shorter life in the joints near those pumps, it is because the pipe corrode faster there because they are always at a higher temperature, just as the hot water outlet on a water heater always corrodes before the cold water inlet.
The only people who feel like Apple is abusing them, though, are a bunch of angsty tech geeks. The vast majority of normal people using Apple products are thrilled that they just work, unlike so much of technology.
Um, I had this idea sometime around middle school, when we learned fractions, and probability was an example the teacher used. I still remember his response, which was rather satisfying - that in many systems, things break down at edge cases, and that's to be expected.

It was a great class - a similar insight Mr. Hawks helped me have is that there's much less of a difference between how people reason about $6 billion and $7 billion than between $5 and $500, even though the former is a much larger gap.

This stuff is common sense, and the con is probably older than modern civilization - the author tells you a neat tidbit of somewhat counter-intuitive reasoning, then pretends like he's endowed you with a secret which makes you smarter than most trained economists. You eat it up because you love the idea that you're smarter than economic experts. Bullshit.
Wikipedia has a brief description of this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_Legacy

I think rather than being a full trailer for the movie, this is more of a single, and visually cool, scene to hype up people not familiar to the original.
That's a bogus analogy. Apple is not preventing you from installing any software you want and using the same music you have in iTunes (along with all the meta-data in the music files) to connect to any hardware you want through standard USB/Firewire/Whatever connections.

Apple is preventing people from essentially hacking their software for the benefit of another company.
Looks like it's not all lightcycles: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41791 I love the art direction so far (based on those production stills).
FWIW, YMMV, IANAL but I found STOMP over comet to be far easier to implement that XMPP.
Improperly and unsafely shipping metric tons of sodium (as well as other [unspecified] hzardoous materials) does not sound like all that minor an offense to me.
I agree that the relevance of the first link to the gp's argument is unclear at best. The second link is pretty good, and indicates that false labeling of imports was involved.
> fact-checked

Fact-checked for journalists consists of verifying that someone said something, unless what they actually said isn't consistent with the narrative. At that point, journalistic judgement comes into play. Do you attribute the quote that you want to an unknown source or simply go with it?
You're not the only one. But I suppose not many around here have kids, so your point about how utterly boring this is for them isn't going to stick.
Thank you for the link. That does render much of the thrust of my criticism incorrect, as it does work in context.

Again, here's hoping.
He didn't say that constitutional rights should sunset. He said "all laws" should sunset.
We have about 10 applicants already! A few YC company reps will pop into the chatroom and hopefully take part.
The tech specs of the iPod never said it supported Linux. When you bought an iPod and decided you wanted to sync it with your Linux box, you stepped outside of the support box. That is not Apple's fault, that is your fault.

(I should note, by "you" I mean "Linux fan who bought an iPod", not "you, tdavis" :). I didn't even consider an Apple product when I was running Linux because I knew it would be too much of a pain.)
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http://code.google.com/p/confluence-el/

Confluence (Atlassian's Wiki) isn't free, but the xml-rpc api allowed it to be integrated into Emacs with _no_ browser. I've loved using it that way.
Announcement: This will be a completely virtual event! Please join the Chatterous chatroom to participate. We will post up at a cafe in SF, so if you guys are in SF send me a message. Next time around we will definitely organize a venue (if you have one in mind, please let me know) since there is such a big outcome.

Thanks to all! See you early in the morning!
They also block Facebook, Myspace, and likely most other forms of external communication sites such as Gmail and Hotmail. This isn't news or a new development.

Seriously though, do we want our taxpayer-paid public employees wasting as much time at work on Facebook as we do? I doubt it. People forget that the White House is an office too, just like others - just with lots of special properties.
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To answer the question posed in the title, no, not by far.
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I think what you're talking about is what Feinman describes as follows:

When you're thinking about something you don't understand, you have a terrible uncomfortable feeling called Confusion. It's a very difficult and unhappy business. And so most of the time, you're rather unhappy, with this Confusion, you can't penetrate this thing. Now the Confusion is because we are all some kinds of apes that are kind of stupid working against this... trying to put the two sticks together to reach the banana, and we can't quite make it yet, the idea. And I get that feeling all the time - that I'm an ape trying to put the two sticks together, so I always feel stupid. Once in awhile, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana. [1]

Everyone is terrified of feeling stupid, of being perceived as stupid. Only the most brave among us have enough courage to admit our collective stupidity and go out and learn something.

1. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119#...
I figure it out...(video)
Is that possible? How could one "shut off" civilian GPS?
Educating Our Own Computer Hackers
This is not the first time I've heard people complaining about GCC. Could someone who knows compilers intimately explain why so many people dislike GCC? Are there any FOSS alternatives? Also, can LLVM be a drop-in replacement for GCC sometime in the future?

(The complaints I've hear so far range from GCC having a crappy register allocator to it generating code that is downright wrong.)

EDIT: Spelling.
He specifically mentioned the Second Amendment (part of the Bill of Rights). Also, the Constitution falls within the category of "all laws".
Who Says iPhone Needs a Keyboard? That’s so 2004
Write, read, walk, explore.. sometimes with other people, if you can believe that!
The official voice chat: https://voxli.com/onedayapp

Try to keep it clean ;)
I agree with you, the new debugger is miles better than the old one, and hasn't crashed on me yet. However, it's still IE.

Even with the new debugger, it still tool me nearly 10 hours to figure out that IE was occasionally moving a text range from an iFrame to the parent document when I tried to use the selection.pasteHTML method. I thought it was a bug in my code...
It sounds like you certainly know more about term rewriting than I do. Do you know of a decent introductory source? I'd like to get a gist of it, but the Pure site seems to prefer reference/appendix style documentation. That stuff is great to have, but I'm looking for an litmus test for my interests.
I see a different problem: if there were a one-click paywall of $0.25 for a single story (without ads) on NYTimes.com, given a one-paragraph "abstract" of the content, I'd probably pay it several times a day, much more than I'd ever pay for a single newspaper. So based on my own (imagined) behavior, I'd hypothesize the problems of newspapers could largely be solved with micro-payments.
(He doesn't have anything to do with Harvard; he just uses a blog set up by Harvard.)
NVIDIAs Linux driver is the apparently 90% the same code as their Windows driver, making it not a derived work of the kernel as it doesn't exclusively require Linux.
Hello, before answer, I must say I don't speak english very well.

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Yes I do, It's very helpful. You can work with "tabs" like in firefox, so yo are free from the linear structure that microsoft word impose.

It have corretor, and save as RTF, so when you finish can open it in word and make final adjustment if you want.

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P.S.: I am just a happy user. Don't have nothing to do with the company behind it.
I'd adventure to say by the end of the year all major browsers will implement WebSockets: Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera are working on it as we speak.
You're missing one VERY big browser in that list.
As far as I know, MS still needs to make about another $4B before they recoup their investment in the XBox, so financially I'm not sure it's paid off yet. However they have done significant damage to Sony, which they may consider worth the cost
What's the gp?
Wow.

I was always fascinated how a single function - XMLHttpRequest() has grown to be promoted into a TECHNOLOGY but it just outdone itself by becoming two (!) TECHNOLOGIES by taking a little longer to return to the caller.

scanf() must be screaming with envy. Poor old scanf()... future holds nothing for it.
Strangely enough, (consumer) operating systems and developer tools are still the areas where Microsoft shines (or at least gets a passing grade). WinVista was an utter failure, but Win7 is a very nice OS (I'm a Mac fanboy, FYI). My tools of choice are usually Vim + Terminal (or XCode if I'm doing some Cocoa), but I've used Visual Studio in the past and I liked it. Slow, yes, but many of the features that make it slow are totally worth the 5-10 seconds I have to wait for the IDE to start up. Also, look at all the cool things MS Research is doing.

MS is a bungling giant and, even though I'll never choose Windows as my platform of choice, I think they still do some things very well.
How would you contrast this with OCCI?

http://www.occi-wg.org/

It seems to me that a python-only library however useful it may be would be less productive than a binding to the OCCI specs.
It would just make things worse. If the Times and/or Post were to erect a pay wall, I see things playing out as follows: they lose most of their readers

Why? People pay $$ for the content that just happens to be in newspaper form. They also pay for content that just happens to be on the TV. Why wouldn't they pay on the Web? OH THAT'S RIGHT! Because everyone expects everything for free! We're all a bunch of freeloaders that don't even want to pay for valuable content.
Not being able to save an injustly, if lawfully, accused man for the crime of not knowing all the paperwork a disgusting flaw in our system.

According to the USDOJ statement, he was importing wild-harvested members of Peruvian endangered species. The issue wasn't that he didn't fill out all the paperwork; it's that the paperwork he filled out was fraudulent, designed to cover up the fact that his "investment income" was from poaching from among the last remaining wild exemplars of a dying species.

You shouldn't have regained your faith.
The problem I see with a setup like this is piracy. It only takes one person to pay $0.25 and put the text up on github/scribd/pastie or any of the hundreds of services available.
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Taleb acts as though the finance community doesn't know what a fat tail is, or how to model it. Yes, there are idiotic statistical practices used in the business world (VAR comes to mind) but the best hedge funds employ the types of top mathematics PhDs that understand the concepts and implementation quite well. I've worked with them in the past and it would be a mistake to discard their thinking as trivial or amateurish.
Grandparent, e.g., the parent post of the parent post.
I don't get this obsession with "free" stuff. I'm willing to pay for tons of stuff - Kindle books, blogs via Kindle, magazines, laptops, movies (when it's easier than torrenting), music (when it's easier than torrenting). The only reason I usually don't pay for things is when it's a pain in the ass to and or I don't want them enough. And it doesn't take a lot to make me want something enough to pay $10 or $20 or $30 for it - I impulsively spend that much on Amazon (usually without regrets) on book recommendations from blog posts or lectures.

Another example - I'll pay $100 for a good MySQL editor - one that gives me a visualization of my database (both schema and data), generates a human-readable schema representation of various revisions that I can keep in version control, generates SQL diffs of those revisions (both backwards and forwards), applies those diffs, and keeps my data when reverting. It isn't rocket science - I could hack together a bunch of scripts day, and debug it to stability over a month, that time is worth a lot more than $100 to me.

Give me something which seems worth paying for, and make it easy for me to pay you, and I will. Not rocket science.
Can you elaborate on the other complaints? There are precious few first-tier C compilers in the world. In my experience gcc has the best track record of quality, frankly. In 15 years of more or less full time professional use, I've been bitten by precisely one compiler bug.
Yeah it is possible. It can either be shut down, or its accuracy can be degraded. See for example

http://www.equipmentworldmagazine.com/apps/news/articleeqw.a...

How is easy - all the GPS satellites belong and are operated by the US air force (see video segment above).

I think the EU is/was trying to get a competing network up there in order not to be so totally dependent on the whim of the US President. I don't know what the status of that is.
Here, let me do the rest of the legwork to convince you that what this guy did wasn't kosher:

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/October/07_enrd_837.html

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060604/sta_chemicals.sht...

Note in this story that these materials were being kept at a farm supply store. While they probably have the licenses and facilities for storing fertilizer and certain flammable gasses, whether they had the same capacity for several tons of sodium and chemical slurry is not clear (can't find more detailed information on them).

Also note that he had shipped 41 pounds of sodium through ebay. I'd say that the issue isn't so much that he mislabeled his shipments once or twice, but rather that it happened again, and again, and again, and someone took notice, followed up on the guy, and turned over just how much material was involved.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Part_One_Eco-inven...

Note here that he paid for the storage of the materials by trading 2,000 pounds of borax, which makes me question if this was so that the farm supply store wouldn't have to make an accounting of the storage.

My point in this isn't to say that I think the Government ought to be sticking its nose in everyone's business. But the commerce clause EXISTS FOR CASES LIKE THIS. These ARE things that the Federal Government should regulate. We established the EPA because schmucks were improperly storing hazardous materials and people were getting sick from leakage and rivers were being fouled. We established endangered species protection laws because hundreds of species of plants and animals went extinct because no one said, "Hey, you can't do that."
None of the providers (that I know of) support OCCI. libcloud could support OCCI once it has gotten some support.
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Left me with a disappointing lack of enthusiasm.

It felt... empty. There wasn't enough to excite me.
we will all be teaming up in small groups, groups which can be made prior or during the brainstorm sessions in the morning.

We won't be holding this at a venue this time, we didn't know the turnout would be so big, and don't have enough time to really make it work out.

Next time (which will definitely happen) we will organize a venue (suggestions welcome) and try to get those around the globe to organize within their regions as well.
The excerpt you provide from his paper is mathematically expressed as a leptokurtotic probability curve and data with high heteroskedasticity.

Do you think he's the first guy to figure out that insufficient sample data in the tails of a leptokurtotic probability curve leads to a higher overall error term? Rather than some groundbreaking new theory of math, this is material covered in freshman econometrics. I'm just asking that he admit this when he boils it down to an enjoyable read.

EDIT: the concept of kurtosis was apparently at least named in 1905, over a century ago, by German mathematician Karl Pearson.
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Thanks. I try not to post unless I actually have something to say.
I assumed the motivation had to do with the legal requirements that the White House is supposed to follow regarding tracking communications coming from the White House.

If they don't have a way to keep tabs on any messages that get twittered, sent via facebook or even worse, webmail; then it's far easier to just block it.
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Mediaman is right that there are people in finance that understand fat tails. I would say that Taleb along with Espen Haug, and Pablo Triana would agree. The issue is the theory. Actual practitioners do not have the luxury of believing in things that don't work.
Many complaints revolve around GCC's monolithic architecture. See the clang comparison page (http://clang.llvm.org/comparison.html) for a decent overview.

clang should open the door for intelligent refactoring and analysis tools which aren't possible using the GCC codebase.
I'd hypothesize the problems of newspapers could largely be solved with micro-payments.

This has been the Business Plan of the Future for at least the last fifteen years. This Clay Shirky essay is getting on towards nine years old:

http://openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.html

... and yet the counterexamples are still pretty thin on the ground. Where is the newspaper that thrives on micropayments? It's not like nobody has had the time to try it yet.
If a significant percentage of Microsoft Office purchases were run on WINE, Microsoft would be forced to support that scenario. However, that's not the case.
Check out the http://www.DownsizeDC.org movement.

They aim to reduce the size & power of the Federal Government by making Congress read the bills before they vote on them.
This goes in my Makefile. I have to add files in xcode.

all:
xcodebuild -activeconfiguration -activetarget -sdk iphonesimulator3.0 -project MyProject.xcodeproj

I may have to back out of the Ruby. I thought I remembered reading about a Ruby project for iPhone apps, but I think I was smoking something that day.

Other Links:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickconnect/
http://phonegap.com/