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Would be very interesting to see what happened if the big CDN providers just depeered Comcast for 24 hours. Would certainly cost Comcast a fair amount in customer support calls, bad publicity, and properly bring the debate to the general public.
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> As video-communications really takes off (yes chicken and egg - see below) this will get lost in the noise

Aside from the chicken and egg problem, I don't think you ever get to a point where that really is the case. Not because video comms never take off, but because even when it does its a small share of content delivery and the net is still wildly asymmetrical.
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I found that for the maps to work you have to be really specific. Which I would say is a knock.

For example, a local bar here where I live is called Old Hickory Whiskey Bar. If I search for "Old Hickory <City>", I get a bunch of pictures of houses, but if I search for "Old Hickory Whiskey Bar <City>", I get a map result.
Microsoft, like Apple, wants you to only be able to use their products, so there's a very low probability of them releasing a Unix version. Both Apple and MS would actively stop people from installing Linux on their hardware if they could get away with it.
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I agree. I read the post on my Xubuntu machine and was too lazy to open my Mac, so I opened XFCE's Dictionary application and did a search for "flash". Lo and behold, the same definitions appeared. The heading says "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (gcide)" which I learned is derived from the Webster's 1913 edition and contains further improvements. That was kind of exciting and for at least a little while I'll keep the dictionary open or add it to my panel. :-)
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The article said that their cable business is way less profitable than their internet business. I haven't done any research on the topic, but given that they have to pay content providers for cable, and don't for internet, I'm inclined to believe Cringely -- even though in a normal market it should be a low-margin business, selling undifferentiated bits for $.
Maybe I'm naïve beyond any recognition, but shouldn't the ISP's or whoever is peering charge based on the bandwidth amounts? It sounds like they have a flat-rate contract with each other and now they're charging more?
I'm sorry but this is pure spam in this context. I think it would be far more prudent to submit this as its own post.
I'm really excited about this, because its perfect for me (modulo not having Metro version of Office). 12" at that aspect ratio is just right for reading and marking up documents, reviewing drafts, taking notes, etc. That's 90% of my work flow.

Surface Pro 2 wasn't good enough for me because 10.6" at 16:9 was just too narrow. I either did a ton of vertical scrolling or squinted to see things in portrait mode despite having a lot of wasted space above and below. 12" at 2:3 is reasonably close to a sheet of paper (13" at 3:4).
Built from the same Cuber framework.
http://stewd.io/w/rubikscube
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" Lately the best strategy seems to be doing as little as possible and riding the hills as they grow around me"

I am not quite convinced that this solution is universal (which is a claim you didn't make) or practical for a large set of people. What does it translate to in more tangible terms? Refuse to go to school/seek a better job/invest in something more worth one's time in wait for an unexpected propulsion to the top of a hill?

I agree that the hills are rather unstable and various unaccounted for factors can cause the searching algorithm to fail. Most often being that we fail to account for all the other dimensions which also have hills that somehow need attention. One dimension is profits and it is a very popular hill, but all of a sudden you hit a point and realize that there exists a hill in health, and relationship, and personal growth, etc.

What do we do as a response? Stop searching? I doubt it. It might be better to instead, accept the fact that our algorithm will never provide the perfect solution; that to optimize for one dimension (income, for example), we will have to sacrifice optimizations in other dimensions (relationships, leisure etc.) due to a finite resources and constraints outside our control, and in doing that, define priorities.

The priorities need not be final values, but mutable based on environmental conditions. Today, a 60hr week might be a reasonable priority in order to - or at least, in the hopes of being able to - eventually drop that to 20hr weeks and 40 hours with family and other interests.

[btw, great analogy]
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The ability to use Visual Studio on the go, while keeping the capabilities of a tablet is quite nice.

It sure is on my list, in case I need a laptop replacement.
Honestly, I don't care how clean or nice the page design is, until it can't give me good results. Here is an example:

The other day, I was searching for a Django core developer's contact. I knew his exact name was Baptiste Mispelon so I searched that directly.

On Google [1] after his Twitter and Github accounts, the first picture is correct, and I did not have to do anything else, the contact infos are there, his picture is there, great.

On DuckDuckGo [2] the picture is not even close, and the first couple of results are not as useful as on Google [1].

I think it is a mistake to concentrate on clean design on a search engine until the searching algorithm is not that good. AFAIK Google's page ranking algorithm is well known, when I were in university I even heard stories that a student (going on the same class as me) reproduced the algorithms only on his own!

TL;DR: I want to search relevant information with a search engine, not to look some nice webpage.

[1]: https://www.google.hu/search?q=Baptiste+Mispelon

[2]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Baptiste+Mispelon
Strange, I think it's the opposite. That's a lot of money for an i3 with little memory. It's cheap next to a MacBook Air perhaps, but still quite expensive.
It isn't all that outdated, and it isn't anything we haven't already run into with phones. The latest $600-800 iPhone is routinely outdated every, what, 18 months?

I do feel your pain a little though, I bought a Moto G just before they added the SD card slot & 4G. You've just got to come to terms with the fact that device lifetime is longer than the product cycle.
Can you muster the strength for a brief run? Changing your physiology, changes your psychology. Exercise has been shown to alleviate depression, force yourself daily. If your father saw you in this shape, what might he counsel? Assuming he was a student of the Old School, he might say "now get your head in the game and tough it out!" Soldier on!
> The updates in the Gen 3 address nearly all of my gripes (why can't they integrate LTE??).

I suspect that enough of the people who want LTE have shareable (wirelessly or with wires) LTE modem with them at all times as to make the added cost of integrated LTE not a particularly effective selling point for the added cost (and very much not attractive for the base model, so it would necessitate added SKUs, as well.)
There's also ^L, a chord which I find much easier to type than reaching up three rows to an F key (especially with my caps lock mapped to control).

Regardless, he shouldn't have to change his shortcut because a website (a search engine, no less) hijacks his keys. That's bad UX.
Properties -> Settings -> Layout -> change res -> Save.

I never understood why some people make such a big fuss out of it.
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Download.oracle.com has invalid SSL Certificate
Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside when I'm downloading something that could be potentially used to compromise my machine. Why is Oracle CNAMEing the Akamai servers?

https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u5-b13/jdk-8u5-macosx-x64.dmg

> dig download.oracle.com

download.oracle.com.	300	IN	CNAME	download.oracle.com.edgesuite.net.

download.oracle.com.edgesuite.net. 13909 IN CNAME a1961.d.akamai.net.

a1961.d.akamai.net.	20	IN	A	184.50.26.9

a1961.d.akamai.net.	20	IN	A	184.50.26.11
I think the proposal is to simply sever the link when the peering connection saturates. The traffic out through the link from LazyISP is generating more traffic in through the link than the pipe can handle. LazyISP pretends that this is not their problem, that the Internet is somehow trying to shove its traffic through poor ol' LazyISP's pipes.

The claim is analogous to traffic exiting a Autobahn-style limited-access highway and attempting to reach its destination faster by taking the narrow country backroads to get to the on-ramp of the next highway. The only real reason for any traffic to route to LazyISP is if one of the endpoints is in there, and there is seldom a reason for that traffic to go anywhere but the shortest route between the end point and the nearest backbone highway access point.

The typical argument from LazyISP is so ridiculous on its face that it makes me furious every time I see it. All of those guys present asymmetric upload and download speed to residential customers. Every last one of them. And they pretend that when all of their customers' asymmetric bandwidths are summed up, the total is somehow magically supposed to be symmetric.

Every business on the planet whose cash flow depends on pushing bits out to the Internet goes directly to the backbone with content delivery networks, or at least to an ISP that is serious about peering. They are not going to an ISP with crappy interconnects. There is no way in hell that any cul-de-sac on the network map like a last-mile ISP is ever going to push as many bits to the backbone network as it pulls from it, especially when they do nasty tricks like throttling, port blocking, and hidden metering.

The point is that a steaming pile like Time Warner does not have any internal content providers that any of its customers want to connect to, precisely because of its business practices. If Time Warner cannot connect to the Internet, it has nothing to offer the customer through that precious last mile connection except television channels. So they stop paying the $25-150 a month and try to make do with standing on a ridge waving semaphore flags at each other. LazyISP needs Level 3 more than Level 3 needs them.

Therefore, when LazyISP tries to extort them, the correct response should be, "Fuck you," as they flip the off switch.
I think you're going to live forever disappointed. The command prompt shell is one of those programs that just doesn't get updated and/or any new features. Like notepad.exe, there are so many easy things they could do to make it actually _useful_, but won't.
I know I'm going to come across as un-romantic or anti-intellectual, but I don't like the "literary" writing style this seeks to emulate. The quotes provided in the article from McPhee all seem over-written to me -- topically, I suppose I would call them fustian.

I like prose which adheres to the "as simple as possible, but no simpler" rule. I'm well aware this is a matter of taste.
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I really haven't seen the surface pro compete on price. Similar Lenovo offerings for 256GB and 512GB SSD ultra books have similar pricing. I honestly think MS shopped around the concept of surface to OEMS and I think the OEMs said "Pass. No Thanks. we'll stick with our incremental and existing form factors".

I think MS was forced into a corner and concluded they needed to go it on their own.
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> Would they still make money if they had to pay for the upkeep of the network with only Internet fees?

In parts of the country, slower-speed copper, fast-download cable, and a few fiber networks are already built out. The cable distribution giants like Time Warner Cable and Comcast are already making a 97 percent margin on their “almost comically profitable” Internet services, according to Craig Moffet, an analyst at the Wall Street firm Bernstein Research. As Levin points out, “If you are making that kind of margin, it’s hard to improve it.” And most Americans have no choice but to deal with their local cable company.

-- http://www.technologyreview.com/news/510176/when-will-the-re...

If that's accurate, I suspect that they could live without cable as we know it today and still make plenty of money. Working on finding out more numbers to see what the revenue breakdown is between cable and internet, though I wouldn't mind if someone else chimed in.

EDIT: Found this [1] for Comcast. For 2012 and 2013 they've lost video customers, increased internet customers. Had growth in revenue for both categories, but a greater increase from internet (percentage and absolute).

So the way things are heading, cable leaving would cost them a lot. However, they can probably make up for it elsewhere, and, ultimately, should be planning on cable TV going the way of the dodo regardless of the nearterm revenues and profits. It's not a viable longterm strategy, like SMS (while immensely profitable) for cell carriers, a good short term strategy but as content shifts to the generic data channels the specialized channels will fall into disuse.

[1] http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/CMCSA/3182774232x0xS1...

EDIT 2: Check out page 53 of the linked filing.

Video revenue for 2013 was $20.5 billion. Programming costs were $9.1 billion. So the net, ignoring any other costs, right there is $10.4 billion. If the ISP side of the house is actually making 97% margins like the claim in the Technology Review article, then it is making almost as much as the video side of the house. At the current growth rates it'll surpass the video profit, but not revenue, sometime in the next few years. Their NBCUniversal acquisition may reduce their programming costs, I'm not sure of the legalities involved in that (their growth and acquisitions could put them afoul of anti-trust/monopoly laws and regulations).
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Two things have improved my English more than anything: deciding to read out loud whenever I'm alone reading an English text, and discovering that I can immediately look up any English word with a three finger tap on OS X.

If the dictionary had been English–Swedish, I think I would have been more prone to see English as an obstacle, as something that I need to translate to Swedish in order to comprehend the text. Instead, I constantly find myself thinking in English whenever I read or write English, which I never did before.
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http://news.cnet.com/FCC-changes-DSL-classification/2100-103...
"The ruling puts phone companies on the same regulatory footing as cable companies, which are exempt from having to offer access on their infrastructure to competing Internet service providers."
To this day, I don't understand why don't didn't have an intern or somebody fix that. They push powershell so hard, yet provide a horrible, horrible terminal to work in. Make it like putty. In fact, go find one of these makers of terminal software and just buy they out... Do something. Nobody takes their command line stuff seriously simply because the terminal is so god-awful.
FWIW, I agree with you on UI aesthetics. And I like the ThinkPad's TrackPoint better than trackpads.
Build something. Resist the urge to use all that theory to make it optimal. Just make it work. From what you've posted, I'd suggest inventing a "toy" language and writing a compiler or interpreter for it.

One of my favorite sayings goes: "What's the difference between theory and practice?" "In theory, there is no difference".

It sounds like you have the theory covered pretty well.
The ISE is clever, but honestly, nothing beats a PuTTY-like terminal.
When this happens in dictionaries it's called a "ghost word" and dates back to the 1800's. Here's the wikipedia page on the topic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_word
Wow, I think I somehow missed what TPM actually does, if "The goal is Digital Rights Management and computer security" as stated in the article that sounds horrible. A backdoor for the USA and hardware-level DRM, great.
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This cable-menu style image from the comments is scary: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1567010/original.jpg
Thanks for that. Good to know I'm not alone in thinking that talking to that satellite would be awesome.
The problem is your point #3 has never been true, though. In each case, in American history (though I don't know about water), the utility was privatized for _years_, became local monopolies, and used that monopolistic advantage to become one of the most major Washington lobbying industries of the time, often to the massive detriment to specific sections of the economy. In each case it was only _after_ an alternative industry rose in lobbying prominence in washington (often, the next one on your list) that the previous utility lost their position as #1 lobbying firm in Washington, that their competitors were able to then force anti-trust lawsuits, and or get fair government regulation.

The railroads were monopolized until the late 1800s, the original American idea of a fat cat comes from railroad owners who made profits at the expense of midwestern farmers. That was eventually regulated when oil became a major lobbying industry, whereupon oil and gas subsidies became the new norm and we regulated the railroads. Electricity is a general complex area, but outside of domestic coal-based electricity production, my understanding is that the majority(?) of American electricity comes from nuclear power, which in turn is a regulated monopoly. That industry is so locked that Northern America imports much of its electricity from nuclear plants in Canada, and Texas is actually on Mexico's electricity grid.

I was somewhat hopeful that as Wallstreet rose to replace other industries as one of the top lobbying firms in America that they would end up pushing for net neutrality so as to commoditize their network costs, but instead they simply pushed for B2B fiber to be regulated completely differently (and more sanely) than consumer networks.

I don't want to wait for something better than the internet to come around, before we get net neutrality back.
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Coming from the B2B media world, I couldn't agree more. Google Ads are a commodity. They work by making all web sites appear more or less than same to the advertiser. Direct sales is the opposite: it's about explaining why your audience is special. The difference really is orders of magnitude.
Mac OS X being UNIX compatible only matters for command line and daemons stuff, everything else is Cocoa.

In terms of architecture, Windows is a VMS descendent and although there have been multiple UNIX compatibility layers, both from Microsoft and third parties, very few people really cared about it. As of Windows 8, Microsoft killed their own implementation and is pointing people to Cygwin.
What they mean is, you are not supposed to install a paid copy of Windows 8 on any government computer. (downvoters, hint irony)
They didn't lose $645 million in spending, it was a one time recognition of the stock they already allocated.
I'm not crazy about referencing self within the block to create changes. On OS X, NSObject supports keypath-to-keypath bindings, which can be processed with NSValueTransformer (a relic of the pre-blocks era, I suppose). Something like that, using blocks instead of value transformers would keep the processing functions pure (transformation functions, then) would be ideal, I think.

In the second part they do something like this, but the syntax is just strange to me, compared to: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/...:
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I know you're not being serious, but there are some other terminal apps that are better than the basic DOS prompt. Check out ConEmu, for example.

Now, once you've got ConEmu or something like it that will resize nicely and do other things, you'll still be stuck on the crappy DOS-style prompt though. :)
Solomo sounds the best, but it also resembles "slow-mo" which is a good thing and bad thing, given the meaning of the word.
I've read On Writing, though not recently. The strong impression I have is that his advice was intended as just that -- advice, rather than binding pronouncements.

That is, King in On Writing seems essentially to be saying "Here's what worked for me. Maybe it will work for you, too," rather than trying to be Moses on the flank of Mount Sinai.

And, for any wordsmith, much of his advice has value! Certainly there's no doubt of that. On the other hand, King is a writer of horror fiction, and I am not. This, at the very least, suggests that not all of his advice will be applicable to my purpose, a consideration which seemed absent from the comment originating this thread.
And those people are completely 100% wrong.

DSL got screwed for around 10 years by having more expensive regulatory costs than Cable.

Why yes, if you tax X more than Y, Y is going to have the advantage.
The GP has actually grabbed some of my sentiment. I doubt that it's just an outright expression of the frustration over Windows 8 from the government people as customers and doesn't have much conspiracy behind it, which the tone of Reuters seems to imply.
Ok, we'll try to get the permission from real authors by manual research on how to get in touch with them. Fair enough.
I think that really speaks to Microsoft's new direction though.

It's funny, because it used to be that everything Microsoft did was in furtherance of the 'Windows über alles' philosophy, that Microsoft can only win if everyone else loses. Within that philosophy, though, there was no direction. You drank the kool-aid, and then your team just did whatever; see the famous example of the Office manager hating the idea of tablet PCs and refusing to support them in Office. Everyone was working towards the same goal (the Windows hegemony) but doing so in a disorganized fashion.

Now, it seems like Microsoft's new direction is 'stay relevant and make good things'; everyone is working in the same fashion (make new, relevant technology), but there's a lack of coherence. Microsoft making such a fantastic iPad app as Office for iPad is certainly weakens Office on Windows, Surface, Windows 8 RT, etc., but it also means that Microsoft will still be relevant even if any one of those fails. Likewise, it makes no sense for them to make a version of Office for Mac and (intentionally) cripple its compatibility to hurt the Mac's image.

Now that users aren't (and can't be) forced to use Office on Windows, the Office team needs to keep their product relevant and their revenues flowing; that means covering as many platforms as possible, and ensuring proper interoperability between them.

Basically, the Office team's job now is to ensure that Office survives, not to ensure that Windows 8 or the Surface survive.
So on the one side is the fat-cat ISP who doesn't want to make expensive capital investments ih their transport.

And on the other side is the fat-cat vc funded video content providers, who don't want to pay for the their mp4-based saturation of all the pipes.

This is a negotiation. There are two active media campaigns that are trying to gin up our anger against The Other Guy (tm) as part of their negotiations. I just can't get invested in this nonsense.
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