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Yeah, seems these days there is more of a backlash in Asia against using scantily-clad female models this way for promotional purposes of unrelated products ... few months back there was similar noise in HK about female models at book fairs: http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?sid=24568241&#...
The maths is some what weird. You have total 10 billions dollars with 1 billions but just 1 billions dollars with 100 millionaires.

Also you should not limit the combination to only 100. I am wondering if you extend the set to

1. 1,000 millionaires with 10 millions dollars.

2. 10,000 millionaires with 1 million dollars.

3. 100,000 affluent persons with 100,000 dollars.

It seems 100000 should be better than 10,000 millionaires. But it seems not the real case.
Your view is also antiquidated. Banking is moving target, the technicalities of the reserve system change frequently.

In modern banking the act of depositing is completely severed from the act of lending. Banks lend based on capital ratios, availability of borrowers, and the Fed's interest rates. Deposits and reserves no longer matter.

Effectively, when you deposit money, you deposit in a 100% reserve account with the Fed. The Fed as a completely separate action lends money to the banks.

Thus last year when people panicked and decided to hoard more, the result was deflation, (not lower interest rates on business loans and mortgages as your model would predict).

For further reading:
http://www.winterspeak.com/2009/09/loans-create-deposits-how...

http://www.moslereconomics.com/mandatory-readings/soft-curre...

http://reservedplace.blogspot.com/2009/04/easing-understandi...

And the comment thread between RebelEconomist and JKH here:
http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2007/05/11/rising-deficit-in-the...

These folks actually work in banking, and make their living understanding how the system works. They are very much worth reading.
Just curious, do you have some sort of justification for the idea that a gold standard is somehow better than fractional reserve other than the out-dated idea that your dollar has something 'physical' to back it? Gold is just an object the only value that it gets is the value that humans give it. It's not like gold has some 'inherent' value just for being gold; a value the is constant and unquestionable.

Most people that I've talked to that support bringing back the gold standard only have some vague idea of not wanting their money to be 'just paper' and needing to have something 'physical' that backs it. But their thinking never goes any deeper than that. Most of their ideas come off as lacking in thought. Much along the lines of people that keep all their money in cash in a mattress because they "don't trust the banks;" never mind that it makes it easier for any corner street thug to break your window and steal all your money.
I disagree about wearing off. Sure, novelty will wear off, but it will still have an additional attraction. The perfect example is the little bullseyes people put at the bottom of urinals.
No, it still does apply. The problem is that when everyone (or at least a lot of people) hoards, it drives down aggregate demand. Demand doesn't magically appear from nowhere. Who are the banks going to lend to when no one's buying or selling? When businesses and individuals both hoard money, there's just less business to be done. You may have read stories of banks not lending despite the injections of cash into the system! What do you do when that happens?

The problem with the hoarding scenario is that if you know that a greater than X percent of people are hoarding, then you better too because the economy will do worse for it, and you better have a hedge when that happens. This is called a deflationary spiral.

With fiat currency, the central banks can attempt to discourage hoarding by printing money. However, the amount of money destroyed by the recent financial crash has nearly outpaced the Fed's ability to print money.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar

I used grammar as an umbrella term (the most common use). Style is one subset of semantics, which is a subset of grammar.
Granted- apple made thier usual poor developer-relations moves that they normally do- but a rejection is still justified in this case.

I'm surpirsed that the developers
feel justified in making a public complaint out of this.
I don’t know where that leaves you as a business.

I suspect this leaves Apress at the "Require all further authors to contractually promise us, in writing, that they are assigning Apress the exclusive right to publish/distribute the content and have not written any legal landmines which contradict this clause into the sections we routinely don't read".
This article is generally a bunch of political crap. I don't know any actual entrepreneurs who are talking about any of the things mentioned in the article. Maybe it's my bias against the Washington Times though.

Still gets an upvote for submitting the printable version. I need to do this more.
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RE: Five Technologies That Could Change Everything
Monday, October 19, 2009 7:09 PM
From:
"Totty, Michael" <Michael.Totty@wsj.com>
To:
envitar

Sir,

Thanks for your note. Space limitations prevented me from mentioning Tesla, which indeed gets considerably more miles on a charge than a Volt. As I understand it, it does this by using some sophisticated electronic controls and a huge array of batteries, both of which help account for the Tesla roadster’s steep price tag. The point I should have made more clearly is that, when cost and weight are considered, lithium-ion batteries in production vehicles are going to continue have a much smaller range than comparable gasoline-powered vehicles. Not to suggest that makes them impractical – some 80% of all car trips are less than the Volt’s 40 mile range. But the grail remains something with even a higher power density than lithium ion.

You’re also correct about flywheels – they’re useful for a number of critical grid applications, mainly in maintaining power during brief outages. Most of the experts I talked with, though, didn’t include them as a solution for larger storage needs, or to handle storage for variable power sources like wind. Still, there’s a lot of interest in flywheels, and they probably merit a closer look in the reports.

I appreciate your writing.

Best regards,

Michael

Michael Totty

News editor/Journal Reports

The Wall Street Journal
Did Yahoo every appoligize for handing over information about the Chinese pro-democracy protesters that China asked for some years back?

To not apologize for that is a much graver mistake than what you are currently apologizing for.
Can we have some more context on this? How was it removed? When? How do you know Google did it?
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A lousy article: it doesn't explain what her gripe with 'positive thinking' is. They mention a 'happiness industry', without explaining what it is.

The point of positive thinking is simply that if you are able to conjure up positive thoughts, then you will, almost by definition, feel better. I hope to be able to smile, thinking positive thoughts, while I'm dying.
Incentives matter. Whether a school district educates well or poorly, it will still get its annual budget increase from the state assembly.
I'll admit that he took this pretty far out of context. He only tossed the very leanest of bones to the business sense of the article and totally dropped the visceral reality of PR you invoke. Worse, once he deflated this ecosystem where this kind of writing can and does exist, he used that censored point of view to fuel a snarky diatribe against the practice as a whole.

So, yeah, judgements made out of context hold less water.

But Merlin's audience isn't sweatshop PR workers. It's techy blogreaders with too much time on their hands and a sense of humor. He's not offering this as criticism to NewsGator, but more wants to just burn it at the stake and point. If it were something more then I'd hope for more consideration of the actual audience and environment.

As it stands it's a calling. By writing something that hyperbolically demonstrates his point, perhaps he just hopes to incrementally move the actual practice that direction.
I'm filing this under "things that I'm not totally okay with science knowing how to do".
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so how did they know they succeeded , the fly had a disgusted face after?
In the case of Yahoo's login form, the username is explicitly not echoed because people often have quite similar usernames, so they will try to login three times with the wrong username (it exists, it's just not their username) and then open a support ticket, etc.

(It's Yahoo. This is the single most-used piece of UI on Yahoo other than the front page. Do you really think we don't do it because we're lazy? We never got around to persisting the username in 14 years of endlessly recoding the login page?)
My initial thought was that MBA produces pointy-haired managers -> source of Dilbert cartoon ideas -> MBA gets credit for Dilbert cartoons success.
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Finding a job without work is not easy in this economy however it can be done. You can and will find a job without work.
Pluralizing everything with an apostrophe isn't a usability problem, but boy does this article do it a lot.
It also says "prior written permission"...maybe it's a joke because the permission is granted by the prior paragraph?
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Next time around, take a look at PowerDNS. You like flat files as your zone backend? Supported. You want an SQL backend? Supported. You want an LDAP backend? Supported. And so on and so on.
Not only can you talk in patterns, but your code can be written in patterns in a direct way.

I have never bought this argument. What does it even mean? In every language, an implementation of a design pattern can be clearly distinguished as such. This is a good thing: it allows you to easily describe parts of of your application. This part produces objects, that part provides an interface to a bunch of other code, the other part determines which algorithm should currently be used, etc.
You would be missing the joy of learning .. never mind, they can zap you with satisfaction as well.
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Your screen is infinite. It isn't a book, it doesn't have pages. I appreciate the "show more" style of navigation because it fits how the screen is.
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Also, from a personal perspective, it makes the assumption that all the male coders in the room are straight, which is in some ways an even more insidious assumption.

You can look at the room and say "okay, sure, there are no women at this event". You can't do that with sexuality -- but people do anyway.

(I feel I should note that this unfortunate, embarrassing incident aside, Yahoo is an incredibly, almost ridiculously gay-friendly place to work)
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Plastic logic has announced the Que Reader and although light on details, they do mention Wifi, AT&T 3G and a bookstore from Barnes & Noble.
You're entirely correct, but what always amazes me, is the amount of time I spend on MS software, but if you look at the market cap of MS vs Oracle vs Apple, something seems out of whack.

234.89B MSFT
112.40B Oracle
170.08B AAPL

I can kinda see why apple is worth so much, although, of all apple consumers, how many hours a day do they spend on Apple vs how many on MS. And I really don't even see how Oracle is in this same race, but they are.
If DJB doesn't want to make his software useful, that's his right. We simply won't use it and the most perfect code in the world can pathetically fade into oblivion.

Unused potential is another name for waste.
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Great article about the dangers of storing your medical record in the cloud. Companies are promising "free" software, but these companies profit by selling your info and subjecting you and your doctor to advertising. Also you know the people paying the most for the advertising are going to be front and center on the screen.

How is that for acting your best interest?
"[2] Y Combinator is (we hope) visited mostly by hackers. The proportions of OSes are: Windows 66.4%, Macintosh 18.8%, Linux 11.4%, and FreeBSD 1.5%. The Mac number is a big change from what it would have been five years ago."

It would be interesting to see a comparison between the "five years ago" 2000 stats, these 2005 stats, and the current 2009 stats.
The problem with using data like this is that it's completely anecdotal and self-selecting.

When I was in college I could have made the claim that AOL Instant Messenger would become the 'one true' messenger because everyone I knew was on it... while in the rest of the world people were mostly using things like ICQ and/or MSN Messenger.

Just because the world around you looks one way doesn't mean it's the same everywhere. Just because a large number of people use and interact with Twitter doesn't mean that everyone does or that everyone even knows what it is for that matter.
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I complained about that, but it was too late to do anything about it. (You don't usually even see those frontmatter pages during the book-writing/editing/proofing process.)
It would have been nice if the link named "sample code" linked, to, uh, code rather than a git hub node that one might extract some code from, in maybe fifteen minutes.

All the other links seemed to be announcements for the guy speaking and article itself had no real meat. Show me some code does something hard easily and something easy, easily. And don't make have it be factorial, I know functional programming can do factorial.
I'm not sure this is the case here, but it might be the difference between the actual text itself and the representation, arrangement, and style of the text as exhibited in the book. This happens in music, where a given Mozart concerto, for example, is in the public domain, but that doesn't mean you can photocopy a given sheet music of the concerto and hand it out; the notes themselves are in the public domain, but the particular typesetting of the specific document is not.
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Oh, the irony. That he went to business school is one thing, but I would have expected a different set of benefits, like knowing ones subject (professional managers). And the examples he did give, like listening to his audience, do not seem particularly obtuse. Strange fellow, Mr. Adams.
Sure. Several features didn't work as advertised, or only worked intermittently. They always fixed the issues eventually (and apologized), but we were losing customer calls and faxes in the meantime. Sometimes the service didn't work at all...outages and transfer issues led me to their customer service, which sucked. It was infuriating to be paying for advertisements that featured the 800#, only to have the incoming calls/faxes be lost or misdirected. When you have offers for a home lost in the ether, you want decent customer service. Unfortunately, their entire customer service staff seemed to be on their forum - monitoring and rapidly deleting any complaints or negative comments. At one point, they banned one of my employees from their forum because she was trying to resolve an issue. It drew too much attention to the problem.

I believe they've taken in additional funding since I used them (?), so they may have improved. I've not had problems with any of the (dozens of) other 800# or virtual PBX providers I've ever used though, so I was left with a fairly bad opinion of RingCentral.
I feel like people are missing the point.

You shouldn't be pissed about this because it'll hurt women's feelings. You should be pissed because it makes developers look sad and pathetic and overly horny. I'd be appalled to see that in any kind of professional/academic setting.

WRT Women, I think the white knight stuff is hurting more than helping. They don't need our protection from the perils of sexism, they just need us not to be sexist and to know that they can handle it all by themselves.
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Sounds like you want an affiliate network rather than setting it up inhouse. These networks handle all the tracking, invoicing, etc and just send you a bill (well usually they ask for a deposit up front).

CJ mentioned above is the biggest but they tend to have restrictions like minimum traffic, sales, etc. Depending on where your traffic is, you can also try Clickbank, Clixgalore, Pepperjam, Zanox, to name a few.

Tip 1: be very sure how much each sale is worth to you, taking into account refunds, cost of sales, operations, etc. You don't want to be paying out more than your margin...

Tip 2: watch your cashflow. You don't want to pay out before you collect from your customers.

Good luck!
Saving/investment also increases employment as the borrowers use it to increase their capital (buy more machinery etc), which needs extra employment.
I'm still trying to figure out where the guitar shower room comes in >.>?

(This thread is the first google result for "guitar shower room.")
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That is a likely response. But that will push authors who disagree with that to other publishers.

I've noticed a number of technical books developed in an open manner (though usually not under the GPL) that then sold well. There are also a lot of good people around software these days who strongly believe in the ideals of free and/or open source software. Therefore I suspect that insisting on strict copyright control will lose more sales than it gains. But people will make mistakes as they learn this.
How about: the uncertainties in their extrapolation to 400 years beyond the present are probably greater than the changes they are predicting.
Thanks for the didactic tangent.
Care to explain why that's bad?
I did a search on Amazon, but couldn't find the non Apress version of the book in question.

I wonder if Apress forced the book to get delisted.
offers a marginal improvement of XP

I have to disagree. I think that computer users have become progressively more savvy over the years. I think users would certainly welcome an OS that was a small but notable improvement over the fairly good XP. The reason that Vista failed was it was noticeably worse than XP. Not a small improvement, not any improvement. Worse.

A notable disfunction among Vista's many disfunctions is the sensation that you are not in charge of the computer. The computer brings up all sort of things in an opaque fashion and this entirely annoying to anyone who expects to use the computer to accomplish a task since you don't know what roadblock will appear in your way.

There is a certain school of interface double speak which constantly bleats "Of course an experienced user might be bother by feature X but this is actually comforting to an average user (who is a combination moron, chump and victim, it seems)."

Vista was one place where the majority of computer users gratifyingly refused be this "average user". I hope this portends well for the future.
it makes developers look sad and pathetic and overly horny

Not commenting on whether it's right or wrong, but erm, really? Do racing drivers evoke those impressions? Because they sort of have the same thing at car races.
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My computer science teacher has a saying, "Mathematicians are always right." Why is zero even? Well, because it's defined to be even. If you try to bring personal intuition into mathematics, you'll just repeatedly shoot yourself in the foot; there's no use arguing against it.

I had a similar problem with accepting that 1/inf = 0; to me, there could always be a smaller number, and therefore would never reach zero. Calculus made me realize I was wrong, and now I don't even bother trying to reason why mathematicians decided these things.

EDIT: Man, I knew as I wrote it that someone would get smart-ass with the sentence "Well, because it's defined to be even," but I didn't expect so many. Yes, you're right, zero isn't defined to be even, but zero meets the definition of evenness. Happy?
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875872 for previous discussion of the same material.
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Is there any breakdown of the profits? I'd like to see how much of it was due to the iTunes store vs iPods vs Macs etc
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Except that every goddamn webapp completely fucks up pagination! They all implement the completely braindead pattern where the most recent N posts are on page 1, and then count up into the past. The resources found on "Page 2" get pushed down every time a new item is posted.

It really couldn't be any shittier, and only a handful of people have ever implemented anything else. It also makes it impossible to usefully cache the whole page, which is just deadly for an API.

At minimum, your page numbers should be in the same reverse order that your content is. A better implementation is to have the pages represent fixed periods of time (hours/days/weeks/months/years).

http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/07/20/efficient-api-pagin... is the only clear elucidation of this insanity I've seen.

It's better to not expose paging in the UI than to cock it up like everyone else. Having real links to "Page 2" in Twitter's timeline would be a terrible idea -- it would be anything but a permalink, as the content would change completely 20 tweets later.
If you are separating your markup from presentation, it is unnecessary. Give your markup the property hierarchy and then arrange things via your presentation layer.
Well, because it's defined to be even.

This implies that defining it to be odd would be an acceptable choice. Defining zero as odd would break almost every generalization you can make about even and odd numbers.

And even number plus an even number is even. An even number plus an odd number is odd. And odd number plus an odd number is even.

Oh, whoops, zero was odd? Sorry, let me rephrase: "And even number plus an even number is even. An even number plus an odd number is odd. And odd number plus an odd number is even. SPECIAL CASE: IGNORE ALL THAT IF ONE OF THE NUMBERS IS ZERO."

Numbers alternate odd, even, odd, even, odd, even. EXCEPT AROUND ZERO.

Even numbers can be written as 2 * k, for k is some integer. Odd numbers can be written as 2 * k + 1, for k is some integer. EXCEPT FOR ZERO.

Even numbers can be divided into two equal parts by two. Odd numbers can not. EXCEPT FOR ZERO.
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The important thing about all these different services is how you decide to include people. It's more of a real organic social network where some casual friends might be Facebook worthy but have no reason to ever e-mail me personally. Others might not be personal contacts but are interesting enough to warrant a Twitter follow. Some business contacts are people I wouldn't mind IM-ing me outside of work -- others goto a separate IM account I only login to during business hours. Some people have full access.