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I've been using Open Office almost exclusively (over MS Office) for the last three years on both Windows and Linux.

For basic day to day tasks OO works very well.

If you want to accomplish something more esoteric, you can probably do it(and there might be more than one way), but you will have to look at external help sites, and that might take some time.

Then again, trickier things in MS Office might take some time to learn, as well.
That the 'death verification' failed? It says in the OP that, as a joke, his friend emailed FB to actually say he was dead.
The article and comments seem to suggest that the use of Matlab or R is a prerequisite for performing calculations such as this. However, MIR (Music Information Retrieval) libraries exist for a number of languages, including Java[1] and Ansi C[2], amongst others. A good dynamic language for experimenting with this sort of thing is SuperCollider[3].

By the way, the psycho-acoustically spectral measurements referred to in the article are called MFCCs[4] - basically an FFT reading weighted according to the sensitivity of our ears. They are often used in both music and (especially) speech recognition because they tend to accurately sum up the timbre we perceive in a given sound. Timbre is much easier to extract from a digital audio file than pitch or vocal information, hence why it tends to be successful in applications such as this.

Shazam is still pretty cool too

[1] http://jmir.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://libxtract.sourceforge.net/

[3] http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel-frequency_cepstrum
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For the four years I have had this setup I haven't had them blame each other. Not that it has worked flawlessly mind you.
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sounds bad. but not surprising.
Let's think of Python 3 as Perl 6 that got done on schedule. There may be many good reasons to use Python 3 today, but it is not like Python 2.x is not good enough as-is or it is standing still.

With Guido's recent focus on not adding new semantics to the language, it's clear that he wants people to focus on getting stuff working on 3.x without changing more stuff in the core.

Optimizations to the language via unladden swallow, rewriting standard libararies etc., are a right step in that direction.
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This is by far the best introduction to HTML5 that I've seen. I freely admit to being something of a sceptic about the spec — and I still seriously question parts of it — but this introduction highlights the most important aspect; it adds more semantics to a HTML document. I’m a big fan of that.
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Not to mention that his name just sort of looked like the one in the actual memorial.
I only read "Little Brother" by Cory. For some reason, I didn't really like it as much I hoped I would; after reading many overwhelmingly raving positive reviews and the subject of the book (well, "hackers") I somehow was expecting more.

Do you think his other books are better or maybe I am in the minority who thinks "Little Brother" wasn't that good?
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"Lost in translation" is like a good parfume or wine: you need some time to pass to get the best of it, be it true scent or fine aftertaste.
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Fantastic. Good to see all the xhtml verbose cruft going.
I'm not sure I agree with that. If they were less accessible to first time viewers, then they would likely have a low rating overall. If thats right, then any decent prediction engine would generally give low ratings and not rack up a huge error.
Considering it's based on a survey of perception... it's bullshit
WordPress already has support for this, when you're editing your Blogroll links (out of the box). Awesome.
Using Google might have helped. The feature set for 6.0 is being pushed into 5.x, and a new release development cycle is being put in place as part of 5.4.

Basically, the development cycle is being restructured to pushing out milestone releases every 3-6 months. There's more information on the new 5.4 development cycle at MySQL Forge (http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Development_Cycle).

Here's some more background about the switch in an article written two weeks ago in SD Times: http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33838
The future of general purpose VMs is a Python bytecode in an LLVM-backed branch of CPython?

That doesn't make any sense. It's only a generic VM in the sense that it's turing complete.

You're going to implement Ruby on top of this? Or is everyone just going to get their own incompatible re-implementation of the same VM services?
England in 1850 was already industrialized.

I suspect there were significant differences in life expectancy between the 17th century and 1850.
>> Admissions Office began giving more weight to non-academic factors, looking for applicants with leadership potential and a commitment to “give back to the community.”

Oh, God! What is the plan? Train students in "leadership" and "networking", leave boring technical stuff to those nerds in India or China?
So they increased female students by...

1. Giving female students special benefits and privileges.

1.1. Access to Big Sister program.

1.2. Special female-only clubs.

1.3. Special favour in admissions.

1.4. Special favour in high school.

2. Stopped evaluating new students on ability in computer science (which is based, like anything else, on experience) and started evaluating them on extracurriculars and intangibles.

Does this seem kind of fucked to anyone else? They basically threw merit out the window because they'd rather have diversity than talent. Are math programs going to start admitting people who have no experience or proven ability in math now, because those people do more charity work than math nerds? Are chemistry students going to be chosen for their leadership ability rather than scientific ability?
"... Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, though. ..."

That's a pretty good insight.

Understanding someone else requires you get "theory of mind" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind By understand how to get the best out of somebody by seeing from their point of view. Punishing them for making a simple error would show poor judgment. Owning their failure, leadership. Now if the person didn't learn from this, that's where things get interesting.
Since when has dithering over details been recognized as a favorable trait in programmers? Also, that response was in the context of intro-level CS courses: so if you're fretting over the implementation details of glorified Hello World applications, instead of focusing on the overarching concepts , I'd be inclined to say you'd better change your ways or you won't be a very good programmer.
So if MySQL disappears (at least, stops having new releases), what does it mean for RethinkDB? (Their software is a drop-in storage engine for MySQL).
How could GPL software disappear?
I've had the opposite experience as you. Everything I've used by LG has been fantastic.
Don't just rely on Technorati. My blog has an engaged subscriber base of 20000+ yet we do verrrry poorly on Technorati (somewhere in the 5-6k range, I think) because we don't many inbound links from other blogs ;-) Googling for "[your topic] blog" and "[your topic] blogs" will bring up even more options.
neither are algebra and calculus ;)
Not really. If you look closely at the video, you can see it's just flat pieces of foam layered on top of each other. Presumably, she hand-made one chair for the competition. My guess is that the "crazy 3D modeling" involved a bunch of trial and error.

I love the simplicity of it, and I'm always amazed at what design students are capable of coming up with.
I doubt you can speak for your forefathers any more than I can, but it does seem that you would like to rewrite history by today's standards. Perhaps your stereotype of the west is just as perverted.
The solution seems to be straightforward to me:

When an account is in memorial state the account holder should be able to log in, her account then should change automatically into normal state without any administrator approval, and she should be able to prohibit her freinds to put her account into memorial state again (with a checkbox).

As she is the only person who may know her password it is not logical not to allow her to log in.
I don't think you understand how college admissions work. Students are generally accepted based on their overall academic record. Grades, SAT score, extracurriculars, etc.

Students are not accepted to CS programs because they've written a lot of prior code. I'm sure most incoming chemistry students have not spent time inside a lab outside of their high school chemistry class. College is where you specialize in a particular field so students are accepted based on their overall aptitude and not experience in a specific subject.
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Hm, interesting. Maybe computer science needs a new hip name to increase enrollment. We could call it "Autonomous Human Sociology".
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Newton was supposed to have been an absolute coward.

As a member of parliament the only thing he mentioned, during any session, was a request to open the window.

Feynman was a womanizer who was known to sleep with wives of colleagues. His biography "Genius" is a pretty good read by the way.

Genius doesnt mean "adventurous" or "virtuous" or "worldly". Its just one facet of a human.
... of course I understand how college admissions work. Do you assume that I am a total idiot or something? :)

"the Admissions Office began giving more weight to non-academic factors, looking for applicants with leadership
potential and a commitment to “give back to the community.” These broadened criteria also became important in awarding financial aid."

They changed the weighting to emphasize intangibles such as charity and "leadership potential".

"He felt it was important to get the message out that “no prior programming experience is necessary” to enter the CMU computer science program."

They changed the weighting to de-emphasize experience - which is the #1 correlate to ability.

"I'm sure most incoming chemistry students have not spent time inside a lab outside of their high school chemistry class."

But if there was a student who spent time outside the lab, they would give that student special consideration because of proven ability and interest in the field. It just so happens that the majority of CS students are going to have experience outside the computer lab, because in this world everyone has their own computer. Most people don't have their own chemistry lab.
JSON highlighting... at last. It's like someone finally cares about providing an inspector for daily use!
Oh hai, facts.

Who cares about facts? We're trying to have an irrational freak-out over unfounded speculation here and you're not helping!

Here, I'll compensate: I heard that Apple is releasing a 10" netbook using Intel's X-25M SSD and an OLED screen. That ought to fix things.
This seems like a bit of a nothing article. He's just taken a standard thing "when things fall into place", given it a catchy name and then added an almost unrelated anecdote from his life. There's no effort to explain how to achieve "the moment".

It's probably quite well received because positive, empty generalities are upbeat and tend to attract kudos.

That said I can see the following ways to actually achieve those moments where everything falls into place:

1) Unconscious competence in something - for example leading troops - requires a long period of practice. Hence focused practice on a field of interest should help. Note that in the military example in the article the guy had been spending a lot of time dedicated to learning how to lead troops. He wasn't dabbling and having a go for an hour every month.

2) Focused practice needs to target weak points, or at the very least different things - if you keep doing the same thing over and over you're unlikely to make any progress.

3) A willingness to make mistakes advances you towards competence faster (I recall a previous article on here arguing that people learn and retain much more from their mistakes than from rote learning). Also a fear of making mistakes will keep you from trying new things and hence retard your progress.

4) The ability to accept and get through a long period of incompetence, keep motivated, and keep practicing.
However I do agree that Indians have done a bad in terms of Marketing our selves.

What is this "we", and since when are people brands?

Bit parochial and jingoist eh? Nations are an illusion, and better image "betterment" can be done by caring for one's immediate neighbor.

Don't succumb to regionalist propaganda that serve none other than the ruling classes; all earth is yours, and all (wo)men your kin.
Define general purpose VM? Do not forget ARM and MIPS based platforms.

May be not Ruby but Arc.
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Theres no reason you cannot get #2 in hardware.. now that'd be an interesting direction for processor manufacturers to go - architectures and instruction sets designed like that of a VM, with built in garbage collection and runtime optimisation and dynamic dispatch features.

As for #1, write once run anywhere still doesn't seem to be quite there, imho.
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All such attempts for summation are ill-defined. The Abel summation is actually not a property - it is a functional. That said you take the function f(n)=<n-th summand>. Then you can define AS(f), but it shares very few properties with normal summation. If you are not careful you can easily reach contradiction.

For example

1/4 = 1 -2 +3 -4 +5 -6 +7 ... = //comment: 1-2-4+5=0,

3-6+9-12... =

3\sum i(-1)^i= 3* 1/4

Contradiction!

Edit: The original contradiction example was more complicated.
Who wrote that clearly doesn't have a clue of what's going on.

Drizzle is a fork of MySQL 6.0!

You cannot buy open-source software, only the people building it.
Do you care to elaborate on how moving to Heroku "has dropped the hosting fees for [your clients] down to zero" ?
Very interesting.

Keyword = "crush" = brief description = "this person considers the referenced person to be a crush (i.e. has a crush on the referenced person)"

Keyword = "date" = brief description = "this person considers the referenced person to be a date (i.e. is dating the referenced person)"

I'd argue that considering a person to be "a date" does not imply that one is dating that person.

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Nice thought.
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I remember once seeing a "dictionary" of songs. Each one was indexed by whether notes were higher, lower or the same as the previous note. Using D for down, S for same and U for up, and using # for the first note, here's the Start Spangled Banner ...

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Many, many tunes can be separated with the first 20 symbols.

Anyone have a reference? I'd like to acquire a copy ...
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future versions / developments could disappear (or be licensed as closed source).

I imagine that is what is meant.
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Just a question: was anyone else able to understand/read the last few paragraphs. It seemed to descend somewhat into gibberish (or rather a bazillion comma's appeared out of nowhere).
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Jesus. Here in the UK 500M is GBP 15.

AUD 100 for 2G is mental, sure it wasn't as bad as that a few years ago ...
Yes, anytime they ask you to list your favorite movies/books/music in your profile. Of course the matching algorithms are only in the heads of your prospective dates.
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Why is this article at the top of the page ? As so many people have pointed out - he is neither an unknown nor has there been any recent incident/discovery which would require a re-iteration of his "geniusness".
Not only that, he's completely smoking crack on a number of fronts:

> Compass

> Not that I can tell

All mainstream Android phones from the G1 to the Dream to the Hero have had compasses since a year before the 3GS came out. I would be very surprised if Droid omitted one - particularly since Google navigation, which depends on the compass, is debuting on the Droid.

> Note-taking app

> Not standard

> Voice Recorder app

> I’m not seeing it as a standard feature

That's what the market is for.

> Use as tethered modem?

> Through third-party apps at least, I think

No, in Android 2.0 itself as a standard feature.

> Web browser

> Webkit-based browser

> WebKit-based Safari

Huh? How does the browser being called Safari, or Android browser, or Chrome or Konqueror help me? What is the point he's trying to make here? Safari is generally slower in benchmarks that other webkit based browsers.

> E-Mail

> IMAP, POP, Gmail

He forgot Exchange.
> Much to my surprise the only mail I've got so far is people that are literally ecstatic that their pages weren't lost and people that send me their backups for inclusion.

I seem to recall a recent post on another site about this - reddit maybe - about parallel efforts to archive GeoCities, and whether everyone was working together for maximum benefit.

Did you make that post? If you could respond and link to it, I'd appreciate it.

EDIT: Gotta be honest that I don't recall what exactly I'm talking about. Here are a couple reddit links for anyone curious:

The making of Reocities.com - one man's attempt to archive the entire contents of Geocities.com http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9yne3/the_saving...

The Saving of Geocities, a tale of bandwidth and stress, most if not all Geocities content saved! http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9yne3/the_saving...
Just a theory. Could it be that google allowed dot as legitimate characters (ie. i.rock and irock are completely different) during the initial launch of Gmail and then moved to the present setting of ignoring dots?
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24,000 in 1920 dollars = $ 253,532.93 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=24%2C000+in+1920+dollar...

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(yes, deflation. the dollar was worth more in 1940 than in 1920 - see the graph in the first link)
Most hated movie = "The Stepford Wives"? surprising. I really liked it. Would be interesting to see if it's a man/woman divide at work. imdb rating is 5.1/10 :/ I can think of far worse movies. Try "The Talented Mr. Ripley".
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You cannot relicense GPL as closed source (i.e. you could stop licensing the code to all parties that want an exclusive, but you can't "close" the existing branches and you can't prevent forks).

The fact that the core team can stop development is a much more concrete problem. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's too valuable for too many people. Percona is patching MySQL, along with Google, Facebook, Monty's MariaDB company, etc. If anything, MySQL is more alive than ever before.
Sorry, I should clarify...I meant to say, "stops getting updated", "is forked", etc.

If Oracle stops developing MySQL, then it's forked, will larger software companies balk at deploying the forked versions, given that the developer base is fractured (and thus might not be able to find/patch bugs as well)?
Why would anyone want to live in a small town in the middle of nowhere?

Even worse, in rural area.

Makes no sense to me.
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Yes we're pooling resources, good chance that we'll get almost everything.
Exactly. But this algorithm was fuzzy, so it gave you a list of the songs which most closely resembled the one you tried to sing.
While it is a bit of a race to the bottom, it doesn't have to be.

Especially if you include the PG-style democratic effect, where the good eHow articles float to the top and the bad sink, which creates a feedback loop that rewards quality. As quality becomes more important, the eHow statistical analysis will demonstrate that and eHow will adjust the process to increase quality.

Alternatively, they might just stick to such simple topics that this is unnecessary. "How to Be Popular" is not a simple topic, but "How to Use a Can Opener" is. Using a can opener is a useful thing to have available and doesn't need expensive production values.

Over time, if the business is truly data-driven, it should adjust to reflect these realities and lend itself to fulfilling true human needs, not just yelling the loudest for short term profit.
It was a really interesting article but it draws a very general conclusion, that we can learn from the copy-cats "look how much they changed the business model" and listed a few examples, from a very specific example.

I mean, it what way were the job board and twitter clone different if we're drawing this out past a single example of successful dating website building in China
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I don't think that when the account holder logs in that it should automatically revert. It's more than possible spouses etc. would have a dearly departed's password.

But they should certainly still be able to log in, and once logged in have the option to recover back from memorial mode - without needing to go through support.

Edit: Also, it would be nice to have a feature where I can nominate an "in case of emergency" contact that, if my account falls into memorial mode, they will then gain access to it... to maybe post a little more info about what happened, or contact friends that they might not necessarily know themselves, but would like to invite to the funeral?
Not a big user of software RAID, but AFAIK booting from a metadisk / is still out of the box doable as it was a few years ago:

"- processor family optimizations"

RHEL / CentOS include a variety of kernels precompiled for different CPU architectures.

"- maximum number of cores (stock = 8)"

What distro? RHEL / Centos support far more than that, we've got quite a number of 32 core machines and have a few 64 core boxes in test.