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I just don't buy the hype. All I'm reading in this article is that Adobe's offering it's standard block of software, with other tools in "the cloud". Adobe is not made of fools. They know their business is tools. How they package it and sell it to shareholders is another matter entirely.

As to why they are dumping parts of flash for HTML5, have a read of http://flexgotcha.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-i-think-adobe-is-dumping-mobile-and.html

This article provides a very interesting perspective on why Adobe is doing what they are doing.

I have been using the network for a source of randomness for years. Another good source is the Hard Drives internal servo coefficients, or a TV Stations video or radio station in to an Audio card. If people bug me maybe I will write that up too. On a Linux box this is simple. But bash isn't well suited for audio processing. (although it's possible) For the video in you need C code.

http://churchofbsd.blogspot.com/2011/11/generation-of-random-number-from-ping.html

I've found three challenges to using Debian instead of Ubuntu for new users. The first issue is that Debian releases aim for every two years. That means that users might have to wait much longer for a new release than the fast Ubuntu/Mint cycle, which impacts the ability of someone to get working drivers for newer hardware. Debian's support for recent hardware starts to look a little thin by the time it's, say, 1.5 years into its release cycle.

Debian's strict free software stance also means that many things don't work right unless you go out of your way to turn on the non-free repositories and add drivers. For example, I was frustrated that the Radeon card in my desktop crashed under Debian, and it's because the completely free driver that ships by default had a major bug in it.--which no one noticed because everyone uses the non-free one instead. There's a certain amount of ideological compromise needed to make Linux work on random hardware, from non-free driver code to binary blobs. Debian's strictness here works against mass adoption. The result is far less friendly than the restricted drivers GUI that Ubuntu provides.

The last issue is that the default Debian desktop has terrible fonts, so the first impression is often quite bad. This is a combination of the free issue above (which means no shipping of Microsoft fonts for example) with things like the libcairo problem. Font rendering is encumbered by all sorts of intellectual property issues, from copyright to patents on rendering. Ubuntu has been much more worried about getting them looking right in the default install despite those challenges than Debian, and it shows.

Actually this should be a non issue. I can buy Mac OS X for about $30 and run it on my existing PC hardware. Take a look at the following web site: http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. I've heard it put like this: Weather throws the punches but climate trains the boxer. So yes, a shift in weather patterns is a sign of a changing climate

The following graph shows that the ration of US record hot to record cold temperatures has increased steadily up to the point where it was 2:1 in the 2000's: http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2009/images/temps_2.jpg

In 2011 it was much worse than that - and this is during a moderately strong la-nina (which drives temperatures down): http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5baWZYXDlCo/Tjhrbi97kpI/AAAAAAAACSg/YYzIk2KsANo/s1600/temp.records.073111.jpg

That way, we can claw it back if their policies bankrupt a company. Also, by doing it that way, we encourage the corporations to think in longer terms -- and to structure the bonuses to pay out depending on longer term results.

Yea. These are problems left behind by Bush. Link me to an article that says they are building nukes because of Obama being president? That's right... you can't.

Right. Obama has all the nukes he needs. He's busy building drones instead.

Real economists tend to call the kind of economists that you are talking about "theoclassical" economists. That's because they tend to mock neoclassical economics, which is faith based an fails every time it is tried.

You need to check out folks like Bill Black and Michael Hudson to get real economics, and not Chicago School worship of the wealthy that passes for economics in this country.

However, it will take the political equivalent of a Hercules to clean out the Aegean Stables of the American Economics Profession, considering what the Chicago School boys have been doing to it all these years (Hint: the same thing the cattle were doing in the Aegean Stables that required Hercules to clean them.).

And clearly, this Hercules is not the current occupant of the White House.

I'm impressed. The first time in 3 years I've been impressed, so the bar is pretty low. But good going Obama.

You've got to admit his administration is doing a lousy job of PR, but please... In addition to removing insurability/wealth as a prerequisite to medical care, he's managed to do quite a bit with a (post-2010) hostile congress.

Take a look at this list (or one of the others turned up in a quick Googling).

Since you haven't selected any specific distributions I've googled for guides and selected OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora. Seems like there are typically more steps involved in both building the kernel and installing it for these systems compared to FreeBSD. I didn't spend a lot of time googling examples, I searched for "%distro% installing custom kernel guide" and selected the most relevant results returned from the first page.

FreeBSD:
Pre-requisites is having the source installed. The easiest way to install the full source tree is to run sysinstall as root, and then choosing Configure, then Distributions, then src, and finally All. sysinstall is FreeBSD's terminal based installer.

Already have a kernel configured? Skip to step 4.
1 # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
2 # cp GENERIC CUSTOMKERNEL //duplicate default generic kernel as a starting point
3 # ee CUSTOMKERNEL // load kernel file into easyedit (you could use vi, pico etc.) and modify kernel
4 # cd /usr/src
5 # make buildkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOMKERNEL
6 # make installkernel KERNCONF=CUSTOMKERNEL

> It's only Firefox that's running around screaming
> about their version numbers.

Screaming where? http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/ doesn't say what version you're downloading. Updating from Firefox 7.0.1 to Firefox 8 never says anything about Firefox 8; the experience is exactly the same as the update from 7.0.0 to 7.0.1.

> I don't see Google screaming about every new
> Chrome release that comes out.

It does it just as much as Mozilla does. Compare http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/10/chrome-stable-release.html and http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/11/08/mozilla-firefox-adds-twitter-search-and-new-features-that-make-web-browsing-easier/ which are both the official announcements for Chrome 15 and Firefox 8 as far as I can tell.

What exactly makes the latter "screaming" while the former is not?

Apple GmbH can still sell in Germany, but they imported their products from Apple Inc. Now AFAICT Apple Inc is no longer allowed to sell them to Apple GmbH, so whatever stock is in the country, is all they can sell:

The injunction doesn't allow Apple Inc. to "deliver" any goods to Germany. That would include shipments to Apple GmbH.

Let's assume this is so - then they just do it like Samsung with the similarly banned Galaxy Tab - simply ship via another European Apple branch.

Salesforce itself is a legitimate company with a market cap of $18B. They're not even in the spam business per se; their main line of business is selling CRM software to large companies. Although their abuse department is reportedly responsive, they're apparently not responsive enough.

Some estimates have mainframes processing 80% of the world's data. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/08/western-civilization-runs-on-mainframe.html Now I'm not sure how accurate that percentage is, but if you run an enterprise business and have thousands of servers to maintain, a mainframe still makes a lot of sense.

I couldn't find the graph I saw, but I was talking about this: http://perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/2011/11/global-warming-debate-muller-vs-curry.html

Yeah, if you shorten that period up to the last 10 years or so, their data shows a flat trend.

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Has Anonymous gone out of fashion? I would have expected a mention of the fact that the web pages of the exhibition and the exhibition hall (Kistamässan) were DDoSed with a message from AnonOps Sweden stating (in Swenglish): Your decision to politically censor the pirate party, excluding them from gamex has not gone unnoticed by anonymous. That you would at the same time favor other parties does not improve the situation to your benefit.

I'm not sure I see the flaw.

TSA's job is to prevent passengers from bringing weapons onto the airplane. They have some successes and notable failures in doing this.

No, the TSA's job is to stop terrorists from hijacking planes, not to keep guns off planes. If half the passengers had guns, the terrorists wouldn't try hijacking a plane. And that's the fundamental problem with the TSA, their focus is on passengers as threats, rather than on the threat to the passengers. That's like saying locks are to keep you from opening a door. No, the lock is to protect what's behind the door, the door and lock are just one mechanism of providing protection.

What you're saying is that it's okay that the TSA might fail every now and again because the passengers will spot the malicious person and prevent him from performing his dastardly task.

No, I'm saying it's impossible for the TSA to succeed at that task. Therefore, they need to focus on how to minimize the risk with minimal invasiveness and impact. That's off topic, see my blog posts for more info. Here's the most relevant one to this discussion.

But if you want to go with this analogy, Android would be a better secure environment than iOS. Android has various tools that smart people can use to find malicious software So, to carry this into your analogy, using Android is like flying on airplane with a group of passengers who understand security and can spot the evildoer and warn others. iOS is like flying on an airplane where everybody says, "Oh, they made it through the TSA checkpoint. They must be okay."

No. Those tools are as useless to a typical Android user as a brake adjustment tool is to a typical car driver. It has nothing to do with the user's attitude, 95+% of users don't have enough knowledge to adequately identify risks in software, therefore, users are safer when a team of trained people vet all the software before users can access it.

If all Android software had to be vetted by a team of trusted experts using those tools before it could be downloaded and installed on a user's phone, then it would be a safer (not more secure) environment. Since all iOS apps are vetted, it's much harder for malicious software to get through. In either case, some malicious software will get through, but more will (and has) gotten through to the Android stores. The fact that Apple vets all the software on the iOS App Store reduces the chances of malware getting through, therefore, iOS users are safer from malware (again, not to be confused with being more secure).

Even though Android users may technically have access to check out the software they're loading, they don't have the knowledge or skill to do so. They don't even know that they have the tools available or what to look for, much less how to evaluate anything the tools might show them. That the tools are available is completely useless to 95+% of Android users because they don't have the knowledge to do anything useful with the tool. And most of those don't know or care that those tools are available, they just want a phone that works.

Having the tools available is only useful to those with the knowledge of how to effectively use the tools and evaluate the results (i.e. the user must know the tools exist, know how to use them, know how to interpret the output to identify potential risks, AND understand enough about security to evaluate any potential risks identified). The tools are only useful to the 1% who understand enough about security to vet a program in the first place.

I'm not sure I see the flaw.

TSA's job is to prevent passengers from bringing weapons onto the airplane. They have some successes and notable failures in doing this.

No, the TSA's job is to stop terrorists from hijacking planes, not to keep guns off planes. If half the passengers had guns, the terrorists wouldn't try hijacking a plane. And that's the fundamental problem with the TSA, their focus is on passengers as threats, rather than on the threat to the passengers. That's like saying locks are to keep you from opening a door. No, the lock is to protect what's behind the door, the door and lock are just one mechanism of providing protection.

What you're saying is that it's okay that the TSA might fail every now and again because the passengers will spot the malicious person and prevent him from performing his dastardly task.

No, I'm saying it's impossible for the TSA to succeed at that task. Therefore, they need to focus on how to minimize the risk with minimal invasiveness and impact. That's off topic, see my blog posts for more info. Here's the most relevant one to this discussion.

But if you want to go with this analogy, Android would be a better secure environment than iOS. Android has various tools that smart people can use to find malicious software So, to carry this into your analogy, using Android is like flying on airplane with a group of passengers who understand security and can spot the evildoer and warn others. iOS is like flying on an airplane where everybody says, "Oh, they made it through the TSA checkpoint. They must be okay."

No. Those tools are as useless to a typical Android user as a brake adjustment tool is to a typical car driver. It has nothing to do with the user's attitude, 95+% of users don't have enough knowledge to adequately identify risks in software, therefore, users are safer when a team of trained people vet all the software before users can access it.

If all Android software had to be vetted by a team of trusted experts using those tools before it could be downloaded and installed on a user's phone, then it would be a safer (not more secure) environment. Since all iOS apps are vetted, it's much harder for malicious software to get through. In either case, some malicious software will get through, but more will (and has) gotten through to the Android stores. The fact that Apple vets all the software on the iOS App Store reduces the chances of malware getting through, therefore, iOS users are safer from malware (again, not to be confused with being more secure).

Even though Android users may technically have access to check out the software they're loading, they don't have the knowledge or skill to do so. They don't even know that they have the tools available or what to look for, much less how to evaluate anything the tools might show them. That the tools are available is completely useless to 95+% of Android users because they don't have the knowledge to do anything useful with the tool. And most of those don't know or care that those tools are available, they just want a phone that works.

Having the tools available is only useful to those with the knowledge of how to effectively use the tools and evaluate the results (i.e. the user must know the tools exist, know how to use them, know how to interpret the output to identify potential risks, AND understand enough about security to evaluate any potential risks identified). The tools are only useful to the 1% who understand enough about security to vet a program in the first place.

Why do you feel the need to dehumanize them?

Who needs to? They do a great job of dehumanizing themselves.

The injunction doesn't allow Apple Inc. to "deliver" any goods to Germany. That would include shipments to Apple GmbH.

For folks that are interested, the original blog post about our freshness change is here: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-search.html

I'll commit today that in ten years I won't beat my wife in ten years. As with most Slashdotters, for our various reasons, I'm pretty sure of that. I'll for appropriate consideration (only a few tens of kilo CAD) I'll even give you a contract to that effect.

Google hasn't and won't give any commitment that I know of except for joining OIN which, whilst much better than most, is pretty weak. I think there should be a stong campaign to support Google, however I think that should only begin if Google is willing to give a stronger commitment against patents than they have so far.

The thing is, that mostly the orthodoxy through the civilised world is that you shouldn't beat your wife. In fact, it's one of the ways that you can easily differentiate civilised countries from the opposite. On the other hand the orthodoxy among CEOs seems to be that "IP must be defended". This makes it much more likely that Google will change their mind later.

Sorry I expected more than you prompted with the quote.

Running perl -Dx (perl must have been compiled with -DDEBUGGING ) dumps the Perl op code tree that perl compiles the script into. There is some discussion of the architecture, some discussion of the tree, a example walkthru and some documentation of the facility, as well as work using the system.

But it looks like (especially in the last several years) more "Perl call graph" work focuses on lexically parsing the Perl source. Which to me seems a great waste of this fascinating facility. Even though the graph is of a stack machine, not dataflow exactly, it seems like an interesting facility to target with a graph editor.

...when patent attorneys themselves were the front line against false claims.

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sellkindlecheap. If you are someone who likes to read books in my life, I highly recommend this product I do not have to go over it with a book to buy. News by flagging this book I have not. The book is http://sellkindlecheap.blogspot.com/2011/11/sellkindlecheap.htmlcopyrighted, it can be instantly read in 1 minute 60 seconds, which equals its own battery charger, you do not have it available a few months. And you want to read what can be found in this instant in 60 in a minute and a capacity of books up to 1400 Assuming you want to read the book, Naruto is still the place that from the 1 to the latest episode, do not buy collections. remain in this place you store it than it has over 1000 in 1. The lightweight, smaller than ever. Less than 6 ounces lighter than a paperback and fits in your pocket. 2.'s 1400 book. Carried out to 1,400 books - the library with you wherever you go. http://sellkindlecheap.blogspot.com/2011/11/sellkindlecheap.html

You mean something like http://mer-project.blogspot.com/?

I'm pretty sure it's illegal to advocate assassinating an elected official.

Who cares? It's not as if they'd go to Slashdot and subpoena their IP records, only to find out that I don't even live in the States...

Not particularly funny either.

I dunno. For me, considering that this judge was sufficiently smart to remember about the statute of limitations, but at the same time dumb enough to forget that he lives in Texas is pretty funny...

So, if you live near 717 Magnolia Street Rockport, TX 78382 say hello to him from me!

While I agree with most of your post, I do not understand why you seem to... mix up some things. For example:

I can use VMPlayer instead of VirtualPC which is also free as in beer, not speech. ESXi is also free as in beer, though it is well worth the license for more features. And yes, it does live migrations. Unlike MS solutions, VMWare supports installs on Linux. I rather run Windows 7 in VMPlayer on Ubuntu, than run Ubuntu on Windows 7.

I fail to see the connection between this phrase and the rest of your post. We are talking enterprise, bare-metal virtualization here. Why bring VMPlayer, VirtualPC, and host OS's into the discussion?

What is your setup and why in Spagetti Monster's name are you running VM over NFS ethernet? Either go RAID or fiber to a SAN.

1) You are mixing here RAID ( storage technology ) with fiber (physical media used for connection). They are not mutually exclusive. Even the OP might be using a RAID array on his NFS server.
2) Do not dismiss NFS for virtualization storage. There are plenty of businesses running their VMs over NFS, and plenty of reasons for doing that. ( just one example: http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2007/09/vmware-over-nfs.html )

Search market share seems not to be affected much by search quality. In early 2008, Yahoo was the first search engine to add a group of special purpose subengines for weather, stocks, celebrities, and such. Nobody noticed. Yahoo's market share did not improve. After about six months, Google copied that idea.

Your timeline is wrong; Google was already doing this in 2006:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-onebox-results.html

Also, first does not imply better anyway, as the iphone showed vs what existed when it launched in 2007. One would not say "Phone market share is not affected by quality, as the Blackberry launched years ahead of the iphone yet regular consumers never noticed."

Because users aren't that sensitive to search quality, Google can optimize search results for revenue.

Faulty premise => unsupported claim

Google has a monkey on their back: the bottom-feeder sites that exist for AdSense traffic. 94% of Google revenue is ads. 30% of that is AdSense. We measure 36% of AdSense domains as "bottom feeders". If Google fixed their search quality problems, their revenue would drop maybe 10%.

You are making a huge unsupported assumption that 36% of sites == 36% of search results == 36% of revenue. Considering mega-sites such as Wikipedia and Facebook come up very often as results, I doubt the first equality is anywhere near accurate. Given the margins at the bottom of the market, I'd also doubt the second part holds.

Your sitetruth site appears to have a pretty broad definition of "bottom feeder":
"We look for third-party ads, and if we find any, the site is evaluated as "commercial", which means we expect to find a real-world company behind the site. We then check out the real-world company, which is what SiteTruth does. This makes most of the anonymous junk sites, spam blogs, and other "bottom feeders" move down in our results."

IOW anything not in your whitelist of 11K URLs but with ads must therefore be a "bottom feeder". Some inevitably are bad, but others certainly are not. Today I found two useful mathematical references to some web searches; one was a 1996-looking page and the other was a blog. Both had the answer I was looking for. Both had ads. Both are rated by your system with a big red circle.

Bing doesn't have that problem.

Bing has rather significant partnerships with major display advertising networks; namely Yahoo and Facebook. Of course they, like Google, realize that people really do leave if you consistently give them crappy results (except for the fraction of the population which is incapable of changing any default). Total traffic is the big multiplier on the left of any revenue calculation, and all of the major engines know that and won't willingly jeopardize that.

Poor Alot, he can't send email to Hotmail users :-(.

That's great for junior positions, for green kids.

But do people randomly fire resumes at Google?

> is actually a pretty strong signal of the applicant's motivation
So if your really motivated you'll cheat. Is that what I am hearing?

It's like trying to read over the K&R book before an Interview, if you haven't learned it by now, skimming the book one last time isn't going to help.

Do you really want someone who will cram? Or needs to cram?
If you can learn something in 1 DAY that will increase your odds of getting hired at Google, well I say that's a major defect in the hiring process.
I mean getting computer skills and programming takes years, I mean most people don't get good at till they've been at it 5 - 10 years or more in my opinion.
This isn't a test where you pass then forget all you learned.

This isn't a sprint, it's a marathon. Day in Day out coding, maintaining code, debugging code. It's about long term performance of the developer, about long term performance of the code they create. It's about the code lifecycle, the product lifecycle.

I keep seeing disposable code in major products. I have even heard not to long ago "don't focus on making it perfect, just get it working so we can ship"
It's cost more resources to maintain code like that then doing it cleanly and right the first time.

Of course by the time someone makes a statement like that it's almost too late. It results from a long term history of abused code that is poorly architected.

"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." - Mark Twain

"I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short" (Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte) - Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales (1656-1657), no. 16.

"Anyone can make something complex, but it takes a genius to make it simple" - Albert Einstein

Read: http://churchofbsd.blogspot.com/2010/12/bsd-philosophy.html

Based on what the document says, I think the implications of this case for Apple's enforcement of its design-related rights are probably much less wide-ranging than it initially appeared. It seems that even in Spain Apple could still assert its iPad design-related rights under civil law. Also, the nature of Apple's involvement may have been limited to that of an initial complainant (who according to nt-k also filed an indictment) as opposed to that of a party litigating a case all the way through. That's what my sources say, and it's possible.

IOW Apple didn't lose the case because they weren't really involved.

Not necessarily an extinct species. A very similar living specimen was found -- and killed after attacking Special Forces troops in Argentina.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1nRBU-FO8-Y/SEcWarbBrOI/AAAAAAAABkE/r1vIj1WYPEQ/s400/ATT00001.jpg

Peter de Sève beat them to it.

Yep, I said it.
I have been to several University nerd parties where a Google employee coaches his friends and prospective candidates as to how to answer some of the questions.
What I have notice is some of the questions require giving a wrong answer, and any answer other then the "one they want" will be a mark against you, no matter how correct it is.

So basically you need to get the answers or at least enough clues online to be able to pass the interview. You must study for it like the SAT's. I have even seen Google Interview Study parties. I consider this cheating, which is in my humble option complete bullshit.

I have been programming C since 1982 and C++ since it's inception in 85 or something like that. I have plenty of code in the Open Source and worked on so much code I can't even add it up at this point.

I am always the one who can fix the hardest bugs, Kernel panics/oops, pour through core dumps, clean up drivers, JAG the hardware, and do the board bring ups.
I have worked on code in over 100 languages counting all the flavors of assembly language and scripting language.
I have developed some of the cleanest architectures and have code a number products that are on the market today and in the BSD and Linux Kernels.

I deliberately keep to a subset of C and C++ and avoid many things that make machine parsing and code analysis in sed/awk/grep/find difficult.
Occasionally I needed to look up things when I see someone do weird obfuscation crap in their code.

http://churchofbsd.blogspot.com/2011/11/weird-obfuscation-crap-in-their-code.html

Some one that passed one of those interview tests probably thought he was being clever.

In professional code we don't want clever. Clever is BAD because clever makes the next guys job hell.

At this point my fingers know the language, my eye's just know what looks correct. I think what I want and it just pours out of me, but don't ask me to explain because I am not sure, I'd have to stop and think.
Much the same way I was with phone numbers (Back when we had to dial them) where I needed to actually dial the number to see where my fingers go to be able to tell you what the number was.

I find I code best when I am not thinking, I literally don't look too closely at the screen. I just keep myself distracted and only stop to consciously think about the larger design and architecture.

So I can't code on a blackboard. Just can't do it. I never was able to, and I am not about to try now after 30 years of VI on CLI.

As a result I can't get through most of the interviews like that. Fortunately I already make more money then most of those places would pay anyhow.

I don't need such abuse, I am not one of those sad old guys that can't find work doing Cobol any more.

I wouldn't mind getting close and personal with this android model, which model iPhone does it for you?

What malware? Just ask Google. The company, not the search engine.

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-on-android-market-security.html

So, a few weeks ago we heard that light travels a little bit slower than the fastest objects we've measured. This week we hear that in galaxies far, far away, either the electric charge is larger, Plank's constant is smaller or the speed of light is smaller. If it's the speed of light that's smaller, the required slow-down is of the same order of magnitude as the factor by which photons are slower than neutrinos as observed by OPERA.

Here's my take. There's a field of undetected particles (dark matter?) that refract light a tiny bit, and this field was denser in the early universe. This field would not affect the apparent speed of light as an observer moves through it, just as (ignoring dispersion) light traveling through moving glass doesn't pick up the glass' motion vector (i.e. this wouldn't manifest itself as the Luminiferous aether, which is experimentally disproven).

There: three mysteries (dark matter, OPERA neutrinos and the fine structure "constant") all tied together with a bow on top. If you know more physics than I (honours undergrad) and you think I've missed something, please tear into this hypothesis, either here or on my blog: http://many-ideas.blogspot.com/2011/11/ftl-neutrinos-and-fine-structure.html. I look forward to hearing from you!

Best,

LeDopore

Yes there is, and it's been well documented.

The Firefox makelink plugin is great for pasting links with actual link text. It will use the page title by default, or a text selection as the link text if you make one. You can customize it for any forum or BB syntax in under 60 seconds.

At a casino, no one considers a call of the big pot to be a failure if got your chips in with 70% odds and then got burned on the river. Likewise, if it costs you $100 to participate in a $1000 pot and you got in at well better than 10% odds, how does that count as a failure? Real failures are small companies that burn through a ton on money on an idea that never could have worked. True failure is when people foolishly misallocate capital on blind hope or to bilk the investment base. Far from failure is when you come out on the wrong side of a well-judged risk.

At the same time, it's becoming a very common business model to create a forum for ambitious aspirants and profit from the vast majority who go away empty handed.

We're making data science a sport

So they admit it.

The 100 Greatest Hockey Arguments by Bob McCown and David Naylor

Repeating their own excerpt:

Of those 30,000 [Ontario players], just 232 were eventually drafted by an OHL team in their mid-teens, the first major cutoff for players hoping to stream towards the NHL. Less than half of those players, 105, actually played in an OHL game. Another 42 played in the top tier of U.S. college, which is another viable route to the NHL.

Overall, just 47 wound up with NHL contracts after being drafted in 1993 or 1994, or signing later as a free agent.

They then continue to summarize in their own words:

Ultimately, the sum total of players with more than one NHL season ends up being just 15, and only six had played 400 NHL games nine years later. Jason Allison and Todd Bertuzzi were the only names of note among the 30,000.

And this was considered to be a particularly strong crop.

The restart speed becomes annoying when you're fighting with wonky plugins and need to make frequent restarts. The worst start speed problem was under XP with anti-virus scanner from hell. I usually have three or four different Eclipse workspaces open on different desktops with a mixture of R and C++ code. Start up isn't much of an issue.

I feel that CDT has lost some momentum lately. It's usable, so it's OK on that front. However, the managed build system is long overdue for a rewrite and I don't see much evidence that this is on the horizon any time soon. Managed build limps along about as well as the C++ indexer prior to its rewrite by CDT Doug. But then he lost religion.

A UI Revolution is Coming. Are we Ready?

Actually, no, I'm not ready to drink the Ubuntu Kool-Aid to the power of infinity.

But [Windows 8] confirms for me a trend that's going to change the way we interact with the desktop applications we use daily, including Eclipse. Yes, a UI Revolution is coming. And we need to make sure we're ready, or Eclipse is going to look old very quickly.

I'd feel half my age right now if the Clang/LLVM Eclipse plugin I tried a month ago hadn't made my Eclipse too unstable to use until I removed it again.

It took me a long time to discover a reasonable work flow around Eclipse, mostly because interface discovery is overwhelming at first. But pretty much everything I needed proved to be possible.

Right now the feature causing me the most pain is console management. I have R consoles and R graphic output consoles and Sweave consoles and C++ build consoles and Java error consoles and never the right console on top. The little drop-down doohicky for switching consoles is like having a 5x5 pixel start menu placed at some obscure mid-screen location amid a white-out blizzard of window cruft.

Go ahead, Doug, throw me a new skin and solve all my problems. Make my day without actually fixing anything. I'll be the loudest person cheering if this pans out. It could be that most of my pain radiates from being imprisoned in an unfashionable box. But then, I'm a guy who went directly from MSDOS to Windows NT. The intervening steps were not on my menu. I wanted to move to a real OS, not a lipstick pig of consumer sentiment.

Thinking about this from the higher level, I'm probably not making as much use of custom perspectives as my work flow now requires. It wasn't until adding Sweave documents and installing the newest release of StatET that I really started to drown.

These days, most people don't bother because a new TV is barely a month's disposable income, or much less on sale, an oil change can be had for a twenty and be done in 20 minutes, and fixing a PC costs as much as a new PC at current labor rates. People didn't bother and these appliances became throwaway purely because it's cheaper to buy the latest and greatest than fix last year's model.

These people also are up to their asses in debt as well. As far as the $20 oil change in 20 minutes that is a pretty bad oil change but it is still better than nothing. When I change my own oil there is still oil coming out of the pan after 20 minutes (pretty steady drips). The best I can seem to do on my own is $40 on my daily drive for a DIY oil change with 8 quarts of synthetic oil (buy it in bulk when on sale) with a good filter. It takes about 40 to 60 minutes to do and everything gets checked, topped off, and lubed. Also I don't strip out the threads on the oil pan. An 8 quart synthetic fill at any of those places costs substantially more than I can change my own oil for.

I'm tired of seeing "the radiation hasn't killed anyone" post from people like you who are either shills or ignoramii.

Oh, you mean shills like a wikipedia article with full links to sources?

It's giving uncountable people cancer right now, people who have taken particles into their body.

And your evidence for this is???? All of the information on estimated number of additional cancer cases and deaths is in the first link I gave on my original post. It's orders of magnitude below the ACTUAL immediate, countable deaths caused by the tsunami.

Direct radiation exposure only ever kills plant workers because of whichever law that is, square-cube, cube-square, math makes my head hurt unfortunately

You don't even know the term for the law you're arguing about? And you refer to people with actual facts and evidence as "ignoramii"?

Indeed, the USA stepped up radiation monitoring of milk and the atmosphere and actually stepped it down after discovering that the numbers were actually off the charts in many places around the country....

Now you're flat out lying. The radiation levels detected in the atmosphere, milk (and/or water) in the US were never "off the charts", nor where they even dangerous for the duration that they were high. The never even approached the FDA DIL limits for safe radiation levels in food and drink. They exceeded the EPA MCL levels, but the EPA MCL are the maximum level can be continuously sustained level for 70 years without exceeding a still very low lifetime dose. Here is more info on the radiation levels in milk and water due to Fukushima Dai-ichi.

Slashdot is not a wise venue for displaying your ignorance. Go learn something about the topic or go elsewhere.

P.S. the second link in my original post was corrupted. Here's the correct link

I'm sorry, you're using headphones, with magnets in them, in an MRI?

http://bitsandpieces1.blogspot.com/2005/08/watch-out-for-that-flying-chair.html

In fact there's a bit of an obsession out in Atheist-land at beating one guy: William Lane Craig, who is considered technically by many to be the top Christian debater... and arguably has never "lost" (sorry I really have to put that last word in quotes), as the linked Atheist site describes, despite going up against some serious popular intellectual heavyweights such as Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. Famously, Dawkins recently backed out of a debate with him.

It's worth noting here, for anyone interested, this blog which does a pretty nice job of reviewing and rating many of these debates from an Agnostic perspective.

These debates generally are not specifically on evolution, but virtually all of them include it to greater and lesser degrees.

For some interesting minimal computing, check out the Countercomplex blog.

Hm, could you please expand on how Obama's "abusing" the EO? according to this he's issued 97 EO as of Oct 6. That's about 32/year.

Bush II issued 297 EOs over his 8 years for about 36/year.