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My employer is a Microsoft shop. Microsoft Windows Seven optimizes my productivity with its new context-sensitive search. Microsoft Office allows me to quickly compose documents and spreadsheets of arbitrary complexity.

It is no surprise that Excel is being used for engineering given its power and flexibility. Hell, a shop I worked for used Excel as its database.

Now let's get down the the nitty-gritty - Visual Studio is one of the most powerful IDEs on the face of the planet. You want power? You got it. You want speed? You got it. You want both? It empowers you, the ninety-pound weakling, with both, with minimal effort. I got a raise because I used Visual Studio. I got my dick sucked by my boss' hottest secretary because I wrote an patch in C# that prevented our ERP system from total meltdown.

Why be some boring open-source ODBC slob when you can be fast. Quick. Nimble. Packing.

Be potent. Be Microsoft.

I wouldn't expect it to stray much from its footprint (it did spill over a little bit) - but given the NIST conclusion, I would expect it to collapse the way buildings do in earthquakes (of which countless examples are available) where a structural members fails, causing the rest of the building structure to take too much stress and ultimately fail. These are usually poorly-built buildings though.

Let's say you drew a 10x10 grid on top of Building 7. All 100 points start going down at the same time in the Building 7 collapse. If the failure happens at (4,6), one would expect the initial collapse to start there, and then the other points to slump into it (like happens in earthquakes).

In an actual controlled demo, the worst thing that can happen is that all but a few of the main supports get severed. A few main supports can still support most buildings, and it's extremely dangerous to go inside because a subsequent collapse will happen minutes to months later and if that's .

Yet, here we have a modern building, built to high standards, that completely collapses all at once while NIST says that it's because of the failure of a single member. I never say anything is impossible, but the report didn't give an engineering reason for why this building should behave in this manner when other buildings haven't (except to say it did). Remember, there's no airplane full of Jet-A here, just an uncontrolled office fire (Enron might have been a hot news story, but the Enron case files burn like normal paper). NIST also ruled out seismic damage from the collapse of the North and South towers.

There does seem to be a complete dearth of similar free software for the home wine brewer... to the point where I ended up deciding to learn how to program, and wrote something for myself in the space of a few weeks:

https://code.google.com/p/winebrewdb/

Frankly it's pretty inflexible, I only wrote exactly what I needed, no more, no less, and god knows how my "coding standards" compare to anything in the real world. But hey I'm no java developer, and it is free (as in speech and beer (or should that be wine?)) & multi-platform (probably)!

Growl is still open source, you can find it over at https://code.google.com/p/growl/ and build the source code using the instructions at http://growl.info/documentation/developer/growl-source-install.php. The source tracks the official releases from the developers and is still BSD licensed.

If you don't want to build from source, they do offer a pre-built binary for free, or maybe you can convince a developer friend to build it for you.

Either way, there is no bait-and-switch. The source has always been free. They just decided recently to start charging for the process of building and verifying binaries.

On July 22nd, everyone should eat crumbles.

They're pretty close, but not quite pies.

I lived in this house several years ago. Built in 1918, thoroughly modern with gas and electric... it still had a gaslight fixture at the top of the stairs. It had additional wiring installed over the years, in fact my basement was a good museum of electrical wiring with about every kind there was. The K&T wiring was solid, much better than some 30 years younger.

Now, if you have a house built in the 1970s with aluminum wiring you'd damned well better have some great insurance. Those houses were firetraps. It had been installed and removed in the pictured house; some of the 1970s wiring was still there but none of it was hot.

Cheapest stratodoober only points to a few of my journals... I didn't know they had been translated to different languages!

That wasn't what I said. I said it was a mechanical requirement. The shape of the case was determined by the shape of the components it needed to house. The fact that this made it a pain to type on when it was at rest on a surface was a side-effect.

And yet, many other tablets have flat backs. Apparently, a curved back is not a mechanical requirement.

Look at your monitor, your laptop, your TV - any device with a screen. Where do they place their screen? In the center, with possibly an extra-large bezel wherever they put their controls.

I'm typing this on an iMac... with an off-center screen. Example-fail.

What, you think no device in the history of humanity has ever used that particular radius? They shouldn't be patentable because they're trivial, not because they're unique.

It's the total combination that's patentable. The individual features are not necessarily patentable. But fortunately, the USPTO recognizes that they can't just cherry pick elements but have to look at the entire claim.

Unless you're Samsung - whose Galaxy Tab didn't have the a single home button at the center-bottom of the device, and yet still attracted the ire of Apple's lawyer-pack.

See, now I know you're trolling... Or talking out of sheer ignorance. Here's the relevant patent. Do you see a "single home button at the center-bottom of the device"? Figure 3 should be particularly helpful.

Apple patented a bunch of trivial design features. The very fact that their patent can be reduced to nothing but the size of their bezel and the radius of the corners shows that Apple had nothing of actual distinction to include in their patent.

Yeah, you see, that's not a "fact" anywhere except in your mind.

From our discussion:
1) you've never read or even looked at the patent.
2) you don't understand that the patent is the entire set of features, and cannot, legally, "be reduced" to a few features.
3) you don't understand that infringement requires infringing each and every feature, and not just "a 3cm bezel".
4) you've apparently never seen an iMac.

I'd say that pretty much wraps up this debate. Cheers.

What you have failed to realize is that the "App Store Lock-In", and even the "iOS Development Licensing" are actually there to benefit USERS (by keeping Malware OUT, OUT, OUT).

As well as keeping pornography and political cartoons, software that might compete with Apple, software that might allow people to develop more software in a sandboxed environment, software that might allow people to play old SNES games, etc. OUT OUT OUT. The "this benefits users" argument is nothing more than a cover story; Apple could benefit users without forbidding jailbreaking, without bricking phones that were jailbroken, and without having a policy that forbids lampooning politicians.

Sony's Rootkit and Playstation DRM battles are there to benefit SONY.

So how is that not-locked-down gaming platform working for you? Oh yeah, malware:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=windows+malware&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Apple's iOS DRM serves exactly the same purpose as PS3's DRM: to thwart competition, prevent customers from controlling their computers (which includes phones and gaming systems) and to tap developers' revenue streams.

There's a wonderful infographic that illustrates this:
How Do I Fire an Incompetent Teacher?

Even after skimming his work in a way where I'm more in control and don't have to veg in front of a video, I'm still not excited. Different strokes for different folks.

Fair enough.

FWIW, on the #! thing, it's to allow AJAX-based web pages to be linked/crawled.

If you want a visual explanation of the purpose and result of daylight saving time, check out this graph: Picasa Web Albums - Paul Nickerson

The purpose, as I understand it, is to make the sun not rise super early against the clock during the summer. The effect is that it reduces the range of sunrise times, while increasing the range of sunset times. In a way, it normalizes sunrises while amplifying sunsets.

Oh, and while we're at it, during a non-DST period, if the time zones were evenly split and straight with no regard to human geographic borders, then at the middle of the time zone, 12:00 (noon) would be the time that astronomical noon is (when the sun is highest in the sky), varying by about 20 minutes before and after noon. If you average all the astronomical noons over the course of a year in the middle of a time zone, then astronomical noon is at precisely 12:00. During DST, astronomical noon is moved to 1:00 pm (13:00)

That's just for refueling access. For decommissioning, the entire reactor compartment has to come out. For a submarine, that's the whole hull section containing the reactor. A lid is welded on each end, and the old reactor compartments are then neatly lined up in a big open space at 46.566488,-119.517712. When the space is full, a berm will be built around it and filled in.

AC had a good point. Creativity is generally not improved by rewards, and there are other ways to support people than linking the right to consume with an increasingly precarious income-through-jobs link. We could have had $2.5 million of free stuff, and now we are getting yet more proprietary stuff.

See my essay on that theme (though it is directed more at tax-exempt non-profits):
http://www.pdfernhout.net/open-letter-to-grantmakers-and-donors-on-copyright-policy.html
Longer version: http://www.pdfernhout.net/on-funding-digital-public-works.html

See also on why creativity diminished if done for material gain:
"RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

From 1964 on the strained income-through-jobs link.
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/C_CC2a_TripleRevolution.htm

Alternatives:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_dictionary_of_alternatives.html?id=IKZVKMPEQCEC

I wrote a short story called "It's hard living in Jerusalem during the winter".
Search engines, can you please help people find it?

Google: First result.
Bing: Not found - at least not in the first 250 results. Searching with quotes does help though.
DuckDuckGo: Miserable failure - even quotes don't help - and it IS supposed to use other search engines.

So either Bing and DDG suck, or they just hate me personally. Either way, I'm not going to use any of them.

Well, actually, if you messed up, it was easier going before God than before Jobs, so it's a wash.

I am the author of projectM, a much more complex graphical application that the game in question here. Android fragmentation is an issue for me, but ONLY because of live wallpapers. The "standalone" version of my app is amazingly consistent across the different Android GPUs. I suspect their developers are not very experienced with OpenGL and shaders. The entire point of OpenGL is to abstract the GPU away from the developer. It works. projectM is profitable. What I take from this article is that an iOS port could bring me to Apple levels of profitability!

What they ended up porting to Android was such a bug-ridden POS that it didn't seel at all.

Battleheart's Google Play page indicates that it's been downloaded 50,000 - 100,000 times. It has an average rating of 4.7/5 stars, based on 5,374 user ratings, and the overwhelming majority of those reviews are 5-star reviews.

And if you sort reviews by latest, you can see that at least a couple dozen of those 1-star ratings were given today, in an apparent fit of "sour grapes" where users are giving the app a 1-star review with comments like, "The developer will no longer update this app. They stated that Android development is too hard for them and will no longer update their apps. Since when is objective C easier to write than java? Disgusting and Lazy!"

Yep, sounds like a poorly written, buggy piece of shit to me. I'm sure the developer is just lazy, incompetent, and shilling for Apple. It couldn't be that Android has legitimate shortcomings that Android device manufacturers could learn from to improve their platform.

Well, on the plus side, it's not like services worked very well on Android prior to 4.0. I was (and still am) amazed that there's no way to gracefully stop a background "service".

I was about to ask if you were thinking of the TabHost bug where clearAllTabs() will randomly provoke a crash. But a quick DuckDuckGo search turned up a bunch of other mysterious bugs with the Android tab bits. My favorite was issue #12359 where the fix is a couple of lines, and it would be an easy fix were Google to not mark their classes as final (thus preventing you from subclassing them). Unfortunately the proper fix is to roll your own copies. The official Google response was to ignore the problem and tell everyone to stop using ActivityGroups (which are useful in tabs) and start using Fragments (introduced in Android 3.0).

Google applies their hands off approach to updates and support to both hardware (as evidenced by all the fairly new phones that don't ever get updates) and software. I'm pretty sure Google never fixed the broken widgets in Android 2.3, leaving developers to completely reinvent even rudimentary pieces of the Android framework.

QA in Android is a freaking mess, I'm not surprised that the Battleheart team gave up on it.

I was about to ask if you were thinking of the TabHost bug where clearAllTabs() will randomly provoke a crash. But a quick DuckDuckGo search turned up a bunch of other mysterious bugs with the Android tab bits. My favorite was issue #12359 where the fix is a couple of lines, and it would be an easy fix were Google to not mark their classes as final (thus preventing you from subclassing them). Unfortunately the proper fix is to roll your own copies. The official Google response was to ignore the problem and tell everyone to stop using ActivityGroups (which are useful in tabs) and start using Fragments (introduced in Android 3.0).

Google applies their hands off approach to updates and support to both hardware (as evidenced by all the fairly new phones that don't ever get updates) and software. I'm pretty sure Google never fixed the broken widgets in Android 2.3, leaving developers to completely reinvent even rudimentary pieces of the Android framework.

QA in Android is a freaking mess, I'm not surprised that the Battleheart team gave up on it.

I was about to ask if you were thinking of the TabHost bug where clearAllTabs() will randomly provoke a crash. But a quick DuckDuckGo search turned up a bunch of other mysterious bugs with the Android tab bits. My favorite was issue #12359 where the fix is a couple of lines, and it would be an easy fix were Google to not mark their classes as final (thus preventing you from subclassing them). Unfortunately the proper fix is to roll your own copies. The official Google response was to ignore the problem and tell everyone to stop using ActivityGroups (which are useful in tabs) and start using Fragments (introduced in Android 3.0).

Google applies their hands off approach to updates and support to both hardware (as evidenced by all the fairly new phones that don't ever get updates) and software. I'm pretty sure Google never fixed the broken widgets in Android 2.3, leaving developers to completely reinvent even rudimentary pieces of the Android framework.

QA in Android is a freaking mess, I'm not surprised that the Battleheart team gave up on it.

Anecdotally, I have received no compensation from Microsoft, but I began boycotting Google search and mail services as a result of two incidents. One, the arbitrary interface changes to gmail. Up to that point (February 2011) gmail had almost convinced me to abandon use of my hotmail.com email account. The second event was an automatic linking of my gmail account while signing up for a YouTube account - and then being locked out of that gmail account because of unmatched information (the YouTube account was for my daughter) unless I paid Google to verify my identity for an email I no longer used actively.

Google, simply put, has abysmal customer service. Since I don't pay them and their sponsors do, I understand that my voice has little impact and my opinion is valued far less than their paymasters. What Google provides may be good enough for the vast majority of internet users, but it's demonstrated and proven to be inadequate for some of the most basic tasks that other providers have successfully managed for decades. So if competition catches up with Google, that is to my benefit, but validating Google's business plans/operations offers me no benefit. I have no doubt that Microsoft will sponsor ads and propaganda to discount Google where they can, but Google has self-inflicted many or most of these wounds. A tolerance for inexplicable change without benefit is probably why you don't perceive legitimacy in the claims against Google. Make no mistake that they are very real customer service issues, though, and people like me actively block all Google-based domains unless specifically referencing threads such as those below.

References:

• Arbitrary gmail changes
• gmail forum thread requesting a simple logout interface option
• another gmail logout thread, following previous threads locked by support admins
• gmail lockout problems

.

At this point, Google could resolve these problems and I still wouldn't use their services, as these problems can only manifest through serious management issues, not through low-level employee misconduct. Historically, Microsoft's largest failing for me was bundling unwanted applications and services and not providing compatibility support for non-Microsoft products - which is a position with a functional rationale, if an inconvenient one (and to which they've worked hard to improve in some instances). Whereas Google's stance on customer service, to me, confounds logic unless you understand that you, as a customer, are merely an object incrementing the database number presented to ad sponsors.

Anecdotally, I have received no compensation from Microsoft, but I began boycotting Google search and mail services as a result of two incidents. One, the arbitrary interface changes to gmail. Up to that point (February 2011) gmail had almost convinced me to abandon use of my hotmail.com email account. The second event was an automatic linking of my gmail account while signing up for a YouTube account - and then being locked out of that gmail account because of unmatched information (the YouTube account was for my daughter) unless I paid Google to verify my identity for an email I no longer used actively.

Google, simply put, has abysmal customer service. Since I don't pay them and their sponsors do, I understand that my voice has little impact and my opinion is valued far less than their paymasters. What Google provides may be good enough for the vast majority of internet users, but it's demonstrated and proven to be inadequate for some of the most basic tasks that other providers have successfully managed for decades. So if competition catches up with Google, that is to my benefit, but validating Google's business plans/operations offers me no benefit. I have no doubt that Microsoft will sponsor ads and propaganda to discount Google where they can, but Google has self-inflicted many or most of these wounds. A tolerance for inexplicable change without benefit is probably why you don't perceive legitimacy in the claims against Google. Make no mistake that they are very real customer service issues, though, and people like me actively block all Google-based domains unless specifically referencing threads such as those below.

References:

• Arbitrary gmail changes
• gmail forum thread requesting a simple logout interface option
• another gmail logout thread, following previous threads locked by support admins
• gmail lockout problems

.

At this point, Google could resolve these problems and I still wouldn't use their services, as these problems can only manifest through serious management issues, not through low-level employee misconduct. Historically, Microsoft's largest failing for me was bundling unwanted applications and services and not providing compatibility support for non-Microsoft products - which is a position with a functional rationale, if an inconvenient one (and to which they've worked hard to improve in some instances). Whereas Google's stance on customer service, to me, confounds logic unless you understand that you, as a customer, are merely an object incrementing the database number presented to ad sponsors.

Anecdotally, I have received no compensation from Microsoft, but I began boycotting Google search and mail services as a result of two incidents. One, the arbitrary interface changes to gmail. Up to that point (February 2011) gmail had almost convinced me to abandon use of my hotmail.com email account. The second event was an automatic linking of my gmail account while signing up for a YouTube account - and then being locked out of that gmail account because of unmatched information (the YouTube account was for my daughter) unless I paid Google to verify my identity for an email I no longer used actively.

Google, simply put, has abysmal customer service. Since I don't pay them and their sponsors do, I understand that my voice has little impact and my opinion is valued far less than their paymasters. What Google provides may be good enough for the vast majority of internet users, but it's demonstrated and proven to be inadequate for some of the most basic tasks that other providers have successfully managed for decades. So if competition catches up with Google, that is to my benefit, but validating Google's business plans/operations offers me no benefit. I have no doubt that Microsoft will sponsor ads and propaganda to discount Google where they can, but Google has self-inflicted many or most of these wounds. A tolerance for inexplicable change without benefit is probably why you don't perceive legitimacy in the claims against Google. Make no mistake that they are very real customer service issues, though, and people like me actively block all Google-based domains unless specifically referencing threads such as those below.

References:

• Arbitrary gmail changes
• gmail forum thread requesting a simple logout interface option
• another gmail logout thread, following previous threads locked by support admins
• gmail lockout problems

.

At this point, Google could resolve these problems and I still wouldn't use their services, as these problems can only manifest through serious management issues, not through low-level employee misconduct. Historically, Microsoft's largest failing for me was bundling unwanted applications and services and not providing compatibility support for non-Microsoft products - which is a position with a functional rationale, if an inconvenient one (and to which they've worked hard to improve in some instances). Whereas Google's stance on customer service, to me, confounds logic unless you understand that you, as a customer, are merely an object incrementing the database number presented to ad sponsors.

Anecdotally, I have received no compensation from Microsoft, but I began boycotting Google search and mail services as a result of two incidents. One, the arbitrary interface changes to gmail. Up to that point (February 2011) gmail had almost convinced me to abandon use of my hotmail.com email account. The second event was an automatic linking of my gmail account while signing up for a YouTube account - and then being locked out of that gmail account because of unmatched information (the YouTube account was for my daughter) unless I paid Google to verify my identity for an email I no longer used actively.

Google, simply put, has abysmal customer service. Since I don't pay them and their sponsors do, I understand that my voice has little impact and my opinion is valued far less than their paymasters. What Google provides may be good enough for the vast majority of internet users, but it's demonstrated and proven to be inadequate for some of the most basic tasks that other providers have successfully managed for decades. So if competition catches up with Google, that is to my benefit, but validating Google's business plans/operations offers me no benefit. I have no doubt that Microsoft will sponsor ads and propaganda to discount Google where they can, but Google has self-inflicted many or most of these wounds. A tolerance for inexplicable change without benefit is probably why you don't perceive legitimacy in the claims against Google. Make no mistake that they are very real customer service issues, though, and people like me actively block all Google-based domains unless specifically referencing threads such as those below.

References:

• Arbitrary gmail changes
• gmail forum thread requesting a simple logout interface option
• another gmail logout thread, following previous threads locked by support admins
• gmail lockout problems

.

At this point, Google could resolve these problems and I still wouldn't use their services, as these problems can only manifest through serious management issues, not through low-level employee misconduct. Historically, Microsoft's largest failing for me was bundling unwanted applications and services and not providing compatibility support for non-Microsoft products - which is a position with a functional rationale, if an inconvenient one (and to which they've worked hard to improve in some instances). Whereas Google's stance on customer service, to me, confounds logic unless you understand that you, as a customer, are merely an object incrementing the database number presented to ad sponsors.

It's not Android that's unsustainable. It's their business that's unsustainable.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Battleheart+apk is why their Android business is unsustainable.

Not true:

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/XAZ4CeVP6DC

Not true:

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/XAZ4CeVP6DC

Google does ignore the plus sign now. Now it uses the exact same syntax as if you're searching for an exact phrase. You just put the word in quotes.

You can read about it and other syntax on the Google syntax page: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861

LastCalc looks absolutely amazing! I love Google's ability to do on-the-fly math with unit conversion, and it seems that LastCalc is giving us this and more! It's great.

A question for you (or a feature request, I suppose): how do we add more information to the behind-the-scenes taxonomy? For instance, if I go "2*pi*1 nanometers in angstroms" it correctly converts from "nanometers" to "angstroms". However if I use "nm" instead, it doesn't know what I mean. Of course I can add a definition "1 nm = 10 angstroms" and from then on it works correctly... but I don't want to have to add that every time I use LastCalc!

Presumably you have a database behind-the-scenes with taxonomies for various units. Is there any way for end-users to edit that taxonomy (wiki-style), or perhaps submit new relations/data for inclusion? Now that you're open-sourcing this project, it seems like you could take advantage of community involvement to expand and refine the taxonomy, making the system ever-more-powerful. (I see you have a Google Group... so, is the intention that people just discuss this in the that forum? Seems like it would be more efficient to have a wiki or open database where people (even non-programmers) could contribute suggestions for units/relations/etc.)

Anyways, thanks for your efforts on what looks like a great project. I hope you keep it up!

Does anyone have an app that can sit in the background and run thousands of random webpage searches, so that one's own "history" is so full of noise as to be completely useless to any advertiser? At least that way I could be entertained by the kinds of ads I'm forced to stare at just to do a search or read the news.

Why do all of this when you can just opt out of ad personalization or delete your search history?

Does anyone have an app that can sit in the background and run thousands of random webpage searches, so that one's own "history" is so full of noise as to be completely useless to any advertiser? At least that way I could be entertained by the kinds of ads I'm forced to stare at just to do a search or read the news.

Why do all of this when you can just opt out of ad personalization or delete your search history?

Google forcing you to give your phone number is a lie.

From the Anonymous Coward's Dictionary:
Lie, def.: True

You realize that the Google assholes don't let you rent movies on rooted devices, right? How's that for open?

--
Marcan, asshole and proud.

Free Google Books preview of that book by Nordenstrom: http://books.google.com/books/about/Biologically_closed_electric_circuits.html?id=zb-3YzIn4ZcC

There might well be something to it, but please also look into vitamin D and vegetables as a way to prevent or minimize cancer:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/cancer/
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article24.aspx

He knows more than you do about computing so calling HIM dumb

Who do you think you're kidding? He? Him? Do you have a mouse in your pocket apk? You are mentally ill and you need help. Seriously, trolling on the internet is not therapy I don't care what you read on webmd. And I know your little tiny brain can't grasp a concept so complex as a fucking clock but at 10:25 I made the point about you citing secunia reports and misrepresenting them. After which point you started asking your questions about Linux and Android. Admittedly in the mind of child such as yourself, nobody else's questions matter even if they asked first but it's time to be grown up now. If you want a real debate I'm more than happy to give you one but first you have to man up and answer my question. Check the time stamps on the posts and you will see that I asked first. The question is, why did you misrepresent the secunia reports when it says on their site 1170 times not to compare competitors products in that way using their reports. Answer the question, chicken.

Iran has funded all kinds of terrorism in the world

And how many democracies has the U.S. government overthrown? How many dictators supported? How many civilian airliners shot down? How many scientists murdered?

People in glass houses....

Physics simulation of rotation is complicated because you are handling matrices and vectors. Google David Baraff for a good reference. Russell Smith's ODE is a good library for this.

Why don't you remove the Admob code from the app? It takes no more than 5 minutes to decompile the APK with backsmali (ironically hosted by the arrogant Google assholes themselves!), remove the Admob shit and rebuild it.

It is not my problem if your business depends on people clicking on ads.

--
mchurch

"casualties from falling meteors are rare. . .0.0000001 persons per minute die that way"

There is only one phrase in the wikipedia article that you need to understand what is NP-hard is assuming you know NP-complete:

A problem H is NP-hard if and only if there is an NP-complete problem L that is polynomial time Turing-reducible to H (i.e., LTH). In other words, L can be solved in polynomial time by an oracle machine with an oracle for H.

Assuming you do not know what is NP-complete the relevant phrase to understand NP-hard from the article is :

NP-complete is a subset of NP, the set of all decision problems whose solutions can be verified in polynomial time; NP may be equivalently defined as the set of decision problems that can be solved in polynomial time on a nondeterministic Turing machine.

So here is my explanation :

A NP-hard problem is a problem H that can formally be transposed in a polynomial number of steps to a problem L for witch it takes a polynomial amount of time to verify it's solution. Ex.: To verify the traveling sales(TSP) man problem*1, given a route r with n points you just have to measures it in n step then check if the route r in shorter or equal to k.

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That is the list of countries for sellers. The list of countries that can buy through Google Checkout is here, and is quite extensive these days (until around the time Android 2.3 launched, most of those countries did not even have access to free apps on the Market).

I mean, I knew they were working on Gmail Motion, but I though they left that idea when it stopped being April 1st.

Ignoring the other responses—which are all dependent on the violence being fictional or at a distance amongst strangers—the core reason is because it's simply in our best interest to, from a long-term perspective. Lion cubs play-fight when they're young. What do you think is going on there? Fiction and sports are violent passion surrogates. We have a drive to prevent violence from actually occurring and affecting things that we care about—and hey, that sphere is somewhat larger than what a lion cares about, because we recognize it's all important.

https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+time+japan+shutting+down&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Li

huh? since when is googles in app billing system US Only? i live in austria and have used it without any problems..
http://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=150324 it doesn't really support all countries, but far from "US only"

One day I noticed that there is already an Android version of AutoCAD. Have not tried it, but the screenshots look quite polished.