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I wonder what they think the dynamics are? Do they just not have a clue or do they believe something that's incorrect?

Actually the situation and the violence against demonstrators in the 1930's was far worse, very often fatally worse. Commies and labor unions, you know. Little sympathy from anyone. Police riots were the norm back then and prosecution for their murders was unheard of.

That's not to excuse what's happening, just offering a bit of perspective.

NO! This is a private matter, not one for legislation. It simply gives big brother the means to stop us completely from talking with anyone not in shouting distance. Terribly, terribly dangerous.

Probably not but that would alter the Chromebook. Their solution requires no modification and yet supposedly gives a Windows user experience for those to whom that's good enough. Depending on the DaaS capability WRT the apps I use that could easily be me going forward.

Device sharing is also facilitated by the DaaS approach. Any user can log on to any device at any time and see an uninterrupted work flow. For emerging societies and especially their students this can be a huge benefit. There are many environments where sharing inexpensive hardware without penalty can be a sea change. The lack of Windows is a penalty whether we like that or not. :-)

If they've got one more appropriate I welcome the change.

Yes, initially for enterprise, but once the door is open and traveled by experts a bit to wring it out and simplify it it becomes everyone's egress. The fact of an app store app for it (mentioned at the bottom) portends that future.

My title refers to the user experience, not the infrastructure.

While initially aimed at enterprise the fact that there will be a fairly simple app for this in the app store could radically change Microsoft's role in the marketplace.

My shelved Chromebooks for Seniors project is now off the shelf. I came to realize that they would not appeal to those who already have Windows computer experience, by far the largest share of those with experience. That group is rapidly becoming the majority of seniors. Having a unified hardware platform that can be shared among the complete set of users totally changes the game.

This might be the final correction to the deviant path taken away from thin clients with the advent of the PC.

Only $60 at Amazon. Yes, more than Raspberry Pi but then it is more computer than a Raspberry Pi.

Final form factor: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/e...

And here I was hoping for Steven Sinofsky. :-)

What, do they all have the same coach telling them how to use their hands to talk with?

What is the tl;dr movement?

Flat is nothing more than a cost cutting measure to "benefit" developers. They don't have to pay for or do design any more so they can be more productive in churning out more of the trivial things Steven Sinofsy and Jony Ive think really sell licenses and machines.

I feel really sorry for all the graphics design people whose work I loved and who now have to use pastel crayons with large blunt tips which of course anyone can do so puts the designers pretty much out of work. I hope this too shall pass and eye pleasing detail shall return. I just hope all the designers weren't pushed into becoming higher paid programmers never to return to esthetics.

I wouldn't mind at all if the next generation was more comfortable with fighting. It's a basic human instinct and when basic instincts are completely suppressed pathological behaviors will bulge out instead.

The current state of "assault" law is appalling, especially in the U.S. We need to get more than a bit back to what we actually are.

The author has very, very low standards for video quality. Rift resolution over an equivalent area is far, far less than a standard tv. 1080p is not going to be an improvement worth even noting because it is spread over a huge field of view. It needs 4k to be viable for video consumption.

For video, as opposed to immersive gaming, you want an Avegant Glyph. Still in Kickstarter and projected to about $3M in pledges. No screen door and no visible pixels. It uses projection onto the retina from a micro-mirror array to give apparent resolution much higher than 720p over its 45 degree FOV. Reviewers can't say enough good things about the movie experience.

I do not remember which apps specifically stated "without notifying the user", however it was worded and I can't find any permission that specifically states that now but I am pretty sure that with MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS permission it can be done by an app using the AudioRecord object:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioRe...

To my chagrin I find 31 apps on my phone now that have that permission.

SMS is nothing. There are now many Android apps that demand the right to turn on your microphone any time they want to without notifying you. If you carry an Android phone and are not really careful about permissions you are carrying a wire.

The age of the fighters is truly impressive. In the U.S. it would be kids.

That makes it look a whole lot more serious to me.

Then, of course, there is Catcher in the Rye, the most damaging book ever written. Completely ruined two generations at the least. Made effete and cynical cool and we've yet to recover the hard nosed optimism that infused us with greatness for a too short a while.

I sincerely wish we'd lost Salinger in the war.

Hugely surprised to see Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff on the list.

Gurdjieff is the modern father of mindfulness. Of course he borrowed it from the Buddha but in his time the Buddha wasn't much in vogue in the west. Shocked to see such an obscure yet such a marvelous thinker/doer on the list.

Absolutely fascinating human.

> bro alias

#An alias lets you create a shortcut name for a command

alias sister=bro

> sister alias

#An alias lets you create a shortcut name for a command

alias sister=bro

>

"Using "bro" is offensive because it excludes others by their gender."

You must have a huge problem with "him" then.

FFI = Foreign Function Interface

Thanks. A good variety of things there but I'm hoping someone puts together a phpBB (or similar) site such as Oculus Rift uses here: http://oculusrift.com/

Such an organized site where you could drill down to topics of interest through broader categories would really be helpful. It would be best, of course, if it was set up and accessed through julialang.org as something official.

I don't know how to do that or I would. It isn't reputed to be very difficult to set up a phpBB site and I'm sorta hoping some enthusiast who does know how picks up on it.

Is there a Julia forum anywhere. Like with a hierarchy of topics and subtopics and with hierarchical threads at the bottom level like HN? Optimally something that remembers what you've read.

I want to write audio VST plugins in this language! Somebody please make that easy. :-)

If it's promising, even with long shot odds, you've gotta wonder why Gates isn't all over it.

I think they ought to host a seminar with Hameroff and Penrose like really soon.

I wish they'd explain this "fingerprint" system that secures Diffie-Hellman against the man in the middle. e.g. how are fingerprints exchanged? If you can exchange anything truly securely, you can exchange good old fashioned public keys. If you can't exchange something securely you can't stop MIM attack.

I wonder what the threshold of detail is to remain effectively invisible or beyond notice. That's all that's needed. I'm sure that's been deeply studied by the military.

"free access to Amazon Instant Video"

should read "free restricted access to Amazon Instant Video" the restrictions are many (no HD in a browser) and many venues you would expect are simply closed, such as Tivo. They intentionally mislead all over their site as to what it really means.