Dysiode

Speed and flexibility perhaps? There are significantly more trucks than there are trains, for one. I imagine there's an incentive to fill a train to capacity whereas you can contract as many trucks as you need for a particular load.

Further, a bunch of trucks can go from one distribution point to many different unloading points a train may not be able to reach.

I imagine the explosion in consumer shipping and expectations of two-day shipping from a number of companies has changed the dynamic. A hundred Ted's ordering iphone cases isn't the same as one Bob ordering a hundred head of sheep.

Just some thoughts; I don't have any knowledge about the industry, or the state of the railways.

I find myself automatically making judgment calls on my own thoughts, especially on G+ where it's easy to make things no longer public. In general, however, I've just posted everything publicly. If I have something controversial to say then in general I'm prepared (and often do in the post itself) to justify it rationally. Maybe I'm simply being naive :<

I wonder how the generation that grows up with semi-immutable thoughts will learn to self-censor (for good or bad).

Unless you want to use Google+ or Facebook. Although, maybe we'll see a resurgence of real name pseudonyms. Now I just need to think of a name as cool as Mark Twain...

I think "that" guy trying more to say (and if he's not then I will) that yes, her story is extremely important, and she even mentions some of the benefits her suffering has had, however, it feels more as if she's whining for the attention. Some people don't need an arbitrary, transient number to feel good about themselves ;)

In my ignorance I see "...an open query langauge for JSON..." and I think "Cool. Now I'll be able to store complex database in plaintext." Am I wrong or just missing the point?

I like the idea of SQLite but it would be nice to not have to jump through hoops to access the databases of programs (I recall having some trouble with Pidgin in the past that I gave up on because I was too much of a newb to know how to interact with SQLite databases).

Some how while I respected his attention to detail I never really respected Notch's attention to game design before this. Endermen feel Hitchcockian in nature. I'm genuinely scared of them already o_o

I wonder about the honesty of machine sourced Tweets, not in the machines themselves but in the fact it would be super easy for a human to duplicate the tweets with faulty information. As a personal tool it could be amazingly useful (plants tweeting when they need water) but I don't see it working so well on a crowdsourced scale.

I think the principle is that you give direct traffic to the important link rather than the content aggregator.

I'm not speaking of price discrimination at all. That would be Valve releasing a game at full price and then a week later putting it on sale for 25% off. This doesn't qualify as price discrimination because they're games that have been around. The value for buying earlier is that you've owned it and had the chance to use it reasonably longer than everyone who is getting it now.

I'm speaking of the specific market of fence-sitters who may have pirated the games but in this case are willing to throw a couple bucks at the games. Those people who who you never would have gotten money from otherwise.

I view it similarly to any other varied hobby. If you like to cook you can either choose to cook American food all the time or you can branch out and try different styles.

Although, the difference is that hunger and food are pretty constant in relation to each other where as there are just masses of video games. But I think the principle is close enough :)

I recall hearing that's the reason Proun requires at least a $2 payment

Don't forget you can increase your payment for this bundle if you really enjoy them.

Also, I wouldn't write off the next bundle if this one doesn't suit your fancy. In my opinion the games in this bundle are more casual than games in previous bundles (I wouldn't consider Aquaria, Revenge of the Titans, Penumbra, et al. to be all that casual anyway).

Not that you need to worry about the next bundle at this point X3

Even given to everyone it could still be beneficial.

I personally simply forget there's a /new/ much of the time, having the option to have new posts passively presented while I'm skimming would be tremendously helpful.

"It's better than nothing"

Agreed.

Introversion managed to stay alive through selling their four games for $5 on Steam. That's ultimately not too much better than the current average bundle sale (http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?...).

These deals tap into the reservoir of people who aren't invested enough in the games to pay full price (I forget the exact term for that), and these games certainly aren't new, and each has been on sale on Steam at least once so the people who were going to buy for full price likely already have.

The same can be said for a number of old games as well. GoG's Summer Gems daily sale had a bunch of games that can't possibly compare graphically these days but still surpass modern games in many ways (e.g. Independence War which I would argue is unique in the space shooter genre).

That and my aging single-core computer simply can't keep up with many AAA tiles.

I tried Reader but it's not in my face enough to remember it, instead I use Opera's built-in RSS reader which has notifications (I imagine Chrome + Reader could have notifications like Gmail Chat).

This man is a master of irony.

He's discussing the nature of philosophy which is itself philosophical in nature; therefore, he's using philosophy to argue against the usefulness of philosophy.

This begs the question: Is he therefore advocating we shoot him? This would be one of the most clever ways to commit suicide. His gravestone would have to read "Trollololol".

On a more serious note (so you don't down vote me. Gosh.), it's already been said but philosophy's value lies in the framework for understanding Truth. With the exception of Absolutists and Subjectivists (and there aren't many that extreme) everyone is searching for something better and philosophy teaches people how to reason and what questions are relevant and will further the understanding of an issue of -everyone- involved in the argument. Socrates managed to get himself killed for asking questions which says something about their value.

Philosophy grants people the ability to understand, well, everything.

From this reading Datskovskiy feels like a more radical, less poetic version of Vernor Vinge.

When he says "Even if you ... plug all abstraction leaks, the lowest-level concepts on which a system is built will ... limit the heights to which its high-level “payload” can rise." I'm reminded of the part in a Deepness in the Sky when Vinge muses on the nature of the increasingly complex and layered systems which control the ram ships and how no one was ever able to completely refactor the mess.

How so? Or am I underestimating the prevalence of fake IDs such that my name and photo are no longer valid points of verification? This can be more easily battled with a photo on the card itself. Unless of course I would simply underestimate the prevalence of people scanning said photo to use on the fake ID which shouldn't match and could be further battled with a hologram over the photo, or, with Lytro, a holograph of the person.

With all that said, I don't understand how it could hurt more than help. Do explain!

A local college partnered with a local bank for some time to offer a Debt Card/Student ID which I missed out on but would find extremely useful since I proffer my driver's license every time I hand over my card.

With that said, I have no answer to your question, although I might come Monday if I get the time to call and find out.

Stencyl has left me with a great 20-minute-ran-through-the-basic-tutorial impression. Stencyl has an astounding number of usable blocks and a custom code block for the things blocks just can't handle (although, I admit, I don't know how easy that is to use). I'm delighted to see that it even has Kongregate API blocks.

My general impression of block based programming tends to be that they've got a handful of blocks and a quickly-thrown together interface, but Stencyl certainly exceeds that with a number of integrated functions (such as a project "market" which makes downloading tutorials painless).

It's a step in the right direction. It prompts people to think about something worthwhile and could easily become an ice breaker within a community. At the very least it may spark an idea in someone who reads it. "What does it really mean to 'make a difference'?" That can segue into powerful thoughts. Even the simple action of physically presenting a hope or dream can be motivating.

Of course, it's always up to the person to act but I find it's easier to work toward a goal when my spirits are high and being surrounded by hope has an uplifting effect.

Absolutely! I love anything that reminds me that all those people around me are people too.

Who knows, maybe the Internet could benefit from the occasional Before I Die... entry. It would make for an interesting social experiment to randomly display an entry from a fellow community member (or it could be negative depending on the amount of spam, but an experiment is an experiment!).

Hehe, I like how all the way at the bottom they mention the fact the bee's glow in the dark now. If that's not a significant mark against artificial foodstuffs I don't know what is :)

I wonder if the same argument could be made 5 years ago, only replacing "Opera" with "Not-IE" and "WebKit" with "Trident" :)

I'm actually surprised people so vehemently dislikes this. While a click-less interface may not be inherently superior to one with clicks it's still an interesting concept to explore, which is exactly what Dontclick.it does.

I personally found the site to be intuitive; although, Areas, a click-less shooter (http://www.kongregate.com/games/Ridiculous/areas), did a fine job of teaching me to inhibit my urge to click everything.

Fantastic! I actually made something with the same exact intent (except that it was more geared toward sharing your ideas with friends) but not being a writer myself it never really made it that far usability wise (although, it did have a name generator ;).

I watched the screencast and it looks actually useful! However, navigation looked a little clumsy, and having signed up and played around some, that's proven to be true. For example, in the chapter list there's no direct way to get back to the book except via the book menu. Also in navigation: having to click "Show" is unintuitive to me. I naturally want to click anywhere in the row.

As for features: I wish it were possible to interlink the various bits of the book together with each other. For example, going back to your screencast, being able to go beyond just saying "This is Sherlock's house." and linking Sherlock and the setting together. Perhaps more useful would be tying everything together in chapters (Sherlock and Watson and Arbitrary Character do something at Sherlock's house in chapter 3!).

Those are my main thoughts. I'll have my 5 users check it out and see what they have to say about it since they've actually used my site fairly extensively (over 200 characters amongst them). They're used to everything being public (I know how terrible that is, but they like reading each other's stuff), but they should still have some decent feedback :)

Is it possible to have a fall back OpenID provider on your own domain? So that way if you're on a computer away from the one hosting your oID server and something happens to it, the consumer can gracefully fall back to a secondary provider.

I think it would be really cool to use Opera's Unite as an oID provider, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to run Unite (e.g. on school/work computers)

It may be that Scheme isn't used at their company (or that he doesn't read Scheme). This particular problem is simple enough it's not hard to write in Javascript anyway.

Besides, it's not an application, I'm sure you could write it in your favorite language of you wanted :)

As I see it i's just part of the elastic bouncing between extremes.

Just 10-15 years ago privacy was a huge issue between parents and their children. People assumed -any- personal information made their kids targets for predators (which isn't necessarily untrue, but that's another discussion).

That view morphed into people blindly shouting personal details of their lives at the Internet.

The natural trend is to become more privacy aware. As more people use the Internet those people are more concerned with who see their content (my addition to the examples is Daughter: O_O I'm pregnant. Mom: WHAT). Sure, people argue to only post what you want everyone to know; however, Facebook is artificially stretching the concept of privacy from blind shouting into radical openness.

This artificial manipulation in one direction causes the opposite side to recoil (perhaps violently) in an attempt to maintain a sort of homeostasis.

That and people don't like having some faceless corporation take control from them.