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Speculation: Perhaps Fusion Drive also is filesystem aware, that way it keeps important system folders, such /Applications and /System and /Users/*/Library, always on the SSD. That way, your OS and apps seem fast, and bulk files such as MOVs and MP3s are on the hard disk.

I used to do this manually when large sized SSDs were past the expense of mere mortals.

> I’ve always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.

This is effectively Lucas' slow decent into retirement; he's not actively directing Episode 7 but instead consulting. Say what you want about the movies and franchises, ILM and Skywalker Sound are gold standards created by a tech visionary.

Hi there, quick question: do you have any support for eCommerce or are you just about burn rates for other SaaS companies? The trickiest part is figuring out "okay, we can do $10k this week in new products" after counting our sales rate, burn rate, amount of credit available (via credit cards, etc), and how much we owe licensors.

They do. Usually it's through a "Like-gate". Sometimes they even require a Facebook App that by default gets them useful info like gender, etc.

The SSN requirement confuses me, especially as a US citizen with a US company. Whose SSN is the right one to use? Are they legally liable for events? Why require a single person's SSN when in reality it's the corporation's account, goes to the corporation's bank account, which the corporation gets charged corporation taxes.

SEEKING FREELANCER: Ruby on Rails / HTML / CSS / JS

Location: Tucson, AZ. (REMOTE definitely okay.)

Looking for a some part-time help to work on our from-scratch forum built in Rails. Fangamer has a copy of the forum here: http://fangamer.com/forum and has clients who are using the code. (Including one major MMO studio.)

I'm specifically seeking someone who can take a very large existing Rails codebase and can: Add better UI features (over JQuery), implement a karma/reputation system (via Rails Engine plugin), handle client visual requests (SCSS).

We can provide only a few weeks worth of work, so it's best if you need a shorter project.

Contact with portfolio/resume: hnad {ATTTT} fangamer (d0tt) com

Does this solve the problem of Rails' ridiculously high stack? (functions in functions in functions, Rails' stack is daunting...) If you had the ability to write to a buffer, you don't need the stack, just pass the buffer object around.

Fulfillment is really complex. I work for Fangamer, who is shipping the Double Fine Adventure posters and shirts. We built out our own tech to get postage printed (and confirmation emails, accounting handled, etc.) to be able to ship everything. It's been a project to ship ~13k items.

As much as I don't like this particular flair of drama, I'm siding with Fish. If a patch cost five figures just to go through certification, then Microsoft needs to rethink their XBLA strategy for independent games. Let this be another flag for teams to avoid XBLA at all costs.

Plus Microsoft's XBLA terms are horrible. For example, you must sign a contract that puts your XBLA release as a pure-Xbox-exclusive release, or at least a timed-exclusive if you have the clout to fight back. (Only the majors can swing a "same-day multi platform release" via XBLA) The percentages XBLA offers are unfavorable, they make you pay for advertising on the games page, and I've heard that you make more money via PC release on Steam (or your favorite DRM-free service). In short: if you're seriously working on XBLA, demand a better contract or dump it.

It's just unfortunate that Fez's original contract is probably so old, the Apple App Store with it's free patches was a new concept then. If you're working on something that will take forever to do, get a PC prototype working first then dumb down to consoles if you must.

Funnily enough, yes, there is not enough space. If you look at the Macbook Air or the new Retina Macbook Pro, the cross-section is too small for a full-sized ethernet port.

For reference, the ethernet port takes up the entire height of the "old" MBP.

The CPU offered in the lowest Mac Pro today is the W3565, a "Bloomfield" model, based on Nehalim-B. For the record, that is now three generations behind, being behind the W36XX "Westmere"/Nehalim-C Xeon chips, the Sandy Bridge Xeon E3/E5, and the Ivy Bridge Xeon E3. A quick Googling cannot give me when the Ivy Bridge E5s are due out, but probably not soon.

EDIT: Apple does offer "Westmere" Xeons, but only as 6-core CPUs, which when looking at the website, is all but the cheapest option.

Two issues:

* No typeface is interesting, but, logo-only does not lend itself to "super-wide formats", such as 200x100 banners.

* The bill and wings are detailed at high-res, and become muddled at lower resolutions.

Can somebody confirm if GoT Season 2 is available in Australia iTunes? US will not get Season 2 until the disc release next year.

$12 is very high. Even from UPS, it should be $7 tops.

Lost man-hours of Google employees driving to/from work.

Flow looks nice but it doesn't show what I want out of analytics, which is link sources and conversions. What I would like to see is flows like:

CPC ad click -> Product Page (secondary goal: email signup) -> Cart -> (time passes) -> Googled "product" -> Product Page -> (time passes) -> email click -> Product Page -> Cart Page -> Payment (primary goal)

I want to see is where people come from, where they went, and why it works. In the example above, the thing that worked was email reminder. It gets even worse when referers are involved, and blog posts don't remove the utm_campaign=email link.

Basically, I'd like a backwards flow from individual conversions.

I take it you do not sell items to teenagers (no credit cards) or internationally (bank transfers more culturally prefered). I (begrugingly) accept Paypal because their consumer mindshare among those two groups is extremely high. For an example, look at any popular Kickstarter: There is a small contingent of customers wanting Paypal.

You probably shouldn't bet 100% of your business with Paypal, but a vocal minority prefers it.

Looking through the AdaptivePayments API, the limits on preapproval are one year and $2000, although you can ask to raise those limits on a case-by-case basis.

https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/US/en_US/files/developer/...

Why the focus on time tracking? There are plenty of other Basecamp features I'm sure other people want to be ported too. For example, my company relies on the Textile writeboards to provide pretty tables and lists. It was much disheartening to see our carefully constructed pages get devoured into an ugly mess of unversioned code when moving a project to the new system.

Consequently, missing features are extremely sore when missing again, such as the ability to turn off 3G on the 4S. (Useful battery saver.)

I'm in apparel too, and I agree: FB ads are junk. I spent a ton of money and got 1 conversion.

Partly because the benefits of Steam (infinite, fast, direct downloads; achievements and leaderboards; cloud game saves; fast patch download; occasional purchase perks such as TF2 hats) far outweigh the negatives (purchases tied to account name; only one account "online" at a time; occasionally weird/buggy "offline" support)

It looks like they're not trying to decrypt the laptop for the fun of it, but judge has physical evidence that the laptop contains relevant information to the case. From the article:

But the police had recorded a phone call between Fricosu and her husband in which she seemed to acknowledge ownership of the laptop and to reference incriminating material on it.

At least for Parallels, if you read the instructions, it says the first time you start up Windows Boot Camp in the VM, do not activate until it has fully installed Parallel Tools and it's drivers. Something in those drivers, which I presume is legal, prevents the infinite activation loop.

I had the same problem with MassPay too. I got a customer service rep immediately who told me that you had to call in to enable it due to fraud and incorrectly configured SaaS payment apps. It did take like 2-3 hours to enable it because I guess it was slow that day or something. (The rep was audibly frustrated at the unusual slowness and random errors that day.)

Nope, IE 8 will take the spot of where IE 6 is currently. It's the default browser of Windows 7 whereas one currently needs to update to IE 9.

The best hope to get rid of IE 8 is the same thing that killed IE 6 for good: popularity for the recent version of Windows. If Vista didn't falter the way it did, we would have had less time on IE 6, due to adoption of Vista's preinstalled IE 7.

It looks like IE6 and IE7 are just being dropped as that organization adopts Windows 7 for new hardware as old hardware gets triaged out whenever it breaks.

Not that it's an entirely bad thing, but since IE8 is becoming more standard, wouldn't updating to IE9 be easier?

There are two ways current hardware makers are beating piracy, increasing hardware complexity and value-added services. A lot of people are complaining about the Vita's proprietary memory cards, but I wouldn't be surprised if that move was 100% solely made to prevent 3rd party execution. I'd imagine that more anti-consumer features would be coming in the next generation of console hardware too.

The flip-side is rewarding good customers. By not having a hacked console, you can use online services (such as Xbox LIVE).

Although amusingly, I think the answer may actually be in free-to-play games. 2011, in my opinion, was the year F2P changed from evil Zynga social games and last-ditch MMO fallback to a serious triple digit growth area with games like League of Legends and Team Fortress 2. Expect to see F2P on Sony consoles soon. (Sony is more liberal with their online policy, which is why I'm predicting the first popular F2P on their systems. Microsoft is very domineering of Xbox LIVE and how their online play works, and Nintendo's online strategy is somewhere in the pre-fire stoneage.)

I always question the use of Skype. It's great for video chat, but it requires somebody to call and somebody to host, and it gets real nasty when you need to get work done and just want to talk for like two minutes. I recommend getting up a Mumble server. It's voice chat, but anybody can join in at anytime, or go to a private "room" to talk amongst themselves.

I voted for "I don't have domains at GoDaddy" since I moved from GoDaddy years ago before all this mess.