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I think they bought a younger demographic. When I was young I didn't want to hang out with my parents and their friends.

I don't think Facebook would spend $1B for image editing. Image editing has well known and documented solutions.

Isn't this what Ting is doing in the USA? They use the Sprint network.

Mr. Closed vs. Mr. Open?? It would never happen, but I admire Mr. Jobs for at least trying.

If this were to gain momentum, then I think the exact opposite would happen. Crowd sourcing is like a human map-reduce. The bad patent is "mapped" to people who know something about the subject and each searches independently sometimes sharing results. Analysis is done to "reduce" the result to provable prior art. Further, I think they should remove the award. I would do this for free. Sites that pay people to contribute almost always fail (think Mahalo vs. Wikipedia).

Patent trolls affect all of us. This is something everyone could get behind.

Edit: by "exact opposite" I mean crowd-sourcing could produce good results faster, with greater urgency, than any expert.

I wish all technical books did this.

This is also why cabals are so destructive. They cause homogeneity on what would normally be a diverse set of topics. I wonder if you could train your classifier to reject topics that are similar or are being promoted by the same set of people?

Interesting. Many natural sounds are very similar to white noise (e.g. leaves, waterfalls, etc.). We evolved in nature so our brains might be tuned to specific sounds, that is, they have a positive psychological effect.

My father, who was also an engineer, taught me when he had a difficult problem to solve he went for a walk in the woods. The solution often just came to him by magic. I wonder if it was the walking or the "sounds"? Probably both.

In Nintendo's market cartridges are an advantage. Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt & Uncle want to give a tangible present, not a gift card or "points". It is not about the technology, it is about the experience. I'm a dad, Nintendo has nailed it.

How many indy games target 4-10 year olds? Pricing doesn't matter as long as it is an affordable birthday present for grandma, grandpa, aunts, etc.

Nintendo already support Indy games in WiiWare. My boys 7 & 10 love their 3DSs & Wii and rarely use the the iPod touch or XBox. Nintendo is after a younger market. There is lots of room for them. They have been pronounced "nearly dead" many times.

Oh yeah, sure. Anonymous stole your source code 6 years ago. Give me a break.

Bad laws are stopped when citizens participate in the political process. I think people are realizing this. Social networks like twitter, facebook, reddit and hacker news makes organizing easier. They also make it easier to hear alternative voices (e.g. Lessig, Tim O'Reilly) and criticisms of the mainstream media. The best way to handle bad actor lobbyists is to counter them with large numbers of organized, informed citizens who participate.

I'm hoping Dodd was right and this was a watershed moment.

"Getting to Yes" by Fisher, et al. and "Bargaining for Advantage" by Shell are considered classics in the field.

Exactly. Who benefits the most from this attack? Anonymous or SOPA/PIPA supports who get to say "look what happened, we need stronger laws on the internet".

He chose his words carefully. He didn't say this was done by Google employees, but "a team of people" working on a Google project.

Google is usually straight-forward when they screw up. I'm curious to see what actually happened.

"If anyone posted a classified ad for stolen goods in your local newspaper, this bill allows the government to shut down the newspaper."

Thanks for the clarification. They only demote the URL and not what it linked to.

I would see this in a more positive light if searching for the word "Chrome" did not find the Google Chrome homepage. However, they chose the word "browser", which isn't quite the same thing.

I agree with the maintainers. I view these pre-configured init files as a good middle ground. They help you be productive while you learn.

It is not a victory until it has been tested in court.

They would get the same benefit at a lower cost. They want their apps (& advertising and data collection) to be ubiquitous.

Why wouldn't Google embrace WebOS? Their business is advertising and this will be as good a platform as any.

"brew install doom3" would be sweet.

It is professional entertainment. It is "fixed" in the sense everyone profits from an entertaining "sports" narrative.

OWS is not against capitalism, it is against corporatism. It wants the same laws enforced weather you are rich, poor, an individual or a corporation.

"Groupon is only floating a small amount of shares, 35 million – about 5.5% of its 637.3 million shares outstanding."

This reminds me of Jason Fried's prank that 37 Signals valuation tops $100B! http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...

This is very similar to SkyMotion's RainCheck: http://skymotion.mobi/

This is a nice little mobile app that is location aware.

I think Steve would now consider you an entrepreneur.

Indeed. Industrial design is important and it needs to be given attention from the highest level of an organization.

But this introduces a paradox. If the top levels of your organization do not understand design, then they cannot hire or promote the best designers.