thasmin

There are a bunch of minor differences between software and music that make software more viable as a business when using the same definition of property. Software companies often sell services that are wholly based on software, but it's the service that has value. Customized software such as an internal accounting system is worth more to the purchaser and often not worth anything to the world at large. It's also easier to use the old definition of property to sell because it's easier to prevent unauthorized users from using software.

There are many legitimate reasons why this is a problem. I'll briefly list a few but there are many more. One is that the government workers who listen to your phone calls can use that information against you, for example if they are a business competitor. They also can create laws which target you specifically that you don't know about or can't avoid breaking. Because they make the laws, there is no recourse against anything that they do with that information.

This metric seems to be just as flawed as total bitcoins transferred. Why should a bitcoin that hasn't been spend in a while be worth more than one that was spent yesterday? If someone sells something for bitcoins and then buys something else the same day, that seems like a great indicator of bitcoin activity but the second transaction is completely ignored by this metric.

I'd be interested in what this guy can do with a $100 price point.

They provide IMAP and POP to let you download your email.

No, but 8 is the version in development right now. 6 and 7 are being tested.

This was certainly the right decision. Mozilla and Google have much different goals, and it would have been silly for Mozilla to commit the necessary resources to this idea when the benefits to Mozilla and the customer are not guaranteed. Implementing this properly could take over a year and the end result may not even improve the product.

Google decided to go forward with this project because the corporation will greatly benefit if it succeeds. Mozilla does not have the correct payoff to take the risk.

Accepting credit cards is done almost everywhere, but I wouldn't say that it's so assumed that not advertising that you don't take them is "tricking" customers. He offers a 100% interest free no collateral loan as an alternative.

Yes, you're right. This discovery won't change anything in that regard. I was thinking about 1984-like scenarios that are very unlikely.

If this procedure gets popular enough to change humanity, I'm sure it will. Right now, it's being performed by only one doctor in India and he's not accepting help.

A 100% effective, low maintenance, reversible birth control method could have an incredible effect on the future of the species. I'm guessing the benefits of fewer unwanted children will be incredible. The possible downsides include a dangerously low birth rate and forced temporary sterilization, but I think the long term effects will be very positive.

There is potential for TermKit to send files to your client's Vim, which opens a lot of possibilities. For example, it would be easy to have files from two different servers open. It would also reduce the number of places you need your configuration files.

TermKit's author may dislike Vim, but I suspect that he's helped its users in the long run.

Can someone give an example of what this would be used for?

He may have this luxury because he's ridiculously wealthy and controls his job, but most people have to worry about tomorrow. They're really different goals. I'm going to do things today that will improve the rest of my life. I wouldn't go to work on the last day of my life, but I did it today and I'll do it tomorrow.

Most of the federal government has been schedule to shut down "two weeks from now" for a while.

Android is an exciting use case for Mirah. The other JVM languages run into the runtime library and performance problems mentioned towards the beginning of the article.

Maybe this was the excuse for Mahalo to fire the 10% of its workers that were the least productive. The bottom 10% may have even been hurting the company.

Android development is done only by Google. When they're ready, they release a new version along with its source code.

AOL shut down Gnutella and WASTE. Certainly the right business move because of they were both lawsuits waiting to happen, but I'd imagine that it disappointed Nullsoft nonetheless.

Yet another spin on the Microsoft brand carousel. Someone over there seems to think that if they give their product a certain name then people will start buying it. Zune seemed like a good brand. The products were of high quality and had good reputations. I feel like a few well placed articles titled "Zune: Microsoft's quiet success" or "Microsoft becomes the underdog with Zune" would have gone a long way.

It's funny that they have double platinum sponsors.

Visual Studio is a great IDE for writing .NET code and is very good at C and C++ on Windows. When I started with PHP on Linux after 7 years of C++ and C# in VS, I quickly realized there was nothing comparable to VS and decided to scale the Vim learning cliff.

I've found Vim's text editing to be better than VS. For example, it's extremely to change a string - ci" - where in VS it's ctrl-leftarrow a few times then ctrl-shift-rightarrow a few times. In Vim it's much harder to compile things, no Intellisense, no refactoring, no decent equivalent to the Solution Explorer, and tons of other missing things. There's no doubt about it. A lot of these things are less useful when working in PHP, so Vim makes sense there.

Not believing the Vim hype is like wondering how anybody could be a Dallas Cowboys fan, which makes a lot of sense to people who grew up or live in Dallas. To people writing code where VS isn't available, there's more focus on editing letters which Vim lets you do more efficiently.

Rocket surgeon. Great mixed metaphor. :-)

ApartmentRatings.com is pretty useless even from a renter's perspective. 35% approval is a great rating on that site.

I'm anti-union for a lot of good reasons. They cost money, the leadership is often corrupt, they will sacrifice a part for what they believe is the good of the whole, and they promote seniority over merit. I don't want to be part of another organization that I don't have the time or desire to take an active part in. Workers in our industry have enough skill to get good compensation and benefits.

I don't think there's been one situation in my career where an union would have helped me.

There isn't one standard way to convert a latitude / longitude coordinate into a x/y coordinate for a map. Google Maps was the first to use the Spherical Mercator projection. The EPSG (?) number used to reference the Spherical Mercator was originally 900913. EPSG:3785 now refers to the Spherical Mercator too.

http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html

May I suggest, "If they stole your idea, how do you know you ever had it?"

When Chrome was released two years ago, I noticed a significant difference in speed. Nowadays I think the announcements JavaScript performance improvements is a bit overenthusiastic. The only real world benchmark mentioned in the article is that Gmail loads 12% faster. What JavaScript apps are constrained by performance and what are Crankshaft's effects on them?

They should "magically" fix bugs so I never experience them.

I would have thought the worst thing that ever happened would have involved death in some way.