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I see this as more useful for people who want to publish newspapers and don't have to worry about distribution. Mainly events or regular gatherings where their key audience is already there. Eg: Churches could use this for local news / events. Just leave a pile by the door.

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Why not use a service like HP's MagCloud? - http://magcloud.com/

They do printing and shipping.

The original post doesn't start with www. this one does.

That reminds me of this guy who did a similar thing to get a Concorde flight - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3204699.stm

Have you read Jakob Nielson's work? - http://www.useit.com/

Designing Web Usability would be a good start - http://www.useit.com/jakob/webusability/

And Homepage Usability is good for screenshots with examples - http://www.useit.com/homepageusability/

I would take what he says with a pinch of salt at times, as he can be very metric based. Sometimes it helps when to know to bend the rules. I remember for years he was very strict about hyperlink colours insisting that they should always be blue for unvisited and purple for visited.

Stephen Fry is known to be a massive Apple fan, he doesn't deny it. Douglas Adams and he were the first people in the UK to get Macs.

The BBC have an interesting write up [1].

"The most enthusiastic person I came across in this room full of analysts, industry watchers, bloggers, journos and geeks was the actor and comedian Stephen Fry."

Noting that he was "chaperoned by Apple design guru Jonathan Ive".

So he didn't get the normal press treatment.

I think this is more of his honest opinion. He's done gadget write ups for other (non Apple) products saying what a delight they are to use.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/maggieshiels/2010/01...

So adding VAT at 17.5% that's £2,616.25 Bringing the total up to £17,566.25 Which is about $28,276 (USD). That's before you pay for installation too.

Duplicate of - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067333

Scott McCloud also did the comic book for Google Chrome [1] I love the way complex ideas are explained in a simple manner in that comic book. I do show it my non-programmer friends to explain what goes on under the hood of a browser.

I wish more programming projects were documented in this way.

[1] http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html

"Starting in early 2011..." that's an age away in internet time. Things could have changed considerably by then.

With books you should mention the ISBN. Amazon can search the ISBN, as can every bookshop and library database.

In fact Amazon use the ISBN as part of the url for books.

.../archives/2009/12/want_a_job_anal.html <- That's the worst case of SEO readable URL I've seen in a while.

I've e-mailed it to a few friends interested in this field and I've already had to tell them ignore what the URL says, it's not what it looks like. And just pray that it doesn't trip up some of their company filters.

Although this article [1] is 9 years old, it's still relevant as it shows the impact of the one child policy.

Women become valuable commodities. I've heard stories about rural Chinese girls being scammed and promised offers of marriage from rich men in the city. In reality they're sold into a life of slavery.

At the other end of the scale though more educated women in China can take their pick of males.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/927309.stm

A real project is an excellent way to pick how to do web development.

Have you got any hobbies or interests? Why not create a website dedicated to your hobby/interest? That way it'll be something that you'll be able to run over the course of a few years.

Start with a small website, and slowly build it up. Add more features, then tweak them. Find out why it's loading slowly. Read a few books on website that scale too.

The Guardian also have a shorter version with some extra background - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/01/arianna-huffingt...

Duplicate? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=959596

Is there any other action people in the UK can take? I don't have much faith in the number10.gov.uk petition page.

The number 1 petition there was for Gordon Brown to resign [1],[2]

Despite getting more than 72,000 signatures, the response [3] was more like a boilerplate reply.

[1] http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/27/downing-stree...

[3]http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page21213

I use virtual machines and am happy with them. However to be fair to the grandparent poster there have been issues with USB devices and VMWare.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Vista64bitBlueScreensWithINTER...

Sorry. :) You replied why I was editing my reply to make it clearer. Shouldn't Safe Search be the default? Normally users have to opt out of Safe Search to see NSFW content.

Looks interesting.

[Edit] Is there anyway to make safe search the default like most search engines do?

I'm not keen on seeing NSFW links like Encyclopedia Dramatica appearing when I'm searching from a work computer.

Most searches make you turn safe search off to get NSFW sites.

I did enjoy reading that interview. It's always interesting to get insight into other people's way of working.

What struck me most about that interview was how it was written. How simple the wording is. It's clear to read, the language he uses is straight to the point and it's concise. I assume the interview as over e-mail. The sentences he uses are short and unambiguous. Plus they're easy to parse. I wonder how long it took to write that interview? If it just comes naturally or if he had to edit and tweak it a lot.

The 83 is still listed on their product website -

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productCate...

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDeta...

Notice on the page it also says - "Count on TI calculators at exam time. You can use this TI graphing calculator on the PSAT, SAT, and ACT college entrance exams, IB, and AP tests."

I think this is down to the educational market. For many exams you can only used an approved make/model calculator.

If you can hack the OS you can use it to store answers, notes or similar aids in cheating for an exam. If the platform isn't locked down they'll lose their exam board approval which would have a big impact on that models sales.

The Wikipedia article is also a good port of call - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_%28finance%29

Derivatives are very useful instruments for some. The example of a wheat farmer and a miller is useful for gaining understanding about what a derivative is and how they can be used.

When you get to that level of protection, the main attack I'd be worried about is the $5 wrench.

http://xkcd.com/538/

Of course as the strip also points out "Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets"

It's a good book, but rather short. It's worth reading for an introduction into Wabi-Sabi concepts.

I heard about it 7 or 8 years ago from people who had been to Xerox Parc and Cambridge (UK) based Xerox Research Centres.

I can find this research paper online, although it appears to be dated 1995. It's not exactly what I was told about, but it seems to be an earlier version.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gjm6FpMUTXgC&pg=PA509...

I remember hearing about a Xerox research lab that had a whole room where the walls were all whiteboard.

They had a celling mounted camera that would scan the walls. They also had a markup language that the camera OCR software would pick up. So for example if they drew a P in a square, it would print out that wall to the printer. If they wrote an e-mail address in a square it would e-mail a photo of the whiteboard to that e-mail address.

This was 7 or 8 years ago. I wonder if they still use this system.

I'm currently playing with an Arduino, I'm only at the traffic lights stage, which feels very "Hello World", but I enjoy it. It's very refreshing to think that I can start building my own hardware to interface with a computer. I've spent years writing software and it makes a nice change to make something tangible using the programming skills I already have.

I agree, the colour changing lamp isn't that useful by itself but learning how to make one would be fun. It's a nice hobby to have. There's something satisfying about building something yourself.

The limitations seem endless, but it's coming up with practical ideas that I think is the really tricky thing.

Stuff like the Baker Tweet - http://www.bakertweet.com/ have a lot of potential.

I really related to this comment.

What I do find though is experience at university does vary greatly. I had a fantastic module on Software Quality. The lecturer in question has been working in the real world before he became a lecturer so had many practical examples of software quality, but he was also able to quickly gloss over the irreverent stuff.

I really did enjoy that module, and recommended it to a friend who was a year below me academically at the same university. Unfortunately the lecturer in question left the university before my friend started the module. As a result his experience with the same module was vastly different than mine. The replacement lecturer was very much into mathematics and didn't have the real world experience his predecessor had. As a result a lot of time was wasted on the maths of how to calculate cyclomatic complexity. When I did the course about half an hour to an hour was covered on how to calculate it, when to use, why you'll need it and so on. Plus there was further reading in the lecture handouts. When my friend did it he had to spend about 9 hours running through just the maths. He told me it was very detached from the real world, there wasn't much connection to when you'll use it.

I've had a few good lecturers and a few bad ones too. For me I find the good ones know how to practically apply things.