tdoggette

The primary purpose of income tax (unlike, say, the cigarette tax), isn't to reward or penalize people for making less or more money. It's to generate revenue for the government.

I made the same commitment at the same time (though I've probably paid to see Sony movies, alas), but I was still looking enviously at their laptops last time I was buying one.

Still, it gives me a fair amount of satisfaction to choose something else over Sony when the products are next to each other on a shelf.

They come with a convenient "minimize" button that the user can click to reveal the IE icon on their desktop.

I work for a local-government IT department in the DC area. We're on IE7, but we have automatic updates turned off.

At first, a few years ago, it was because there was one specific update that broke our Oracle software, so everything got turned off. Now, we keep them off because of inertia. We started pushing out selected security updates in the last few months because the security folks insisted.

Oddly, it's our policy to install the full set of updates (except IE8) to all machines that have issues. We also update our images with all the latest stuff from Microsoft Updates.

A comedy special isn't an every-couple-of-weeks thing, and the front page of reddit isn't a very exclusive club. I'd bet five bucks that his next $5 special enjoys a great deal of attention from there.

My x120e, the immediate predecessor, is my everyday machine. I'm sad that I've just got an AMD Fusion instead of an i3, though.

NameCheap is good.

Look, if you sign up, you sign up to actually give marrow if there's a match. Period. Unless you're not healthy enough, there's no excuse for welching on a deal that involves someone's life.

Amit Gupta's influence on bone marrow registration will uncertainly save several lives over the next decades. The role of technology and the associated community is an important part of that story.

It's certainly one of the factors in my decision to sign up with the registry.

[http://marrow.org could use the touch of a UX designer, but the signup process is straightforward enough.]

I don't know where you saw the Microsoft-bashing in that paragraph.

I love my x120e, and it doesn't need quotes around the word ultraportable.

Wells Fargo and Suntrust are well-known banks, too.

"Nothing," really? This seems like a very real-world sort of test that gives a fairly decent indication of the kind of pictures that you're likely to get in the conditions indicated. It's not scientific, and there are lots of uncontrolled variables, but it's still useful.

I love the convex/concave in/out zoom. The other stuff seems less intuitive, but still pretty impressive.

The flip side of this is the Allied codemaking operation, which was a hell of a thing as well.

Between Silk and Cyanide is an account by Leo Marks, the man in charge of that effort. It's a fantastic read.

http://amzn.com/0684864223

re [0]: It seems clear that it's a political choice-- Google's not releasing a flagship that's not a "Nexus," and Samsung's not releasing a high-end phone that's not a "Galaxy."

What do you think of "Nexus Galaxy"?

I'm especially excited by how much they're stealing from WebOS. The app switching and the flicking out of notifications look neato.

It's the same size as the screen on the Nexus S, but the buttons are now just a part of the screen, so the diagonal is bigger.

Speed, maybe, but whenever I use my iPhone or Droid Incredible for web browsing and multitasking, I miss the WebOS app switching interface something terrible. It's the best handling of multitasking on a mobile device, period.

Definitely not clear from the title: This is Redis 2.4.0.

What am I missing?

I would guess that you were initially downvoted for a lack of specificity.

Given the Facebook community's tendency to be irritated with change (if only for a week or so), anything that effects the status quo could be a catalyst for Google+ adoption.

What if, for a search with no good results, it spat down the extra "new overlap" UI with the search text already filled in?

EDIT: Or keep it the way it is, just with the same field for search and the new overlap, but with the other stuff being visible on the button click.

Are you the founder? (If you are, we have 11 things in common!) This is a really neat idea, and the post does a good job explaining it. I just signed up and I'm playing around.

A brief note: the "Show me [Safe for all ages|Moderate\Unsure|Restricted] overlaps" is awkwardly phrased-- if I select Restricted, is the site gonna be all sex, all the time, or will I still get the unrestricted overlaps?

Also in that little settings pane, having to click OK after selecting from a dropdown is annoying-- I expect it to work like other dropdowns, where it stays like I left it if I click somewhere else.

I like that after searching for an overlap and not finding it, I can click "New Overlap" and it auto-populates, but does that need to be a separate text field? The transition feels a little awkward, and it needs to be very smooth to encourage people to create new overlaps.

I'm still playing with it, but I think it's a very neat concept that could get big.

EDIT: Okay, if I "Me Too" and overlap, I get to see who else did too, over on the right, but it's still one more click to open up our overlaps, a scan through the list, some typing, and another click before I can send them a message about how we both like Nutella. What if there were a message button by each person that I could use right after I "Me Too" something to talk to them about it?

Sorry if this is disorganized and long, I'm just adding as I go through the site.

Whatever he's done to his links makes middle clicking open them in the same tab.

(Chrome12/W7)

The one in the submitted link is the control room, this one is currently footage from the platform. Launch time keeps getting pushed back-- If you're not watching, you haven't missed it yet.

EDIT 10:28 Eastern They're resuming the countdown in 6 minutes and they are go for launch.

They're messing with the payload now, which appears to contain a dummy. Is this the platform they're going to send a man to space with?

From their site: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/launchsite.php

We launch from sea in Denmark, east of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. We like the idea of launching (and landing) on water. If we are able to control this environment we are basically able to launch our rockets from anywhere in the world to any height.

The basic problem that keeps most amateur rocketry projects from reaching high altitude is that of a suitable launch site. Northern Europe is very densely populated, and there are no areas like the Black Rock Desert. Even if we did have deserts here, the regulatory regime of private, amateur spaceflight is Terra Incognito to authorities.

However it has been discovered that outside the national territorial waters - typically 12 nautical miles off the coast - things gets a lot simpler from a legal perspective. In the practical world the open sea also offers a lot of interesting features to us.

Few landmasses on the planet is as empty as the open sea - and as easy to monitor. This makes the whole issue of range safety relatively simple compared to the conditions on land. Most space ports are found on a coastline for the same reason. Finally - operating out of Copenhagen, Denmark - the logistic challenge of launching rockets from Sahara or some place in the Artic is much larger than sailing a couple of hundred nautical miles out to sea.

As a result, in 2009, we decided to commit Copenhagen Suborbitals to sea launch.

Do they expect the enterprise to flock to this? As a nerdy consumer, I love that they're moving forward on UI, but as someone who deals with end users, this is going to scare the shit out of people. I don't see a start button anywhere in those screenshots.