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I was wondering if there might be a way around that rule by claiming that what you sold in-app was a different product from what you sold out-of-app (e.g. on your website), but I'm not sure it would really work.

E.g. you sell the in-app "iPhone exclusive" version for $x and the out-of-app "everything except iPhone" version for ($x * 0.7) and then provide a "works on iPhone for no extra cost" special offer.

Given that they mostly appear to grow up in racially homogeneous surroundings, can you really tell which attributes are genetic and which are environmental?

8) Expansion (possibly covered by 5) 9) to preserve the Earth: if we can move the bulk of the human population off planet before we totaly destroy it, we could turn the Earth into a planet-sized nature reserve.

Ah, I miss-wrote. I meant "arranged" by the author when I said "done" by the author. As you and the other commenters say I meant an author can go out and find an editor/proof-reader/cover-artist etc. and pay them directly for their work. I've written enough reports to know full well that an author can't proof read his/her own work.

"Their other services (editing and packaging) do have value, but not nearly enough to account for their customary share of the gross."

And, as I understand it, these things can be done directly by the author. So a lot of what is left is the publisher takes on the risk - they pay for the editing, the artwork, the printing, the marketing etc up front.

This topic comes up in a lot of his other blog posts. He cites both never-published-before authors, and already published authors using pen names being successful.

However, I don't really see how an unknown name can become successful without self-promotion just by putting a book "out there". They would have to get insanely lucky and get a high profile review without soliciting it.

Have you considered selling it on the Kindle/iBooks/B&N etc?

The graph is titled (roughly) "500% rises follow inflation". It could just as easily be titled "500% rises are followed by inflation" from the same data.

How did you get the figures for the number of pirates? Is it the anti-piracy code you added reporting back to you?

Depending on which waveband you use, different vision tasks become a lot easier. It looks to me like all the sensing is done by the room, not the quadrotors, hence why its all room-mounted.

How would you take screen-shots? Or more importantly, do a hard reset when it crashes. I find the home button is also easier to use to wake my iphone than the power button is.

...among 21 companies selected from the top 100...

I've been looking at switching to a password manager like that, but I've been having trouble knowing how to pick one that a) I can trust and b) is good. I was thinking of giving up and just using a plain text file inside a truecrypt file.

blocking connections to gmail works ok. Of course, that doesn't prevent you printing stuff out...

You have to be careful that what follows the "but" is not a personal criticisim. For example:

  "I don't mean to be rude, but you're an idiot"

is no less rude as a result of claiming not to be rude (though they /may/ not notice this and it might work).

How does this work out if you believe you are significantly under-compensated at your current job (assuming it's the peak for the last five years)?

It's a shame number 17 is four words, not one. Otherwise, some interesting words.

That sounds far too good to be true. I guess if you don't care about the fine details then its a decent technique, but to take the MRI example, what if the thing that was wrong was only visible in those small details?

You could try putting it on a tablet PC (one with a stylus).

I do most of my software design stuff (UML etc.) on paper first before transfering into a software tool. I find it much easier to do that way.

What if the analysis were to be done based on where the people came from rather than modern geographical borders? I felt it a bit odd that the analysis was done by overlaying modern geographic boundaries on historical technology, considering how many modern countries owe their technological progress to other countries in older times. (e.g. America <- Britain/France/Spain <- Europe <- Middle East + Asia + Rome <- Ancient Greece). I think its less about who had what technology when, more about who inherited that technology.

I guessed 300.

I'm guessing from the text that they have ignored time spent sleeping (i.e considered it to be 0 MET-hours)

Why is everyone bashing the AI? Its clearly a joke from the first two sentences of the post:

"John Davison recently claimed that games are "Too Big and Too Hard". I have addressed this issue by reducing StarCraft to 8 buttons."

Or is it too early in the morning for satire?

It was a good story, but I stopped when it got to: "Speed through the loop beats quality and this is something we can apply to all aspects of the software development process." The jump from piloting a plane to "its therefore obviously true for software" without a shred of evidence was a little too much for me.

Is that "fair"?, or is that what those who worked all their lives want everyone to believe in order to justify themselves having worked all their lives?

Just a thought, not an opinion.

I hope someone like aquapac who make them for iphone will make an ipad cover too.

Out of curiosity, what games would you put in which category?

I would class something like WoW as negative and games like Civilisation as positive, which makes me think it has something to do with where you do the "work". In WoW, the "work" is all in-game, killing monsters for rewards etc. In Civilisation much more of the "work" is done planning your next moves, which is more of an out-of-game activity, meaning you can continue "playing" the game while you do other things.

If healthcare is all paid for by the individual, what happens when people can't afford the treatments they need? That path seems equaly dystiopian to me.

Presumably "graphical" programming tools like labview and gedae. But I'm not a fan of them as they are very mouse-dominated which doesn't do my RSI any good.

I find it somewhat ironic that Robert Peston is criticising the ratings agencies for playing a very similar role to the one he played in the Northern Rock fiasco.