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No it is not. His point is: get to the root of the problem. And he notices that it has to get worse before people understand this.

I totally agree with him. It's like the bugs get fixed, shitty lasts forever. Most of the time fixing a bug means getting tot the root of the problem.

From the article: "An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days."

When these transitions only took 60 days, why not take another look at the 'several billion years'? Maybe life did form much faster under certain conditions.

I was comparing the laws of theft. It's just the law that a copyright owner can ask whatever for it. When you obtain a copy without flowing this rule it is called theft.

So I think the discussion should be about the copyright law. Not about "I think this service sucks so I will get an illegal copy".

Don't get me wrong. I think it's absurd that you can get a penalty of $10.000 for downloading a MP3. I think the copyright rules should change.

But I think it's silly to fight a law by disobeying it. It will give the MPAA good ground to say "see they are pirates".

If it was so simple to do in 60 days I wonder why they don't question the several billion years.

When I started making enough money to buy a car I put an end to my car stealing habit for some time.

See how silly this sounds?

The problem with digital media is that it's very easy to copy. You can't just copy a car.

There are tons of website offering free music. So just support those artists instead of the ones charging too much for an inferior service.

I think it's the complete marketing package. The website is just the result of a complete new marketing strategy.

But still.. that's some serious money thrown away.

Very true. What if it was a screenshot of a secret CATalog? Or a scan of some secret Company Anonymous Transfer or whatever. So I hope they never took a look at the "cat.jpg" file because you just cannot tell what's inside.

Same for blogspot.com

Why not ask PG to change it?

Blacking out a relatively unknown website as HN is not going to work.

But what about not using the internet on SOPA day? That would make a statement. If all tech companies just stopped using the internet for one day, people might get a little idea of what the internet means to us and how our work with internet is related to our customers.

Each sleep cycle takes 90-110 minutes. Each cycle has 5 steps. So each step takes about 20 minutes. But if your cycle takes 90 minutes your first step will take about 18 minutes. So if you wake up after 20 minutes you will be in the first 2 minutes of the next step. And that's a bad moment to wake up.

As people already noticed, you have to play a little bit with the timing.

I very much agree with you. Although this week all the Google+ stuff first unavailable in Opera is now visible.

Maybe Google is just playing safe and only launches when they are 100% sure the browser supports the app.

They could also just block all SOPA voters from access to there services. Most of the pro-SOPA companies have knows IP-ranges.

This is why I think Apple is more or less behaving the same as the movie institutions. I think it's strange because Apple can be innovative. But lately they try to sue everyone to preserve there dominant position.

Maybe large companies do this because they fear change because change is much harder for large companies.

The 'book' Wreck this journal can be a nice start for people who are having difficulties doing something different, by destroying the book for instance: http://www.wreckthisjournal.com/

Don't think so. Don't forget how many 'normal' phones there still are being sold.

Why not create a Wifi network? There are plenty of router upgrades making this available.

Sometimes it is confusing because a lot of animations and tricks are in fact related to a browser version.

When a browser vendor releases access to a Javascript API that can control your CPU fan speed it has nothing to do with HTML, CSS or Javascript. So it's no surprise people sometimes call a meatball spaghetti.

I think the author is expressing that if you (only) let external sources be the inpiration of who you are, you will lose yourself. That's why it is important to create (also).

Maybe it's much cheaper to create your own 3D model of a nuke and let it print in 3D (or print it yourself if you happen to own a 3D printer).

Or print your own brain as lamp: http://www.lervik.se/index.asp?func=show&cat=Collection&...

Blackberry is very popular because they offer a free IM service. And teens say they can type much faster on a keyboard than on a touchscreen. Those are the motivations of the teens here. After there big service-down-time a lot of people switched to Android, but I'm still seeing a lot of BB here.

And you are also wrong about the price. The iPhone is not more expensive than other phones. Besides, most people don't buy a phone here, they take a contract with a provider.

So it's a little less salty.

This is exactly the reason why I keep my mobile as long as possible (years). It is a shame to see all the waste we ship to counties like Ghana and Nigeria and call it recycling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste

When you think this is a joke you should read Peopleware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects...

There was once a documentary about the mass games. It was very strange to see that a lot of people were very honored to play for the big leader. They had little to eat, had to work hard, but they were doing it all for the big leader.

If you can't (are not allowed) to look over the fence, you won't know that the grass is greener on the other side.

Maybe this has something to do with the file indexer? 2 years ago I heard a lot of XP users complain that Windows was suddenly getting very slow. After some digging around I noticed that they turned on the file indexer by default after an update. Since then I always turn it of (properties of your disk) and shut down the service (Indexing Service).

I also like the way you spent the money. There are a lot of articles on HN about how to get rich. But you gave a nice example of loving your job and caring about society.

"What would this project need to achieve before folks would start switching?" Nothing. This is a full grown set of tools. So it's just a matter of taste. I switched from 3DsMax to Blender. There is nothing missing. The footprint is very small and it is fast (startup time of 2 sec.). Plus developing addons in Python is very easy. Also a lot of professional render engines are having plugins for Blender lately (Vray for example).

Just compare the price of other packages ;)

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/comic?p=6 The bottom row explains it all.

I'm still not sure this is how it works. They are talking about 500 sensors. When those sensors can capture @ 10000 fps, you might get a 'movie' of 5 million fps. But then again they also use the bigger mirror to scaneline the scene. Maybe it's a combination of both?

In programs like Photoshop you can preview your design using color blindness filters (View > Proof Setup > Color Blindness). Another trick is to grayscale your design to check the contrast. This will help a lot to create a design that is also accessible for colorblind people.

Contrast is the key here. Red for example is a very dark color. That's why they use to print secret documents on red paper. When you would copy such document with a copier it would become completely black.