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Why do you need DVI-to-Mini DisplayPort?

Apple's 24" cinema display supports Mini DisplayPort and they have already released a Mini DisplayPort-to-DVI/VGA adapter.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB382?mco=Mjc5MTU3OQ

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB570?mco=MTkzODk0NQ

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB572?mco=MTkzODk0Nw

RTFA:

"We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done. We are working to add some common browser features such as form autofill and RSS support in the near future. We are also developing an extensions platform along with support for Mac and Linux."

How often are there routing issues to Google, but none to your site? It's much more likely that your site will be unreachable. The probability that Google will be down is probably insignificant for most cases.

Another Digg-worthy article submitted by an actual Digg user. We're headed toward reddit-style pun threads:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=386128

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385147

He's running ads on his site and these submissions are driving traffic to them. He's not increasing his PageRank, but it's not true that these submissions are doing nothing.

How did this receive 6 votes? This guy is clearly spamming to promote efactor.com.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=askfrasco

Technologizer is blogspam. This is just a summary of an article that was submitted 3 hours earlier.[1] His other submissions are the same.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392861

"DH3. Contradiction.

In this stage we finally get responses to what was said, rather than how or by whom. The lowest form of response to an argument is simply to state the opposing case, with little or no supporting evidence.

This is often combined with DH2 statements, as in:

I can't believe the author dismisses intelligent design in such a cavalier fashion. Intelligent design is a legitimate scientific theory.

Contradiction can sometimes have some weight. Sometimes merely seeing the opposing case stated explicitly is enough to see that it's right. But usually evidence will help."

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

He substantiates his claim with historical evidence and observation of current trends. Do you have anything other than your personal opinion?

"A few decades" is not a short amount of time. I don't think it's naive to believe that this trend is lasting.

"This doesn't mean big companies will disappear. To say that startups will succeed implies that big companies will exist, because startups that succeed either become big companies or are acquired by them. But large organizations will probably never again play the leading role they did up till the last quarter of the twentieth century."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=384690

You missed the point of the essay. It was written to support that claim.

Also, the 640k quote attributed to Bill Gates is folklore.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed

Yes, and it was under 10,000 points in your previous submission.[1] It was a "disaster" when it was at 8582 when someone else posted 42 days ago.[2] Also, it was down "400 points in 10 minutes" 52 days ago.[3]

I don't need you to be my stock ticker.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=325009

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328204

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=318627

More context: http://news.ycombinator.net/submitted?id=mellow

Plus one about aliens that was killed.

Please kill the submitter's account. His other submissions are equally retarded.

What happens if I vote 'no' but the project still passes? Do I still have to pay even though I wasn't satisfied?

If a bunch of contributors vote 'no' and pull their money then how do I improve the project and get them onboard again if it's going to be OSS? With shareware, I can improve the product and catch them on the next release.

It's shareware except you've made it much more complicated. What happens if I vote yes and the other contributors vote no or vice-versa? Does the vote need to be 100%? That sounds like a pain in the ass -- I want my software, now.

This is also not very good for the developer. They have to perfect the software to please all the contributors before getting paid. How long until everyone agrees that it's ready? Where am I supposed to take it if I walk? I just wasted all this time writing code, thinking I was going to get paid and now I have to try and sell software that I didn't even come up with the idea for. At least with Rent A Coder, I don't have to please a group of random people.

Those examples are a bit of a stretch. The number of "normal people" who understand that they need new software written must be very small.

College kids who want a good, free game to play at a LAN party

College students pirate software. If they want a free game then who is supposed to fund the idea on your site? I don't think people want cheesy open-source games. They want quality graphics and good gameplay. You can't achieve that with a shoestring budget and without a team.

My mom, who wants a free alternative to MS Word that works well on Windows and is less intimidating than OO (and more powerful than Google Docs)

Does your mother really know that she needs someone to write an alternative to MS Word? She knows enough to seek out a developer and is willing to invest in software that no one else has used? I don't see people trusting their documents to an untested word processor and I don't think they would pledge money for it. OOo and Google Docs are good, free, alternatives.

Most open-source software projects are started as some hacker's pet project. If I'm going to get paid to write an MS Paint clone for the Mac then I'll keep it closed and sell it myself since normal people don't understand or care about OSS.

Is this guy a spambot?

Who are these "normal people?" Can you give an example of software they would be interested in funding?

I'm having a hard time imagining exactly who you're targeting.

How is this different than microPledge?

Why are you posting this again?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49968

How did this submission receive so many upvotes?

I'm not seeing any interesting information in this article, it's just a big criticism of Palin and the Republican Party. Take it to reddit.

Here's the discussion from the last time this was submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21795

Are you a troll?

Your posting history is suspect.

The value is in having nearly every cyber criminal on the planet gather at a central location. They're able to easily build a database of usernames, passwords, email addresses, and IPs. They can also monitor what type of goods are being sold and new schemes that pop up.

Everyone knows that law enforcement runs/monitors these forums, but they don't care. You need to be anonymous every step of the way.

"...and we actually don't hate the all-clicking trackpad much at all. (If your thumb muscle memory makes you click at the bottom where the button used to be, it works and feels pretty much the same.)"

It /feels/ the same as the old trackpad thus it has tactile feedback. The entire trackpad clicks.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/apple-macbook-aluminum-an...

He's asking about the next essay. It's been over 2 months since the last one.

On another note: I really hate posts with nothing more than a quote.

Dupe. This article was already submitted 2 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=329763

Wake up. Android has both an email and Gmail application. You can use IMAP without having to go through Google.

This submission is approaching reddit [pics]-level posts. There's nothing to discuss here and it isn't even particularly funny.

Yahoo! Mail has been around since 1997; people had lives before Google.