yobbobandana

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Comment · 14 years ago

Until everyone stops using Ubuntu because for some mysterious reason they suddenly hate it.

Comment · 14 years ago

Under a section labelled "Not understanding the differences", too.

Comment · 14 years ago

And a worse link.

Comment · 14 years ago

Here's the submission that linked to the actual blog post, not to the whole damn blog:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4326619

Comment · 14 years ago

Economic incentives? China is a major trading partner for NZ at least.

    China overtook the United States at the end of 2008
    to become New Zealand's second largest trading partner,
    with bilateral trade amounting to $9.4 billion in the
    year ended December 2009.

source: http://www.nzdmo.govt.nz/publications/nzefo/2010/17.htm

Comment · 14 years ago

Gmail and Google+ came up under the communications menu, and last.fm was integrated with the sound menu. App menus and features seem to be available from the HUD. Seems pretty well integrated to me.

Comment · 14 years ago

A range of difficulties have emerged for TPP seeking to strengthen IP standards beyond those agreed to in TRIPS. Analysis of the costs and benefits of IP protection shows that there is a tendency towards overprotection of IP in all our societies, particularly in the areas of copyright and patents. The analysis also shows that the optimal rate of protection differs between countries and that it can differ across time as countries move through different stages of economic development.

The second linked document - New Zealand's submission - was quite readable and seems fairly rational.

The essays by NZ organisations opposing TPP were also pretty much all interesting reads.

Comment · 14 years ago

Free time at home is much more valuable than free time on the bus.

Comment · 14 years ago

Is there any written statement by the UN about this?

Comment · 14 years ago

One thing I hope this promotes is a good interface for accessing device hardware via HTML. In particular i had a hard time trying to access a webcam feed to embed in a webpage when i tried it a while ago. The ability to simply capture images/audio/video for use in a web app, from your phone or your webcam, would be tremendously fun.

As far as i'm aware the current solution for this is still to use Flash, or a native application. I'd be happy to be wrong. In any case making a phone entirely controllable via web standards will ensure that such capabilities are avilable and proven.

If anyone has more info on webcam integration with HTML5 video, this stackoverflow post could use some love: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1318834/whats-the-status-...

Comment · 14 years ago

Telefonica press release for those who missed it:

http://saladeprensa.telefonica.com/jsp/base.jsp?contenido=/j...

Comment · 14 years ago

I imagine this article was intended as PR for the Pirate Party.

"This is the kind of stuff we do not like, vote for us if you also do not like it."

I think it targets their core demographic quite well. Whether it is mock outrage or not is a moot point.

Comment · 14 years ago

The author does address the subjectivity of the integrity dollar value:

""The $I cost is the most subjective of the four and depends on how much stock a player puts in "doing the right thing," (so to speak) or whether they even see any moral integrity in the choice at all.""

I agree on the value-added point though, there are often services game makers can provide which make the official copy more attractive to players.

Comment · 15 years ago

Please do not conflate stealing with copying.

When something is stolen, the original owner no longer has posession of the stolen object. If the story were about money or physical property, "stealing" would be appropriate. It is not.

The word "copying" is quite adequate. In this case, direct copying is obviously poor behaviour. It betrays a lack of capability on the part of the copyer. This story would have had the same emotional impact, had it used the correct term.

Using the word "stealing" mires the story in the intricacies of digital copyright debate, which is not what this is about. It is about a startup not doing its own work, and thus demonstrating inability.

Comment · 15 years ago

Aren't the prizes on offer extraordinarily low for the accomplishments desired?

For example to "Develop new models to accurately predict the market response to large trades." is valued at $10,000.