AndyJPartridge

I could have written that.

I'm in a (some would say privileged but it isn't) situation where money just falls into my bank with little effort by myself. (Shareholdings.)

I am at a total loss as to which of the many "hobbies" I have surrounding me that I should educate myself with each day. I'm learning about 100's of things from Lego lighting projects to basic electronics right now; I don't know where to dabble next.

The way out, I feel, is to sell many things, leave my phone at home, don't connect to WiFi after 8pm at home - and try and just Be.

I've certainly been caught out in that regard before.

But a 'advanced options' ability with a stern warning would be useful to many.

Yes, as you say.

The beauty of the Pi is the fact you can have a variety of SD cards with different OS/Configurations and easily swap between them and play with them.

It is a very cheap educational tool. I have 4 of them, and they also make great network storage tools. Add a HDD, the transmission software and you can easily download TV shows and stream them to you 1080p TV for example. £27 in the UK, absolute bargain.

They take it all very seriously!

In January 2004 I took my mum to Disneyland Paris.

Someone had accidentally left their luggage next to the belts below the customs booths.

The airport was shut down and cleared on that level, whilst a brave man with a machete hacked carefully at the bag to discover sausages.

The thing is, it's not just the financial cost of a theft, it's the emotional and practical cost too.

Having had 5 laptops stolen in one hit - because I was updating staff that weekend and the guy got lucky - the cost of changing passwords, and the nagging feeling I may have missed something somewhere and I may get hit with another internet theft....

Then the feeling that the guy(s?) were in my house while my partner and I were sleeping. Na. People who do this need to be taken out of society.

For the speeding point, you can kill people at 30mph if something goes wrong with the car or you do something stupid.

Agreed with the review.

Also agree that any benchmarks are useless. We need to code for the lowest common platform, in order to get the best sales.

I said "...and click an advert or two."

People viewing your views and cause, I guess.

Due to the worlds media being very selective about what appears, and the tone or context in which it is written, sometimes this is the only way to get your word out.

"Your word" being highly subjective.

Having the www.nytimes.com traffic being sent to your blog is probably one of the best things you can do.

Back in the day, leaflets were dropped from planes that contained what you wanted people to read. This is the much easier, and much much cheaper, way of achieving that aim.

EDIT: Removed the joke.

I was going to post the same thing.

Hope Stripe get there first, as I'd like to support them over Mastercard.

I feel for what you mean here.

Personally I hate the PS3 controller as it's too small, I much prefer the xBox 360 controller and especially if it has the keyboard attached to it.

Also, on the iPhone I dislike 99% of the games that use a virtual joystick on the screen, I just can't get on with them.

But for touch interface games, what the parent post says is a joy I look forward to experiencing: A game with discreet information on the hand-held device.

A touch screen certainly isn't for 60fps twitch-gaming in my opinion.

The progression of UO over time is not unlike that of most computer games over a longer period:

We used to have 3 lives, and pixel perfect jumps. Not a "100 life" buffer with health packs or -worse- life regeneration if you hide behind a tree. Or a completely safe MMO world like UO ended up as. Few went to the Dark Side of the UO world.

Most games have become movies, with little chance of anything bad happening to the viewer except getting popcorn hitting the back of your head.

UO was exciting when you thought you might get jumped and killed. It made you think hard about what you took out hunting.

It's a good concept if your Internet connection is reliable.

You can't hide API's :-)

I took apart the Disney Parks App as I was frustrated at the fact the full information therein was only available if you're physically inside the park.

Firstly, I used an American friends App-Store account to download the app, as it was not on the UK App-Store and you need an US credit card to set up a US account (Please correct me if I am wrong here.)

Next I used Fake Location, a €3 app from the Cydia store on my jailbroken iPhone, so I could convince the app I was 4500 miles away in Florida in the sun.

Finally, I used "mitmproxy" on my Mac, to proxy the web access the Disney app was making to the server, and noted the URL's and over time worked out the structure of the API and it's JSON replies.

Hope this is of use :-)

That has many complications.

If he gave the amount in shares, they have the shares and could sit on them. This may have problems with shareholders voting rights and such like. (Which is why you should always try to have 50% of a companies shares in the ideal world.)

If they wanted to sell them they need to find a buyer, and if one person bought many of the shares they may end up in a controlling position of the company.

I think that like share dividends in the UK, it attracts a lower tax rate. I think Sweden is 30%?

However, "gifting" monies to people is a strange area, with various odd rules.

You can only give away a certain amount of money a year in the UK, and that depends on who it is you are giving to or even the circumstance. (EG, you can gift £5,000 as a wedding gift.)

Indeed, but none of them led to the arrests.

It's very likely that they were false IDs created for diversion.

>when depression robs you of all motivation and the very will to live, how can you be expected to recognize the symptoms and go out there and seek help?

I, for one, didn't realise I'd become depressed. It took my partner and my best friend to take me to get diagnosed and treated.

On reflection, it's frightening to think I didn't realise.

Some good points.

But surely they should have been sent a warning, even a 24 hour one, to remove some content before just being wiped off the Internet.

This action is business destroying and draconian.

I did last October, from the UK. Cracking price.

The one main memory I have is leaving my iPhone, with my hotel room key-card inside the case, in a Taxi.

The driver searched for me for 30 minutes to return it. Great people, and I love the barter culture.

I think Andrew might mean the ability to see changes in a non-visual fashion. IE: Layer 2 removed, Layer 3 Blending mode changed.

Someone was working on a .js PSD file parser, which may be of interest down the line but it was in early stages.

Great product, I love the idea. Well done.

Ah :-)

"Autonomous System numbers (ASNs) are globally unique identifiers for Autonomous Systems."

I'd also add some information as to where/why the origin of the trace route is - I'm not sure how useful it is to have it come from some random location in France for me.

You could make it more educational by explaining what some of the terms on the page mean.

For example, I don't currently know what the ASN is.

The top-10 lists are amusing, and I'd make the results there links to the engine so we can avoid having to type 127.0.0.1 to see what happens.

At a UK price of £38 the amount of software for the money is incredible, just to play it all.

Along side all that source as a learning tool it's astounding. Wish I could make use of it :-)

Thanks ID!

Speaking purely about his brain, and nothing else, I'd wager money on him producing something useful over many other brains.

To chat things through, in the United Kingdom, call 08457 90 90 90.

This is the www.samaritans.org number, a trusted and respected resource.

Re: (hence why iPhone apps are .99)

Note also that Apple batch up purchases to squeeze every last cent out of the charging process.

Have you looked at Dwolla's under $10 is free offer? As a UK guy, I haven't looked into it much yet so it may not be appropriate.

Best of luck with your endeavour.

May I ask for your opinion on the $500 bounty issue that was mentioned?

I saw a very similar idea a while back here, and bookmarked it.

http://playground.mobily.pl/jquery/mobily-blocks/demo.html

It's a short breath away from what Path have done.

I love the aesthetics of both, I have to say. Great work.

<PickyMode> Head link looks slightly bolder, and a couple of pixels to the left of where it should be.

Stars are 1/4th-1/5th of a star to the left.

Text seems slightly lighter.

Have to admire the concept!

It would be great to be able to define paths and then drag along them to create this effect, with ease-in/immediate/ramp options.

Also, it's entirely possible I'm supposed to act more like a brush artist. My art teacher always said my art looked like I used a ruler.

Nice to have the choice though, in a greedy world ;)