Becuase revenue and profits should somehow matter on Slashdot. We're mostly techies here, not investors. Market share is a much better metric for things we're interested in.

When I see a company charging significantly more for a marginally better product, I think "price gouging" and "profiteering" not "exceptional company." but maybe that's just me.

Besides, even investors are worried that the ever-decreasing market share is eventually going to catch up to the high-margin pricing model eventually. Maybe that's in the next couple years (a common view, it seems), but I think it'll be a while yet.

Sweat isn't smelly. It sounds a little odd, but an alternative is to take a shower before cycling. That gets you nice and clean so the bacteria don't get you smelly. Then, at your destination, just freshen up (towel down, deodorant, change clothes, and fix your helmet hair).

That said ... being sweaty isn't exactly pleasurable, so your overall point still applies.

Yeah, someone needs to verify that information. The HealthSherpa passes that responsibility on to the insurance company, which isn't a terrible way to do it anyway.

Playing around with the HealthSherpa, it provides a quick and easy way to specify household size and income, and then updates the prices with the subsidy. Very, very easy. It's also very easy to list the ages and smoking status of people covered by the insurance, and again updates prices accordingly.

The biggest feature it's missing is a plan comparison. All it shows is the premium and coinsurance (in the form of plan type). Sometimes you can guess the copay or deductible from the plan name. Is that information public?

We CAN'T be watching the same C-SPAN channel. Just how dull are your politicians?

Yes, some people actually exercise outside. Cycling is a great form of exercise, and is much better when done during daylight hours.

Keeping DST, for me at least, means I can commute by bike more without messing with headlights, etc.

You're thinking of the Homecoming Saga, which is basically a reworking of the plot and stories in The Book of Mormon in science fiction format.

Ender's Game only has a few oblique references to anything Mormon (Ender's mother was raised Mormon, for example).

Chromecast. If memory serves me right, a decent VCR cost twice that much back in the day, note even counting for inflation.

Caveat: still need a TV with HDMI ... but even those can be had for cheap anymore.

Hello, Streisand Effect! The only way to not give publicity to someone is to ignore him. Not seeing a movie is one thing... but the vitriol against Card from "homophobephobes" is quite another.

Ender's Game was originally a short story. Maybe they should have based the movie on that instead of the book?

That's not how patents work.

The only thing that matters with patents, in the end, are the claims. That's it, end of story. So, let's look at the claims. Actually, there's only one claim, which makes this easy.

Simplifying a bit...

Notice there's not a word about advertisements anywhere in that. The patent talks about ads in the various descriptions, but there's not even a dependent claim relating to ads. Displaying ads is just a use case, not the invention itself.

Step 1 and 3 are quite obvious. So the real "invention" here is applying fuzzy algorithms to search.

For prior art, I hereby present the BackRub search engine, March 1996 (about a year before the patent filing date). That's right ... Google is the prior art for this patent. And I'm sure there's others.

Plausible. But before we go down that path, I say we try the more conventional means of explaining dark matter ... Occam's Razor, and all that.

Let me translate. "Great" in this case means "non-GPL" (YMMV, of course). If you want to link into the compiler code itself (rather than just calling the compiler binaries), you've just forced your IDE to use the GPL.

LLVM, on the other hand, has a more permissive license, so it's a non-issue. And it was built with this sort of IDE-compiler interaction in mind, so there's that, too.

For high-power LEDs, the failure mode is generally a reduction in light output, not a complete failure of the LED itself. If there is a complete failure, the power supply is most likely at fault. Again, the switching isn't the problem, but more likely exposure to the elements affecting the circuitry.

If I were to guess, New Orleans found itself with a bad batch of electronics or housings, and budget constraints forced the installation of cheaper-in-the-short-term traditional bulbs.

LEDs are more directional, meaning that more light goes down, instead of up. Do you think that would help any?