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Very, very few people anywhere got a NeXT system. ...and therefore has little relevance to something dispersed World Wide. Thanks for your kind advice: I did my fair amount of "research"[1] and therefore had my fair share of TBL-s western
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I am being downvoted, because my assertions (admittedly in unpolished form) aren't backed by popular views (some of which are polished products, Manufacturing Consent ) and because I stick to my guns and do my best to warn others about som
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Do not think, that value as in monetary value just stays in a spreadsheet cell at HR. The evaluation has consequences in all other evaluations, peer evaluations etc. It does contribute to the evaluation of contributions (ie. CHEP). Myself s
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Mr Bean made an appearance as a keyboard player at the London 2012 opening ceremony.
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Having single-handedly invented WWW is a nonsense, put a failed physicist aside reinventing himself. Not to mention [S]GML, the stuff wired though using RPC. Claiming credit for other's hard work and even visions without attribution is even
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fitting the scence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19021660 Long PR story short: RPC was prevalent, that is how you control(led) your stuff remotely. Like Tim. Today, if you'd ask for a NeXT-like toy, you'd be denied were you an average Eas
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https://identi.ca/doc/source
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https://www.libreoffice.org/ is what it became, aside the ORA-IBM Apache project. LO is actively developed and supported by both local and really Small ME-s, and the https://www.documentfoundation.org/
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Although rxon are from the emacs side, Armstrong has a pet-project for an IDE, that keeps a kind of browsing history related to the code. He noticed, that many lookups happen before a few lines are written. And after they are written, the "
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demo: http://youtu.be/K5OKaK3Ay8U 13th Lab raises $700,000 to build its ‘UI for reality’ http://gigaom.com/europe/13th-lab-raises-700000-to-build-its...
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they had to demonstrate, that they "gave up" in-house dev http://accumulo.apache.org/
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We were talking about kites (if you know what I mean), and off-the book killings. There isn't really anything that is called "international law", as such. There are agreements between nations, and those agreements are what they are.
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Come on. Pseudonaïvité. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Controversy (To your first question: ask Robert Metcalfe (3com), Charles H. Ferguson etc. To your second question: drones. -- Welcome to the real world) But true, this has littl
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just for the record and to please the prospective downvoting mob, here are my experimental observations consistent with the cern experimental domain in order to warn any non-westerners: "The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into accoun
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All it seems to be saying is that labour costs are different between countries. Would you think, that this evaluation scheme has any consequences to peer evaluation within the same group? [aside from the inherent bias, not even mentioning
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Please take time to read it. But here is a summary: "1the western equivalent value is 1'390 kCHF. 2the western equivalent value is 5'450 kCHF" http://lhcb.ecm.ub.es/spd/spd/General%20information/spd_cost... It is not from the ATLAS experi
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to quote somebody who claimed to have invented the Internet: ...inconvenient truth? What makes it even worse , is that the worse comment is actually factual.
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I am under the impression, that what you think is not entirely true: "How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other p
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If you have difficulties in accepting criticism based on a factual quote from a (peer!) reviewed document, then you might consider changing your behaviour. The moment one experiences the consequences of such discrimination, things get far m
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No attempts, just plain facts: a reminder of those, who took their fair share in contributing to such a scientific achievement but were discriminated negatively compared to their "western equivalents" only for being born in a non-western co
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The work at CERN is differentiated when it is performed by westerners or by people from the East: "The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equ
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...OLPC, Android "activation" etc.: very few wonder besides you. Most people aren't concerned, and that is the norm.
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A single lecture of the most simple and most significant equation everybody should know: youtu.be/umFnrvcS6AQ The rest is distraction in the current "economy".
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Those were not predictions. Those things were already happening -- to paraphrase, the rest of the world got caught up in the future of 30 years ago. The "F* u nvidia" seems also to catch on slowly in Finland -> "there was a disturbance
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by trusting MS, surely RH can spare an HPC to sign the kernel every time... http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2012/06/03/microsoft... Not even to remember, that Mr. Sh. was in the random number selling and certification business in
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You being are mislead. It is pseudoscience. http://www.georgesoros.com/interviews-speeches/entry/remarks... http://www.youtu.be/HtMX_0jDsrw
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"On May 10, the Summer Olympics were inaugurated at the Greek birthplace of the ancient games. A few days before, virtually unnoticed, the government of Vietnam addressed a letter to the International Olympic Committee expressing the "profo
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Sun did it back to improve StarOffice, though with only a few.
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Rendering pixels was never the problem. With gross oversimplification: office had binary formats (Spolsky has written about clever-clog date handling, now forced to collide with ISO). This binary is/was actually a memory dump of the MFC app
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The story to pay attention to here is the collusion between big media companies who try to control what we do on our computers and computer-security companies who are supposed to be protecting us. Initial estimates are that more than half a

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