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Brain cells should be used to remember important things. Most important things are conveyed by i.e. poems. Although nobody learns literature citings by heart in the era of wikipedia, a straightforward way to have a strong password is to pic
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it is called social engineering. "Business" types enforce the split, because "managing" engineers gives social power far easier than sweating yourself through the actual process of creating something for real. The only catch is, you nee
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you might be interested in this talk about shared editing in Eclipse (using the Eclipse Communication Framework). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfeUCT-tRJQ
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It doesn't work because of the portfolio effect . "Reback often tells the story of how a team of IBM patent lawyers went to Sun Microsystems Inc. in the 1980s and claimed that the then start-up was infringing on seven of its patents. After
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I think you('ll) enjoy the play: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_&_Guildenstern_...
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The problem is, that he lowers the bar, strongly encouraging the "management™"[1] to AAPLy the mushrooming[2] technique, which I believe they [did] do. [1] imho the whole story is BS (because he was bound to bump into someone, if not when g
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The Graphing Calculator Story.mp4 54:26 - 3 years ago goog:// I find the story to be just the opposite: such behaviour of The Corporation is not motivating at all, in the productive sense. It is rather motivating to do something completely
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Quite to the contrary, life/living is about fighting entropy (or second law of thermodynamics ), "randomness". This leads to the most famous and one of the most controversial elements of the [a] play. Adam cannot understand what the purpose
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All data and parameters associated with any open publication should be available to anyone interested in it. This will be fun for all LHC results; nobody can [or is willing for that matter] read, let alone truly(!) interpret LEP data any
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Actually, initial CUDA trials can be quite disappointing, unless heavy effort is spent in understanding the architecture, so to be able to exploit it. Then you are back at square one: (almost?) a rewrite. GSI has nice examples about their s
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I don't know if the joke from my native language gets through, but it is not unlike the French Jean archetype-series: "This guy came to me and asked me to explain it. I explained him once, and he didn't understand. Then I explained him agai
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...an avid TiVo user, or rather Linux that is ;)
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The way I know the context: after WWII, it was clear for policy makers in the USA, that internationalization and (seeing the success of) science (as mentioned above) were key to global dominance relying on technology. There was a slight hop
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a) Chomsky, N.: Three models for the description of language, IRE Transactions on Information Theory (2): 113–124. 1956. I would like to bet, that you are using formal languages. In case you don't, consider the following: http://www.jstor.
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Except that's not what happened. MS didn't "get caught" for a GPL violation Just as a record in the Memory Hole, a paste from a separate thread, now buried: -8<--------------------- MJF: Hemminger is claiming Microsoft put the LIC cod
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Programmers owe far more to the works of Chomsky -- more than most are aware of, or care to admit. Without his rigorous stance, I am not sure if compilers(!) and programming languages would exist, the way they do now. Research has been mor
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ask W.H.G. ...if I were to guess, the real answer might have to do something with control for power . Speaking of integrity, power and Gutenberg: "Understanding Power" is quite a book.
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I could just hope, that William H. Gates will still have enough income to buy the right to copy this book, and put it out on Silverlight, out of pure fascination for science and integrity; so that Amazon will need not meddle with the freedo
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I feel it as a pun on a well-known idiom in other languages, that would translate verbatim to more about smoke than fire i.e. something of no substance or use, most often discussion. It is a certainly saying in my native language.
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they don't have a "heart" b/c they are persons only by law. This is a well-known phenomenon [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation ]. Organizations acting without moral, conscience, responsibility and ethically towards real huma
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MJF: Hemminger is claiming Microsoft put the LIC code under the GPL because it was in violation of the GPL. Is this true? Did you have to suggest to (Microsoft Platform Strategy Chief Sam) Ramji & Co. that they were in violation in orde
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/23/microsoft_open_sourc... Despite not being natural persons, corporations are recognized by the law to have rights and responsibilities like actual people. Corporations can exercise human rights agai
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The issue was not exclusion, nor bashing. The code has been accepted by a driver maintainer, and there were surprisingly few critical undertone mails on lkml, however legitimate (namely, adherence to the Linux coding conventions). What is
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The Apollo code reminds me of the Feynman inquiry: by then he had not much to loose by saying the truth. The funny thing is, that his remarks are still valid and apply to current "big science" projects and we still didn't quite manage to br
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No. You are missing the point: this incident was not an accident, a bug or a mishap. The featureset of the Kindle was deliberately premeditated to ensure the fulfilment of the requirement that allows for the revocation of the Right to Read.
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...like guarding an Ural2 during the night, which could not be turned off anyway, due to the tubes. Though you have to have connections to get the guard job though...
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Just to retrieve stuff from the Memory Hole: Amazon's behaviour is not new, neither borderline braindead by any standards widely accepted by society. Life always worked like this. Digital Restrictions Management stakeholders, like SONY root
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It is broken since a long tome http://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2009/07/pilger-oba... and I disagree with de above: OZ rocks , not just as friends!
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He can also open a UBS account by himself, as anybody fortunate enough to live the American Dream. Experimentally proven. Le Liechtenstein Paradis Fiscal DOC FRENCH PDTV XViD (Allemagne, 2008, 52mn) ZDF Réalisateur: Ulrich Stoll, Herbert
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Why is Apple's opinion even relevant? Eric E. Schmidt. Going MPEG LA, doing evil?

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