FrojoS

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by FrojoS 15y ago
I really love Amazon and the Kindle but is THIS the future? I too had to type things from my kindle to send quotes to friends. Though, never that long. Thanks for the effort!
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by FrojoS 15y ago
The people at Willow Garage think there is a market for this [1]. http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2010/04/27/reinventing-whee...
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by FrojoS 15y ago
From my experience, even in a field so close to computer science as robotics your analyzes is correct. In my opinion, publishing all code that was used for the paper should be mandatory. Everything else is an obvious violation of the confir
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by FrojoS 15y ago
No, I didn't quite understand that model. So if there is any large-scale physical production, say printing books or burning CD's, that will be handled by third parties and the artist won't have anything to do with it? And people who want t
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Good observation. Ironically there is an xkcd comic about this, too. http://xkcd.com/903/ Frankly, I probably have to watch out myself to not fall into this trap. I'm not a CS major either and yes, its true I can probably bullshit for 5 m
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by FrojoS 15y ago
from the parent: My dilemma Now this can be most convenient in some circumstances because I can quickly find huge repositories of quality information. [...] But due to me not really committing information directly to my memory I have less
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Thanks. I think this is exactly the problem. We need the big, well respected names to use kickstater. The people, that we know can deliver quality. Say Linus Torvald would come up with another great idea like GIT. I would try hard to collec
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by FrojoS 15y ago
I do believe in IP rights for creations above a certain level of complexity. For example, no two people would come op with the same novel or symphony independently. Interesting thought. Though, where do you draw the line? I don't want to
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by FrojoS 15y ago
That does sound like an interesting model. Producers would, I suppose, initially have to establish their reputations by releasing things for free. Yes. One thing that would worry me: a lot of people would have to be involved in getting a
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you have created value without depriving others, so it is only fair to receive compensation. How is this fair to everyone else who had the same idea but wasn't as fast or greedy?
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by FrojoS 15y ago
In my mind kickstarter.com is the solution to the intelectual property problem. How can, knowledge workers, for instance musicians, earn money in the 21. century? Simple, charge upfront before publishing. Imagine a popular band like U2 woul
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Yes. In my mind kickstarter.com is also the solution to the intelectual property problem. How can, knowledge workers, for instance musicians, earn money in the 21. century? Simple, charge upfront before publishing. Imagine a popular band li
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by FrojoS 15y ago
I agree with your point, though I guess its probably more like 2x the cars. Also, in colder countries / states, the equation doesn't look as rosy. In winter, you use the heat generated by the combustion engine. Hence, efficiency goes way u
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Do you have a link to that Apple study? I find that very exciting and never heard about it before. Though it would mean, that me and many other geeks are plain wrong about their preferred input method. You might be interested in DiamondTou
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Exactly. Plus, we dont export as much agriculture products as the US does. I have no data on this, but Germany is probably a net importer of agriculture products, despite all those subsidies and cheap labor from east europe.
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by FrojoS 15y ago
And where is Canada in per-capita measures of wealth when compared to Luxemburg? In my opinion, the United States is the modern Rome, though , of course, way more powerful and advanced than Rome ever was, and will be so for the foreseeable
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Down votes? I know physicist, who tell me in private, that they are afraid about a point of no return. That we heat the climate up to a point where the system gets unstable. This is, as far as I know, what could have happend on planet Mars
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Exactly. The worst case, I'm afraid, would be another MARS in the solar system.
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Thanks for all the posts, that point out, that the technology is still unreliable. But com'on people, this is exciting! Who knows what great ideas might come out of this, now, that there is an affordable, commercial product. Ideas are made
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by FrojoS 15y ago
My opinion: In a democracy, ideally every one should have the same amount of voting power. Independent of social status, power and wealth. Secret of vote, is there to prevent bribery and blackmail. Hence, even a poor and powerless person c
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by FrojoS 15y ago
How do you define mastery of a craft? Jobs e.g. certainly had put in >10k in developing and selling electronic devices when he founded NeXT. But I'd argue it took him a couple more years to become as good and successful as he is now. An
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Can't edit anymore: http://www.sourcingmap.com/usb-antitheft-security-alarm-for-... Looks nice but clumsy. I was looking for something, the size of a USB thumb drive.
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Precisely! Why would I care about a browser only mode for every day use? I have not rebooted my Air in weeks. So there is two applications, right? 1) Surf station, if your borrow your Mac to a friend or stranger once in a while. 2) Anti the
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Exactly. But though you emphasize it with <sarcasm> it still might contain a lot of truth [1]. Its known as the "Mephisto Principle": Mephisto: "I am a part of that power, that constantly wants to do harm and constantly creates
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by FrojoS 15y ago
For people not used to the HN / Reddit point system this requires some learning. I had my fair share of "I second this" posts and took my down votes. As long as HN is growing and new people, who are used to pin boards and mailing lists with
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by FrojoS 15y ago
So what? Just because I it will most likely happen doesn't mean anyone knows, when it will happen.
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Thanks for your reply! This sounds like one of those perfect examples, why beeing your own boss can be several magnitudes more effective [1]. I totaly agree to 1) and 2) plus I do agree, that it would be great if everyone who has a compute
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by FrojoS 15y ago
From the article: "* 1) I could email all the staff and ask them to email me the data every month and compile it manually. 2) Find some software that would allow me to do this relatively easily. 3)Program a solution myself that is perfectly
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by FrojoS 15y ago
And how likely is it, that this job will still exist in a few years? Granted, there will always be service jobs, where physical presence and a polite smile is all that is required. But I don't see that checkout counters belong to those.
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by FrojoS 15y ago
Precisely. I was raised on 'Kneipp Kur' showers and I still do it every day. The thing is, its a lot more effective, if you taking changing temperatures. Hence, I shower hot first to get clean and then cold at the end. Makes you feel awake

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