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by aristidb 15y ago
You did read it, didn't you? That's why he got that job.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Use paragraphs.
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by aristidb 15y ago
For those things that aren't likely to be independently invented and can be kept secret, secrecy IS the norm. It also isn't like engineers or scientists would read patents to see which things have been invented. From knowledge implying high
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by aristidb 15y ago
Declaring opposing opinions to be knee-jerk must be the oldest trick in the world. Phrases like these infuriate me: "lazy conventional wisdom that the patent system is broken beyond repair". No, it's not lazy. Smart people have devoted a lo
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by aristidb 15y ago
Actually, no clicking required: The name is in the sidebar. I did need a while to find it there, though.
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by aristidb 15y ago
How? It is entirely possible to be technically easier to self-charge than change the fundamental efficiency of LCD.
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by aristidb 15y ago
It is totally non-obvious that somebody else than normally would send tracking information. Sorry for the snark.
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by aristidb 15y ago
"(now illegal) part of the 'Deutschlandlied' originally called 'Deutschland ueber alles'" Technically, it is not illegal. It's not part of the official anthem, however.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Wave was like that. :-)
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by aristidb 15y ago
"But what exactly does Google need to defend against, if not actual patents Android actually violates?" Of course Android violates patents. Just like any sufficiently non-trivial piece of software...
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by aristidb 15y ago
Can you actually read software patents? To me they're undecipherable. "Openness" isn't worth a lot if it's all written in a language that no actual software developer understands.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Most of the software developers I talk to don't like software patents. Certainly not all, and I don't have precise numbers, but it's almost certainly the majority.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Yes, it is immoral. It might make it much harder for the sender to send any mails at all, because he's marked in the systems as a spammer.
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by aristidb 15y ago
The price of a Lion upgrade is pretty much immaterial, as the relevant price of OS X is really bundled into the price of the hardware. You cannot buy a Lion DVD and install it on a non-Mac PC.
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by aristidb 15y ago
They may not be mastered equally. For example, I find myself using vim to edit files on servers, because setting up emacs to my taste is always a bit of a pain. (I do know about TRAMP.)
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by aristidb 15y ago
The learning curve of Vim and Emacs making it hard to swith TO another editor? Sorry, but that makes no sense. :-) Maybe Vim and Emacs do have qualities that other editors don't match?
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by aristidb 15y ago
They could charge for it separately.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Plus, the damage in loss of reputation is very real.
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by aristidb 15y ago
I use offlineimap to download my e-mails to my computer. I should do it more often, though.
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by aristidb 15y ago
I hope they will also add other languages.
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by aristidb 15y ago
I think there's a Google Voice app. Can't use it myself though, wrong country.
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by aristidb 15y ago
How is this relevant to the prediction API? I must be missing something.
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by aristidb 15y ago
I think a problem with this kind of question is that it requires thinking about counterfactuals. You can't say "this patent is good" without thinking about what would have happened if it had not been granted.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Whether that is good or bad is debatable, but at least it's no trivial patent.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Do you mean _delirium's response? That one seems to be solidly in the black by now.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Could you or somebody please provide clarification of Florian Müller's history of distorting issues, to those who don't know anything about that person?
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by aristidb 15y ago
Yes, "software patents ought not to apply to open-source products", because "software patents" ought not to exist.
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by aristidb 15y ago
This is the reason that I would not use Mint.com, yes. (Also it isn't available in my country.)
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by aristidb 15y ago
Yeah, no matter how useful, you just can't give third-party services your bank logins.
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by aristidb 15y ago
.tar.gz is not that uncommon, I would say. And once you have .tar.gz, support for .tar.bz2 is trivial to add.

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