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by bediger 16y ago
I'm torn. This article is either: A. An example of the Paradox of Choice ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More... ) or B. Contains the reason why Microsoft has chosen to air those inane commercials for Bing and Wind
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by bediger 16y ago
Well, maybe, but I was thinking more like rake offs by organized crime, or maybe industrial strength money-laundering.
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by bediger 16y ago
Very interesting, but these OSes are actually just 2 branches of the "unix" tree of OSes. Too bad he didn't include Windows, or OpenVMS, very different operating systems. The only experiment using Windows NT vs NetBSD that I'm aware of is
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by bediger 16y ago
1. "12% of the websites in the world contain adult content". 2. "The online adult industry pulls in nearly US$5 billion a year worldwide." 3. "Most of the world's adult entertainment sites, a.k.a. porn sites, operate on a relatively thin bu
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by bediger 16y ago
What's the backstory here? You usually only see this style of contrariness in old timers, and it's usually reserved for IBM. Did Ed Bott have some skin in IE6, and he's upset that Firefox blew a hole in the side of Microsoft's lack of maint
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by bediger 16y ago
The article describes the path in detail. It gives US government regulation as one of the reasons for "underexploring" the design space.
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by bediger 16y ago
Hey, path dependence in another market! "The market tends to choose a dominant design before it’s optimal, and it tends to under-explore." At least this article didn't cite the QWERTY keyboard, or "Windows" as an example. That would real
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by bediger 16y ago
I forgot all about this article: http://www.cio.com/article/32228/Project_Management_AT_T_Wir... The original AT&T, before SBC takeover, failed to implement number portability by the late 2004 deadline that all other wireless companie
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by bediger 16y ago
You've got to remember that "at&t" (the current one) is not AT&T, the remains of The Bell System resulting from the 1983 divestiture. SBC, which started out as a Regional Bell Operating Company named "Southwestern Bell", bought th
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by bediger 16y ago
Techdirt's Mike Masnick has been all over this issue for a while now. He's featured at least two legal analyses of the issue, both of them seem to show that ICE is way, way on the wrong side of the US constitution. Also note that Masnick ha
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by bediger 16y ago
This infographic seems to concentrate on viruses that made a big media splash, and not so much on historically important viruses. For example: where's the "first virus"? That could be the "Animal" program for Univac, the Elk Cloner virus, o
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by bediger 16y ago
I suppose that I'm assuming some kind of proprotionality in upvoting or downvoting, maybe even two varieties of proportionality. First, I'm assuming that Windows-users are represented proportionally with the general population in the Hacker
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by bediger 16y ago
Do you have a reason for that observation? I agree with it, but I don't have a good reason. People of pro-microsoft opinion often cite the relatively tiny numbers of Mac, Linux, etc users all the time, especially when giving rationale for
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by bediger 16y ago
If I might rephrase geophile, above: a command line (most of them, anyway) has a grammar, complete with flow-of-control constructs like if-then-else, while loops, for-loops. You can express more with a grammar than without one. For example,
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by bediger 16y ago
"Atlantis Found At Last!" is like urine-powered batteries ( http://www.google.com/search?q=urine+powered+batteries ) - it's a "science story" that big media editors feel that The Common Man would understand and enjoy.
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by bediger 16y ago
Apparently these are called "ouroboros programs". http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/09/22/uroboros-programming-with... (which serves an empty page to me right now) used to have a period-11 cycle of programs. I wrote a period-3 program ( http:
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by bediger 16y ago
Egregious typo alert: "telephone polls" in item #8, referring to the slender, vertical wooden members that keep electric, cable TV and telephone service wires aloft.
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by bediger 16y ago
I'm too lazy and too stupid to put in denyhosts or any of the other anti-guessing software, but I have put in a 7-second delay on password-authenticated SSH logins, as per http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/howtos/ssh-kiddies.html That mak
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by bediger 16y ago
At first, I thought you meant this a bit differently. In late 1995/early '96, I had some friends who were Windows 3.11 users, quite happy with it, had a huge collection of games and other software for it. No, I didn't understand this happi
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by bediger 16y ago
Perhaps 8th Grade art teachers could also use this algorithm to match "subject" to "portrait" as a method of grading. After all, "police sketches" most often resemble 8th Grade art projects.
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by bediger 16y ago
Yes. How can he possibly say that "exceptions are faster" without such timings? C++ style, unwind-the-stack-and-call-destructor exceptions must really have a high run-time cost when an exception occurs. Also, his instruction count misses
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by bediger 16y ago
Shouldn't that be "Great article covering the past 20 years of Windows malware", given that the article title is 20 years of innovative Windows malware ? All computers don't run Windows anymore. Beyond that, isn't the real question "What
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by bediger 16y ago
Independent invention is definitely not a defense in a patent infringement suit: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=903521 That's certainly consistent with the current, US Constitution basis for patents, to encourage gen
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by bediger 16y ago
How do you know that for sure? What about all the products that didn't make it to market because they couldn't negotiate a license that worked for both parties? How about all the products that didn't make it to market for fear of incurri
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by bediger 16y ago
First, it's not the patents that don't get practice, it's the entities doing the patenting. If you hld a patent, but don't actually use the technology yourself, you're an NPE, approximately. Second, patent law doesn't have an independent i
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by bediger 16y ago
To be fair, the revenue is all from licensing, right? That makes Intellectual Ventures a Non-Practicing Entity, right? I think we can rationally judge Myhrvold to be a troll at this point. We don't need emotional responses.
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by bediger 16y ago
Why do we bother using "assembly line" metaphors, or trying to make "knowledge work" into a trade, or even unskilled labor, when we have the warm reassurance of Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_
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by bediger 16y ago
Does this apply to whistleblowing? A whistleblower certainly strips others of some of their rights, eh?
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by bediger 16y ago
Wow! That's the most impressive point-missing I've seen in a long time! Way to go!
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by bediger 16y ago
Two words: Daniel Robbins ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Robbins#Microsoft )

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