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by bediger 15y ago
This sounds a lot like the "discipline and method" approach taken by David Korn, Kiem-Phong Vo and Glenn Fowler in SFIO ( http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/download/ref/sfio/sfio.htm... ), vmalloc ( http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/downloa
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by bediger 15y ago
Ah. Pardon the half-thought. Hard not to be cynical given that a French secret service scuttled the Rainbow Warrior at the French government's behest. And yes, I think we should be cynical about the French court. After "People United", w
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by bediger 15y ago
1. Ha ha! 2. The Kid from Kent State's father refers to an "IP" lawyer as a "cockroach". 3. "Zamos says he'll still use the company's software. He has no choice. "I have to, since they practically own the universe."" Number 3 s
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by bediger 15y ago
Three out of three patent attorneys consulted for this article Like the New Patent Laws! Wow, they must be Grrrr-eat! Ask an IP lawyer, ask early, ask often. This new law is good for lawyers, I see.
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by bediger 15y ago
I'm all for it, but IT operations makes a great place for control freaks to "standardize" on some thing or another. IT provides a great rationale to, say, enforce a "standard browser" (strangely, always Internet Explorer) because the "inte
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by bediger 15y ago
I've seen this happen at aerospace/defence companies, and at (incumbent) telephone companies. From the worker-bee standpoint, it's rubbish. Never changes a thing. At an aerospace company in the late 80s, the "new company culture" was for "
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by bediger 15y ago
It's really, really hard not to be cynical about this, given that Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior ). Given the tiny size of the fine relative to EDF's cash flow, one could cyni
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by bediger 15y ago
Why the upvotes with no corresponding complimentary comments? My problem with this article is that the author defines his problem away. "Sovereign app", "user paid to use the app", he gets to the point where just about the only thing to do
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by bediger 15y ago
This disruption will have to happen fast, or it won't happen at all. The US Copyright Office is plumping for "fashion copyright": http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat072706.html That'll put an end to those uppity disruptors.
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by bediger 15y ago
Looks like people have known about many phases of water for ages: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html Oddly, it appears that Ice XIII and Ice X exist, but not Ice IX.
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by bediger 15y ago
You beat me to it. I was going to note that in my experience, a lot of folks that fit the "senior discount" age bracket make a hobby, or even a lifestyle, out of cheapness. My parents and my in-laws certainly do.
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by bediger 15y ago
Thank you, yes, that's what I meant. Good mind reading.
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by bediger 15y ago
You're not the only one. Every person who spends more than af ew minutes thinking about the issue finds it disturbing. Warrants and oversight will get in place eventually, or this sort of thing will warp society in a bad way.
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by bediger 15y ago
I've put versions of Slackware on old laptops 3 times. Pick a version of Slackware a year or two older than the laptop, so that all the devices are well supported, and the software hasn't bloated beyond what the older hardware can support.
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by bediger 15y ago
Bah, humbug! It doesn't include BlockUp ( http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/BlockUp.htm ), Emigre's Remedy, perhaps the most over-used font in modern advertising ( http://www.emigre.com/EF.php?fid=117 ), nor does it include "Plumpy", an old
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by bediger 15y ago
Two famous saying come to mind: "Trust, but verify." and as Ben Franklin once said, "Keep your eyes on it, and feel for your hatchet." I'd add to keep the other hand on your wallet.
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by bediger 15y ago
Someday, probably soon, this will come back to haunt the people of the countries where this "spy gear" originates. Hopefully, it will come back to haunt the makers of the "spy gear" as well.
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by bediger 15y ago
Why stop at IE? How about the Win16 -> Win32S -> Win32 thing? Holy God, that was a waste of time and effort. Although the 8086 was Intel's idea, how about suing MSFT for using whatever dopy CPU mode that used 20-bit "segment" regi
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by bediger 15y ago
Note that Paul Rand's "intuition" has absolutely nothing to do with the "intuition" of "intuitive user interfaces". Most explicitly, he writes: It has nothing to do with intentions, with pressing buttons, or with programming. It is someth
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by bediger 15y ago
Absolute rubbish. "Momentum" is just cargo cult talk, meaning "statistics went their way". This article is just car sales pep talk. ABC - Always Be Closing. Yadda yadda yadda.
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by bediger 15y ago
I'm fairly certain I've dealt with Problem Children before that this approach would not work with. "Dr" John Grubor comes to mind, but that was ages ago.
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by bediger 15y ago
This has more clout than you notice at first. For starters, it illustrates that satellites are really up there. I know, only the insane are Flat Earthers any more, but still, it's hard to imagine "from orbit". This kind of thing puts "i
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by bediger 15y ago
This article feels like someone with a vested interest in the status quo trying very hard to ignore something that makes economic sense.
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by bediger 15y ago
open source is a direct threat to market research - the kind of "market research" that lets you play a few rounds of Bikini Golf with 20-something sales staff in the Bahamas, you mean.
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by bediger 15y ago
This is an editorial by Ed Quillen, a Colorado resident, and Denver Post editorial page regular. He usually writes little home-spun wisdom editorials about Colorado issues. Odd to read him doing homage to Dennis Ritchie, particularly becaus
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by bediger 15y ago
Here's a paper that seems to say that by making some reasonable assumptions about early-universe hydrodynamics, you can almost assume that life originated very early on. sdcc3.ucsd.edu/~ir118/STPA35F10/FirstLife_Sept19_JofC_arXiv.pdf That's
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by bediger 15y ago
Why are they bothering to do this? They're not getting to grope beautiful women - truckers are notoriously male, and they're not getting to see shiny, blue nudes. Isn't this sort of work highly demoralizing to the average TSA "officer"?
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by bediger 15y ago
Following in von Braun's footsteps again. In his book "The Conquest of the Moon" ( http://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Moon-Wernher-Von-Braun/dp/B00... ), von Braun wanted to send his ships ( http://www.astronautix.com/craft/vonander.htm ) to S
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by bediger 15y ago
I have not read the paper linked by this article, but I plan to. But what google searches bring up whatever simulations and/or mathematical models used to decide how many elevators and how to schedule them? "Elevator simulations" googles
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by bediger 15y ago
I'm surprised that the "progressiveness" is so slight. Not much knee to the curve for low-income folks.

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