cturner

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by cturner 15y ago
Did you find a way to get a second mouse button? I saw several howtos that said that a keyboard key could be mapped to it but none worked for me last time I tried (four years ago?)
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by cturner 15y ago
Those crazy Australians.
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by cturner 15y ago
In the past I've wanted to mass-block third world countries from my email server to reduce spam. After seeing the way libertarians in the third world cling to internet access, I'm more reluctant to create barriers.
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by cturner 15y ago
Would be neat to see braile, voice-menu outputs.
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by cturner 15y ago
A similar topic - where there's a feature you don't even realise you could take huge benefit from. The first time I was shown '.' for redo I thought "why would I want to use that?"
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by cturner 15y ago
When I read this, the things that came to mind were elinks, lynx, w3m and the browser that lives in emacs. But maybe that's not what you mean - could you distinguish what you're describing from these?
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by cturner 15y ago
This blog looks amazing. I haven't seen it before and am going through the same "inhalation" experience I got the first time I got exposed to spoksly or pg essays. Here's a great one to look at: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/03/02/fools-a
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by cturner 15y ago
> And I've come to terms with the fact that Plan 9 will > never, ever become the standard OS --- it is simply > not designed for any battlegrounds except those it > has already lost in Why is 9p cool? A
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by cturner 15y ago
I think that the motivations for shared libraries was once valid but these motivations are obsolete, and they're destructive. I think there's a lot to be said for the simplicity and reliability of static linking. There is an argument that i
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by cturner 15y ago
> Making quality products for consumers [..] is dying. This is a tired old line. The art and craft movement rose a century ago on the same ideas. But the examples he gives are bizarre - Fender?? Fender is a text-book example of
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by cturner 15y ago
> Rejecting foundationalism means accepting that we > have every right to hold basic beliefs that are not > legitimated by philosophical reflection. No, that's an utter non-sequiter. It certainly does not fol
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by cturner 15y ago
> The problem with that situation is that the > motivation never goes away, but the effort > to resist it can fade. But what they're doing isn't evil. Some people don't like the change of aesthetic, but that's
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by cturner 15y ago
To challenge the model, you need to find a way to reduce distance between story-telling and the audience. In the late 90s, television became a good place for creative people to work, because the industry gave writers freedom to break moulds
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by cturner 15y ago
There's a branch in the tree of replies here that I open "I recommend you think about this: where does property come from?" I recommend reading this.
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by cturner 15y ago
OK, well if you want to crush the existing guys, I think you'd need to compete in their space, and that means vying for control of channels (while they're still relevant). If you want to create and sell CDs then you can do this now. I've go
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by cturner 15y ago
> Which you haven't cited, I notice. OK. I claimed something and didn't cite. I'll take another angle. Live-and-let live should be the default case. Copyright is an intrusion on this. If someone wants to drive a tank through f
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by cturner 15y ago
You wrote: "Unfortunately, if we take your idea to its natural conclusion, a lot of industries that create and distribute valuable works are going to change direction or possibly split several ways." This is not a strong argument. I could e
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by cturner 15y ago
Your point about value lying in the consumer is a good response to the parent. The parent implies that society should invent business models to protect people who do things (but then even fails to make the point through use of word "general
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by cturner 15y ago
> What are these "distribution and promotion channels" limited by? Limited radio spectrum, limited television stations, somewhat limited music distribution chains/relationships, somewhat limited magazine readership.
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by cturner 15y ago
Is it correct that your premise is that if you don't pay for something then you don't have the right to enjoy it? Do you also apply this principle to sex? What about borrowed books, good views, jokes, ideas, intelligent conversation, exerci
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by cturner 15y ago
That's primarily a contract law issue rather than copyright.
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by cturner 15y ago
Yes. I think the key point here is that property is treated in law as a right, but copyright functions as an anti-right. I'll try to explain what I mean by anti-right though I'm unpracticed here. (1) Society is oriented around a presumption
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by cturner 15y ago
I recommend you think about this: where does property come from? Is something ours because the government says it's ours or does it have a deeper meaning that transcends government? I'd argue that property exists because things (apples, car
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by cturner 15y ago
No. Club goods are different. With a club good there is a tangible thing such as a running machine. By my use of it, you are unable to use it. But we judge the tradeoff to be worth it because we don't each want to go out and buy a gym. That
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by cturner 15y ago
Getting access to good content producers is the easy part of running a traditional media company. The challenges are about control of limited distribution and promotion channels. This is a vicious territory and a zero-sum game. This helps t
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by cturner 15y ago
> It might make you feel better about it, but it really > doesn't change the fact that you're stealing something > of value Copyright infringement is not stealing. Separately, the person who worked hard to pro
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by cturner 15y ago
Thanks for all feedback. Fixing link now.
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by cturner 15y ago
I do this as well. But I've stopped thinking of things I play with as projects, but rather patterns. > I think I need to work on actually finishing my projects I've wondered before - why do I get ashamed of sandboxing? I decid
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by cturner 15y ago
If you're having trouble of the sort of ratios you're talking about, you're doing something that alienates people. That doesn't have to be the end of things, because if you work at it eventually it'll change. You can't change other people.
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by cturner 15y ago
> I get so many downvotes when I discuss this topic with data It's a bit like the flying spaghetti monster book where they correlate the decline of piracy with global warming. You need to present data, and then also provide a

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