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by cube13 15y ago
Why? You can sell Free Software. The FSF states that in their FAQ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMone... ). There is absolutely nothing wrong with charging for Growl.
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by cube13 15y ago
I believe that Youtube has had all their content converted to the codec to the x264 codec for HTML5, so it should be a patchable fix for both.
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by cube13 15y ago
>The Flash ecosystem provides one of the few forms of DRM that the big movie studios have deemed acceptable. With Flash off of the iOS web platform it makes it just a little bit harder for users to buy content from someone other than Ap
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by cube13 15y ago
>In practice, no journals ever publish replications, so nobody wastes their time reproducing others' work when they could be working on something publishable or their next grant proposal. Uh, this is exactly how Science works. It's not
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by cube13 15y ago
>Speed is important for a number of factors, mistakes cost less if they can be quickly corrected. So being risky and publishing about your failures becomes useful (no one publishes failures...). Speed also reduces duplicate work. You're
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by cube13 15y ago
>"Bad" typography isn't a big deal IMO. Yes, it's slightly embarrassing and ugly, in this Unicode-enabled era, that we use <= for "less than or equal to" and != for "not equal to", when Unicode has given us better glyphs. But honest
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by cube13 15y ago
The suppliers don't need that much of a warehouse, either. Let's assume that Apple is forecasting that 100,000 iPods per week will meet demand. They go to the supplier, and tell them that they need the screens delivered at 100,100 per wee
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by cube13 15y ago
>I agree with your short list of goals for students new to programming. Language should not matter for learning the basics of programming and Computer Science concepts. That being said, certain languages do make exploratory programming
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by cube13 15y ago
For starting out programmers, I think it really doesn't matter which language that's used, as long as the language supports strong type safety, the ability to create data structures, and, ideally, also has garbage collection. Java, Python,
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by cube13 15y ago
Stop right there. There is no slavery here. Nobody is forcing anyone to use a proprietary service or software product over a free alternative. Users now have more of a choice with FOSS alternatives than ever before. This is a(and I reall
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by cube13 15y ago
BSD as it currently is(the "new" BSD licenses from 1999 on), because that's GPL compatible. The original BSD license does not count as FOSS as far as the FSF is concerned.
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by cube13 15y ago
>They only removed parts of it, specifically the parts allowing them to use the information for marketing. They removed it from the Origin Terms of Service, which is nice, but left it in the privacy policy, so the overall change is... n
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by cube13 15y ago
Read the other posts in the thread. artmageddon's in particular. For an aircraft on landing approach, it's low enough that even a small fraction of a second's exposure can cause flash blindness.
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by cube13 15y ago
This is also after a 4 year study, which is on the FAA page( http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/safety/report/laserinfo/ ).
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by cube13 15y ago
If it's at that point, wouldn't it be more prudent to get the police involved? Restraining orders exist for this exact reason. The article(and blog post) imply that this has been a long-term issue, and the level of threats are pretty terri
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by cube13 15y ago
Google was demoing the Blackberry-style configuration as late as February 2008, too. For a second, I thought I was going crazy, then I found this picture: http://news.cnet.com/2300-1037_3-6230132.html
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by cube13 15y ago
>Are all riders this god damn picky? It wouldn't surprise me. I imagine there is a great amount of antagonism between performers/speakers/etc and the venues. For certain performers, it's pretty much necessary. Someone else has mentione
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by cube13 15y ago
>I agree with everything you said and would like to make it more succinctly: We need to figure out a way to make what CPAN authors write relevant for newbies. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if this is going to help all that much at this po
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by cube13 15y ago
It's more to keep the cables from everyone else. They were intended as context-sensitive commentary from diplomats to the US. They were not intended for general release, and as such, contain information and observations that were intended
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by cube13 15y ago
>And you suggest he should be transparent with his sources. If you seriously believe that, you're clearly not in favour of this movement. No, I don't believe that Wikileaks should be transparent with the whilstlebowers who give them inf
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by cube13 15y ago
The problem that I have with Assange is that he doesn't practice what he preaches. Wikileaks is an organization that promotes government transparency. Assange, on the other hand, does not seem interested in just providing sources. Wikile
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by cube13 15y ago
I would love to see that as well, and it would make me much more comfortable with donating to them if I knew that my money was going directly towards supporting their operations(which I support), instead of Assange(whom I do not).
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by cube13 15y ago
Very little of which is actually taught well by a games curriculum. Most of them are following the "flavor of the month" build environment and platforms, which may be of little use when the student graduates, especially if they try to get
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by cube13 15y ago
You're right. State and city-level governments do bond sales for this exact reason. However, I was assuming that the size(and budget) of the federal government is large enough that if it were completely balanced, and all debt was paid off,
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by cube13 15y ago
>The basic premise of this article is suspect. The US would still issue enough T-Bills to provide stability even in a zero-debt scenario... it would simply buy other safe, long-term assets to hold. The US has no reason to issue T-Bills
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by cube13 15y ago
Google defines "with Google" as(from http://www.google.com/phone/ ): >'with Google' phones have been optimised for use of Google Mobile Services, providing easy access to Search, Voice Search, Google Talk, Google Maps, Gmail, Sync, You
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by cube13 15y ago
>They could have done that but chances are a few of the less reputable OEMs would have ported code from Froyo or GB to get the dialer working again. The open nature of it means there is no restriction that could not be unrestricted. Unf
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by cube13 15y ago
>As for not releasing honeycomb, look at releasing the kludged code from their perspective. They probably didn't want phones released from HC that wasn't ready for phone use, thus giving them a bad name when awful "Android Honeycomb Pho
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by cube13 15y ago
>They will be relevant up to the point where operating systems simply makes their functionality a native element of their file system. At which point, they become a service. This is admittedly a wide-eyed optimist ideal, but I would pi
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by cube13 15y ago
Trademarks aren't anything a holder would want to license out, though. First off, they're basically a brand's identity, and give the holders the legal defense to keep that brand name as protected. Secondly, they're very specific. Multipl

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