dedward

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by dedward 15y ago
Even still there would be no cause for legal action... what would the damages be? They could simply shut off the service for the customer like every other service provider in the world would do...
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by dedward 15y ago
It would seem to me that if the service was free, no money exchanged hands, therefore no contract exists that would make any sense in court. The only recourse they would have is to shut off access..... they'd have nothing to sue over.
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by dedward 15y ago
THe thing we're shocked about is that apps could access our address book and upload them wholesale to their servers without our knowledge or permission. That's a huge privacy violation. Facebook knows about the connections I've told it a
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by dedward 15y ago
Interesting - I do about the same thing (Minus the Antivirus.... that could be your big pig there), with 8 gigs of physical ram, and I have paging (swapping?) disabled.... and I've never had a "not enough memory" crash or whatever. With vm
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by dedward 15y ago
yup. this works because it keeps the sales guys free to do their thing and the company would be stupid to turn down an already done sale.
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by dedward 15y ago
payment, not price? so were not talking about people buying cars, were talking about banks jbuying cars for people and expecting interest on top. now i see why this is. onfusing. why would you ever buy a car on anything but price? if you
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by dedward 15y ago
in your view theygot ripped off. in eir view, they were happy with what they got forthwir money, hence not ripped off. a rich man can buy a persian rug for thousands of dollars and behappy he did. a poor student cabuy samerug for 50 bucks a
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by dedward 15y ago
blocking it? They just submitted their standards by the deadline, right? That's why you propose deadlines.... if planning was made assuming everyone would submit their stuff before said deadlines, well, maybe they need a refresher on proje
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by dedward 15y ago
If you don't mind - I'm missing something here I think - does the W3C have any legal power whatsoever to force vendors who want to ignore them and develop proprietary closed features to fall into line? I don't believe they do, other than j
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by dedward 15y ago
Let's broaden the picture a bit here and look at the internet as a whole. There are no standards - there are suggestions (RFCs), lots of open stuff (open source, free, whatever), and some closed stuff, and then there's what really happens
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by dedward 15y ago
I wouldn't call it dirty - that's elegant. I'd call it a clean, fast way to ship a product because of someone else's un-fixable screwup. The dirty code is the stuff that was stomping yours in the first place.
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by dedward 15y ago
Perhaps tricks is not the right word - let's call it "things people do during game development". The only real problem you have is shipping working product on time. Anything that allows that to happen is a fix.
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by dedward 15y ago
perhaps nothing? perhaps the artists wont sign such acontract? if it were anentire industry doing it it would be anantitrust issue......
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by dedward 15y ago
pointing out that the people lobbying the hardest and spendingthe most resources against joe average, throwing grandma in jail for using a torrent can just as easily break the same laws and be obviously guilty of the same crimes is great. i
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by dedward 15y ago
aiscott: terminal.app got a decent boost in Lion.. prior to that it was pretty lacking for people used to your basic linux terminal even. iterm2 fixed that up around the sametime andgot traction, thats all. you are nt missing anything, go
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by dedward 15y ago
we cant even convince otherwise informed, intelligent people to keep adequate backups, by-and-large. the list goes on forever. gun control laws? abortion? in-vitro fertilization? Women with equal voting rights? so you hit nail on the head.
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by dedward 15y ago
But was it set up so that the person could participate in the dropbox affiliate program according to dropbox's affiliate ToS? I'm not saying right or wrong here, but I don't see the evil part yet on the part of the poster. You run a site, y
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by dedward 15y ago
They're regulated by your elected officials then right? call up your local representatives and discuss your concerns. Seriously. I mean it's not likely to get you any immediate results - but if nobody complains, why would any elected offi
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by dedward 15y ago
If the laws of physics as we understand them hold true, then by definition we (or any other observer anywhere) are at the centre of the universe they see, insomuch as the further away we look, the further back in time we look, in all direc
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by dedward 15y ago
And might get banned for it... thats blatant referral program abuse..... it isnt "free if you are clever" its "free if you bring us new people in the door"
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by dedward 15y ago
honesty has nothing to do with it..... referral programs are a way of marketing your product..... getting others to do yourmarketingfor you in exchange for something. sometimes cash, in this case axtra services. bringing in new customers
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by dedward 15y ago
taking advantageof referral programsis not dishonest unless youaretrying to scam fake referrals or something. referral programs are marketing activities with a calculated cost per acquisition... as long as the referrals met the terms of th
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by dedward 15y ago
Its not really relevant to the topic, other than to say you should not be afraid to maintain your personal ethics, whatever they are... if you dont, you will be less happyfor it. There are lots of things we could all disagree about while we
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by dedward 15y ago
i found it a really sound book. I took away several points, it should change peoples perspective about what money is, or can be. I good credit rating should be a side effect of good financial practices. The modern day idea seems to be tha
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by dedward 15y ago
zfs will do all that for you, but do keep in mind, especially for dedup you need a good chunk of ram for the checksum cache and cpu power is a must or it will suck..... zfs is optimzed for big systems, and does not perform well without appr
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by dedward 15y ago
guessing, but could you be invoking zsh in such a way occasionally that it is not reading your .zshrc? sudo or su come to mind..... this is what got me in bash a few times - exiting a shell that had just the wrong ssettings so it ioverwrote
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by dedward 15y ago
im pretty sure bash does shared history if you desire it, the configuration is just not as directly obvious. I prefer a long histfile (unlimited really, i. think i have it set to a million lines, but im at about 70 000. i even keep it backe
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by dedward 15y ago
some people dont have space for wisdom teeth, and in such cases they need to be removed - whether it can bedone simply with some freezing or some more complex surgery depends..... but uf you dont haveenoughspace, as many dont, they gotta co
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by dedward 15y ago
most people with impacted, rotting, painful wisdom teeth know damn well they need to have it taken out. some just decide not to because nobody likes the dentist and they think it will just go away.
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by dedward 15y ago
yeH, better to let peopledoing missionary work, far from any reasonable healthcare just die, is that it? Overuse of antibiotics is a global problem, for sure, but once you get into thelower latitudes of the planet, infections get a hell of

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