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by dedward 16y ago
It's also about running the affiliate programs themselves.... Amazon isn't stupid - who knows what the specific strategy is here, politically or otherwise - they've capitulated in some states, turfed others - it all probably comes down to t
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by dedward 16y ago
Let's be honest - it feels like an insult. It's not an about face where they are charging something like $100 or more for their previously free development tools... which would anger people for different reasons, but make some sense. It's
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by dedward 16y ago
Xcode every other day before now: Free with your OS
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by dedward 16y ago
That doesn't address the part about those of us who don't want to use the App Store on our macs... we like them how they are. I love my mac, I have since OS X was mature enough to be useful, and I've converted tons of people, and I have lot
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by dedward 16y ago
(which I have a bit more of a problem with, actually; if a bug tracker isn't open to everyone, it's value decreases remarkably, including to the paying customers who are using it). It helps RedHat focus on the bugs their customers care abou
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by dedward 16y ago
The "Spirit" of the GPL argument has never rung true with me. It's not about creating shared projects and having big hippie hacker sit-ins. It's about keeping CODE free. This is a perfectly legitimate move by Redhat. It's unfortunate tha
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by dedward 16y ago
When I tried to buy about a half-million dollars in gear from them one time (through suppliers, of course), rather than simply delivering it, they tracked their suppliers, put a hold on ALL suppliers doing business with us, had their intern
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by dedward 16y ago
Heh... nobody interesting, just me and a few hacker buddies who skipped university to start ISPs and whatnot back when the internet wave was kicking off publicly way back when :)
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by dedward 16y ago
On contemplation, I agree completely. I'm tempted to say there are edge cases, say your car broke down, you need some repairs, it's within your budget, but you can't pay until your next payday in 4 days, but you need it fixed today. That's
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by dedward 16y ago
Good enough for us - if nobody's screaming scam by tomorrow morning we'll have a few more guys pitching in. Cheerio.
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by dedward 16y ago
can't execute yet..... it's only a matter of time. Apple has to keep moving forward.....
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by dedward 16y ago
No disrecpect to anyone invovled. The gang over here is all hot to chip in their donations..... Is there consensus that this is definitely legitimate and that the money will really go to Peter?
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by dedward 16y ago
Yes - credit for emergency situations - but even in those cases, it's only correct if you are spending within your means. A cooktop/toilet/refrigerator or similar are not that expensive - people should have at least several months of cushi
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by dedward 16y ago
I'm fine with this - this is within Oracle's rights. It goes against what we've come to expect with regards to Linux and GPL projects in general - but it's perfectly valid. Oracle is under no obligation to provide source patches back to an
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by dedward 16y ago
Right - because the ones that dind't - see previous comment :)
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by dedward 16y ago
That's called good marketing and customer satisfaction.
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by dedward 16y ago
Which might be exactly what you want if you are troubleshooting HTTP issues with customers "Go to page X and tell me what it says" rather than "what is your IP" is much more reliable. If there's a proxy, there's a proxy - but I can't troubl
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by dedward 16y ago
True in theory, likely in practice. NAT will still be possible - just not necessary for conserving address space. But... imagine trying to get your call-center staff to ask the customer to read back their local IPv6 address so you can troub
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by dedward 16y ago
Here's the thing - Varnish is cool. Well made, purpose built - a great tool. But I can't help but think that in quite a few cases, people are jumping to it to compensate for a lack of proper engineering at the application level. Rails lik
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by dedward 16y ago
I'll cop to the same - though thankfully it was my workstation and not a production server (and more than a decade ago). I would imagine just about everyone from the same era who was newly exposed to administering both sunos/solaris and lin
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by dedward 16y ago
I can agree - hearing a well mastered CD on some decent (not super high end, just good) amp and speakers, in a quiet environment, shows there is plenty of detail and dynamic range. My nice amp and headphones show me that even decently enco
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by dedward 16y ago
This is where oversampling comes in, and you get CD players with 196khz 1 bit DACs - we mathematically shift samples to a much higher bitrate (at lower sample width), and then run it through a dac - that allows for a much, much gentler filt
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by dedward 16y ago
Far more poignant in Buffet's case given his age and the length of time he's been in the game, and the sheer financial impact he has on the country. He's not a paper tiger. Mr. Zuckerberg is exceptionally wealthy for his age, but he's youn
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by dedward 16y ago
It's not about useful life -it's just about performance. Your write performance will be better if you have TRIM support... that's all.
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by dedward 16y ago
Agreed. The cool thing about being the copyright holder is you are free to release things under as few or as many different terms as you want. I personally prefer to release software under the GPL initially, and then release under other lic
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by dedward 16y ago
This is where it gets confusing in Canada, and people get bitten. It DOES work this way in Canada, - when you exercise an employee stock option and convert it to stock, you have an immediate tax obligation based on the difference between y
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by dedward 16y ago
in Canada, Employee stock options, when exercised, are considered income for that year, and are supposed to be reported by your employer as such, and are taxed as such. Note this isn't a capital gains tax - and the bad part is there isn't n
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by dedward 16y ago
Why can't the beams cancel each other out in the air?
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by dedward 16y ago
That misses the point. In this scenario, if you have the Kindle app installed on your iPad, and if you buy a subscription to something, you can do that from your kindle, your ipad, your computer, whatever. Kindle is cool that way. Apple is
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by dedward 16y ago
The problem seems to be (for lack of better information) that sites are shut down pre-emptively with no warning. I'm all for prosecuting child pornographers, and shutting down their content as quickly as possible - but that should be possib

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