derleth

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by derleth 14y ago
Chess players who can see .
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by derleth 14y ago
> Only if you wrongly assume that poor people don't work. Fiscal conservatives must assume this or their philosophy does not work.
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by derleth 14y ago
> Simple living and minimizing material possessions Not the same thing, which is my point.
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by derleth 14y ago
But only one method, only one underlying design. That's the point here. > Yet here, we have designers trying to claim ownership of a particular set of colours and a vague notion of style. Exactly my point.
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by derleth 14y ago
English must not be your first language. Read for comprehension and post something that's actually responsive to my post.
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by derleth 14y ago
Nobody said they were.
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by derleth 14y ago
> The airport had to let Ryanair land before its turn. "Ryanair: Getting you there faster ."
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by derleth 14y ago
> But I imagine you can find solace in just having only the things you need. No. You, maybe, but not me, and certainly not everyone. And that's not even fully addressing the unstated assumption that everything you 'need' would even fit
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by derleth 14y ago
It's a barbarism, a mixing of Greek and Latin roots into the same word. Barbarisms are errors in usage. "'Television' is one of the most recent offspring of linguistic miscegenation." -- Leslie A. White, The Science of Culture , 1949 http
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by derleth 14y ago
> NoSQL is to RDBMSs what Unix was to Multics. A simplified version that will eventually have to re-invent a lot of what it stripped away to become so much simpler?
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by derleth 14y ago
> An alphabetic list isn't And this , and nothing else, is what we're talking about.
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by derleth 14y ago
> they would often happily implement the same idea someone else had from scratch without any qualms There is only one MD5. There is only one preorder traversal of a binary tree. Creativity is essential, but unless you do those kinds of
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by derleth 14y ago
Also, 'television' is not a word.
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by derleth 14y ago
> The court ruled that Rural's directory was nothing more than an alphabetic list of all subscribers to its service, which it was required to compile under law, and that no creative expression was involved. The fact that Rural spent con
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by derleth 14y ago
> the arrangement of a phone book is copyrightable Not in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm
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by derleth 14y ago
> the Germans had plans for _everything_ in their drawers We (the US) learned to do the same thing, even to the extreme of War Plan Red, the plan to fight the UK and its colonies, beginning 1927 and updated through 1939. It broke down i
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by derleth 14y ago
Hey, I never implied North Korea had any torrent sites to go after. Besides, that's their thinking, not mine. If anyone's unlucky it's them.
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by derleth 14y ago
Remember AS7007! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00444.ht... http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/lore/2006-August/00...
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by derleth 14y ago
> The real tragedy is the people excusing NK so they can have their way. I've read this sentence a few times, left, come back, and re-read it a few times, and I still can't really make heads or tails of it. Are you saying that people d
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by derleth 14y ago
Here's an Ars story for some further context: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/enraged-by-abusiv... And a little piece from someone who's being sued: http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2013/03/04/copyright-trolls-... Prenda Law i
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Prenda Law Sues Critics For Defamation(techdirt.com)
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by derleth 14y ago
> we the people are too apathetic, or too unaware, or too stupid, or too anything at all to yield our immense power This is what has been happening: We've been too hesitant to wield our immense power, meaning we've been yielding it by d
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by derleth 14y ago
Anyone can make their machine emit any packets they want it to. That's the fundamental principle in play here. How it works is simple: ICMP ping, which is what most traceroute implementations work on, just works based on computers sending p
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by derleth 14y ago
AS = Autonomous System, a network of one or more (usually more) computers that looks like one entity to the outside Internet. It's 'autonomous' in that it can route traffic within itself without help from any outside source. The Internet is
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by derleth 14y ago
> The linux idiots have one glaring example: PulseAudio PulseAudio works wonderfully for me. It allows software mixing, something that's never been possible for me prior to PulseAudio, and it never crashes. It also gives me a single pla
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by derleth 14y ago
> the journey itself is pleasant while watching the world pass by outside Unless high-speed rail becomes successful enough to become a real option, in which case they'll be economically forced to pack customers in like the economy class
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by derleth 14y ago
If you think that's cool, someone will be around shortly to explain how gcc will use SSE opcodes to improve the speed of string handling functions. "He's honest, but you gotta watch him a little." - Tony (Chico Marx), "A Day at the Races" (
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by derleth 14y ago
> Is usenet not the precursor to Reddit? Debatable. Usenet is decentralized as opposed to being dependent on a single bank of computers and beholden to a single group of owners.
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by derleth 14y ago
> And the first pc? The nearly-forgotten pre-microprocessor Kenbak-1: > The Kenbak-1 is considered by the Computer History Museum and the American Computer Museum[1] to be the world's first "personal computer".[2] > It was desi
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by derleth 14y ago
> someone enterprising broke the page layout with a long string of U+2006 (six-per-em space) characters. Is it a bad sign when page-widening spam makes you nostalgic? (Ah, Slashdot circa late 1990s! What a time to be alive!)

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