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by egil 13y ago
If you bypass the geo-block, you don't have a license to play the geo-blocked content either, regardless of your Netflix subscription.
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by egil 13y ago
If it breaks, you surely need to fix it (and having plans to fix it or upgrading it due to lack of replacement parts etc is of course neccessary). However, there is also inherent risks in upgrading such appliances, so it should not be done
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by egil 13y ago
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lance
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by egil 13y ago
I suggest you file a bug at Gimp's bug tracker for an official answer. http://www.gimp.org/bugs/howtos/bugzilla.html
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by egil 13y ago
It is also important to note that the git tooling has matured a lot over the years. In the beginning, people used wrappers such as Cogito - "Human-suitable Interface for Git"[1] because the command line interface was such a pain.
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by egil 13y ago
Yet another shallow article describing the difference between prototypes and classes. Does anybody know of more in depth ones that also discusses multi-leven inheritance, polymorphism etc?
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by egil 13y ago
It makes it much easier to reposess the battery (and car if applicable) if the payments stop. Although I would not buy such a car myself, I reckon many potential customers wouldn't care. At the same time, those who care will probably e
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by egil 13y ago
Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6481526
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by egil 13y ago
I guess that for many people, Facebook _is_ the internet.
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by egil 13y ago
"How to make $100k in Open core" would be a better title imho. After all, he makes his earnings from the pro additions, not the open part.
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by egil 13y ago
Linux is licensed as GPL v2 (only), so a switch to gpl v3 would require concent from all contributors and be practically impossible.
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by egil 13y ago
They are working on it one piece at a time. For instance, they refactored the way Calc store the cells in memory to avoid lots of pointer chasing.
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Git-annex reached stretch goal for one year of funding(campaign.joeyh.name)
2 points by egil 13y ago|0 comments
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by egil 15y ago
You need to claim damages withing 6 years of the infringement: 35 U.S.C. § 286 Time limitation on damages Except as otherwise provided by law, no recovery shall be had for any infringement committed more than six years prior to the filing o
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LibreOffice 3.5 released(blog.documentfoundation.org)
6 points by egil 15y ago|0 comments
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Canonical stops funding Kubuntu(lists.ubuntu.com)
2 points by egil 15y ago|0 comments
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by egil 15y ago
For some of us, it already is. We just don't rant about it every time someone mentions Ubuntu or Unity.
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by egil 15y ago
Your mileage may vary of course, but Spotify definitely beats TPB when it comes to easy. Relatively cheap and extremely accessible. I entered my credit card details a couple of years ago and simply forgot about the negligible sum withdrawn
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by egil 15y ago
Of course, but that implies that it is possible to pay for it. The copyright holders must adapt business models so potential customers can pay for a product they want, not some inferior DRM that hurts the customer. As long as piracy gives p
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by egil 15y ago
While not a seperate product, you could run the old program manager and file manager from Windows 3.x by running 'progman' and 'winfile'.