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by elwin 15y ago
That perspective takes into account the industries' positions, but ignores the position of consumers. The Internet may have destroyed jobs, but it hasn't destroyed productive work. The work will still be done, in a more efficient, consume
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by elwin 15y ago
Well spotted. Also, the four trochaic lines list the steps of the tree-building process, and the iambic couplets explain the purpose of it all. She's using meter to reflect a semantic division.
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by elwin 15y ago
I'm not sure this is what the parent meant, but in America at least, the antislavery movement was part of a broad social reform movement which was strongly tied to the popular Christianity of the day. For example, see the connections betwee
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by elwin 15y ago
Mostly to indicate tempo and style. A 3/4 measure and a 6/8 measure are the same length, but the 6/8 has twice as many beats at twice the rate. So a composer would use a 6/8 signature for a faster-moving piece with a lot of eighth notes. Si
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by elwin 15y ago
The licenses are on the individual fonts' pages (try the "Pop Out" links.) Most of them are under the SIL Open Font License.
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by elwin 15y ago
A lot of Unix variants used the IX suffix (AIX, IRIX, Xenix...), probably to make it obvious that they were Unix variants.
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by elwin 15y ago
I think it means that the cable carries an analog TV signal at the same frequencies used by over-the-air broadcasts. If the cable wasn't shielded, it would act like an antenna and pick up radio-broadcast signals. That would cause interferen
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by elwin 15y ago
I sympathize with the horrible equipment. While getting a physics degree, I had a lab where we measured resistivity. My team was the last to succeed in getting numerical data from the 20-year-old oscilloscope via floppy disk. The students s
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by elwin 15y ago
I hear this opinion a lot, and I think it slightly misses the point. The open-source world already has plenty of socially conventional advocates promoting their products. If the FSF became an ordinary open-source software promoter, it would
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by elwin 15y ago
The LHC's ATLAS detector is finding many pairs of photons with a total energy of 115 GeV. This is usually a sign that the collision produced a 115 GeV particle which decayed into a photon pair. There are suspicions that this particle is the
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by elwin 15y ago
Replicators split into multiple processes, each with its own IP. A program isn't considered dead until all its processes are killed. If one of its processes stumbles across a bad address, the others aren't affected.
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by elwin 15y ago
The processes are all in the same code space; there's nothing distinguishing process A's instructions and process B's instructions, so process A would continue executing code created by process B. Some Corewar programs ("vampires") use this
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by elwin 16y ago
Don't be confused: this article is not referring to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which limits simultaneous measurements of position and momentum (or other paired quantities). This is about the less famous Heisenberg limit, which d
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by elwin 16y ago
Some technical details about Usenet during the coup: http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.soviet/browse_t...
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by elwin 16y ago
I found W's multisyllabic name annoying enough that I began calling it "way". That includes the sound it makes, and it rhymes with A, J, and K.
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by elwin 16y ago
The Montgolfier balloons could reach altitudes of 2000 meters, which would have been impossible to hit with 18th century muskets or cannon. Landing would have been dangerous, of course.
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by elwin 16y ago
I believe organizations like local Chambers of Commerce do this.
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by elwin 16y ago
It was indeed criminally and morally wrong. It does not follow that sending him to prison for a long time is the proper response, even if he acted like an annoying jerk to some "cool" people.
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by elwin 16y ago
The disincentive is because the rates are badly chosen. If there was a wide buffer with a marginal rate of 0, it would work better.
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by elwin 16y ago
> Did Shakespeare reuse many non-public characters? I ask because that's where copyright is an impediment to story writing. Shakespeare reused large portions of the plotlines from contemporary plays. Hamlet and As You Like It are tw
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by elwin 16y ago
The article seemed to imply that the notice-sending process is automated. Probably there's no one checking that threats meant for residential ISP customers aren't being irrelevantly sent to large Internet companies.
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by elwin 16y ago
A future government might or might not be worse, we can't tell. Supporting the current revolution and encouraging its future development into something far worse are separate issues until the revolution actually accomplishes something.
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by elwin 16y ago
Because of their code-breaking, British intelligence was able to catch most German agents as soon as they arrived. Some of them were given the opportunity to "turn double". One example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Chapman
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by elwin 16y ago
This just made me realize: Online privacy controls are like DRM. They are both attempts to control what happens to information after giving someone else complete control over it. "We may not mind sharing our personal lives and thoughts, bu
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by elwin 16y ago
All of the articles, particularly this one, seem to be missing the point. They attribute Google's actions to abstract ideas of openness or competition between codecs. But there is a concrete issue involved: under MPEG-LA's licensing terms,
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by elwin 16y ago
The problem isn't with the source code but with the binary. The GPL doesn't allow additional restrictions on what the user can do with it after getting it, whether it was paid for or not. That's what the developer filed the complaint over
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by elwin 16y ago
When re-entering, spacecraft are being decelerated, so anything towed behind the spacecraft will catch up with it. A rigid pole might work.
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by elwin 16y ago
Hayek explains that the purpose of this "separation of responsibility from power" is to keep the policy-making uninfluenced by the political process, because it's impossible to create a policy that makes everyone happy. We need a better way