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by ernesth 13y ago
I would be very happy if you found my work good enough to share with your family. I would find it unfair for you to pay twice for you and your daughter to read a book I would have written. I have always shared some books with my family, and
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by ernesth 13y ago
> Well it's how anything digital works now. I can only think of a few exceptions Well, the exceptions are not that exceptional. Do you buy digital music that you cannot lend? Are you not able to lend a game purchased on gog without payi
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by ernesth 13y ago
First, unlicense is a bad name for a license that is so different from no license. Second, the first sentence and the third paragraphs do not work in most of the world: you cannot put a work in the public domain, even in countries that "rec
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by ernesth 13y ago
Of course, IMAP and SMTP might be replaced by better protocols in the future (as POP3 was). However, my point was that the fact that the search trend for a protocol is downhill does not mean it is no longer used and should be scrapped. I ar
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by ernesth 13y ago
And with SMTP down 80% from its top in 2004 or imap down 58%, the question of the op should seem perfectly legitimate to you.
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by ernesth 13y ago
You're right iPhone is too expensive also.
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by ernesth 13y ago
I just tried fish and after half a minute declared it too slow: it is slow to complete (and not very good) and slow to print (or maybe slow to glob: "ls " takes far more time in fish than in bash or zsh). I do not know if it has all I love
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by ernesth 13y ago
In fact, you will have to wait until the first of january following the 50th anniversary of the death of the authors for the book to get into the public domain (that's what the "until year end" means), but yes it is that simple.
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by ernesth 13y ago
The Great Gatsby is in the public domain in all countries but 7: the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Samoa, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, and Ivory Coast. All countries except the USA apply a law that states that books enter the public d
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by ernesth 14y ago
Google Maps has its share of little cities showing before big ones. I currently see a Digoin on the map of France whereas Saint-Étienne, Clermont-Ferrand, Bourges (or Laval) do not appear...
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by ernesth 14y ago
Is the use of tablets clear to the "mainstream"? I still do not know precisely what they're for but their market proved to be far from a niche.
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by ernesth 14y ago
OK, I was not clear. Nothing proves that the data was public or notable.
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by ernesth 14y ago
The debate is also fueled by the fact that "Rémi" is not simply "a" wikipedia admin but the president of Wikimedia France: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9mi_Mathis ; which drives people to ask for him to resign.
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by ernesth 14y ago
Nothing proves that DCRI wanted to delete public or notable information. There were speculations over the current use of this station on the wikipedia page. Obviously, they were not sourced, and probably, this is classified information.
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by ernesth 14y ago
This is not the same "french intelligence agency". Rainbow Warrior had to do with what is now DGSE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate-General_for_Externa... . In the current case, it is the DCRI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directio
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by ernesth 14y ago
This feature request asks for two things to be native in chromium: 1. have an indicator in the browser interface that an rss feed is available for the current page. 2. have a preview of rss feeds rather than unstyled xml. It is just a matte
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by ernesth 14y ago
> "Subscribing" on the other end is what people used to do [...] to get magazine delivered to their places. Which is what RSS does! It gets the next issues of the "magazine" delivered to your place.
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by ernesth 14y ago
Subscribing to an RSS feed is exactly as difficult as bookmarking a site: if I use the browser's own ability, it is a click near the URL then a click on the "Bookmark page" button (or menu) respectively a click on the "Subscribe" button; if
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by ernesth 14y ago
Not answering to your point, but stating that as almost always in browser history in the last 12 years, this feature was first introduced in Opera.
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by ernesth 14y ago
First, I don't think that what Amazon, Google and others do is just "seen as tax avoidance". Their scheme is clearly devised to minimize taxes they pay in countries where taxes are high and pay most taxes in Ireland and Luxembourg where the
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by ernesth 14y ago
I remember the first times I used Google, there was no default search engine, hence a far more open situation.
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by ernesth 14y ago
> Webkit is in use by more than one competitor. As was IE6: maxthon and some other browsers used IE6's engine. And Maxthon users loved it because it was innovating.
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by ernesth 14y ago
Isn't this only for laptops with dual GPU (optimus setup). In which case, I guess the only "other OS" is windows that is (was) the only one able to switch on the fly which graphics chip is to be used.
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by ernesth 14y ago
Apparently, neither does Amazon, it's up to the publisher: From http://www.tierslivre.net/spip/spip.php?article2693 (a publisher against DRM): "avec ou sans DRM, ce n’est pas Amazon, c’est l’éditeur qui prescrit si oui ou non, comme il pr
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by ernesth 14y ago
> I had a dedicated Garmin Nuvi, but it was Maps that got me to the tiny village in Alsace. Huh? What kind of village in Alsace is not referenced on your Garmin Nuvi (or any kind of maps)? For example, all villages have a wikipedia page
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by ernesth 14y ago
Caps Lock is also the most simple way to input Ç, À or É with a french keyboard. Not everyone needs it though.
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by ernesth 14y ago
Upset may be too strong a word. It really disturbs me because it is for me unthinkable to sell books as if they had no value. I have nothing against humble bundle, but it makes me unwell that they treat books this way. I don't care for game
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by ernesth 14y ago
Indeed "ebook readers" is written deep in the page. I thought e-reader was the most used term, apparently I was wrong. but the one that really surprised me was "ebook reading device". What sort of periphrase is this?
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by ernesth 14y ago
Yes I do consider fixed prices for books a good thing. If it were not for this "prix unique" law, there would be as many local bookstores as there are local disc stores out of Paris: 0, and apart from amazon and fnac, there would be no big
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by ernesth 14y ago
A few things really upset me with that: First, books are a special kind of products, they do not obey the same rules as commercial products, they are culture. To explain a little, I am french and we have a law for the unique price of books:

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