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by ernesth 14y ago
I prefer to subtract 100 $ and get a zotac zbox or acer veriton that may even run as a server if I want to. They also are "fast, compact home or office device[s] [that can be] Set up [...] the way you want with multiple USB ports and versat
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by ernesth 14y ago
In french trains, the conductor's card reader only supports chip, the automats in train stations also don't support swipe.
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by ernesth 14y ago
Why do all löve articles get spammed about moai here? Apart from lua, they have nothing in common, different target, different goal. Both can be successful in their own niche. I use löve for teaching, there is no way I would have considered
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by ernesth 14y ago
The noderivs clause is similar to the case of invariant sections in the GFDL. Stallman is quite consistent in considering that his writings do not need to be free.
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by ernesth 14y ago
There would be something fundamentally wrong if your employees could not go to court to contest their being fired.
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by ernesth 14y ago
> There's no reason that DRM could allow the easy transfer of a book from one person or platform to another. Unfortunately, that is exactly what they do and what publishers use them for! > The publisher could easily offer the same b
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by ernesth 14y ago
No, it will continue to be fast on opera and firefox and to be a "dastardly turd" on chrome and safari: only some selected -webkit- properties will be translated by opera.
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by ernesth 15y ago
iPads may be rotated. Rotating my smartphone made it unrecognized.
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by ernesth 15y ago
I would have expected an answer of 3 as 2(1+2) cannot mean anything else than applying the constant function 2 to the sum.
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by ernesth 15y ago
> nanobyte Ho! They exist! Does it mean that apps on the android market are limited to 50 millibits as the article says?
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by ernesth 15y ago
Is app switching different on other smartphones? I only have a symbian which does quite the same.
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by ernesth 15y ago
Macports does ship a non x11 gimp. It is the quartz variant.
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by ernesth 15y ago
Exalead?
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by ernesth 15y ago
Dassault Systèmes (3DS) is not Dassault. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Systèmes#Products for an idea on what 3DS does.
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by ernesth 15y ago
apt-get also is able to remove orphaned libraries. Among other "advantages" of aptitude, it can be terribly slower than apt-get. And it has a "smart" dependency engine that often proposes convoluted solutions (involving uninstalling package
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by ernesth 15y ago
You can't keep a movie on your hard drive and watch it too? Are you sure?
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by ernesth 15y ago
Berne convention only constrains a life+50 copyright. For example, in Canada (signee of the Berne convention), Prokofiev (dead 1953)'s works are in the public domain. So why would Berne convention force USA to remove "Peter and the Wolf" fr
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by ernesth 15y ago
Duplicating CDs (or DVDs or books) for private use is indeed legal in France (even if the original comes from a library). The "taxe sur la copie privée" is intended to compensate for the fact that fewer copies are sold because of such priva
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by ernesth 15y ago
> The only real problem is coming up with a name for a new 13th month and where to insert it. The strange month is called 'Gidouille' and goes from june 15th to july 13th. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendrier_pataphysique
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by ernesth 15y ago
There is no evidence either that Trident Media Guard (the company that reports IP infringers to the 3-strike authority) should be trusted more than youhavedownloaded.
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by ernesth 15y ago
Debian has a habit of having manpages. To realize the peculiarity of cron.daily, you just have to read them. Ubuntu on the other hand pushes changes before documenting them.
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by ernesth 15y ago
Really? From a "rest of the world" point of view (I am speaking for France where Amazon is now officially selling kindles and kindle books, but it is also true for Germany), it is more the contrary: Amazon has the smallest selection of e-bo
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by ernesth 15y ago
Surprisingly, since 11/1/10, windows has less downloads than all others combined. Since 3/1/11, windows + mac + linux have less downloads than other alone.
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by ernesth 15y ago
Kindle ebooks have no ISBN. They only have Amazon's own Product identifier: ASIN which needs not be associated to an ISBN.
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by ernesth 15y ago
It's been tried before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar#Deci... and it lasted even less than the republican calendar. And retried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
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by ernesth 15y ago
Bookeen seems to have fixed the slow response time of eInk with the Cybook Odyssey (supposed to be released this month). http://bookeen.com/blog/web-page-scrolling-on-eink/
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by ernesth 15y ago
So that means Princeton requires publishers to hand all their copyright to Princeton? Not that it adds much value but the published article contains the logo of the publisher, some work done by the publisher's typesetters and occasionnaly o
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by ernesth 15y ago
From Springer's "copyright transer statement": An author may self-archive an author-created version of his/her article on his/her own website. He/she may also deposit this version on his/her institution's and funder's repository at the fu
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by ernesth 15y ago
Not really, Teneriffe is in Spain, Curaçao is in the Netherlands, Kourou is in France but they don't lie in CET.
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by ernesth 15y ago
Instead of 'cat image.png', if I want to see the image, I just 'image.png' (zsh's "alias -s" magic).

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