hank777

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by hank777 16y ago
actually the courts have explicitly said that the DMCA can't be used to prevent interoperability. This is a well known case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chamberlain_Group,_Inc._v._... .
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Twitter Isn't a Platform. Yet(whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
4 points by hank777 16y ago|1 comments
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Jobs Ban of Non C Libraries is an Insane Restraint of Trade(whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
2 points by hank777 16y ago|0 comments
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by hank777 17y ago
anybody have any idea how this might compare to mysql inno or myisam?
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by hank777 17y ago
I agree 100%. His response doesn't make sense from the entrepreneur's perspective. Using his strategy, no one would ever make cold calls because they are annoying to the recipient. But the bottom line is they work enough time to make it wo
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by hank777 17y ago
Indeed. I commented on something and only discovered accidentally that my comment could only be seen be me, which is a horrible way for things to work. Your comment is hidden and you have no idea. I emailed the contact email (cant remembe
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by hank777 17y ago
This is incorrect. The difference is that lazlo and flex are tools that build fixed binaries. They are the equivalent of a c++ compiler. This is designed to be like html. That means that you can, from a web server, create pages on the fly.
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by hank777 18y ago
if you can "modify" the server side and the client side, you can "modify" the need to pay.
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by hank777 18y ago
what a whacko. I should allow you to access my servers and services for free? I should allow you to control how you use my resources in a way that guarantees I loose money? Stallman is a digital socialist. The idea of services (or anything
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by hank777 18y ago
I see. I wonder if this philosophy works at Apple. Do you really think apple products would be better if Steve Jobs always deferred to his staff by saying "you're the expert." Ridiculous. All of this stuff is very situation specific. I am s
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by hank777 18y ago
I disagree. He bases his argument on the idea that rent control causes high rents as demonstrated in places like NY. This is patently false in my opinion, but my opinion is not what counts. The reason I say it is unsubstantiated and therefo
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by hank777 18y ago
lol.I am not going to opine about their entire body of work. But if you think they never have the problem of which I speak then clearly you didnt read the rent control article which explains new york's and other big cities high rents on ren
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by hank777 18y ago
Based on the article posted here on rent control the other day,it does indeed seem as though greenspun uses the same unsubstantiated assertion strategy for building arguments as does the cato institute. I guess I have to give him credit for
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by hank777 18y ago
These are nothing but assertions of fact which are really unsubstantiated opinions. It is striking to watch people engage in this level of intellectual onanism. I dont mind people making arguments that are reasoned and carefully successivel
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by hank777 18y ago
according to readwriteweb it will include js,html, and silverlight, as one would expect. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_office_comes_...
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by hank777 18y ago
Well, perhaps, but really it is one of the apps that, when it came out, helped define the term. So one would have to call it retrospectively silly. In my mind any terms can be silly depending on how you look at things. But it seems to me no
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by hank777 18y ago
That is one axis. But would you say that, for example, gmail is a web 1.0 app since it is not at all about social media or collective intelligence?
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by hank777 18y ago
No, I am not taking Apple to task for anything. And I am, I hope, not ranting. I am simply saying that people should not over-estimate what will come of Grand Central, or any multi-core abstraction layers, or multi-core as a broadly helpful
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by hank777 18y ago
Yes, but I dont think the blogging systems have this since every blogger would have to have his/her own TOS and could not be covered by a blanket wordpress or typepad TOS.
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by hank777 18y ago
"The rights afforded artists under copyright laws are not natural rights" There are no such thing as "natural rights" - only rights that we as society agree are beneficial. IP rights are no different than the rights for you to own your shoe
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by hank777 18y ago
"you can be economically successful as a band without selling a single record." hmmm... good luck with that.
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by hank777 18y ago
Yes. You are absolutely right. I view everything through the lens of economics. My view of success is making money. I don't think anyone has yet been able to make money without first selling records. That may come, but it has not yet.
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by hank777 18y ago
You are right. But sometimes authority and experience are relevant. I cant help that I really do know what I am talking about on this matter. I guess I could go out and interview some other people about how this part of the industry works s
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by hank777 18y ago
Myspace is indeed effective in getting artists signed. The internet is a primary tool today for labels to find artists to sign. It is the primary A&R mechanism. That said, the definition of success here is "getting signed". They did not
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by hank777 18y ago
I am not sure exactly why, but it just doesnt work. The numbers are very clear. With very young artists, free music can get them exposed enough to get a record deal, but not enough to sell performance tickets. You can of course always fall
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by hank777 18y ago
I am very familiar with how this works so I promise you I am not "looking at it the wrong way" but describing how things actually work. I am not making this up. Labels create band demand. Concert promoters do not. I promise you this is caus
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by hank777 18y ago
One other thing... "The loss of the record industry will almost certainly have no huge effect on the concert industry." Name a successful touring artist that has not had a successful, label based, recording career.
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by hank777 18y ago
I am the article author. Actually, the arctic monkeys do not give away their music free on their website or on myspace. Second, the group is successful because along with making great music, they have a great, very hard working 15 year ol
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by hank777 18y ago
I addressed this in another answer here but happy to do it again. The way shard splitting works is that the initial shard keeps working while the new shard is being built. During this time, all messages to the old shard are written to the o
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by hank777 18y ago
I don't understand your correction, but my lack of understanding is really immaterial. I actually agree that twitter has a problem with economics if they cant sell anything. Whether it is worth solving the scalability problem is a good qu

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