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by metageek 16y ago
I expect it'd be covered by the same agreements that let AMD and Via clone, say, the latest SSE instructions.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Paying for a streaming version of a movie doesn't seem very desirable Right, that's why Netflix Instant is such a failure.
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by metageek 16y ago
> I actually do have a page exactly like that To me, that page is about installation. The screenshot where you apply the style is way down at the bottom. You need that to show up right on your home page, above the fold. You're wasti
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by metageek 16y ago
Available online, even: http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/DeluxeMonopoly.pdf
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by metageek 16y ago
So far they don't, though--presumably because it's rare enough that they don't care.
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by metageek 16y ago
I never heard it, either; but, from context, it seems to mean "reverse engineered".
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by metageek 16y ago
But, in this case, the weaker member was the senior--seniority in the company, anyway--and kept the stronger member from getting anything done.
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by metageek 16y ago
In this case, though, the pair was limited to the abilities of the weaker member.
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by metageek 16y ago
"If it failed then, there's no reason to think we can't make it fail now." -- Colin Benson, in the IMPP working group, circa 2000
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by metageek 16y ago
Most kids weren't using the Internet in 1996.
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by metageek 16y ago
But their goal is still economic. They aren't getting unlicensed coffin sellers banned because they think that's what the people need, they're doing it to protect their profit margin.
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by metageek 16y ago
I'm not sure you can make that distinction. Capitalism is using capital to get economic power. The kind of practices described here are exactly that.
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by metageek 16y ago
Obviously it would cost money. Obviously some people want it to happen. Maybe pg could tell us how much it would cost (counting his time at whatever rate he pleases), and we could do a kickstart to raise it?
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by metageek 16y ago
If they want it to succeed, they need to add a VPN client, and run the VPN servers themselves. In the era of Firesheep, nobody should be trusting public wifi networks.
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by metageek 16y ago
The article's last three paragraphs are about rooftop farming: > The immediate opportunity may simply be to take advantage of the space available on urban rooftops
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by metageek 16y ago
There's also the Droid 2 Pro.
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by metageek 16y ago
Yeah, but who's going to come up with the operating capital to get that new entity started? Yahoo doesn't want to spend money on Delicious; that's why they're dumping it. And outside investors aren't going to be eager to put money into a c
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by metageek 16y ago
> Outside of Silicon Valley? Well that's another story. It's the same here in the Boston area. I suspect it'll be the same at most companies with heavy software work.
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by metageek 16y ago
> While ISPs can stiff their customers, they have the option of switching. Not really. I'm on Comcast. I hate Comcast. But my only other option is 384kbps DSL, which is just not good enough any more.
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by metageek 16y ago
Skim it for the descriptions of new books. I came away with half a dozen to look into.
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by metageek 16y ago
From the article: > Such statements regarding the death of SF are eternal. In 1960, for instance, a famous seminar was conducted under the heading "Who Killed Science Fiction?"
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by metageek 16y ago
> And how is lacking tech support (which is par for the course with Google-designed phones) being listed under "buggy"? It increases the impact of the bugs.
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by metageek 16y ago
I haven't done much with it lately, but I still maintain a "daily" tag, containing things I want to read every day. I then subscribe to the RSS feed in Firefox, and which gives me a bookmark I can middle-click on to get my daily reading. T
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by metageek 16y ago
Open sourcing proprietary software isn't necessarily easy. I was at Netscape when we sanitized the codebase to release as Mozilla, and there was plenty of third-party code that had to be left out. (That's part of why Mozilla was so slow
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by metageek 16y ago
Weren't most of them moved to other jobs at Yahoo?
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by metageek 16y ago
The individual links can't be copyrighted, but a person's collection of links probably can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law#Com...
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by metageek 16y ago
And, in fact, reddit already lets you save stories, which could be expanded into a general bookmarking system.
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by metageek 16y ago
I mentioned this on another thread today [1], then realized that it might be of more interest. Good reading for geeks who need to know how to dress to talk to, say, VCs. Full disclosure: the author is my wife. [1] http://news.ycombinator.
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Fabric for Bachelors(virtue.to)
1 points by metageek 16y ago|1 comments
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by metageek 16y ago
It also helps to know fabric. 10-15 years back, my wife wrote an article, "Fabric for Bachelors": http://www.virtue.to/fabric/

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