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by metageek 16y ago
Or they might take the position that you're liable as long as the cloud you use contains any servers in TX. The theory would be that the existence of those servers helps you offer a more reliable service to TX customers, whether or not you
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by metageek 16y ago
The article claims that the standard is "if you use a server that is housed in the state of Texas". If I use, say, Google Apps, or Google App Engine, I have no idea where the servers I'm using are.
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by metageek 16y ago
Long press is the right-click of smartphones. Yes. Maemo, for one, makes no bones about it: at the X windows level, a long press turns into an a right click.
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by metageek 16y ago
"Smallish UI centric code"--no. Virtually all of that OS is written in Java.
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by metageek 16y ago
From the article: The generosity or Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison knows no bounds. Correction: no lower bounds.
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by metageek 16y ago
If they haven't raised prices in 6 years, that probably means that they thought customers would switch to Oracle if they did. MySQL didn't want that to happen; Oracle probably does.
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by metageek 16y ago
Now where did I put the key to that barn door? It's in the saddlebags.
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by metageek 16y ago
I think that's angle of attack.
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by metageek 16y ago
Maybe pouring more resources into making Flash run well on all other devices, leaving the iPhone in the cold.
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by metageek 16y ago
Something like "the one that just failed".
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by metageek 16y ago
No, they changed it because they had to. They sued the World Wildlife Fund for trademark infringement (they wanted wwf.org), and lost (World Wildlife Fund was older).
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by metageek 16y ago
The American attitudes about what's safe for work are mostly shaped by sexual harassment law. It's not that our employers believe Porn Is Evil; it's that they fear being sued. It's not even that the courts believe Porn Is Evil; it's that
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by metageek 16y ago
And America is .ego.
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by metageek 16y ago
Verisign once upon a time actually was a half decent company When was that? Network Solutions never gave good value. When NSF privatized domain registration in 1993, they paid NSI $6M to run it for two years; it couldn't've cost anywhere
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by metageek 16y ago
it's quite unhelpful not to provide ANY resources or links to where I can read Libyan Law in English Even if they could give you their entire body of law (including court decisions!), there'd be sure to be translation errors, or laws whic
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by metageek 16y ago
>Copyright infringement has nothing to do with counterfeiting. That's not really true. Counterfeit goods often involve copyright violations. The bit that raises the conspiracy hackles is that, if you say "counterfeiting", you're confla
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by metageek 16y ago
I do not believe that she got job offers--especially not from Google, which famously takes something like 4 months to make an offer. (The experiment lasted only 28 days.) Invitations to interview, maybe.
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by metageek 16y ago
What CPUs? As the article says, the NUMA characteristics show up with Optera and Nehalems; older Intel chips didn't have it.
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by metageek 16y ago
It's not just the μ-law backend, though; it's also the codecs used on the cellphone network. For example, 3G GSM supports AMR-WB, which is apparently fairly good quality, but the carriers don't have to enable it. Some European carriers us
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by metageek 16y ago
The article does mention the iPhone; it says he has one. A quick search also shows that (a) when the iPad was introduced, he thought it was a useless in-between product; (b) he now owns one, and loves it. So, maybe not a follower, but d
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by metageek 16y ago
"Obviously in the case of slavery most people would believe that matters of economic stability play second fiddle" -- It wasn't obvious when slavery was legal.
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by metageek 16y ago
On the other hand, knowing that they're less likely to be sued for patent infringement is probably worth a lot more.
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by metageek 16y ago
"I might be able to excuse this since they're fundamentally still in alpha" I wouldn't. Authorization is the sort of thing that has to be done first.
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by metageek 16y ago
I love the image conjured up by the term "baby cluster". Just don't think about what's sticking the babies together.
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by metageek 16y ago
I hate wasting my time on videos even when they're about things I'm interested in; I'm not going to use a service that forces me to watch one I'm not interested in.
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by metageek 16y ago
The current dollar coins, with presidents on them, solve half of (a)--no feminism, but really ugly pictures. Instead of being profiles, they're portraits, with really deep eye sockets.
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by metageek 16y ago
And online merchants don't take coins anyway.
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by metageek 16y ago
That's "Rainbows End", actually. A statement, not a noun phrase.
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by metageek 16y ago
>isn't 6 exactly the age kids start asking questions? Uh, no. My kids were asking good questions by age 3 or so.
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by metageek 16y ago
Yeah, but the voice service probably does better at hacking your brain's social interaction coprocessor. They could send MMS with audio attachments instead.

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