nanairo

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by nanairo 16y ago
I can think of quite a few technologies that are the unforeseen side-effect of some government funded research, and would have probably never occurred otherwise. For example MRI, the Web, and the Internet. I would imagine quite a bit of res
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by nanairo 16y ago
I beg to differ. Go to someone in the street and tell them if they'll work an extra shift for X amount of money: most people can answer that question. So maybe you meant that it's impossible to generalise it to the whole population because
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by nanairo 16y ago
I like this bit... "And you look like an ass for your rant that you just spewed on Twitter (or on Facebook when it’s Twitter that is down)." Like, you know, this was the civil and normal thing to do: "Something doesn't work, and I payed _no
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by nanairo 16y ago
Oh gosh! What's wrong with Google lately? They don't seem to be capable of making one really stable system. I don't know if it's all FUD, or Google has lost its ways... but I want the old Google back!!! :)
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think both systems together would probably work best. Because---and here I link to the original article---the fight is far from over. If Flash will eventually disappear it will be slowly, very slowly. Companies are reluctant to get into n
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think you are muddying the topic with your links. The kill switch exists, very true, but other stores have it just the same: in particular Android Marketplace has a kill switch too. The copyright submission does show that Apple considers
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by nanairo 16y ago
Great example of a false dichotomy. It's not _if_ Apple if fighting jailbreaking but _how_much_ they are. Apple definitely goes for the low hanging fruits: any avenue that is relatively simple to fix gets fixed. And obviously anything that
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by nanairo 16y ago
Maybe they believe that the long term benefits outweight the short term damages? If ATI keeps being competitive, it will now make AMD look better. Plus the fact that people who are looking into powerful GPU's keep hearing the word AMD may u
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by nanairo 16y ago
Lately there's been a lot of good news from South America: the successes of Brazil's economy, Argentina (a very christian country) giving equality to homosexual and heterosexual marriages, and now this. I am really happy for it! And it's st
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by nanairo 16y ago
First: in the spanish version the adjective "legal" could be referring to content too. But even if it didn't... Second: if I told you "you are free whatever you like", that doesn't mean killing people or robbing old ladies. Obviously other
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by nanairo 16y ago
I am not much into web development, but my impression is that there's nothing very much innovative in the Python's tools. It seems a lot of the path was already laid by rails and friends, and they did so well that Pythonist implemented simi
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by nanairo 16y ago
Not to be rude but it seems a bad article, with little content, less argument, and awful framing. First of all... the "siege" has already started, but it has not been very successful so far. You need content first (which many cable provider
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by nanairo 16y ago
But from what I hear in the Linux world, having GPLed code didn't make all hardware producers write their own drivers and publish them. Some did, others released only simpler versions, and other didn't release anything and it was up to volu
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think you are probably right. My conclusions were mostly from what I experienced or heard... i.e. very anecdotal. First I should have been clear that by Europe I meant EU. And also I still think there's a lot of bad tariffs here too. I ha
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by nanairo 16y ago
I really hope not. But they are trying. Every time I hear a story like this I feel like I read it as "run far from this madness!" and the local telecoms read it as "still some way to go, still some way to go". In the end anywhere in the wor
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by nanairo 16y ago
Please understand that I don't think the FSF ever set out with the intent of being "elitist", and I appreciate what they are trying to do. Although I often do not agree with the methods, I am happy they exist. I like your example of the moa
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by nanairo 16y ago
"Except for a necessary parts to make it useful. From someone close to the source (the last paragraph pretty much wraps it up)" I am not sure what you are referring to. I'll try to reply to a few of the points raised in the article (but I h
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by nanairo 16y ago
I don't know much about Wasabit Systems or BSDi. But gosh, get your Apple facts right. a) Apple's kernel is open source: having used GPL would not have made any difference here b) The other BSDs have openly stated that Apple contributed bac
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by nanairo 16y ago
Wasn't one of the problem with Apple and GCC that Apple had to hack the GCC to integrate it with the rest of its tools (which obviously the GCC people couldn't care less about)? When it comes to the topic of stewardship the situation is les
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by nanairo 16y ago
Reading these stories one keep seeing the same pattern. GCC vs. EGCS, just like the Emacs war. The problem are always an excessive centralisation of stewardship... which is kind of ironic coming from the guy who most strongly supported free
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by nanairo 16y ago
Actually according to Wikipedia, Google Maps came from the acquisition of Where2. That said I imagine Google improved that application A LOT. GMail and GReader on the other hand where two of those projects that Googlers did in their 20% ass
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by nanairo 16y ago
Not just for free... for free and with Microsoft having the upper hand.
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by nanairo 16y ago
Sorry, I meant security bug, not crashing in flames bug. :) Often you hear of some security flaw in this or that program that requires Microsoft or Apple to patch the OS. When those happen, are people demanding a fix from Microsoft/Apple or
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by nanairo 16y ago
Wow... that's quite a statement. All the cool apps were not done by Google, but _with_ Google. I can't imagine Apple delegating anything, less of all a main application like maps or youtube. WebKit was not KHTML. Webcore was KHTML and Webki
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by nanairo 16y ago
Why? You offered a non-obvious assessment without any evidence or argumentation. Personally I think you are completely wrong. Google is in the business of targeted ads. For that they need infos about the user. Everything else is just a trap
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by nanairo 16y ago
You think? I thought exactly the opposite. The problem of Google to me seems to be that they release something they think it's good enough and then just leave it there hoping that time will prove them right. Then one day they wake up and se
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by nanairo 16y ago
I hated Blockbuster, their expensive deals and their poor selection... but gosh, I kind of feel sad that they will exist no more. I feel like it's the end of an era. :) What next? Sony? Microsoft? I feel so old... :)
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by nanairo 16y ago
Ok. First I think the jury is still out if it will be a major selling point or not. Maybe you are right, maybe you are not. It seems a bit premature to use such adjectives. Second that is true about Apple. But that's their philosophy: I am
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by nanairo 16y ago
> Pointless, that'll still get them blamed. How are they doing now with Flash? Any record of users complaining with Firefox for a Flash bug?
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think there's a certain irony in this. Isn't FOSS a big proponent of these sort of dependencies? I mean, whenever you discuss Windows or MacOS way of installing software, you'll hear how Linux does it better because each component is sepa

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