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by networked 14y ago
>You CERTAINLY don't want someone to be able to make your car segfault while you're driving down the highway. That could make for a great scene in some futuristic hacker movie. On a more serious note, there are many possible solutions t
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by networked 14y ago
If that is true you could reimplement Photoshop 1.0 with the clean room method [1] and have a perfectly legal clone, which you would then be free to expand. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
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by networked 14y ago
Could someone with an appropriate background analyze the license in-depth? Looks like it allows you to produce derivative products, which is great, however, it also forbids commercial use, meaning it's at least not at the same level as FSF-
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by networked 14y ago
One book I would recommend on the subject of death and its place in society is The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. Although it uses a Freudian (or rather, Rankian) foundation you can appreciate its thinking and conclusions without buying
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by networked 14y ago
Sadly, it looks like they still have the fan placed underneath the motherboard, a design that has lingered since at least the 2006 ThinkPad X60 (both the tablet and the regular laptop version), meaning that you can't replace or grease the f
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by networked 14y ago
Recently my Nokia E5 phone had been malfunctioning in a common way for the model that involves the headphone jack [1] and since it was out of warranty I decided to take it apart. What I found inside filled me with a newfound respect for Nok
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by networked 14y ago
Well, Chinese brand tablets usually at least aren't held together by an adhesive. You can see a teardown of one here: http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/33614-window-n90-dual-core-i... . Use a password from BugMeNot if you aren't registered.
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by networked 14y ago
Their move is understandable, but it'll be something of a pity if this affects Opera's performance. From personal experience I can say that Opera is pretty much the only current browser that can deliver a combination of acceptable speed and
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by networked 14y ago
There is already a programming language called W [1]. It's not related to the language of Mathematica but you could say has a little bit of relevance to scientific computing since it was created for the HP-95LX and the HP-200LX DOS-powered
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by networked 14y ago
>I'm guessing they're mostly preying on people with upper-middle class incomes and massive amounts of status anxiety Indeed, especially so if the culture around them promotes this type of anxiety. You'd be surprised by how many people l
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by networked 14y ago
Despite what Wikipedia says, most Vertu phones sold in the past weren't smartphones (unless you consider a personal concierge a kind of Siri); they were powered by Nokia's Series 40 firmware and had tiny 2" screens much like more mainstream
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by networked 14y ago
The choice between Ruby and Python is something of a matter of taste. For what it's worth, Ruby on Rails appears to be more popular than Python's Django (though a quick search didn't give me any current numbers). In present day web develop
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by networked 14y ago
I think this does a good job at explaining what pixel art is and isn't: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299&#3...
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by networked 14y ago
In case you wonder, these screenshots come from games made for two revisions of the NEC PC-9801, a Japanese 8086 IBM PC-incompatible computer. To be fair, while I think they look good as is you've got to note that the PC-98 used a CRT monit
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by networked 15y ago
The old pastehtml.com seems easier to use to me.