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by nkassis 14y ago
Because it's very bandwidth efficient. It will try to maximize the bandwidth it has available to download and upload which ISP do not want. Sustained 100% usage of your bandwidth is not what they optimize for. At least that's what I think i
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by nkassis 14y ago
See this is the crux of what I thought this movement was about. Logical and Algorithmic thinking is what people should be getting from learning to code. This is a fundamental thing like critical thinking which schools have a really hard tim
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by nkassis 14y ago
I don't think you need a certain percentage of a market for this to start becoming a antitrust issue. And it could be argued that they have a strong monopoly on Tablets at this time. If this doesn't feel like anticompetitive behaviour, I do
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by nkassis 14y ago
For some reason my brain read the last part of that url as "Mutalisk" ;p
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by nkassis 15y ago
They do and they share the revenues with companies that claim to own the copyright. They even check videos and proactively decide who the ad revenues should go too. Sometimes their fingerprinting tool does make mistake (thinking bird sounds
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by nkassis 15y ago
Depends if these royalties make it less profitable to run in Germany why should they continue and that clone site would get sued just as much.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I think people are looking at it the wrong way, it's not problems with email it's the fact that email is flexible, decentralized, reliable that makes it possible to use it for any of these tasks. The asynchronous messaging that email provid
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by nkassis 15y ago
"To 99.99% of people who use email, Paul is correct: "Email is not a messaging protocol. It's a todo list. Or rather, my inbox is a todo list, and email is the way things get onto it." I don't agree with this, in fact I feel this projecting
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by nkassis 15y ago
I'd be surprised that Valve would even go for that, Apple hasn't been their market anyway.
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by nkassis 15y ago
"Very often websites that don't work without JavaScript have serious design/privacy issues, which better be fixed even if no one disabled scripts." I'm not sure I understand your logic here. Many sites use javascript for advanced features n
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by nkassis 15y ago
I believe it's only a matter of time before tablets become commoditized like the smartphone market is doing right now. Amazon is working hard on that. Some will still care for the Apple brand and whatever quality advantage it has but in the
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by nkassis 15y ago
"Indeed, both hacking tools and firearms can, in addition to their more obvious harmful uses, also be used to alleviate and even prevent harm" they also have non-defense uses (Hunting, sports or network analysis in the other case). They are
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by nkassis 15y ago
As an ex network admin, not having port scanners and vulnerability testing tools would make me feel blind. Those tools have very legitimate uses. Port scanners don't even have to be used for security purposes, sometimes you can't access a m
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by nkassis 15y ago
Unless I'm totally confused I would think comcast would be on the side of SOPA type legislation. I mean there interest aligns more with content companies than with Tech companies.
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by nkassis 15y ago
"Yes and no. Even licenses like the Apache License do impose restrictions of sorts, and the whole "permissive" vs "restrictive" thing is hardly a binary proposition. It's a continuum... and that's not even considering that saying "restricti
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by nkassis 15y ago
I'm not sure Apple is fighting very hard(or at all) about this. That would make them loose a lot of the control they need for the Appstore etc...
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by nkassis 15y ago
Well treating your users like guinea pigs can back fire. Look at Siri. There seems to be a lot of frustrated users, some even going as far as lawsuits. That model doesn't always work.
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by nkassis 15y ago
This reminds me of "Use the force Luke". I hope people don't start walking around with things like this all the time. I feel like in a 10 years people will walk around talking to themselves all the time and acting quite odd for today's stan
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by nkassis 15y ago
Well, the portability improvement from Assembly to C is mirrored in browser applications compared to native one in my view. The Browser today abstract a lot of things for you now including network communications, device interaction, file sy
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by nkassis 15y ago
Looking at the direction Windows 8 is making or what HP tried with WebOS. Where the browser starts and the OS begins is starting to become very fuzzy. Some people use to cling to assembly instead of using C. Now days it's rare to find someo
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by nkassis 15y ago
I'm not one to wear a tinfoil hat but SOPA in the US, Bill C-30 in Canada, and the various laws in the EU can make one think there is some sort of conspiracy going on. It's simply intriguing how all these laws seem so similar.
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by nkassis 15y ago
This needs to be said, butt in chair hours =/= work hours. My brain is constantly thinking about problems I'm trying to solve or what I need to do next. At home, at work I often will be thinking of things and walk to my computer to either d
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by nkassis 15y ago
Cool they did the montreal Biosphere and the Habitat 67 building but no Olympic stadium :( http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Biosph%C3%A8re,+Montreal,+QC,+...
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by nkassis 15y ago
That's true it's just a demo but it should be clear that this is not a fault of using a browser&javascript.
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by nkassis 15y ago
For those interested, On The Edge by Brian Bagnall ( http://www.amazon.com/On-Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Commodore/dp/... ) does a good job recounting the life and death of Commodore. The management of that company was definitively rocky.
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by nkassis 15y ago
No that's not the problem. This is no different than what game such as World of Warcraft have to deal with, you can't trust the client. The server should be validating the players moves, gear etc. Sure you can hack the javascript easier tha
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by nkassis 15y ago
Nope it's been on for a while but it will only work if you have good OpenGL drivers. (About ~50% of Linux users who try are able to view WebGL content from mozilla's numbers).
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by nkassis 15y ago
He might mean that this computer doesn't have a card/driver combo capable of running WebGL. This is actually fairly common from test Mozilla has carried out. Successfull WebGL context creation on Windows were bellow 70% (can't find the actu
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by nkassis 15y ago
Well I feel it's a compromise, large corporation like Disney will never yield, what I'm trying to avoid is them causing other works that are no longer in print or distributed from disappearing. I want to give a disincentive to keep things u
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by nkassis 15y ago
You could offer a grace period (lets say 1 year) to give time to people to register their post if they want. Same as with the reform to Patents which occurred last year.

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