notthemessiah

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by notthemessiah 13y ago
Has anyone tested to see if it would work with co-op with non-beta players?
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by notthemessiah 13y ago
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/117/
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by notthemessiah 13y ago
> I guess it is not reasonable to expect KDE to stop 'being KDE', but I am a little disappointed to see that they don't really seem to have shifted their emphasis anymore in the "lightweight" direction. What are
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by notthemessiah 13y ago
HN encourages people to comment for karma without much regard to whether they have anything to say of consequence. I wouldn't have written this if I could downvote.
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Bitcoin braces for regulation as Senate hearing draws nearer(politico.com)
3 points by notthemessiah 13y ago|1 comments
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by notthemessiah 13y ago
Seems a lot like the razor for all of your facial hair: http://www.shavingstuff.com/archives/011601.php
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by notthemessiah 13y ago
You assume it's EFF that's doing the avoiding. Why would they turn down an opportunity to get donations? All other bundles were delivered DRM-free, Steam was never the focus of any promotion until customers asked if they could get
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by notthemessiah 13y ago
Not that interesting. Origin uses DRM, and the EFF is quite vocal in opposing DRM, software patents, threats to P2P software, and overly-extensive copyright. They have a long history of standing in opposition to groups like the RIAA/MP
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by notthemessiah 13y ago
Diaspora is decentralized in the same way email is in that you still have a trusted third-party. Vole is peer-to-peer.
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by notthemessiah 13y ago
The linked research only describes phenomenological characteristics of illusions, so it doesn't strike me as an explanation. But it points to research that does attempt to explain the peculiarities of what conditions these illusions arise.
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by notthemessiah 13y ago
This comes hot off the heels of the ACLU filing a FTC complaint about lack of security: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/aclu-files-f... Interesting that where the market and the FTC fails to act, the Navy finds it necessar
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by notthemessiah 13y ago
I'm guessing you're probably referring to this, which is, as of now, $8k from its goal: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2120630809/the-hedgehog-...
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by notthemessiah 14y ago
What a timely and unoriginal hit piece.
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by notthemessiah 14y ago
Although this is true, the item giveaway probably did not affect the results of the Valve hardware survey. For this to happen, those VM users or temporary users would have had to have been on it at the time of the survey, so the numbers we
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by notthemessiah 14y ago
If you live in New York or wish to get it over the web, there's always Jojo's: http://laughingsquid.com/jojos-sriracha-handcrafted-small-ba...
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by notthemessiah 14y ago
"If it's not being bought, it must mean that it is sold" is just bad logic, plain and simple. It's just a nonsensical retort to an attempt to pigeonhole technology facilitating transactions into stupid categories that were made for a paradi
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by notthemessiah 14y ago
"It can take a half-hour for Hawking to twitch out a couple of sentences in response to a question." This seems to beg the question: how does Hawking find the time to write so many books?
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by notthemessiah 14y ago
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/knuth/dist/mf/
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by notthemessiah 14y ago
It's great to see Metafont put to use these days, while a wonderful concept, seems like it fell into the margins of adoption and use with the prominance of bitmap and later vector outline computer font standards.
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by notthemessiah 15y ago
This is minor, but fonts also have sub-pixel rendering.
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by notthemessiah 15y ago
I made a diagram expressing this exact point a few days ago: http://imgur.com/xynCW feel free to reuse/remix