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by papercrane 16y ago
Well I think the history is more complicated then that, but yes, OS X has some code and ideas from NextOS/Openstep.
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by papercrane 16y ago
Neither the dock or launch bar were invented by Apple (both have history in NextOS/Openstep)
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by papercrane 16y ago
I'm not a UI expert, but I think it's unfair to take a feature from OSX compare it to Gnome and if they are similar assume that Gnome copied that feature or idea. Really for each example we'd have to consider it's history, and how it relate
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by papercrane 16y ago
Can we address the elephant in the room? All these windowed GUI's are just ripping directly off of Xerox PARC. It's shameful!
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by papercrane 16y ago
It was iD Tech 4 plus MegaTexture. The feature for iD Tech 5 is being called Virtual Texture, and it supports more than just the terrain.
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by papercrane 16y ago
Rockstar developed GTA. Bethesda made Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3.
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by papercrane 16y ago
Royal Bank of Canada has a quick selection option. You configure how much cash you want, from which account, and if you want a printed receipt, then after you've entered your PIN you have a 'My Quick Cash' button.
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by papercrane 17y ago
"Reallocation from the general public to an individual can benefit an individual, but be detrimental to society" Repressive copyright laws the take ideas and culture from the public domain and give them to individuals. "Also some things may
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by papercrane 17y ago
Not everything that benefits an individual benefits society. Reallocation from the general public to an individual can benefit an individual, but be detrimental to society. Also some things may benefit an individual, but only provide margin
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by papercrane 17y ago
You're misrepresenting Ryan's statement. His argument is not that public education benefits society more than the individual. His argument is that public education is a net benefit for society.
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by papercrane 17y ago
The server and client are both open source. You can choose from the MPL, GPL, or LGPL. The setup guide for the server is available here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Bespin/DeveloperGuide/Setup
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by papercrane 17y ago
Tail-call optimization is part of the Da Vinci project. I have no idea if it's on track for Java 7. http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/subprojects.html#TailC...
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by papercrane 17y ago
Since the comparison happens before var is declared, it will always evaluate to 'true'. I believe the author was thinking about something like so: (function(name) { var cmp = function() { return name=="tim"; }; var name; return cmp();
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by papercrane 17y ago
If I understand correctly he's updating the working groups charter so that its clear that canvas, microdata, and rdfa are in scope. This way any objections that these products were out of scope is no longer valid. I suppose the groups that
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by papercrane 17y ago
There's also NestedVM, http://nestedvm.ibex.org/ , which works my using gcc to cross compile to MIPS and then convert the MIPS machine code into a Java class file.
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by papercrane 17y ago
It's not really that clear cut. According to Linus, as long as they aren't writing a derivative work and they only use the public kernel interfaces then it's all good. That view isn't held by all of the contributors however. The only people
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by papercrane 17y ago
First problem is that you'd have to put up quite a bit of capital as loss reserves. Then you have to worry about people who buy your insurance taking on extra risks now that they're insured against the costs. Finally, the RIAA/MPAA would do
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by papercrane 17y ago
Actually your system should work just fine with ksh as /bin/sh. KornShell is a superset of the Bourne shell. http://www.kornshell.com/doc/faq.html
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by papercrane 17y ago
In the next section they say they have implemented the machine level redundancy. As for geographic redundancy I think the idea is that you use them for that. As in you backup your data locally and then send it to them as a redundant copy.
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by papercrane 17y ago
They have three raid-6 volumes per machine, so they probably leave it in the rack until two of the volumes are unusable and then refurbish the machine.
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by papercrane 17y ago
It's addressed in the section "A Backblaze Storage Pod is a Building Block" From the article: When you run a datacenter with thousands of hard drives, CPUs, motherboards, and power supplies, you are going to have hardware failures it’s irre
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by papercrane 18y ago
$2500 * 12 * 40 = $1,200,000