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by qdog 15y ago
Anti-competitive and price-fixing are two different things in this case. Essentially all suppliers (publishers) agreed to set a price on their goods, that's a cartel. We like to think of books such as Harry Potter when considering publishin
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by qdog 15y ago
The companies have a lot of process, but how do you know how the software was written? Usually I see things like a huge project that is failing while the initial prototype that works gets upgraded to production...which has often been produ
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by qdog 15y ago
I'm familiar with a lot of popular music (especially early 90's music, when radio, mtv and friend's mixtapes were mostly how I heard new music), but I would not mind a place I could hear new music. I will be checking out these services.
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by qdog 15y ago
I recently built a new low-end computer with one of the AMD APU's in it, because it seems 'good enough' for that type of machine. However, it still doesn't perform as well as discrete parts. For about $80 you can buy a low-end video card
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by qdog 15y ago
I would think compiling to llvm is probably a better road to go down than compiling to c++, as long as llvm can target the platform you are interested in. C++ could link against your library then. And you could probably do it right now.
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by qdog 15y ago
No mention of several other languages, like Erlang, which more or less scales up with available hardware threads. However, it doesn't even mention that just having multiple cores on a chip isn't the same thing as having 2 chips, you still h
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by qdog 15y ago
It did happen quite often in the past. See much of the research done over the last hundred or so years in public universities. I didn't say we should arbitrarily limit the amount of profit one can make by investing capital, but the current
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by qdog 15y ago
I'm saying it's not a 'right' to expect profit from something. The right to pursue a profit exists as long as the law of the land allows it. Markets already provide a "pay-what-you-want" model, it just happens that not everyone is willing
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by qdog 15y ago
I don't know why this is upvoted so much. PG's article seems pretty clear. The problem I have with this article is the association of investment with a 'right' to recoup that investment. There is no inherent right to recoup investment mon
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by qdog 15y ago
It's not a social contract, it's a government granted monopoly. Currently the 'industry' operates much like a cartel. I would posit that granting monopolies rarely benefits the most people, despite the good intentions.
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by qdog 15y ago
Yes. If you define my 'organization' as the component that builds the products we sell. As a company, customer interaction is very high, but that is very dependent on the quality of our product. Almost overwhelmingly, our #1 customer requ
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by qdog 15y ago
I don't think this hits their warchest at all. The # I heard on NPR this morning was about 2.5B/Quarter, but their profit is about 13B/quarter. Even with a 10B stock buyback plan, that's not quite a quarter of profits. Disregarding the b
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by qdog 15y ago
I just cited the commondreams article because it was where I read the snippet (linked from Wikipedia) about Travelers and that's what Glass-Steagall would have clearly had an effect on (regardless of whether it mattered in the long run). A
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by qdog 15y ago
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/ It's a Rogue-like game. The learning curve is rather steep, but worth it imho.
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by qdog 15y ago
Ok, you got me, more concisely, Sections 20 and 32 of the Glass-Steagall act of 1933 were repealed in 1999 after at least two decades of hard lobbying. "Then, in 1998, in an act of corporate civil disobedience, Citicorp and Travelers Group
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by qdog 15y ago
I play minecraft with my son, who's 10, but it doesn't appeal to me that greatly beyond playing with him. Dwarf Fortress and Crawl, on the other hand, can end up sucking hours of my day if I'm not careful.
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by qdog 15y ago
This is one of the few things I've read on CNN in a long time I like. Lessig doesn't go into details about regulations, but I would think most people are familiar with the repeal of Glass-Steagal and the de-regulation that began under Reag
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by qdog 15y ago
I lost a couple years of life to playing MUDs a while back. Still occasionally log on, the ability to type commands makes it much easier to have a complex game and environment, but not so much with the pretty pictures. Luckily, I've sworn
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by qdog 15y ago
My takeaway is that the Tesla Roadster is a very expensive toy at this point. There are some electric charging stations now at my work (I can only assume they would work with the Roadster, haven't look into it), but it really sounds to me
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by qdog 15y ago
There are small towns around where I grew up that have a car dealership, but no McDonalds. Or multiple car dealerships to a single McDonalds. Hmm, come to think of it I think towns of 20-30k usually have 2 or 3 car dealers (usually one eac
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by qdog 15y ago
Yeah, I've never used the autoindent command before, either. Oops. Been manually indenting stuff with :<line1>,<line2>,s/^/\t/ for years now, oof.
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by qdog 15y ago
I use cscope as my backend for vim, there are other ways to get your IDE going. Adding a vim emulator would not be as good as just using vim, imho. http://sourceforge.net/projects/vimplugin/ is the vim plugin for Eclipse if you can't l
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by qdog 15y ago
I used to hook up auto completion to my tab key in vim, worked fine in c/c++ at the time. It would pop up a window of the options, but I stopped using that feature at some point.
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by qdog 15y ago
I actually kind of don't get it, MegaUpload made some pretty good money from showing ads, didn't it? This guy says he doesn't expect to make much from the ads. As long as he has songs people actually want...
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by qdog 15y ago
Alternatively, you could say this like every other linux distro at some level. I started back at about Redhat 5.0, used a lot of distros over the years, currently I use ubuntu because it 'mostly worked' from install, although it didn't real
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by qdog 15y ago
I claimed that this device already had "slide to unlock", I didn't specifically say it invalidated the patent. I don't believe the patent should have been granted in the first place for a few reasons. A dutch court, however, has said this
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by qdog 15y ago
re: edit That article shows the same device, and quotes a dutch ruling that it invalidates Apple's patent. Whether it gets invalidated is kind of a moot point to me, I don't think it should have been patentable.
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by qdog 15y ago
It's about the 4:00 minute mark. There isn't a slider bar graphic, but he has to slide left-to-right to unlock. Apple products work well for a lot of people, I'm just not one of them, and I don't think having to 'slide to unlock' make my A
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by qdog 15y ago
I'm not sure that was the first slide to unlock, it certainly wasn't the first touchscreen device. http://www.androidcentral.com/apple-granted-patent-slide-unl... I tried to like Apple, after receiving an Apple Tv 2, but it doesn't work
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by qdog 15y ago
Yes, sounds like a re-invention of the shell. No problem with that, but it doesn't really sound all that new, imho. I mash the tab key in bash all the time for completion when looking for a command, perhaps not as advanced as the 'fuzzing'

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