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by quoderat 17y ago
This is why I use and support as many open-source technologies and apps as I possibly can. Not a great way for anyone to make money, however.
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Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music(guardian.co.uk)
58 points by quoderat 17y ago|35 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
What the article argues is sometimes true, but sometimes it happens that a community dies because of insane moderators, as the above commenter observes. It happened on the MaxPC forums a few years ago, where I and a few other long-time post
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The wail of the 1%(nymag.com)
19 points by quoderat 17y ago|6 comments
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BitTorrent trackers closing en masse after Pirate Bay verdict(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
Now is the part where we start training the AI that we don't know we're training.
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by quoderat 17y ago
Now why'd they have to go and name themselves Cyberdyne? That comes with certain...baggage. That said, things like this are only going to get more common, assuming technological society continues.
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by quoderat 17y ago
History suggests that it was. My guess, based on the amount of prevarication by the banks, is that the market won't return to its former highs for 10-15 years.
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Why voice-acting in games is bad(brainygamer.com)
26 points by quoderat 17y ago|6 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
Anything I wanted to. But first, I would get enough money to completely opt out of doing anything like starting companies, worrying about what anyone thinks, etc., and find a lot of land in the middle of nowhere, drop my own fiber link in a
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A 100mbs connection in Stockholm is $11 a month(cis471.blogspot.com)
6 points by quoderat 17y ago|10 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
FedEx and UPS take the most profitable business from the USPS, while the post office serves everywhere and everything, very nearly. If it weren't for the universal service requirement, the USPS could operate like the private companies. But
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by quoderat 17y ago
RSS feels like a kludge to me, so use it I do not.
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Map of high-speed rail lines planned for US(scienceblogs.com)
7 points by quoderat 17y ago|2 comments
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Things that do not make sense (2005)(newscientist.com)
41 points by quoderat 17y ago|17 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
Nope, not really. The folders themselves are the reminder that I need, often.
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by quoderat 17y ago
I've never found a search in the world that can find something I don't even remember. With well-organized folders, I can, and more.
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by quoderat 17y ago
I can type about 100WPM on Qwerty. Tried Dvorak for a while, only could get up to 45WPM after months. Not worth it to me at all.
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by quoderat 17y ago
If only there were folders, I could use Gmail. I don't care for the "conversations" at all, but to each his own.
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by quoderat 17y ago
The age of ubiquitous computing is finally arriving, though we no longer call most of them "computers" anymore -- at least, not most people. Like with AI, we keep defining down what is a "computer" and what's not as we cease to notice their
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by quoderat 17y ago
No matter what the studios or the RIAA (et al.) like, file sharing is the future. They will be forced to monetize it at some point, but it just ain't gonna go away. People have been more resistant to having their computers controlled by lar
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by quoderat 17y ago
I know how this goes. I think my own father thought much less of me when I was a kid because I didn't play sports (at least, not organized ones, anyway), showed little interest in most "masculine" things that were popular in my area, like f
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by quoderat 17y ago
I'd pay $10 a month if I never had to use Facebook -- if no one ever asked me, "Why aren't you on Facebook?" etc. It has become such a social expectation. But probably not many like me out there. Most people probably will pay.
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by quoderat 17y ago
"...or, heck, if you’ve ever tried to apply for a job at a big company...." At a hospital near where I live that shall remain unnamed, I found a job that seemed perfect for me on their site. Except when I went to apply for it -- not joking
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by quoderat 17y ago
He seemed to treat the DOJ the same way, except in that case, his mommy was named "Ballmer." People's personalities do change over the years more than science credits, I think. I know mine certainly did.
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by quoderat 17y ago
I want an email address that tied to something biometric about me, not an address at all. Pie-in-the-sky, yes. But this kind of thing makes me think of the possibilities we haven't even begun to explore yet.
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by quoderat 17y ago
A site listing foreclosed and abandoned homes for squatting? Or perhaps the same for gardening? A house trading site so that you can trade houses with someone where your and their job prospects are better? A better roommate matching site th
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by quoderat 17y ago
From how eager they are to return the TARP money, it looks like they are more willing to work for $10 million a year plus stock than $500,000. Yeah, not quite what the article was about, but it's ridiculous what some people expect for addin
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Remembering the past is like imagining the future(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
2 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
WIth the amount of money they've spent on the ill-fated "war on piracy," they could've invented Bittorrent, or at least ran their own for-pay tracker that made the Pirate Bay operation look lame. But no.

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