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961.
by rst 14y ago
Win8 itself doesn't exist as a product yet, though there are prototypes and previews. Likewise for prototype hardware. But specs and requirements for both are now very firm, and comment on those (which is what we have here) is completely l
962.
by rst 14y ago
Groklaw has a (near?) final draft of the jury instructions towards the end of a very long post here: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120430075018880 The instructions themselves look like they'd be tens of pages of text printed
963.
by rst 15y ago
Note, however, that client-side UA sniffing could result in different requests getting sent to the server, from which subsequent wackiness might ensue...
964.
by rst 15y ago
My read was that the boom times won't last forever. A comment below says this seems more like 2012 vs. 2007. Well, you could just as easily say 1998 vs. 2007 --- which was the last time than anyone with any degree of technical skill could
965.
by rst 15y ago
Some of those statements are ... forward-looking. In particular, Dragon isn't man-rated yet, and that will require a lot of further engineering. Most notably, SpaceX has committed to a launch abort system for getting a crewed Dragon away
966.
by rst 15y ago
Same law firm too, at least in part --- Boies, Schiller & Flexner represented the plaintiffs in both lawsuits.
967.
by rst 15y ago
Some of them could --- Jonathan Coulton, for instance, has been making a pretty good living over the last several years on his music, all of which has been freely available on the web since he was a fairly generic techie with a guitar and a
968.
by rst 15y ago
If that's the intent, they could just as easily (and more sensibly) charge the fee when you submit your first app into the store. As is, they seem to want you to pay up even to deploy an app you wrote onto your own phone. That's just o
969.
by rst 15y ago
Check out the Boston User Group Calendar at http://bugc.org and also ye olde meetup.com (which has groups that don't publish to BUGC).
970.
by rst 15y ago
It has a "checked mode" and an unchecked mode, but they recommend the checks be disabled in production. The unchecked mode is actually called "production mode" in a lot of their documentation, including the language spec. (See the section
971.
by rst 15y ago
Looks like I may have blown it --- confusing this machine with the 603. I hate when that happens, but happy for the correction. (I'll try to delete the earlier comment, mischaracterizing the 601, just to try to head off the error at the p
972.
by rst 15y ago
The Manchester machines were very significant for at least two reasons. First off, they were the first to feature "Williams tube" CRT memory, which was the high-speed memory of choice in any early computer effort that could afford it (incl
973.
by rst 15y ago
Windows back-compatibility support has its limits these days. The advertised vehicle for old enterprise XP apps that you just can't upgrade is "Windows XP Mode" (duckduckgo it), which is XP itself running under Virtual PC. (Yes, "well beh
974.
by rst 15y ago
If v8 is fast enough for anything that I might want to do with it, further performance improvements (as opposed to other changes) are not going to be really high on my wish list. That's why the performance case doesn't work for me. Other p
975.
by rst 15y ago
And yet, oddly, one of the front-page testimonials for node.js is LinkedIn saying that use of that particular brand of server-side Javascript gave them "huge performance gains". That obviously doesn't mean that Node (or Javascript in gener
976.
by rst 15y ago
Rescue workers have a rule that their own safety comes first --- because if they don't act that way, they risk becoming yet another victim that their colleagues have to go in and save. Similar logic applies here. One of the risk factors f
977.
by rst 15y ago
"Policing" requirements on links that are unsustainable for small businesses. Something that might have hit home on an NPR interview I heard earlier today: how many people do you have to police your own blog comment section? The usual re
978.
by rst 15y ago
Print rights, historically, were generally granted on a territorial basis because it made sense --- the operations of the publishing companies were also confined that way. And until recently, ebook revenue hasn't been a large enough fracti
979.
by rst 15y ago
Referendum processes are no panacea --- look at the mess they've created in California. Among other problems, there are referenda that limit tax increases, which have obvious appeal, and referenda mandating spending on various good causes,
980.
by rst 15y ago
I managed to give myself RSI [+], to the point that typing was seriously uncomfortable, by typing something like 20,000 words in a single day. What got me on the road to recovery was a pretty radical cure --- two weeks cold turkey on keybo
981.
by rst 15y ago
Possible topic: bogus take-down requests from the entertainment industry. Some examples: * Phony copyright claim suppressing a news report (about this very issue): http://boingboing.net/2011/12/15/universal-music-uses-false-... * A blo
982.
by rst 15y ago
There are several languages with type inference, although most can't infer types in all cases: Haskell, ML variants (SML, CaML, etc.), and Scala are the most thorough. There are some common language features that make type inference tough,
983.
by rst 15y ago
The dates match. The interview is from 1984, which was after the formerly free-beer Gosmacs had gone commercial ("hundreds of dollars... did I miss something?" --- yes, Gosling's deal), but before the first public release of GNU Emacs in 1
984.
by rst 15y ago
U.S. based pricing is here: https://www.myidentifiers.com/isbn/main And it's truly ridiculous. A single ISBN is $125. In lots of 1,000, they're a dollar apiece. I can't think of any principled way to justify this, other than as a way
985.
by rst 15y ago
Even now in the US, moneyed interests don't necessarily get everything they want --- AT&T couldn't push through the T-mobile merger, to cite a much less controversial example. In this case, there would be money on both sides. The drug
986.
by rst 15y ago
Well, then, a few examples of malice and overreach (e.g., Universal's recent takedown of a video in which they admitted knowing they had no copyright, and then a daily newscast which excerpted that video) would be enough to make the point.
987.
by rst 15y ago
It might help to mention the increasingly unreasonable takedowns coming out of the entertainment industry as indications of why this is unbalanced. (Like, for instance, Universal's recent takedown of a MegaUpload promotional video in which
988.
by rst 15y ago
You could imagine that one of these petitions might bring an issue that they weren't aware of to some staffer's attention. But this administration clearly already has a very strong view in favor of intellectual property protection by any m
989.
by rst 15y ago
Tridge's reverse engineering was why McVoy withdrew the license, but he'd started to restrict it well before that. Initial releases were source-available, and had a "fail-safe" that would turn the code fully open source if McVoy's company c
990.
by rst 15y ago
It gives very short shrift to commercial source control systems generally. Two (VSS, and SCCS --- the latter part of the original AT&T Unix distributions, on the same closed-source terms) get mentioned in passing, but neither gets trea

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