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by selven 17y ago
That would be true if it weren't for the fact that the GPL requires distributors to publish source code as well as license their derivatives under the GPL. So it's not just a copyright-free zone, like Creative Commons Share Alike is.
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by selven 17y ago
This is a fairly serious issue in some free software places (eg. Slashdot). It seems that copyright when used by big corporations is evil and restrictions are good, but when the GPL gets weakened by them it's suddenly a bad thing. Unfortuna
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by selven 17y ago
This is an extreme example, but it's happened before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
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by selven 17y ago
What he's saying is that Linus is a more behind-the-scenes person, not a public figure (although he does make quite a few controversial forum posts). RMS is out there, at the front, campaigning for his ideals.
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by selven 17y ago
Laptops.
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by selven 17y ago
No, but openness has a lot of advantages. It means that it's free, it's guaranteed to be supported by someone even if the founders all go away, you can trust it more since everyone can look at the source, and so on.
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by selven 17y ago
Pirates aren't going anywhere. One site shuts down, 5 more pop up. It's an impossible game of whack-a-mole. This isn't a statement in favor of or against copyright infringement, it's a simple fact.
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by selven 17y ago
Many of these are "think outside the box" type problems. For example, the one about the lightbulbs makes you think that the only information you get is binary - on or off. There are 4 possibilities - 0,1,2,3 on (position doesn't matter) but
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by selven 17y ago
I'm seeing the opposite effect. When googling for "go", first I get the Go buses that make up some of my local public transit, then the Go board game, and then the programming language at #9. It might change as the hype builds up, but I don
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by selven 17y ago
Depends what you mean by mentally superior. Computers can add billions of numbers a second, work at a very high precision with reflexes measured in nanoseconds, do not have weaknesses like boredom and the need to socialize. If you're talkin
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by selven 17y ago
Very cool, but sadly not too practical (very vulnerable to shoulder surf attacks, and it's not that hard to tell that there's something funny about the knock).
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by selven 17y ago
Given how slow the site is, can anyone please give some examples of its output? Is it meaningful sentences, "the man walked his dog in the park" type sentences that even things that everyone wants to censor would have or something else enti
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by selven 17y ago
Have you tried other distros like Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora?
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by selven 17y ago
That's a lot more debatable than you think. Vista was crashing all over the place back before they added some patches and service packs, and from a usability standpoint many people despise the new ribbon interface.
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by selven 17y ago
Especially obfuscations like "bob at gmail dot com". If I were a spambot I would just read until the first space and append "@gmail.com" and "@hotmail.com" and 5-6 other mail providers. This would break through 90% of people doing that, and
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by selven 17y ago
Of course, if someone who would look foolish if he had made a certain statement would vehemently deny making it (or just forget it). Bill's refutation is not proof that he never made the comment.
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by selven 17y ago
The article claims that Google is using some form of "volume licensing" with Android. But how can volume licensing be enforceable when the project is Apache/GPL? Is this an error or is there something I'm not aware of?
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by selven 17y ago
I used to frequent google.com, but modern web browsers let you search right from the URL bar, bypassing the site entirely. So you do have to go and look these days (or write a script that loads the HTTP and compares it to the standard versi
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by selven 17y ago
"Imagine if Wal-Mart tried to offer one-half of its customers one price and the other half a different price. Or even if they tried to change the price for a week to see what would happen." Someone from the first group would set up a retail
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by selven 17y ago
Start everything off with a single 50-point score. That way one person ranking it 100 will bump it up to 75, the next to 83, and so on. Such a system would cause teas that have more people upvoting them to rank higher than those that just h
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by selven 17y ago
The headline seems a bit misleading - it seems to be in favor of spending all of your money as soon as you get it - the article's actual point, that it is better to put your investments in places that do better than 1% per year, is quite va
82.
by selven 17y ago
I think the money vs happiness equation is pretty logarithmic. Going from $8000 per year to $16000 is about the same increase in quality of life as $80000 to $160000.
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by selven 17y ago
I don't have much against it, but it doesn't support my operating system.
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by selven 17y ago
And the middle one moves to the end of the line, grabbing half the clients. Now, the problem is the same but someone else is in the middle, who then must relocate himself, ad infinitum.
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by selven 17y ago
Because being ungreen hurts everyone. Giving customers a choice on how safe they are, however, is a completely different issue.
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by selven 17y ago
It's meaningless because if you're the only provider your price is by definition the market price. Market price means the price on the market, not the price in a hypothetical fair competitive market.
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by selven 17y ago
Nah, use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
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by selven 17y ago
Indeed. A few fighter jets still run on vacuum tubes, I believe.
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by selven 17y ago
But restricted access causes underuse - people seeing a bump would hold off on paying $300 until they eventually start feeling pain and bam, they have a systemic tumor.
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by selven 17y ago
I really have to disagree with this. Piracy will not be moving to rapidshare - it's just not anonymous and decentralized enough. More likely bittorrent protocols will keep improving with more privacy features tacked on. http://en.wikipedia

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