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by skymt 16y ago
The key was Google's agreement to continue licensing QPX on “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms”. According to the linked Justice Department press release, they're also required to continue development of the publicly-available v
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The experimental-music band Bull of Heaven recently released a prime-looping generative piece that they project will last 8,462,937,602,125,701,219,674,955.2362595095 years before repeating. http://bullofheaven.com/media/260.html
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Fedora 15 is most likely to be the Gnome 3 showcase. Its release on May 24 is nicely timed to allow them enough time to integrate Gnome Shell. As a desktop distro it's second in popularity only to Ubuntu, which makes it the most popular dis
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Integrated version control: call it something like "Tracked Folders" and build the UI into Windows Explorer. Build an efficient set of diff algorithms for text, binary, images, and media, plus visual-diff views for each. Make it work with O
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If these are real, they're screenshots of an early internal build. It'll be a while before they start adding the final artwork.
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Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see that. Disregard my comment.
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(Edit: Disregard this comment. Copyto has a fine business plan, a flat $1.99/month fee.) I have a policy of only investing my time in a service if I know their monetization plan, to avoid getting burned by shutdowns or features moved to pre
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I think I see the source of our disagreement. You seem to say that Chrome's impressive infrastructure for web apps gives it a potential advantage. I certainly agree with that, but the capabilities of Chrome apps aren't widely used right no
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Do many web apps use those features yet? (Besides payment, that is; see my reply to your other comment for my view on that.)
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The Chrome store could be more than a link directory, and if that happens it'll be for the same reason Apple's App Store took off: centralized payment. A sane payment system for web apps could be revolutionary, but before that happens we'll
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In my experience, most apps on the Chrome store are what Google calls "Hosted Apps": a link plus metadata and an icon [0]. They also provide "Packaged Apps" [1], which are downloaded and run locally as you describe, but this style appears t
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This reads like linkbait to me. The author doesn't really have a coherent argument: he spends the first half of the article talking about Firefox's relatively slow* release cycle, but never bothers to explain why that's a death sentence. In
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In this case, the semantics were already decided: CoffeeScript was intended to map transparently to JavaScript. Each change to semantics would add complexity to that mapping.
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A couple similar frameworks -- Flask [1] and Tir [2] -- use the term microframework or micro-framework. [1] http://flask.pocoo.org/ [2] http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1289384533.html
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Doom 3 maybe. We already have Quake 2 running in the browser using WebGL ( http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/ ), anything less would undersell NaCl.
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The problem is, most open-source developers don't have their own patent arsenal.
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The form of speech itself isn't banned, merely the method of distribution. The FCC bans broadcasting without a license (wasting bandwidth), and most areas would frown on scattering pamphlets on the ground (littering). More to the point, at
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Universal bandwidth metering would certainly incentivize moderation. For starters, it would immediately kill the Internet advertising industry, as just about every Internet user would moderate the bandwidth they spend on ads by installing A
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by skymt 16y ago
Wikipedia suggests 18 U.S.C. § 1030, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act[0]. Here's the relevant part: > Whoever ... knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentiona
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Spoilers, rot13'd: Gur fgnzc va gur hccre yrsg unf ovanel pbqr. Qrpbqrq gb nfpvv, gura ebg13'q naq erirefrq, gur zrffntr ernqf "onpba vf orggre guna fcnz."
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Ideologically it's good, aesthetically and phonetically not so much.
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MS already has a universal binary format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_assembly I wouldn't be too surprised if one part of MS's .NET push was a desire for architecture independence.
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I'm guessing the ARM development focus started around the time smartbooks[1] were the Next Big Thing. Smartbooks have a form factor closer to netbooks than smartphones, so it would make sense for MS to try squeezing proper Windows onto them
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Microsoft has changed Windows to fit tablets. Many of the UI changes in Windows 7 are touch-centric: * The big buttons and slide-to-expand of the new Taskbar * Multi-touch gestures in Explorer, IE and more * Aero Snap and Shake to make wind
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The MOS 6502 and the Best Layout Guy in the World(research.swtch.com)
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I think the pedophile-guide incident has Amazon paranoid. Amazon has a huge task ahead of it in both shifting the publishing world to e-books and maintaining their lead in that market. They decided they can't afford negative publicity right
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If you have a source for that number, I'd love to spread it around. Edit: I found a paper from 2007 that claims there were 129 extra driving fatalities in the last quarter of 2002 due to harsher airport security. http://aem.cornell.edu/fac
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Looks a lot like Haskell. Is there any reason Haskell couldn't just be ported to the CLR?
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Who would outlaw lobbying? The politicians who benefit from it?
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You might have Flash or JavaScript disabled: it's a YouTube video.

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