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by slowpoke 15y ago
> However, there's very little (economic) incentive to innovate In the economic sense, that might be true, but on the contrary, patents prevent (or hinder) people who might have good ideas from innovating - and I'd wager that those peop
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I don't think most people take issue with the fact that patents are purchasable or otherwise transferable. I do, because I object to the absurd concept of ownership over ideas. Software patents just take the absurdity to the utter and
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by slowpoke 15y ago
If by no longer supporting IE6 we can force these companies to finally go with the times, then by all means, no, we should not consider this. We cannot endlessly cater to every outdated technology ever. Besides, these companies have absolut
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Sure it is. Replace general purpose computers with centrally and permanently connected (It's a feature!) computing devices that only run signed apps. Then whenever someone does something too clever you just revoke their developer ID an
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Unless you have a boss telling you to support IE6, you don't . People need to stop using this prehistoric excuse for a browser.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
There is no First Amendment right to infringe intellectual property rights. Neither is IP a constitutional right, only the congress' ability to create IP laws. I still find it fascinating how a single industry that's currently expe
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by slowpoke 15y ago
While I have only discovered the awesomeness that is GNU/Linux approximately a year ago, I feel at home like it's been forever. Happy birthday, Linux, and cheers to the best kernel in the world!
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Writing a computer program which embodies a mathematical concept is teaching the most retarded entity that is capable of more than just arithmetic. I have to agree with this. Solving a problem - this isn't even limited to just m
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Sorry, but what? A handicapped spot is for people who, for example, have difficulties walking, or need space to leave the car (wheelchairs). In what way exactly does pancreatic cancer prevents one from using a regular parking spot? Besides
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Every time I think Wikipedia couldn't slide any further into craziness, I see something like this. Oh boy you haven't seen the German WP yet. At least half of what's in the English WP would be deleted due to irrelevancy in the Ger
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I've been saying since a while that, barring pure performance, DDG beats GoogleSearch any day. Switched months ago and never looked back. Unfortunately, many people think I'm just a paranoid neckbeard who dislikes Google when I dare to sugg
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by slowpoke 15y ago
As it is always said, Emacs is a great operating system - it only lacks a decent text editor. That said, I really don't think this is the place for war between the Church of Emacs and the Cult of vi.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Putting Chinese and Japanese (I guess because their writing systems are kind of similar) is similar to, similar to saying the same for English and Basque (which, like Japanese is agglutinative) because they both use the Latin a
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That's only weird to those who think open standards to be the only viable standard. Open standards are the only viable standard if you want adaptable, future-oriented and collaborative software ecosystems as well as likewise mar
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by slowpoke 15y ago
And, not to mention no business owner want to get locked into a solution, they want their "data" transferable and standardized to at least some extend. That's a weird thing to say. Why do many business continue to use things li
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I have to admit I haven't learned LaTeX myself yet, but I've been using LyX for a while now, which basically spits out compilable TeX. Processors like LyX (are there even any processors like it?) take care of exactly that barrier of entry.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
If your employer owns anything you create (like most businesses in the USA) I'm not from the US, so excuse me if I ask you: What the hell? Is this really true? Anything ? Or just things related to your job? The former would be - la
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Is the Linux desktop on par with Mac and Windows? No way(linux.com)
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by slowpoke 15y ago
What would be 'advanced features' of Word that are neither completely unnecessary nor could be replaced by (more or less) simple LaTeX macros? I'm actually curious - I've heard a lot of people raving about the 'power of MS Word', yet no one
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by slowpoke 15y ago
To write fast code it requires a programmer and if you have a programmer why not just do it in C++ where it will be several times faster? Why should I as a programmer not profit from extremely fast design/implement/test/fix/re
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Mr. Soltani also claims that it is somehow improper to use any technology other than browser cookies to track website activity. In fact, countless online companies, including other major analytics providers, use a variety of diff
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The reaction was pure hate for my posting because it was defending pedophiles (it wasn't). What do you except? It's sad to see that even usually decent and intelligent people devolve into frothing mobsters when you oppose somethin
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I've met some of my best (online) buddies on /b/ or in /b/-related activities (though I don't go there anymore). Yes, it's a raging shithole of trolls, mouth-frothing idiots and general retardation, but there're probably just as many decent
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You can just link directly to a server/chatroom on mibbit. No need for your users to ever see their frontpage.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Er, no. That's like saying Linux is only CLI. It's outdated misinformation. There are loads of web clients, and you wouldn't believe what kinds of tech illiterate people I've seen on some networks.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Awesome Features! Beautiful default theme Join multiple rooms and start private conversations Get notified when new messages arrive Ignore spammers and people you don't like Moderation: Kick and ban users, change t
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by slowpoke 15y ago
One has got to admit the Windows 7 interface is great. Opinions. I hate the Windows Interface with a passion, the same goes for OS X, and I'm not too fond of G3 either. It's just needless clutter, completely pointless blingbling, bl
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You need to do memory management, need to work with design patterns, learn a new language, and more. While he does raise some valid points (with which I still disagree, but then again I wouldn't be caught dead on anything by Appl
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Why use a cookie if you could finally make use of the Do-No-Track header (or however it was called)? Granted, that's a feature only found in newer browsers, but it could help speed up the adoption of that header. Anyways, I will continue to
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Well, ignoring counterarguments, blabbering fallacious nonsense and citing 'community standards' to hide the first two things seems to be a 'community standard' amongst some people here as well. If you care more for being nice than for vali

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