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by slowpoke 14y ago
Wrong. UTF-16 is an encoding , Unicode is the abstract representation. You can encode Unicode strings into UTF-16, but that doesn't make UTF-16 Unicode. Python's Unicode strings are actually really just Unicode, that's why you can't write
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by slowpoke 14y ago
False. Innovation would speed up by magnitudes because we'd finally be able to do incremental development off each other's discoveries. It would foster a society where exchange of information would be a given, instead of suing each other ov
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by slowpoke 14y ago
It's not that I didn't get what you are saying, it's that I disagree with you that the outcome is set in stone. It's a given that governments, backed by eternally backwards industries, will try to attack innovative new technologies or busin
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>The party won't last forever. On the contrary, the party will get even bigger, It's a business model for creators that demonstrably works , and I think crowd-funding in general will only get more widespread in the future. That isn't
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by slowpoke 14y ago
The sad thing is that publishers could remain relevant by concentrating on what they did before: selling books (yes, the real, paper-y ones). Instead they want to use a technology that is incompatible with their business model (charging for
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by slowpoke 14y ago
You just described Kickstarter[1]. :) I personally like this approach because it doesn't rely on distribution as a business model anymore. By the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it's 2012 and we're still forced to pay for flipping some bits becau
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by slowpoke 14y ago
As I said, I literally stopped reading. This is a matter of principle for me, because it in almost all cases, this analogy either means the writer is dishonest and tries to invoke an appeal to emotion, or that they are uninformed/a victim o
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Stopped reading at "theft". Sorry, I don't take anyone serious who equates or even compares copying to thievery. It's factually wrong, and serves as nothing but an attempt to discredit anyone critical of or even opposed to copyright (wheth
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by slowpoke 14y ago
And let me play the advocatus Dei , because that actually looks quite readable . Though, more seriously, using English (a natural language) to try to make an appeal to absurdity about the format style of a formal languag
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by slowpoke 14y ago
You completely and utterly missed the point, in addition to just being needlessly rude. The point of your parent was "don't let the experts think for you", not "screw the experts" - that's a very important distinction. You should form your
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Why jump through hoops to make a suboptimal solution half-viable, if we got a solution that just works and works well: native apps. Seriously, all that cloud stuff is overrated nonsense. There's some areas where it might sense, but stop t
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I actually wouldn't disagree with you on making distinctions. I specifically referred to it as "scholarly" because it's the term that's used to sound more serious. "Comic" sort of carries a negative connotation, it's mostly associated with
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by slowpoke 14y ago
As long as Valve wouldn't be pushing closed/proprietary standards or other nonsense, I would be very okay with this.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Gaming is really the last bastion of Windows. For the consumer market, yes. As much as I love GNU/Linux and support Free Software, the reality is that pretty much all business runs on Word and, even more so, Excel. Sad, but true.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Graphic novel is actually the "scholarly" term to refer to any kind of comics. You might be thinking of Visual Novels, though, which is a genre mostly prevalent in Japan and thus very similar to Anime and Manga in style. https://en.wikiped
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>"pirating" will become something that is seen as morally wrong by society Quite the opposite. Society will wake up and realize that sharing information, culture and art is the farthest thing from "morally wrong". Sharing is probably
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>fix the market There's nothing broken with the market, it's the business model that needs to be fixed. And by fixed, I mean scrapped and replaced by models not dependant on selling non-scarce goods.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Electricity is a service, and you're free to use electricity however you want. Nobody can (physically) stop you from using electricity in a way that is not "approved" by the provider of your electricity. Granted, there are other issues with
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I also seriously doubt that a petition is better than US citizens calling their representatives, as was recommended during the last struggle. The thing is, this affects far more than just US citizens. What is the rest of the world su
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Why would that be rude? On the contrary, I'd consider the people calling you while you're on vacation rude.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
And that's a problem. If you want to do system programming, there's C. And that's pretty much it. I don't think this is a very favorable situation.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
It's us hopeless dreamers that have built the world you say has no place for us. And we will continue to dream, and make our dreams reality, no matter how much you tell us we should accept defeat and just face the "reality of life", whateve
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Because it's irrelevant. On the contrary, it couldn't be more relevant. It's a fundamental issue of technology, and becoming increasingly important as we face the war on general purpose computing, a possible new advent of trusted com
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Freedom also carries a cost. What cost? You're stating this as a fact, when it certainly isn't. As I've pointed out in another comment, the claim that usability is an orthogonal concept to Freedom is a false dichotomy. Yes, there are
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>usability might be their top concern and they may be willing to sacrifice freedom for usability While some argue that this is the current situation, I want to point out that's a false dichotomy. Freedom and usability aren't orthogona
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>in true Steve form So with DRM and other ridiculous restrictions? No thanks.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I would just like to add that there is a valid reason why Linux or the *BSDs are superior to Windows or OS X - they are Free. As in Speech. And I'm sad this doesn't even warrant a mention.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
If this way of publication can't keep up with reality anymore, then I'm afraid it's not a viable business model, and should be scrapped, not kept on life-support with increasingly ridiculous monopoly laws which ultimately harm humanity as a
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by slowpoke 15y ago
There is no period of time that is short enough. Even a year, three months or a week is too long. Copyright can't keep up with the speed of our culture anymore. The same goes for patents and progress, essentially. It's time to get rid of th
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Funnily enough, this looks like a German person with no actual knowledge of English trying to write down what someone speaking English is saying.

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