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by spot 16y ago
The two are intimately related. With open source, you can always get support even after the company has ditched the product.
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by spot 16y ago
The competition here isn't Linux, it's Google's cloud docs offering. Google does offer support and it's much cheaper than Microsoft.
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by spot 16y ago
Yes there are, but that's just the choice we (America at least) made. There no TV or radio ads for cigarettes, for example. In a sane world, when drugs are legalized they are also taxed, and a fraction of the revenue goes to treatment and
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by spot 16y ago
One problem with releasing your code as open source is it can get used in ways that you don't approve of, eg weapon systems by the military or crapware by the carriers.
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by spot 16y ago
javascript lacks a static type system which makes it fairly impractical for mission critical reliability you expect from your cell phone.
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by spot 16y ago
Thank you, we agree on the first part. Re the 2nd, it turns out it's possible to build schools and hospitals without soldiers. In Afghanistan, the price of every soldier could build 20 schools. In Iraq the ratio may be lower but, it's stil
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by spot 16y ago
I used to play a lot on NNGS and the Palo Alto Go Club in ~98 but now I just teach. Sticking with the f2f version :) I was into the game enough that when I had a free week in a Japan, I spent it playing every day at a club.
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by spot 16y ago
> The truth, probably, lies somewhere in the middle. Ooh I hate it when people say that :) In particular, it is a hackneyed journalistic technique to list the positions of the Left and the Right, deride them both as extreme, and then se
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by spot 16y ago
He didn't dismiss it, or speculate at all on how other people would be happy with it. He said it lacked a feature important to him .
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by spot 16y ago
same problem.
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by spot 16y ago
If that's the lock screen, it leaks a lot of real information. Yikes.
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by spot 16y ago
so buy the rooted/rootable android device from hacker-friendly company X, and run it on VZ's LTE network.
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by spot 16y ago
spawn of microsoft.
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by spot 16y ago
Nope, they banned all CC works instead of noncommercial ones.
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by spot 16y ago
Tom Mitchell is on a roll. He also got press for the fMRI mind reader: http://singularityhub.com/2009/04/24/devices-that-read-peopl...
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by spot 16y ago
This is immoral and sick.
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by spot 16y ago
Ah yes, the old "we are bombing them for their own good" argument. To answer your question directly, yes it would be more peaceful (it was more peaceful in both cases before we invaded and i expect things would settle down pretty soon after
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by spot 16y ago
It's not the superstition that turns into hatred, it's the civilian casualties. This is part of a positive feedback loop: http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/74916 Even those who "think differently" understand food, medicine, education,
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by spot 16y ago
But they do allow you to do DMT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._O_Centro_Espirita_B...
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by spot 16y ago
That's true at just about every company, even Google. The question is are the patents used for offense or defense.
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by spot 16y ago
A system that crashes from such a small trade is broken. Any foreign government could easily pull this trigger. Or how about another big fund triggering a crash to make a buck?
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by spot 16y ago
Oh so the pledge was always worthless. You are right.
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by spot 16y ago
Didn't MS pledge not to use their patents offensively? EDIT: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/principles/osspatentpledge....
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by spot 16y ago
Google's servers can identify when the client can handle this format and give those users a better experience (faster download). So it will be saving money for G while at the same time either driving wider adoption of Chrome, or spreading
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by spot 16y ago
"Masters of Deception" covers this kind of stuff really well: http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Deception-Artists-Optical-Illu... In particular the cover was done by Rob Gonsalves: http://www.discoverygalleries.com/ArtistGallery.asp?artist_i
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by spot 16y ago
I don't see many people claiming that keeping taxes low on the rich benefits society. That fig leaf wore thin a long time ago. This is heartless greed. It's especially immoral given how the rich have benefited from the state.
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by spot 16y ago
They reporters already went to corporate HQ and got the bullshit runaround.
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by spot 16y ago
The story here isn't that Russia does this stuff, it's that Microsoft is participating.
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by spot 16y ago
Has anyone tried this recently? I looked into it a long time ago and it did not appear to be ready for prime time usage.
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Auto Update for Windows Apps(code.google.com)
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