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631.
by spot 17y ago
they found all the bugs?? but seriously, gates continues to maintain the fiction that open source = hobbyists not getting paid.
632.
by spot 17y ago
I don't care how many windows there are, I just want cut and paste to work in a reasonably intuitive way. In the GIMP it does not.
633.
by spot 17y ago
that's interesting -- that makes it even more of an anti-bush statement. when i think of it that way, it actually makes sense. too bad he hasn't lived up to the promise.
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Google, Verizon Sign Android Phone Pact (Google Voice included)(pcworld.com)
1 points by spot 17y ago|0 comments
635.
by spot 17y ago
there are high resolution PDFs in the supplementary section.
636.
by spot 17y ago
gmail has a contract too, it's called an SLA. why should j-random business trust the part-time IT guy hired from craigslist more than the engineers at google?
637.
by spot 17y ago
the problem isn't the app store ("the program"), it's that you can't easily download and install random apps. that includes the TOS that says distribution outside the app store is banned without written permission.
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by spot 17y ago
i disagree that vmware on anything is "standard". when i install ubuntu on a macmini sound, graphics, disk, wifi, everything just works. i never tried on a macbook. also note that i didn't judge ChromeOS, i just said "maybe".
639.
by spot 17y ago
linux just works too. i can't remember the last time i had to deal with any of the garbage mentioned in the original article. it's still missing some apps (in my case i need photoshop and aftereffects), is that what you mean? that certai
640.
by spot 17y ago
and writes her name in lowercase: "danah boyd".
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by spot 17y ago
"But can we really do anything with computers now that we couldn’t have done 30 or even 50 years ago?" 'nuff said. the author is probably just trying to be provocative. either that or he's an idiot.
642.
by spot 17y ago
Perhaps what you are really saying is you don't follow people who don't also know you, ie with whom you have a two-way relationship?
643.
by spot 17y ago
We hear that's not what you want. What we are asking is why ?
644.
by spot 17y ago
why wouldn't you follow someone who has more followers than followees? i follow about 20 folks and am followed by 400. those 20 already tweet so much i am not sure i want more traffic than that. what does that say about the quality of my
645.
by spot 17y ago
if they were so exact then why do they disagree? i play go and i'm speaking from experience.
646.
by spot 17y ago
That's the point: it's so hard that playing is less calculation and more like visual conversation.
647.
by spot 17y ago
good thing he didn't discover "go" or else we never would have had zot! or understanding comics!
648.
by spot 17y ago
tcmalloc: http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html http://mituzas.lt/2006/12/06/google-perftools-tcmalloc-squid...
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by spot 17y ago
YouTube is dropping IE6 support, and digg may follow suit: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to... http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/10/can-you-digg-it-maybe-n...
650.
by spot 17y ago
from the supreme court: "The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that promoting progress means benefit for the users of copyrighted works. For example, in Fox Film v. Doyal, the court said, The sole interest of the United States and the p
651.
by spot 17y ago
Interesting post, but I don't agree with its conclusion. The "Theory of Everything" in Physics is equivalent to finding the axioms of Mathematics. It does not give us a way to determine the truth of any physical law (say about climatology,
652.
by spot 17y ago
I certainly agree with you that for the economy to work we need a way for (say) authors to make money. But technological change requires adaptation. Just like we ask factory workers to retrain in the face of machine automation, informatio
653.
by spot 17y ago
does "or be blocked" sound like direct pressure to you?
654.
by spot 17y ago
self-censorship is "Self-censorship is the act of censoring ... without an authority directly pressuring one to do so" (quoting the wikipedia). needless to say, this is not the case of google in china.
655.
by spot 17y ago
all-in-one does solve the problem of moving a conversation between all the different and incompatible existing systems. seamless integration is a huge win.
656.
by spot 17y ago
a computer can simulate interaction with world just as well as it can simulate your brain. "actually discovered the underpinnings" is a vast overstatement anyway.
657.
by spot 17y ago
I got mine last night, and tried out the video recorder right away. I can see lots of polish. Looking forward to getting into the details.
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Android 1.5 "Cupcake" release begins(computerworld.com)
1 points by spot 17y ago|1 comments
659.
by spot 18y ago
an interesting & open graph database from danny hillis & co: http://www.freebase.com http://www.freebase.com/view/freebase/faq http://www.freebase.com/view/en/creating_types_and_propertie...
660.
by spot 18y ago
thanks.

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