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by thyrsus 15y ago
Yup. When my mom tries to double click a mouse button, I hear anything from two to five clicks, and the mouse shudders under her hand as she attempts this. The result is predictably unpredictable. She seems to do OK with single clicks.
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by thyrsus 15y ago
I retract this. Reading deeper, I see that he was comparing equal solar cell areas, and thus your analysis likely correct.
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by thyrsus 15y ago
It's not impossible, because the sun's relative position changes, and the closer to orthogonal the light, the better the efficiency of the solar cell. By taking optimal advantage of the height, this design is closer to orthogonality more o
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Deletions inspired by that attitude is exactly what keeps me from contributing.
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Are we talking about work or home computers? Overwhelming user pressure is slowly bringing Macs into the workplace, but they're only feasible because something like Citrix XenApp (aka Presentation Manager aka Metaframe) servers allow access
576.
by thyrsus 15y ago
That might not be true: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfoli...
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Entities like China that are less than assiduous in respecting patents are going to benefit enormously from the hobbling effect of U.S. patent litigation. I don't think it's a complete counterbalance to the lack of free information flow wh
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Yes, it is the most important statement, and I disagree with it. Software expressions are a form of lambda calculus, i.e., mathematics, and ought to be outside the proper domain of patents, whereas the proper domain of patents is the materi
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by thyrsus 15y ago
I went to the "source" slideshow, and I still can't tell how much these categories overlap. Part of my 401K is invested in a strictly-U.S. Treasury Bonds mutual fund. Does that count as owned by a household or by a mutual fund or get coun
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by thyrsus 15y ago
By "light today that we know has been in transit since the start of the Universe" may I presume you mean the microwave background often referred to as "remnants of the big bang"? Where should I go to understand the derivation of the figure
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by thyrsus 15y ago
If Microsoft wants to send a video gift to Linux, how about dedicating all their video codec patents to the public domain? Or making Ogg the default media format?
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by thyrsus 15y ago
When I don't see a price where there should be a price, I call it "price too obscene for the internet" - though usually it's in the context of end user goods advertised with "Call now for special pricing!".
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by thyrsus 15y ago
This chart shows that there are now 5% fewer jobs than there were at the peak of employment 34 months ago - the lines are scaled relative to prior peak jobs, not relative to population. http://cr4re.com/charts/charts.html#category=Employ
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Five years latter, the U.S. has institutionalized a terrified attitude, at least with respect to air travel. At this point, the only thing that might compel me to put up with the useless, degrading, indignity of U.S. air travel would be a
585.
by thyrsus 15y ago
Good science accepts all non-fraudulent evidence. In the case of evolution, we're dealing with large, highly variable populations. Thus, no individual observation will falsify the theory. Evolution is almost tautological in predicting th
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by thyrsus 15y ago
I believe the following clearly describes an aberration - an exception - to the normal course of events. In the normal course, those who use language more provocative than intended quietly revert it. In the incident under discussion (quot
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by thyrsus 15y ago
My understanding is that the original author, feeling betrayed, has abandoned her open source project, allowing the once collaborator and suggester of the name "upskirt" to make his suggestion of the replacement name "misaka".
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by thyrsus 15y ago
I upvoted you because I think your description of the normal response to this kind of unintentionally provocative language is indeed normal. I speculate that you were downvoted, because the incident in question is fairly clearly an aberrati
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Apparently there are many good arguments for Mercurial, and many bad arguments for mercurial. The author says: "These questions matter. And they’ve been answered, very eloquently, many times." I've used CVS, svn, bzr, and git - I'm still a
590.
by thyrsus 15y ago
I doubt you can libel a fiction, so I think the tabloids would get even more creative. Ambush photographers would be replaced by cheaper digital choreographers.
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Not in and of itself. Evidence of a crime must have strong provenance, that is, people testifying to its history and curation. That's the theory. Whether jurors will be sufficiently sophisticated is a crap shoot - but I'm not prepared to
592.
by thyrsus 15y ago
I inferred that he was being asked to write about 16 (one article every half hour for eight hours) specific show episodes for a deadline about 12 hours after they aired; even with a Tivo, how would you both watch and write?
593.
by thyrsus 15y ago
While talking to your lawyer, I'd ask about the practicality of this advice: http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=2011...
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Indeed; the trial, if any (Private Manning?), will be interesting for the evidence collection techniques.
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Thanks for the copy. Cybertrust Inc., currently a subsidiary of Verizon, signed the VA's certificate and appears to be a legitimate CA; is there any particular reason why that certificate authority did not ship with my (very) recent Firefo
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by thyrsus 15y ago
I was remembering that blog post as I read the article. The researchers (as described by the NYT) seem to be testing a hypothesis about generalization vs. specialization regardless of whether the subject generalized was positive or negativ
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by thyrsus 15y ago
I remember some anti-spam vigilante code that told legitimate bots to go away with robots.txt, told humans what the game was about, and attacked e-mail address scrapers by presenting an infinite number of fake e-mail addresses. "Click here
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by thyrsus 15y ago
The two thirds of the article that exposes the "rule of law" as the antithesis of a consistent logical system is quite useful. I think it accurately portrays the reality. The author appears to hold the pre-eminence of property rights over
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by thyrsus 15y ago
The underlying report http://www.freedomhouse.org/images/File/FotN/FOTN2011.pdf only evaluates 37 countries "chosen to provide a representative sample with regards to geographical diversity and economic development, as well as varying lev
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by thyrsus 15y ago
It was a sad day when Red Hat removed the insults from sudo.

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