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by tsuraan 17y ago
I don't know the real legal reasoning, but in general the score for a symphony is quite a bit more detailed than the words on your grandmother's recipe card. IIRC, a piece of music 8 seconds or less cannot be under copyright (can't find an
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by tsuraan 17y ago
According to the US Copyright Office, recipes aren't generally copyrightable. Listings of ingredients certainly aren't, and the instructions can only be copyrighted if they are a "substantial literary expression". I'm guessing that "mix s
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Wow, I can't believe I never noticed that. I've always gone to the local store page, and then looked for a book search there; I never saw the "enter a zip code" box on the normal product page. Learn something every day...
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I still think the best thing BN could do right now is to put the inventory levels of every bookstore on the store pages. I know they have them all on their intranet, since they can do searches of near-by stores to see if any neighbors have
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Under Gentoo, at least, the default postgresql.conf is still garbage. limit of 100 connections, hardly any shared memory, really nothing about it is good. I don't think shipping a good config file is possible though; we need a good config
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by tsuraan 17y ago
People tend to judge entities based on their actions, not their capabilities. Microsoft has acted as a rampaging barbarian horde, happily destroying competitors and allies alike. Google employs hundreds of students every summer to work on
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I like scripting my shell using a shell scripting langauge; if I have a few dozen (or hundred) console operations that need to be done often, then a shell script is more concise than ruby. If I need to add error handling, exceptions, netwo
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Is that tap gesture stuff in the hardware, or would Linux have to emulate it itself? My powerbook predates the multitouch stuff, so I've never played with it.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Sure, if you need to move a bunch of files whose names don't match any particular pattern, then using a GUI tends to be more efficient. Suppose you have a directory with a hundred documents in it, and you want to categorize them into subdi
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Running linux on a Mac laptop is a bit of a pain, mostly because of the keyboard/touchpad. The control and alt keys are in strange places (at least on my powerbook), and having only one button on the mouse is pretty irritating when you're
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Do you really only look at one file at once? My laptop's display is ~1600 pixels wide; that's enough for 3 terminals, all viewing different files, if I keep them at 80 columns wide. If my terminals are wider, I can only see two files at o
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you do with LUA? Are you just using it as a generic scripting language (like python or ruby), or is it embedded in a C or C++ based project? The only place I've ever seen LUA in the wild is in Baldur's Gate, so I
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by tsuraan 17y ago
It reads as though you generally do agree with the flat is better than nested though; your argument appears to be more against how the system is currently organized, rather than being concerned with the ability to write libraries without wo
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by tsuraan 17y ago
The author makes the assertion that flat is better than nested, and indeed it's one of the rules in "import this", but I just don't see it. I spend about half my time in python, and about half in erlang. Erlang makes python look pretty de
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Sounds like something the Alioth performance game was meant for. I'd point him towards chameneos-redux; the current haskell implementation ( http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=ch... ) is taking 3.73s to run, while th
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by tsuraan 17y ago
SATA certainly does support DMA. DMA isn't a feature unique to firewire; rather, USB is (nearly) unique in that it's the one high-speed standard that doesn't support DMA.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I can't view the video (refuse to install flash on 64-bit linux), but just in case anybody hasn't seen it, beej's guide to networking is pretty nice. http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. It's a small place in Indiana, but I think it's a pretty good school :)
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Assembly's too high-level :) In my school's sophomore year, CS majors are required to implement a CPU on an FPGA; the instruction set, CPU architecture, everything are up to the student groups to design and implement. At the end of the cl
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by tsuraan 18y ago
When Unix-like goes so far as to include windows with MSys, what does it exclude? And, for windows users that don't like to type, there's tortoisegit ( http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ ), which appears to be generally functional.
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by tsuraan 18y ago
Is that the cost of the player's victory points, or the sum of all points on the table?
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by tsuraan 18y ago
Why shouldn't resolutions be as high as the technology allows? Every OS that I know of offers scalable fonts, and a higher resolution allows for nice smooth fonts without hacks like anti-aliasing and cleartype. My 13.1" laptop has a resol
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by tsuraan 18y ago
Are you running 64-bit? I wonder if the size difference is due to that. I've heard 64-bit processes are bigger, due to larger pointers and longs, but I wouldn't expect things to be so amazingly huge. I certainly couldn't have survived on
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by tsuraan 18y ago
If subpixel rendering is being used (e.g. ClearType on Windows), then the horizontal PPI is 3x that, or 414.09. Don't you think some of those subpixels might be wasted on such a small screen? The text on my laptop very crisp and clean loo
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by tsuraan 18y ago
It's currently running X.5, whatever cat that is associated with. I did have to disable the background indexing stuff (searchlight?) due to my blazing fast 4200 RPM drive, but it ran pretty well with 512MB. Spaces even worked. Things wer
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by tsuraan 18y ago
I think you must be looking at the total memory for the apps (including shared libraries, etc), because I ran OSX with 512MB for five years without much trouble. I typically had mail, opera, and tons of terminals open, and there was still
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by tsuraan 18y ago
Screen real estate isn't reasonably measured in inches; resolution makes a ton more sense. My laptop's display is 1600x900, which is plenty of room for three terminals side-by-side. The screen itself is only 13.3" though. On the other ha
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by tsuraan 18y ago
I suffer from RSI in my wrists and have yet to find a long lasting remedy. A bit off-topic, obviously, but I've found that rock climbing is really great for the wrists. Starting senior year, I developed unbearable wrist pain from too muc
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by tsuraan 18y ago
Not logic, just law: in general, government publications aren't covered by copyright. For more details, you could JFGI, or have a look at the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_the_United_States_Gover... . To the bes
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by tsuraan 18y ago
Yeah, I was considering holding out for that, but my 360 is just loud; I don't mind it for video games, but I don't need that thing humming along while I'm watching movies. The Roku's really nice that way.

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