tsuraan

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by tsuraan 17y ago
Points 1 and 2 are sort of fascinating to me. As far as I'm aware, patents and copyrights are defined in the constitution as monopolies granted to "Authors and Inventors". Do you know how it is that the laws, which are supposed to build o
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Every desktop environment that I'm familiar with (OSX, KDE, Gnome) has a built-in password manager to hook into, that stores the data encrypted and prompts the user for a master password in some configurable way. I'm guessing that if the O
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by tsuraan 17y ago
/dev/random is random bytes, so in order to make it typable, it's useful to convert it into characters. md5 is good for that. Alternatively, strings /dev/random|head gives some stuff that you can concatenate into a password.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Can you re-invest it in the non-profit that you created? i.e., accept the 5% and then just give most of it right back?
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by tsuraan 17y ago
OMAP isn't a DSP, it's a dual-core with an ARM on one side and a DSP on the other. I don't know of any port of Linux to an actual DSP.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Yeah, the bit about name-brand drugs being only for those who an afford them out of pocket is especially bad. Drug patents are 20 years, so the peasants would be getting 20-year-old cancer treatments, while the select few would be getting
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by tsuraan 17y ago
The big one is that there's a pretty good chance FBSD will run on your hardware, and there's a really slim chance that OpenSolaris will. Solaris just doesn't have the driver selection that BSDs or Linux have.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
It's sort of interesting how unicode solved your problem, but totally ignored the exact same problem in east asia. It's still not possible to have a single unicode text file with japanese and chinese kanji in it. The official unicode answ
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by tsuraan 17y ago
A key component of my process was, after saving them a truckload or two of money, I would rigorously document what I did, how much we saved (metrics METRICS metrics), future places we could employ the technology/technique/whatever, etc Ho
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Would it be a cartel, or a voluntary tax? It sounds like it could evolve from a fine for illegal behaviour into a legal subscription program. The lawyers would be sad, but overall it might not be a bad deal.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
A bit off-topic, but I've been seeing more infoq lately, and I'm wondering if there's a pwnyoutube/deturl type thing for infoq. I found the conclusion to Rich's talk on youtube, but it looked like it was filmed with a cell phone and it was
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by tsuraan 17y ago
This whole line of reasoning reminds me of the Java3D API. Java, of course, takes the approach that only the designers of the langauge were smart enough to know when to abuse operator overloading (e.g. with strings), so for the Java3D math
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I'd say it's mostly about your audience. Most people have flash installed and don't even know when they hit a flash page. For them, it's probably not a problem. If you want people to be able to view your app with a phone or from a non-MS
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by tsuraan 17y ago
And in 1995, I could write interactive (quasi) graphical games on my TI-81. Without rebooting. At the time, a TI-81 was pretty fancy, but I've seen plenty that leads me to believe that nearly every kid today has a TI-83 for their math cla
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by tsuraan 17y ago
That's pretty nice. Thanks!
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I'm not having any luck loading your page, so maybe it's explained there, but how do you get to the .mp4 version of a file? pwnyoutube often works, but it's also often down. I'd love to just be able to download the video and watch it loc
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Is the iTunes tv stuff still DRM'd, or have the shows gone the way of their music? I grabbed an episode of Drawn Together around 2006 (I think), and sort of drove me away from the entire iTunes tv stuff. The quality was terrible, the reso
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I've been running KDE4 out of svn since pre-4.2, and it's really shaping up nicely. I actually finally built 4.3.2 out of Gentoo's package system last night, so I guess the 4.3.3 announcement was inevitable. Anyhow, not sure if anybody's s
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by tsuraan 17y ago
It doesn't look like it was a graceful shutdown either; I had to enter maintenance mode and fsck by hand. Lots of bad free block counts, but now that it's booted, I'm not seeing any corruption. I just use my linode for fun, so I don't rea
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Perhaps it's not too popular, but VHDL or Verilog are a ton more useful for learning about how a machine works. Seriously, writing some x86 assembly teaches you a thing or two, but implementing a full CPU from the design of the ISA to putt
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by tsuraan 17y ago
If I could pay a reasonable amount for perpetual access to commercial-free content, I'd be happy with that. As it stands, I tend to buy the shows I want once they're on DVD, which works out to ~$2 per show. I wouldn't object to paying a b
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by tsuraan 17y ago
That sounds a lot more like master-slave database replication than actual backups. The key difference being that you can roll back to your backups; when the slave replicates the invalid data of the master, you're hosed.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
The only thing I've ever used bluetooth for is audio; my cell phone has it, my iPod has an adaptor for it, and I have a pretty acceptable set of headphones that receive it. I'm also planning on getting a car stereo that supports it. Has f
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I believe you're thinking of Kalman Filters. They're commonly used in sensor fusion and noise reduction, anyhow.
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by tsuraan 17y ago
The wireless is actually pretty cool. On long drives, my girlfriend will finish a book, and then just buy the next in the series, on the road. It's quite a bit nicer than having to plan ahead. The DX also ships a really crappy web browse
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by tsuraan 17y ago
And if your kids are math-oriented, there's UMTYMP ( http://www.itcep.umn.edu/umtymp/ ), where starting in 7th grade or earlier, students basically cover two years of math per year, starting with algebra, geometry, stats, and then calculus
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by tsuraan 17y ago
Yeah, I also keep a copy of OOo for that particular case. Logically, there must be some people who actually use office suites to create documents though...
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What do you do with an office suite?
3 points by tsuraan 17y ago|5 comments
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by tsuraan 17y ago
I can't reply to tc's reply to me (I think that "feature" should probably be disabled, btw; it tends to lead to broken threads like this one, and inhibits discussion), so I'm replying to myself, like a monster. Service provider competition
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by tsuraan 17y ago
[2] and [3], I think may have been written after I posted, or maybe I'm just blind. Either way... I'm definitely uncertain about what bad politicians would do with control over the net's structure. I do know exactly what the CEOs of major

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