virtualritz

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by virtualritz 14y ago
Individual states can have laws that force vendors to give more than 24 months. But 24 months is the legally required minimum warranty timespan for anyone selling tech in the EU.
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by virtualritz 14y ago
Recently? In my book, 10 years is rather not so recent (EU Directive 1999/44/EC came into affect January 2002). http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...
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by virtualritz 14y ago
As I wrote, they did have crazy EUR prices before, compared to USD. When you ask any sales rep. of any big brand in Europe about this, they always use the "24 months warranty vs 12 months elsewhere" excuse. I'd never buy anything from Apple
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by virtualritz 14y ago
In Europe you are forced to give your customer 2 years of warranty on certain products. E.g. computer hardware or electronics. Apple refused to in the past (and still had their crazy EUR prices then). But now, after being dragged to court a
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by virtualritz 15y ago
A lot of graphics on these devices are vectors (Inkscape SVG, Illustrator, etc.). A possible solution would be a cache on the device where each app has a slot. The app can store data in this cache (i.e. images rendered on-demand into bitmap
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by virtualritz 15y ago
Yes, everything is copyright its creator. I guess my point was that all that doesn't matter if the original design doesn't exhibit enough originality (I used the term 'novel'). To give an example: if I have an A4 page with left aligned text
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by virtualritz 15y ago
Can you show us some references to this law? In Europe you can apply for design patents. Afaik doing so costs a four digit sum in EUR plus the patent lawyer that writes the legalese for you. However, to get such a patent the design must cle
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by virtualritz 15y ago
Cool. :) Btw., I assume you know LOEVE? https://love2d.org/ Is is very similar, though the target audience is not kids. :) Personally, I think time would be well spent making a kids-friendly version of LOEVE (and ofc, porting LOEVE to A
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by virtualritz 15y ago
Really nice! But I do not get the C64 editor look stuff. I mean why not add syntax highlighting and make this more eye friendly (neither requires abandoning a cute color scheme)? I never had a C64, I saved 2 years so I could afford a 286, I
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by virtualritz 15y ago
Critically misses the most advanced package manager currently available: Paludis. http://paludis.exherbo.org/
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by virtualritz 15y ago
> easiest country to set up a business in the world Could you elaborate what your base of comparison is to make such statement? How many countries have you set businesses up in? Speaking just of Asia, I set up businesses in Singapore an
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by virtualritz 15y ago
I think these guys are on to it too. W/o govt. funding and "orders of magnitude better" marketing babble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sfWYUgxGBE
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by virtualritz 15y ago
One more thing. As a software developer in such a setup and w/o a good reason to stay in one place (family, fear to travel, &c.), it is perfectly legal to have no residency anywhere. Most jurisdictions consider you a "resident for tax p
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by virtualritz 15y ago
Indeed, but you are taxed on /your/ income, not your company's. The company itself is not a citizen of the jurisdiction you live in. Have the company pay yourself a salary that is below (or just above) the lowest tax bracket in the jurisdic
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by virtualritz 15y ago
Not necessarily. You can live wherever you like and still have a software business in another country. Software does not require a physical office space. You (or the people you may employ) can work from home or from a co-working space. As s
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by virtualritz 15y ago
I am a non-native speaker (NNS) and got 15.700. I think this test is not very telling for NNSs as it doesn't consider specialist vocabulary which many of us have a lot of of, because of how we /really/ learned the language. When I left scho
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by virtualritz 15y ago
I wrote a similar essay a while back: http://www.virtualritz.com/archive/on-plagiarism-creativity-...
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by virtualritz 16y ago
Misses http://www.exherbo.org/
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by virtualritz 16y ago
It took Soft years to recover from that imho. When I wrote a an XSI plugin for a feature film production, in 2005, for XSI running on Linux, half of the API was still using COM, it the app required a special gcc version that shipped with th
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by virtualritz 16y ago
Yes, for going to market you will always need a business person too (the hustler, see http://learntoduck.com/micah/hackers-hustlers ). I guess the post was more about the problem solving power such teams have vs combinations of people that
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The Power of Interdisciplinary Teams(jupiter-jazz.com)
11 points by virtualritz 16y ago|2 comments
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by virtualritz 16y ago
The title is slightly exaggerating as pretty much all top grade image editing software uses linear space, internally, and hence gets this right. Examples are DigitalFusion, The Foundry's Nuke and Apple's discontinued Shake. When working in