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by xenonite 17y ago
do you know why VLC does not have to pay a fee?
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by xenonite 17y ago
why not? if you distribute h.264 videos on a large scale (>100k viewers), you need to pay licensing fees. if you want to bundle a h.264 decoder with your software, you need to pay, too. Only if you use the OS' native decoder, you don't
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by xenonite 17y ago
I was asked to source my statements, as I did not do so before. The IPCC Third Report concludes that climate change might either be caused of a changing mean temperature, a changing variance, or both. What the real cause for climate change
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by xenonite 17y ago
Global warming != Climate change 1.) Global warming increases average temperatures. 2.) Climate change might turn the weather to extremes, which implies greater temperature _variance_ locally. Now the pattern I see is: people are trying to
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Is there life after high school?(stanford.edu)
3 points by xenonite 17y ago|0 comments
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what differences did you find out between art- and CS-students?
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by xenonite 17y ago
less windows please... the cube is much too open! especially the window behind. read Feng Shui: they say it's uncomfortable if you cannot control what's behind you. to let in light, a glass roof might be better instead.
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google cache: http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:5Vg1jqkHi_QJ:m.ft.com/c...
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Haha, and the picture comment by his daughter :-D ("you look soo silly") g
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by xenonite 17y ago
What is it about the remainings? Two comments about that (not by me): http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/27/its-i... It is not scientifically possible to decompose plastic, the only thing that happens is that the plastic
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by xenonite 17y ago
and what it is that I love most? in my experience: I like the work I can do well. then it is to find out what one does well... I can tell my abilities about that work I have been with long enough to withstand the initial bootstrap. Long eno
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George Orwell: In Front of Your Nose (1946)(orwell.ru)
5 points by xenonite 17y ago|1 comments
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Slimmed down YouTube "Feather" (beta)(youtube.com)
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by xenonite 17y ago
> I can't think of a single prominent CS academic researcher in systems/PL who spends a lot of time going after patents Well.. what does "prominent" mean? A professor of mine has 10x more patents than papers. He once said, he is angry a
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by xenonite 17y ago
interesting. will it be possible to use libs like QT and CUDA?
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yes, he talked very well. Still, I had to pause and rewind the video several times, because he talked too fast. Thats because several links sprung up in my head, and ideas came.
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by xenonite 17y ago
thanks for the post. reminds me of a time I was totally relaxed, did what I had to, and liked what I did. It is a great feeling to focus just on single things. What helps are repeating rituals. Like brushing teeth right before going to bed.
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by xenonite 17y ago
What do you consider as an adequate level of intelligence? And what kind of intelligence? I suppose that being a manager requires a lot of social intelligence... The problem I see: to balance out a deficit, one has to work more or to delega
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by xenonite 17y ago
The author writes about success. His statement is: with more work you can achieve the same success than another person with a higher IQ. ==> Work irons out ones inferior IQ. Actually mastering a field or craft, or having success simply