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by yarrel 11y ago
Oh that's how I cook it. I prefer the texture, I didn't realise it had any other benefits.
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by yarrel 11y ago
Apple had a strong foothold in education with the Apple II, and the Macintosh had better graphics capabilities than stock PCs into the 90s giving Apple a strong presence in the design industry.
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by yarrel 11y ago
Yes it's LGPL. As long as their clients could receive the source code if they wanted and re-link the binaries there isn't a problem. Could their clients receive the source code and re-link?
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by yarrel 11y ago
Nobody is forced to release their source code. They just can't release binaries without the source, as they would be preventing other people from doing anything they want with it. Arguing against that on the basis of freedom is hypocri
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by yarrel 11y ago
Consumers get better software Investors want a quicker payout. That's basically the economic argument for Open Source. How does the GPL support this better than complicit licenses? You'll have to pay me to find out. Because market
696.
by yarrel 11y ago
As a user, you get an application that uses the library that application X used to export its files. Or you get a version of application X compiled for your new platform, that can save to an intermediate format loadable by application Y. Or
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by yarrel 11y ago
People being less religious and moralistic about use at any cost would also be nice.
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by yarrel 11y ago
Blender is winning.
699.
by yarrel 11y ago
The author responds to Morozov's disastrously wrong-heaeded calls for ideological purity in tech critique here - http://www.roughtype.com/?p=5764 It's easy to agree - http://www.metareader.org/post
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by yarrel 11y ago
Apple's cloud is based on BSD-licensed software. So no.
701.
by yarrel 11y ago
Can you call for a formal EOL on HTML5 DRM as well, please?
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by yarrel 11y ago
Like the question of whether a submarine can swim, the question of whether algorithms can be prejudiced is moot. Algorithms can, without their developers ever intending it, perform in ways functionally equivalent to prejudice. It is reasona
703.
by yarrel 11y ago
His creators are perfectly happy to take the credit for destroying New Coke. ;-)
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by yarrel 11y ago
It combines technical prowess, pop culture references, and an air of mystery. It's hacker catnip. :-)
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by yarrel 11y ago
The earlier backgrounds were hand-drawn. The later backgrounds were Amiga-generated - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(character)#Produ...
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by yarrel 11y ago
New Labour in the UK don't have a better record on technological civil liberties. This is part of the problem - we cannot signal our rejection of these measures electorally.
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by yarrel 11y ago
No, because glibc is LGPL.
708.
by yarrel 11y ago
The problem is precisely that Google didn't use Java under its free software license.
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by yarrel 11y ago
If they are, I demand my own tank and as much fish as I can eat.
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by yarrel 11y ago
Dylan is - http://opendylan.org/ :-)
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by yarrel 11y ago
Options are deferred wages. If you're lucky.
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by yarrel 11y ago
There's no contradiction between the two.
713.
by yarrel 11y ago
Subscribed for a while. There's not a single word of the name that's accurate.
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by yarrel 11y ago
It's a confusion of the algorithm that the brain implements with the algorithm that implements the brain. Penrose fills in the gaps with quantum woo. He's much beloved by people who can't quite bring themselves to quote Deepa
715.
by yarrel 11y ago
Oh yeah those are really comfortable. I found they broke/wore out quickly though.
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by yarrel 11y ago
Which version of Android/Chrome and which network provider? I'm not seeing an issue with Chrome 43 on Android 5.1.1 over wifi.
717.
by yarrel 11y ago
GNU social team member here, so I'm biased, but yes people have personal instances (I ran one on a plug server several years ago - http://foocorp.net/projects/fooplug/ ). The federation works well, the only i
718.
by yarrel 11y ago
GNU Social and the awesome StatusNet shared a codebase, GNU Social is now continuing its development. It's an international project. The lead developers are in Europe, admins are in North America, servers and users are all over.
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by yarrel 11y ago
See the book-length version for a more detailed elaboration of this argument - http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/75tms2pw9780252... Ramsay's critique of tf-idf is interesting and they engage with t
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by yarrel 11y ago
Thank you for reporting this. I'll (gnu.io admin) take a look.

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