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by ynniv 14y ago
I can't decide if this is honest or a fantastic troll. At each point where the government "stepped in", it acted in a way that likely provides any technical reader with relief. I had assumed that when "[the government] did play a role and,
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by ynniv 14y ago
Lots of comments here say that this doesn't really change anything for Photoshop, but I think that it does. Compare downloading a cracked version to downloading this version. The cracked version might contain terrible malware. It might stil
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by ynniv 14y ago
The established market collects data from Android phones, commercial vehicle tracking, some municipal systems, and mobile phone providers. A couple ten million casual end users is two orders of magnitude less than the billions of points Inr
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by ynniv 14y ago
Waze is not going to beat Inrix at selling traffic data. People think that Waze is big because it is a consumer application that they have heard of, but Waze is not a serious player in the B2B traffic data market.
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by ynniv 14y ago
Yeah, that sounds like a winner. To quote Sorkin, "Gary’s Tuxedos, the Harvard Bartending Course. You’re just one small step away from bagging Snookies Cookies, I can feel it."
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by ynniv 14y ago
I read the article too... that doesn't answer the question of who they think is going to pay that price. Here's a hint: not Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Oracle, Apple, IBM, Nokia, or Facebook... Perhaps they're holding out for Samsung, but th
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by ynniv 14y ago
In what world does a company with no monetization strategy turn down a $500M acquisition? Who do they think is going to pay more for them, Yahoo!?
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by ynniv 14y ago
I'm fairly sure this is indeed where we are now. To be fair to the police, they are being controlled by federal organizations.
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by ynniv 14y ago
You can have an active, non-violent protest. This entails disobeying any and all orders from the authorities What you saw in London was not representative. OWS (possibly not every instance) was doing this when they were removed by pepper
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by ynniv 14y ago
Sure it does. OWS was everyday people visibly and peacefully saying that they are unhappy with the way life is treating them. They were then treated as terrorists by the FBI. This sends the signal that unless you are willing to be treated a
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by ynniv 14y ago
The problem isn't "some guy sharing a DVD with his father-in-law". Cheap hard drives capable of storing every movie worth watching already exist. Flash media capable of storing a year's worth of new interesting movies are about the same exp
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by ynniv 14y ago
This doesn't seem like a good deal for any involved. As sort of an NEA for movies with a popularity based disbursement instead of money up front. Not only will people complain about additional taxes or special interests (regardless of the l
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by ynniv 14y ago
You seem to think that any law is enforceable and with that basis, your arguments make more sense. But if I successfully lobbied and passed a law saying that anyone who swore, in public or in private, owed me a nickel, that law wouldn't las
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by ynniv 14y ago
I mean if you work for a company that's bigger than a breadbox, they're going to have a legal department, and this means that you, and everyone around you, enjoys livelihoods that are ultimately backstopped by the force of law. Your probl
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by ynniv 14y ago
I think that people say denying anybody else the copy when copying is equated to property theft. I'm pretty sure that "no one can honestly stop us" has been the basis of piracy since Bill Gates first called copiers "pirates". [ http://ww
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by ynniv 14y ago
If they decide to take it without paying for it, fuck them up. That's a pretty base understanding of business. You are correct, but it assumes that anyone who knows this is okay with the way you operate. In general, people are okay with p
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by ynniv 14y ago
Copyright is totally enforceable, and it's enforced just fine right now. Seriously? If you believe this, there isn't much more I can say.
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by ynniv 14y ago
You're trying to create a categorical distinction between "negligible" and "absent" marginal costs that doesn't have any practical significance. There is a huge difference between ten million negligible and ten million absent, which is hi
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by ynniv 14y ago
To my mind, this isn't something to celebrate. I said "sufficient", hardly a celebration. it utterly eclipsed everything that came before, in terms of output Making 1000 times as much art isn't 1000 times as valuable. There is limited t
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by ynniv 14y ago
the marginal cost is negligible The marginal cost to the creator is not negligible, it is absent. That's an important fundamental change that invalidates most arguments that parallel non-digital interactions. The only cost to the creator
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by ynniv 14y ago
Taken to an extreme, there should never be more than one paying customer for every piece of digital (or convertible to digital) content ever created It's easy to forget, but patronage was the primary form of funding for the arts for the v
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by ynniv 14y ago
You're discounting the liability of letting people in to a physical establishment for free (bar fights, medial emergencies, guests not actually there to watch, etc). These are absent from media. There is also the difficulty of variable pric
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by ynniv 14y ago
It feels like splitting hairs, but at 10W this uses significantly more power than a Raspberry Pi ("A" is 1.5W, "B" is 3.5W). Just a heads up.
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by ynniv 14y ago
Any animation fast enough to look like a coherent image is easily captured by an external camera as a single image.
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by ynniv 14y ago
So it's not just about sexting, but communicating by sending pictures to another smartphone? What's next, short messages and duplex voice chat? </sarcasm>
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by ynniv 14y ago
With apps like Facebook Poke or SnapChat the content you're sending is ephemeral (it won't be around forever). My camera says otherwise.
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by ynniv 14y ago
Where's the good literature on advanced backbone development?
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by ynniv 14y ago
It is said that Milo of Croton lifted a calf every day, growing stronger as it grew heavier. Perhaps it isn't very insightful, but I learned to program by trying to accomplish increasingly ambitious tasks. You'll succeed at some and fail at
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by ynniv 14y ago
Besides memory fragmentation?
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by ynniv 14y ago
Google Glass will fix that.

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