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by zeruch 12y ago
Its a great bit of PR for those who fall for it. Otherwise its one of the dumbest things I've read in some time.
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by zeruch 12y ago
Amazon makes money, but it doesn't have margins worth a damn. That said, Ballmer's business acumen is questionable. If I wanted to be really snarky, I could say basically Ballmer is admiring them so much he tried to slice Microso
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by zeruch 12y ago
This is quite cool. I actually have worked from the opposite in that I've started taking more photos as reference for future drawings and paintings, which in some ways has reinvigorated my tendency towards inspiration from mundane obj
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by zeruch 12y ago
I think he's out of touch, period. He's at a stage where he seems to be saying things just to see if anyone bothers, and if they do, he rides them into additional PR. He's like the music industries answer to Bill Gates; he k
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by zeruch 12y ago
This is the band with the most sociopathhic manager since Peter Grant, who has been trying to push DRM before: http://devrandom.net/~zeruch/wordpress/?page_id=507 (disclosure, the link is my own write up of a spee
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by zeruch 12y ago
Well, I guess Eventjoy will now be EventPloy, because the only company I think worse than Ticketbastard is Comcast...or maybe Congress.
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by zeruch 12y ago
Its...an Apple product. Very well made, but its more of a branding exercise than a technology launch.
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by zeruch 12y ago
This is something I could test/validate quite readily. Challenge accepted.
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by zeruch 12y ago
I used to check FM every morning for years as part of my ritual to look for "neat stuff" to install and play around with on my various boxen. It was great while it lasted. I worked at VA and a common form of watercooler talk in
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by zeruch 12y ago
VA as its initial raison d'etre went dead with the purging of the hardware division (disclosure, I am a biased bastard who worked at VA from 1998 - 2002 and have a deep romanticized attachment to the people and events of that period).
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by zeruch 12y ago
You are correct.
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by zeruch 12y ago
That was Trae and Co. Much as I liked the guy the "fame" he got went way to his head and his contributions were far short of his ambitions. He alienated a lot of folks with his constant demands for what would otherwise be perks fo
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by zeruch 12y ago
ALL of them need reclassification to common carrier status. Then their exec staffs need to be Clockwork Oranged. We are a laughing stock against the broadband in almst any other industrial state AND we have these mendacious toads astroturfi
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by zeruch 12y ago
Noncompetes except in the most specific of cases is categorically stupid. And even in those rare cases, still feels nasty. I do understand where its useful in keeping a major dominant player/nigh monopolist from picking up key talent
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by zeruch 13y ago
Realize that in making such "ethical" obligations, you invalidate the openness and the license will not be compatible with any FSF/OSI approved license scheme. Then of course there is the issue of enforcement.
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by zeruch 13y ago
+1 I found both an odd irony and irked by the implication of "its ok to snoop on random citizens, but not on me"
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by zeruch 13y ago
I think that is only part of the answer. The Krita team is also a lot more compact and has a clearer, more internally defined end goal (it will be interesting to see what happens if its userbase explodes). Less of the glacial Debian-style p
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by zeruch 13y ago
Well, this will likely be a boon for whitebox vendors.
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by zeruch 13y ago
I actually think this is great. I've enjoyed using Krita (even though its sometimes a PITA to get setup) and its rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off. Make it crossplatform and you have a BIG win.
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by zeruch 13y ago
...this is only just now being realized? The site took a dive quite some time ago, with Rob Malda's departure it was effectively quite dead and buried. Now this - is their "Digg" moment.
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by zeruch 13y ago
This actually looks pretty cool...but I'm on Android. Sigh.
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by zeruch 13y ago
I'm with you. Groklaw was such an elegant solution to a messy communication problem. And yes, I want Google to completely clobber that firm (I'd love to see Myhrvhold and his ilk cowed brutally).
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by zeruch 13y ago
I won't understate this: I want Google to eviscerate IV's entire reason for existence.
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by zeruch 13y ago
We have been using co-ops from Waterloo for some time and have subsequently hired several full time. Some greta people there (even if they eat that weird abomination, Poutine)
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by zeruch 13y ago
She has gone over her electable expiry date by at least a decade. She should retire, where she can natter idiocies to herself instead of pushing garbage legislation ad nauseum.
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by zeruch 13y ago
I think its (a) because MS has earned decent amount of ire for decades of FUD-tastic practices and (b) like Blackberry, no one is really terribly interested (by comparison to Android/iOS) more than marginally.
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by zeruch 13y ago
Having relevance conceptually and having a vehicle internally that knows how to communicate beyond its sycophantic core audience are two radically different things. The FSF has never been good at messaging; even its best speaker, Eben Mogl
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by zeruch 13y ago
I find the metric questionable, or maybe established poorly (there is a strong difference between "considering the idea as a far flung possible track" and a visceral near-line option)
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by zeruch 13y ago
As someone who was once part of the original "Ignition Team" at VA Linux for SF.net, and who is still close friends with two of the original core SF team (the first iteration of SF.net was done by just four people in <120 days
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by zeruch 13y ago
Shih is shrill, but the response is also. A lot of his criticisms are based in a kernel of truth for a lot of people (especially the public transport, the nightlife and the bicylists), and while he may have intended satire, the delivery wa

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