awfabian2

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by awfabian2 14y ago
The comment you're replying to made a good point about how aggressively Disney has lobbied to keep extending copyright law to keep Mickey Mouse and such out of the public domain, whereas your comment refers to "intellectual property", which
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by awfabian2 14y ago
As a Dvorak typing sysadmin who used to use QWERTY, the vi navigation keys work just fine on Dvorak. As it turns out, once you're used to Dvorak, you see that having the keys next to each other on the keyboard and on the home row doesn't co
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by awfabian2 14y ago
In the US, such orders usually have to be in writing, be pretty specific, and the meaning has to be fairly clear. You would have a very difficult time holding someone in contempt for a court order that's not written. And, so, what's written
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by awfabian2 14y ago
You actually can't make that assertion in confidence. To do so, you have to measure the utility of the benefits to a given individual, and the utility of the money they spend on it, and quantify the risk of Amazon revoking/pulling the conte
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by awfabian2 14y ago
I got my first Mac about 1 year and 4 months ago. I've been pretty happy with it. My fallback plan was just to install Windows or Linux on it. To me, the worst case scenario was that I was over-paying for some decent hardware. As it turns o
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by awfabian2 14y ago
I've been buying Amazon ebooks for the Kindle. I like the Kindle 3 keyboard without special offers well enough, but I don't really like the "we want to make money when you use the device" angle. Making money when I'm buying content is okay,
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by awfabian2 14y ago
Just never give authorization for recurring billing. I use my credit card for one-time payments for monthly services all of the time, and I never authorize recurring billing. When you do that, you establish an on-going relationship with the
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by awfabian2 14y ago
I went to a good school for CS, and some of the professors did work for private industry and interesting research, and why hardware like this can seem so dated came up a few times. One professor worked doing formal verifications of hardware
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by awfabian2 14y ago
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts
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by awfabian2 14y ago
The last time I played with Opera's built-in mail client, it was pretty similar.
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by awfabian2 14y ago
I think Theo actually encourages clean installs. It's no surprise the upgrade procedure would leave something to be desired.
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by awfabian2 14y ago
I believe I think in words even more than average. I don't know if anyone can say how. I don't know how my brain puts together words. It's no effort for me to make a sentence; it's like they come out of a mysterious black box. But it happen
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by awfabian2 14y ago
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html
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by awfabian2 15y ago
I doubt the reason is technical. Showmanship is a big part of Apple's corporate DNA.
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by awfabian2 15y ago
I doubt anything technical prevents instant updating. Showmanship is a big part of the corporate DNA.
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by awfabian2 15y ago
I think one of the problems with Windows is monoculture. One of the great UNIX ideals is 'reject all claims of the one true way.' Microsoft always advocates the one true way--Windows, Visual Studio. Everything Microsoft. But because no-one-
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by awfabian2 15y ago
We, the human race, made up property . And we made up intellectual property . So if you want to argue to me about morality and legality, save it. Those aren't arguments, those are superstitions and/or conventions. Tell me why a convention