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by capisce 14y ago
I live in Norway, and I've always ordered books from Amazon.com with my Norwegian address and credit card. I bought my Kindle the same way and have been buying Kindle e-books without any problems. Thus it appears that Amazon.com is fully wi
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by capisce 14y ago
I guess I never really considered that. Under what terms might that license be revoked/cancelled? It appears Amazon also lets you "rent" e-books for a certain amount of time. I suspect most people would assume that the high cost alternative
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by capisce 14y ago
That's very frightening, makes me reconsider buying more e-books from Amazon...
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by capisce 14y ago
Such as f(x)=2x and g(x)=3x perhaps?
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by capisce 14y ago
They didn't, someone else did.
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by capisce 14y ago
Indeed, plenty of good and interactive ways of making games for it too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xIBYClmTSU
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by capisce 14y ago
I guess that also depends on how efficiently the GPU is used.
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by capisce 14y ago
Qt 5's xcb platform plugin does use both libxcb and Xlib, for the reason you mention and others. Thus hardware accelerated OpenGL is supported on Linux, even with proprietary graphics drivers.
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by capisce 14y ago
This resonates with me as well, why am I so much more outgoing and fearless in strange situations than when I'm back in known surroundings? Strange.
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by capisce 14y ago
> ongoing debate about the exploitation of undefined behavior by C compilers for optimization Can you provide some links to other examples of this?
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by capisce 14y ago
> The Go team's view, in a nutshell, is that generics would offer some exciting possibilities for Go (particularly when combined with its concurrency model) but that it is also extremely hard to do generics well. We have put a huge amou
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by capisce 14y ago
Well, with QML... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML Although, we've run into issues where the garbage collection in QML suddenly kicks in and causes skipped frames leading to jerky animations. Garbage collection is not a panacea, especiall
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by capisce 15y ago
Economic inequality hurts societies: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
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by capisce 15y ago
There's something to be said for trying not necessarily to get rid of economic inequality completely, but at least significantly lower it: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
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by capisce 15y ago
Already preordered one, at last a fully open Linux tablet (apart from the binary graphics driver).
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by capisce 15y ago
You're not alone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc
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by capisce 15y ago
"creatively speculating on the unknown" - sounds more like philosophy than religion to me. "unquestioningly believing what you've been told" - how about that?
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by capisce 15y ago
That would work if the richest 1 % weren't accumulating all the wealth instead.
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by capisce 15y ago
Has kind of the same ring to it as "Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea", doesn't it? If you have to put it in your name, you're not really it...
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by capisce 15y ago
Those movies could still get made, if a large enough group of people pledged to fund the production of the movie. The fact that other people would then get to watch it for free wouldn't deter those pledgers, if their interest in that movie
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by capisce 15y ago
Going on strike wouldn't be effective, there are tons of people waiting in line to replace them. Apparently people are even paying "recruiters" for these jobs, or agreeing to go without salary the first month.
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by capisce 15y ago
Are you aware of the name of this forum?
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by capisce 15y ago
People could still get rewarded for contributing through flattr-like schemes. Also, there'd still be contract work. But maybe what's really needed is a basic income system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee