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bywolftone
2018 @08:46PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Could Linux Ever Become Fully Compatible With Windows and Mac Software?
Nah. But seriously: nah.
That's not on "Linux"—which you seem to describe in monolithic terms and as if this monolithic community could magically sprout an appendage that does everything you want. There's already emulation. Some emulation software isn't terribly difficult to use. Most Linux users are still expected to read the documentation before expecting things to simply work.
Until Microsoft or Apple drop out of the desktop market, there will be no substantial incentive to make it any easier to run software built for those operating systems in a foreign operating system.
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bywolftone
015 @02:09AM
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Attached to: Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students
FWIW, teaching people to write in a cursive script has several known neurological and psychological benefits, over teaching non-cursive scripts.
Careful with that (or cite your sources): as much as I love handwriting, from scrawl to cursive to calligraphy, much of the purported benefits of learning cursive instead of other modes of handwriting are rooted in mid-nineteenth century pseudoscientific marketing propaganda and is about as reasonable as the contemporaneous belief that alternating current is more dangerous than direct current because it kills elephants.
Now Italic handwriting, on the other hand... ;-)
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bywolftone
012 @09:08PM
(#39347471)
Attached to: 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit
I'd be okay with your proposal if, in addition, the lawyers were as invisible, silent, and afraid of water, as Nazgûl.
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bywolftone
2011 @01:57AM
(#37865582)
Attached to: Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source
...but if they went the other way, it would be AFLAC, which would probably land them in court for trademark infringement.
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bywolftone
@11:52PM
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Attached to: Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series
No way would St. Ignucious show his support that way. You'd have to open source the original by way of sacrifice.
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bywolftone
2011 @06:13AM
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Attached to: File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011?
We do it in the road. I mean, really, no one will be watching us.
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bywolftone
9, 2010 @08:12PM
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Attached to: Facebook's Zuckerberg To Give Away Half His Cash
I do this every month. I don't call it a 'give-away'. I call it 'rent'.
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bywolftone
3, 2010 @09:36PM
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Attached to: Which Language To Learn?
Yeah, my ex-girlfriend told me that in *her* house, the ditch is one way... You must have known her too.
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timothy
mber 05, 2010 @08:20PM
from the behind-the-scenes dept.
Two9A writes "JavaScript has shed its image of being a limited language, tied to DOM manipulation in a browser; in recent years, new engines and frameworks have given JS a reputation as a language capable of bigger things. Mix this in with the new elements of HTML5, and you have the capacity to emulate a game console or other system, with full graphical output. This series of articles looks in detail at how an emulator is written in JavaScript, using the example of the Gameboy handheld: starting at the CPU, and (as of part 8) running a copy of Tetris."
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bywolftone
16, 2010 @04:37PM
(#33604854)
Attached to: Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed
Given that it's something that is designed to be installed on any domain at all, it may not be required to be called Diaspora. I don't know many people who refer to their gchat account as jabber.
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bywolftone
16, 2010 @03:47PM
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Attached to: Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed
Not quite right. The square of the number of nodes takes into account all possible subgroups among those nodes. Reed's Law takes this number and removes singletons as well as the empty subgroup. You link to Metcalfe's Law, which does only deal with pairwise groupings and follows a pattern of triangular numbers (i.e., for five people there are ten possible pairings). Someone who is more adept with the mathematics than me should be in charge of actually saying which of these is more suitable for representing the value of social media websites, but it seems that Reed's Law is what you're looking for.
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bywolftone
16, 2010 @03:32PM
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Attached to: Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed
It already is.
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bywolftone
0 @06:28PM
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Attached to: Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux
Emacs?
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bywolftone
@07:22PM
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Attached to: Beautifully Rendered Music Notation With HTML5
The learning curve for Lilypond is really no worse than for any other
text-based music typesetting software -- and far easier than, say, the TeX
music packages. ABC is a little more simple on the surface, but is so much
less flexible as to make it useless for complicated music. MusicXML seems
to be a good transport format, but as parent points out, it's clunky: like
any other XML format, everything is perfectly readable and will take a
year and a day to type.
Lilypond, which seems to me to be the best option for open-source
notation software, is probably not a worthwhile system for creating
on-the-fly snippets for web pages. Something JavaScript based would be
nice for that, and it seems likely that there could be wiki plugins that
could be used to create musical examples without huge
dependencies
(much less specific versions of any given large software packages),
or a knowledge of how to use these large, complicated notation software
packages. There might still be the problem of being limited to simple
examples, but do we really need all of Lilypond and its dependencies to
create an example of a Phrygian scale?
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Posted
by
Soulskill
y 14, 2010 @04:57PM
from the living-under-your-cyber-fridge dept.
Lanxon writes "A team of researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in London has built a 'cyber-cockroach' (a cockroach wearing an accelerometer in a tiny backpack) to try and better understand the movements of many-legged animals. They found that unlike bipedal creatures, animals with more than two legs don't adjust their movements when walking over a softer surface."
The academic paper is available from the Journal of Experimental Biology. This research will be helpful in finding better ways for multi-legged robots to navigate difficult terrain.
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