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I read that book when I was an English-monolingual kid, living in Portugal, and /consequentemente/ that story really stuck in my head when I was struggling for Portuguese words: https://southerncrossreview.org/81/feynman-brazil.html

> I now pay more per month for music than I did at any other time in my life

Me too, but I don't feel that that's a win for the music industry, I see that as a win for me.

I didn't engage with a business model that didn't work for me, like millions of others; and eventually a business model emerged that I was willing to support. Maybe Napster lost, but I still got what I wanted, and it seems like the record labels did too.

Why would you assume the same thing is impossible for online publishing?

> It's a funny trend in recent years

It's funny what you consider "recent": http://catb.org/jargon/html/K/kill-file.html

Even presuming we accept "trademark erosion" as a thing, it's still irrelevant here: the author wasn't using a trademark to describe a generic good (i.e., they didn't mean "a 'large-format' movie theatre with surround sound"), they were literally referring to the product (or, rather, one of the confusingly different products) traded under the "IMAX" mark (i.e., they meant, literally, AN IMAX THEATRE).

Not really, debatable, barely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Library :)

I came here to say "Capsela", too. I loved those so much! (Although it's hard to tell if they still exist; the sets I could find on Amazon were so expensive, I have to assume they're the toy equivalent of "out-of-print".)

Then, of course, the perennial classics of Erector sets, Tinker toys, and Lego.

I'm glad someone found this; I was really confused because I recognised the phrasing, and thought "I've read this story... but it was about wedding guests...?"

I'm looking forward to getting home and trying this out; this looks like the exact kind of tool I've always wanted! :)

Yeah, I can't tell you how much pleasure all those demos have given me over the years, so the opportunity to thank someone directly is really satisfying to me. Thanks again. :)

I recognise your/those names from other releases (like quad, and haujobb). And like you said, others may have been more impressive technically, but it's the threestate ones that have always stuck with me, for that amazingly perfect (IMNSHO) combination of technical impressiveness, visuals, and audio.

Oh my god! You're sagacity of threestate?! I'm swooning! "melrose space" is my all-time favourite demo! To this day, I still watch it regularly, I love it so much. (As well as the other 3s ones -- like enjoying a favourite album.) Thank you!

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=162

http://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=65

Comments on Reddit suggest this is also a fully-mechanical Lego Turing Machine (including electric motor), but I haven't watched the full video to make sure there's no Mindstorms CPU kit:

http://www.turing2012.fr/?p=530&lang=en

I got them from here: http://pyrtsa.posterous.com/aligning-your-git-logs (which also has the list-not-graph versions).

[Which is what I was going to comment, but you beat me to it.]

The follow-up presentation here is just as good, in my opinion: http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/Coroutines.pdf

Not the full feature set, unfortunately. Cygwin can't support passing file descriptors via Unix sockets, and so sadly, ControlMaster doesn't work there.

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278

http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=108357562706575

My apologies; I must have missed the comments in between my first looking at it and posting my comment.

According to the summary on the Ubuntu bug: "Essentially, we don't want to allow a '.' because of .dpkg-old and .dpkg-dist files."

Is the implication that you can have .dpkg files in cron folders that you wouldn't want to try to execute?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debianutils/+bug/3... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=68561

Can't help with the rock/hip hop, but for electronica (and its ilk) I would recommend: soma.fm (or, apparently, somafm.com, now.)

(For example, the "cliqhop/idm" shoutcast stream is what I use when I need non-distracting music in the background, for working.)