Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation recently mused on the topic of non-free games on Linux, and unsurprisingly he rejects them, even though admitting that they "might encourage users of the games to replace Windows with GNU/Linux". His position has been consistent for decades. What's im
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Today we use computers to aid us in music composition and production, but still retain much of the creative control over the outcome. Sometimes we play actual musical instruments and use computers to mix it all up, add effects, and balance the sound. Other times we use sound synthesizers and sequenc
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Both Apple and Google are building a relatively seamless ecosystem around their products and services, and both of them involve the cloud as a key component. Apple seems to be leading the way in terms of integration and seamlessness of it (no surprise there) while Google might be leading in terms of
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Less is more. This is the slogan of the future. It should be among the most valuable concepts to keep in mind and aspire towards. Where "less is more" does not describe the current state of things the goal should be to rectify that. This idea captures a multitude of fields relevant to everything fro
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To say that we are living in an age of the internet would be stating the obvious. What's perhaps not so obvious is the shape that the internet is taking as it expands its scope into literally every single facet of human existence. To most people the word "internet" still represents something det
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Internet Explorer and Safari may be pre-installed on their respective operating systems by default, but in this day and age they're generally not considered very impressive compared to the likes of Chrome and Firefox. At one point I wondered what purpose do they even serve if their makers seemingly
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Few days ago I watched the latest Zeitgeist: Moving Forward movie after being linked to it by a Facebook friend about a week earlier. I watched it out of curiosity, and since I watched the previous two Zeitgeist films. I also watched it because they tend to be entertaining, intriguing and daring
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I’ve recently watched an interesting documentary about globalization and its effects. It is called “The Economics of Happiness”, and it lays down eight “inconvenient truths about globalization”: Globalization Makes Us Unhappy Globalization Breeds Insecurity Globalization Wastes Nat
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[caption id="attachment_30326" align="alignright" width="250" caption="He was right. People buy this thing in droves!"][/caption] It may be hard to imagine, but back in the seventies you would be considered either crazy or a visionary (or perhaps both) if you predicted that computers will be as c
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News of telepresence robots prompts some to argue that we are already going too far in terms of replacing personal face to face socializing with technological means such as Internet chat, facebook, instant messaging, virtual worlds and now telepresence robots. Anecdotes of neighbors who talk to each
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