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"download in secure PDF format" (from the ebooks.com page linked from feynmanlectures.info/docroot/buy)

Is this some sort of DRM'ed format that's not readable on non-Adobe supported systems?

And, if it is, is there a way to buy a non-DRM version?

The photographer has a TEDx Talk about this project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y4GCM60Vak

I am using a manually created /data partition as my personal space. Many dotfiles and 'dotdirectories' are distro+release specific. With having all my personal data in a separate partition makes switching distros (or using multiple ones) a breeze as I start with all my data intact and a virgin /home which I can populate with my dotfiles as I see fit.

The search result for 'Berlin' includes Isaiah Berlin ---------------------------- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

The size of the image is statically defined in the script: RESOLUTION_X = 1680 RESOLUTION_Y = 1050

Change them to your screen's resolution.

I wish it stated whether it's a US-centric initiative or not. And, if it's not, I wish it registered the country of the subscriber.

As for a hosted FOSS web reader, I can recommend Newsblur: http://www.newsblur.com

Please make sure to have reasonably high quality a/v records of the presentations.

I can recommend Lenovo Thinkpad X and T series if you are using GNU/Linux.

To filter the overwhelming amount of readable content on HN, I personally use the http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=120 function. In fact, since the amount of voters have increased a lot, I think I'm going to increase the point cap to 200.

I can recommend hamster-applet.

http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/about/

Note that it depends on a proprietary shareware called Prince XML for PDF publishing.

It can publish HTML without it though.

NewsBlur for reading feeds

http://www.newsblur.com

"This title is not available for customers from your location in:

Europe"

At the end of the linked MSNBC video, the reporter (Kate Snow) is arguing that nobody is policing the pledged projects and that she could theoretically "go on there and say I'm gonna raise money to make a record album and then get all the money. And, if I never make a record album, nobody knows any different."

Is that really so with Kickstarter?

Since there's no limit on the publication date, "The Conquest of Gaul" by Caesar was a great read for me to do during my daily commute.

"A Guided Tour of Emacs" has a screenshot of the follow-mode along with a simple explanation: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

From the Preface:

P.6. Changes from the Previous Edition

The text is updated for the latest version, Perl 5.14, and some of the code only works with that version. We note in the text when we are talking about a Perl 5.14 feature, and we mark those code sections with a special use statement that ensures you’re using the right version:

  use 5.014; # this script requires Perl 5.14 or greater

  $ perl -v

* We include Unicode examples and features where appropriate. If you haven’t started playing with Unicode, we include a primer in Appendix C. You have to bite the bullet sometime, so it might as well be now. You’ll see Unicode throughout the book, most notably in the chapters on Scalars (Chapter 2), Input/Output (Chapter 5), and Sorting (Chapter 14).

* There is more information in the regular expression chapters, covering the new features from Perl 5.14 to deal with Unicode case-folding. The regular expression operators have new /a, /u, and /l switches. We now cover matching by Unicode properties with the \p{} and \P{} regular expression features.

* Perl 5.14 adds a nondestructive substitution operator (Chapter 9), which turns out to be really handy.

* Smart matching and given-when has mutated a bit since their introduction in Perl 5.10, so we update Chapter 15 to cover the new rules.

* We updated and expanded Perl Modules (Chapter 11) to include the latest news, including the zero-conf cpanm tool. We add some more module examples as well.

* Some of the items previously in Appendix B, the advanced-but-not-demonstrated features, move into the main text. Notably, that includes the fat arrow => moving into Hashes (Chapter 6) and splice moving into Lists and Arrays (Chapter 3).

Here's the Al Jazeera's video coverage of how the DIY weapons are made: http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/06/2011614112...

I couldn't be sure if their promotion video for COBOL was a parody the whole time I watched it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrdX9xJx58

The video file can be downloaded at http://ustream.vo.llnwd.net/pd14/0/1/14/14951/14951420/1_819...

You can directly download the video file at http://ustream.vo.llnwd.net/pd14/0/1/14/14928/14928956/1_819...

Here's the author's response to HN commenters: http://krainboltgreene.heroku.com/log/11/

It seems to be built using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) which churns out client-side JavaScript from a Java codebase.

It makes sense since they probably had a Java version written for Android.

I found Russ Cox's interview and setup also pretty original and informative: http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/

Relevantly, FSF's new executive director is asking for feedback, and specifically criticism: http://lists.fsf.org/archive/html/info-member/2011-04/msg000...

Here's the license text from the README of the source code:

  JACK CLAW SOURCE CODE LICENSE

  THE COMPUTER CODE ("SOURCE CODE") CONTAINED HEREIN IS THE SOLE PROPERTY OF FROZENBYTE LTD. ("FROZENBYTE").
  FROZENBYTE GRANTS TO END-USERS A ROYALTY-FREE, PERPETUAL LICENSE TO USE, DISPLAY, MODIFY, DISTRIBUTE AND 
  CREATE DERIVATIVE WORKS OF THE SOURCE CODE, SO LONG AS SUCH ACTION IS FOR NON-COMMERCIAL, ROYALTY-FREE
  AND REVENUE-FREE PURPOSES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE END-USER TAKE ANY ACTION WHEREBY THE SOURCE CODE CONTAINED
  HEREIN WOULD BE USED FOR REVENUE-BEARING PURPOSES. THE END-USER UNDERSTANDS AND AGREES TO THE TERMS HEREIN
  AND ACCEPTS THE SAME BY USING THE SOURCE CODE IN ANY WAY. 

  THE SOURCE CODE IS PROVIDED AS-IS AND FROZENBYTE MAKES NO WARRANTY AS TO THE USABILITY OR CORRECTNESS
  OF THE SOURCE CODE. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. 

  FROZENBYTE RETAINS THE RIGHT TO ALTER THESE LICENSE TERMS AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON. 



  SOURCE CODE README AND FURTHER LICENSE NOTES
  --------------------------------------------
  Last update to this file: 12th of April 2011

  Jack Claw was a project in development at Frozenbyte during the years 2006-2008. It was a big-budget multiplatform game for next-gen consoles and PC. The project was canned in 2008 and the team set to work on Trine ( http://www.trine-thegame.com ) instead. More history on the project can be found at Frozenbyte's website or on the Jack Claw website, and more info on the transition from Jack Claw to Trine can be found in the Gamasutra postmortem: 
  http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/5826/postmortem_frozenbytes_trine.php

  This source code package allows you to compile the game and develop it further if you wish (for non-commercial purposes). All other Jack Claw files, including the art assets and the level editor, remain the sole property and copyright of Frozenbyte. You may not distribute any of the files not included in the source code package. Should the source code include any 3rd party files or software, the copyright remains with the original owner and you are not allowed to distribute or modify such files or software. It is also forbidden to distribute Jack Claw or any direct derivative, in any way (e.g. not even for free), in any "app stores" such as the Mac App Store or similar, or in any distribution channel that has authorization control by a third party. 

  If you have a question about the license or a specific file, please don't hesitate to contact us. We're mostly just covering our legal base with this stuff. 

  Please note that we cannot provide any official support for this source code release, although we will try to help where we can. 

  If you are interested in developing Jack Claw, please get in touch with us or join the community - we are not actively developing the game on our own anymore but we are generally open to ideas, and our main interest is to just get the game out there and see what happens, and support the community with their ideas.

Here's the Google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EJyOXHS...

I wish it also included GNU coreutils.

In case anyone else wants to tinker with it in a Git environment, I've created a clone repo on GitHub at https://github.com/gnufs/aima-java