ConceptJunkie

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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
I would imagine peanuts in the shell probably have close to half the weight being the inedible shells. What about a coconut? I'm sure there is some kind of vegetable product where you don't eat 2/3 of it. For instance; Peas. I hate pea
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but after seeing the trainwreck that is the Start Menu in Windows 7, I immediately looked for a third-party solution to fix it and found Classic Shell. Just like iTunes, the Windows 7 Start Menu seems only use
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
Yes, but I'm sure someone in Congress or White House will let us know how OUTRAGED they are.
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
I didn't say they were running out of making money, but the days of just churning out a new version of Windows and Office every 2-3 years and counting on millions of reflexive upgrades are limited. And since more and more money spent on co
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
I'm pretty well-off financially, but the things that give me the most satisfaction in life have to do with parts of my life unrelated to acquiring wealth and stuff, including family, church and hacking (which doesn't really cost much of any
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
Windows 8 is an enormous gamble and the firesale upgrade price reflects that MS sees it that way. They are all but bribing users to upgrade, and if you want the Windows improvements from the last 3 years, this is your only route. This is
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
They did. They gave to some users, turned back to Ballmer said, "See? They're using it."
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
We'll see whether or not (and how much) desktop apps and their developers become second-class citizens in the coming months and years. I'm betting it will happen. The lure of taking such a significant cut from every app sold has to be wei
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
So, it's KDE 4.0, except you pay for it.
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
The Start Menu wasn't good because it was never utilized right. Many years before I ever saw KDE, I started organizing my apps in categories (Viewers, Networking, Storage, System, etc., I've refined the list over the years) and found that
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
The Start Menu wasn't good because it was never utilized right. Many years before I ever saw KDE, I started organizing my apps in categories (Viewers, Networking, Storage, System, etc., I've refined the list over the years) and found that
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
This is how I see it. No one asked for Metro. Many people simply don't want it. It exists solely for Microsoft's benefit, because they want to move in that direction. I also would bet money that it's going to get harder and harder to li
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
Man, the perils of tech. I read these comments over lunch at my desk, bought the book on my phone and read the first chapter. It's _way_ too easy to spend money these days. On the plus side, I think I'm really going to enjoy this one. Th
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
I would think that the transaction was perfectly legal, and that EA could in no way force people to pay for the games. I wouldn't however, be opposed to the idea that EA could revoke ownership of any subsequent free games obtained once the
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
But... the fact that the servers honored the code being used multiple times _is_ permission. You can't assume that this wasn't EA's intent, (although it's almost certain it wasn't). Ultimately, the onus is on EA to make their system work
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
Is this generation any different than the generation of moronic programmers raised on Java?
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by ConceptJunkie 14y ago
Seeing as how the article considers (and rightly so) caffeine as a nootropic, I'd say the numbers are probably more like 70% rather than 7%.
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by ConceptJunkie 15y ago
Given that it took them something like 5 years to make a 64-bit version, I would imagine that Flash is such a mass of spaghetti code that, yes, they did find Linux too hard.
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by ConceptJunkie 15y ago
I'm betting the distro packagers like Canonical will solve the problem for end users. Meanwhile, Flash continues to circle the drain, and this might hasten its inevitable, but slow demise.
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by ConceptJunkie 15y ago
On the whole I don't think this is evil. More of a lateral move, morally. I can't imagine what Google hopes to accomplish with this since Flash is currently circling the drain, relevancy-wise, but if it does anything to hasten the move awa
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by ConceptJunkie 15y ago
Adobe has always been this hostile to Linux users. It hasn't seemed to had much of a dent in their success. Meanwhile, Flash is dead, it just hasn't stopped kicking yet. It's been a long decade, but many people will be cheering it and kic
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by ConceptJunkie 15y ago
I don't find Flash crashing my browser on Linux too often, but it crashes itself pretty regularly. Plus the older hardware I run Linux on can barely show a 288p Hulu video, with lots of stuttering, even though the machine can play videos tw
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by ConceptJunkie 15y ago
Indeed. I've run FlashBlock for years, and minus Hulu and a couple other sites, I find I almost never have a need to click on the blocked Flash objects. And it seems like the days of sites implemented entirely in Flash have pretty much com
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by ConceptJunkie 15y ago
In software, all of them are. It's like patenting a mathematical formula. It's bad enough that the USPTO will rubberstamp everything with the right fees, but that they can issue patents on concepts that are far outside the original intent
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by ConceptJunkie 15y ago
Generally, they are. They get their Windows compatibility certification and everything. Oh, wait, you mean for Linux? Good luck with that. The sad thing is that either providing drivers for Linux or providing detailed enough specs that d
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by ConceptJunkie 15y ago
It has gotten a lot worse over the years. I think part of the problem has to do with HR taking over the hiring process whereas traditionally the actual managers that the candidate would work for would have a much more active role in the pr