Drakim

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811.
by Drakim 13y ago
As a Norwegian I am not very happy about that one. We messed up big time. It was silly enough to give the Nobel Peace Prize to somebody who hadn't really done anything worthwhile yet (but showed promise), but then to have that person a
812.
by Drakim 13y ago
Snowden is just a guy, he doesn't need to be some flawless saint to point out that the US government is lying and spying on it's citizens.
813.
by Drakim 13y ago
The two ponds are one and the same. There isn't one "android phone" market and one "windows phone" market, there is a smartphone market that both draw customers from.
814.
by Drakim 13y ago
Not that I think this system would work, but people do volunteer without being paid: charity, soup kitchens, etc.
815.
by Drakim 13y ago
No, adding more points of failure doesn't make the first potential point of failure more fail-proof, or anything like that.
816.
by Drakim 13y ago
Unity is a lot of things, but an "innovative experiment" is not one of them. Unity is more a collection of various ideas and concepts from other modern UIs.
817.
by Drakim 13y ago
You seem to be overly focusing on certain parts of the article to make your point. The fact that DDG is terrible at searching for error messages (showing sites experiencing the errors rather than explanations of the errors) is a pretty non-
818.
by Drakim 13y ago
At this point of time IE6 is a wide open door, something as trivial as reading your paste isn't that big of a deal in comparison.
819.
by Drakim 13y ago
As pointed out elsewhere, a "play" and a "play" here are wildly different. A radio "play" can involve several thousand people, while a Pandora "play" probably involves one or two persons.
820.
by Drakim 13y ago
It's easy to say that this comparison is silly because the US still has free press (well, kinda) and such, but it really does make you look twice when you read about the US government making people disappear off the streets without a t
821.
by Drakim 13y ago
Although it could have some impact, your money isn't "locked" with MtGox due to being able to transfer it to another exchange as Bitcoins, and cash it out as another currency there.
822.
by Drakim 13y ago
The freedom to have a power is also a freedom. We as a society often want to restrict such powers though.
823.
by Drakim 13y ago
As long as they have a presence in the US, it's in their best interest to act according to US laws. I don't think saying "while we have many US customers, we are technically positioned in Ireland" is going to cut it.
824.
by Drakim 13y ago
No doubt they will still be promoted as revolutionary features that will take the market by storm.
825.
by Drakim 13y ago
It's easy to say that "it probably won't happen" today. But so much can happen to change the game in the future. Budget cuts to security, internal employees being "in" on the hack, etc. And what happens when it
826.
by Drakim 13y ago
Exactly. All a government would need to do is set up a laundry service with the lowest fees and they would be able to track and map a lot of juicy bitcoin usage.
827.
by Drakim 13y ago
A lot of people want their language embedded in the browser suh as Lua, Dart, Ruby, etc. But the way things are standing now it's not gonna happen. JavaScript, for the better and worse, is what we are stuck with. No browser vendor will be a
828.
by Drakim 13y ago
The worst part is that Flash and Java aren't going to go away anytime soon either. You basically have to have both, and the web will be a lot harder to navigate on anything but a Windows machine.
829.
by Drakim 13y ago
While I agree that the "lost income" argument is bunk, it's pretty clear that the code was copied. The number of excessive whitespace after a line of HTML is not something you get "inspired" by, it's something you copypaste.
830.
by Drakim 13y ago
I am confused, what is the actual advantage of having the countdown be a gif compared to HTML+JavaScript? For video and remote desktop there might be use for the kinds of gifs, but for a numeral countdown?
831.
by Drakim 13y ago
Java was always an external plugin to the web (like Flash), while JavaScript sits more comfortable in the same shelf alongside HTML and CSS.
832.
by Drakim 13y ago
There are usually a lot of random stuff happening on the average user's machine. Could an anti-virus scan start in the middle of this test and fudge up the result?
833.
by Drakim 13y ago
A lot of website has that covered already with super secure JavaScript that prevents right-clicking and text selection.
834.
by Drakim 13y ago
The sort of DRM that is being pushed for HTML is going about it the entirely wrong way. It will almost certainly result in window-only binary blobs, which is directly in opposition to what HTML should be about.
835.
by Drakim 13y ago
It would be more like calling it Program 1 after releasing Program and Program Upgrade.
836.
by Drakim 13y ago
Xbox One? That's a rather confusing name since it's the third Xbox.
837.
by Drakim 13y ago
Save their business? I thought that Nintendo was doing quite well with the Wii, while also dominating the handheld market?
838.
by Drakim 13y ago
My personal hate-passion is Lotus Notes.
839.
by Drakim 13y ago
Couldn't one simply split countries up into smaller countries, if being a small country makes things better?
840.
by Drakim 13y ago
Ah, I see. That makes sense.

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