ElliotH

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by ElliotH 16y ago
I'm actually quite a fan of that little app - it works quite well. Possibly overpriced (should probably be free or 59p) but, importantly, it's simple and gets the job done. This seems like it has a lot of features I would never need or use.
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Agree 100% - the layers of DRM detract from what makes Steam's DRM tolerable - the user experience. Particularly games like GTA when they require a login. Global logins with Steam are one of the best bits.
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Not exactly minimalistic - though obviously it deals with a different scenario to the one the author describes. In a survival scenario where you can only take a few items then your priorities would probably be (this taken from a survival co
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Agree on the wikipedia articles with no context point. Especially since the article in question is short with not very much real information on why it matters.
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Why do you think the iPhone is such a hit? It's basic functionality? or the fact that you can have a lot of fun on it? The iPhone was initially a hit because it was the first smart phone that was really designed for the consumer (before t
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Fighting the Taliban is very different to fighting the types of armies that modern tactics are designed for, I can't speak for the US, but from what I have heard from serving UK soldiers the british easily win almost all firefights simply b
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Great to hear some positive stuff on CompSci. Seems like recently theres been a lot of news on why its not relevant or unnecessary - which isn't optimistic news for me since thats what I'm going to be studying at University later this year!
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by ElliotH 16y ago
From what I understand, Apple is a distributor - not just the original developers. Because Apple is distributing they have the same responsibilities as any distributor to provide the source code and allow the code to be shared. And making p
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Ooh - hadn't seen that - looks interesting. I stand corrected.
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Upstart is more for replacing init. Its less suitable for jobs that need to be started at particular times since its designed for starting and stopping services during boot and changes in runlevel.
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New UK govt to curb CCTV, scrap ID cards, help open source(arstechnica.com)
60 points by ElliotH 16y ago|16 comments
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by ElliotH 16y ago
But he proved his theorems. Thus it is provable and by your own definition is true regardless of what the theorem actually says.
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by ElliotH 16y ago
To be fair I think we can all agree that Microsoft's use of these patents is strategic. Lots of things can be strategic. The question is whether or not its right - which, since software patents are involved, a lot of people don't think it i
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by ElliotH 16y ago
The invite only thing was a really bad idea. If it was meant to be a developer preview it definitely wasn't widely percieved that way. If it was an attempt to build up a following in the way gmail did then it was a total flop. People are bo
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by ElliotH 16y ago
This is classy stuff. In my opinion a good way of responding to Jobs' criticsm. Adobe have gone up in my estimation.
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Cory Doctorow's Craphound podcast has a reading from the book (not this weeks episode I don't think - but fairly recent - should still be in the feed). It's really worth listening to especially if you don't have time to read the book itself
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Food and childrens clothing are also exempt from UK VAT.
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Studying wise you want to make sure that you've got a good solid plan that you are confident with. Make sure that you are happy that at least a week before the exams you have all the material covered, then you can spend the last week lookin
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by ElliotH 16y ago
Static HTML is also a lot less resource intensive. I think the main thing in the way of people using MT is that lots of people get their first introduction to blogging on some free WP hosting first and consider the switch to commercial shar
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by ElliotH 16y ago
BBC News has this on the subject: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10101581.stm Seems to be about Greece.
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by ElliotH 16y ago
The plan I believe for Netbook edition is to incorporate these icons into the global menu.
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by ElliotH 16y ago
There are studies that show that lacking either a male or female parental figure can have bad long term effects. Which I would say is a good reason to prefer a male-female paring as adoptive parents. However, with the number of children in
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by ElliotH 16y ago
The counter argument to that is that nowadays on my desktop based on the Linux kernel I use a lot of software that are not GNU projects. Sure they may not be as fundemental as say the coreutils - but they are just as important to having a u
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by ElliotH 16y ago
While its not science - it is a perfectly valid application of scientific method on a small scale. He's got a variable he measures - the money he has coming in, and a single variable he changes - whether he wears a suit or a tshirt. To make
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by ElliotH 17y ago
I've seen a study where they've caused minor wounds by puncturing the skin of a finger, so I guess its possible here, you can get people to volunteer for all sorts of things. Specific study was a psychology one though,not a medical one,but
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by ElliotH 17y ago
I actually can't think of a context where this would happen. There has been a recent upgrade of grub which could cause problems with dual boot systems, but it wasn't automatically upgraded to for precisely this reason (you have to go out of
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by ElliotH 17y ago
Based on how our Parliament passed this I should imagine that censorship may well be the least of our worries for our democracy.
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by ElliotH 17y ago
As a big fan of the BBC and with greatest respect to their journalism - it is ass covering. The reason is that so long as they only report fact they're quite safe. So when they say a voice says: The transmissions says of one of the individ
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by ElliotH 17y ago
This doesn't really seem to match its own title though. It answers "why iphone apps are better" - but really makes no comment on why having it closed helps matters.
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by ElliotH 17y ago
I think I need to hand my geek card in - I only caught the Doctor Who one.

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