ElliotH

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by ElliotH 17y ago
Again, in corporate networks the policy on downloading and running executables of the internet tends to be "don't do it" - regardless of whether the .exes are harmless or not.
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by ElliotH 17y ago
It does seem a bit harsh on him. I mean sure offer him a way out now and then - but 'prevent(ing) people from encouraging his homelessness' seems an awful lot like saying "don't give him food" - we have signs like that where I live - except
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by ElliotH 17y ago
This is incredibly misjudged. The Times, while an excellent news paper wouldn't be anybody's primary choice as a news source. I suspect that the vast majority of people who are willing to pay for read it would only pay to read it on paper.
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by ElliotH 17y ago
Totally agree - you'll find that people who know you will expect you to act a certain way. And if they've always known you to be the shy person who doesn't speak out then thats how you'll behave (I mean they're friends with 'old' you not 'n
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by ElliotH 17y ago
I personally think that the best computer related education you can give a child of that age is to get them to understand that in almost all cases it is safe to 'fiddle' with the software on computers. I think I owe a almost all my knowledg
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by ElliotH 17y ago
You can see real world examples like slot-machines.
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by ElliotH 17y ago
The problem is this needs to be an change throughout an operating system or it doesn't work. I know there have been userspace file system projects for Linux systems that have attempted the tagging system, but none have really become mainst
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by ElliotH 17y ago
I wonder about UK law on this? From the UK Copyright website: Copyright is an automatic right and arises whenever an individual or company creates a work. To qualify, a work should be regarded as original, and exhibit a degree of labour, sk
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by ElliotH 17y ago
I'm still in education, doing my A levels - and I experience questions of a fixed form all the time. Now this seems quite good in principle. In lessons you learn about the same ladder against the same wall or whatever, with very slightly ch
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by ElliotH 17y ago
I have the same experience. It seems strange in the age of address bars with searchable history and automatic search that people are still going out of their way to go to a URL they already know.
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by ElliotH 17y ago
tput setaf 2 makes your prompt green tput setab 0 makes the prompt background black The rest displays random letters A-F and numbers 0-9 on your terminal.
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by ElliotH 17y ago
Out of interest, and I hope you can answer this despite the NDA, was 'sci-fi like' what you planned to achieve from the outset, or did it come about as a result of you designing a UI? (i.e did you start designing a UI and end up with someth
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by ElliotH 17y ago
But a big part of the Christian message is to give what you can to those who need it. Note that it doesn't at any point say in the Bible 'Give money only to Christians in need' and because of this the 'Donor being decieved' isn't especially
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by ElliotH 17y ago
It is advantageous to them to have power, sure - but it doens't really directly contribute to their goal of organising the worlds information does it? IMO they would do better to offer hard-to-turn down deals to energy companies in return f
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by ElliotH 17y ago
Anybody got a video of this? (YouTube has videos from 2007 but not 2009)
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by ElliotH 17y ago
But on the other hand you do get some advantages in return for that sacrifice of your 'reseller' right. For example, the ability to use your game wherever you want, however many times you reinstall or whatever. Theres a real risk Valve or a
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by ElliotH 17y ago
Not to be too harsh on Jeff Atwood - as he has decades more experience than myself. But does anyone else feel that this blog post is a bit out of line? In short when John Gruber gives the code out under a BSD thatis a gift to whoever wants
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by ElliotH 17y ago
But who defines 'evil'? A hellfire missile kills, and maybe your stance is that killing is evil full stop (this is purely hypothetical - I have no idea what your views actually are) but maybe someone else thinks that firing missiles at an i
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by ElliotH 17y ago
I was literally amazed by how well this played - everything was really well done even under the slower internet explorer javascript interpreter. What I really loved was that the smoothness difference between this and say a flash game is har