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by Luyt 15y ago
Yes please. Now I sometimes have to close the lid of my Air a bit to find a certain key with help from the glow from the screen. That being said, I find the speed of the Air adequate for the stuff I do with it (development).
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by Luyt 15y ago
That would actually be very nice, it would be a nice upgrade from my old MacMini. What I also like to see are non-glaring screen finishes as an option for the iMac models.
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by Luyt 15y ago
While the Apple TV could certainly offer game features, its appearance doesn't appeal to the target audience (the Xbox and PS3 definately look much more exciting). Therefore, Apple will probably have designed the iConsole in a somewhat more
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by Luyt 15y ago
Does an upgrade of the Macbook Air justify the current secret activity we see at the Apple stores? Employees not allowed to take vacation? Gigabytes of training materials distributed? Black curtains and mandatory meeting on next Sunday?
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by Luyt 15y ago
Next week, Apple will announce its entry into the console market with the iGame. That's my guess.
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by Luyt 15y ago
That's what I call a draconian law. "Draconian is an adjective meaning great severity, that derives from Draco, an Athenian law scribe under whom small offences had heavy punishments."
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by Luyt 15y ago
"Celebrate Space! A mix of ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program. And when a space shuttle mission is happening, we mix it in live from launch to landing." http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
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by Luyt 15y ago
I heard it too many times... "The Nokia tune (also called Grande Valse on old Nokia mobile phones) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 190
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by Luyt 15y ago
No, there is a free (as in freedom) version of Qt: "The KDE Free Qt Foundation is an organization with the purpose of securing the availability of the Qt toolkit for the development of Free Software and in particular for the development of
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by Luyt 15y ago
Technology has come a long way. I remember my first non-trivial graphics program: a running elephant, drawn with graphic characters, on a PET-2001.
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by Luyt 15y ago
This article uses shadow fringes around the letters, which makes it hard to read. Luckily, there is a Readability AddOn [1] for Firefox. I see myself more and more using this handy AddOn... is 'designeritis' spoiling web usability? [1] ht
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by Luyt 15y ago
I'm no user of Facebook, and when I see this material, I highly doubt I will ever try it. Why is Facebook unleashing this kind of stuff on its members? It shows the traits of malicious JavaScript that shady sites use to exploit security v
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by Luyt 15y ago
It breaks the Back button... and the 'Best viewed in Internet Explorer' days seem to be back, although it's now a more apologetic 'Sorry, this site was designed with Google Chrome in mind'.
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by Luyt 15y ago
This is exactly what I do; I check my email three to four times a day, and I certainly don't let my email client run in the background and interrupt me at times which are always inconvenient.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Yes, I like my fonts big, easier to read. Not that I'm sight impaired, it's just a personal preference. And beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? Everybody has his/her own taste. I also like to use proportional fonts when writin
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by Luyt 15y ago
It renders correctly in my customized firefox, unless many sites on the web nowadays. However, Google, WikiPedia and HackerNews render without problems too. My settings are: Zoom Text Only, do not allow pages to choose their own fonts, Comi
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by Luyt 15y ago
and blog about it ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
I agree, but you forgot one thing they'll undoubtely do: they'll change the underlying protocol, so that existing Mac and Linux clients will not work with the Skype network anymore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extingui
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by Luyt 15y ago
"With $7B they should have just given away about 15 million Windows Mobile phones in the form of an epic PR stunt." This instantly reminds me of the CueCat [1], which Wired sent out to half a million subscribers. I admit, a phone (even a
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by Luyt 15y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of 'accessing their own specific API (maybe even a private, undisclosed API)'.
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by Luyt 15y ago
I hardly watch TV anymore, because I find all programs of the national TV mindnumbingly stupid. Commercial stations have the same braindead programs. Movies are reduced to vehicles to shove as much commercials before your eyeballs as possi
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by Luyt 15y ago
Yes, and they want you to install a special 'NYT app' for that, which will be future: every company and news outlet will have its own app.
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by Luyt 15y ago
In the Scifi category, I'd recommend "The Languages of Pao" [1] by Jack Vance, which is inspired by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis [2]. I've re-read it five times now, which means this book deserves the space it occupies in my bookshelf. Books
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by Luyt 15y ago
In the classics category, I'm re-reading (for the tenth time or so) the memoires of Giacomo Casanova, "L'Histoire de ma vie" ("The History of my Life"), 12 volumes or so, in Dutch translation. Fascinating stuff and a interesting insight in
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by Luyt 15y ago
You are free to convert any text to the closed eBook reading format. It'd be great if the eBook just was able to show open formats in a correct way (my Hanlin v3 is capable of that) -- it also can run OpenInkpot, a Linux for eBook readers.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Thanks for the links, I appreciate it.
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by Luyt 15y ago
I hope I have the guts to quit when marketing- and sales types take over the company. If they offer me enough money, I might stay, despite the braindeadness.
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by Luyt 15y ago
I'm skeptical about this. The city I live in has declared itself as the 'IT City of the North' a few years ago, but still most IT jobs are in the West of the country. You don't become a Silicon Valley by declaring yourself one. It's a poli
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by Luyt 15y ago
Thanks for exposing that shipwreck of government-mandated Horrorware. From the Wikipedia article: "As of 30 June 2009, the mandatory pre-installation of the Green Dam software on new computers has been delayed to an undetermined date." So
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by Luyt 15y ago
I checked this last week for a site I maintain, 10% of the visitors were still using IE6, and 15% of the visitors had Javascript turned off. I guess that's because that site is aimed at a certain business audience. Another site I maintain

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