angus77

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by angus77 15y ago
Which would've been funny when eight megabytes was a lot of memory. Just try and buy that little memory today.
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by angus77 15y ago
Unless you were ignorant and wrong, and it's what you believed.
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by angus77 15y ago
I would've thought it'd be the other way around. Why would you bother with a text editor if you're not motivated enough to learn how to type?
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by angus77 15y ago
In all three systems, it is both written and spoken year-month-day, which was the point. Kōki is not used by anyone with a straight face in this day and age. "Mikado Heisei" is an extremely uncommon way to refer to the emperor. "帝平成" ge
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by angus77 15y ago
No, the second one would be written: He said, "I've been outside."
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by angus77 15y ago
That's the way it's not only written, but spoken in Japanese.
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by angus77 15y ago
If the period is part of the quote, it would be inside the quote, as in `He said, "Hello there."' I thought the article made that pretty clear. Certainly nobody argued for two periods.
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by angus77 15y ago
Of course it would be easy to "discover" the Pythagorean theorem if you went back in time---you already know it. Now, go back in time and <em>take away all your knowledge</em> (and the knowledge that there was a theorom to b
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by angus77 15y ago
The roomful of lawyers and lobbyists aren't the ones who get to pass the law. If you're Canadian then you likely know that a Harper/Conservative majority would love to ram this stuff through, whereas the other parties aren't so inclined.
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by angus77 15y ago
I'd be voting against the Conservatives in this election if it weren't for the fact that my right to vote has been taken away from me since I haven't resided in Canada for longer than 5 years. So much for "citizenship". http://www.letcana
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by angus77 15y ago
Where does complicated come into it? Didn't Beethoven write his Fifth just to show that complicated was utterly beside the point?
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by angus77 15y ago
Actually, I think you took the quote far too literally. Dylan was merely trying to say that Beethoven was the better composer, not that he would have literally written "Tambourine Man" or something similar.
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by angus77 15y ago
Could we get a citation? This is the absolute first I've heard someone claim that Stallman's actual said such a thing (aside from people who are obviously just making things up).
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by angus77 15y ago
"If I want to release my software under a BSD licence, it's not free software because RMS doesn't think it is." I thought the FSF had publicly stated that BSD licenses were compatible with the GPL, and thus "Free" software. I wouldn't be s
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by angus77 15y ago
<quote>rms wants you to write code for free, give it away for free and never ask for any money if anyone uses it.</quote> Given that Stallman used to charge $200 for tapes of Emacs, I gotta wonder how you come to this conclu
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by angus77 15y ago
I don't doubt it, but if you think Stallman is interested in a product because it's "better" than another product then you really don't know what Stallman's values are at all. Stallman's not objecting to it on the grounds of it being poor
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by angus77 15y ago
I pretty much agreed with everything except the ridiculous idea that Stallman should try out Google Docs so he could see how "good" it is.
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by angus77 15y ago
If you're talking in terms of technical skill, sure. If you're talking in terms of quantity of quality output, that's not quite so indisputable. You're not suggesting we're awash in 'Fur Elise's, are you?
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by angus77 15y ago
I hope you're not trying to suggest the community was trying to extort Oracle.
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by angus77 16y ago
I always thought it should be the opposite---paying bribes should be illegal, but accepting them legal. It would be like collecting a reward for turning in the briber.
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by angus77 16y ago
I couldn't believe how many hits I was getting for this from Google. I was sure it had to be the real thing...then I realized that pretty much every page was copy & pasted from Android Police... It's the afternoon of April 2nd wher
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by angus77 16y ago
When I want emacs to be fast & light I just do emacs -Q.
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by angus77 16y ago
I haven't heard that one, but there's a similar one in the Frank Zappa Book about the song "Montana". He wrote a song about dental floss, yet people's teeth didn't get cleaner.
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by angus77 16y ago
Funny, I googled for it and only got hits for "Seche - The World's Finest Top Coat", "SECHE - Sioux Empire Christian Home Educators", translations of the French word sèche , seche.net blogfolio...only after googling "seche lakes" did I get
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by angus77 16y ago
It saves a lot of headaches for people googling or wikiing for a word if you spell it correctly for them. The word is "seiche" .
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by angus77 16y ago
I've heard that a big earthquake hits the Ottawa Valley every century-and-a-half or so that the people there are totally unprepared for, but tsunamis? C'mon now, if a tsunami was big enough to hit Ontario, I think the tsunami would proba
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by angus77 16y ago
I wonder how many people returning lost goods actually claim the 5-20% they're entitled to. I lost my bag once (with my wallet in it). I went to the police box closest to the area where I'd lost it, and of course they had it. Someone had
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by angus77 16y ago
Last year I left a job I had for 5 1/2 years where I had to do speeches and presentations right, left and centre. You get used to it---even "skilled" at it. People praise you for your presentation skills; sometimes they even ask for advic
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by angus77 16y ago
More likely the company would change him from inside.
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by angus77 16y ago
What was that even supposed to mean?

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