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by bartl 17y ago
You may joke, but this happened to some people I know, a few years ago, by the BSA, here in Belgium. Not only do they check if you have anything installed now , but if there was anything, from the software companies they represent, ever
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by bartl 17y ago
I think you must be referring to perspective... which gives indeed an idea of 3D. Medieval paintings lacked perspective. But technically it's still 2D: both eyes see the same thing. We are used to 2D: if you look around with one eye, or at
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by bartl 17y ago
Myspace is good as a home page for musicians, due to the high availability of bandwidth for sample tracks. Virtually every musical artist who is anything at all, has a home page there. Facebook is a poor replacement as you must be logged i
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by bartl 17y ago
I'd like to ask, maybe in everybody's name, what you mean by "dashboard", in practical terms.
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by bartl 17y ago
The Flash (SWF) format is open (or, so Adobe says)... But their software isn't.
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by bartl 17y ago
How about a middle ground: compress the gaps, but not remove them completely: leave some gap, as a resting point.
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by bartl 17y ago
Example of a small error on YouTube's part: "more info" and "less info" shows exactly the same info text. That is something they might want to detect.
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by bartl 17y ago
You may call me stupid, but after skimming this article I still have no idea what they mean with "enterprise search"...
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by bartl 17y ago
Uh, SVG?
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by bartl 17y ago
I've always assumed that widescreen was adopted because it's a convenient format for theaters: theater rooms are easily far wider than they are high. So it's a convenient way to get a larger image, in a room that is not too excessively hi
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by bartl 17y ago
I think people don't feel so bad about stealing from the RIAA, because the artists only would get a tiny fraction of the paid sum anyway... And stealing from thieves isn't so bad, is it?
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by bartl 17y ago
Good idea, but I would put the wires in the (colored) glass, not in the LED bulb.
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by bartl 17y ago
It feels a bit strange to see Cuil mentioned.
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by bartl 17y ago
If the idea of the article was to make me feel inadequate, it did a remarkably good job.
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by bartl 17y ago
Is this guy overly paranoid, or am I overly lax, that I don't care? My email address is all over the internet. So what.
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by bartl 17y ago
A major difference between the Pacman ghosts as described here, and cars in traffic, is that the ghosts will always be able to smell the pacman, no matter how far he is, and a driver in a car has a limited view on the traffic surrounding
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by bartl 17y ago
What guarantees that the results are better for you? I feel I can trust the "results for everybody" better as are likely more thoroughly verified.
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by bartl 17y ago
Well, at this exact moment, the two top entries are: * Jane-Austen-Book-Club--The-dvd * Download-Jane-Austen-Book-Club--The-movie which works good enough as examples.
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by bartl 17y ago
MySpace may have become irrelevant as a social website for ordinary users, but it is easiliy the most important site for web sites for musicians: everybody who remotely means anything in modern music, has a (heavily personalized) page up
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by bartl 17y ago
Which one, Python 2.x, or Python 3000?
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by bartl 17y ago
For most of these points I don't even understand what he's trying to say.
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by bartl 17y ago
>I'm thinking about the (No Internet Explorer) -> Internet Explorer 3.0 jump But they didn't build that from scratch, they bought the original Mosaic codebase.
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by bartl 17y ago
On similar homework from my kids, there is always a presolved similar problem at the top of the page. I can guess the intent of the exercise, but it would have been a lot easier if there had been a solved example.
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by bartl 17y ago
>The second option is to re-record sound recordings in order to create new sound recording copyrights, which would reset the countdown clock at 35 years for copyright grant termination. Eveline characterized the labels’ conversations wi
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by bartl 17y ago
Earlier today, I was loading a free, online Flash game in my browser. I also loaded another web page in another tab, which I put upfront... The ads that were shown before the start of the game were frozen, for as long as that tab wasn't in
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by bartl 17y ago
blank stare I don't have a car. What does that tell you about the quality of my life?
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by bartl 17y ago
Here's an insightful interview with Justin before this happened: http://www.maxim.com/humor/stupid-fun/83977/interview-justin...
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by bartl 17y ago
Google Groups is basically just a window to newsgroups (AKA usenet). You can post to usenet directly, bypassing Google' posting police.
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by bartl 17y ago
So?... The idea is likely to more easily identify spammers.
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by bartl 17y ago
The commands you demonstrate are not going to convince anybody that Vi(m) is a great editor. Not at all.

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