bilban

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by bilban 16y ago
I'd not come across the term 'comparative advantage' before. Not thought of it from that angle. You want the freedom to turn pot into a commodity? Growing the plant, a weed is pretty trivial. Anyone could do it. Which means those barrie
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by bilban 16y ago
You are so right of course. Even a few breaks throughout the day - increases my coding. If I forgo any kind of exercise - it's a fast downward cycle.
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by bilban 16y ago
Problem is with that type of regime, you'd end up with no garden left and some really annoyed neighbours.
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by bilban 16y ago
I'm sure you could review the dialogue if needs be.
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by bilban 16y ago
All so backward - why even have the middle man. How about a sensible use policy, illegal to sell pot, but make it legal to grow your own, still illegal to grow with intent to supply. Or even cap the amount of plants you are allowed to gro
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by bilban 16y ago
Can someone explain the what Cameron means by altering the intellectual property laws?
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by bilban 16y ago
What's the scene and rent like up in Edinburgh? Sounds far more attractive than the big shitty.
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by bilban 16y ago
My point was that having a computer running 24/7 at home to use as a secure proxy when you are out in the field is a bit wasteful. The technical solution was fine - though I can't see many non-techies getting their heads around this. Why
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by bilban 16y ago
Sadly I agree. I'm hoping that projects like Gnome Shell or Ubuntu's Unity could propel the Linux desktop out of the dark ages.
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by bilban 16y ago
That's a difficult question. I like Debian because I can build it up piecemeal from a minimal install. A lot of that is down to the package manager. Fedora might have similar functionality these days - though I didn't have a great time t
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by bilban 16y ago
I don't think they even do it well. I prefer the default menus system on Debian/Gnome. They think they are UI experts and clearly they are not. I think the best thing they could do is unify the system control panel - copy that from OSX r
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by bilban 16y ago
I was trying to turn on some applers to the joy of svn, and the tools at the time were immature, though that was two years back. Tortoise was great on windows though. I thought GIT didn't play well with windows - so a git-tortoise would b
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by bilban 16y ago
Although I like the CLI interface to some of these tools, I think to get people using them you need nice GUI tools and sadly these are lacking - or rather they were when I last looked.
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by bilban 16y ago
Thanks for that. I abandoned Ubuntu and went back to Debian (desktop) for some of the same reasons - I don't like Ubuntu's take on Gnome. I think Ubuntu should have versions/spins like Fedora. I think it's confusing for the end user with
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by bilban 16y ago
What would you like to have?
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by bilban 16y ago
There must be a way to create an indent, or some kind of tactile homing device.
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by bilban 16y ago
Not a very 'green' solution!
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by bilban 16y ago
Starbug! Suitably geeky.
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by bilban 16y ago
I totally get where you are coming from with this. If I have a bag with me in a public space, or if I left my email open on my laptop and left the room I would not expect anyone to help themselves to the content. It's a trust issue. I gu
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by bilban 16y ago
When I looked around St Dunstans in Sussex (provides support for the blind and visually impaired), it was suggested that Braille was on the out, which surprised me.
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by bilban 16y ago
Agree. Users really aren't that bothered as long as it works. There are certainly faults with my aging Powerbook both with the hardware and software.
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by bilban 16y ago
Apple hardware isn't as diverse I'd wager, and as such it's more likely that an Apple OS will be more tailored to work with Apple hardware. That and the quality build, make up the premium. Some laptops are stamped with Linux support - some
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by bilban 16y ago
I installed 10.04 netbook edition on an old Dell inspiron, and it didn't grumble. Didn't do any subtle animation effects either, but that wasn't a biggie. Was a little slow flipping between the global menu and other apps which was a bit a
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by bilban 16y ago
I actually wish window managers would use overlays for the toolbars and menus - if the hardware was up to it. Then my web browser would just be a bare chrome. Touch screens, could sense my fingers coming close to the screen and bring up
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by bilban 16y ago
That's interesting, but for me a web browser only needs a width of about 80 characters! Apple owners probably have high resolution large monitors, so it would just look silly.
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by bilban 16y ago
I was looking at the notification-osd guidelines yesterday. And in it there was an idea of your notifications moving to the screen that is selected. The way they determined this was a bit odd. I'd certainly want to change where they appe
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by bilban 16y ago
I prefer the way Apple does the UI. I tried the netbook release 10.04 for a week on older hardware; in the end, I felt like I had to jump through another hurdle to get to an application - what I mean is that it was a two step process throug
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by bilban 16y ago
This is where I'd expect the <link rel="canonical" href="blah" /> element to be used. With browsers using this as the preferred url for a bookmark - and maybe a service for sharing or copying urls from the browser that was easy to
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by bilban 16y ago
Left at a dead end on a comment edit as a result of me turning js off on this site. Oh well.
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by bilban 16y ago
That was funny, about a minute earlier - I had to work out how to turn javascript off! I use my own style sheet, and sometimes site scripts hate it and play havoc. Not wanting to be down on the browsers, but most of them don't present part

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