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biomechanica
14y ago
I might be completely wrong on this, but isn't Rogers a part of AT&T?
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biomechanica
14y ago
Indeed their business is advertising. Though, I'm not sure users providing their real identities will make things better. For instance, with Google's music service. Once you upload a few albums Google shows albums you might like. This isn't
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biomechanica
14y ago
I find it very frustrating that Google thinks that forcing people to reveal their identities is a "good" thing. "People will be held accountable now!" is the slogan I keep hearing ringing in my head listening to the excuses put out by compa
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biomechanica
14y ago
What I think it actually means is this: It has given the United States an excuse to do that they are doing to its people. The whole system is based upon fear, which is exactly what the so called "terrorists" wanted to do. The government(s
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biomechanica
14y ago
I think it has to do with their familiarity with Ubuntu server and the popularity of the distro. They wrote on that post that they do indeed want to support other distro's in the future. I suspect they just want to get some stability before
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biomechanica
14y ago
Well, Norway is dealing with their attack quite well.
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biomechanica
14y ago
I guess I have to send a reply to my past self: I don't think hope is enough, actually. The Freedom Box needs volunteers desperately. Everything from code to user interface to ideas. So I suppose my hope is: I really, really hope more peopl
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biomechanica
14y ago
I really, really hope it takes off.
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biomechanica
14y ago
As I understand it, Google's webkit went in another direction than webkit vanilla.
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biomechanica
14y ago
How can I get involved with contributing to this project? I believe in the cause, I just can't do much programming yet. Edit: Never mind, I found it under contribute on their site...
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biomechanica
14y ago
well, it's not just the "plumbing" thing. I still have to worry about animation, loading the application, playlists, etc. I understand Python could be a good choice and, yes, I agree it would be "easier". But jeez you know.. I just want to
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biomechanica
14y ago
I like C. I like its performance and its syntax. Call me crazy. edit: It's not that I don't like Python. I think it's a great scripting language. But for me, it's just too slow. Speed is important to me.
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biomechanica
14y ago
I absolutely loved that player. I actually STILL use it. It runs really nice under wine. I thought about doing a clone of it and making it open source under the GPL but I'm still not quite as productive as I can be in C yet.
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biomechanica
15y ago
I believe Blogger is now written using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) which is basically all javascript.