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by bwarp 15y ago
The higher ranks of the profession are still the bearers of all the keys. We will probably go all Luddite and smash the tools before this happens.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Sounds like the recording industry as well! Actually all middle-men!
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by bwarp 15y ago
Here I sit on an 8 core Xeon with 32Gb of RAM and Firefox and it's so slow that it's unusable... I prefer clean, static documentation (like: http://docs.python.org/ )
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by bwarp 15y ago
Isn't everything in politics a disgrace to democratic principles?
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by bwarp 15y ago
I hope you are right!
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by bwarp 15y ago
Not really. I prefer written words as the content is easier to scan through. Video is almost laborious watching.
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by bwarp 15y ago
You think? They already blew it with the Data Retention Directive[1] - what makes you think that they'll bend on this? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
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by bwarp 15y ago
How does this fit in with an open source model? Surely you can just extract the keys/license without reverse engineering anything then? It's daft.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I'll give you that. It's one of the reasons I don't have the flash plugin installed.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I get the feeling this isn't going to be that much of a problem. I've not got the flash plugin installed in Firefox and I'm not finding any great hardship these days. Perhaps it'll kill Flash a bit quicker considering the amount of Kiosks a
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by bwarp 15y ago
At the risk of sounding like a Microsoft shill (I'm not), you can already have your cake and eat it if you use Windows Workflow on top of AppFabric. It has an arguably better feature set (including extensive transaction, correlation, failov
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by bwarp 15y ago
It's like Zombo.com: http://zombo.com/
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by bwarp 15y ago
Don't forget rednecks!
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by bwarp 15y ago
It's books like that (I've read all three) which bring the luddite in me out. I'm all for computers helping us perform tasks but sometimes things go a little too far.
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by bwarp 15y ago
That's a sticky plaster solution. Not buying a buggy piece of crap to start with is the better solution.
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by bwarp 15y ago
That is just awesome in every way.
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Free symbolic algebra system for Windows(microsoft.com)
1 points by bwarp 15y ago|1 comments
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by bwarp 15y ago
They need to look like they're doing something for the elite or they'd lose their political sponsorship. Seriously though, it's not going to change a thing. You can't kill an idea.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I think Canonical are going to die if they keep on the crack pipe as much as recently. This is a fine example of it. Customers and users are dropping like flies already. I don't know anyone now who hasn't bailed on then and gone with mint,
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by bwarp 15y ago
I tend to avoid that as inevitably when someone has to use the variable, it's a bugger to work out what to type unless you're a unicode whizz. I'd use "theta" instead.
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by bwarp 15y ago
And from 12 years of experience with it, delivers only soul crushing PAIN. Is it just me or the more you pay for software, the more it hurts you these days?
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by bwarp 15y ago
I think it's about the same. One looks like XML but isn't. the other looks like C but isn't.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Whilst this is a good novelty, please please please don't do this - ever! As my father said "just because you can put your penis in a goat, doesn't mean you should".
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by bwarp 15y ago
Never underestimate the power of "good enough". Apache is "good enough" for most people. NGINX or Node.js really don't bring much new to the table of "good enough". It's why plan 9 isn't as popular as it probably should be. UNIX was good en
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by bwarp 15y ago
It does take years. The brain is very pliable and easy to teach the younger you are so it depends on when you start. I'm not much of a polyglot myself: English, French, Swiss-German, Afrikaans (mainly the insults!) but my sister can speak 8
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by bwarp 15y ago
Thanks for this - very interesting!
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by bwarp 15y ago
Much as this sounds amazing, languages are pretty uniform once you know the basics much as once you get the basics of programming, your knowledge is portable across other languages. The majority of a language is working out how the basic st
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by bwarp 15y ago
Quietly ignore them and provide workarounds and carry on being naughty citizens until they are an insignificant legend. Fighting them makes only them stronger.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I can't say I've ever experienced this. Are you sure it's not your AV software interfering with Mesh? I use Security Essentials on any Windows machines if that is a comparison point.
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by bwarp 15y ago
That's not true. Any DNLA client works as well. In my case a Bravia EX series. I can right click and "play to Bravia" on any media file and browse my media from the TV unit.

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