dflock

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   by dflock 16y ago

   This sounds like exactly what you want: http://www.browserlinux.com/ It mission is to answer your exact question, pretty much.
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   by dflock 16y ago

   All the ones that I've seen (minecraft, dwarf fortress, little big planet) are 100% mechanical, so I guess all you need is the ability to move things around, plus some kind of basic physics, so that moving things around can have knock-on ef
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   by dflock 16y ago

   Value isn't measured solely in dollars, even at work.
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   by dflock 16y ago

   For a virtual environment to qualify as 'a sandbox', your users must be able to create turing machines, out of stuff the found lying around. - Locks Law (which I just made up :).
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   by dflock 16y ago

   There's a chapter on this in Freakonomics: "Factors that are important in determining high standardized test scores in children include: highly educated parents, high socioeconomic status, maternal age of greater than thirty when the child
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   by dflock 16y ago

   Most large open source projects have a 'design' or 'artwork' team, who actively seek contributions, for example: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design http://art.gnome.org/ become a design ninja by completing one of the fedora bounties:
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   by dflock 16y ago

   Good; overdue. Hopefully, this is buh-bye Sun community process crap, NIH, etc... - hello forking off github, open commmunity gOo style development. Win win, as far as I can see?
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   by dflock 16y ago

   Yeah, any replacement will need to be _everywhere_. No-one talks about PHP deployment issues, because it's literally everywhere. You have to build your own server if you want one _without_ php. That's it's killer feature.
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   by dflock 16y ago

   Can't all screenshot tools do this, just by you telling it to save them into ~/Dropbox ?
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    by dflock 16y ago

    Great to hear!
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    by dflock 16y ago

    Obviously this is just an examples of _the_ classical trade off, but still...
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    by dflock 16y ago

    I'm back in the UK for 2 weeks out of the last year and I miss this. D'Oh.
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    by dflock 16y ago

    Quite possibly. Here's a group who are actually building one now, in Chicago, and blogging about it: http://www.plantchicago.com/?page_id=2 Be interesting to see how that works out.
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    by dflock 16y ago

    Yeah, this. I'm a web developer and a heavy Chromium user and I caught myself pondering a memory upgrade for my 8Gb desktop the other day, just for Chromium.
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    by dflock 16y ago

    Yep - but all the steps will fall to simple incremental improvements pretty quickly, would think.
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    by dflock 16y ago

    Also, telomeres are largely an anti-cancer defence mechanism, like a surprisingly large number of other things that your cells do all day. When a person 'gets cancer', this just means that one of the many, many potential cancers they've had
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    by dflock 16y ago

    Yeah, this. How do you manage to get that kind of coverage?
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    by dflock 16y ago

    There are also a _lot_ of people who have heard of Wikipedia, and used it, but have _absolutely no idea_ that it's user generated and that you can edit it. They are generally pretty stunned when I demo it.
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    by dflock 16y ago

    More people need to know about kayak.com/explore - it does exactly what you want - here's your exact query: http://www.kayak.com/explore/#/AMS?a=any&d=any&fb=60...
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    by dflock 16y ago

    From a very low base, I'd imagine, compared to the big corporate & government seller's, like Dell, Microsoft, etc... Apple have traditionally fared very badly in this space and the article is all relative sales percentages - anyone have
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    by dflock 16y ago

    Also, Mirasol: http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/ereader
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    by dflock 16y ago

    I think it's easier to hit the sea, and gives you more leeway for slightly heavier landings, intact, with a lighter capsule. It's obviously a trade off, I guess.
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    by dflock 16y ago

    I guess you can do both public internet & Google Chrome App Store at the same time? Remember that this will also be tied to ChromeOS tablets/netbooks in the same way that the App Store is to the iPhone, whatever that's worth.
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    by dflock 16y ago

    How utterly unsurprising; still a shame though. I wonder is Plastic Logic will survive? Is there sufficient differentiation between their PROReader and the Kindle DX, apart form one existing and the other being vapourware?
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    by dflock 16y ago

    I'm sure that both of these things are true. It's also true that Canonical aren't very good at persuading their various up-streams of the value of accepting their patches. It's also true that they don't really do much general linux/gnome in
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    by dflock 16y ago

    Microsoft has hugely more code in the Linux Kernel than Canonical. After MS got their 22Kloc of Virtual Machine related driver code up-streamed, they massively outweigh Canonical's meagre to non-existent kernel contributions. Canonical just
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    by dflock 16y ago

    This is HTML5/CSS3 Sports Illustrated segment from Google I/O this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3j7mM_JBNw Worth watching, if you're interested in this and haven't seen it.
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    by dflock 16y ago

    If you're only/mostly consuming media, you don't really need a keyboard. For small amounts of typing, on screen keyboards will suffice.
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    by dflock 16y ago

    This is a false dichotomy. It's quite possible - and indeed, probably much more likely - that aspects of both are becoming bigger parts of our lives at the same time. These two aspects of human culture - authoritarianism and dissipation ha
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    by dflock 16y ago

    Frink is awesome. What's even better, is that I see it's finally been ported to Android!!