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by dflock 16y ago
Possibly not, any more - banks are supposed to provide economic liquidity by moving capital around the economy to where it's needed and buffering shortfalls (never mind what they've actually been getting up to of late, that's what their eco
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by dflock 16y ago
Cool, I didn't know that. I though the Safari version did de-pagination as well, which readability doesn't, I don't think? Wonder if they'll contribute back? Anyone know what license Readability is under - I couldn't see it on the page: ht
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by dflock 16y ago
Windows NT4 was much more stable than the previous Win3.11->95->98->Me line, but - primarily due to moving Graphics drives into the kernel for performance - was considerably less stable than its immediate predecessor in the NT l
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by dflock 16y ago
This happened to the Windows NT microkernel too - they just kept shoving more and more stuff back into kernelspace for performance reasons, starting with Graphics drivers in NT4, and going from there. I think they may have yo-yo'd on Graphi
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by dflock 16y ago
In case you didn't know, Readability ( http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ) does pretty much the same job as the Safari reader thing, but for all browsers. There are readability add-ons for both FF ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en
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by dflock 16y ago
I use this extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/laankejkbhbdhmip... which provides a noprocrast feature for the whole internet, or at least the parts that you blacklist for yourself.
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by dflock 16y ago
Hmmm... Textmate for Windows, finally? Heh.
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by dflock 16y ago
Yeah, I would disagree with this as well - they're supposed to provide more reassurance, but all the studies of user awareness of this - and security UI in general - generally conclude that almost nobody has a clue what these mean or even n
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by dflock 16y ago
Did traffic return to the pre-spike baseline eventually, or have you seen a sustained increase?
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by dflock 16y ago
Perhaps you do it to yourself? I doesn't appear to happen to everyone ;)
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by dflock 16y ago
I don't know about the moderation, but what you said is entirely subjective - and quite possibly simply your perceptions of the two companies projected onto their logo's. You could equally well say that the MS logo on that page is elegant,
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by dflock 16y ago
Makes them seem all... businessey?
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by dflock 16y ago
And time will also tell how long until the novelty wears off and your spending revert to your historical norm, perhaps?
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by dflock 16y ago
Yes, it is. I just tried it with and without a VPN with a US endpoint and I get 'No preview' if I appear to be outside the USA.
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by dflock 17y ago
Hmmm. Fusion. Even if sustainable ignition is made to work, and a perfectly functioning fusion reactor can be built - it's still completely unknown if it can be used as a useful power station: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?
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by dflock 17y ago
It's not really the long term future that I find alarming, it's the near-term transitions. It seems like globally we're finally bumping up against a load of fixed environmental, resource and population buffers almost all at once. Bumpy road
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by dflock 17y ago
There's only one planet Earth, finite in size - and therefore a finite amount of natural resources exist within it. Once we've split all the uranium and washed all the phosphorus into the ocean, that's it - you can't think up more Zinc, Rub
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by dflock 17y ago
Isn't that the other way around? Botnets sometimes blackmail (random-ish) ordinary folk into paying off criminals, rather than you getting criminals to pay you?
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by dflock 17y ago
Depends on what you mean by originally, really. Originally all this was intended for sharing scientific research and no one cared about crap like fonts, or almost anything else we take for granted now; it kinda used to look like this: http
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by dflock 17y ago
I suspect that getting criminals to pay you might be difficult - and blackmailing them sounds dangerous ;)
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by dflock 17y ago
They are also apparently working on more open formats and more formats in general.
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by dflock 17y ago
I think you night have missed the point of my post.
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by dflock 17y ago
'People will get used to it eventually.' I expect you're probably correct. What's the point, though? Why is it better this way? Why should thousands (millions?) of users retrain their muscle memory? What are the benefits to moving these win
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by dflock 17y ago
That's my main issue with all this UI twiddling that Canonical are doing at the moment - the left hand buttons, the notify actions removal, removing tooltips from indicator items, and gnome's great menu-icon removal of the last cycle. There
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by dflock 17y ago
As a recent immigrant to Canada form the UK, I am not surprised by this. I have seen Canadian TV; I do not intend to do so again.
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by dflock 17y ago
You probably want this awesome little thing: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ Makes most any website really, really, _readable_. One of goals when I build my own sites is to make it so I don't want to switch readability on wh
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by dflock 17y ago
This was back when apple made things for people who made things; sadly they now just make things for people who consume things.
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by dflock 17y ago
There are official test suits to go with CSS available from the W3C - here's the latest snapshot of the one for CSS2.1: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS2.1/20100127/ This version currently has 8777 tests, covers most areas of the spec
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by dflock 17y ago
This is basically what everyone always says when someone suggests that it's possible to be successful in the music biz without being signed to a major label. Every time they say it, the list of exceptions gets longer and the bands get small
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by dflock 17y ago
Being a web developer, I agree, obviously, but I'm not sure if it's true. If they're packed to capacity 100% of the time with a crap website, paying for a better one if just an unnecessary expense, isn't it? Especially if they're a small bu

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