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by digi_owl 9y ago
On a different note, KDE3 still existing in the form of the Trinity DE. http://www.trinitydesktop.org/
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And yet i keep seeing FOSS projects that are doing just that over and over and over, with some flimsy excuse about user friendliness as their cover...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
What seems to have happened was that Google shifted focus from sorting the web to delivering the "zeitgeist" of the present. Perhaps because more people were likely to search for whatever was on the news cycle than some arbitrary
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Frankly big name FOSS projects have developed a massive paternalist streak over the last decade or so. This in complete ignorance that what attracted people to them in the first place was to escape the paternalism (and black box nature of p
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I really wish i kept a bookmark for an article over at filfre.net, because in it a game dev, from back around the C64 era i believe, lamented how whenever there was a big step up in hardware performance, game developers had a bad habit of g
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The increasing reliance on ICs seems to put a really big wrench in the system. Seeing a relative, that loved working on cars, swearing over a broken wiper because the engine is just fine but the IC studded control board clearly is not doing
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Poe's Law strikes again...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> Because, historically, many important discoveries (I would guess the majority) came from things people thought weren't terribly important. Often things that most thought had no value at all. Or a massive case of "hmm, that&#x
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And this is why people should not take El Reg too seriously. Or as one incarnation of Joker put it, "why so serious?".
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by digi_owl 9y ago
One may also need to recognize that thinking in market terms have its limits.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I wonder how many would struggle if it was presented simply a 0-60+70-80+90=? rather than the block of text in the article. At least for me the problem is that when i get a block of text like that i get distracted from the math by scrutiniz
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by digi_owl 9y ago
There is at least one LPG fueled ferry travelling the fjords of Norway.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
My parents got me one, hoping I could use it for school or something. I guess I was too young to really appreciate it beyond the fancy games I could play. Still have it tucked away in the basement though, but the floppies are likely dead by
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by digi_owl 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_CD32
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by digi_owl 9y ago
"Perfect is the enemy of good"?
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Kinda. I recall reading about one suggestion for using high altitude "kites", and i could have sworn i have also seen one where the sails would be more similar to what you find on a Junk. In both instances the operations would be
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Interestingly they may be on their last leg. Since Sweden first introduced them more and more nations seem to be switching to Sterling engines for submerged operations. While clearly they can't match nuclear powered sub, they seem capa
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Even for BBQ charcoal is the traditional way, with propane grills only becoming a thing in the last decade or so. And then mostly because of a combined effort between stores to try to sell the "American" BBQ experience. Honestly h
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Somewhat, though even before the introduction of electric ferries the new models replacing the older ones have had an emphasis on vehicle units over passenger comforts. Where as an older ferry near me used to offer a panorama view of the fj
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Never mind that with text it is quite easy to skip all the fluff and get to the info one wants (in this case, the specs and other differences between the 3B and the 3Bplus).
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Or perhaps some kind of storage connectivity beyond USB.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Reminds me that i have a 3B sitting around that i have yet to do anything with.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Now that you mention it, i think i got the "multimedia" edition of that as part of the bundle when i bought a CD-ROM upgrade kit back in the day.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Apple has already gotten into hot water, but not about iOS. They did get into trouble regarding price fixing of ebooks, for example.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
None most likely. The closest we came was when Amazon unveiled their Fire variant. And the Google response to that was to move development of anything user facing out of AOSP. Compiling AOSP today will result in something that look and beha
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I seem to recall that they tried using a TBM in Sweden on a short rail tunnel, only for the TBM to get stuck and the project delayed by a decade...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
You sure about that? Most i have experienced along the coast have been been done using explosives.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And yet the government fret like crazy over every KM of road being built (unless it is from Oslo to Kristiansand), to the point of using foreign companies with downright insane lack of safety protocols (liquid explosives stored right next t
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The real problem there was that Debian left the splash screen in place, complete with the email of the author. Thus people would contact him directly rather than Debian when an issue was noticed. Then again JWZ is quite the character...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> If every piece of software should get an exception to the rule, we don't have a distribution anymore. And from what i can tell, quite a bit of upstream would see that as a good thing. They just want to stuff their thing into a con

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