digi_owl

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by digi_owl 9y ago
Wonder how much is brand recognition, and how much is the promise of firmware updates...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Was the drive in the spectrometer in a bay? If so you maybe have been able to get a drive emulator that can take modern storage devices in the front.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Copyright has a hilariously convoluted story. The term is from England, but many of the rules are from France. Because in France they came up with "rights of the creator" that included things like the estate being able to deny som
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by digi_owl 9y ago
They had things going for a time, but then they switched to their own branded content (supposedly because the big guys wanted more of the pie and so set up their own services).
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by digi_owl 9y ago
It is lawyers all the way down, sadly. And old old old contracts...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Reminds me of the story that when the last book of the series was released in English, a German fan group sat down an translated a portion each. They finished the task in something like 48 hours. And they did it because supposedly the offic
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I suspect it used to back when Netflix was more of an archive of "classics" and less supplier of their own content. Also, it depends a bit on where in the world you lived. Netflix for the most part was a US phenomena, and even as
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And if you tell them that they are barking up the wrong tree, they run to social media to get you labeled as a "hater"...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I can't help feel that we have gotten a generation of programmers and whatsnot that has no respect for existing tools. Rather than try to grok what is already out there they will instead grab whatever is the hyped language of the day a
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And the more i read about Slack the less i want to touch it. Emoji, gifs, fuck off.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
iOS was never meant to handle files, imo. It was meant as a souped up iPod platform, tethered to iTunes. I just wish we didn't have to way for Windows 8/10 to get "sane" file management on tablets, after Google mangled A
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by digi_owl 9y ago
History shows that if the dialog shows up often enough people will simply hit accept/ok/whatever without reading what it is about.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Frankly HDTV, much like 3DTV, has been a bust from day one. And i expect 4K to go the same way. The only people that "notice" are those with a private movie theater room.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> There’s been a serious epidemic in the last decade or so of mistaking solving the low hanging fruit for being “almost there.” Wonder how much can be blamed on 24/7 news cycles, and how much can be blamed on pump and dump VCs (And
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah i am more excited about the AR glasses Intel recently unveiled than anything VR. But in the end the problem with be battery life...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And here i still find myself preferring OMini set for single column, as it also strips out all the "modals" and JS bloat found on this "modern" web of yours. As for editing videos or such on a mobile device, bah humbug.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
So we are back at VRML?
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by digi_owl 9y ago
One "playful" way to tell if source have been copied, or recreated via a clean room means.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I really will it weren't.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> Compare the Treo and BlackBerry to the current iPhone X, Note 8, etc... And i see screens with more colors and pixels, but other than that not much new. It is still calendars and messages that rules.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The first iphone was not even a smartphone, it was a featurephone with a fancy UI. Only with the 3G could they start claiming it was a smartphone. Sadly didn't stop boneheads like a NYT writer to try to relabel it as a "superphone
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by digi_owl 9y ago
It really should not be though. It is saddening how fixated on "new" the vally mentality is.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Never mind that different OSs/fonts will represent the same thing in different ways. That said, supposedly China could grow to the size it reached thanks to its writing system encoded meaning rather than sounds. Thus different communit
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Because the unicode bureaucracy has to legitimize its own existence now that they have encoded the glyphs of every major writing system on the planet.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Welcome to present day FOSS. Just watch the number of supposed independent projects that are created and/or maintained by a small handful of corporations. And they maintain control what may well be a variant of embrace extend extinguis
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The more i read and discuss money, the more i loath the terminology of "good" and "bad" money. This in that the supposed "good" money is money that incentivize hoarding, while "bad" money supposedly i
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by digi_owl 9y ago
God damn it, this was smooth to get working. Only got some odd error regarding the tag writer on vorbis, but not a major loss. Had it been a GTK based project i fear the number of "esoteric" sub-sub-sub-dependencies i would have h
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by digi_owl 9y ago
On the forum thing. Best i can tell, mailing lists are nice for when you want to be involved day to day, but forums allows you to search the history of discussions (yes there are third party sites that offer list searches, but i have found
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by digi_owl 9y ago
A combo of 10 mins of fame and ad revenue i guess. And i strongly agree. I hate to go searching for solutions to some computer problem only to find page after page of videos demonstrating step by step how to do something. Reminds me of when
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Because at least Bitcoin has never really been a currency, it has been a (virtual) commodity with a (public) ledger attached. Blasted thing from the outset emulated gold, thus attracting "survivalists" and other goldbugs from acro

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