digi_owl

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by digi_owl 9y ago
Paranoia?
842.
by digi_owl 9y ago
So something akin to BBSs with a central registry?
843.
by digi_owl 9y ago
I must admit, seeing this title gets me thinking about one of Cory Doctorow's books...
844.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Well media production orgs have a massive myopia for Apple tech, so it would not surprise me...
845.
by digi_owl 9y ago
The way battery capacity is measured is by looking at the output voltage. The voltage written on a standard battery cell is the "average" voltage the cell will produce across its life time. As amperage is spent(?), the voltage wil
846.
by digi_owl 9y ago
The early days of European internet was similarly metered. Very few nations had anything like the US system of local calls being free. Only with the advent of DSL etc did flat fee net connections become "common".
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> admittedly that's mainly because programming languages are qwerty-centric. More like US layout centric. EVen the humble unix CLI is a straight pain on anything but a US keyboard, as things like / now require a modifier key. F
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by digi_owl 9y ago
My understanding is that telecom in general balked at packet switching. To them it violated the core tenent of their business, that of maintaining a continous circuit between customers.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
hear hear.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> I run Linux as my desktop, and I've been using Linux on a daily basis since the mid 90s. The amount of work that it does for its user now compared to then isn't even comparable. And here i sit, yelling at the screen any time
851.
by digi_owl 9y ago
> We stress the needs of the user over everything Imagined needs of an imagined user perhaps. And more and more that imagined user is a drooling idiot best left in a padded cell it seems...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Gets me thinking of an Adam Curtis' documentary series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o... Not exactly sure how relevant it is though.
853.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Or simply that the kid found the sound it made when shaken amusing for some reason.
854.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Then again the web oriented world all too often come across as architecture astronauts...
855.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Supposedly cities like New York looked similar into the 70s, but then came a backlash because much of the ads were for "burlesque" entertainment and similar. Japan, and perhaps also the rest of Asia, has not had such a backlash.
856.
by digi_owl 9y ago
We love perceived insiders, and are vicious to perceived outsiders. And the size of the first group is somewhere around 150, the number of distinct individuals we can track mentally.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> The Linux kernel is maintained by hundreds of contributers and Linus is quite cautious about regressions. I just wish similar caution was demonstrated from userspace component maintainers. > Linux has a mature ecosystem and several
858.
by digi_owl 9y ago
That is why Torvalds gets riled up about kernel behavior, they just don't know where it may be used.
859.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Quite a bit of that code was shared between Thunderbird, Firefox and Seamonkey. But now Firefox don't want to play along any more, and dragging the other two along for the ride...
860.
by digi_owl 9y ago
In other words, they could use a bunch of Torvalds clones to tell the "snowflakes" off.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And once you remove the money incentive/whip, it gets even worse...
862.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Would not surprise me if it hits somewhere around 150 or so, as that is supposedly the number of people we can directly keep track of in our heads.
863.
by digi_owl 9y ago
Could have sworn i read about Sony, via intermediaries, sued itself. This because Sony both produced media devices with a record/copy capability, and content.
864.
by digi_owl 9y ago
G+ anyone? Managed by an ex-MSer, and wormed its way into every damn part of Google for a time. After he left Google, i swear someone in the company management accused him of being a "cookie-licker" in an interview.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Now that is a brick of a cooler.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Passively cooling 65W TDP?
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The RMS message is different though. It is not about any specific OS or platform, it is about making sure the owner/admin is the final arbiter of what can or can't be done on that computer (now and into the infinite future).
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by digi_owl 9y ago
More like people want external confirmation that they made the right choice.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> Reminds me to a degree of John Siracusa's OSX reviews Lacks the pixel counting...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Well the definition of a "virus" have expanded greatly over the years. The original definition was a piece of code that would latch onto binaries, and be spread that way. And those had telltale signatures (a virus may have added a

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