digi_owl

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by digi_owl 9y ago
> they released the best one More like the most marketed one. I recall reporters going out and asking teens at the mall about their media players. And most could not name the company behind it but new they had to have the one with the fr
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by digi_owl 9y ago
In effect Jobs (or maybe the unnamed middle manager to managed to convince him it was a good idea) managed to make the fruit logo a status symbol, in large part thanks to allowing the iPod and iTunes to work on Windows...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Never underestimate the power of hype. Apple has had the MSMs attention for so long it is silly. I have seen articles about Apple products in places that normally could not care less to cover consumer electronics or computers. Basic thing i
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by digi_owl 9y ago
That sounds oddly similar to the notion that a national currency gets its value from having to pay taxes with it.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Another thing is that apparently the electric one allows for different launch velocities. Thus they can tailor it more to what they are launching.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I do wonder, to UK police have a similar system to Norwegian police (that are in general also not armed) where there are handguns locked in the patrol car? They still have to radio in to get approval from the commanding officer before armin
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Still leads to family members of the diplomat trying to pull one. Not sure how common it is vs the Hollywood depiction of same though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity Interesting chart at the bottom b
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I guess these thing has lead to the saying that the police force is the biggest gang...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
In these discussions i find myself wondering how many of the firearms owned are pistols or something equally concealable, and how many are longarms(?). Norway similarly makes it relatively easy to own a rifle or shotgun for hunting. But it
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I think they are doing reasonable well in Europe.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And some of the biggest assholes i have met have come in the gym and make-up form...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
You are far from alone, especially given the behaviors and attitudes of the most likely successor...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Best i can tell, the latter crops up because of boardroom meddling pushing the focus towards quarterly earnings rather than long term sustainability of the company.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> FWIW, I save the bluntness for important stuff. As to Torvalds, but we do not get headlines about his mellow emails accepting a patch.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Indeed. For one there was the 386BSD lawsuit, for another there was HURD. Torvalds himself has stated that if HURD had been usable at the time, he would not have bothered working on Linux. Honestly, back when Linux started getting momentum,
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Makes me suspect that by the time Firefox support for webextensions are properly up and running (if it ever will be), it will be just as big a mess as the old XUL extensions were, but will less attention paid to them because they are "
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I think of that approach as the Anon legacy. That group (if one can even call it that) taught a generation to go for trolling/harassment rather than subversion.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Politicians of a number of nations have been caught messing around with mobile games and such during debates...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Tried checking the urls found in the Android store description, and one didn't resolve while another took me to a simple page bearing the name of the owner that contained a email link. Not really sure what to think. Edit: Ah, checked o
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Ah yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svi%C3%B0
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The SATW take on this dish: https://satwcomic.com/icelandic-cookbook
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Yeah i use it all the time and is one of the programs that makes me question my use of GUIs for anything beyond media players and web browsing.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I can see why you qualified that with "modern" as going back just a bit, i am hard pressed to find any computer other than Apple that labeled that key with Delete. Amiga 500 use the left pointing arrow. Atari ST actually labeled i
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by digi_owl 9y ago
And Japan can rival USA in being fanatic about Apple computers...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
So one have to parse a system specific file to get some insight...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Well yes, i think the one i read was a blog or travel story from someone that visited the place. BTW, i believe the city in question is Chongqing. But sadly i didn't keep a bookmark of the story itself. https://en.wikipedia.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I can't help wonder if China is what the USSR could have been had not the hardliners come after Gorbachev, leading to turmoil and dissolution of the union.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
About those empty skyscrapers i think in part they are a gamble on workers migrating from the interior to the coast. But in recent years their government has started a program aimed at transferring some of the coastal activity inland. How e
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Could have sworn that HN had an article a while back about Japanese icecream that had similar additives, for the purpose to slow the melting.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
> Also, the ability to see people in person, and discuss ideas with them directly is a very different experience from watching a YouTube channel. It may also help to sooth some hot tempers, and one reason the Linux kernel conferences got

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