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by eftpotrm 15y ago
As a Brit... might I suggest that the more accurate answer is that you'd be hard pressed to find an ex-pat in your current country of residence who didn't do that at some point?
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
If we have a patent which is violated if the bundled software includes a feature but isn't if the software is separately installed later, by what argument is that a rational patent? Where is the huge philosophical leap between a tool within
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
These aren't restricted to the old 7 bit ASCII character sets though, are they? We've already had cases where people were registering famous domains with one character changed so some high unicode value that was graphically but not conceptu
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
It's not like this is unique to Google's nav system, and at least a web nav system can be updated relatively simply compared to separate GPS systems. I've got a Garmin Nuvi and, in general, it's pretty good. In general. Issues I have found
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
While I can see the point you're trying to make, the companies concerned have obtained permission to display their logo in that way from the owner of the medium in which they have chosen to display their logo; the kid hasn't. There's an arg
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
A nice idea, but two weeks in the summer seems a bit of a brief dat gathering period for this. Let it run for longer to pick up more users and data and the utility will surely be far higher?
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
... while wrapping it to make it look like an early 1970s design.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Well.... A600, A1200 and A4000 all had internal IDE interfaces. The A3000 had a SCSI interface. All other Amiga models had to use add-on HDD interfaces, which started SCSI because that was the dominant platform and shifted more to IDE over
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Thank you for posting them. I understand I've seen the Shuttle in the UK too. Difficult to know by now what I'm remembering and what I'm remembering being told / seeing photos; I'd have been four. But I'm still glad to know that I have. The
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
And yet people are leaving the Sun, sister paper in the empire and really quite similar, untouched. In fact some of the advertisers directly said they were swapping their advertising from NotW to the Sun. Tokenism on all fronts. NI will lau
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Minus the cut to the retailer, minus the cut to the distributor, minus the cost of printing the thing... The income from advertisers is a much higher percentage of the paper's income than you think.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
If you're reading it down the phone then you're revealing your login secret to an insecure third party and potentially providing them with the means to log in as you.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Not necessarily, they could in theory be entering your password into their computer and seeing if it matches the hash, exactly as if you logged in. But, if they're asking for you to read your password to their call centre down the phone, I'
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Can I add to this that I really don't like Chrome's tab handling in comparison? I'll regularly have 10+ tabs per window open. Firefox? No problem, they scroll and there's a pop-down menu to let me see what they all are at a glance. Chrome
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Exactly, and will vanish overnight when Northern Rock is later sold, hence why they're not really a part of the national debt in any real sense.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
FWIW, my understanding is that the British government figure is significantly and artificially inflated by having had to bail out Northern Rock in the banking crisis - it ended up meaning that the balance sheets of any NR depositors technic
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Well, introducing rape in that way is a bit of a straw man I'd say. As I said, the bulk of individuals suffering from mental health issues severe enough to provoke possible medical incarceration are primarily dangerous to themselves, not ot
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
This argument assumes there are no societal benefits from having local infrastructure though, which I wouldn't agree with. Amazon may be more directly resource efficient, but I don't think that argument taken to its logical conclusion would
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
The core problem, from an outsiders' perspective, appears to be jurisdictional fragmentation. Amazon, not unreasonably, want to be able to regard the USA as a single market, yet this gives them 50 different sets of legislation and 50 tax co
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
How is it in the interest of the person concerned to be in prison rather than undergoing psychiatric care though? We can take an extreme view of personal liberty, but in the UK at least a significantly higher percentage of those entering pr
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Interesting - signed up, created a few overlaps, will see what happens. Apologies if I'm blind but I couldn't see an easy way to see who matched overlaps? Could be useful to do a list of users according to match rates, or to find those who
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I'd hope so to, but battery tech hasn't exactly got a stellar record of improvement, likely because of fundamental chemistry constraints. While I hate to be the depressive and I'd love there to be a better technology available, my understan
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
OK - transmission and 'cooling system and fluids' are the only parts of that that aren't already counted in the engine, and with cooling system and fluids that's already being generous. So we're talking an engine that doesn't need a transmi
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Though, I should say, that masks another contingency with possibly the same effect. We have an economy which is predicated on cheap energy. As such it's frequently cheaper to produce goods by comparitively inefficient automated processes du
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I don't believe that's a very manpower-intensive production system though, unless we're going for the Soylent Green option...
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
While I don't dispute the honest good intentions here, I do, strongly, dispute the cost benefit analysis. They're testing every last security fix, every last point release, every last sneeze from the platform vendors against everything in t
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
That assumes price is the only selling point. It isn't for me; I like the extra portability of the smaller machine. It goes to places a 13" wouldn't because it fits in the bag more easily.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I can't agree; while I won't deny it's slower and less capable than my main machine, it's very rarely an obstacle in my regular use of it.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Well, I certainly hope that reports of the netbook's death are in fact reports of the death of the netbook's hype ... I'm another of those who find them almost perfect devices. It gets used for real, serious, mobile computing. Visual Studi
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
$32k is an awful lot of money to have handed over for something like this, on the scare of it being potentially a lot more. That's what I mean; on an arguable point, the cost of defending the lawsuit and facing costs - let alone the poten

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