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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I agree, I've seen his columns and he's firmly standing behind his ill-informed bigotry. A pity, because if you see some of his writing as a younger man 25 years ago he was interesting, funny and observant while still demonstrably holding t
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Yes, but.... The show's main presenter has been well known as having politically conservative views for many, many years. If you watch, the vast bulk of his output is joking in that general direction when it's joking. Frankly, if I were Tes
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Actually, speaking as a Brit working in IT who has supplied various public sector organisations in the past, I think it's rather more likely that this would have been written by an outside agency to contract. And I wouldn't expect they were
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Keep in mind that even 'burst mode' on a high-end DSLR only runs at 3-5 frames per second (not 30), and still requires a few seconds between bursts to process and write to disk. No. My 4 year old consumer level Nikon D80 will hit 3FPS. Ye
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I play brass (trumpet) and was always warned on assuming the tuning was accurate; even with the perfect player using the perfect compensation on the relevant valves the lower notes are definitely iffy (they tend towards flat and the compens
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'Becomes' is an understatement. It seems to have been patently obvious to people who understand the Internet for many years that this wasn't going to achieve anything beyond the establishment of a new registry for people to sell domains in,
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I could understand why one might find the teaching of creationism offensive, but what is offensive about other people holding wrong opinions? I'm sure we each think the other holds several; I'm not offended by the error I perceive you mig
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But.... that seems to be the US approach to any of a number of issues, allow legal freedom and private contracts to restrict. However all too often there seems to be no practical alternative to the restriction for many, so what value does t
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
For years, mice have given me shoulder / upper arm pains if I use them for too long. I was surprised how quickly I adapted to touchpads though... The reduction in time reorienting my right hand from the keyboard to a device a foot to the ri
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Thanks; I wonder why they changed it but didn't put a tooltip on the component advertising the new shortcut? I'm sure that used to be there on at least some older versions of Firefox.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I'm hopeful for the speed improvements; I was having issues with 3.6.x in that and so far 4 seems good but I've not really stressed it. Otherwise, confess first impressions are less happy. Moving the tab bar has left it stranded adjacent to
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I'm curious; in what way do you prefer Chrome's tab handling? For me it's one of the worst things about Chrome; this window currently has ten tabs open and that's at the _very_ low end for me. With Firefox I can see what I've got open no ma
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
One day I will understand the popularity of Vi; until then (and I have used it), I find it so frustrating to use that the first command that always springs to mind is :q!. I confess I was surprised not to see EditPad register at all; I don'
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Small companies are inherently fragile though; new small companies even more so. By all means keep an eye on the future to watch for possibly tying your hands, but if that is what it takes to get you the customer base to survive, let alone
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Never thought of trying different instances of the same size and same style myself, actually... it's often hard enough to find a single instance! Agreed. It's not something I've done very often, but (for example) when you notice that the
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Yahoo bought Viaweb 13 years ago. The challenges then were completely different to what they are now, as were the underlying technologies at all levels. Frankly Viaweb could've been written in the most widely used, predictable technology ev
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Except that fit is often dependent on style. I have clothes in the same category but different styles from the same retailer where I need different sizes; heck, occasionally I've ended up having to compare different copies of the same garme
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
That's significantly because turbines have vastly worse throttle response than reciprocating piston engines though. This does look like nothing more than a new turbine design, I agree, but frankly a turbine driving a generator and a battery
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Some guys like that bottled beer / Some like it in a can / Some say a keg's the best beer / For a real beer drinking man / Everyone has their favourite / But on one thing they agree / The greatest beer in all the world / Is the one you drin
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Oh, yes...... My previous employer, you could work out the function of a server and its platform from its name; it was embedded within the name. There were index numbers when we had more than one which wasn't ideal, but.... My current emplo
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
It's not just that; the musical intervals we tend to favour are based around natural resonances and constructive / destructive interference. Hence why a perfect fifth sounds good and a diminished fifth jars; the waveforms don't compliment e
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
OK, there's two separate things here :-) Trumpet fingering is easiest in C, F or G majors (as read, concert Bb, Eb and F). The actual blowing is quite physical and needs a good bit of practice to build strength; that is easiest in C, and th
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> To wit: when I play piano, I play in C. When I play guitar, I don't think about what key I'm in. I play in whatever fingering is easiest and what sounds best at the time. I know what you mean, but I think that's significantly a keyboa
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
If we're talking the UBS case that others have alluded to here: He went to jail because he didn't tell the whole story and tried to cover up his part. Whistleblowing rules require full disclosure of your information to prevent them just bei
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I've never founded a company. But, for over a year, I was the sole IT resource for what was in effect a startup. If I'd gone under a bus, they'd have been in real trouble. One thing I quickly learnt then and find myself instinctively doing
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Personally, I'd be more concerned about the possibility for psychosis.... Purely an anecdote, not at all measured and qualified, just correlation, but I've known two people over the years who've been long-term cannabis users and have had si
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Your example of 10/400 v 10/100 implies early specialisation if that's to be a realistic scenario, which I confess I'm not a great fan of. If you'd found me at 11, or even 14, I was near enough top of the chart on everything bar sports. P
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Why not , though? I've had to work in both and can personally work in either interchangeably. When I switch between projects and move languages I spend a short while forgetfully mixing the syntaxes, but otherwise no biggie - and I do that
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Education tends to be funded per head, but with strong network effects - a larger school can have a wider range of facilities because they can defray the cost per student over a larger base to cover the lower-interest offerings. Also, a sch
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I'm with you. I loved and was fascinated by photography from a young age, but it was intimidatingly slow and expensive to experiment on film. Going digital let me do what I'd wanted to for years, the hobby ballooned and my skills went throu

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