eftpotrm

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by eftpotrm 16y ago
No, I'm aware of the theory, I'm just not at all convinced it actually works out anything like this in practice - particularly once the extra costs of carrying the same line artificially twice are factored in. Oh well - they know their busi
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I'm not entirely surprised but I don't see where's the incentive for them to behave like this. They double the lines they must carry and are surely to some degree both undercutting themselves and overcharging so reducing sales. Surely they
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Photo nerd - the bit of gear they use to turn a 400mm lens into an 800mm lens is called a 2x teleconverter. You get double the focal length for a reduction of two stops in the available aperture and generally a loss of optical resolution.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Not at any quality with off-the-shelf software they can't, not that I've found anyway. Most software gives up a very long way short of this sort of resolution.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Having recently been researching this, while I agree that there's a blatant truth in advertising problem there, T-Mobile do seem rather better than average. If I go over the quota on O2 (for example), I get a bill. If I go over quota on T-M
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Or we could recognise that a financial services organisation over a certain size engagine in certain risky practices is no more inherently safe for society than a factory dumping toxic waste, and restrict it accordingly. Sometimes 'big gove
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Then perhaps you might like to campaign and vote against legislators you believe are representing your opinion so poorly? With primary elections it's far from impossible to get rid of bad candidates. Cynicism is a free pass for bad legislat
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I've got the music and some reasonable headphones, but I still find it pretty poor. Partly because an iPod on shuffle really isn't very good for filtration unless you set up a lot of enormously long and specific playlists and that takes for
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I've tried having this conversation so many times at my current place! We don't just have an open plan office, we have a huge open plan office with a mix of developers, client facing staff, managers, secretaries, phones going off, people
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Just while we're thinking this sort of thing, people might be interested to see http://www.meccano.us/ . I believe Tim helped Andrew on his Lego difference engine, and he's now working on the Analytical Engine.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
There's an inherent assumption in this though that 'digital natives' will survive the process for long enough to get themselves elected though. We all routinely filter out all sorts of little oddities about life because they're 'just the wa
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Maybe, within the Unix world, but there's a large software world beyond Unix, and that world seems to be grabbing onto 'simple is best' rather hard for my liking at present. I'm pleased for you that you like the Vi family of editors - I'm r
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
There seems to be a growing assumption in software that small, simple, focused is always best. I disagree. I have no problem with software being carefully managed to ensure that it remains coherent and that new features added are genuinely
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
So you can't cliam it does what it has to to be useful and you run the risk of unknown lawsuits on hidden grounds from a large and litigious company who you're trying to outmaneuver to avoid giving them money. You want to try and build a bu
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I'll freely admit I have limited and dated experience of .NET use of WSDLs, but I remember it making me almost cry with frustration. Really, really grim.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Interesting, but I note the article is three years old?
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
As a user of both - dear God, no! Flickr has a pretty large and pretty serious audience of users who at least regard themselves as proper photographers. A good portion of the (me included) pay for the pro accounts. Flickr could, I'm sure, b
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Amen. I've worked perfectly happily and successfully in software for the last 10 years, writing what most of the software industry is writing - database apps. I've never, ever, needed to write a linked list, a sorting algorithm, access memo
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
If I'm using off-the-shelf software rather than writing my own, it's because either it's huge and complex or it's not important enough to make time from other projects. In either case, I'm trading off flexibility for the speed at which I ca
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
The bit that worked though, both for this and Richard Reid's shoe bomb, was that passengers - not air marshals - noticed the terrorist trying to set light to something in the main cabin area. All it takes is a terrorist bright enough to try
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Perhaps, but I doubt many choose to time their death to minimise estate taxes ;-)
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
A few years back I was working for a supplier to academic libraries, who also did a lot of ebook sales to this market. In my final days there they were just starting to get interest from some institutions who wanted to buy Sony eBook Reader
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Get it wrong and they could quite easily cause a run and bring down a bank. That'd be unlikely to cause deaths but could very easily cause personal and corporate bankruptcies.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I've built and deployed more ASP / SQL Server (or occasionally Access!) than I care to remember; I'm doing more ASP.Net now, after some time on desktop apps in between. Either way, I've never had reliability issues.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
How is this different from a basic forum with an 'edit post' button available to all? I've never used Wave so I'm not trying to be funny, just genuinely curious.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
There's enough circumstances where you can be forced to surrender passports though, and certainly historically they weren't automatically available. I understand British passports were, in the late 19th Century, only available to people who
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Thanks to you both; sounds worth a try. This wouldn't be my primary backup because I've already got a (semi-) regular mirror to a backup drive in my workflow, but domestic practicalities make getting an offsite copy complicated so that's wh
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Serious question - I'm a photographer so generating 5-10GB of new data in a batch is far from unheard of, I've got hundreds of GBs stored and it's all on external drives. Mozy's FAQ doesn't seem designed for me ;-) When I've looked into thi
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Now, now. This poor student is just trying to get a job; it's not nice to give him the finger....
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
This may well be a habit inherited from my start in a very small organisation where I was in charge of anything electronic, regardless of how much it looked like a computer, but.... I find when I'm describing a project I've done to anyone o

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