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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Frankly I think you could make an argument even Win3 wasn't all that much to write home about.... (I confess to still mild incredulity that MacOS beat AmigaOS so thoroughly in the market, being both more expensive and substantially less pow
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
MacOS (not that it was then branded as such) - 1984. Windows 1.0 - 1985. So not quite years really.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Looks great fun :-) I've been involved with Meccano for years and there's a popular family of models that are sort of perpetual versions of this sort of thing, sending balls on endless loops. The best ones are a bit functionally dense to re
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
One more suggested metaphor - If some kids at a mall talk about shoplifting, all the malls that company owns get shut down without a trial. We know and understand user-created content because we've been using it (and creating it) for years.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Well, yes, but for something that seems to be standard advice yet I'd never seen in operation, I was curious if I was missing it actually happening or whether it was more a localised phenomena. I think I've got my answer :-)
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
No, granted, but then like I say, I've moved around a bit. Milton Keynes (where I was before) is hardly olde worlde but café working seemed absent there. For that matter I used to be in London very regularly on business and I never saw it
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
That's a straw man version of my argument. My concern is that the observed history shows that commodity-backed currencies lead to economic problems. I'm not in the least against people choosing to operate their personal economies around bar
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Derby, UK or commutable; Remote OK. Experienced Microsoft stack developer with 11 years in industry. .Net in C# or VB.Net, web, desktop or back-end, lots of SQL Server (v7-2008R2), VB6 and classic ASP, SAS, HTML, CSS, JavaScr
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
A slightly tangential point from that article but... I'm in the UK - Derby, specifically, though I've known other areas well too - and I've never seen people working for more than a short period (say, 30 mins max) out of cafés. Never. I c
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Do you have the backwards? The dollar has lost 95% of its value since the creation of the Federal Reserve. Inflation with gold based currency is rare. The California Gold Rush is the big example of inflation with a gold currency. No, I do
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
OK, sorry, my wording was loose there; nonetheless, as he is looking for gold and silver to be admissable as payment, I think there's three possible scenarios. One, the market ignores this and everyone continues paying in the dollars the pr
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Personally, I believe that Ron Paul will do what he says and that's a problem. I've read the articles, I've looked into things as much as I can and I very firmly disagree with him on his general monetary policies. The Federal Reserve being
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I'm not actually a great fan of ASP.Net in it's original incarnations (as what I and probably you from the sounds of things know best), but it's hardly this useless technology no-one on scale uses. Microsoft have been serious for years abou
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
If your business model is dependent on being just awkward enough to use that you generate extra page impressions but not awkward enough that you drive away traffic, to borrow an aviation term you're flying awfully close to coffin corner. Pa
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Or an example of the network effect overriding other condsiderations. PoF got big before OKC did, so that's where the people are. Even with that factor though, I found PoF borderline unusable after a little experimentation and stopped using
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Hotmail, for one, moved to IIS from its bought-in FreeBSD roots many years ago.
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Why This Movie Doesn't Suck: The Culture of Dissent at Pixar Animation Studios (bigthink.com)
5 points by eftpotrm 15y ago|0 comments
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Well, wouldn't a complete elimination of bribery be a good thing? Call me old-fashioned, but if the complaint was 'it put taxes up', I'd rather see a tax-funded than bribery-funded system.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
They wouldn't be trying to buy this sort of legislation if they didn't think it was, in balance, in their commercial interests. They've likely already modelled the effect of any consumer backlash in their analysis, so why would they listen
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
While I agree this is a problem, I think it's as much one of society in general both polarising and demonising. (Context - IT nerd guy, single.) I've known similarly female-dominated groups where men are automatically regarded as good-for-n
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Grim as that was, it's worth noting it's referring to issues with SQL Server 6.5 and 7 over 10 years ago. As the current release is v10.5 (2008R2) and we're scheduled to next year see v11 (2012) I would suspect the relevant problem tickets
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
If we're to argue that citizens could allocate up to $50 spread between candidates in any election in which they are eligible to vote, and that shall be the only permitted funding, what's the point in having votes at all; have we not just d
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
But which should also open up UMG and / or YouTube to the restraining order which MegaUpload have asked for. If the takedown wasn't anything to do with the DMCA, then they can't invoke DMCA rules governing penalties for abuse of the takedow
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The scandal of the Alabama poor cut off from water(bbc.co.uk)
97 points by eftpotrm 15y ago|126 comments
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Just another data point that's quite happy with this. I only installed an ad blocker after years of happily accepting the advertising because a few sites I didn't want to stop using started running ads that were actively annoying and / or o
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Or IE to Chrome specifically. Speaking personally I find Chrome very feature-poor and much prefer Firefox, and nothing that's changed in recent releases from either looks likely to change that opinion.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Why the assumption that electricity for vehicular use will be taxed at the same rate as for domestic use when there's wide-scale adoption of electric cars? Red diesel, for agricultural use off-road, certainly isn't taxed at the same level a
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Yes, but when groundspeed with a slight lag is all that's available is it really that much worse than nothing, which seems to be the failure mode at present? I stress I'm not a pilot and I'm sure you'd want to have a Big Flashing Warning
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
What this seems to ignore for me is the car-as-status / car-as-identity case. Speaking personally when I had to trade from a rather nice executive saloon to an MPV / minivan, much as I knew it was sensible I hated it because of the self-ima
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Fuel taxes already do this, while providing a strong incentive to run smaller and / or more efficient cars. Roughly, 50% of my fuel bill is on direct taxation. That's it's primary tax cost, not the fixed annual license cost, and gives me a

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