ergo98

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by ergo98 16y ago
That's a pretty absolute statement based upon, it seems, absolutely nothing.
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by ergo98 16y ago
You can download the entire database, including history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download Or, for a direct link, http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100130/enwiki-2010013... 31GB. Decompresses to TBs.
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by ergo98 16y ago
You worked in great conditions but on a bad project, and you hated it. You worked in poor conditions, but on a great project, and you loved it. I think you jump to conclusions saying that therefore the work is more important than the condit
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Larry Ellison is an amazingly unprofessional titan of industry. He seems to have no bounds or restraints on how he uses his shareholder's company for his own personal missions. Really, threatening the entire HP relationship because you want
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Exactly the takeaway I got from that entry. It seemed like a really cheap, vacuous way of trying to get the last word while pretending not to get the last word.
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"It could be a core Cassandra problem, something they added, or completely unrelated to Cassandra; But the internet doesn't care. It's drama at its finest" Digg made a big deal about their move to Cassandra (just as Digg's move to Cassand
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by ergo98 16y ago
How very redditesque. "You sound like you have a case of the 'mondays'." Because I have a rational business sense, and an ability to empathize with users (the ones who really don't care that you're duplicating basic functionality of Fla
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"I love the fact that Google is using it's biggest property/asset to show off fun browser features." 99.9% of users of google.com simply do not care . In fact, not only do they not care, they've seen this stuff in Flash going back to the
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by ergo98 16y ago
The DIV version is still pretty intensive on Firefox and IE. So much so that I really question whether the inmates are in charge of the asylum over at Google: They have been taking some big risks putting these tech demos on a homepage heral
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Flash on Android Slightly Better Than Shockingly Bad(blog.yafla.com)
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by ergo98 16y ago
Everyone always leads in with the "I thought it was useless" bit. Did they really? Haven't they used a digital picture frame and though "Gosh, wouldn't it be cool if this could show the weather...and had a web browser...and let me play movi
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by ergo98 16y ago
It is unfortunate that Apple is held as the inventor of the genre. What we're really talking about are networked PMPs, and Apple might have the biggest mindshare, but they certainly didn't invent the genre: Archos blazed a trail that Apple
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by ergo98 16y ago
Mint took on Quicken out of the gate, with a pretty broad functionality offering.
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There is almost nothing there, in an industry absolutely saturated with loads of people with a lot of something. The business plan right now appears to be "a simple Google Spreadsheet with a lot of annoying maintenance and superficial val
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by ergo98 16y ago
Most bottled water is processed tap water. Dasani, for instance, is filtered through reverse osmosis. Some others go through distillation. The result is dramatically cleaner water, at least before bottle leachate makes its showing. I'm ac
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by ergo98 16y ago
Sorry, but this one is going to fail miserably.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>A blog is a delivery tool to direct people's attention to places - you can sell stuff via your blog. A successful blog is also a powerful reputation-building mechanism. Reputation goes down the toilet the moment you start selling stuff
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by ergo98 16y ago
Almost every TV and DVD/BR player now comes with the slideshow ability. My Xbox, Blu-ray player, AND my TV can play Netflix content. The latter two can play YouTube. It's getting a bit stupid, and there is zero novelty to adding any of thos
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by ergo98 16y ago
Video has been a relatively recent use for Flash, where it pushed out QuickTime (which Steve stills stews over), MediaPlayer, Real Media Player, and others. It's always been an odd purpose for it, given that it's an ultra thin wrapper aroun
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by ergo98 16y ago
Here's a video response. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb9jfdltkUU It doesn't at all dismiss the observations made by newteevee, but I'm just trying to bring some balance in for people who might be considering a device and contemplating
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by ergo98 16y ago
Being in Canada, many of the Live benefits (e.g. Netflix) aren't even available here, which is a luxury that we pay a premium for. For us it is simply a gaming matchmaker for online play, and a way of buying grossly overpriced movie rentals
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by ergo98 16y ago
"A working mobile flash implementation does not exist" EDIT The TL;DR; version is, at knowing acceptance of downvotes: denial isn't just a river in Egypt; It's also the clutchings of the Mac Faithful who are going to go down parroting t
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by ergo98 16y ago
"Treating commenting systems like a commodity scream "I'm an average website", or "I'm not a technology site"." Load up TechCrunch's homepage with Firebug open and behold the horrors it holds. It is, by far, the most cringe-inducing contemp
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by ergo98 16y ago
His response is horrendous. I've enjoyed a couple of his entries (although they get a little formulaic), but that response had him dropping several notches.
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"I don't see how this is spam, and I am surprised that people are offended that the authors of these info graphics are trying to make money." They're doing so dishonestly. Dishonesty on the tubes is why so many of us are jaded and believe n
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by ergo98 16y ago
Consumer education and awareness is the critical element of this. Google doesn't need to dictate, but they should create some sort of gold star standard that certifies that a phone is the latest release or is promised to be updated to the l
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by ergo98 16y ago
"The answer may be related to the early age at which mathematicians seem to peak." An extraordinarily small percentage of mathematicians ever make any significant contribution to the realm of knowledge, as is true in most fields. It is unfo
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by ergo98 16y ago
If that's your way of covering for ignorance, I suppose you do what works for you. Again, if you had anything demonstrating your completely incorrect position (you won't gain truth through repeated assertion), go ahead and present it. You
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by ergo98 16y ago
> Apache Harmony isn't spec-compliant only because it hasn't been blessed by the TCK, and the only reason it hasn't been blessed by the TCK is because Apache disagrees with the licensing terms of the TCK on principle The Sun patent lice
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by ergo98 16y ago
http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html To my knowledge Harmony has never been given a patent grant. When they tried to obtain the blessing, Sun responded by releasing the OpenJDK, which they bound (with conditions) their patent gran

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