gloob

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by gloob 17y ago
Until you want to do something that "Just Can't Be Done", which is where the strengths of having a general-purpose computer that acts like a general-purpose computer come into play.
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by gloob 17y ago
If it weren't for the fact that virtually all apps are available from (and only from) a single centralized location, you'd think that actually doing this would be non-trivial.
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by gloob 17y ago
Whatever version of Iron that I'm using on Linux: 118.
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by gloob 17y ago
Frankly, my biggest complaint about the article was that the sarcasm was far too obvious to be funny. Not that I disagree with the idea that Sarcasm on the internet is really not a good idea .
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by gloob 17y ago
More earthshaking: TeX's version number will never converge to pi?
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by gloob 17y ago
That's what's called a slippery-slope argument. It's also a fallacy. It was reductio ad absurdum, not slippery slope. Slippery slope would be "If we let Apple do this, the next step will be having to be 'professional enough' to be legall
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by gloob 17y ago
First guess: because that would be a lot harder?
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by gloob 17y ago
Forgive me if I'm being dense, but I'm not certain what that has to do with the point being made. Could you explain it in greater detail? My understanding is that there are entire classes of programs where "let's put it on a website" is no
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by gloob 17y ago
Give me an exhaustive list of precisely which nations you consider to make up the Middle East, and a rigorous definition of "civilization", and I'll see what I can do.
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by gloob 17y ago
People didn't care.
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by gloob 17y ago
1) 'Crackpot' labeling is also an easy way to label the crackpots, to discourage you from wasting your life either believing nonsense or trying to argue against it. It is not worth my time to do independent research on the question of whet
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by gloob 17y ago
I feel that it's important, from time to time, to remember that plenty of things that aren't the next big thing are also variously laughed at, ignored, dismissed, and so on. I'm not making any predictions about how the iPad will do (sitting
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by gloob 17y ago
This review explicitly notes that aspect. It notes it in order to make the contention that such a belief is incorrect, but it does note it.
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by gloob 17y ago
Because there was never any hype about how the XBox was the future of computing. That's a non-negligible difference.
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by gloob 17y ago
My experience has been rather the other way around: I've only heard two people so much as mention the iPad irl; one was an engineering student and the other is a techy as a hobby. The former wants one because its made by Apple, and the lat
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by gloob 17y ago
If they botched the details that I've pointed out, what does that say about the rest of the product? Nothing at all, actually. Maybe it's just me who doesn't think that the marketing copy for something actually says anything about the va
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by gloob 17y ago
The thing that most troubled my grandmother when she got her computer wasn't the filesystem or the mouse/keyboard combination; it was the fact that the computer knew which emails she had looked at and which she hadn't. She found it very un
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by gloob 17y ago
A couple of years ago I had a Macbook Pro (not certain of the generation), and I don't think I ever got more than 3 hours of battery life out of it even when it was new. By the end of its life it was usually running for about 90 minutes be
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by gloob 17y ago
Eating chocolate gives pleasure and comes with little real risk. Not everything needs to be deeply emotional.
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by gloob 17y ago
Most web developers might consider it a non-problem[1]. I, for one, prefer that information that ought to be private stay that way. [1] Maybe. Or not. I doubt either of us has evidence one way or the other.
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by gloob 17y ago
The strength of your argument seems to rest on the statement "he was never right about anything before". If it is literally true, you have a very strong point. If it is only true in some handwavy, "you-know-what-I-mean" sense, then your a
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by gloob 17y ago
Without an explicit predicate, I would guess that the implicit predicate would default to either "true" or "false" rather than "at random". If it defaulted to "false", then the imperative conjugation would make no bloody sense at all (i.e.
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by gloob 17y ago
I suppose it isn't that inflammatory if you have an uncommonly liberal interpretation of the meaning of the word "no". Most of the time it's used with a meaning similar to "not" or "none", rather than "yes, if it's the better way".
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by gloob 17y ago
A regular user doesn't have dual monitors, though. That said, I've had some issues with previous versions of Ubuntu that took some mucking around to fix, especially with sound and occasionally with wireless (though the latter has always wor
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by gloob 17y ago
I know this is very much a minority opinion, and I suspect your question was rhetorical, but my answer would be "yes". Actually, my answer would be "I don't use social networks," but that's rather beside the point. You know what they say a
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by gloob 17y ago
All humans everywhere. It takes rather a lot of work to get out of it; it takes a lot more for newborns to be somewhat reliably not-in-it. I suppose the same would go for silence, too, but the road from silence -> sound is a lot short
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by gloob 17y ago
Poverty is the default state, so...no-one?
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by gloob 17y ago
In order: 1) Just because something is obvious doesn't mean it shouldn't be researched. For instance, for a long time it was obvious that light things fall slower than heavy things. 2) I'm not sure what you mean by "really required". In t
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by gloob 17y ago
"Losing" and "winning" aren't terribly relevant in a market. "Profitable" and "not profitable" are much more important. That's not really an answer to your question, but I've never understood why people think it's such a big deal that Goo
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by gloob 17y ago
If the big difference is that the first one is romanticized[1] and the second one isn't, I'm not entirely certain they're all that different (although it's entirely possible I'm misunderstanding you). It's not like the guy hasn't had chanc

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