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by gouranga 15y ago
You won't have much luck. MS based corporate outfits like to hire ready trained monkeys so you will get very little buy in from management. I've taken 5 years and several critical arguments to get a couple of MySQL instances in one of them
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by gouranga 15y ago
I really disagree with this. The more features you use from your DBMS vendor, the more you shoot yourself in the following departments: - scalability. Logic and processing in the server is bad as it means you can only scale up and not scale
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by gouranga 15y ago
It's getting like a nightmare vision of capitalism in the 1980s. You know like Robocop or Gremlins 2 where the city sold out to corporations. Corporate interest over common sense. We'll just have to mail DivXs to each other like we did in t
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by gouranga 15y ago
Website all the apps!
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by gouranga 15y ago
Isn't that called a web browser?
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by gouranga 15y ago
That isn't "working on an iPad". That's a dumb terminal. For those of us who can't rely on a permanent connection, it's a useless and somewhat risky concept.
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by gouranga 15y ago
The problem is that a lot of people think it's a good idea because they are ignorant fucktards and believe any spiel that comes out of the media terror promoters. this may sound horrible, but I genuinely hope someone innocent gets injured o
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by gouranga 15y ago
I'm not paying for something I can have anywhere I want already for nothing. EDIT: To clear this up - installing python on your computer is cheaper, has better support, no limits, is far faster interactively and has really good support. I k
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by gouranga 15y ago
I will say I got a nasty zap off a fake Lenovo charger a couple of years ago. The mains power cable had fallen slightly out, resulting in the earth pin not contacting. The device had a short between neutral and ground thanks to piss poor
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by gouranga 15y ago
I charge my devices overnight. I have a smoke alarm installed in the same room, an RCD on the socket and they sit on a solid granite surface! A few years ago I used to race radio controlled cars - the cells on them taught me a few lessons a
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by gouranga 15y ago
Tape. Tape is a sign of bad design that can be seen a mile away. The cans on the caps underneath are being kept away from the board with tape. That and the bare lead WTF in it. That and it's that retarded and dangerous 2-pin design (no grou
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by gouranga 15y ago
I tend to do this. Mainly because literally everything smartphone shaped frustrates the living shit out of me. Ironically I've had a Lumia 710 for about 3 months now and I have literally zero things to complain about.
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by gouranga 15y ago
Thanks - looks horrid inside :)
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by gouranga 15y ago
Having owned an Apple Airport Express, I can assure you that it's just as dangerous and badly designed. Mine actually blew a cap and melted. I'd love to see the guts of a REAL Apple charger spilled out for examination next to it.
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by gouranga 15y ago
To be honest I've had every smartphone since the Treo 180 and the only one that actually doesn't make me want to gouge out my eyeballs due to endless problems is a Windows phone (Lumia 710). It just works which is an utter shock these days.
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by gouranga 15y ago
This is exactly why you should never mix data and code/markup. When the semantic barrier is broken, all shit breaks loose. I've always wondered if SICP style scheme would cause these sort of problems.
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by gouranga 15y ago
"Tried" to dump Bing. If they succeed, I wonder how this will affect DuckDuckGo as I understand they source a lot of information via Bing.
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by gouranga 15y ago
Firstly I will say, I like Microsoft. I'm sitting here on a Win7 laptop (dual boot Ubuntu) and have a Windows Phone next to me. But I don't like the culture that follows it around. I like Ubuntu and see it as a much more positive model and
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by gouranga 15y ago
It will allow vendor patching but it costs money and is damn complicated so noone bothers.
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by gouranga 15y ago
That's a great idea. If you consider the potential for a "gaming appliance" (Valve console without all the commercial OS licensing costs then it really makes sense.
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by gouranga 15y ago
That's not really true - it makes full use of the hardware which is why a 1.4GHz single core ARM is fine :) I'd go as far as saying that the software and hardware are at one with each other.
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by gouranga 15y ago
Why? Does the same stuff quite happily. Much as my 5 year old laptop does the same stuff quite happily as a modern flagship device.
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by gouranga 15y ago
Like a banana through a fence. Seriously if you've never done it - throw a banana HARD through a fence. Quite interesting. Yes I am insane.
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by gouranga 15y ago
You can get a Nokia Lumia 710 for less than $200 unlocked without a contract in the UK. Why the the iPhone 4S/Galaxy Nexus cost what they do I don't know...
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by gouranga 15y ago
Nice article - covers pretty much everything in a reasonable amount of detail. As for the author, it should be noted that he's a 17 year old who has been programming for 2 years. Good job - we need more people like that!
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by gouranga 15y ago
Genius idea. It'll be like playing Homeworld again :)
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by gouranga 15y ago
Thanks for this - appreciated :) Perhaps I should take a look at a newer machine! Battery life is what is super-important to me.
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by gouranga 15y ago
In the real world, their products do real work. Why not praise that? Fuck consumers - who cares! Business is where they make a killing because their products fill all the gaps. OneNote works fine for me. Latency is usually in the seconds ra
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by gouranga 15y ago
Probably against the grain here, but agree. Not so much SkyDrive but more the integration between Mesh Skydrive, windows, mac, free office web apps and windows phone 7. It's a seriously impressive, well integrated platform that costs nothin
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by gouranga 15y ago
I'm using a circa 2007 core 2 duo. I genuinely see no improvement in CPUs since then in price/performance. Is there a reason I should upgrade my kit that I'm missing?

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