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by grimboy 14y ago
Well, roughly and someone may have a better answer. Data is collected in a structured, systematic way, and the sample is carefully chosen. Anecdotes are not structured or collected in a systematic way, but worst of all the sample you've tak
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by grimboy 14y ago
Drifitng off topic, but the Paralympics are already sponsored by ATOS, the company the UK government has put in charge of taking social security from the genuinely disabled. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/may/21/paralympic-games...
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by grimboy 14y ago
As far as I can tell, it's referring to the sandboxed iframe.
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by grimboy 14y ago
Not that this sort of thing should really be encouraged, but this type of verbose/laboured parody/troll/nonsense would probably be more appreciated by /prog/.
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by grimboy 14y ago
The fact that you're not using it yet is almost a necessary condition for it being groundbreaking. The basic technology for the iPad has been around for ages, but the real innovation of the iPad is getting everything working smoothly and co
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by grimboy 14y ago
On the upside caffeine can reduce your appetite so it may be an overall win.
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by grimboy 14y ago
It's interesting to note that history shows that in general the cheap and nasty, simpler, consumer level technology often wins over more seemingly more appropriate technology. In hardware for example, see Ethernet winning over other stuff a
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by grimboy 14y ago
It's fine as long as you don't name any political party by name I think.
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by grimboy 14y ago
Yes. If it really were able to deal with arbitrary Javascript sites this would imply that Google had solved the halting problem.
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by grimboy 14y ago
I'm pretty sure Google crawls with a client that looks like a real browser to check you're not doing thus type of thing.
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by grimboy 14y ago
What I'd like is something like this that would also try and gather up stuff from info and /usr/share/doc/PROGRAM/ or whereever it is on the current system and possibly even online docs and try to present them in a reasonably consistent fas
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by grimboy 14y ago
Nobody can change the past. Pictures of faces are good in articles about people and events since humans are wired to respond to faces so I don't see that it didn't add anything. Therefore I'm not sure that it was out of line. But it's possi
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by grimboy 14y ago
If you want to stay within the law my understanding is that you need to distribute patches against decompiled Skype rather than decompiled Skype with patches applied, otherwise you're distributing a derivative work. This may still be a lega
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by grimboy 14y ago
Your password is 1password too?
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by grimboy 14y ago
He's not getting in bed with them. I'm sure if he finds he can no longer say what he wants to say he will stop. It's a purely pragmatic decision afaics.
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by grimboy 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore#VideoCore_ICs are comparible chips. Presumably there Broadcom will sell versions of the beefier ones with the 3G turned off.
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by grimboy 14y ago
Yes. It is however important to express outrage to make sure Kickstarter know we find this situation, if true, to be not acceptable.
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by grimboy 15y ago
Being invented more recently isn't sufficient to make something better, it must also have compelling advantages.
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by grimboy 16y ago
Yes. You can leave it open somewhere all the time and check up on it like idling on irc. Pointless? Perhaps, but people like it anyway.