jpswade

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by jpswade 13y ago
>BT own the monopoly on the copper infrastructure * Apart from in Hull[1] >they are the only company providing high speed ADSL * Apart from Virgin Media[2] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull#Telep
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Why The UK's Filtering By Fiat Won't Work, and Won't Help(eff.org)
1 points by jpswade 13y ago|0 comments
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Bill Gates Might Return to Save Microsoft(news.softpedia.com)
2 points by jpswade 13y ago|0 comments
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by jpswade 13y ago
It's just a ballpark figure...
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by jpswade 13y ago
This is because it's very difficult to argue with "think of the children". However, when we were kids, we traded pornography on floppy disks, so this solves nothing.
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by jpswade 13y ago
There is this: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/settings-for-... I did however try this, but it failed with the account I tried.
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by jpswade 13y ago
Outlook.com does not yet offer IMAP access, but it's OK because Gmail does support IMAP and can pull the mail via POP.
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UK has a 'digital skills gap' says technology firms(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by jpswade 13y ago|3 comments
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by jpswade 13y ago
This is a great loss, a man that I only recently learned about through reading "Autobiography of a Yogi", which mentions his great achievement as an eastern scientist, breaking out into a western world. I hope Hacker News black li
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by jpswade 13y ago
Let's not forget. Google is an international company, not "foreign". Google has servers and offices in the UK. If you read the first point, it says "Start with needs". They need to be relevant and appear in Google.
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by jpswade 13y ago
This extends well beyond boundaries and governments. Google Analytics has become an industry standard.
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by jpswade 13y ago
I don't think many apps are really in the business of being evil. I don't really understand this unfounded paranoia that apps are designed by evil people to do evil things.
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by jpswade 13y ago
While Japanese companies were working on products that will sell more of their motors or components, American companies were working on a virtual ecosystem. There's absolutely no synergy between Sony's departments and that's also a massive
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by jpswade 13y ago
Not everybody reacts the same way. Some people don't like being approached at all and will almost literally run off the moment you go near them. They might buy, but only if you don't hassle them. Some people want you to approach them, but d
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by jpswade 13y ago
In real life, it's just an animated image, format doesn't matter...
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by jpswade 13y ago
If you have to pronounce it, you're working the Internet wrong...
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by jpswade 13y ago
Consider this: The question "What is your pornstar name?" asks for your mothers maiden name and first pets name... To get your security details.
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by jpswade 13y ago
Don't forget, they tried "open" with Google Wave, which was a total flop. Developers did not buy into it. You can't expect to have it both ways, especially since Apple has proven that a closed infrastructure (walled garden) works.
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The Chat for Google extension is now Hangouts.(chrome.google.com)
1 points by jpswade 13y ago|0 comments
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by jpswade 13y ago
"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" Proxy down?
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by jpswade 13y ago
Reminded me of The Matrix Office Space Mash Up... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDHDYy_9cE
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by jpswade 13y ago
Creative might not be the right word, but it's the simple case of "doing" vs "consuming". If I remember rightly, Jobs was adamant that people wouldn't want to organise their playlists on an iPod, so that feature was never added. This isn't
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by jpswade 13y ago
Yeah sure they are trying to play catch up now, as they underestimated how they would be used, but bare in mind first gen iPads did not have a camera.
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by jpswade 13y ago
It's as simple as "doing" (creative) vs "using" (consuming). It's the difference between, say writing notes (creative) and watching TV (consuming). It's my understanding that this is the view that Steve Jobs took when creating these devices
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by jpswade 13y ago
Apple mobile devices were never intended to be about being creative, it was always designed to be a consumer device. The creative devices are the MacBook and iMac. It's this reason you can't organise your songs on your iPod without using iT
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by jpswade 14y ago
Not forgetting "if true" in the last paragraph.
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by jpswade 14y ago
No. MS-DOS programs won't run on Windows. CMD isn't DOS. You need something like FreeDOS or DOSbox to run the old DOS programs these days.
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by jpswade 14y ago
I think every effort they make to better target is only a good thing. Attempting to block their efforts will skew their results which could lead to worse ads.
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by jpswade 14y ago
Wikidata is a collaboratively edited knowledge base operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is intended to provide a common source of certain data types (for example, birth dates) which can be used by Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.
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by jpswade 14y ago
Am I the only person who would actually prefer targeted ads based on things I might actually be interested in, rather than the crap I've been exposed to before. If you're going to use a walled garden like facebook, you expect to see walls n

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