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by kahawe 15y ago
I think one part of this can be attributed to the average Internet/Usenet users back then and typical Internet users of today and to the huge difference in numbers.
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by kahawe 15y ago
I just love how Microsoft has started to (desperately) embrace all the "cool stuff" that the actual "cool cats" and underdogs have come up with and been doing for a very long time now... and how Microsoft likes to present themselves as a hi
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by kahawe 15y ago
From my own experience with gold farmers, they have gotten much smarter and efficient which at the same time means it is much harder to automate than the regular WoW "farm bots" that will run around and kill pigs. Also, blizzard actively mo
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by kahawe 15y ago
My own first experience in trying to contribute where far from that pleasant and successful. This was some years ago; I was working on one of those (back then) much beloved projects of integrating Linux file servers into an existing Active
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by kahawe 15y ago
How does this work exactly? The wikipedia page on Infrared did not turn up any such use... or I missed it. How can you see a mud brick under sand because it is " much denser than the soil that surrounds it "?
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by kahawe 15y ago
I tried comparing several of the example screenshots next to each other and apart from them being different sizes and some are a bit more bold than others, I just can not tell any (significant) difference and cannot see any benefit one migh
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by kahawe 15y ago
It is almost funny how the ONLY tangible, precise suggestion made is: Artists "must not be despoiled of the fruit of their talent. That doesn't simply ruin them, but far worse, it enslaves them." And how this "would somebody PLEASE protec
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by kahawe 15y ago
Yes, but that does not keep those same people from claiming the authority to "regulate" and "change" it. Though I am wondering how they are actually going to enforce all that on something as vast and international as "the internet". And, le
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by kahawe 15y ago
When I see all this talk about regulating the internet over the last years, I cannot help but greatly miss the "good old days" when barely any of these gentlemen nor organizations even knew what the internet was and what was going on there.
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by kahawe 15y ago
You have those holiday vacations for schools and students in Europe as well... Christmas, Easter, Summer and some places also have a short break in fall.
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by kahawe 15y ago
I never understood where his "claim to fame" really came from? Apart from publishing and then maintaining a pre-existing dictionary on his website, publishing one of MANY books on Open Source and cursing admins with fetchmail, he hardly con
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by kahawe 15y ago
> Berlin imposes berlin on you, you have to kind of be the berlin type to like berlin, but I get the feeling, you can just be yourself in London. Funny you should say this, I have the same feeling for the rest of Germany (that I have se
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by kahawe 15y ago
It varies by region and dialect, also - very popular example is the soda pop "Cola". In Austria Cola is neuter "it", in Germany it is female, which for me as a native speaker from Austria always "feels" like they are referring to the can (w
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by kahawe 15y ago
You are heavily under-estimating just how much more grammar there is in German compared to English and once you know how to correctly apply that grammar, there are quite a few exceptions to those rules which would all mean different things.
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by kahawe 15y ago
I find this an appropriate, consumer-oriented summary right at the start of the article - you cannot expect the BBC News to dive too deeply into the matter and especially not during the first 2 paragraphs. Also, consider they did add that t
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by kahawe 15y ago
I think this article mixes melancholy, "Weltschmerz" and actual depression in a very nonchalant way. I can see how people who tend to ruminate would also do that on daily problems and might therefore yield better results but to point in the
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by kahawe 15y ago
This becomes an especially cringing realization when considering that a LOT of people are celebrating twitter, facebook and "apps" as the glorious, big and important inventions (almost paradigm shifts) of our time...
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by kahawe 15y ago
Honestly, Why does everyone and their brother STILL recommend Kernighan & Ritchie in all those "Getting Started" articles in this day and age? I am not trying to diminish the significance of their work in any way shape or form but first
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by kahawe 15y ago
Over here in Euroland, we can only cry ourselves to sleep until they finally stream movies over here! Could we please ditch the pre-historic distribution and TV stations already and switch to a more demand-oriented paradigm?
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by kahawe 15y ago
Funnily enough, those ads would be MUCH closer to the truth if they would just state: "1. <insert some catchy phrase> " 2. ??? 3. profit!"
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by kahawe 15y ago
Sorry, this was mis-leading... I was actually talking about the German GEMA rules and only used the BBC website as an example for "license fee" since I am not sure this is the correct translation for what the German GEMA and that "tax on ra
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by kahawe 15y ago
> the German GEMA Another thing that should be against the law... Even if I only have an internet access at my home, no TV and no radio, I still have to pay a quarterly "licence fee" (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/licencefee/
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by kahawe 15y ago
> Handing out your authentication credentials to a third party in exchange for a little convenience is more often than not a ridiculous action, and anyone who encourages such behaviour (by providing such a feature) is simply irresponsi
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by kahawe 15y ago
And a lot of videos on youtube are blocked as well and you get that "Sorry, not available in your country" link. I always cringe hard and scream inside when I see that since I am trying to view a link online on a website so it should not ma
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by kahawe 15y ago
I never understood how it could get to the point where people would actually enter username and password for something on a completely different website... like e.g. those free SMS websites asking for your yahoo, facebook etc logins to "fin
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by kahawe 15y ago
What I really like about it is you can find their store hours right away; countless shops here have that information very well hidden under unsuspecting links like "about" ("Impressum" in German).
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by kahawe 15y ago
I would like to add a few more pointers to that list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Nhat_Hanh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-based_stress_reduct...
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by kahawe 15y ago
Quotes from the Hagakure are hands down amongst the most mis-interpreted quotes, very often because they are being presented completely out of context and of course due to the very different cultural background and times they were written i
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by kahawe 16y ago
Also considering this: "Android Jumps Past iOS in Overall U.S. Smartphone Usage" http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1143384
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by kahawe 16y ago
Which is an absolutely perfect way to go for a luxury company, just think Porsche, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Rolex,Breitling etc. here. Apple never really compromised on price and image and they try very hard to keep a great overall produc

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