keithpeter

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   by keithpeter 15y ago

   Broadband over powerline? Do you each have your own step down transformers from a common high tension line in your community?
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   by keithpeter 15y ago

   B) Set up specialised patent courts. A central one for large complex cases. Local ones for smaller cases with limits on liabilities. Those representing clients in the central court must be qualified in patent law. Judges make out cases and
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   by keithpeter 15y ago

   As we are talking about portable miniature computers with phone capabilities, does anyone know an Android/Win7 phone that can do this kind of stuff... http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/04/how-one-radio-reporter... I'd need audio in and d
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   by keithpeter 15y ago

   SO basically its a scale thing? Small companies, less chance of tripping over these issues?
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   by keithpeter 15y ago

   As I live and work in Birmingham, UK, I hope this is all an elaborate hoax.
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   by keithpeter 15y ago

   I think it could! On a recent contract for writing e-learning materials I had an editor who was herself a subject expert going over the words, references and the actual pedagogic design. Then I had the multimedia team suggesting changes and
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   by keithpeter 15y ago

   If I have read the article correctly, we are looking at 15 to 20 solid working days of e-mail annotation. That is a LOT. This gentleman is working hard. Feedback on writing is not reducible to rules or use cases, so I don't think a software
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   by keithpeter 15y ago

   Back before the intertubes in a different world, they would have been the ones sending in letters to the editor written in purple ink and ALL IN BLOCK CAPITALS. On pages ripped from a shorthand pad. Nice clean clear Web site you have there.
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   by keithpeter 15y ago

   Yup, I pray quietly that I don't get 'reviews' like this when I finally get some writing done. Useful techniques, but widely used already. See Anne Lamott 'Bird by Bird' and the (real) reviews of that book.
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    by keithpeter 15y ago

    I'm posting from Elementary OS using the live CD. As others have said, its Ubuntu with a simpler GUI. So you get networking, hardware detection, restricted drivers (i.e. it installs the nvidia binary drivers for the graphics card on this ol
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    by keithpeter 15y ago

    Have a look at AntiX base - essentially command line Debian 6 with the MEPIS kernel and non-free drivers.
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    by keithpeter 15y ago

    There are quite a few light linuxes around: AntiX, SliTaz, Crunchbang. Good for older hardware (like what you can get for £50 or $50 down the local charity shop) and cheap no name ARM based laptops (ARM Ubuntu is in development).
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    by keithpeter 15y ago

    @blhack Why not just carry on using the old version? Bob Staake apparently keeps an old Mac running OS 9 so he can use Photoshop 3. General point: open source can't be taken from you in the way (say) Final Cut Pro was.