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by mdisraeli 12y ago
I recall once seeing a link on HN for music theory for physicists and engineers, but I didn't bookmark the URI at the time - anyone recall this, and how to find it?
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
Readers of Raymon Chen's blog The Old New Thing may be familiar with exactly this sort of thing, which forced windows 95 to have the version number 3.95, instead of 4.0 [ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/arc
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
On a similar note, check out Northpaw, a project to help people develop a sense of north - http://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/ . This exact same method might actually be an easier way to get wearable navigati
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
And as mentioned in the opening to my post above, there was a huge roleplaying community on some shards (servers), who would use the static NPC towns as bases for huge roleplaying communities. One of the most notable features of UO, and one
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
Good call - that was lead by Raph Koster, if I recall correctly, who did a lot of the early UO game design ;)
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
One of the old Stratics crew here, I used to run the Ideas Den back in the day ;) And my housemate is still involved with Stratics, although not UO these days. Both of us are old Europa players, and used to have a house near the Fyde's
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
Working in a major shared service provider, supporting multiple large client organisations, and having risen up through the ranks. It should come as no surprise that the single most common and heavily used workflow system is email, and my w
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
The entire back catalogue for the Things I Won't Work With tag is extremely excellent, and well worth a read - http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with...
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
There's another reason other than being used as pawns to get anon. It is not uncommon for such information exchanges and warnings to actually be readiness tests. Except you don't know it's intended as a test of your resources
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
Those of us working with the UK government probably all just had to double-take then to work out which GPG you meant :P (There was a UK government security document series called GPG)
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
Interesting and very useful seeing this discussed. The important thing here isn't that any one country is 'wrong', but rather that this is useful information to guide how we interact with businesses and divisions around the w
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
Useful, however there's a serious element lacking: "Don't Panic" in large, friendly letters ;)
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by mdisraeli 12y ago
"Well, I wouldn't mind if someone asked me !" As a member of a minority group, this statement is sadly something we hear all the time if we object to people asking what should rationally otherwise be considered highly inap
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I completely agree, and thank you actually for saying "All he had to do was lie". We may not like that said option exists, but lying was an option. As was simply saying "I'm not going to lie {comment about personal belie
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I agree with the comment given the background of the devs, but less the general concept. I think games like Guild Wars (at least the first one) have shown that levels and classes can work. Similarly the Elder Scrolls games show alternate ap
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I used to run Stratics' UO Ideas Den[1], a forum for players to suggest game changes on the semi-official fansite. One of the most popular requests was for just this - for Origin/EA/Mythic to offer official "grey shards&
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
An instrument - you can actually get perfectly reasonable starter version of most instruments for around that price point if you shop around, which will work fine when it comes to gigging too. Guitars, Basses, Midi Keyboards - you might hav
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Froody!
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
This valuation feels extremely low for a leader in a growth sector, and that is before we consider the fact that facebook's stock is probably overvalued, and the team at Oculus are smart enough to know that. Possible reasons for the va
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I didn't know that, thank you! I went digging to try and find exactly what figure Google were using, and exactly how CDC came up with it, but I couldn't manage to pin them down...
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I disagree, but it depends what you mean by "the flu". If you mean hospitalisations, then yes, you're entirely right. If you mean lost productivity and population health outside of hospital, however, perhaps we need a better
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
This is interesting and a much needed discussion, however it too completely ignores a key difference: CDC tracks hospitalisation based on lab reports, GFT tracks search terms The assumption, which admittedly Google is making, is that these
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
As an exercise, I'm trying to think through what UK law would say about doing similar with hosted email within the UK for EU residents[1]. I am not a lawyer, and I'm not the one making the call for my clients on any potentially
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Call for Hams and Hackers: Welcome ICE/ISEE-3 Home(hackaday.com)
1 points by mdisraeli 13y ago|0 comments
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Russian Defence Export Hacked, 500+MB Data Leaked By Rucyborg(cyberwarnews.info)
1 points by mdisraeli 13y ago|0 comments
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Whilst this interesting, I feel the need to channel Raymond Chen (of http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/)and say "if you disable security features, you have disabled security features, don't be surpris
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Nice, Love it when people actually perform experiments! :D In how many cases was the wrong output still functional?
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
ipconfig /flushdns The above will manually clear out the windows DNS cache. Note this doesn't block it, but rather simply limits what it can find out. I'm not sure it would be possible to block this functionality entirely wi
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I'm glad it wasn't just me who felt like that. I'm white, middle class, and grew up in Britain as a native. But as a member of multiple minority groups, I've seen hints of this world, and it is not pretty :( The worst pa
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
This is what the queer activists I know have been saying in response - that this change was done to improve the product (the information they hold on people), with doing the right thing being a nice added extra....

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