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by motters 16y ago
It seems very unlikely that they will be able to depend upon Windows and Office as their primary revenue stream for very much longer, so their survival depends upon being able to go into new territory. They've done this to some extent with
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by motters 16y ago
These surveys are usually spurious, because they don't state what questions were asked and who constitutes "the public". It's possible to get whatever results you want either by cherry picking the kind of people you ask, or by framing the
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by motters 16y ago
This isn't at all what I'm finding in the job market, although I'm in the UK not in the US. From here both recruitment agents and employers themselves have indicated that they're getting many applications for each role advertised.
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by motters 16y ago
Bad choice of name. X10 is a system for modulating mains electricity supply in order to send signals, for example to switch lights on or off. A simple Google search would have told them this. It's probably not a good idea to name your ne
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by motters 16y ago
This might not be such a wise idea. I think tablets as a form factor are going to remain confined to a limited section of the market, mainly due to ergonomic factors rather than anything technological. Tablets aren't great for typing. Wh
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by motters 16y ago
Also see http://code.google.com/p/tempgraph/
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by motters 16y ago
This article is a solid block of FUD. It reminds me of the arguments made by IT industry types against Windows 3.1, fancy fonts and graphical user interfaces in the early 1990s. For me desktop Linux happened about five years ago. The main
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by motters 16y ago
After reading some of the Guardian articles on this, and not wanting to continue reading through the grotesque catalogue of abuses, I can only conclude that the Iraq war was an illegal, immoral and (for Geneva conventions signatories) crimi
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by motters 16y ago
That's a great video, and I've seen similar performances by other street vendors. I suppose it's a case of "don't sell the bacon, sell the sizzle". He's delivering an enticing spectacle, of which the actual sale is just a small component
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by motters 16y ago
Google should pay their taxes like everyone else. Charges of tax evasion aren't good for public relations.
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by motters 16y ago
From experience searching for jobs in the last year it seems to be exceptionally rare to get any sort of feedback after an interview - constructive or otherwise. My guess is that this reticence is mainly due to the laws surrounding employme
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by motters 16y ago
Well it's a complicated system. Whilst individual traders might benefit from faster trading if you consider the health of the system as a whole, which favours steady predictable controlled growth, faster trading may introduce instabilities
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by motters 16y ago
Encouraging ever faster trading times might be unwise, leading to instability and "hunting". There needs to be some damping in the system to guard against large uncontrolled fluctuations.
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by motters 16y ago
I like his style. The first thing to remember if you're in this kind of situation is that it's not your fault. It's the fault of corrupt bankers and financiers, and maybe a few politicians too, so if you're apportioning blame make sure yo
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by motters 16y ago
Microsoft isn't dead yet, and its future depends upon how effectively it can leave its traditional revenue stream behind (Windows and Office). So far it has been lacklustre in the mobile and search markets, but done well in games. Despite
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Colossus and the breaking of the Lorenz machine cypher(colossus-computer.com)
2 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Groups: no more pages and files(groups-announcements.blogspot.com)
6 points by motters 16y ago|1 comments
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by motters 16y ago
Canonical seem to be doing what pretty much every other company which has been involved with linux has done, which is to add a few of their own proprietary bits. Having stuff like Ubuntu One isn't necessarily a problem provided that the use
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Kriegsmarine short signal systems and how Bletchley Park exploited them(findarticles.com)
8 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
I think that fear is the wrong way of describing it. I might be frustrated or annoyed by undocumented spaghetti code, or be puzzled about some aspect of a project, but I wouldn't describe this in terms of fear. If software development mad
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by motters 16y ago
Bits are cheaper to manufacture than paper, and presumably when you buy a digital version of a book you don't own it and cannot resell it after you've read it, as would be the case with paper. A resale value of zero should justify a signif
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by motters 16y ago
The psychological bottleneck is a good point. People aren't well adapted to thinking about large complex issues such as poverty or traffic systems, and are much better adapted to a tribal style of thinking.
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by motters 16y ago
Indeed. Politicians used 9/11 as a vehicle for all manner of dubious agendas, but in the wider scheme of things there are far more serious threats than terrorism but they're often just not as photogenic or glamorous.
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All You Ever Wanted to Know About Banburismus but were Afraid to Ask(tallyho.bc.nu)
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by motters 16y ago
I'm not sure that I'd choose to use the terms "investment bank" and "respectable company" in the same context. Also, when people use the word "real" in a gratuitous way - such as "real" industry, "real" work, "real" programmer, etc - it alw
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by motters 16y ago
So far over the last 5 years I've never had a USB stick drive fail.
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by motters 16y ago
The installation process looks slightly different, and there are some changes to the software centre, now with a proprietary section. It will be interesting to see what happens with the proprietary stuff.
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by motters 16y ago
Being subject to non-torrenting, non-IRCing AUPs and other such nonsense would seem to negate the chief advantages of something like the SheevaPlug. If you're familiar with linux server configuration it's not any big deal to keep your plug
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by motters 16y ago
I went for a job interview about a year ago - one of the strangest I've ever had - in which precisely such a secret vehicle tracking device was described. Apparently they broadcast at a very low baud rate in order to reduce the amount of e
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by motters 16y ago
A lifestyle without redundancy is a very precarious one. Without redundancy any single failure could turn your day into a nightmare.

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