omegaworks

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1081.
by omegaworks 14y ago
>in this case they had the sole source of the item (for a time) And this my friends is why artificial monopolies (created by vendor lock-in, proprietary devices, patents, or other perversions of the legal system) are inherently detrimen
1082.
by omegaworks 14y ago
>For the most part it is encouraging people to consume something for free they should have paid for. You act as though people's consumption of media is this black hole, this void that feeds but produces nothing of value. It can't be fur
1083.
by omegaworks 14y ago
>Sure, some part of it is due to the fact that they cannot buy-watch-use this material either due to them being delay for years or because they require Credit Cards while most Indians have a Debit Card but that is a very small percentag
1084.
by omegaworks 14y ago
What kind of backs do you have to scratch (or the more vulgar metaphor) to be able to flagrantly ignore the court system? Wow, these people are really in deep. They should share their secrets so we can all become Too Big To Fail.
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Run your code in space - satellite programming competition opens 9/8(zerorobotics.org)
1 points by omegaworks 14y ago|0 comments
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by omegaworks 14y ago
The blowback from stupid share-everything policies is what will eventually collapse this social media bubble. I disabled Spotify-to-Facebook sharing completely, even though I wouldn't mind if the controls were more granular and the notifica
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by omegaworks 14y ago
There is so much more to it then this, but one can dream :)
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by omegaworks 14y ago
>I think it was Clay Shirky who once said that it was a mistake to try to solve social problems with technological fixes. Was this http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html#content what you were referring to?
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by omegaworks 14y ago
>I think that network-of-coverage aspect is one of Wikipedia's strengths as a hypertext encyclopedia, whereas the overview articles are a strength of more traditional linear-text encyclopedias like Britannica. Hypertext for the win! May
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by omegaworks 14y ago
I didn't even know they had a messageboard. I just found a coat in the trunk of the mini cooper I just rented. I had the strong urge to just throw it away because it was taking up space I was using for groceries. Instead I left it in the ca
1091.
by omegaworks 14y ago
Are we really blaming the technology here? You're neglecting the reality: that a person--a living, breathing, thinking person--is behind the switch or lever that eliminates access. Connected computing is the inevitable future. We will alway
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I want things to be better for other people than it was for me.(nytimes.com)
2 points by omegaworks 14y ago|0 comments
1093.
by omegaworks 14y ago
I volunteer to run a small private network (30-40 users max) for an educational institution, are there materials available that can help me understand what changes will be needed to my system so that the IPv6 transition runs smoothly?
1094.
by omegaworks 15y ago
LOL. Welcome to America, you obviously aren't from here.
1095.
by omegaworks 15y ago
Long live the internet!
1096.
by omegaworks 15y ago
A sharp, pointy broth that you shouldn't run with.
1097.
by omegaworks 15y ago
They'd have to maintain it in perpetuity... this wouldn't be anything a sane person would do out of charity.
1098.
by omegaworks 15y ago
google.com/ads/preferences
1099.
by omegaworks 15y ago
Unfortunately, it doesn't take using a large enterprise application to get locked in to a specific browser. Even something as innocuous as Intuit QuickBooks relies on version-specific browser code for some of its features to work properly.
1100.
by omegaworks 15y ago
Nice code is maintainable code. High-level languages exist for the sole purpose of making code "nice." You pay enough attention to "is it fast" and you'll find yourself writing everything in assembler. There's a time and place for that, sur
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by omegaworks 15y ago
My browser is not seeing that the content at that link is an html page, so it downloads it instead of displaying it. This is a symptom of a MIME-type misconfiguration on your webserver.