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by pbhj 17y ago
Is anyone really suggesting going back to the days of blocking on sniffed UA? I don't think so. When people say "not supporting IE6" I think they mean no longer doing browser specific bug fixing - that's what I mean. Provided the majority o
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by pbhj 17y ago
My monitor is broken and will only cope with "low pixel" modes so I'm using it from the console (on another comp). I've been using links2 for a couple of weeks now - it's amazingly good for a text browser, a few annoyances (no tabs, have to
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by pbhj 17y ago
"One day I was sat praying in church for inspiration about the company name, yeah I know that is strange for a Hindu, I paused for a snack and sliced open a pomegranate offered to me by a haggard monk. The pips formed a word ..."
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by pbhj 17y ago
Persuade your partner to learn too? My then girlfriend (now wife) and I learnt sign language together, which was fun and useful for 'talking' in the library.
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by pbhj 17y ago
But neither has PNG right yet.
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by pbhj 17y ago
I checked out "strong interaction". Who couldn't love a song with a line like "you quark me bottom (shoot shoot on isospin)" ...?
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by pbhj 17y ago
Curious as to your answer: why is it sad? Surely if the kids speak fluent Spanish instead of Welsh then they can now (in their first language) communicate with far more people in the world. That's got to be better for cultural exchange, soc
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by pbhj 17y ago
It's catching on, the gov spend millions on it. There's a lot of anti-English [people] sentiment which feeds into not speaking English (just because of the name of the language rolls-eyes ). Gov jobs require it, despite not needing it. Mid
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by pbhj 17y ago
Here in Wales schoolchildren are forced to learn a minority language in school. Welsh Language is given a very prominent position - it's only spoken in Wales (and bizarrely in a small area in Patagonia). I'd sooner have my kids learn a lang
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by pbhj 17y ago
I always got non-first language words confused. What interested me was when I was relearning French and learning German (to read patent docs) after having learnt sign-language (as my 4th studied language) I could think of words in sign when
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by pbhj 17y ago
Quoting 5 sig figs is silly - those components aren't made in the US and so the price had changed by the time they wrote it down. Round to nearest $10 USD.
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by pbhj 17y ago
What's Qi, I assumed it was the UK TV program.
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by pbhj 17y ago
If he otherwise would have used the time to smoke dope and watch TV then arguably that tranche of time had 0 financial value associated with it. This assumes that he's equally recuperated by coding and so the coding doesn't impact the hours
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by pbhj 17y ago
Water is not always wet.
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by pbhj 17y ago
What do you recommend then for a small business (me, or me + 1) if I'm with another client or otherwise occupied I simply can't attend the second place. I don't have reserves to support a second worker until they turn enough revenue to keep
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by pbhj 17y ago
You don't have to be available - "sorry all our technicians are occupied at the moment we can fit you in tomorrow at 2". They either go somewhere else or wait, you get to sound like a bigger outfit and one that's busy. Plus you didn't lie t
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by pbhj 17y ago
My Aunty shoulder surfed me the other day .. "you're not one of those there hackers are you [...]". So I got chance to explain hackers vs. crackers for the 100th time.
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by pbhj 17y ago
>>> ' You won't get your comission as bloggers/twitterers won't rest until your affiliate account is locked, closed, banned and server that it was on been exploded for safety. "... let it last for a few months" Yeah, that'll hap
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by pbhj 17y ago
What he proposes is immoral IMO, but what part is illegal? Possibly a breach of contract, but that's a civil wrong.
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by pbhj 17y ago
Brown rice gives me severe abdominal cramps - YMMV. Rice is good for bulk and brown rice gives more fibre but whilst it's a staple for many it's not great nutritionally.
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by pbhj 17y ago
What of the right to bear arms then?
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by pbhj 17y ago
Even inheritance?
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by pbhj 17y ago
Because I-beams are perfectly rigid and don't flex at all?? I'm guessing "would render that problem so small as to be unnoticeable" but maybe the pendulum is so light that effects are drowned by random noise or don't exist - there must be a
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by pbhj 17y ago
I'd have expected the physicists to be first with the string theory. The mathematicians should have spent at least one week discussing knot topologies.
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by pbhj 17y ago
Not all businesses exist with a primary purpose of making money. That's like saying people exist to procreate. FWIW. If it can't pay you though, and you need the money, then you should leave.
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by pbhj 17y ago
A couple of shoulder-fire rocket launchers and some kalashnikovs wouldn't be hard to stash though, would they? Presumably US flagged vessels are armed?
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by pbhj 17y ago
You could ask the guys on the ISS or those that did the experiments in Russia on close-quarters living in prep for a Mars mission. Or submariners, lighthousekeepers ...
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by pbhj 17y ago
To play devil's advocate: Why should someone researching battery materials, testing various combinations for charge holding and minimal voltage fluctuation, etc., be rewarded with a patent when someone doing the same with DNA sequences for
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by pbhj 17y ago
I use CC licenses, usually BY-NC-SA. I don't actively enforce it but I feel I have a right to be named and to have a cut of the money if others are making money directly from my work without otherwise requesting permission. Copyright enable
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by pbhj 17y ago
At last someone else who realises that copyright is not just about financial considerations but includes the moral rights too. Without copyright licenses like GPL won't work as the license is no longer more liberal than the status quo but i

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