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by pbhj 17y ago
Isn't the traditional response to post a few blokes with guns, big guns, and attempt to blow any pirates out of the water? Aren't ship's crew using guns for protection?
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by pbhj 17y ago
I think we've hit local maximum in civilisation (perhaps we're just beyond the cusp). If the last century was defined by technological innovation, this one unfortunately I think will be defined by over-population crises. If we haven't solve
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by pbhj 17y ago
How long is that lesson, 25 pages of at least 1000 words. I'd say in "25 short lessons". TLDR.
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by pbhj 17y ago
Just did a single test - 6MB file for an advert I did yesterday. 10K bigger with optiPNG than with pngcrush (using defaults) and took longer to process with optiPNG. I'm not bothered enough to test further ... Also the optiPNG website doesn
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by pbhj 17y ago
I guess then AOL helped me to make money too. Time Berners-Lee helped me to make money. Wife beating helped me to make money (one of my clients is a womens' aid group). Bit obtuse.
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by pbhj 17y ago
Onboard spatula to cope with the aftermath of crashing.
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by pbhj 17y ago
Yeah but MSIE decided to go with EOT which is arguably why no-one else bothered. If they'd used TTF then other browsers would have implemented it earlier because it would actually be a usable solution.
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by pbhj 17y ago
> "IE helped you make money" If IE6 hadn't existed then we would have had Op., Konq, FF, Saf and been able to move onto use PNG about 8 years earlier, the agreed box model for CSS, less screwy flash implementation, etc.. In addition we'
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by pbhj 17y ago
Your link is broken for me, shorten to the first /weegee/ and click "entertainment", then browse.
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by pbhj 17y ago
How does calorie counting not work. You put in less energy than is being used and the body makes up the rest from reserves. Or is the body somehow generating energy without burning fat?
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by pbhj 17y ago
They're good tips but unless you're addressing a large audience on 28k or less of bw then you're just as well to use pngcrush and be done as this will give you nearly all the optimisation with barely any time spent.
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by pbhj 17y ago
"Cut it off and I lose 28% of my visitors." Graceful degradation, dynamic enhancement, ringing any bells (and whistles)?
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by pbhj 17y ago
Somebody doesn't understand statistics. That aside ... The ERV similarity as evidence of a common ancestor has mileage. The video doesn't give sufficient details to make the assertions that it does. Are those ERV sequences predisposed to al
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by pbhj 17y ago
No surface integrals!? (see eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergence_theorem , the one with the circle showing integral over the boundary surface, there's a triple version of that too).
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by pbhj 17y ago
Clarity - Eschew Extraneous Obfuscation
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by pbhj 17y ago
I quite like the awesome bar now (was that in 2.0?); some CSS3 support too. Bookmarking tagging, update checking are good as well. Improved SVG support I use occassionally for viewing. Other than that I suppose faster javascript and optimis
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by pbhj 17y ago
Russelldb: "I'm glad they open sourced it but what use is it to anyone?" I'll bet they can include "using Glow in a large corporate environment for 2 years" as a requirement on all dev jobs in the new media arm that have to be advertised ou
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by pbhj 17y ago
I don't want to broaden this too much, but you feel the BBC has to support Saf 1.3 with 0% market share because you don't want to force a software update on those 80 odd people whilst on the other hand transitioning to digital forcing a har
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by pbhj 17y ago
"if the BBC tied all its web apps to one of those third-party libraries and then that library suddenly announced they were dropping support for some minor browser or screen reader the BBC were mandated to deliver to?" Do you really think th
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by pbhj 17y ago
FooBarWidget: "This makes it illegal for anybody to distribute H.264 decoding software, whether open source or not, until they've paid for the patent license." Only within the jurisdictions in which the patent is valid and in force (renewal
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by pbhj 17y ago
"If you're passionate about your job, money will be nothing but a nice perk instead of being the reason you wake up early every morning." I'm passionate about my job. Money is the only way my family can live, we need to eat, drink, have she
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by pbhj 17y ago
So you don't think it has anything to do with greed? Not even for some? Having more than those around you, "achieving higher status" if you prefer, appears to motivate a shedload of richer people. "But that implies that work is punishment,
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by pbhj 17y ago
re: Logo, this http://scratch.mit.edu/ seems to be superficially similar
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by pbhj 17y ago
I see a general trend on all queries peaking around March and late November. This matches what I see on retail websites I have access to the backend of. Searches like money, sex and music are quite flat but appear to have a low profile matc
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by pbhj 17y ago
body { background:#0099FF url('/images/g2.png') repeat-y }
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by pbhj 17y ago
"I'm the one who was affected, therefore it was my responsibility to resolve the issue" It wasn't your responsibility - before berating you for not performing your duties they were responsible to know what those duties were. You needed to r
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by pbhj 17y ago
The difference between the circumferences would have to be such that the train could round the sharpest bend on the track. That should approximate to a maximum angular change (in direction of travel) per metre: angle per metre = tan( 2 PI
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by pbhj 17y ago
If they actually have 312k orders (his 10 staff will be busy! http://www.toledoonthemove.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=31787... ) then I'd expect someone tested the engine first? Either way they've gone into production - if it's all marketi
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by pbhj 17y ago
Article: "Rodger, who is trying to turn that around by making programming fun to learn." [...] Prof Rodger: "It's a nationwide problem that there aren't many women in computer science in general. For example, we only have three women facul
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by pbhj 17y ago
why all the negatives? I did have to hack the page to use it, still signed up though.

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