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by pmccool 16y ago
> It occupies too much territory already covered by > smartphones, PCs, laptops and traditional media. For me, the question isn't whether it covers territory already covered by existing electronic devices like netbooks or what have
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by pmccool 16y ago
Compare with the following phrases: Prohibiting forgery strays dangerously close... Prohibiting defamation strays dangerously close... Prohibiting Ponzi schemes strays dangerously close... I can accept that regulation of speech is inherentl
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by pmccool 16y ago
It's the title ofthe article too. It's a pretty misleading title, that's for sure.
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by pmccool 16y ago
I'd agree with that. I myself suspect it's nothing more than an attempt to placate the likes of Steve Fielding.
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by pmccool 16y ago
True. There's been quite an outcry, it seems to me. What's more, should this legislation ever get passed, it will surely be challenged in court. It's entirely possible such a challenge would succeed. So, dodgy legislation under threat from
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by pmccool 16y ago
Personally, when I start going round in circles that's a hint to start coding. Also, if I start speculating about performance, I like to get some actual measurements, which means writing code.
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by pmccool 16y ago
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&... Tables 1 and 2 will give you a quick summary.
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by pmccool 16y ago
Longer proving time gave a higher GI. That seems at odds with your explanation. Have I misunderstood?
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by pmccool 16y ago
Yeah. What's more, the same kind of bread from different makers can have significantly different GI. The sugar content of fruit (and so, presumably, its GI) varies with all sorts of things. So I completely agree that it's not that simple.
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by pmccool 16y ago
There are some interesting counterexamples; it's possible to make white bread with a GI of 40 or so. Flour doesn't necessarily mean high GI, nor are ingredients the sole determinant of GI. There's a paper kicking round where the authors bak
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by pmccool 16y ago
Yeah, that was how I understood the joke too. What I found ironic is that if I wanted to eat during vigourous exercise, or straight before, it'd be your basic loads-of-carbs-in-easy-to-digest-form kind of deal: the exact kind of thing I'd s
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by pmccool 16y ago
Ironically, the things least likely to make one throw up if you exercise right after eating them are the sorts of foods one should generally avoid if at all worried about obesity...
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by pmccool 16y ago
> Filing Date: 12/10/2001 I thought of patenting well-known, widely-used techniques (e.g. doubly linked lists) as something that happened back in the 80s and 90s, but it seems I was wrong. They cannot honestly believe this will stand up
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by pmccool 16y ago
Hmmm. A a pretty trite observation (obesity is on the increase), a lot of ranting about tangential issues like the splitering of the family unit and some half-hearted genuflection in the direction of possible solutions. Oh, and the country,
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by pmccool 16y ago
I hadn't thought of it that way. I had thought of it as additional opportunity for the same amount of nastiness to manifest itself.
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by pmccool 16y ago
It's probably possible somewhere in the world. If something is published, it's published most everywhere (which has led to some defamation cases being heard in some rather odd places IIRC). So I agree it'll probably happen sooner or later.
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by pmccool 16y ago
An interesting thing the article doesn't mention is the effect of anonymity on malicious gossip. The ability to publish widely and anonymously with such ease is unprecedented. Is it not that society's getting nastier, but that it's so much
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by pmccool 16y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I see nothing wrong with the questions the judges asked. Something wasn't clear to them, so they asked for an explanation. That seems perfectly fine to me. It certainly doesn't mean they're necessa
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by pmccool 16y ago
I fail to see how a black box is Big Brother-ish. The recent Australian proposal to charge per kilometre, now that sounds a bit Big Brother-ish. Poor headline, I think.
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by pmccool 16y ago
Maybe, but it seems to follow from this judgement that you can write the exact same thing, with the same number of readers and the same impact on the public interest and get treated differently depending on whether you're part of a "news or
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by pmccool 16y ago
Another reason: it needs less equipment and less infrastructure. Emailing images over an analogue phone line is painful, for example.
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by pmccool 16y ago
Yet more semantics around extensions? Ugh. I long for the day when we can use metadata instead of doing funny things with names. I fear I'll be waiting a long time...
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by pmccool 16y ago
A pretty small victory at that: the laws are "unlikely to be passed before the election". No mention of any issues, just an unexplained delay. Not much of a retreat if you ask me.
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by pmccool 16y ago
I find this criticism silly. The judges didn't know about something, so they asked. The issue, surely, is the decision and not the questions that get asked along the way.
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by pmccool 16y ago
Fair point. I still think it works as a kind of reductio ad absurdum of the claims about the cost of so-called piracy, which rest on similarly shaky foundations.
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by pmccool 16y ago
As a long time vim user, I have to ask: what's the appeal?I use it because I already knew vi, and I knew vi because it was the one editor I could be confident of finding on any UNIX box. I'm curious: what's the motivation for learning it fr
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by pmccool 16y ago
Nah, "floppy" was a reference to the media, which was quite flexible for both 5.25 and 3.5 inch disks, despite the different casing.
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by pmccool 16y ago
Insofar as negative gearing is a good thing, it's not a good thing for renters. Investors need to be losing money for negative gearing to do them any good, and it won't magically turn that investment into something profitable. It is helpful
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by pmccool 16y ago
Yeah. 4:3 is closer to the aspect ratio of books, newspapers, etc.
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by pmccool 17y ago
Buying identical socks. Increases my chances of finding a pair.

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