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by recoil 14y ago
I wonder how much of this popularity is attributable to the success of Minecraft/Notch.
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by recoil 14y ago
> Do people really complain if a south park episode is taken down from youtube? Actually, it does kind of annoy me: http://www.southparkstudios.com/layout/common/img/geoblock/m... I've been seeing that for yonks now... In fact, this i
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by recoil 14y ago
Well I was excited about that one too, but for whatever reason it was never released where I live :-(
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by recoil 14y ago
Low public debt, sure, but private debt was high and the housing crash left Spanish banks in a precarious position. It turns out though that the private debt of large banks is a form of public debt in disguise, at least as far the "soluti
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by recoil 14y ago
I remember being very excited about these devices (and others like the Treo) before they were released, then invariably found myself profoundly disappointed (or at the very least underwhelmed) when I actually got my hands on one. None of th
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by recoil 15y ago
You are flat-out wrong about Americans and their willingness to give up their time for charitable causes [1]. Interestingly I am also British and my impression from American friends and acquaintances was generally the opposite to yours: man
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by recoil 15y ago
While the source code for the OMAP GPU drivers appears to be available, it's not Free Software [1]. [1] http://omappedia.org/wiki/Graphics_SDK
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by recoil 15y ago
> British system Nitpick, but there's no such thing. You mean the English legal system. Scotland's legal system is completely different ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_law ), as is that of Northern Ireland.
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by recoil 15y ago
Fourth, the government happily interferes in the market on behalf of its buddies at Carrefour by implementing planning regulations that would make it near impossible to open a competing mall.
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by recoil 15y ago
Zsh was never part of a commercial Unix, so I suspect you are thinking of Ksh. As far as I can tell, Zsh has always been free software: the earliest version I could find used the GPL, but it now uses something more MIT-like. Bash is probab
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by recoil 15y ago
I've always wondered why you can't get Twinkies in places like Europe and Australia. Those things are mentioned in so many TV shows and films that the brand awareness is already there, and I know for a fact that lots of non-American's to w
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by recoil 15y ago
> I wonder how a company which caters to the growing obese population manages to fail! Over-generous pension plans.
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by recoil 15y ago
That sentence made me wonder if the author had never been to California. Speaking as a Brit, that sentence could so easily apply to any non-American's perspective on people in that state (I've only really spent time in NY and CA, BTW, so I
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by recoil 15y ago
And Bray is Canadian.
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by recoil 15y ago
For whatever reason, the NPR article ( http://www.npr.org/2011/12/15/143724644/ith-new-toys-lego-ho... ) doesn't bother to mention the "Inventor's Workshop" set ( http://www.brickset.com/detail/?set=3933-1 ) which, perhaps despite the pink
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by recoil 15y ago
It's not marketed specifically to boys though... Sure, some of the sets are obviously more male-oriented (perhaps even the majority), but there are also sets that are either specifically designed to appeal to girls, or which appeal more to
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by recoil 15y ago
Anandtech did a decent piece on this last month [1]. To paraphrase their description: every other year Intel keep their manufacturing process the same, but release a new microprocessor architecture (Sandybridge was one of those years), but
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by recoil 16y ago
Thanks! It definitely seems to depend on the project. If there's no repository configured then you can't browse the source. I made the mistake of assuming everything would have a repository though. Some projects (e.g. 7zip) seem to rely
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by recoil 16y ago
Just spent about 10 minutes searching for how to get the source code for a project and I'm utterly unable to find it. Care to enlighten us all? Do you need to be logged in?
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by recoil 16y ago
Apple releases iPhone, from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept. ... No 3G, no MMS, no video calling, shitty camera & bluetooth. Lame.
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by recoil 16y ago
There is an inherent conflict between using a dam for drinking water and using it for flood management. That the Wivenhoe was and is used for both is not a surprise, particularly after the droughts leading up to 2008, but the flooding rais
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by recoil 16y ago
Although he's technically Finnish, Hannu Rajaniemi might also count as being part of that "Scottish clique", I suppose, since he's based in Edinburgh. I thought his "The Quantum Thief", which came out earlier this year in the UK, was a ter
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by recoil 16y ago
You shouldn't be being downvoted for this comment... The content of the page has completely changed from a parody of the wikipedia appeal to a real one asking for donations for sfconservancy. This is the version everybody's talking about:
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by recoil 16y ago
One respect in which more readers is a bad thing is hosting costs, which the OA doesn't mention. Can anybody who knows more about this than me shed any light here? How much more does it cost to serve millions of "freeloading" users per m
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by recoil 16y ago
With breast-feeding my wife wasn't worried about "too much", rather "not enough": it wasn't clear to her exactly how much our daughter was getting. That said, it was pretty obvious that she was getting enough, it was just mildly uncomforta
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by recoil 16y ago
Is the MIPS architecture still seeing continuing development the way ARM is? After Sony stopped using them with the PS3, I stopped paying attention and had begun to write them off.
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by recoil 16y ago
Neither the DS nor the Wii is really an exception to the "more power" rule, though the difference between a GC and a Wii is obviously minimal. The N64 controller was a much "wackier" step than you imply too, in my opinion. Nobody else had
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by recoil 16y ago
You're absolutely right, but the original point is (I think) that Nintendo do things differently to their competitors, which I think you illustrate rather well. The analogy of the original GB hardware with Apple products (say the original i
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by recoil 16y ago
My parents introduced me to computers when they bought me my first micro back in about 1983. Around the same time they took an evening course about computers themselves (including some amount of programming). I clearly remember my mum typ
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by recoil 16y ago
I don't think there is another language out there that could have given Minecraft the kind of success that it's had (The same applies to Runescape). Many Windows users have a JVM + the Java plugin installed already, and the only other widel

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