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by seabee 15y ago
> I expect my phone, on the other hand, to be able to run the latest and greatest apps and games, so when another platform keeps getting all the shiny apps, it impacts my user experience. The funny thing is, nobody had that expectatio
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by seabee 15y ago
"Those who mention the profitability of iOS devices as a plus are probably about as numerous as those who mention multi-tasking." These are both uncommon concerns, to be sure, but they're not both odd. The difference is that the former
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by seabee 15y ago
Hardly 'false' - this is a generalisation of his point, not a contradiction.
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by seabee 15y ago
The cost of disk space and memory decreases over time as technology progresses. Property cost usually does not. Certain building materials do not (sometimes it gets more expensive). Labour certainly doesn't. If you're going to compare apple
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by seabee 15y ago
I know one of the responses jokingly referenced Office Space, but it honestly seems like a few people have suffered that kind of work environment and it's affected their perception of things like this. In that situation, I too would prefer
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by seabee 15y ago
> Yeah, but then you're stuck counting lines. :set relativenumber > This is more difficult if you've copied whole lines but want to paste inside a line I agree, but the case where I want to copy multiple lines and have the first
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by seabee 15y ago
I'm sorry, in which world do all these introverts live where any topic is perfectly OK to talk about at any time? Small talk and social niceties aren't merely hot air, they are tools you can use to assess a person's mood, what they are inte
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by seabee 15y ago
m' "For scrolling down a couple of pages," CTRL-B and j several times (vs. scrollbar/scroll wheel) "copying 3 lines of code," 3yy (vs. select block, right-click -> 'Copy') "moving back up," '' (vs. scrolling) "pasting," p (vs. right-cli
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by seabee 15y ago
The linked blog post even talks about Ubuntu having it. GP just missed that part.
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by seabee 15y ago
You're right. Ubuntu's repos only have Chromium, which (IIRC) has things like Instant Search disabled. You'd have to add Google's repo to download Chrome, but why would a Linux distro make a closed source browser their default?
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by seabee 15y ago
The UK Government have never been good at IT. Whether it's poor security practices[1][2][3][4] or massively over-run budgets[5], they are really good at doing badly. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_government_data_loss... [2] h
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by seabee 15y ago
Anecdote is the trump card of the unsceptical. It's a good way of learning not to eat that poison berry, but it's much less useful in the modern world.
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by seabee 15y ago
Presumably, told him in a friendly way that they wouldn't sue for trademark infringement.
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by seabee 15y ago
> Anything that I was able to resolve had to be done by opening up an xterm and editing some config file someplace (which usually wasn't in the place pointed to by most of the online help I could find). The price of flexibility is a l
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by seabee 15y ago
When the problem with secrets is the reversed equivalent of the problem with no secrets, perhaps you should stop thinking of it as a problem and start considering it a fundamental limitation of the ability to withhold information.
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by seabee 15y ago
For reference this is the feature I'm talking about, and it will import it to your Google account (though it wasn't useful for me, since my contacts were stored on my old phone rather than a SIM). http://www.htc.com/www/howto.aspx?id=14183
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by seabee 15y ago
> download an export again on my computer What does this step achieve? The process was pretty easy for me - install Motorola Phone Tools, export the CSV file containing my contacts, make some changes in Excel, upload to Google. There's
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by seabee 15y ago
Would it be any better if it was the result if their own labour rather than 'extracted from others'? You are getting into an argument about how people should use the resources that they have been rewarded with. This is difficult, because re
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by seabee 15y ago
The law doesn't care about their game's fictional currency. They have more incentive to protect it than a bank has to keep real money as secure as possible.
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by seabee 15y ago
It's not a way to cheat the system though, since you still have to advertise the higher price. Even if you also say "5% discount for cash transactions".
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by seabee 15y ago
I know some UK ISPs have their own Steam servers. Some also cache YouTube videos for this purpose, for example.
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by seabee 15y ago
That link was sorely missing a mention of Steam as an example of all those features done right (and he has no excuse given how long it's been on Mac...)
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by seabee 15y ago
However it does require severe adjustments to the lifetime rules for automatic variables, and you have to be mindful of e.g. custom allocators.
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by seabee 15y ago
It's not at all cynical. The issue here is that influential people get listened to more than regular problem, especially those who will invite their congressman onto their personal yacht to discuss matters. However, if you hold a democracy
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by seabee 15y ago
There's no 'Install New Font' in the File menu in Win 7 64-bit, and you have to press Alt before you can even find the menu there! Are you sure those instructions are still valid?
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by seabee 15y ago
Of course, is there any alternative? Heuristics aren't a good solution.
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by seabee 15y ago
Presumably, the 'truth' that they originally found out about. Given there have been a few spins on the story and one player (Google) is being characteristically quiet, not everyone will believe you, or be generous to suppose an innocent mis
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by seabee 15y ago
Search engine traffic isn't the only source of publicity. Google Flight Search isn't going to be first in a search for 'hipmunk', nor anywhere on the first page.
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by seabee 15y ago
Germany are definitely on the right track. I just believe this policy has nothing to do with it, unless you can argue that nuclear is worse than coal, or that importing electricity from nuclear-powered countries achieves something that dome
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by seabee 15y ago
> Off these 17 German reactors currently 13 are off the grid. A significant number were pulled off the grid in the wake of Fukushima. So while it's true they had an overcapacity, it's not the case anymore. [1] How quickly can renewabl

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