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by seabee 16y ago
The amount of entitlement some people feel from the authors of free software is quite surprising. It's twice as bad when those people are pirates . Honestly, I don't have a big problem with people pirating our software, especially when the
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by seabee 16y ago
You can mitigate it by restricting how many people can be matched with a single email/SN. It's hard to try and out someone out of your whole class when you can only have 3 'crushes' to use; the odds are low unless you're pretty sure you kno
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by seabee 16y ago
While it's great that Google lets you delete information, harvest-your-data-by-default is not a choice made with your best interests at heart.
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by seabee 16y ago
It's probably more accurate to say that the infrastructure has gradually become... less amenable to cars, intentionally and otherwise. Bus lanes, pedestrianised roads, roadworks, that kind of thing.
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by seabee 16y ago
Maybe not for you. I did a little calculation at http://listentotaxman.com/ and put in the minimum wage for a 37.5 hour week. If you need to take a few buses to get to work, over 10% of your £190 weekly pay packet gets eaten up on travel.
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by seabee 16y ago
> Congestion charges have become very popular and successful in London Popular and successful with who, exactly? I don't know a single person that likes it. Traffic was reduced for a few years but now it's just as bad as ever. And the c
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by seabee 16y ago
Do you really need them?
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by seabee 16y ago
> The reason their is a prompt in most games is that their is no universally excepted way to undo something in games. It's become accepted to have a confirmation box. Honestly, how many actions in a game does it make sense to undo, unle
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by seabee 16y ago
If you go back to the video game example, you have a list of saved games/characters and you can choose to delete a character. Pretty standard stuff. Now you add an undo button and you've gone from two actions to three actions. Furthermore,
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by seabee 16y ago
Actually, with Google Instant, the search terms aren't in the URL anymore - does it still leak?
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by seabee 16y ago
The browser does it, and did it long before Google existed.
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by seabee 16y ago
The library has limited lending ability; you can't lend one book to two people at the same time. It will be very interesting to see how they handle ebooks. I'd be surprised if the publishers didn't enforce scarcity.
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by seabee 16y ago
Only thing the BBC do is serve ads to non-UK viewers. The website is the same for everyone otherwise. BBC America is just a TV channel; that's why that website is entertainment-based.
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by seabee 16y ago
It's not about money being there or not, government budgets don't work like that. It's about saddling the next generation with more and more debt. It's trading the future for short term gains.
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by seabee 16y ago
If it's vapourware then what were they showing at CES 2011?
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by seabee 16y ago
You could make it up because it's been going on for years and years with no consequences to anyone involved. The digital age is good for a lot of things, but it was a lot harder to carry a filing cabinet, and thus harder to steal records.
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by seabee 16y ago
Varying broadband speeds are why UK ISPs have to state 'up to X Mbps', since they can't guarantee the customer they will get the advertised maximum. Unfortunately, this makes it easier for them get away with the 'unlimited' designation, sin
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by seabee 16y ago
Don't forget the ASSIGN utility which created new device roots from one (or more!) existing folders, or with deferrment i.e. when assigning Fonts: to df0:Fonts, the OS remembers the disk referred to, and will ask you for that specific disk
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by seabee 16y ago
The problem is a standard can be 'open' yet restricted, i.e. you have to pay to distribute software using it. Can't pay? Can't give people the program. The tricks that LAME uses to work around MP3 encoding patents aren't going to work for b
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by seabee 16y ago
It's obvious enough that infrastructure has declined with the blackouts you guys have had over the last decade.
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by seabee 16y ago
Not sure how true that really is in Blackboard's market, given their use of software patents to attack competition. As far as getting good software into education, you're fighting both your competition and the establishment. Not an enviable
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by seabee 16y ago
Cloud computing is not all that different from old mainframe setups. It's just a lot more interactive (and with 40 years of technological advancement). So the still-relevant artifacts of that era are at home in the 'cloud'. Another comparis
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by seabee 16y ago
This is the joke those guys in the thread above were looking for.
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by seabee 16y ago
Don't be fooled, that advertising campaign only used a 'sensible', similarly-named insurance business to introduce an unusual niche company[1] to the market. It's a clever ploy, you can read about it in Aleksandr Orlov's book that came out
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by seabee 16y ago
So what's the solution? In the absence of libraries that never break and are fully backwards-compatible with newer versions, we have to make some tradeoffs...
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by seabee 16y ago
Do you think this could be improved by alternate wording? Instead of reporting 'spam', ask the user 'was this useful?' or 'did you want this?'. After all, the real goal is giving people a better, more relevant experience, detecting and remo
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by seabee 16y ago
It gets propagated to subdomains, it doesn't restrict it to just the domain specified.
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by seabee 16y ago
> The point is, unless you are from the most impoverished society on the planet, you are doing something that someone somewhere could find reprehensible because of social subtext. When you see a liberal with hunched shoulders, it is bec
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by seabee 16y ago
People can get angry over something that another person would think nothing of. Even something as simple as throwing away a half-eaten candy bar. Just because a man is brought up to do something wrong, it does not absolve him of the fact it
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by seabee 16y ago
Certainly, but you don't have to go as far back as that for an example: just compare the drive letters in Windows to the lack of them in Unix. It works very well in Lua's favour to stick to just the C library given the desire to use it in e

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