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   by seclorum 15y ago

   Ha ha, I'm actually talking about the Pentagon.
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   by seclorum 15y ago

   Besides the fact that the US is essentially governed by its own death cult ..
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   by seclorum 15y ago

   The solution is in SVG itself. Set the id='s properly, and we can then do a simple map of existing hinting terminology directly into the DOM. Want less density at lower resolutions? Create a low-res layer within the SVG specifically for
4. 214.▲
   by seclorum 15y ago

   I use mine (I have two) for development mostly. Oh, a bit of MAME with my legal roms too, now and then ..
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   by seclorum 15y ago

   I'm already doing all this with python scripts for Inkscape - draw the entire UI in Inkscape, name things in the DOM appropriately, run a few scripts -> MOAI code (Lua) or C Code (SDL_svg). Haven't quite got it ready for launch yet, but
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   by seclorum 15y ago

   Solution: next-gen Macbooks with multi-touch screens, Air form factor, foldable screen.
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   by seclorum 15y ago

   Shades of Stephenson'ian dystopic vision pierce my subconscious. I hope nobody ends up "listening to Reason" out there on those woolly waves. Seriously though, wouldn't this be considered "economic terrorism" by the US Gov't, eventually, i
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   by seclorum 15y ago

   What a pity. I wonder if they'll return to publishing when it becomes cheaper to print iPad-like devices in the near future? I personally believe that EB had a place in the world. For example, I'd happily pay a few thousand Euro's/$/Pound
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   by seclorum 15y ago

   You're welcome, Herr Doktor.
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    Maybe she needs an HTC Rhyme phone, with its dongle^Wcharm thingy: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=... Its a dongle^Wcharm thingy that plugs into the phone and acts as visible alert for phone state while its bu
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    Maybe that's more 'enterprisey', but its more 'system administrator'-ey to just use an onboard gnuplot and look at real graphs without putting much SNMP/traffic-load on the system of interest .. the purpose is to educate the user on how the
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    Teach them to interpret and understand cat /proc/meminfo .. one of the most interesting things you can do with this is pipe it into gnuplot and watch it over time as things happen. Try it sometimes .. you might get through to one or two.
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    My opinions are irrelevant against the backdrop of the collective mainstream agreement about 'the way things are', but I will say this: I think anyone getting offended about the opinion that ADHD, and the mental-health industry in general,
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    If it were up to total strangers, our kids would have been medicated into zombie-mode already. No thanks!
15. 225.▲
    by seclorum 15y ago

    ADHD is a load of crap, and diagnosis of it is a purely western endeavour with very little actual merit.
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    Yeah, of course its the low-tech solution that makes sense, but I really believe this is a case where the Nanny-state like grip that Apple has over our iPads is not really delivering workable technology. Would it really "kill the cool" for
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    Umm .. there's no correlation between test scores and intelligence these days, either though ..
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    We don't have a TV in our house, but we do have iPads. I would argue that an iPad is a much better TV - given the right app, it can really help a child sit down, focus, and learn things under their own steam, without that Brave New World p
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    Thats a fair point, but it doesn't really work when you're watching a movie - and my kids attention spans usually don't work so much that way. My 18-month old will push the button just because he's experimenting with the device - this means
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    I really, really, really wish there was some way to disable the Home button on my iPad. My 19-month old and 4-year old kids, who absolutely love to sit with me and play with the iPad, simply find it irresistible to press that button. And w
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    It has gotten a little bit easier with the XCode4 Developer console, but yeah .. the certification process is one hell of a way to weed out the truly devoted from the casual.
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    Apple rarely, if ever, reply to catastrophic bug reports like this. Its part of their policy not to acknowledge problems until they're ready to fix them.
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    I've used Coverity in the past to radically increase the quality of a large SIL-4 code-base. (Safety-critical code for a major industrial transportation systems provider.) Without question, it helped my project gain a large step in terms o
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    At one point, 64kb was useful for something. There is an infinite number of uses for 64kb. Its only the decision being made that its not useful any more that makes it so - the users change, not the computers. I still break out my 8-bit ma
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    I think the same thing is going on with the iPad now, that went on with Pocket Calculators, when they first hit the scene. There was a lot of this kind of thinking, that pocket calculators, and the ease with which they can be whipped out an
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    One thing that really bothered me about Americans when I lived there was how often they just packed up everything and moved into a new house. Not for any good reason, mind you, but just for 'the experience of having a new place to live in'
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    See, thats where it all began - this malignant thought that 'old computers' are 'dead computers'. Computers don't stop being useful because of age - they stop being useful because someone makes the decision not to find a use for them.
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    Nice! It reminds me of the EDSAC simulator, which I find extremely important: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/ Why important, you say? Well, these old computers aren't around any more, and what better way to teach new computer-scien
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    I am a huge fan of old computers, and have a small collection of interesting items - Oric-1/Oric-Atmos (my first 'real computer with a keyboard'), a BeBox, SGI O2, Atari Portfolio, C64 and so on .. I just wanted to say that there is still l
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    by seclorum 15y ago

    Thanks for that - as a new learner of Go, its definitely nice to have something interesting to read. Oh, and the fact that you're a Plan9 user making use of Go: awesome! :)