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by spongle 13y ago
Security companies are all snakeoil. They never deliver from experience. They always bill though.
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by spongle 13y ago
Again... personally I can't see why anyone would want to DDoS github unless they are just being an asshat.
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by spongle 13y ago
Forgot about that. Was on the windows 95 CD somewhere. Remember watching it at work on a new Compaq DeskPro after complaining that they ripped the task bar off RISCOS. Didn't work on NT4 which i had at the time :(
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by spongle 13y ago
Well i usually go to 4shared's library service :) (really I do buy physical books and refuse to use ebooks until this sort of shit is in the past).
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by spongle 13y ago
I could do the same myself and certainly will next year. The only appliance I have that consumes mega power is the washing machine. I've got a gas Aga that can be converted to solid fuel if need be and provides most of the heating as w
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by spongle 13y ago
Although I can say that nothing I've bought at Ikea has lasted a terribly long time. Tend to go for non chipboard and non UV sensitive plastic stuff now that you can actually clean and leave in the sun without destroying it.
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by spongle 13y ago
On the basis that he was not aware of PRISM, does that make you feel any better about the promises made by them? Nope. Slightly regretting writing that 450,000 lines of C# in the last 10 years...
38.
by spongle 13y ago
Nothing at all. It's shit. But one security model is better than having two security models.
39.
by spongle 13y ago
Well if it wasn't for the numer of turtles in the pile on the way down it'd be fine. This is a whole other layer on top...
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by spongle 13y ago
Yes there is. You misunderstand. My beef is with NaCl, objects, Applets and ActiveX etc as well, mainly because they run outside of the browser's engine, sandbox, security model and conceptual model. you also have to ship them external
41.
by spongle 13y ago
Great effort but I really don't want this. I've lived without Flash for a year now and all is good. We just need to break the crack addiction!
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by spongle 13y ago
For now. Watch what happens when Mir ships: 1. Noone will use Mir because xlib apps and non-ported toolkits will fail miserably. 2. It will not get tested properly. 3. Release+1 with XMir will be shipped and Mir will be turned on. 4. All he
43.
by spongle 13y ago
You have not offended me - don't worry :) What I'm saying is that the web transcends all platforms so writing an app isn't necessary. Microsoft actually do get this hence the focus on IE and Windows Azure recently. They proba
44.
by spongle 13y ago
Bank site? Mine doesn't have apps as far as I'm aware for any platform (HSBC). They require two factor auth which makes the app idea pretty pointless as you have to carry two things around with you. I travel without a smartphone.
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by spongle 13y ago
Excluding it from the desktop for one release is killing it. A big chunk of ubuntu's repository is now broken, resulting in a big "fuck you" from the users (including me) and no more donations... Even if they ship X and Mir
46.
by spongle 13y ago
Yes but why would you want to? I can't think of a single long term advantage of using a language that high level to build system software. Sure it makes a cute research project but that's about it. As for application level stuff,
47.
by spongle 13y ago
Well by killing XMir they've done that. There is a lot of legacy xlib stuff floating around that will now be excluded from the Ubuntu platform. Mir is just a square wheel like all the other crap I have to uninstall when someone install
48.
by spongle 13y ago
I can think of worse bands. Chumbawumba have a great reputation for stirring things up in a comedy fashion. Oh and no twirking or whatever it is.
49.
by spongle 13y ago
Spot on :)
50.
by spongle 13y ago
To be honest, 8.1 is OK. It's not perfect but it sits in the rankings between XP and 7. It's also going to be a free upgrade. Basically you can turn off most of the crap and use the start screen as a start menu and it's beara
51.
by spongle 13y ago
You are probably perceived as a dick, as am I these days but it doesn't mean you are wrong. This is an unfortunate side effect of office politics and double-standards. My particular perception switcher was when people started starting
52.
by spongle 13y ago
End users and reviewers are not going to be all fluffy bunny rabbits on the Internet. Suck it up and fix it. You will gain respect for actually responding constructively rather than ranting about how unfair it is. In real life it's eve
53.
by spongle 13y ago
Because the 4 is being held wrongly...
54.
by spongle 13y ago
Oh please. << insert this isn't reddit/Slashdot >> It isn't Microsoft's job to write the damn apps, even though they did write a lot to start with themselves to get a good value proposition to start with. And
55.
by spongle 13y ago
I think you can put TradElect down to hiring monkeys rather than professionals. It would have failed in C++ and on the JVM with those guys.
56.
by spongle 13y ago
StackOverflow is tiny. We have about 6 million LoC of C# across our entire product portfolio...
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by spongle 13y ago
Seriously? As i said below there is a web browser too. None of those have any real value for me personally so I can understand where Android might be more suitable but I really don't need an app for any of those. As for trip advisor ci
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by spongle 13y ago
You have heard of a web browser haven't you? Everything that there isn't an app for you can do on the damn browser which is good as its the same as full desktop IE10. This is a poor excuse and justification. As for shoddy apps, Go
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by spongle 13y ago
Your average Starbucks in London, UK over the last month seems to have the following market share: couple of ipads, single iphone, couple of Samsung android handsets and a lot of windows phones, all Lumia. To be honest I'm quite surpri
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by spongle 13y ago
Please don't spout the "fewer apps" rubbish. Debian has fewer apps. Ubuntu has fewer apps. Does this mean anything? No. I actually only use three "apps" that aren't built in on my WP8 device.

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