spongle

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by spongle 13y ago
Not like that in the UK. They're everywhere. They're really cheap here (820 = £179 SIM free) and they work perfectly with giffgaff for a mere £15 a month for unlimited SMS, data and 400 mins calls. There is no better experience fo
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by spongle 13y ago
Well that's a load of shit as I haven't paid an annual dev fee and I can deploy to my Lumia 820 and 710 quite happily. I had to register the device but that was it.
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by spongle 13y ago
Yes context matters as does experience from the journalist who crapped out the article.
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by spongle 13y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchausen_syndrome_by_p...
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by spongle 13y ago
Even if ethically dubious... There are far worst things happening in the UK though. It's becoming a career decision to neglect your children so you can claim special needs status and therefore disability benefit (and celebrity status o
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by spongle 13y ago
Well around here they're busy DoS attacking the Job Centre.
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by spongle 13y ago
"The suspect was found with his computer systems open and logged on to various virtual systems and forums. The subject has a significant amount of money flowing through his bank account." Well I'm fucked. That's my job!!
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by spongle 13y ago
Unless you own a Lenovo which has power management functions that avoid that problem.
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by spongle 13y ago
The content was good though which after all is the main thing...
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by spongle 13y ago
Yes. This was the ministry of defence which somehow manages to fuck everything up on a galactic scale. They really didn't have the talent to pull that off.
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by spongle 13y ago
Once it gets going though it screams. Not sure I want to trade the miniscule difference in startup time for that. As for page load times, this is silly. There is no startup time on a page at all. Possibly the first hit but there are warm st
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by spongle 13y ago
Good luck. Don't let anyone kick you down. I learned how to program in a week in 1988 (and I'm still learning to program).
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by spongle 13y ago
This isn't going to work. I worked in the defence industry for a couple of years in an IT capacity and I'm not joking, the guys who run the shop don't know arse from elbow. Everything is run army style i.e. procedurally and n
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by spongle 13y ago
Do you really notice that though?
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by spongle 13y ago
I can't say I've had that problem myself. They are quite startup heavy but typical c# console apps start up on an ssd based system in ~150ms and 700ms on rust disks. If you're calling something thousands of times, fast proces
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by spongle 13y ago
They're both pretty awful if you've used office on windows for a number of years which is the market they're trying to break into. iWork is absolutely terrible from experience as well. It's not possible to effectively wo
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by spongle 13y ago
It has a dock which is where it wins for me. Oh and as you say, applications. OSX sucks for productivity apps.
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by spongle 13y ago
Windows user here who spends a lot of the time on the command line. PuTTY is good enough. I'm actually in the process of writing a Metro terminal app which will hopefully fill the void here.
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by spongle 13y ago
Actually no. Microsoft at least (this thread mainly targets them) doesn't lock you into any file formats. Why? a) I've always been able to export/extract data at will. b) All their protocols and formats are specified openly h
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by spongle 13y ago
Their ecosystem has made me £527,000 in the last 5 years. Does that make me $pongle? It's just childish.
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by spongle 13y ago
Have asked him to try that but he's just disappeared away from home for a week without the 5 and doesn't want to break the 4s.
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by spongle 13y ago
Until one day he is found out to be not credible on most things he blabbers about and it goes all over the press. Then people will just demonise everything he endorses.
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by spongle 13y ago
While I appreciate the focus, the guy is entirely opposite when it actually comes to technology purchasing and quite happily throws piles of cash at closed proprietary products on a daily basis and brags about it on television.
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by spongle 13y ago
Nice idea. So going to do that on my spare T61 later :)
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by spongle 13y ago
That font is something quite a few of us have probably had to put up with.
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by spongle 13y ago
My father suffers from this (and vertigo if that's any correlation). For him, it's when perspective and shape transformations don't compare to reality. This is something that 2d graphics pretending to do 3d transformations i
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by spongle 13y ago
You took the words from my mouth. For reference, I'm not new here. My account is.
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by spongle 13y ago
Fuck yes. The best part is the full English has changed into the "all day breakfast" in the last 20 years. When some asshats blew up half of London in 2005, I had a full English breakfast (at 2pm) and two cups of tea, then walked
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by spongle 13y ago
Pretty good solution actually as well. Older ThinkPad keyboards have back and forward keys next to the arrows as well.
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by spongle 13y ago
Hold the middle button and use the nipple. It scrolls like a mousewheel.

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