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by sprout 16y ago
I find that "out the door within the hour" extraordinarily unprofessional. I wouldn't want to work in a situation where people think throwing someone out on their ass without collecting documentation, checking up on projects, and generally
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by sprout 16y ago
Why is it so important to you that Google is evil and Apple is good? That's why Apple is like Big Brother. Fanatical, unreasoning devotion is a key component of Orwell's dystopia. Google doesn't have that.
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by sprout 16y ago
Suffrage only passed as a result of a curious alliance between hard-left socialist feminist types and hard-right temperance/religious purity movements. The left's goal is obvious. For the right the fantastic thing was that most women were a
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by sprout 16y ago
No, in the perfectly valid analogy, we are Winston Smith, Apple is Big Brother. Though it also might be argued that in this analogy you are O'Brien.
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by sprout 16y ago
The people comparing Apple's approval process to 1984 are clearly drawing parallels with the torture scenes where the protagonist is ultimately convinced that he shouldn't have done what he did and Big Brother is ultimately right - which so
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by sprout 16y ago
My Motorola Droid's touchscreen can't match the iPhone, but I've played with a few display models, and the Droid X among others are neck-and-neck. However, I have to say that improving hardware on my Droid would be a waste of money without
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by sprout 16y ago
That makes anonymous posting difficult to do without degrading the quality of the site.
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by sprout 16y ago
I think the focus on keypads is a mistake. I'd love a phone roughly like the OP's phone, except with a full range of characters and a largish keyboard. I don't think there's a lot of reason the phone needs to be so small either. I would bet
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by sprout 16y ago
Hostgator's nonstandard port for hosting is my biggest complaint about their service, especially because I cannot set up key-based authentication, and I have to ad -e 'ssh -p 2222' to my rsync statements. But if I'm being honest, back when
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by sprout 16y ago
OT: That site has a beautifully fluid layout. It's a wonderful change from mobile layouts like WordPress.com's mobile blog layout that absolutely refuses to let you view text at anything larger than 'tiny' on the Droid. Though I think this
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by sprout 16y ago
There are several claims made in the article, and I'm skeptical that all of those things are completely true for all of those.
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Hightower: If You Don't Fight for the Middle Class, Kiss It Good-Bye(alternet.org)
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by sprout 16y ago
I've actually referred to my Droid as a computer a few times without context. (As in "I'll just check on my computer.")
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by sprout 16y ago
Not quite. If I'm, for example, naked in front of my computer, a phone call is not as big a problem as someone at my door. Especially if there are windows next to my door and the only path to my clothes goes in front of the door. (Just spea
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by sprout 16y ago
What if this spreads? It seems pretty clear that they've proved that you can region lock and no one will care. Many oppressive world governments like Iran and China would love it if the Internet itself was segmented in this manner. And the
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by sprout 16y ago
I came here to ask, does anyone know what Unix means in this context?
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by sprout 16y ago
The real problem with 3D video is that it requires a lot of production work to get right. You can't just record in 3D and expect it to work. You have to carefully manage focal length. And when it comes right down to it, it only adds things
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by sprout 16y ago
Which is which? I'm not going to beat a dead horse, you can look at my comments in the other thread for my thoughts on StarCraft itself, but I'm going to speak generally on RTS: I look at RTS as a sort of dance that eventually becomes a con
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by sprout 16y ago
Except the iPhone isn't as worrisome as StarCraft to me. Ultimately, the iPhone's problems are going to force Apple to open up, because they are decreasing the quality of the iPhone ecosystem. And even if it doesn't, the iPhone platform is
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by sprout 16y ago
I don't live in SF. The tournament has a regional bias on multiple levels. Not that I take this event incredibly seriously, but I do consider Activision's region locking deeply offensive, as someone with dear friends on far-flung continents
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by sprout 16y ago
Because iTunes is a bloated moneymaking machine that has had very little thought put into UX since the store took off?
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by sprout 16y ago
Yeah, I sensed it was just a little dated when he mentioned migrating from CVS to Subversion.
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by sprout 16y ago
There are all sorts of proprietary systems running on old machines with Windows 3.11 at the university I used to work at, from the scoreboard in the football stadium to extremely expensive scanning electron microscopes. Also, there's a 7-ye
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by sprout 16y ago
It's interesting that they chose to use a region-locked game. Alone it's all well and good to have an event like this in SF, but at least use a more open medium. (I mean, even a weakly open medium like Age of Empires III or something.) I fe
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by sprout 16y ago
To be fair, there were some pointless changes. Add/remove programs was changed to Programs and Features. I suppose it was a nod to the fact that you can't actually add or remove some programs through this dialogue, but generally the change
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by sprout 16y ago
Not on the desktop, though when it comes to the server pretty much all of them beat and still beat NT on stability and filesystem support.
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by sprout 16y ago
This could actually be useful for a mission to Mars. Every bit of biomass available for a biodome (if such a thing could be maintained) would be vital.
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by sprout 16y ago
The thing that makes Sharepoint completely unusable for me is that all the links are of the javascript() variety, so quickly opening pages in tabs is functionally impossible. It would be nice if browsers could handle middle clicks a little
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by sprout 16y ago
At the last place I worked there was some use of Sharepoint, but we were forbidden from using it for documentation after it ate a ton of our sysadmin's documentation (the only guy who was using it, that is.) And of course this being a Windo
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by sprout 16y ago
Or simply install NoScript, and worry about whitelists, not blacklists. I can get at the content there with no trouble, and don't have to worry about any of those toolbars.

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