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by ticks 14y ago
I'm pretty sure the former is criminal (i.e. illegal), whereas the latter is unlawful, hence why businesses have to chase copyright infringement - rather than the authorities doing it for them. The authorities only step in when it becomes a
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by ticks 14y ago
I find it odd how people think of businesses as one big entity that knows all, when in reality its loads of small teams, contractors, freelancers etc. sort-of working together. You get that complaint a lot from people who criticize broadcas
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by ticks 14y ago
I imagine that running and riding (on a real bicycle) is more beneficial when you are overweight because there's more to carry around.
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by ticks 14y ago
They should consider renaming that ISO to something more affordable - I had no idea that it was compatible with Intel CPUs.
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by ticks 14y ago
My only real complaint is she says 'awesome' too much. I'm pretty sure there's an unwritten rule in these parts that prevents us from saying it. Fine for Americans and acceptable for tech conferences, but too jovial for us Brits. ;)
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by ticks 14y ago
Yeah, drivers in my country are taught to watch out for vulnerable road users (i.e. pedestrians), moving a vehicle onto a pavement is prohibited except for access reasons.
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by ticks 14y ago
Not sure if it will help, but have you tried running Firefox's hidden profile manager and created a new profile? Firefox was horrible to run on OS X for me, it would drag the whole system down, but since changing to a new profile it has run
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by ticks 14y ago
When I read this headline, I assumed Google had redesigned it again... didn't realise people were still using the old design. Personally, the redesign pushed me back to Thunderbird and I ended up deleting thousands of emails. It was quite l
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by ticks 14y ago
They could easily have been purchased new but left unopened in some warehouse, which is still 'new'. Just saying.
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by ticks 14y ago
Support for all three platforms is a requirement for me (and most other developers I know) these days, it's one of the reasons why I haven't bought various standard tools including Photoshop... yet use Filezilla, Gimp, Sublime Text 2, Firef
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by ticks 14y ago
Picasa is more than just a web service, it's great for fixing images (with minimal effort) and searching local collections of photos via face recognition.
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by ticks 14y ago
Protecting them from commercial use of their personal data - without explicit consent. In the US it's more of a free-for-all and businesses can get away with much more; in EU countries, their governments prefer to protect their populations
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by ticks 14y ago
I think you are seeing this from a limited viewpoint. There's lots of people out there who don't even understand what the internet is, you'd be lucky if they know what a browsers is. The EU is proactively protecting those people, much like
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by ticks 14y ago
Hopefully these new changes will make Gimp nicer to use. At the moment, the way it handles fonts (or doesn't) is probably my biggest annoyance.
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by ticks 14y ago
Bear in mind, it's from a TV viewer's perspective. It's fast compared to waiting for a news bulletin.
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by ticks 14y ago
I know a lot of the older generation will miss it. Especially those that don't use traditional computers, yet regularly check the value of their shares etc.
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by ticks 14y ago
Google Apps seems fine, looks like it's only gmail.
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by ticks 14y ago
Presumably it has a lot to do with the ecosystem that the customer has already bought into. If they already use Google's products, then Android phones are the natural option, if iTunes then Apple. Nokia's shoved themselves into a specialist
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by ticks 14y ago
Whenever I look at a story about Moody's, S&P and so on, there's almost always two types of comments: people who are threatened by their decisions (and discredit them) and people who feel vindicated (and think the decision is great). I
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by ticks 14y ago
Given how short-term these sorts of events are and how unlikely it is to happen there again (in a lifetime), I suggest just letting them get on with the crazy thing and concentrate on more constructive subjects. One of those topics to keep
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by ticks 14y ago
You can normally tell via other clues. For example, the design of the cover, a first edition may say that the book has been nominated for an award, whereas later editions will mention winning the award, an adaption to film, the film's award
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by ticks 14y ago
It's one of those "live by the sword, die by the sword" issues as far as I'm concerned. At least with IE6, a lot of people are stuck with it due to locked-down corporate networks; whereas with JS, people who are opting-out should blame them
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by ticks 14y ago
It's a bit too chunky for me, i.e. requires a high screen resolution to view content properly - similar to what they did with their webmail service, but at least with that you can switch it to a compact mode. I think Google's employees may
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by ticks 14y ago
When you say planned, do you mean for Microsoft to eventually purchase Nokia on the cheap, or to simply obliterate them?
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by ticks 15y ago
I find it odd that the photographer started to complain when the article was apparently pulled. If I ran a publication and there was a copyright dispute relating to one of my author's articles, then I would pull it offline until the author
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by ticks 15y ago
I used to have loads of problems with Firefox, it was so slow... took several minutes to close, it would freeze regularly etc. I got so sick of having to clear the cache every few weeks. Then one day I noticed their hidden profile manager,
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by ticks 15y ago
I suspect it's partly due to businesses continuing to use XP. I know of one company that's set-up a major division locally, and all their new computers are XP with IE6 - which is something to think about if you have a start-up that caters f
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by ticks 15y ago
Bear in mind, it's Torrent Freak. Most news sources are skewed one or another, those lot don't like the big copyright guys.
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by ticks 15y ago
It's useful for when the physical clicking mechanism on Apple's trackpads eventually die. Though you still need a mouse to drag/draw things.
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by ticks 15y ago
So much quieter between 10pm and 2am. My ideal day would be to get up late (by normal people terms), go out for a long walk, come in, wind down with something like TV and then about 8pm onwards, get on with the work. This sort of thing only

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