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by zandorg 17y ago
But someone could have a huge flat speaker to make a humming noise and influence the vote!
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by zandorg 17y ago
I tried to use Emacs under Windows, but it just took forever to render a simple window of text! This can't be normal, I can't figure out how a lengthy REPL session can fail to scroll faster than molasses.
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by zandorg 17y ago
AFAIK the WM only indexes 6 months after publication, part of their agreement with Amazon.com.
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by zandorg 17y ago
I once found out on a BBC Master (which we borrowed from school) you can control the relay that controls the tape interface. A relay clicks on or off. So we had a BASIC program which clicked it at random, and it made a lovely clattering noi
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by zandorg 17y ago
Some day someone will write a tool which can determine an application (eg, on Windows) is destructive, by recursing into its code and finding all file accesses. You could easily monitor ever application running and make sure it doesn't, eg,
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by zandorg 17y ago
Eric Schmidt (former Sun guy) could have bought Sun with his Google money (note: not quite).
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by zandorg 17y ago
If it doesn't have the barcode/iCam feature (where you swipe a book under the camera and it reads the ISBN) then it's a pale shadow of Delicious Library.
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by zandorg 17y ago
My Mum wanted to copy music onto her multi-gigabyte Sony Walkman mp3 player. I simply showed her every single step to get the job done, and she wrote it all down, and all she has to do now is consult her notes. This is a Windows machine - I
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by zandorg 17y ago
I sign tablets when a courier comes to the door, and it's such a random squiggle that I doubt such a tablet is accurate enough for healthcare.
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by zandorg 17y ago
He wrote 'Marge verses the Monorail' which is one of the best Simpsons episodes ever.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Plimus are good.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Doesn't mention Acorn or Archimedes or Psion or Symbian. Clueless.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Half the links seem to be broken.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Met him at a local music festival in 2001. I gave him a CD of my music and he apologetically said "I might not be able to do anything with it". Nice guy! [Edit] I didn't hear back from him but that's what he said might happen.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Don't forget they have a lot of preferred (?) stock which means their voting power is a lot more than common stock.
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by zandorg 17y ago
In the image, it's got the Linux penguin mourning the company it helped to kill, and yet nobody mentions Linux in the whole comments thread? Just curious... Is the other creature BSD or Amiga?
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by zandorg 17y ago
Sleepycat?
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by zandorg 17y ago
I think it was controversial on the comp.lang.lisp newsgroup, with threads saying "It may be Reddit-ish but it lacks most of the features like a proper data store". [Edit] Of course, I was reading that newsgroup at the time, so this isn't a
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by zandorg 17y ago
Is that APL?
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by zandorg 17y ago
I was working on a novel in 1998 which had 3d printers as a brand new technology. But now (as usual) life has caught up with fiction. The other idea in the book was going to be kids making wifi mesh networks. Another one that's now out of d
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by zandorg 17y ago
Yeah, like if he interviewed me - "My positive attitude to making profits had a downward effect on my profits". In other words, I haven't made a million, and I haven't got a success story.
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by zandorg 17y ago
From the 'Brief Timeline Of Google’s Real Estate Efforts': "January 16, 2009" - wrong year, buddy!
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by zandorg 17y ago
That's what you get when you employ feminists to run the Human Resources department (as in most medium-size tech startups) instead of doing it yourself.
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by zandorg 17y ago
A friend of mine keeps asking me to dump Lisp and "Get modern" with C#, and I try to explain why I prefer Lisp, but he won't accept it. It was Paul Graham's essay that encouraged me to try Lisp in 2005.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Not wanting to place product, but Grado make excellent headphones. iGrado are okay and reliably built, but the SR60's are the best. My ears have not suffered in over 9 years use. The only problem is the SR60's should go through an extension
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by zandorg 17y ago
I saw an advert on Lovefilm, basically McDonald's waffling on about promoting Avatar. McDonald's are the essence of evil capitalism, wrecking the environment and people's health, yet Cameron let them promote his film.
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by zandorg 17y ago
It's simple: Linux was ported to ARM chips soon after being invented and it's pretty much game over for Windows x86 when you can run X servers on ARM on cheap mobile phones.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Just because you'd assume IBM to win. I think the ARM story is probably best explained on Wikipedia, thus making my comments kind of not very useful. But for my opinion, I think the Psion portable computers and EPOC (the Psion OS) and Nokia
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by zandorg 17y ago
The wierd thing about Acorn Risc Machines is that IBM invented the RISC architecture, and some Brits made it a product (200MHZ StrongARM). So the PowerPC is competing with the ARM, when the ARM came later! Pretty amazing story behind that c
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by zandorg 17y ago
This story's just silly. It doesn't say anything about the subject, and gives only Lenovo as an example. What is it trying to say? I don't know...

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