zandorg

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   by zandorg 17y ago

   OMG so hilarious! Budd Ugly is a classic of web design parody, except that my buddy (a hypertext legend) thought it was a real site!
2. 632.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   People didn't think Google was going to keep the same revenues for very long, so it was cheap for a couple of months after IPO. Then their profits started to become eBay-like, and the share price shot up. They also brought out tons of produ
3. 633.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   Not only that, you might end up meeting some guy with an axe!
4. 634.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   That's silly - I can ftell_i64 on this 32-bit machine, so it's not the OS, it's them not coding in the 64-bit file access APIs that are available, at least in Windows XP.
5. 635.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   Sounds like a great service - I'm not in the USA and don't travel much, but it sounds like some great data mining!
6. 636.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   I buy CDs because: They're cheap, they have proper inlay art, not all music is on iTunes, and they have the best sound quality - and I note that even P2P rippers won't be ripping a rare single from 1994 I bought off Discogs.com.
7. 637.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   I think that's it! Thanks.
8. 638.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   But can you do it backwards? (note: My experience of Prolog was that it could work out things backwards if you ask it to).
9. 639.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   I'm hoping this will be a valid replacement for Berkeley DB - the 1.86 version I'm using is free (and old), but fails on >2GB databases.
10. 640.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Maybe your 'Mom' doesn't like it, but that doesn't mean everyone, just your 'Mom'!
11. 641.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    It's great if it gets his Perimeter research institute going!
12. 642.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I used to build these ridiculous 10-storey buildings from Lego when I was younger, and we had a huge box of all kinds of Lego bits from proper sets. I think Lego leads to making people programmers.
13. 643.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Heck, I (and my friend) was doing pigeon English comedy articles AND hybrid catheads (where the head is half of 2 cat's faces with eyes bulging intermittently), in 1997!
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I played DVDs fine in Xine under SUSE. I think in this case, that he's not doing it right by using VLC.
15. 645.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I remembered those insane 120 minute cassettes full of ZX Spectrum games, of which the magnetic tape was extremely thin and completely hazardous in the long run.
16. 646.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I have a question for anyone who knows: What does Netflix pay to the studios for renting out the DVDs? It can't be the same as we pay in the shop, or they'd make pennies per 100 rentals. Is it a kind of royalty system or - as in video sho
17. 647.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I like how it uses Google to test an opinion: I do this for things like spell checking and phrase verification.
18. 648.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I'm not sure. It depends whether they'd use that kind of monitor at Google! Having said that, all you'd need for a Google OS would be: +Vesa VGA drivers up to big resolutions +Ethernet/Wifi drivers (these are pretty much standard th
19. 649.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Also Hackers by Steven Levy is a huge source of data on the Lisp/Cellular Automation days.
20. 650.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I'd rather have THAT than my stupid degree!
21. 651.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I put my degree BSc (Hons) even though a friend says it's irrelevant. I earned those letters dammit!
22. 652.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I remember when Riya was founded. Kudos for reinventing themselves to a huge new market with Like when Riya (basically) failed.
23. 653.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I use a special 'guest' account with the NYT, which is the exact same 'back door' login a friend used to login at University! And I didn't set up the account, just found it by mistake!
24. 654.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Sorry for saying that! I too wrote my own editor in Lisp 2 years ago, and also wrote one for the Z80-based Z88, but that was too slow, although the Lisp version was okay. But the Z88 (6Mhz Z80) would have required a lot of optimisation and
25. 655.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Yeah, Vi is most likely full of clever optimisations as to how text is stored and drawn on the screen. Why reinvent the wheel?
26. 656.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    A guy at a conference once called Marc 'Loudmouth'! As a joke on 'Loudcloud'.
27. 657.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Kind of ironic considering Word processes XML for 'openness'.
28. 658.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Thunderbird for Windows over SSL POP3.
29. 659.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Well, drive them there, of course! ;-)
30. 660.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Unless the choice is to live forever?