zandorg

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   by zandorg 17y ago

   They'll be up against BitTorrent Inc in a way - and those are the official people!
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   It's called a parody, a piece of satire. Look it up. It's making fun of the modern employment system's aversion to free thinkers (and thereby scientific geniuses).
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   The Thriller 12" album on the other hand, is probably the best-mastered record (or CD) I've ever heard.
4. 724.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   The client ran like a dog on my machine, and was some kind of rainbow interface. Bizarre!
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   I right-clicked on the video and it says 'Flash 11'. Is it possible that if Flash isn't present, it shows it natively using Firefox?
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   I tried out the <video> tag on the 3.5 About page, but it still uses Flash. I thought the whole point was to go native and avoid Flash?
7. 727.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   I had a laptop with 2 good batteries and I lasted out a power cut watching a whole DVD. The ADSL 'modem' was powered by the phone socket and shared over Wifi from another laptop with a (single) good battery, so I could continue using the in
8. 728.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   Technical news has NEVER been that good in the mainstream papers. It's always been in niche magazines.
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   by zandorg 17y ago

   He mentions Last.FM as an example of 'Not getting it' - but CBS bought that. So in that at least, his argument is flawed.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    That's the myth, as it is in publishing. On the one hand, they say a novel is 'written in crayon'. On the other hand, with a well-crafted novel that they can't sell, what is the excuse there? Simple, they just don't say it in public. This i
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Along with the huge NASA cash ($billions) for SpaceX, it's a good year for Musk.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I tried to buy Berkeley DB last year and never got a reply. I think Sleepycat has gone on a long snooze.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I was an Inform hacker in 1998. One thing I was proud of was having NPC's that took commands like the player. All I did was change a 'open' action so that it took an NPC argument (or whatever). The NPC really would move, and the door would
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    The British computer science teaching in Higher education is very high standard, but I can't get a job here myself. The BCS (British Computer Society, whose President I met in 2003), sets targets for University CS degrees in the UK. "BCS ac
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I prefer Ron Garret's experiences of debugging Lisp in a REPL on a deep space probe.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Reading it depressed me because he was having such a good time. The film (and moreso, the book) Wonderboys I think depicts young academia brilliantly, much better than Catcher. It has the crazy mentor (which I also had) which Catcher lacks.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I once ranted to a FedEx carrier, who refused to deliver after 12PM, in the UK that 'Junk bonds bought Fred's first plane', and 'where's that spirit now?' etc etc. They were very helpful after that... They sent it out for 3PM and I got my p
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I have a 'USB to PS2' dongle thingy with a USB mouse (into a PS2 adapter!) and keyboard. The trick is not to buy a keyboard PS2 adapter... buy one that does BOTH keyboard and mouse. These work better than the single sockets for some reason.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I've just been watching a Boston Legal episode (from series 4, ep 7), and fictionally, they sue YouTube. Not 'MegaView' or 'SuperVid', but YOUTUBE. I wondered how they can get away with using a real company in a fictional lawsuit?
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I have an incredible d|i|g|i|t|a|l keyboard someone gave me in 1997, and it clunkers away incredibly nicely. Same layout as the M. I cleaned and even repaired it, supergluing the rubber thingies back onto the membranes. I also had to solder
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I recently learned that the general view is 'Helping you back to work' for people with mental health disorders. But if you haven't already got a career when you become ill, it's virtually impossible to get a paying job - especially in com
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    In the film Die Hard, there are 'anonymous/untraceable bearer bonds', so maybe.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Google just gave me 30 pounds ($45) of free advertising! Can't complain...
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I had this idea in 2002, except searching of this network via the Gnutella network. I called it the Transient Web. I came to the conclusion that this would just create fractured webpages, and a site one week could be gone the next. This is
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I'd say it's pretty good considering how long it's been up. It'll only get better. I typed in 'price of fish' and it came up with a list of fish & chip shops. So not totally useless.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Not a billionaire yet (I think the NASA deal with SpaceX will help): Elon Musk — Net Worth: $328 Million According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk - More sources »
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Is it me, or is it funny that on the job postings are the bevvy of links (Reddit, Digg, Delicious, Twitter, etc) when this is supposed to be Reddit? Also, 'reddit this' is nowhere near as catchy as 'Spreddit', which is a verb, and a clever
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I once tried to crack Microsoft Reader to extract ebooks from memory. That was a failure, but one innovation, given that Reader checked the integrity of its code against patching... I simply ran Reader, waited 500 milliseconds, then patch
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Twitter Road for San Jose?
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I think Bruce Sterling with those silly jokes just proves he hasn't written anything good since 1988.