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by zandorg 16y ago
The good thing about desktop software is if the vendor goes away, the software still works. Not too keen (as a customer) on putting my time and effort into a SAAS hobby project that doesn't scale.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Confuse the computer by making it sad?
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by zandorg 16y ago
I know Ted Nelson personally. He invented the word hypertext. I'd say inventing that word proves him the father of hypertext, though Tim was the midwife.
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by zandorg 16y ago
The Predator's Ball and Den of Thieves for Milken & Drexel. Avoid Payback (about Milken) as it goes off on a stupid tangent.
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by zandorg 16y ago
There's folklore.org but that's like 25 years ago.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I got 99 bitches but backward propagation ain't one.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I used to backup all my stuff onto CD-R's, then DVD-R's. Now I get a 1TB drive and copy it to 4 other 1TB drives in various places. I also have an organisation system which declares EG OthersAlbums, or MyDocuments. Others[ETC] contains stuf
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by zandorg 16y ago
I only see Google adverts with deliberate typos (Manchster). Very tacky!
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by zandorg 16y ago
That's either Elon Musk or Peter Thiel for bond-villainy.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Exactly. I imagine today Rainman would get a university degree.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I once played a song at a gig in 2000 (amongst other songs), which was just me pressing keys to trigger samples on my Psion Series 5 handheld. I had wired the speaker to a 3.5mm socket to go directly to the mixer! I'm sure it was a first.
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by zandorg 16y ago
It would be fixed with firmware updates in an ideal world.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I want one of those.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I read it this way: He 'lost' further millions by quitting and foresaking that money. And they were millions that other players made instead of him.
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by zandorg 16y ago
What about saying "Hamburger shopping basket"? That'd find you an online store selling hamburgers. Or use Google's Froogle.
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by zandorg 16y ago
A friend of mine made some short films on a budget of around $3000 on average, and they're on IMDB. Also, they are shot on genuine film.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Sounds like Chuck-E-Cheese by Atari guy Nolan Bushnell.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I think when it was on video, it got erased. When it was on film, they kept it because they couldn't erase it...
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by zandorg 16y ago
Hi, I reserve the right to think that nobody will be bothered, but here it is anyway: http://www.sanfransys.com/pretext/ [Software to rip text from colour images and return a new image with text in 8-bit grayscale]
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by zandorg 16y ago
Actually one of the magazines I got from the BCS (circa 2005) was saying how great outsourcing is. I wasn't so enthusiastic and didn't agree with the article.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I put it down to my pre-degree qualifications being poor (when the degree is a 2:2), and a lack of work experience in the field.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Ah, just a name drop: I met the President of the BCS (at the time) Wendy Hall at the Hypertext 2003 conference. I told her I was working with Ted Nelson (without whom she wouldn't have got so far) and she looked confused, as if not workin
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by zandorg 16y ago
Funny, I have a software development with AI degree, and I can't get anything - not even tech support. Why do they come out with these stupid stories?
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by zandorg 16y ago
Gotta do something with that legacy X.com domain...
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by zandorg 16y ago
That'll be the Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I tried to get some open source webserver code into a Gnutella (P2P software) program called Gnucleus. He put the code in the repository but never enabled it. The WTF moment? When Morpheus (P2P company) took Gnucleus and rebadged it as Morp
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by zandorg 16y ago
As the source files are not in a WAV format, a WAV format must be used to hear it in the browser (or file system).
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by zandorg 16y ago
Actually, it's Lunix (Little Unix) that works with the C64.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Those games aren't a patch on Facebook's monthly user usage in minutes - which is apparently more than Google's now.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Whereas Facebook is trying to waste the time of the most people.

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