bilban

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by bilban 15y ago
Appoint experts and practice Science?
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by bilban 15y ago
You certainly aren't alone! Perhaps we sometimes expect too much. You don't listen to music to remember the lyrics, you just enjoy it. And you can enjoy and discard a piece of writing too. You can easily idle away time. Right now I'm pro
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by bilban 15y ago
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet.
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by bilban 15y ago
You can kind of use Wikipedia like this. It would be nice though if all content had an audit trail, which you could trace through to the original sources. Could be quite enlightening.
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by bilban 15y ago
I remember this site envisioned the idea of realising original content: http://www.kuro5hin.org/ Quite how you measure that though... I always liked the idea.
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by bilban 15y ago
Impartiality and being un-biased are different things.
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by bilban 15y ago
Does that mean it takes one abuse of an account to take down a hugely popular domain name? That spam must have been terrible.
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by bilban 15y ago
How about something like the Finger Protocol?
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by bilban 15y ago
I'd use them immediately given command line tools, and open protocols/apis.
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by bilban 15y ago
Excuse me for asking, but when we speak of revenue - we aren't speaking of profits are we? (I'm from the UK.) We have no idea of the net income for those divisions, as the expenses are missing. I'd have thought, the cost of advertising woul
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by bilban 15y ago
I have used the keyboard navigation extension with Chrome, not sure if it's the same one. The Chrome extension works well by default for a touch typist by setting the shortcuts to be available by typing two letter key codes, but you can cha
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by bilban 15y ago
I wouldn't agree that you can easily see a title in a tab! I'd rather a meta key that would bring up the info about the page easily - which listed the URI etc. But the title should remain at the forefront.
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by bilban 15y ago
Just read the small blurb, and it doesn't really give much away. I do think Mozilla are right to challenge current paradigms, and I long for a bit of innovation. The browser UI needs a chronic refresh, and thinking about what else the brow
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by bilban 15y ago
More repulsive than what's already there.
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by bilban 15y ago
I recently considered ditching my cheapo freeview hard disk recorder (UK - Brand Digihome) and replacing it with a media box. I tried out a few distros and open source solutions, but they all had their faults in one way or another. I trie
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by bilban 15y ago
i think i could quite easily boycott hollywood. I would prefer to read a book any day of the week than induldge in that hype machine.
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by bilban 15y ago
Why constrain the definition of an ebook to something analogous to ink and paper?
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by bilban 15y ago
Thanks - but it is pretty darn low already.
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by bilban 15y ago
I think you should just leave it down to your desktop defaults, that should ideally be configurable in one place. It's annoying going through each app setting them up individually. Each to their own.
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by bilban 15y ago
I can't read a white background unless I'm in a very bright room. Off whites are better for me. But personally I prefer light on dark. But it's a personal thing. I rue the day the browser default background colour changed from being ligh
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by bilban 15y ago
I switch to light on dark depending on ambient conditions, my study is really gloomy and I work at night, so a bright screen blinds me. On OSX10.4 at least I use the accessibility switch for this - sadly the anti aliasing looks worse with a
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by bilban 15y ago
How about if an ebook about Jimi Hendrix contained video and audio content too? Something that went beyond the print version?
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by bilban 15y ago
Yeah and you can't just pass on your ebooks to a charity shop.
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by bilban 15y ago
I have a kindle, and I have yet to buy any books for it and wonder if I ever will. To tell you the truth the whole DRM thing is a complete put off for me. Though I do love reading from the e-reader. I have it loaded up with the classics,
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by bilban 15y ago
It would be nice if Gnome 2, worked without crashing gnome-panel erratically on my desktop!
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by bilban 15y ago
Damn it! The new Gmail is broken for me on Firefox Nightly on Debian Squeeze AMD64. I can't open any messages!
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by bilban 15y ago
I don't ever bother with screen savers, as I think they are a waste of cpu cycles - I just blank (turn off/standby) the monitor. I was hoping that this was a deliberate move by Canonical to save energy. However, I was a little puzzled to no
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by bilban 15y ago
The one thing, and this might have changed, that really annoys me with Gnome, is that the network manager panel applet, doesn't seem to have an equivalent in the menu system. That's the thing that lists your wireless networks etc. Although
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by bilban 15y ago
Thanks for pointing out the alt-tab switch change. That's really annoying - as I use workspaces to group apps, so I can switch between them more efficiently.
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by bilban 15y ago
What I was trying to say with the above post. Was you get a little extra gloss with Unity3D, but it's not over the top. And the 2D fallback isn't miles away. I have noticed that 2D does look uglier in places - like modal popups - that are

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