dutchflyboy

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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
It's possible that live the vuvuzelas are amazing, but on my TV it sounds like a group of angry bees are flying around, probably because the sound is reduced to two channels (left, right). But I must say, in the Netherlands vs Denmark match
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Don't want to be pedant here, but your calculation does approximate quite a lot: Degrees in one inch - arctan(1/24) 2 = 4.77 "Data points" in eye for one inch, 12" away: 4.77 50*2 = 477 (magic number cited in article) Why the last multiplic
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Isn't it more likely that tourism is also a big business? Tourists only come back (or tell others to go) if they feel safe. Asking tourists for protection money or other such things is just shooting yourself in the foot if you (indirectly)
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Doesn't Zune Pass do that? If you live in the US it should work. For $14.99 you get music streamed, but also downloaded to your Zune, and you can keep 10 songs per month in non-DRM'd format. And SmartDJ should be able to do the automatic do
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
No, the best way would be to show a notice in the corner notifying that the website probably won't be optimal using the old browser and ask the user to upgrade. Don't be intrusive, it's not necessary, and will probably scare away people. Ju
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
The idea is nice, but I think it's impossible. Just think of the amount of material you'd need to take in the plane for the shielding. And what about the water used to power the turbines? You'd also need a huge water tank. It's just way too
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
I think the we is used so the user takes part in the thinking process.
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
About that, has anyone noticed the test isn't very consistent? In the first exercise the speed of a raptor is 25 m/s, in the second exercise the wounded raptor runs at 10 m/s. So far, so good. But in the third exercise the raptors run at 10
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Well, don't forget this is while reading and converting a swf in javascript commands. It's a lot faster when you don't have the abstraction layer. So for most things, yeah, javascript+canvas is more than enough.
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Maybe I completely missed the point, but, why WebKit? Why is WebKit better? I mean, I could use the exact same arguments for Gecko, and even for the IE rendering engine. I mean, if everyone uses the IE rendering engine, it'll always look th
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Same here. For me the fonts are even completly unique (the "one in x browsers have this value" column is >840'000). Yet I'm using a fairly standard install (I can't remember installing any fonts). Maybe some programs install a font aut
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Looks great! The only thing that bugged me was the position indicator, as it didn't have a very predictable motion. Sometimes it goes very fast, other times it just stops. I understand that it's impossible to make the speed constant, but at
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Well, I might be wrong, but it's probably not the first time a gadget site gets a gadget before it's released. In many cases, that gadget should have been returned to the original owner, not to a journalist. But, again, as far as I know, no
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
So true, I actually had to search a little moment for the quoted text even though it isn't placed in a strange place. The brain apparently concludes that ads=noise.
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
While the trick is quite nice, I personally just press the "PI" button...
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
No, it would have been more valuable: the more people buy, the higher the price is.
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Most importantly, if (I agree, it's a big if) we ever manage to get nuclear fusion running, we'll have all the helium we need: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ug/hussainw/fusion.jpg
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Well, when you put it in the search bar, your intention is to send the information to the search provider, after all, that's the whole point of the search box. However, with Chrome, as the two boxes are merged, the autocomplete function sen
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
I agree, this article is really useless. I mean, just look up what the acrynom means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator It's the definition!
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Well, in the worst case, you just re-apply the filter on the part you're not satisfied with (for example, those white areas at the bottom).
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Hmm, I actually find the site quite nice. It's quite simple, readable and with some quite nice graphics. But I agree, that background image is really horrible.
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
Do you mean the fact that it seems to load in two parts? That's quite normal behaviour, as the images that are used probably have quite a high resolution and the downscaling takes some time. Just try taking any picture with a nice big resol
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by dutchflyboy 16y ago
I think I just lost my jaw!
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
True, but my point was that it's a bit stupid to say that software development wasn't engineering because it's not predictable. The problem isn't that it isn't predictable, but it's just so complex that errors are made, just like in any eng
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Hmm, good point, there is quite a difference. But still, I think most software problems wouldn't exist if there were more engineers (=theoretical knowledge) than artisans (=practical knowledge). But that's another discussion.
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
I disagree with this guy, every point he makes is flawed: > Engineering components exist in the real world Yes, and computers don't exist in some alternate dimension. People might forget it sometimes, but if you're a real engineer, you
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Uhm, off-topic much? I mean, Silverlight isn't linked to IE9 in any way. Silverlight is a plugin, like flash. It will work in Firefox too, but isn't installed by default. I don't see the link between IE9 (which gives web developpers the pos
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
No, you don't need to. Try putting this in a hex editor. You'll see a http handshake. The first part you need to send is "GET " which is the same as sending the following bytes: "47 45 54 20". It's just made a bit "simpler" so people don't
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Well, that's probably why there's Pi next to to the time.
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Did you actually use the link? In the description there is: "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" (emphasis not mine). That'll probably count as an attribution.

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