zmimon

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by zmimon 17y ago
This is why I think we shouldn't count MSFT out. They've had it so easy for 10 - 15 years that they have turned to competing among themselves for something to do. Once a real sense of fear and external competition sets in we may see a ver
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by zmimon 17y ago
> Mr Gane said he was confident that the Federal Government would now review the laws surrounding copyright infringement Ominous.
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by zmimon 17y ago
Will be there - great to see there are enough startup oriented Melbournites to make this a possibility!
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by zmimon 17y ago
This is a point I always have trouble impressing on people. They do a simple benchmarks on a tiny code base that pulls some data from the database, spits out some data, and they compare and PHP seems to be lightning fast. The problem is t
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by zmimon 17y ago
I reckon there's a whole bunch pushing non-unicode and not knowing it, but declaring UTF-8 anyway. Since the current versions of PHP don't even support unicode (at least, without going to very special pains) I suspect there are an awful l
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by zmimon 17y ago
I don't know exactly what mortgage contracts look like in the US, but the ones I have seen in my country don't say you can walk away. They say you can not walk away. The bank getting the house is just one consequence that happens if
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by zmimon 17y ago
> Disney removes all other copies, but allows access to the original. But they don't have to - they could banish Mickey from the world if they chose to. Copyright allows them to do it. Is that wrong? I think it's more about who create
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by zmimon 17y ago
I think arguing against all censorship is doomed because people will always come up with examples that are very hard to argue with. For example, "what if someone puts detailed plans to make a nuclear bomb on the internet"? Would you r
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by zmimon 17y ago
Yes, after deploying it on 2 sites I'm thinking of taking it down and "doing my own thing" because it's just going to baffle non-Australians.
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by zmimon 17y ago
> While you can’t get code into your templates, it’s easy to get UI into your code, which is (almost) just as bad. I looked at Lift a year or two ago and this was the showstopper for me. While there's a cleanliness and purity to rigidl
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by zmimon 17y ago
> does Australia have constitutional or otherwise legally protected free speech No. Australians have no direct freedoms at all. What rights they have are "implied" indirectly from other things such as that the federal government shall
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by zmimon 17y ago
The answer is b). I suspect they fully know how stupid their policies are (Stephen Conroy has pretty much admitted it on live TV). What they are attempting is classic 'wedge politics': pick an issue on which your opposition is passionate
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by zmimon 17y ago
You would want to be extremely careful - despite all logic against it, the US Dollar spikes when just about any international crisis takes hold. The dollar's decline might well occur afterwards, but that would be a longer term consequenc
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by zmimon 17y ago
I've never understood why America outsources so much half way around the planet for cheap labor when it is available on her doorstep - a short flight, easy transport, same time zone , reasonably stable, friendly democracy ... what's not to
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by zmimon 17y ago
> it doesn't look like Google offers synchronization so its utility as a backup environment is quite limited. Actually, my beef with all these services is the opposite: they rarely provide support to mount plain old drives under windows
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by zmimon 17y ago
This is amazingly bold. Not because they are shutting down operations or even stopping the censoring - they could have done that in a hundred ways that would save face and leave the door open for them to come back in at any time - but bec
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by zmimon 17y ago
The app would have to be signed by someone who presumably would have paid the $99 to get the developer account with Apple and thus there would be a way to trace (somehow) the app to some real person. Now, the identity used to get the acco
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by zmimon 17y ago
> as the encrypted cookie can be sniffed, and replayed to the server I think the whole article is premised on requiring a level of security that would presume TLS is being used.
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by zmimon 17y ago
Sure ... but I think Apple has a way of redefining the "high end". Smart phones were already considered expensive when Apple launched the iPhone.
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by zmimon 17y ago
Well, it's not trying to be a "tablet", so it's not lying around the living room. 95% of the time it's sitting in your pocket when not in use, very safe and comfortable.
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by zmimon 17y ago
So how do you explain the iPhone? The smart phone market was well and truly catered for when Apple entered there. Apple's primary method of business is to price themselves in a tier above everyone else but to provide a (perceived or real
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by zmimon 17y ago
Point taken. I would say that satisfying point 3 relieves the need to satisfy point 2 (if I can replace it for less than $50 then I can handle the possibility of coffee getting poured on it). So paper works.
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by zmimon 17y ago
It seems to me that the right approach should always have a significant random element, not as a deterrent, but as a check on how well the non-random component is working. The random part will examine in depth to find anything that should
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by zmimon 17y ago
I think the tablet has plenty of uses, but it's the flaws that hold it back. We actually have a tablet at home and it was very useful on the couch and in various other roles. However there are a couple of features that are a must for suc
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by zmimon 17y ago
Do you have evidence that they are? I suspect that libraries are filling important niches today that are extremely hard to replace with technology, but their use for some purposes such as repositories for reference information is all but ob
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by zmimon 17y ago
Nice read, but this is a bit shameless: >In many cases, most notably our search and ads products, opening up the code would not contribute to these goals and would actually hurt users. The search and advertising markets are already high
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by zmimon 17y ago
The nice thing about Google Calendar is it supports iCal and various other standard protocols to get your calendar out. You can even import it to Windows Calendar. So you are not limited to relying on Google for updates, just set up synch
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by zmimon 17y ago
> From what I've read, the new updates default to share with "everyone" only if you have NOT modified your privacy settings in the past. I have set all my privacy settings to very private settings in the past and my defaults are all to
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by zmimon 17y ago
> Most, but not all. When I went through, there was only one option up at the top that was not set to "Friends Only" I'm staring at the screen in question right now. I hate Facebook and have set it to not let anybody see anything in t
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by zmimon 17y ago
50% of users selecting something other than defaults tells me that Facebook did act against the vast majority of it's users wishes and choose default settings that were not appropriate. Considering a substantial percentage would have jus

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