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Bunch of webheads that thinks JS is the end all be all of languages...

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Now that you mention it, i think i got the "multimedia" edition of that as part of the bundle when i bought a CD-ROM upgrade kit back in the day.

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I don't mind music for work, as long as it is without lyrics. But i can't filter out the lyrics while trying to process some kind of writing in from of me.

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And these days "we" manage containers in Minecraft...

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iOS was never meant to handle files, imo.

It was meant as a souped up iPod platform, tethered to iTunes.

I just wish we didn't have to way for Windows 8/10 to get "sane" file management on tablets, after Google mangled Android from 3.1 onwards.

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History shows that if the dialog shows up often enough people will simply hit accept/ok/whatever without reading what it is about.

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Did that one come before or after Woz's "never trust a computer you can't throw out a window"?

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For anyone who's first computer interaction was a microcomp like the C64, sure. But i suspect that for anyone that had spent time with mainframe/minicomp terminals, particularly those attached to the Arpanet, it may not have seemed as such a far fetched claim.

Never mind that France rolled out Minitel back then, and similar systems were also deployed elsewhere in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel#Minitel_in_other_count...

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Would not surprise me if it was a Matrox card of some kind, i think they offered multi-monitor cards for desktops quite early.

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It is, and it may work for now. But as i become familiar with the mentality of the GTK devs i worry how long that will be an option.

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Then stop drawing all the eyecandy in the first place.

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Expect Firefox to demand a potent GPU just to load soon enough, thanks to GTK3...

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Why i refuse to indulge the latest eyecandy and bling from the desktop world if possible.

If i didn't need a GPU to do window switching back then, why do i need it now?

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Everything old is new again it seems.

I guess this is a variant of CADT, based on ignorance of the past rather than a chase of shinies.

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Yeah i think things have gotten more "professional" these days. I think it was happening back when blogging was the new buzzword, and MSM had taken to referring to sites in their news reports (complete with a screengrab of the article in a corner).

I was only really checking out the site because of Doctorow's stuff, and was even turned away from that as he had the annoying habit of posting random horror articles alongside his tech stuff (and the rest of the writers seemed like the typical SXSW bunch).

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Wish i could relocate the comment on a Boingboing story where one of their admins mentioned having tracked comments on a certain topic to a online PR company.

His attention was drawn to the comments because they were heavily reported when made, and would be largely of the same structure but with a new user name each time. So he pulled up the IP they came from and all of them was made from the company owned address.

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Well yes, but using the package name to distinguish them makes it harder for third parties to do packages. This is the complaint that has lead to the development of container based formats in the first place.

Thing is that with sonames the actual files are distinguished anyways, so mangling the package names to get around collisions are just an artifact of an overly rigid package manager.

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And that just exasperates the problem.

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And then distro package managers go about and complicate things by having overly rigid dependencies and only allowing one version of each package name to be installed.

And the recently introduced container based replacements are and exercise in shooting twee twee birds with AAA...

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Toss profit into anything, and it can be a scary place.