'Other topics' Category
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Nov 10
2005Sony is LAME
Apparently, the Go.exe binary that comes with the same discs infected with the Sony rootkit is statically linked to LAME, and thus a GPL violation. Wow. Sony – You’ve made my day.
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Oct 30
2005Life is great
I have a son !
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Oct 25
2005Re: Monty Hall
Erik, I presume what you call the Monty Hall problem is in summary this: You’re in a game and you have to choose one of three doors behind which there may be a prize (apparently in this case a donkey, hmm, maybe not a prize then ;-) After you have chosen a door, the game [...]
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Oct 24
2005Monty Hall
Perhaps a real mathematician can help me here. I just don’t understand the supposed solution to the Monty Hall problem. I understand the reasons that it is supposed “unintuitive” but I still believe them. Allow me to forumlate the objection in a way that seems novel. Once Monty reveals the Donkey, and you are given [...]
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Oct 12
2005Jack Thompson’s Modest Proposal
I realize that this is not the kind of content I would usually present in this forum, but nonetheless, stupidity on such a grand scale cannot be countenanced. Jack Thompson has, as a sort of grandstanding piece of satire, proposed a particularly violent video game scenario, with the intention of donating $10,000 to charity, should [...]
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Oct 09
2005I do
After 14 years (!) Janine and I finally decided to get married. We had a wonderful day! More pictures, taken by my sister. There’s more to come, can’t wait to see them, including the official photo shoot.
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Sep 28
2005Fear
When I was a child my gradfather – my dad’s dad – subscribed to National Geographic. He would read the whole thing in a day, and then he would pass them on to me. I loved them. There is something of a formula that can render the magazine dull over long periods of time, but [...]
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Sep 09
2005Themes are human too, you know
Someone linked to this on planet GNOME. I thought it was pretty funny: thoughts about Apple’s new theme for iTunes . So, Olivier, if you’re reading this, don’t be so quick to ditch the Xfce engine in favour of Clearlooks. You might hurt its feelings ;-)
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Sep 08
2005KWIQ
So, KHTML is a HTML rendering engine, built on Qt. WebCore is an HTML engine based on KHTML for Mac OS X. This was all accomplished via something called Kwiq. Kwiq, created by Apple, is basically a reimplementation of portions of Qt needed to port KHTML. Qt widgets become Cocoa widgets, and all is happy. [...]
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Sep 07
2005Poor
Slashdot has a little story on how much money developers make, relative to the national (US) average. Having read through this little discussion, with people saying that if they made a dinky 50k for programming, they’d start checking gas meters for $20/hour, I felt the need to vent. I have three years of software development [...]