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As a long term Opera user, I'm wondering how long it's going to take them to bake enough of their special sauce in to decide it's a suitable auto upgrade from v12.x.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The end of an era is here. AOL announced that the music service Winamp is shutting down on December 20, 2013. This move affects its website, Winamp.com, associated Web services, and also its Winamp Media players. And here’s an interesting fact: Winamp has been around 15 years. Sometimes, the llama wins
Oh, there's the problem: "Its parent company, Nullsoft, was acquired by AOL in 1999."
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Wow, what a coincidence!
I just installed Winamp for the first time today and now I may as well just uninstall it before I get used to it.
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Well, if you never need upgrades or support... /sigh
I'd grab one of these[^]
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TTFN - Kent
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GeekforChrist wrote: I may as well just uninstall it before I get used to it.
Why? I've been using my circa 2002 edition with no problems all these years! 
/ravi
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one of the bill's most important provisions, designed to make it easier to nix low-quality software patents, will be left on the cutting room floor. That provision was the victim of an aggressive lobbying campaign by patent-rich software companies such as IBM and Microsoft.
Is there even "high-quality" software patents?
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Some patents are worse than others. Still, I am not surprised that IBM & MS oppose this bill.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Whew...Now my Incrementor patent will make me rich.
Here are the details:
Any code which uses any of the following methods will require payment to me.
++i;
i += [Literal];
i = i + [Literal];
i++;
It won't be long now and I'll be rich because of my contribution to the programming world.
It's good to troll, when you have a patent.  
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fine, i'll just rewrite to this:
x = i;
i = x + [Literal]
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"high-quality software patents" is an oxymoron.
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Google's chief internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, suggests that privacy is a fairly new development that may not be sustainable. "Privacy may actually be an anomaly," Cerf said at an FTC event yesterday while taking questions. Elaborating, he explained that privacy wasn't even guaranteed a few decades ago: he used to live in a small town without home phones where the postmaster saw who everyone was getting mail from. "In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing." "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the postmaster saw who everyone was getting mail from
Unless the postmaster also opened every letter and read its contents in order to deliver more "personalised" junk-mail, that analogy sounds like BS to me. 
And even if privacy is a fairly new development, that doesn't mean we should abandon it. I presume he's not suggesting that the internet, computers, and wide-spread access to education and health care are also unsustainable?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes.
By that token, most of Human Rights are also an anomaly.
Why don't we start burning witches again?
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Searching for great technical information is tough – and finding the right place to contribute and show off great content that you’ve either written or discovered is also challenging. With our new content service Curah!, we have a way to make both those tasks easier. "Think about the real victims: the people who saw an overcrowded market and said, 'Me, too!'"
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Two years later than planned, Microsoft's new graphical operating system went on sale November 20, 1985. It wasn't worth the wait. But a bigger story was soon to unfold. I sense a trend here...
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That article was...er...brief
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Some users of popular GitHub source code repository service had passwords, access tokens and SSH keys reset. People! You, of all people, should know better!
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As EnterpriseDB unveils new versions of its Postgres management console and database, it points to Oracle pricing as the prime cause for the present rise of the open-source database. And in related news, the CEO of Oracle was seen sailing his 88m yacht to his island (Lanai, most of it anyway)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And in related news, the CEO of Oracle was seen sailing his 88m yacht to his island (Lanai, most of it anyway)
A 5 for this.
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Scott argues that while the OMG has been successful in marketing UML, it's been less successful in producing something people find useful. It was certainly a success for publishers of books on the subject
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Not to mention scholars who studied Ada Lovelace's ability to write programs despite not having a computer to run them on. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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There is another obscure way of tracking users without using cookies or even Javascript. It has already been used by numerous websites but few people know of it. This page explains how it works and how to protect yourself. Feed your browser with some Etags instead of cookies! Anyone still thinking that telling a website "Do not track" is really going to have an effect?
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Wow,
These is the kind of info that lies between the  and the 
thx
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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