Comments on: things and stuff

By: zucchi

zucchi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:58:43 +0000

oj, they all suck yeah. silverlight is particularly innocuous at this point in time – because it coming to all broadcasters all of a sudden is clearly a marketing effort. it isn’t widely deployed yet so it is an attempt to make it widely deployed, and as a tax payer i have no reason to be happy to be directly funding it. and it’s there (presumably) for it’s drm abilities. Why would any sane person like drm?

rob, probably at some point I will, along with some other adt’s I have. The details are quite unremarkable, but I like simple things being simple.

ari, yeah i’m cynical and pessimistic, but i’m just crapping on in a blog. Time will tell I suppose.

By: OJ

OJ — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:25:20 +0000

Man, anyone would think you’re a Linux fanboy ;)

Are you bitter about the Silverlight decision because it’s MS technology? Or do you feel that Flash is a better option?

By: Tom Wright

Tom Wright — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:38:31 +0000

i don’t see the issue about silverlight, it is a lot more open than flash and moonlight is very good (though it doesn’t work with most sites as they only check for the official version of silverlight, a userscript could probably fix that)

By: Ari Torhamo

Ari Torhamo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:09:51 +0000

You seem to be pretty casual about letting people starve to death (and you call those vegetarian organizations cynical). Growth of the world population is a big problem, but not a hopeless one. Growth rate is declining, and there are means to bring it down even more, for example reliable livelihoods and education. If you would have done your home work, you would have noticed that there are many less developed countries in the world where people aren’t starving, but where birth rate is already relatively well under control (not to mention the developed countries).

It’s a fact that meat production is facing it’s limits. Pastures are widely overgrazed and lost to erosion. Fields used for growing livestock feed are away from producing food, and meet production is a very ineffective way of producing food.

One simple theory just isn’t enough to cover a problem involving entire populations and their diverse actions.

Good points about Silverlight, bikes and others though :-)

By: sam

sam — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:42:53 +0000

firefox has a default history time set to 180 days now. so it will build up quite a lot of data for the first 180 days, and then probably level out.

you could set it back to 30 days, or whatever it was in firefox 2

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:03:33 +0000

Hi,

would you mind to publish the code of your hash table? It looks interesting …

By: smurfd

smurfd — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:38:18 +0000

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
:)

By: James

James — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:34:46 +0000

You can also pay money for ABC episodes on the iTunes store.