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Yeah, you are right. There are many variables that need to be defined first. How much does it cost to put nuclear power generation in a house? You can't. So therefore wind power is…

Most people create content. See facebook, and email as proof if you are skeptical.

Heh. That's up there with the university once known as the Cassurina University of Northern Territory. They changed their name pretty quickly.

Dell have good support. They have some deal with canonical, so it seems most of their laptops work great. Also, ASUS ones run quite well. ASUS even ship linux on their netbooks. My…

He mentions someone from the 1300s he considers a hacker. I think he was referring to the term Hack.

Ubuntu is really moving ahead now. It is a far superiour system compared to osx. osx has packaged up 2 year old stuff, and ubuntu is within 0 months to 6 month old wares. Apple mis…

Guru fight! Which one is right? Neither!

A diagram of hyperlinks would show it's complexity.

A friend of mine was kicked off google ads. Now he can't find anyone else to replace them with. Monopoly.

The author needs needs to get some exercise... like a lot of Americans.

Related to this is http://www.ludumdare.com -- a game design orientated competition that has been running since 2002. You get 48 hours to make a game from scratch (art, code, every…

No one ever owns ideas. It's true, look it up.

hg is easier to type than git. That's 33% better at least(with integer percentages, it's event better with float percentages... and even better with fractions). Imagine typing git …

Not so seemless. Things need to be serialised to transfer them. You need to specially craft code so that it is pickle safe... things don't just work automatically. Also serialising…

This is great because it allows you to create algorithms at runtime for your data. So rather than doing... def doit(option1, data): for x in data: if option1: x += 7 You can create…

Wow, that sucks :( I'm going right now to back up all my google stuff! Oh wait a minute... there's no backup button.

This is typical innovation... mixing two things together to make a third thing. Next physics invaders... + [add your own mix]. I choose +pony.

You'll notice the usual benchmark section is missing from there. The one that tells you python 2.6 is XXX% faster than python2.5 This is because often 2.6 is slower than 2.5. http:…

python 2.5 works fine with win95 and win98. We're talking at least 1%-3% 1 of machines on the internet here. That's a sizable chunk of people. based on wc3 stats... which aren't al…

It also doesn't work on FreeBSD/OpenBSD. Though they plan to fix that at least.

If you make applications for windows, then you would understand that people either can't upgrade or won't. Their old machines don't work with newer versions of the OS's. For web de…

It drops support for 'older' versions of windows... Including older versions of win2k, winme, win98 etc. They're not only not supporting it, but they've removed code for older vers…

It's a webpage that's supposed to evoke feelings of 'what is this', draw attention, and also to provide a slight grin feeling -- for ninja appreciators.