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Comment April? (Score 1) 454

by robbrit on Sunday November 21, 2010 @02:23AM (#34296084) Attached to: Estonian Economist Suggests Abandoning Cash

Is it wrong that I read this and thought that it was April Fool's?

Comment Re:Bugs are an error in the... (Score 2, Informative) 596

by robbrit on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @03:14AM (#31152912) Attached to: Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law

and then attempts to refute. Fair enough. Except - the link leads to The Cathedral And The Bazaar - where I cannot find the quote... Hmmm

It's on this page: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html
Right after point #8, about halfway down.

Comment Re:I'll believe it when I can buy it. (Score 1) 220

by robbrit on Sunday January 31, 2010 @02:37PM (#30972074) Attached to: Video Review of Hivision's $100 ARM-Based Android Laptop

The Touch Book uses ipkg, and the Linux distro is a custom one called the Touch Book OS (fairly fitting). On their site they give instructions on how to install Ubuntu which obviously uses deb packages.

Comment Re:Permutation city (Score 1) 52

by robbrit on Monday December 14, 2009 @11:46PM (#30440032) Attached to: Amazon Introduces Bidding For EC2 Compute Time

And YIPS sounds so much better than QIPS.

Comment Re:Please refer to Stallman Properly (Score 1) 587

by robbrit on Saturday December 12, 2009 @12:27PM (#30414686) Attached to: GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project

I always thought we were supposed to refer to him as GNU/Stallman.

Comment Re:Its all the new folks (Score 1) 1079

by robbrit on Saturday December 12, 2009 @01:47AM (#30411414) Attached to: Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing

They had to learn Spanish to guard the Maine border? That's odd, considering most of that part of Canada is French.

Comment Come work for me! (Score 1) 325

by robbrit on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @11:47AM (#30365948) Attached to: What Can I Expect As an IT Intern?

If you're willing to work for $8/hour doing IT work, you're welcome to come do an internship here!

Your main tasks will be:

Getting Coffee
Testing Code
Writing Getters/Setters
Working an extra 20 hours per week without pay

Seriously dude, if you're going to be making $8/hour, go work for a grocery store or something. At least there you'll get experience with the public and learn some communication and people skills (which a lot of IT people lack).

Comment Re:Ruby at a sight (Score 2, Informative) 89

by robbrit on Sunday November 22, 2009 @10:39PM (#30198674) Attached to: The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance

pygame comes to mind.

Comment Except Canada... (Score 2, Informative) 145

by robbrit on Saturday October 10, 2009 @11:39AM (#29703859) Attached to: Kindle Finally Ready For Global Distribution

To the other Canadians out there: we won't be getting it, according to the Globe and Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/why-you-cant-get-the-kindle-in-canada/article1316081/

I guess I'll have to get it shipped in from Burundi or Sri Lanka instead.

Comment Re:10+ the max? Come on... (Score 1) 958

by robbrit on Friday October 09, 2009 @11:21AM (#29693561) Attached to: How many countries have you visited?

To drive from Montreal, Quebec to Fermont, Quebec by following Google Maps directions (which are obviously the fastest) takes 22.5 hours. That's all without leaving the province! Of course, the New York state border is only about an hour from here.

Comment Re:Let's get the car analogy out the way quickly.. (Score 1) 423

by robbrit on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @09:17PM (#29676519) Attached to: Artist Not Allowed To Stream His Own Music

Just to let you know, I used this comment a school assignment.

Comment Ahh... (Score 1) 150

by robbrit on Thursday October 01, 2009 @11:56PM (#29613779) Attached to: Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality

Palm as in palm of your hand, here I was thinking palm tree. That would certainly be "less-than-inconspicuous"!

Comment Re:I will buy one (Score 1) 521

by robbrit on Thursday September 17, 2009 @12:07AM (#29450285) Attached to: ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold

Grab it straight from their site: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/

Comment Re:Pirate Party (Score 1) 319

by robbrit on Sunday August 30, 2009 @08:59PM (#29256057) Attached to: Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting"

Sure, we'll challenge them to a race to see who can be the first registered Pirate Party out of Europe :)

Comment Re:monday morning (Score 1) 140

by robbrit on Monday August 17, 2009 @01:17AM (#29088665) Attached to: Facebook Faces the Canadian Privacy Commissioner

Definitely a good point. There are currently around 11 million Canadian Facebook users, which is about a third of the national population. That's a lot of advertising eyeballs!

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