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Comment: Re:Yeah nothing works anymore (Score 5, Insightful) 622

by DavidApi (#33327742) Attached to: Throwing Out Software That Works

Damn right. The web (Internet) was supposed to provide a platform that could be accessed by all devices, providing they adhere to the web standards. And that means HTML. Not Flash, or Silverlight, or even Java Applets.

So bugger off and make your own proprietary network standard. Just don't go bitch about a company that's brought out a devive that DOES support just the standards. Hell, should I moan if I bring out a proprietary plug-in that isn't supported by device X? Or should I put my money and time into making something that works within the standard (or at least help stabilise the upcoming standard)?

Next you'll be wanting to modify the TCP/IP protocol itself to suit your particular content - and then bitch at Apple for not supporting it in their products.

Comment: Re:Here you go (Score 1) 344

by DavidApi (#31972388) Attached to: Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL?

Simple as your instructions seem, they don't work for me....

CTRL-F doesn't do anything at all. Odd.

Oh wait - perhaps you are suggesting a search on that web site for the term "b/g/n"?
In our connected world, CTRL-F doesn't necessarily mean search (I for one type this on my Mac running Safari, where Command-F is to search). Search might be done in any number of ways on any number of devices.

Here endeth the lesson :-)

Sorry - we in the Southern Hemisphere and using Macs tend to get a bit sensitive regarding when Winter is, and how to perform searches on our computers.

Comment: No Perl? You've got to be f**ken kidding (Score 2, Interesting) 407

by DavidApi (#31479982) Attached to: Good Language Choice For School Programming Test?

Do they realise how much of the world's systems run Perl? And given that it's pretty much built into every major OS (yes, Windows needs a download). Wow, this is mind-boggling. I still can't get over it. And the fact that simple Perl is just that - so simple. Hello World is a one liner. No classes to define, no libraries to import, no header files to include.

And you can write poetry with it! (bonus points?)

Comment: Re:Southern Hemisphere Balance (Score 1) 411

by DavidApi (#29430263) Attached to: After 8 Years of Work, Be-Alike Haiku Releases Official Alpha

I know - or rather you have reminded me.

The seasons here in New Zealand run from the 1st of each quarter (Sep, Dec, Mar, Jun). Solstices aren't celebrated so much, which is a shame, but neither are the official starts to seasons.

Don't know about other countries, but some of course, do it differently altogether (hot season, rainy season, etc).

Been a pleasure.

Comment: Mac OS X seems to be heading in a better direction (Score 1) 411

by DavidApi (#29418165) Attached to: After 8 Years of Work, Be-Alike Haiku Releases Official Alpha

BeOS was indeed impressive to play with way back. But I think a read of Ars Technica review of Mac OS X Snow Leopard might give you reason to adjust this view. There is mention of BeOS and its limitations in the discussion on Grand Central Dispatch, that might have led to a M$-like bottleneck in terms of paradigm.

Comment: Re:"dumb down?" (Score 1) 276

by DavidApi (#29330397) Attached to: A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support

We're talking laptops here - typically no mouse, so what is your one fingered person doing trying to right-click? So plug in a mouse - and all new Apple mice have a left and right side for clicking. Don't want to use a mouse? How about clicking the trackpad while pressing a Control key down? Wow, right-click.

Or are you saying this person has only one arm, and that arm has only one finger?

What else. Oh yes, you can even plug your Apple (or any USB) mouse into the left or right hand side of an Apple keyboard - just in case your person of interest is left or right handed. I don't recall any other keyboard with two USB ports attached. Hell, you could even plug another keyboard into the first - and really go to town with collaborative typing.

Maybe it's not the fingers that are the problem - but your sight (and mind) are a little squinted and one-eyed.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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