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Living Room / Re: Sexual harassment taken too far...

« Last post by Eóin on May 19, 2010, 12:22 PM »

I agree completely that sexual harassment is a minefield that's too easily abused. And of course without more details it'd be impossible to ever know the truth, but something about the circumstances as they're being reported has me leaning towards him being a slime-ball rather than her crying wolf.

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Living Room / Re: Another wierd lawsuit...

« Last post by Eóin on May 19, 2010, 11:33 AM »

What a nonsense case I hope she loses and has to pay out expensive legal fees, would serve her right.

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Living Room / Re: Sexual harassment taken too far...

« Last post by Eóin on May 19, 2010, 11:31 AM »

I was reading about this, I suspect the scientific community is being too one-sided. The Daily Mail article sheds a little more on light on the back story

[Dr Rossana Salerno Kennedy] also says it was not the first time [Dr Dylan Evans] had raised sexual subjects with her and said he admired Casanova.

-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1279338/Dr-Dylan-Evans-harassment-claim-showing-sex-life-bats-paper-female-colleague.html

Sounds to me like he's now hiding behind the screen of "academic debate". If anything is being diluted here it's the distinction between professional and personal interactions.

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Eóin on May 19, 2010, 07:09 AM »

Thanks 40hz, excellent reading. And of course it kinda makes me realize how guilty I am of those things myself. Though I'm sure I don't really consider myself half as guilty of them as I actually am

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Eóin on May 18, 2010, 04:09 PM »

My pet annoyance: People who jump to a conclusion about why someone or something is the way they/it are, and then they proceed to go and judge or get annoyed over that reasoning even though it never existed outside of their own minds.

[edit] And my pet annoyance 2: Everyone suffering from Morton’s Demon.

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Living Room / Re: Apple won't take cash for iPads

« Last post by Eóin on May 18, 2010, 03:31 PM »

Is that even legal?

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Living Room / Re: Google Search

« Last post by Eóin on May 18, 2010, 11:38 AM »

Interesting daddydave, a search for LaTeX indeed did not have any material or fetish related results. No sign of StarED though, are you sure it existed online at some point Deozaan?

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Living Room / Re: Google Search

« Last post by Eóin on May 18, 2010, 08:02 AM »

If they already have a large database of searches indexed, why can't they just search all results of the case insensitive index for the matching case sensitive search?

-Deozaan (May 18, 2010, 12:17 AM)

If they designed for case-insensitive searches from the start then almost certainly they'd have done something like lowercase everything before it goes into the index as well as lowercase each search prior to checking the index.

It's very possibly that they can't offer a case sensitive search because there simply are no uppercase letters anywhere in their index.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Portal is FREE! (Until May 24th)

« Last post by Eóin on May 16, 2010, 08:07 AM »

I played portal as part of the Orange Box a couple of years ago, always considered it one of the greats.

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Living Room / Re: It's official: Steam is coming to Linux

« Last post by Eóin on May 15, 2010, 12:31 PM »

What about DirectX though?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by Eóin on May 13, 2010, 08:13 AM »

Actually I downloaded the font, that only happens at the smaller sizes. So I suspect it's a bug, possibly the font is only really intended for print.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by Eóin on May 12, 2010, 05:04 PM »

It's because like Python, F# uses indentation to control scope.

To be honest though, I'd take curly brackets over the alternatives any day

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by Eóin on May 12, 2010, 04:45 PM »

I often prefer to uses tabs rather than spaces for indenting, previously I had set VS to use a tab width equivalent to 10 spaces specifically because the space width in MS Reference Sans was so small.

However recently I've been toying with F# which requires 4 space indentation. So I fired up a font editor and changed the space width in MS Ref. Sans to match the width of a number. So now the font is, in my opinion, also perfect for '4 space' indentation.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by Eóin on May 11, 2010, 05:46 PM »

But the e's and c's are the same

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Living Room / Let me Google that for you

« Last post by Eóin on May 11, 2010, 07:55 AM »

Only came across this today

Typical annoying question: "I can't find Donation Coder!"
Sarky Answer: "Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/32gn9xr."

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General Software Discussion / Re: SRWare Iron 5.0.380 beta browser

« Last post by Eóin on May 08, 2010, 07:27 AM »

It's not blurred, it's 3d. 5E7SN I believe

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Living Room / Re: Apple instigates Police Raid over lost/stolen iPhone 4G

« Last post by Eóin on May 07, 2010, 11:33 AM »

Hear hear

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)

« Last post by Eóin on May 06, 2010, 03:31 AM »

Deozaan, I agree with you regarding the Netbook Remix edition. I wonder though if it's actually aimed at a different audience, specifically a more casual PC user?

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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs tells us how he really feels about Flash...

« Last post by Eóin on May 04, 2010, 10:14 AM »

I admit that the connection between the iPhone/iPad approach and say game consoles always niggled at the back of my mind. But I think there is a big enough difference here that such an argument won't work.

The precedence in the mobile phone and pocket PC markets was always one of openness, Apple have only been able to go against that because of their market dominance and so the case for stifling competition to me seems very real.

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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs tells us how he really feels about Flash...

« Last post by Eóin on May 04, 2010, 06:51 AM »

They will need to force Apple to allow downloading and installing from other sources in order to make any decision against Apple stick. THAT would be nice to see.

-Renegade (May 03, 2010, 11:29 PM)

Plus that would have the knock on effect that MS would be forced to do the same with their new Windows Phone 7. The conspiracy theorist in me mused that MS might have been copying Apples tactic just to force a case like this eventually.

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General Software Discussion / Re: XML editor

« Last post by Eóin on May 03, 2010, 04:43 PM »

For a free tool XML Marker is pretty cool.

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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs tells us how he really feels about Flash...

« Last post by Eóin on May 03, 2010, 01:14 PM »

Interesting follow up, Adobe confirms plans to move away from Apple

Adobe has posted a short response to the letter Apple boss Steve Jobs has written about Flash technology.

In it, Adobe said the legal terms Apple imposed on software developers had led it to shift its focus away from Apple.

[snip]

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that "when you resort to licensing language" to restrict development, it has "nothing to do with technology".

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The article is well worth the read.

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo repair/replace tcpip.sys ?

« Last post by Eóin on May 03, 2010, 08:49 AM »

You can use Replacer for easing the job of the actual replacement.

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Living Room / Re: Apple instigates Police Raid over lost/stolen iPhone 4G

« Last post by Eóin on May 01, 2010, 03:12 PM »

Actually the game of capitalism is very much at fault. It's a system which celebrates and rewards greed above all else.

Socialism, which as you correctly say has nothing to do with secret police, is a different and nicer game altogether.

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Living Room / Re: Apple instigates Police Raid over lost/stolen iPhone 4G

« Last post by Eóin on May 01, 2010, 01:34 PM »

Welcome to capitalism!