Elepsis

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by Elepsis 13y ago
Given that 1 Ruble is worth about $0.03 at current exchange rates, your 2 cents are actually more like 6 cents.
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by Elepsis 13y ago
Read up on the "most favored nation" clause Apple demanded from the publishers.
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by Elepsis 13y ago
This article is written confusingly, but he's actually quoting some other person in that bit of text. He then proceeds to reply.
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by Elepsis 13y ago
"Knowingly" seems to be the key word here: if you surveyed most Americans (or consumers elsewhere, for that matter) on how many of them know the country of origin for most brands, the results would be very hit or miss. I don't think too man
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by Elepsis 14y ago
At first glance, this list is a bit of a joke. Just on the first page you see Acco Brands ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACCO_Brands ) and Agere Systems ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agere_Systems ), which shows that not even the most rudi
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by Elepsis 14y ago
From the (much better) Next Web article which I wish had been linked instead: Microsoft has persisted in trying to work out a compromise with Apple, but has thus far failed to come to an agreement. The company offered to remove all subscri
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by Elepsis 14y ago
Still overwhelmingly true with a few buildings that are exceptions.
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by Elepsis 14y ago
... Except that's wrong. It's not fair use to photocopy an entire book and it never has been. Let's not lose sight of the actual laws in our blind rage against DRM.
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by Elepsis 14y ago
This is one of the most thoroughly researched and tested facets of Office. I assure you that you're wrong on the discoverability of Office features for the average user: it went up by leaps and bounds with the ribbon, and in fact the entire
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by Elepsis 14y ago
You're definitely right on that. However, if your manager isn't willing or able to effectively argue for your team members, it doesn't matter what the review system is: you'll still get screwed.
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by Elepsis 14y ago
The article is completely wrong on this point. In 99% of cases, people are stacked in a sufficiently large group that everyone on your immediate team could hypothetically get a great review.
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by Elepsis 14y ago
Wasn't this one of the basic premises of Notifo? As far as I recall, they never did quite figure out the business model, though.
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by Elepsis 14y ago
The fact that the cover has an accelerometer shouldn't be interpreted to assume that the tablet doesn't.
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by Elepsis 14y ago
You realize Sony is one of the top 10 largest manufacturers of PCs running Windows, right?
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by Elepsis 14y ago
Microsoft runs a BizSpark program that, for all intents and purposes, gives startups access to most Microsoft software for free. http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
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by Elepsis 14y ago
How about "it's just not out yet"? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/20/connecting-you...
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by Elepsis 14y ago
It's worth pointing out that for a _large_ number of users, the primary copy/paste flow from a Word document is into another Office application (quite often Outlook). The end result is that you end up with two common flows: * The program I'
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by Elepsis 15y ago
I think this is another in a long series of articles that mistakes the press coverage for the vision. When journalists say "we're x for y" that's their way of conveying the information in a way that makes sense to us , by relating it to so
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by Elepsis 15y ago
This strikes me as utterly implausible, since the most likely way to get one of these is to get a new car , something that seems to happen on about a 10-year cycle based on the latest data.
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by Elepsis 15y ago
It was Target and the New York Times Magazine, for what it's worth. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
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by Elepsis 15y ago
He did say that were it up to him he'd build it in Hawaii, which would if anything have the opposite set of problems.
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by Elepsis 15y ago
Are you suggesting that Apple would ignore a whole technology because it's hard to keep the fact they're working on it secret? Surely you're joking.
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by Elepsis 15y ago
Styles were available well before 2007. But hardly anyone knew about or used them until the arrival of the ribbon.
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by Elepsis 15y ago
Why do you assume that the Windows Store won't include desktop applications?
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by Elepsis 15y ago
I think you're missing the point by taking the 100-year number literally. Don't compare the Korea of today to Pittsburgh in 1912. Rather, note the difference between Pittsburgh in 1912 and Korea in 1912, and observe that in many ways the U.
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by Elepsis 15y ago
It turns out that "cheap" software at the scale where you're rolling it out for thousands of employees, plus maintenance contracts, plus consulting fees, plus servers needed to manage all those PCs, plus... still add up to be a remarkably l
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by Elepsis 15y ago
Amazon is undoubtedly a very successful and smart company, but this is just an overwhelming fluff piece. Just one example: Take AWS for instance. The business had no right to succeed. It violated all sorts of textbook rules about brand el
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by Elepsis 15y ago
Microsoft's Live ID absolutely supports this when signing up for, among other things, Hotmail accounts, Messenger accounts, etc. It follows the same basic process as Yahoo, including the $0.50 charge that's partially donated to charity.
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by Elepsis 15y ago
Perhaps this is too obvious, but this would be killer if it could get integration with Square.
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by Elepsis 15y ago
Windows 7 actually supports explicit vertical maximization; dragging the top of a window to the top of the screen will maximize the app vertically but leave its width unchanged.

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