Elepsis

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by Elepsis 17y ago
Ugh, I upvoted you by accident when I intended to downvote. What evidence do you have of that?
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I think this submission gets it entirely backwards. Netscape the company did quite okay for itself -- its life ended with a pretty substantial acquisition by AOL (which promptly proceeded to kill it...) The browser, on the other hand, was k
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by Elepsis 17y ago
What in the world makes you think Microsoft lets anyone put backdoors into their software?
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by Elepsis 17y ago
That's why your slides should be supporting your talk. The deck shouldn't be comprehensive -- your presentation of it should be. And if "the version put up afterwards may contain all the words"--if that's all that it takes to finish off t
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by Elepsis 17y ago
This has always struck me as a combination of the worst of both worlds. By definition, if you're just omitting words in your slides that means you're coming close to reading them. And at the same time, you've made certain that your slides a
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by Elepsis 17y ago
While it's easy and fun to assume malice behind everything Microsoft does, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Saying that this news (which should be spread since it can lead to quite unpleasant problems) is being promoted by Microsoft fan
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by Elepsis 17y ago
If it's weeks-old news, doesn't that only make it worse that Apple still hasn't bothered to fix it?
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by Elepsis 17y ago
While this is true in principle, this is a bit of a Google talking point that has more PR cachet than practical implications. Giving users the ability to make backups of their data certainly does not mean they will actually do so. How many
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I hate to be "that guy," but can a moderator please make the title read "Bill to give the government..."? I keep reading this title and thinking we can now charge the government for internet downtime.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I suspect people underestimate how successful Microsoft and Apple have been with their competitive services.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
You can pop the web app out of the SkyDrive interface, and the ribbon is minimize-able just like in Office.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I think it's interesting to see people's reactions here -- a good dose of "oh no Intuit" paranoia. But honestly, did anyone not see this acquisition coming? I was expecting them to have to pay more, honestly, but I think it was fairly appar
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by Elepsis 17y ago
As a native Russian speaker and someone who reads printed Russian without a problem, I still struggle to read Russian cursive reliably. It's something that takes practice and occasionally even the ability to infer what the word ought to be.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
My experience has been that journalists take the liberty of fixing "makes you sound stupid" errors like that in most cases -- sometimes they'll double check, but often times they will fix that sort of word choice issue and move on. Indeed,
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Sigh. Yet another person who seems to entirely misunderstand the concept of astroturfing. Hint: If you know a person is a Microsoft employee (as I am, FYI), it's not astroturfing. It's not that hard, kids.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
You are living in the past on several of these issues. For one, Sony's players have supported mp3 for at least the past 3 years and possibly longer. Second, options like Microsoft's Zune Pass let you do both: paying $15/month gets you acces
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by Elepsis 17y ago
It's interesting how "typically American" the Chicago logo is. It actually looks rather like a mix between the Los Angeles and Salt Lake City logos. And in case anyone is curious, historical Summer Olympics logos: http://www.sportslogos.ne
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Innovation: The lessons of Microsoft Bob(techflash.com)
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The article linked to at the end ( http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/16/our_gim... ), interestingly, is complaining about a group of young people who are asking Congress for this list of "youth bailouts": Among other things
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I'm not so sure this logic makes sense -- in fact I think it might be entirely backwards. I've always been under the impression that though you pay a penalty for freezing things the first time you put them in, thereafter a full refrigerat
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Mr. Dettman, who was a business analyst and earned just over $50,000 after nearly 20 years with Pratt Ouch. I mean, I realize that Pratt & Whitney is not exactly a high-growth company, but if after 20 years with one company you haven'
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Not sure what the deal with that link is, but here's the actual source (with no weird footer): http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2009/nt-2009-08-10-nobody-ca...
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I can't figure out if you didn't read the article or just totally missed the point. He isn't talking about coming to a site like HN and posting a "hey, take a look at my new webapp" thread, where people want to give you feedback and try out
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by Elepsis 17y ago
If Walmart chooses to not sell certain CDs that I want to play in my car, I can go across the street to Best Buy, or online, and buy them there. If Amazon chooses to not sell certain software I can go to the manufacturer's site and buy and
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I would rather trust the journalist (or editor or author) of the piece to come up with his or her own headlines. Even if the headline is "spintastic" -- which I don't see in this case -- presumably it accurately reflects the article. That's
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Actual headline: "Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest" From the guidelines: "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it." What part of the article said an
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by Elepsis 17y ago
This is an argument that gets rolled out every time Microsoft releases a new OS or version of Office. But Apple seems to get a free pass. Why bother updating to Snow Leopard? Arguably OS X did everything on your list adequately five years a
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Note that this isn't just "someone who works at Microsoft." Sinofsky is the president of the Windows division: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ssinofsky/
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by Elepsis 17y ago
When email was first becoming popular, most people didn't know they wanted to transfer a document without using paper. And in fact when they GOT a document in an email, much of the time they wound up printing it out. But even then your ba
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by Elepsis 17y ago
There are a number of cooperative health insurance companies. Group Health in Seattle is one: http://www.ghc.org/about_gh/index.jhtml

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