Elepsis

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by Elepsis 17y ago
Sure: Microsoft with Windows Live and Bing. Microsoft knows who my friends are (Messenger/profile), what I'm saying to them (Messenger), where I'm going (Bing Maps), what I'm writing (Office Live), and what I'm looking for (Bing). Granted O
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by Elepsis 17y ago
And how is this different from what you can do with Microsoft software and services today?
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by Elepsis 17y ago
My Palm Pre, much as I like it, takes close to a minute to boot up.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Then he will grow up and start having to do real work. Unless he's a programmer, that (still) pretty much means Windows or Mac OS.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I have tried RTM on and off, but I usually end up back at this method as well (though I use x for completed tasks). Add sync with something like Windows Live Sync, SugarSync or Dropbox and it's portable enough, too.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Also known in startup circles as "release early and iterate"?
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I don't know if there's proof of whether they are available because of competitive pressures from the open source stack or from Oracle, IBM, etc., but I think we can all agree that competition is a good thing in general. Still, my point is
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Everything you mentioned but Vista is available in a free version precisely for things like the aforementioned weekend projects. And I don't think that it's any more fair (for 99% of users) to include buying an OS in "prerequisites for fun
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by Elepsis 17y ago
If you buy Windows and have trouble installing it (which, by the way, is far less likely in my experience than with most Linux installs -- although things are getting better on that front, too), there's a phone number I/my grandma can call
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by Elepsis 17y ago
One can only assume so, because that's the only way it is correct. Not sure why it isn't just written out to remove the awkwardness.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Has anyone actually tried this out? I'd be very curious to see how people like it and how it compares to MT in general, as well as to WordPress.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
The different versions cost different amounts of money. What do you mean by one configurable version? How would people buy it?
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by Elepsis 17y ago
The last time I checked, DB2 Express had some pretty substantial restrictions on a license agreement, and both Microsoft and Oracle provide free versions of their DBs with similar restrictions. I don't see a compelling reason for a business
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by Elepsis 17y ago
One of the biggest advantages of Twitter in my experience has been using it as a conduit for customer service. When I had an issue with checking in at a Candlewood Suites, I tweeted about it and got a response from parent company IHG. Resul
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I think you and I have very different definitions of clip art. I like the photos, personally.
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Top Indian CEO: Most American Grads Are 'Unemployable'(informationweek.com)
101 points by Elepsis 17y ago|95 comments
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by Elepsis 17y ago
What is wrong with growing quickly? The incremental size of an additional row like you are describing is so small that you'd need thousands of users before you even noticed the disk space usage.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
How about the lack of the insert key?
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I hope there is a very hot place in hell for whomever came up with the idea of "slideshows" for web content.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
With all due respect, what are 99 percent of people gaining from a book on, say, convex optimization? Yes, these are great choices if you're looking to become an expert on, say, physics. But not everyone is a physicist, nor does everyone ne
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by Elepsis 17y ago
So the author is complaining that Microsoft is restricting a contest designed to get users to download IE8 to, uh, users of IE8? If they _didn't_ do that, why would they run a contest at all? Would having a Firefox user win the contest just
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by Elepsis 17y ago
What is the "business reason" for KDE's coupling of KHTML thoroughly into its shell? Why do we assume that such a decision would be made only for business reasons?
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by Elepsis 17y ago
This article (and the comments on it here) is a pretty classic illustration of the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation Microsoft (and any other company that at least attempts to preserve backwards compatibility) inevitably end
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by Elepsis 17y ago
You completely missed his point. He's saying because you didn't have eighty bajillion websites, fancy games, and Facebook to waste your time on, kids who were just playing around on a computer were much more likely to start learning somethi
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by Elepsis 17y ago
For those of you who have clearly not used live.com in the past year and a half they've been doing this, there is no "nebula obsession" -- the photo changes daily along with the facts.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I graduated from Georgia Tech's CS program in December, so I can hopefully give you a few useful pointers. First of all, while GT is definitely your top (and really only) choice in the state for any of those three departments, you don't nec
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by Elepsis 17y ago
Have you tried OneNote? It's still not great for math, but for a lot of note-taking applications it's excellent - particularly in tacking things wherever you please.
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by Elepsis 17y ago
An interesting contrast to In-N-Out is Five Guys ( http://www.fiveguys.com ), originally a DC-area regional chain. They're only 20-something years old, but they're opening new locations on seemingly a near-weekly basis. It's arguable how mu
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by Elepsis 17y ago
I totally agree with you on the benefits, but you must admit that from a sheer ugliness perspective AA has by far the worst site out of the "old school" carriers. Delta (my usual airline of choice), United, USAirways, and even Continental h
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by Elepsis 17y ago
With all due respect, if she's not working, _why the hell not_? She has custody of her children. That doesn't mean the man in the marriage should be stuck paying her total living expenses.

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