Encosia

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by Encosia 16y ago
ajax.googleapis.com is being referenced on so many sites now that many, if not most, visitors will have the DNS resolution cached.
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by Encosia 16y ago
The problem isn't the logisitics of paying the balance on time. The problem is how easy it is to get into a situation where you get (even slightly) behind the ball. I don't want to argue with you about it here. This isn't the right place a
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by Encosia 16y ago
Services like AirBnB seem interesting, but I'm curious if they pay all the same taxes that hotels do. If hotels are paying to subsidize things like stadiums, but AirBnB can get away with avoiding that, I can see how the hotels would see tha
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by Encosia 16y ago
I think what borisk is pointing out is that LINQ isn't an ORM. It's a language feature. You're thinking of LINQ to SQL, specifically.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Everyone's going to have different favorite editors; nothing wrong with that. However, the free version of Visual Studio 2010 has both the features you cited. (and for what it's worth, I wasn't the one who downvoted your comment)
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by Encosia 16y ago
Debt is a useful tool if you use it to buy something with a positive net present value. Revolving debt is so very rarely used for that though. I can't count the number of smart, successful people I've personally seen hit a minor bump in th
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by Encosia 16y ago
"No real downside" is only true if you have perfect discipline and no bad luck. If that were very common, credit wouldn't be such a phenomenally profitable industry. Betting on credit is like betting against the house in Vegas.
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by Encosia 16y ago
The significant role of luck shouldn't be ignored in a piece like this. Especially in light of our diminishing attention to an expanding volume of voices, getting noticed can be tough even when you're doing all the "right" things.
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by Encosia 16y ago
This. The recent popularity of this topic is a bit FUDish. If it comes to the point that an administration would willingly shut down the Internet, whatever precipitated that scenario would be much worse than the Internet shutting down.
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by Encosia 16y ago
For those purposes, Visual Studio is free: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Web/
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by Encosia 16y ago
I've still got an Amiga 3000 in a drawer around here somewhere that was working the last time I turned it on. It was the last interesting computer I used as my primary machine, before I starting buying PCs. They were definitely ahead of
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by Encosia 16y ago
Right, but it isn't an ASPX page. It just has a couple links to ASPX pages on another site/domain.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes that look like a .NET app to you? The cross-domain links to ASPX pages or something else? Not disagreeing, just interested.
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by Encosia 16y ago
Though I had seriously considered it, I decided not to return it (and do worry that I may yet regret that decision). I use my phone for voice calls infrequently, so the speed upgrade, better camera, and amazing display outweigh the receptio
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by Encosia 16y ago
The "real-world" performance is only better if you don't hold it in your left hand. I can't hear very well out of my right ear, so I've always used my left hand to hold phones to my left ear. I never had any trouble with my 3GS, but my i
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by Encosia 16y ago
I'm surprised that anyone considers this explanation reasonable. The real problem people are seeing with the iPhone 4 is measured in throttled bandwidth and dropped calls, not bars of signal. Using a speed test app, I measure 2-2.3mbs 3G d
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by Encosia 16y ago
The WiFi iPad is great. I don't think it's real target audience is even likely to use it away from WiFi often. It would be interesting to know what percentage of iPad sales are 3G vs. WiFi only.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I can completely, 100% pause the progress of the "Xtreme Speedtest" app with very light pressure applied by two fingers. A little over 2,200kbs untouched. 0kbs when lightly holding it with two fingers. I'm starting with 5 bars reception her
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by Encosia 16y ago
Indirectly, yes. SharePoint integrates impressively well with Word and Excel, for version control and as a data store. Using Office with SharePoint definitely adds value in ways that Office replacements don't currently. In that way, ShareP
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by Encosia 16y ago
"Let's take Office as an example. Does anyone seriously think that it will still enjoy network effects five years from now?" Absolutely. Office isn't going anywhere in most business settings. If anything, the last two Office and SharePoint
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by Encosia 16y ago
"But as soon as some guys work out how to operate despite it" How would they do that?
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by Encosia 16y ago
What is it called?
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by Encosia 16y ago
Like probably most of you, I need an Internet connection to do my legitimate work. Though some of these productivity guards do allow granular control of their blocking, it's too much work to keep them in sync with my changing projects and r
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by Encosia 16y ago
The winner was obvious, viewing that on my iPad.
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by Encosia 16y ago
I'm far from an expert on this topic, but isn't the stock price (and consequently the market cap) non-trivially influenced by the fact that MSFT pays dividends where APPL and GOOG don't?
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by Encosia 16y ago
I did. There were a couple missing slide images, but I don't think that was Flash-related. Here's a slide near the end, for example: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/360937/Mobile%20Photo%20Jun%207%2C%2...
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by Encosia 16y ago
As long as the debt is payable only in dollars and dollars are available only through fractional reserve banking, it's impossible to ever truly reduce the debt owed to the Fed through any means other than default. We can shift it around (a
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by Encosia 16y ago
This is what I get on my iPad (which is how I had already happened to view it before coming here to look at the comments): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/360937/Slideshare-iPad.jpg Works pretty well.
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by Encosia 16y ago
On the other hand, what if mobile data is more like "unlimited" web hosting than dial-up or long distance?
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by Encosia 16y ago
The XBox division finally started turning a profit mid-2008 (to the tune of 9 figures). The division may still be in the red overall though, as many years as it was losing money.

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