ThoAppelsin

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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
I did not use my account for any commercial purposes, and I don't have much to say for the rest, read them like "you are a poor customer, who won't be able to afford, and should not afford a lawyer to recover your $100-300 lo
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
Sending/receiving emails from it on Hotmail. As a cloud storage to my files on OneDrive. To prepare documents, tables, presentations on Office. To listen to music when there was Groove. Logging into my two Windows 10 computers. To purc
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
This account had been my oldest digital property, which I had been using for probably over 10 years now. I haven't been using it any differently than before, so now I am left absolutely clueless with a sizeable digital property of mine
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Ask HN: My Microsoft account has been suspended by Microsoft without details
311 points by ThoAppelsin 8y ago|225 comments
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure everyone knows it's edited by strangers on the internet I can assure you that there are at least some who are unaware that even they can edit a Wikipedia article. My housemate (a computer engineering student
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
... which pretty much catches nobody's attention unfortunately. If Wikipedia does have the goodwill, then something has to be made to bring the average user's perception of trustworthiness down to the level of how much trustworthy
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
The important difference here is that this platform claims to be an encyclopedia, and any random vandal may not simply make an edit on an article of the conventional encyclopedia. It would only be natural for us to take this resource as no
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
You can see the "File usage on other wikis" section to see Wikipedia pages in which any commons file is being used. I see a list of couple pages for the particular resource linked there, and verified that the resource exists in th
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
While this statistically might be true, I believe that this is completely dependent on one's personality. Having extra chances to remedy a trouble (which, as can be seen from the article, may occur due to reasons completely out of hand
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
You are not alone. I don't just hope, but more like depend on it. I probably will fall back to an old-style phone if my Lumia 950 dies out. It will be hard for me to get used to the underutilized screen estate iOS and Android offers.
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
Finally a childhood dream of the many can be established through this alleged innovation: Learning math, physics, etc. through simple injection, information pills, etc.
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Ubuntu Linux is coming to Windows 10 on ARM(neowin.net)
4 points by ThoAppelsin 8y ago|0 comments
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
For Windows users, I strongly recommend trying this beauty: https://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/screenshots/ It has numerous features for customization, such as specification for characters to be used in the art, fon
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
You should care. It is your responsibility to care from the point on when you've decided to take a part in these events. You shouldn't have initiated with them if you wanted to be so careless.
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
It seems like she meant to say that it is wrong not to give that credit, i.e. it is not just a good practice, not only a moral obligation that you become only immoral for not complying, but a requirement, a must that if you do not do it,
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
I can second to waking up with the sun part and even more. I have been waking up like that for over 4 years now, started after I have realized my brain is capable of even waking up 3 minutes before my alarm rings, almost consistently. Witho
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
> And before anyone brings up the straw man of "he profited"... on 25c per disc? Sorry, I could not find any resource where it says that he was profiting 25c per disc. I have found some others stating that he would be covering
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
> If I managed to find someone to pay to get a copy of your post, would that mean you'd lose money? Indeed, I would be losing a non-negative amount (call it X) of money that I could have earned, if you were to commit that crime. You
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
Excuse me for choosing the word robbery . I was not aware that it meant something different than theft . Did not realize that the different words for stealing implied different contexts. I have edited my comment accordingly.
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
> No one has been deprived of their property. On the contrary, money is a means to property, and Microsoft loses $3.5 (minus the production cost) for each copy Eric sells to his buyers, since otherwise Microsoft would be the one earning
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
It is not useful to discuss about the law on a forum on the internet, at least not yet. Still... Counterfeiting is an act that is similar to theft , apparent from the fact that this guy has succeeded in making money from what Microsoft gave
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
> (Surprised this has taken so long; the speech recognition libraries have been in .NET since 2014.) Dictation already was available on Windows 10, although not so streamlined. In Windows, there are various forms of on-screen keyboards a
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
This is a great insight, thanks! I wonder if there also is a place we can view the activation events of an extension from within VS code. If there isn't, I guess I can always find that info out from the hopefully available repository o
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
How is it baiting when it perfectly summarizes the whole news, with no misguidance, no unbased speculations? "Java SE 8 business users must buy a license from January next year" is not a luringly reworded way that (mis)guides the
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
Exactly. It is almost a mis-feature for bringing fake sense of security to their users, since receivers actually can very well take a screenshot or even a photograph.
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
> These companies are just as much to blame, if not more, than Google itself. However, exact same thing applies for Facebook and all the likes. If a website is entirely self-contained, nobody other than your ISP or your browser/OS m
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Surface Phone speculation spurred by new phone APIs in Windows(arstechnica.com)
12 points by ThoAppelsin 8y ago|1 comments
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
This comment implies that the conventional cinema screen setup is more preferable over a TV screen when it comes to watching movies, and I have to agree. Maybe not for other content, but staring against any more powerful illuminating surfac
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
> [...] which Samsung estimates could display roughly 88 foot-lamberts. Without WA and with more of the article, 88 / 14 approximates 6.29.
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
Unless system vendors discriminate other browsers from their own browser in terms of the said restrictions, I would say that it is fair game. Following your example, if Microsoft were to require browsers use UWP framework to utilize the bio

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