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by batoure 13y ago
it speaks to the amazing power of marketing. People are always blown away when they find out that apple has less than a 10% market share and that their market share has actually gone down over the last 10 years.
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by batoure 13y ago
so case and point, metro is a pretty cool in function but lacks the apps to make it truly useful... So maybe the company trying to push it should make some. also you cited a link to a 404 page.... and additionally only someone not on window
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by batoure 13y ago
Nice... But lets look at the facts. 180 million ipads (of any generation, not all will be able to run this new version of office) currently in circulation. 110 million windows 8 PC's active as of sept 2013.... so yes I agree that micro
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Shyp wants you to trust them to box and ship your stuff(venturebeat.com)
1 points by batoure 13y ago|0 comments
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by batoure 13y ago
It is with a certain amount of amusement that I note that this version of office (which looks really cool) is significantly more optimized for touch than the version of office that I have for my MS Surface. That is some what disappointing.
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by batoure 13y ago
I am more comfortable with Facebook in the sense that I know what our relationship is so I try hard not to have one. The "Should have X" question is more of an acceptance stage, well I guess if they had to get bought I would rathe
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by batoure 13y ago
I think the "if they wanted to they would have argument" misses some nuance of how business actually works. The impression from the stories available was that this deal was inked very quickly. I think that people at Microsoft are
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by batoure 13y ago
I think that these types of products aren't worth being attached to in the long run. 1. they aren't real IDE's 2. they age as the technology rapidly evolves around them what their simplicity accounts for today won't capt
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by batoure 13y ago
I have felt like kinetic is a missing piece that could really power up something like the oculus. When facebook talks about wanting to do avatar based conferencing or things like that I feel like having a strong motion capture element would
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by batoure 13y ago
Maybe I don't know enough about the internal workings of Facebook but Xbox was the perfect storm of a number of different initiatives that were going on internally at Microsoft at the time. their existing supplychain around peripherals
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by batoure 13y ago
Fair comment, the xBox division has for the most part turned out to be a different beast from main-line Microsoft though.
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by batoure 13y ago
Yeah project spark looks pretty neat. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/games/project-spark I am sure this article will be followed by some offhand comment from Bill Gates the same as with Whats App. Maybe h
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Microsoft Should Have Acquired Oculus Rift, Not Facebook(forbes.com)
52 points by batoure 13y ago|53 comments
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by batoure 13y ago
I feel like 2014 will be the year of the big Kick Starter lawsuits where funders who feel betrayed by the projects they kicked in on turn angry. There have been number of movies funded that promised "downloadable versions" only to
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by batoure 13y ago
So I would like to have someone explain to me why I am wrong But I feel like this will penalize discussions that are happening off the front page. I spent a decent amount of time reading things that don't make it to the front page. I c
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by batoure 13y ago
I think to meet the legal test it would have to hit servers controlled by the USPS so that it would be considered "delivered by USPS" but yeah pretty much...
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by batoure 13y ago
they seem to be having a pretty easy time right now... there are no laws protecting you where google is concerned but there are many protecting you where the post office is concerned.
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by batoure 13y ago
So you might have to make some logical leaps to get to this one with me but. Would you be willing to pay to have a email address provided my the US Postal Service? Based on a reading of the law correspondence "delivered" by the po
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by batoure 13y ago
He better hope he doesn't have stock in Musk's companies already. If it turns out he owns a bunch of Tesla stock he could get accused of a pump and dump scheme. ;)
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by batoure 13y ago
I think you are confusing him with the other Larry who actually looks like and embodies Bond-villainesque http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/articl
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by batoure 13y ago
Segway... Thy time has come!!
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by batoure 13y ago
The thing that strikes me about arguments like these is that they are fundamentally one sided. Without even getting into the walking confirmation bias of using your self as an example, the author sets this up so that a simple proportion of
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by batoure 13y ago
A developer I worked with several companies ago told me the same type of thing about learning OO "Its not necessary just learn to code better". The fact of the matter is large code bases need to be supported over time by diverse g
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by batoure 13y ago
>Once you just accept that there's always a build step, life becomes so much easier. Sigh... but I don't want there to be a build step... :(
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by batoure 13y ago
This is very cool and much better insight than the forbes article... I think it can still be summed up as "they angry" being the reason they take these cases. >One of the key reasons the Supreme Court will take a case is when l
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by batoure 13y ago
I'm also pretty excited to see the next release. I have read about potentially including lazy loading in the base which personally would be really huge. Not having to integrate Require would be a pretty interesting to me if it happens
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by batoure 13y ago
>I made a github issue about it, and the devs acknowledged the issue, saying it was no longer part of angular 2.0 Ok so I read all both of your other articles and found them to be interesting. I was disappointed that there wasn't so
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by batoure 13y ago
The article begs an interesting question ignoring its link bating headline. Mainly is the supreme court over reaching when it comes to patent law and if so why. >The United States has an expert “patent court,”the United States Court of A
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by batoure 13y ago
Yes I agree, in fact I think it is particularly concerning that these op'eds are getting picked up by more recognized news outlets. He wrote an almost identical piece for the daily mail last week. http://www.dailymail.co.uk&
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by batoure 13y ago
>I installed it and found out there is no option for offline notebooks; It scares me the way this seems to be a statement on the future of Microsoft office. The windows 8.1 styled version of onenote functions the same way. It is also cri

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