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by bonaldi 18y ago
"Pages links with Numbers now, which is huge" Publish & Subscribe returns! Now if only they could get the Finder as good as it was, we'll be up to System 7 standards shortly. (Snark aside, I really like the Pages update. Proper bibliogr
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by bonaldi 18y ago
"Following Windows 3.0 was Windows NT which was code versioned as Windows 3.1. Then came Windows 95" Wait, what about Windows 3.1 (ie the 16-bit one, the upgrade from 3.0)? Did they have two different products that were both Windows version
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by bonaldi 18y ago
It continues to baffle me that GMail is the only client* with all-in-a-page threaded email. Some desktop apps make a stab at it, but generally limit it to some kind of highlighting by subject line. Even if it didn't have the search, I'd sta
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by bonaldi 18y ago
By jove, that Wikipedia page is accurate and well-written!
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by bonaldi 18y ago
It isn't inflation, though I think we agree -- what I'm saying is that universal prosperity is an unattainable notion: price inflation would necessarily follow any universal prosperity, until there once again was differential prosperity.
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Tesco is expert at tailoring their ranges to exactly the sorts of local customers. Most big chains try to standardise ranges across the entire company in search of non-existent efficiencies. Tesco realises that what a shopper in the poor ar
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Universal prosperity just raises the prices across the board until some folks are "poor" again.
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by bonaldi 18y ago
My envy on this place is mighty (and all this from a bug tracker?), but is tempered by more annoyance at the Javascript nightmare that is Picasa. Why can't I middle-click to open pictures in new windows? Because Google Breaks The Browser. T
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Wire news is extravagantly expensive. The amount they could make from ads on feeds is going to be a pittance in comparison. Sure, once the big cash cow newspapers die they'll have to have a rethink, but there are going to be bigger problems
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by bonaldi 18y ago
"Granted AFP is not a newspaper" Ding ding ding. Newspapers, shaky though their business model is, make money from advertising, and only indirectly from the actual news. News wires, on the other hand, make all their money from the news itse
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Compared to the blundering idiocy that's rampant in the traditional media -- including attempting to sue people for linking to their stories! -- the NYTimes crew are operating at genius-level. It's really refreshing to see someone get it, e