bornhuetter

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by bornhuetter 13y ago
It's the same problem with Office. MS are using Office to help keep big business on a full MS stack - Windows, Sharepoint, Windows Server etc. And it's business that really matters to Microsoft. If Office were to be split off,
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
It's available on Kindle and Nook, but I didn't see a completely DRM free option. Kindle DRM doesn't bother me that much personally because I can view the books on every device I own, and on the web.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Two main reasons: 1. If people could develop for it on other platforms it would significantly increase the number of people able to write iOS apps globally, particularly people from lower socio-economic groups. In the short term it doesn&#
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Have you got any examples of this? There are plenty of terrible ideas on /r/ideasfortheadmins, but I don't remember seeing Admins agree with them very often.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Lol, ok I'll take you up on that. 1. You must have read a lot of books on the topic over the last few months/years. What are your top (5?) books to recommend to a budding entrepreneur (while we are waiting for yours to come out)?
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I was about to ask you a couple of questions about the book, but details are on your website. For the lazy - http://withouttheirpermission.com/
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
It does do well, and for personal use it's fine (far better than Open Office ever was), but it's just not on the same level as MS Office. When you start getting into document tracking or Macros things start to break down, and the
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Office would do well without the rest of Microsoft (in fact possibly even better), but I'm not sure the rest of Microsoft would do well without Office. Office is a huge stable cash-cow that allows Microsoft to experiment on things lik
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> Pages handles MS Word formats well Does it? The people that I've known to try this have all complained to me about problems. Not sure if this is a compatibility issue or Pages itself (and not sure if it's just my small samp
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
As much as I'd love to live in a Free Software world, I'm happy to just take steps toward it by using proprietary software on top of a Free operating system. The ability to run the OS on any hardware I want (within reason), swap
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I don't think Apple would have to provide support for running it in a VM. How much damage do you think it would do to their reputation if people were complaining that running it in a VM was unreliable? 95%+ users wouldn't care (
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I'd love it if that were true, but I'm not sure how much has really changed. They have always allowed Windows to run in a VM on Linux - it's just the special free VM packages that didn't run on Linux before. They have al
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Yes, that is true. Although Microsoft are trying to get consumers on to Office 365 too - they got rid of their 3 computer home license to push the Office 365 home package which runs on 5 devices. Personally I don't think that's
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
There isn't. Stuff gets posted all the time with [year] in the title; if it's interesting it gets upvoted.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
If only Microsoft released Office for Linux and Apple let OSX run (in a VM or otherwise) on non-Apple hardware the world would be a much better place.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
That's one of the reasons why companies love them. People subscribe for a few months, stop using it as much but forget or don't bother to unsubscribe. The entire gym industry is based on this principle.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Why is it rediculous that I want to be able to program for different plaforms from the same machine? If there were any technical reason for it I would understand, but this is just erecting artificial barriers out of greed.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> if you want to make the best product possible, wouldn't you make a single piece of hardware and software made specifically for it and take it to perfection? No, that is exactly what I wouldn't do. Apple are a rare exception
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> You realize that when you get an osx license it says it is only valid when run on apple hardware right? Yes, that is exactly my point. > This isn't that big of a deal It's a big deal to me. It's the only operating sy
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Yes, 100% seriously. They said that you can't watch the stream on non-Apple hardware, and it turns out that is completely untrue. Why is it in any way controversial for me to point this out?
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> Its no different than building windows 8 mobile apps in windows. I'm pretty sure you can do that on other operating systems. > As for gone out of their way to prevent you from running it in a vm, they equally have no real incen
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Yes, well it turns out that Apple lied, and you can in fact watch the stream on non-Apple hardware.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> Visual Studio is not on anything but Microsoft platforms That's a specific piece of software. You can write programs for Windows, Windows Phone, Linux, Android, and even OS X in Linux, but not iOS. Jetbrains have a suite of IDEs
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
That comment was referring to their attitude in general.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I believe that the problem with .net etc is that the development is done on Windows machines to run on Windows machines. iOS is different. I believe that Apple have gone out of their way to stop people from developing iOS programs on othe
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
> you need to have a Mac to develop iPhone or OS X apps This backs up my previous point. Why can't I develop iOS apps on Linux?
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
It's needlessly polarizing, though. Like they never learned anything from the Lemmings commercial.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I don't own or use anything that is allowed to view this, but I would still like to. I really wish Apple would change their attitude toward non-Apple users.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I'm not sure that YouTube would be the best choice due to the Google connection, but I do wish they would let people on non-Apple hardware watch. It just furthers my view of them as overly insular and disdainful of Windows/Linux
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
"Say sorry, send the client their data, recommend alternatives." That's exactly what Google do, and they get ripped to shreds.

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