captain-m

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by captain-m 18y ago
I like Seth Godin's take on the ads: "[...] Vista and PowerPoint and Microsoft's other core non-game products are largely devoid of personality and are optimized to be sold to organizations that prefer it that way. Microsoft can change this
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by captain-m 18y ago
More like; Unless you restrict the use of a piece of software to a highly marketed and desired piece of hardware.
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What We Need Is A Digital Bill Of Rights(techcrunch.com)
1 points by captain-m 18y ago|0 comments
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by captain-m 18y ago
In this case doing better than the competition doesn't mean doing well. It doesn't even mean acceptable. I don't use any apple products and I don't really care either way, but saying that they're better than the competition doesn't mean an
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by captain-m 18y ago
"She gets me going on purpose just so she can see my arms waving and the vein pop out of my head while I'm trying to describe this stuff. I don't think she really pays all that much attention to what I'm actually saying." My friends do this
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by captain-m 18y ago
It always makes me smile when I get one of these on my Arch box. Especially when it claims to have found a critical virus in C:\Program Files\....
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by captain-m 18y ago
Canonical doesn't, gnome does. http://usability.gnome.org/
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by captain-m 18y ago
I agree. In a lot of cases it's a mistake to cater to inexperienced users by making your GUI 'intuitive'. The bulk of your users are intermediates and power users. A user interface should cater to those people and gently nudge beginners in
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by captain-m 18y ago
I guess it's because almost every windows user is familiar with the button in the lower left corner nowadays. It's been that way for almost 13 years now.
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by captain-m 18y ago
Cuil does have some things going for it though. They have a great privacy policy and the category function seems to be working quite well. Hopefully the search results will improve over time. I'd love to see a Google competitor.
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by captain-m 18y ago
Why not? The writing is pretty good and I always get a chuckle out of them. It's worth my ten minutes a day.
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by captain-m 18y ago
Exactly. Another factor when you subscribe to a lot of feeds is overlap. I subscribe to all sites I find interesting so more often than not the articles I probably wouldn't want to miss show up on multiple sites. This way I can hit 'Mark al
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by captain-m 18y ago
If growth isn't a concern why not force people to wait a certain amount of time after signing up before they're allowed to post? That way new users can get a feel for the community before they start posting and you only get users with a rea
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by captain-m 18y ago
Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and billiards and billiards.
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by captain-m 18y ago
I agree that Stallman's stab at the gates foundation is cheap and uncalled for. However, if you're going to write an article accusing someone else of FUD you'd better make sure you're not guilty of it yourself. >"Is Richard Stallman ser
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by captain-m 18y ago
Why? Isn't a two way street between browser teams and web developers a good thing?
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by captain-m 18y ago
"I think the current copyright situation lets citizens do pretty much whatever they want" Share a song with some friends, create a mashup of two cool songs, use some music in a short film they've made, make a collage of different drawings,