corporalagumbo

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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
You're arguing against a strawman, not me. Try reading my other comments in this thread.
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
You might be right, I'm not arguing that Microsoft's performance and decisions have been 100% correct.
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
Hahaha sorry to hear that man. I feel for you.
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
Like I said in another comment, I'd never argue that Windows 8 right now is worth using. For most people it doesn't offer compelling improvements. Where I differ from most people is that I see a lot of promise in the future Windows 8 hints
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
Great. So what? Just because the current product isn't good right now doesn't mean that the direction it is heading in is bad. You might not like Windows 8 that much, and you probably shouldn't. I'd never argue that people should like it. W
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
I think you're missing the point here.
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
Maybe neither of us are privy to Microsoft's innermost strategic decision-making processes, so neither are qualified to comment on whether they've thought this through? That said, I would argue it is more efficient to expect that one of the
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
You misunderstand me. I don't think Microsoft does everything right. They seem to rush, and they seem to be loathe to admit that their products are anything less than amazing. Generally, their strategy seems to be "leap in with both feet th
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
You might be right - like I said, I think they will try to smooth the desktop-metro split, which was handled clumsily in Windows 8. Again, I think it's a start of a long transition for Microsoft (and the industry in general) and so I don't
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
U-turn? I don't think so. A company like Microsoft doesn't change its logo and completely redevelop its entire web presence so that for the first time ever its entire product line-up is consistent unless it has really, really carefully th
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
Germans love complaining. It's the national addiction.
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
Seems pretty reasonable...
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
That's an entirely different problem set from what seems to be happening in India. What you're describing in the US is a system where perceptions and punishment of superficially similar behaviour vary based on your position with society, na
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by corporalagumbo 13y ago
I definitely agree with you that the current socioeconomic system is suboptimal, and rife with perverse incentives and loopholes. It can be fixed though.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Thank you submitting your review, I enjoyed it! Also it is nice to see you responding to conflicting viewpoints.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Interesting to hear feedback on MOOCs. It made me consider that MOOCs are still very new and experimental. If the average quality and sophistication of of the university courses I've taken is representative of general standards worldwide, I
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
An iMac with vintage wood panelling?
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Resistance to technologies like Glass is pointless. They're going to happen, and a whole lot more to boot, like it or not. People running around demonising Google or Glass are just silly - Google is just one of the few global entities with
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
I use them. They're common on posters (both professional and amateur) where I live, and in print media.
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An Anti-iPad for India(technologyreview.com)
1 points by corporalagumbo 14y ago|0 comments
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
There are entire sub-disciplines within history devoted to this sort of stuff. Social history. Micro-history. You could try The World We Have Lost. Or The Cheese and the Worms. Among others. Really, the options are almost infinite.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Maybe it was true then too.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
>I have no opinion on Mexico and I have no basis for concurring with what confluence wrote. >you have written self-contradictory statements that are not strong rebuttals to the points I made. Maybe if you did indeed have some opinio
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Nice of you to say. I'm glad I didn't respond with equal snark - I was tempted...
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
P2/2 Okay. 4 is readily verifiable. 2* and 3 are the kind of claims that generally are best met by counter-argument from experience - i.e., a Mexican reader, or just a reader with relevant knowledge, reads this, and either sighs and nods th
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
P1/1 >The fact that you have not heard a better explanation is a terrible reason to accept another explanation. I think you're throwing my argument way out of proportion. I wasn't arguing that we should automatically accept everything t
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
This article reinforces my belief that there is just something very, very important and special about books. I'm going to have to think about exactly what this is, but it seems like books are the difference ultimately between people with di
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the word/s the author used in Spanish for illiteracy indicated this distinction, which has then been lost in translation. Maybe.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
Maybe it's true.
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by corporalagumbo 14y ago
I read The Shallows by Nicholas Carr a while ago. I thought it was perhaps a bit alarmist. Comments like yours make me think that, if people are really capable of so blithely discounting the value of focussed, solitary long-form reading, ma

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