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by easyfrag 16y ago
I'm not sure about Sony's Vaio line but a lot of computing/electronic manufacturers will build specific models for various chain stores, not sure why they do this but I guess it's to head off comparison shopping by consumers. Apple, of cour
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by easyfrag 16y ago
I have always referred to them as "Spin Factories", they provide the content that are used in PR and media to spin issues in a manner that is favorable to the sponsor(s).
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by easyfrag 16y ago
My problem with /. was that the stories were not voted in on by the community but rather by a select few curators who added editorial content in the headlines. And they're still using the Bill Gates Borg icon?
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by easyfrag 16y ago
I often thought it was Schmidt who needed the supervision, if only when speaking about privacy concerns.
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by easyfrag 16y ago
so we're back to plugins, what was the point of the <video> tag again?
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by easyfrag 16y ago
I suspected the search results I was getting over the past few months were of a lesser quality but thought it was just an aberration.
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by easyfrag 16y ago
Has anyone written a good post-mortem of the Digg v4 debacle yet? An old fashioned expose built on interviews with the people involved, I reckon there's a lot of lessons around building and maintaining a community in there. These "Top X rea
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by easyfrag 16y ago
This is not a problem for the customers who just want their door open.
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by easyfrag 16y ago
It's probably because Apple sees itself as a luxury brand and thus its products are deserving of engraving. This is all about product positioning, even if you don't avail of the engraving, the fact that it is offered tells you something abo
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by easyfrag 16y ago
I really think the iPad threw a small monkey-wrench into Google's plans for both Android and Chrome OS. When they were both announced there was a clear delineation between mobile OS and Desktop OS; the iPad has blurred the line somewhat th
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Did Google Arm Its Own Enemies With Android?(blogs.hbr.org)
29 points by easyfrag 16y ago|24 comments
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by easyfrag 16y ago
Just as interesting to me is how the maple leaf on the vehicle came to signal high quality, a notion that then went viral to the point that people tattoo themselves with it.
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by easyfrag 16y ago
What a potentially interesting feature: switching countries to see what the same tax amount (converted to local currency) buys in other countries
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by easyfrag 16y ago
Personally for me as a user it's because I don't trust Facebook. I also think it is a bad idea to outsource your authentication mechanism to a single private entity. What happens if your user deletes their account? What if Facebook thinks y
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by easyfrag 16y ago
I agree with this, I've worked in health care and programmers have nothing on physicians when it comes to arrogance. I don't know any programmers who would coach a physician on the proper way to design a course of treatment...
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by easyfrag 16y ago
I think we need a better definition of innovation, how many releases of systems per period doesn't really cut it. Is a slightly faster clock cycle innovative?
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by easyfrag 16y ago
but it does bring a machine to its knees compared to the Microsoft Security Essentials product
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by easyfrag 16y ago
Heard an episode of CBC Radio's Ideas show on Hydrogen that had this fascinating aside (I'm paraphrasing): During the 1970's oil shock buildings in Toronto turned out their lights to save energy, however many buildings had electricity from
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by easyfrag 16y ago
This is Apple, no cut&paste on the original iPhone, no USB on iPad. I'm guessing the user experience wasn't what they wanted either with the performance of the playback, or with the speed of the download/streaming of 1080p from the stor
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by easyfrag 16y ago
Search is one thing but what I'm uncomfortable with is how much of my personal stuff is stored on Google, stuff like mail, rss feeds (and the current read/unread state), calendars, docs, etc. I was a bit uncomfortable before and the Buzz fi
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by easyfrag 16y ago
I totally agree and would add SharePoint as a potential victim. Maybe Google was the only company that could invent Wave but it was definitely the wrong company to market and sell it. Not sure if the pieces of wave that are open-source are
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by easyfrag 16y ago
I think he meant "dominant" market share, of course a new product needs a plan to create and/or take market share. But Apple (under Jobs anyway) is much more interested in profit share, nowadays they own maybe 5-10% of the computer market b
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by easyfrag 16y ago
Of course you don't have to like it, so vote with your wallet. There is choice in the marketplace whether it be smartphones or inkjet printers.
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by easyfrag 16y ago
Depending on your view on the role of government this is not necessarily a bad thing. Canada has had a series of minority governments over the past few years, and that has not been a factor in the recent economic crises.
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by easyfrag 16y ago
In the 60's you couldn't prove it
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by easyfrag 16y ago
A related side-note: my organization blocks access to Facebook, the iframe with his like button was also blocked by the filter.
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by easyfrag 16y ago
More people are aware of iTunes? Plus it seems to offer download and catalog files similar to what you can do to media files in iTunes.
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by easyfrag 17y ago
Another headline correction that is needed is that the article doesn't tell us how Visa predicts divorce, just that they can.
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by easyfrag 17y ago
Yes a small competent team could build the IT system for a fraction of the time and money. However they would only be successful if the business processes were well defined which I'm willing to bet they were not. New IT systems often come a
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by easyfrag 17y ago
Wouldn't you be able to do this via Active Directory group policy?

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