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by froo 17y ago
I wish I could upvote this more for "bung" - makes me think of Jay (of Jay of Silent Bob fame) from the Kevin Smith film, Dogma.
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by froo 17y ago
Slashdot, reddit, digg and HN are homebrewed software - TechCrunch is a Wordpress install, a little bit of a different kettle of fish. But regardless, I think that with a significant number of people who just troll the comments at techcrunc
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by froo 17y ago
Personally I ignore the blatant trolls but I get more and more disheartened by the people who are more or less two-faced. The kind who spout vitriolic comments about people or products via their online identity, but wouldn't have the guts t
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by froo 17y ago
Well look at the opposite side of the coin, what if Google researchers do evaluate Bing results and don't find them to be inferior. Google internal documents have been leaked before... ... I think it's better to just leave that Pandora's Bo
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by froo 17y ago
I did 10 searches about subjects I was passionate about. Results Google: 5 Bing: 5 Yahoo: 0 Having read what other people were writing in this thread I thought I would also try and rank the results in order, which would be my fir
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by froo 17y ago
Seems like I've finally found a way to Bing for "sex" in India. Actually I found out you can bypass the filter by adding in a generic stop word at the end which the search engine should ignore anyway (I use the word "the") and it will sea
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by froo 17y ago
That's a complete fallacy, there is such a thing as bad publicity... either that, or the whole ribbing that mega-corporation Mcdonald's took from Spurlock's "Supersize Me" was imaginary.
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by froo 17y ago
I saw your point, I just think that given that mobile phones are now a platform instead of just a device, of course they're going to be influenced by many other devices out there. The fact is, that the iPhone didn't "invent" all this stuff,
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by froo 17y ago
I never suggested it wasn't broken, I commented hours ago that some of the settings don't seem to be consistent. Easily bypassed, well - that's just funny.
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by froo 17y ago
There's an easy hack around that I just came up with while throwing terms at Bing and switching locales - just add a stop word (a word that search engines often ignore to conserve space) after the topic you're looking for and you can search
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by froo 17y ago
Well, simple question... have you used Bing extensively before today? If so, have you searched for content of a sexual nature and if not, do you honestly care? For all we know, it could have been an oversight on MS's part (the site is less
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by froo 17y ago
... and so the trolling begins. Seriously though, this is news on HN why? MS not allowing a sexual term in India.. ooo, what about Google helping the Indian authorities on the arrest of an Orkut user over making comments about a Political l
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by froo 17y ago
I think Michael talks about Twitter because he genuinely loves the service. What about all of the posts he did last year when the service kept going down? Do you think all of that negativity was paid for by Twitter too?
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by froo 17y ago
Somebody wake me up when all of the anti-Arrington comments over...
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by froo 17y ago
The device rips off everything innovative about the iPhone including the accelerometer I know of at least 1 situation where that's just not the case. Nokia's n95 has an accelerometer and shipped months before the first gen iphone shipped,
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by froo 17y ago
Recipe for creating revenue for News Portal. Take 1 part hot topic Add a pinch of unexpected result Accuracy completely optional I'm all for competition against Google, hell, I'm even rooting for Microsoft to do well (I can't bel
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by froo 17y ago
It really astounds me when people think that Microsoft has to instantly beat Google. I think they're looking at it from the wrong point of view - They only really need to beat Yahoo at this stage. Microsoft are throwing $100M dollars at an
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by froo 17y ago
LSL definitely wasn't the best of the Sierra characters. I broke out the Space Quest series again recently. Roger Wilco is hands down my favourite character in those adventure games.
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by froo 17y ago
I saw some paypal details in there aswell, I'm wondering if astalavista used any of the same passwords to secure that account?
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by froo 17y ago
And in the other telling, the box wasn't actually a box, but was a jar. It was incorrectly translated by someone (I forget their name, I should go look it up) and has stuck ever since. EDIT - just looked it up, it was incorrectly translated
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by froo 17y ago
Yeah, but I looked through the rest of the list and the rest of the examples could have referred to the male context, so I simply was just making sure.
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by froo 17y ago
Actually, I thought I had added additional information about technical proficiency in that same post but I got it mixed up with something else I argued some weeks ago on here. The only way to accurately compare the two would be on a technic
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by froo 17y ago
Like Pandora, he is so curious, he has to check this out. Slight error, Pandora was a female in greek mythology (well, the first female to be more precise)
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by froo 17y ago
Actually I thought I explained it well enough. He's saying that Pixar films outpace Dreamworks films from an artistic point of view, because they both use the animation artform to tell their story. I'm saying that both studios have differen
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by froo 17y ago
There's a bit of the whole Dreamworks vs Pixar thing. Ok here we go... Pixar consistently produces a form of the art that is simply higher than Dreamworks can even approach. The thing about that is, that the two studios produce films fo
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by froo 17y ago
I see the pitfals of a non-scalable business model. And yet only recently Techcrunch did a piece on just how profitable Apple's mobile phone business actually is. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/01/the-spoils-go-to-the-sm... They have
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by froo 17y ago
Well, you totally missed the point. Perhaps I should have made myself clearer I recently switched from Windows to Linux after having become disillusioned with Microsoft's ability to ship a product that worked reasonably. Therefore, the "yay
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by froo 17y ago
I'm actually thinking there's room there to make UI improvements that would benefit the user. For example, with the live id and being logged in, I think it would be neat if these background images eventually ended up being something relevan
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by froo 17y ago
I've been using Bing as my default search in FF all day today I must admit I've just started to do the same and am getting the same result. I quickly added bing and its not sucking... .. as someone who wrote off Microsoft only a few month
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by froo 17y ago
In Australia, BitTorrent is especially popular among those who want to catch up with US television shows that appear months or years later on TV down under. Money is not so much of an issue for them, they simply want to see the latest Lost

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