glesica

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by glesica 15y ago
Windows 7 Starter was the edition for low-power devices. Previously, that meant netbooks, now it means tablets with ARM processors. The market segments are not identical, I realize that, but they're similar , hence my comment about basic
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by glesica 15y ago
Well, if you look at the text at the bottom of the table, they've actually got it down to four, Windows 8 Enterprise will still exist as a separate SKU. So really they've only eliminated one edition (Ultimate) and changed the name of anothe
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by glesica 15y ago
I've browsed through the site and installed to look at the man page to find this out. I can't see a way to do this. Makes it useless for me :-( Not that I'm complaining. It's not like I'm being asked to pay for it, just a feature that I ima
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by glesica 15y ago
I agree with you that they probably aren't very smart, most of them anyway. However, if you bump up a cynicism level just a tad, here's what you get: They don't need to stop people from possessing or using "hacking tools", they just nee
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by glesica 15y ago
I found the comment about Quora being an encyclopedia of sorts really interesting. This sort of site would actually fill a niche between something like StackExchange and Wikipedia: thorough, comprehensive articles (although, to be fair, the
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by glesica 15y ago
I agree heartily. In the late '90s AOL had millions of users. At the end of many movie trailers there was an AOL keyword instead of a web site URL. I knew many people who had AOL, but I also knew many people who did not. But it always struc
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by glesica 15y ago
It's nice that Google provided access for free for so long, allowing the development of so many location-aware products and services. But it's also nice that a healthy competitive environment is developing around the maps themselves.
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by glesica 15y ago
Horizontal scrolling... why?! I realize it works with a mouse wheel, but why do it? Awesome concept though. Probably would have been nice to have when I took art history in college.
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by glesica 15y ago
I think you may have missed his point, he's actually saying the same thing you are. He uses the total revenue metric because that is what the industry has been using in its lobbying and PR efforts for many years. The industry has claimed
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by glesica 15y ago
I like the !bang operators because I can get results from Google for specialty searches like maps (!m) and images (!i) right from the address bar in Chrome, but still keep DDG as my primary search engine. Google's results are slightly bet
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by glesica 15y ago
I didn't look too closely at this, but didn't you state that this was actually reported for schools, not districts? So then it could actually be that a single teacher could cause the "bump", especially in rural areas. I might be misinterpre
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by glesica 15y ago
I don't think the problem is that kids can't read at a basic level. The problem is that they can't read at a level that is considered by educators, policymakers and others to be an age-appropriate level. I agree that the vitriolic "blame th
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by glesica 15y ago
I think you are spot-on in suggesting that characteristics other than the quality of the schools are responsible for students' performance and learning at this point. Seems to me that at some point we need to start focusing on parents and f
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by glesica 15y ago
Well obviously. Since when are press releases a reliable source of information? Especially given the number of companies that say "our product is not going to change" only to have the product change six months later.
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by glesica 15y ago
I think your point about a "killer app" has some merit. I've certainly found no reason to stay in Metro so far. However, I just can't see where the value is going to come from. Metro is neat looking, but I just can't think of anything that
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by glesica 15y ago
Agreed, but improving the quality of administrators is incredibly difficult to do and forcing parents to be rational about their children is pretty much impossible. So we're left with tenure as an imperfect but practical way to limit the da
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by glesica 15y ago
Not quite the same. For example, what happens when you run out of room on a drag-and-drop operation? You're holding down the whole track pad so you have two options: add a second hand to hold the button, which can make the cursor do weird t
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by glesica 15y ago
We're talking about Ultrabooks here. Which is a "new" form factor with, probably, weird hardware to get the size/weight down. You can't install OS X on a Thinkpad, either, the hardware wasn't meant for it. So yes, as long as OEMs don't prov
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by glesica 15y ago
Needs serious proofreading, yes. But the overall point is valid, though maybe not terribly original. Facebook's valuation seems to be based on exuberance (rational or otherwise) but also on uncertainty. No one really knows how social networ
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by glesica 15y ago
Tell that to a country that has had a military coup, or similar. One day the military obeys civilian orders, the next day they don't. Same could happen with NSA. One day they obey the law, the next day they don't. Wouldn't have to be the wh
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by glesica 15y ago
Was Pearl Harbor really that bad? I mean in the grand scheme of things. Which would be preferable, preventing another Pearl Harbor or preserving liberty? I'll take liberty every single time because otherwise there's nothing worth defending.
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by glesica 15y ago
On the other hand, there have been numerous attempted terrorist attacks on planes in the United States. All of them have been foiled without assistance from TSA, even the ones that weren't stopped until the would-be terrorist was on the ai
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by glesica 15y ago
I think he's referring to politicians more than private citizens. A portion of the Democratic party, after voting for the PATRIOT Act, spent the last 4-6 years of Bush's time in office speaking out against it. But TSA has generally maintain
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by glesica 16y ago
Won't work, Wal-Mart probably already bought everyone in Springfield.