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by greyman 16y ago
I am afraid they mean it. I think it's about the perception how the mobile phone should be like. Not everyone considers the iPhone+iOS to be the best concept. I personally know people who think that nokia dumbphones are the best mobiles, or
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by greyman 16y ago
>> Had Google stayed more focused on search instead of all these side businesses, search could be far more developed than it currently is today. I agree. Basic text search could be better, but if Google would stay focused, they coul
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by greyman 16y ago
What is so compelling about Angry Birds, you think? I completed the levels in the Lite version, and then switched to other games like Demolish or Cat Physics. I just don't get it why someone would play AB again and again... doesn't it get b
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by greyman 16y ago
I think it is not exploitative if the authors knew it beforehand and agreed to it. They've got exposure as a compensation. What I find more exploitative is their working method - often, they took some hard news (which is quite expensive to
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Back to paper, back to work(thislifeofleisure.com)
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by greyman 16y ago
>> No notion of the hard work (and natural talent) required No, no, that's not true. What he suggest to his readers, like low carb diet, or no-news diet is quite a hard work.
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by greyman 16y ago
What is your experience with online backup solutions in general? I tried mozy and a few others, but I always struggled with rather slow upload speed, and ultimately found the much easier way is to buy USB harddisk, which I hide in my workpl
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by greyman 16y ago
I partially agree, but with some caveats: 1. Future is also in the games, and here Microsoft has a very competitive product (xbox/kinect) 2. mobile race is not over yet, and WP7 is conceptually a good product, combining polished UI (aka iOS
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by greyman 16y ago
Microsoft do NOT steal Google's search results. They use clickstream data from Bing toolbar users to improve their search results. What happened is that Google engineers engineered a use case, in which signal from those clickstream appear l
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by greyman 16y ago
Yes. And Bing toolbar does just the same. And when those clickstreams are used as one signal of link relevancy, you get the exact behaviour they are describing on the google blog.
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by greyman 16y ago
I disagree with you and agree with the author of the blog post. Microsoft is not copying Google's search results, rather, they use behaviour of their Bing toolbar users as one signal for their own ranking. And, if clicking through the Googl
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by greyman 16y ago
Jason, I think this is still an open issue, as was pointed out in the comments under your Techcrunch article. There is also another possibility - that Apple just didn't like that in the new Sony app, you could buy ebooks directly, while oth
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by greyman 16y ago
Yes, you are right, the article says exactly that. And now, what is your opinion about this strategy? You consider it a bad thing to do?
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by greyman 16y ago
I am different. I use readability bookmarklet almost everywhere, in order to read in the unified clean design, but with the two exception: I read some blogs in Google reader, and I send some articles to Instapaper and read them in my phone.
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by greyman 16y ago
For me it is also a better delivery method. Living in Europe, it takes about 2 weeks for print books to arrive, then I need to go to post office to pick them up, I need to pay for the delivery, etc. It is all so much easier with the ebook.
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by greyman 16y ago
In my opinion (and personal experience), if they want to endanger the monopoly of MS Office, they would need, first of all, to provide 100% compatibility with the MS Office formats [read them and write to that format flawlessly]. At least f
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by greyman 16y ago
But I wanted to say something else. Many people how don't know about BitTorrent would still not pay.
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by greyman 16y ago
"and when downloading hundreds of songs from PirateBay, that's several hundreds of dollars versus free." No, it isn't several hundreds of dollars, since many people who are downloading from PirateBay would not buy the songs even if the free
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by greyman 16y ago
For the sake of adding more hours for work on personal projects, I can add two things that works for me: 1) It might not be necessary to sleep exactly 7 hours. I found out that if I sometimes sleep less, nothing tragic happens. 2) What also
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by greyman 16y ago
I agree with what you say, and I also don't want to play down Google's achievement. I just wanted to say that imho currently Google doesn't own any technology that would be truly indispensable - for any of their product, I can use competito
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by greyman 16y ago
9.0.597.67 beta. I can't pinpoint exactly, but the animations were just too quick, and sometimes just something moved on the screen, but it was not immediately obvious what has happened.
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by greyman 16y ago
Hmm, I feel differently. My basic perception is that under his rule, Google somehow lost its focus and transitioned from the indispensable service to just a product company. Put another way, currently it is easier to live without Google tha
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by greyman 16y ago
I am sorry but the GUI is confusing, I am doing something and suddenly a too fast animation overlaps it. Plus, the tutorial window cannot be closed by [x] in Chrome. The idea is good but the application is too busy, at least for me.
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by greyman 16y ago
Yes the penetration of smartphones is increasing, but I personally know a lot of people who don't want smartphone. For example, 2 out of 3 of my friends who owns iPhone said to me that "...but my previous nokia [dumbphone] was better", and
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by greyman 16y ago
Yes it is... more so when you try to play it, which I did just now. It isn't bad, but I also wouldn't call it a great game. I just don't understand the popularity...
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by greyman 16y ago
What's so intolerable about Tim Ferriss? Just this month, I read portions of his two books, and have found them quite interesting... he's not 100% correct, but is able to generate new ideas or inspire. But maybe that just me here.
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by greyman 16y ago
Yes it is hard to believe, but if it is true that he is making $100,000 per month, then he was right not to sell it, wasn't he? The site still has a good traffic and a lot of potential.
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by greyman 16y ago
What I appreciate is to be able to try the product without signing up, and then do not bother me anymore when I sign up later on.
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by greyman 16y ago
I think this is only a terminology problem. In tech press, "A killed B" means that B is used less now, is not that cool anymore, etc. It doesn't mean that B is dead or is going to completely disappear. So in this light, I think the TC artic
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by greyman 16y ago
I agree with you about being hesitant to support FSF. I think that they should primary working on providing free software alternatives to closed software, not to fight closed software or promote dislike towards them.

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