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by halo 17y ago
There's some sensationalism in the editorialising around this piece, but I find it hard to argue with the core of what Gates is saying. You're not going to be able to sell a piece of software based on the idea that it has less bugs. People
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by halo 17y ago
There are converters to convert MathML into TeX (e.g. http://www.orcca.on.ca/MathML/texmml/mmltotex.html ).
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by halo 17y ago
So you're saying that because Apple was given the choice as to whether or not to reveal that information, it's 'stupid' to blame Apple for deliberately making the choice to hide it.
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Kiva launches pilot offering microloans to people within the United States(kiva.org)
2 points by halo 17y ago|0 comments
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by halo 17y ago
Gabe Newell?
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by halo 17y ago
Personally, I think it's a shame and a rather sad state of affairs that Microsoft won't or, more likely, can't bundle it with Windows. I think a lot of users would benefit from it.
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by halo 17y ago
Almost all security problems associated with a modern Windows system aren't because of any inherent design problems but rather inexperienced users who run executables which contain malicious software. Linux/FreeBSD on the whole aren't popul
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PPK: State of the Browsers - IE edition(quirksmode.org)
3 points by halo 17y ago|1 comments
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by halo 17y ago
I believe Europe is widely considered to have a higher Firefox marketshare than the US - by some measurements, it's the most popular browser in Europe. (Citation: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/03/31/two-continents-down-... )
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by halo 17y ago
It's awfully nice of Adobe to release the specifications of their protocols after they've been fully reverse engineered and described by 3rd parties making the actual formal specifications rather redundant.
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by halo 17y ago
Citation? I believe you're allowed to virtualise Windows 7 Home Premium - Microsoft changed their EULA to allow virtualisation of the Home versions of Vista a while back and I don't understand why they'd suddenly change it back.
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by halo 17y ago
Alternatively, just pretend the other versions don't exist and buy a PC with Windows 7 Home Premium on it, like 99% of other users will. Starter (basically Netbook only) and Home Basic ("developing markets" only) can largely be ignored, as
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by halo 17y ago
Windows Explorer has an FTP client built-in.
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by halo 17y ago
In the context of percentage of GDP per person then China is probably much higher.
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by halo 17y ago
That's great until the virtual carrier switches network and many customers can't get a signal anymore.
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by halo 17y ago
Windows 7 ships with PowerShell.
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by halo 17y ago
I think it's more likely that browsers implement the W3C geolocation API before IPv6 becomes mainstream, which will cover use-cases where accurate geolocation is important, but will require the permission by the user. I don't think we'll ev
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by halo 17y ago
Palm will incur the cost of making a single part with different layouts for each region, but the cost of this is negligible as to make it a complete non-issue. Companies like Blackberry, and indeed Palm themselves, already do this and lapto
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by halo 17y ago
The figure is meaningless on its own, and the post creates some false significance by trying to extrapolate the success of Twitter from it. Clearly if 40% of several million account signups use your service regularly, you're still doing alr
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by halo 17y ago
I bet Adobe get a larger proportion of their income from small businesses and freelancers for their products than Microsoft do for Office.
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by halo 17y ago
Neat idea, but this is unusably slow on my PC (Firefox 3, Core 2 Duo 2ghz).
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by halo 17y ago
Except the most common criticism of C++ is for being "too complex" or "too clever", so it seems there's nothing inherently wrong in trying to be a "dumbed-down C++, avoiding all the ugliness". You're just saying it made the wrong trade-offs
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by halo 17y ago
So what? In English, a yahoo is "a brute, a crude person, often lacking in intelligence, and uninterested in culture", and a million jokes were made about the Wii on launch. I doubt it's impacted their popularity at all.
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by halo 17y ago
Sorry, but a "solution" that involves embedded JavaScript from a 3rd party site is not a solution people will actually want to use.
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by halo 17y ago
I was not aware of that - I'm pretty sure I didn't watch the keynote. My impression was that they were trying to encourage people to provide web services as their apps and that's why no SDK was available from day 1. I think creating a web-d
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by halo 17y ago
We don't know until consumers reach the UI, but it certainly looks the part and seems intuitive, so it's making all the right noises. In some ways, it seems like an improvement, particularly for power-users - the hidden 'dock' bar and the u
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by halo 17y ago
I believe Apple were perceived to almost dismissively offer remote web apps which require internet access as a replacement for local apps with access to APIs, and it quite obviously is not a very good substitute. On the other hand, Palm are
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by halo 17y ago
I disagree. The UI looks great. In fact, I think it's better than the iPhone's in many ways. The calendar, contacts feature, the merging of conversations across different platforms, and the universal search are all great, for example. It al
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by halo 17y ago
Gray-on-gray-on-gray with big bold fonts don't make for good readability.
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by halo 17y ago
On the other hand, you get complaints over the complexity of C++ because it doesn't really have 'One True Way' to do anything. Ultimately, it's a case of trade-offs, and accepting that can't win them all.

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