ijntybvrt

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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
>Have you ever seen Adobe's PDF reader on Windows? Is that really serious? OK so Adobe9 doesn't work on Vista, you can't rollback to 8 and Adobe's site won't let you download 8 if you are on Vista. But that's not really serious for the
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
People buying Macs are a threat to Windows. Even the idea that there exists an alternative to Windows is a threat to Windows.
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
It's a safe (politically, legally, physically) place in an unstable region to base your headquarters or send your workers for R+R. Monaco has survived for 500years for similar reasons without a great deal of mineral wealth.
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
More tech start-ups funded (and controlled) by VCs are shutting down as VCs try to get their money out. Startups started by people who have a business plan to actually make money ,sell real product to real customers, rather than just attrac
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
It's reporting that there are rumours = telling you something about how the locals feel. That's the reason for newspapers and reporters (and spys) instead of just reading raw data feeds. What people are saying - true or not - is the import
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
>1. Shut down their physical production lines, immediately saving millions of dollars a year. Move to online only format. >2. Move full time staff to consultant roles, and retain a small editorial staff of the highest quality. >
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
Because people will pay for 'NEWS' but not for newspapers. People will pay for upto the minute stock market data rather than the 15min delayed version, they will pay $1000s for market reports, they will pay for WSJ articles on companies the
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
Because if they didn't agree to what ticketmaster wants - ticketmaster will boycott them band/venue. Good luck setting up your own ticker sales site and agreeing deals with every other venue/band.
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
Usually they are bees, urinals have had them for a century
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
It is also a joke, bee in latin is 'apis'
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
You can search SO, you can see the dozens of other answers to similar questions and you can see other answers by the person answering you. Realtime works for some set of easy quick answers - if the answerers are in your time zone.
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
It also says this will only be sold in none-developed markets. It's a way of selling cheap(free) copies of windows in China/India to reduce piracy while still protecting the market of business customers.
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
The Apple stores will only fix Apples - that's what you're paying the premium for. You might benefit from all the new apps that will get ported to Mac if it suddenly has 3-4x the market share.
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
>Because bookstores form communities around them? The same Waterstones/B+N who destroyed the small bookstores by voiding the net book price agreement are now complaining that Amazon are undercutting them. And small bookstores by selling
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by ijntybvrt 18y ago
Did you switch on the TV on shabbos?