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by marcf 15y ago
Israel is fairly European in a lot of aspects except when it comes to its occupation of the Palestinian territories and its denial of rights to the inhabitants of those territories. Israel's behavior with regards to the West Bank is so bad
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by marcf 15y ago
Yes, because of the long-standing occupation of the Palestinian territories, the lack of rights afforded to the Palestinian Arabs living there and the ever growing Israeli settlements in and around these Palestinian communities, Israel isn'
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by marcf 15y ago
Except when it comes to its apartheid-like policies in the West Bank, but then again formally Apartheid South Africa was long accepted as part of the West too... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analog...
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Groupon IPO may be delayed by SEC scrutiny(msnbc.msn.com)
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by marcf 15y ago
For a second I thought it said it supported sccs... I figured that come on, at least go with csv... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System
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by marcf 15y ago
I'm pretty sure the big one from a developer's perspective was background tasks.
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by marcf 15y ago
For businesses looking to be cost effective, remember there is www.projectlocker.com Not as sexy as GitHub but it has Trac (or Agilo Trac) and a choice of GIT/SVN. Unlimited projects, but it has disk space limits and user limits that diffe
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by marcf 15y ago
But he also switched from what is generally considered a more open company to one that doesn't even let me export my contacts.
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by marcf 15y ago
I believe you can just sign up now...
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by marcf 15y ago
I figure though HTC's profit per phone is likely on the order of $20 or less? (I'm guessing here but I should be in the ballpark.) Thus $5 per phone is hugely significant.
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by marcf 15y ago
It undeniably hurts HTC's profits though. Sucks for those that have to pay this Microsoft tax. And it also does hurt Google in the sense that this cost is being passed to Google's customers rather than Google taking this burden.
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by marcf 15y ago
Apple aligned itself with Nokia and Microsoft (both of which are on the WPx platform) in this purchase. I guess they both see a common enemy in Android.
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by marcf 15y ago
I'm sure that wasn't the original intent. But given that they have failed generally at commercializing their innovations, patent lawsuits are a good backup strategy and probably gives Microsoft's patent lawyers a good justification for the
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by marcf 15y ago
iPhone syncing does grab the profile photos.
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by marcf 15y ago
I doubt Google could predict timelines with any accuracy that many months in advance.
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by marcf 15y ago
I guess it depends on why you consider Michael Moore to be a bad film maker. Quite a few of Michael Moore's critics dislike his films because of his political positions, not because of his film making techniques. If you believe his politi
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by marcf 15y ago
The $1B in revenue is only an estimate based on projections and a continued growth trajectory. Not saying it isn't true, but it isn't a solid source for their actual revenue. Did News Corporation annual filings every break out revenue from
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by marcf 15y ago
As I said in response to another post, the 2006 Google-Myspace deal had minimum traffic requirements, thus it isn't clear that they made the $900M from Google: http://mashable.com/2010/12/16/myspace-google-search-deal/ I've be interested
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by marcf 15y ago
The Google-Myspace deal had minimum traffic requirements, thus it isn't clear that they made the $900M from Google: http://mashable.com/2010/12/16/myspace-google-search-deal/
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by marcf 15y ago
It is like social networks have both the power to grow fast and die fast. Yahoo, even after its search engine sucked compared to Google, still held on for a really long time. But social networks seem to die really really quickly.
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by marcf 15y ago
+1 Adam Curtis. Even his old works are interesting, even if they seem dated politically.