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by nivla 14y ago
> they bill you so you don't have to learn something that's not in their product line Yes, convenience has a price. Thought that was business 101 or the Walmart strategy. >their 24x7 support is laughable Subjective, since my experie
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by nivla 14y ago
>has to offer is something its competitors have been doing for years. I disagree, what their pricing is focusing on is familiarity and 24/7 support. Also, don't be quick to judge that open-source softwares are not making any money. Ubun
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by nivla 14y ago
>Yet it's conspicuously absent from the servers that run things like Google, Facebook, Twitter or Amazon. I wonder how they explain why is it so. Isn't that similar to assuming Ruby, Django and Go is inept because PHP powers Wikipedia,
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>Will be interesting to see how Google reacts... I hope they don't come up with the dumb idea to create a Google+ phone. People tend make irrational decisions when confronted with uncertainty.
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>Facebook has been known to partner with Microsoft. Not very likely, given the fact that Windows Phone has yet to receive an official Facebook app. However, design wise the windows 8 tile architecture would be the perfectly suited for F
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by nivla 14y ago
My comment from another thread posted earlier with the same news that happened to disappear from the front page[1]: Alright this is getting ridiculous, we aren't living in the 90s anymore and we should be encouraging healthy competition. We
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by nivla 14y ago
Alright this is getting ridiculous, we aren't living in the 90s anymore and we should be encouraging healthy competition. We now have better alternatives like Macbooks, Chromebooks etc. I can't buy into the reason that Microsoft issued secu
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by nivla 14y ago
Did Google fire their PR dept or did they just become another company that we love to hate? The past two weeks has been a huge PR disaster for Google. As for the issue in the article, I have mixed reactions. They din't have a problem when O
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by nivla 14y ago
I agree with you, the title could have been a little more descriptive. I have seen the same video posted here and on Reddit multiple times in the past few months. Although I don't mind it being posted again, since there is always a group of
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by nivla 14y ago
Wait.. wasn't this what the FCC was supposed to investigate? Google abusing its dominant position in one area to leverage its other products and shielding it from competition. I was aware of requiring a Google+ profile if you wanted your pi
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>stops having anything relevant to contribute You mean like Lumia Phones, Nokia Maps, Nokia Free Music... I love their apps and hardware but I do however disagree with their stance on enforcing unnecessary patents!
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I wonder the legality of this. Given most pirated softwares come with a patch that has to manually applied before/after installing. Wouldn't you remain in the grey area until you apply that patch?
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by nivla 14y ago
>This "engineer" didn't even understand that Apple doesn't write the drivers and "BIOS" for the card I would have agreed with this argument had he installed a custom graphics card but this is not the case here. It came included with the
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by nivla 14y ago
Cool.. thanx for your input! :)
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by nivla 14y ago
Can you be kind enough to comment on the quality of translations? I am in need of a translation API for one of my projects and it is down to Google or Bing.
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by nivla 14y ago
I am surprised not a lot of people at HN do this. Disabling predictive service is one of the first things I do after installing chrome on a new machine. Something about sending every keystroke made on the omnibar to Google makes me feel une
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by nivla 14y ago
You are right, I just went through my Firefox plugins and I see "Google Update" along with a few "Google Talk" plugins. Given that I installed Firefox after Chrome, could those plugins have been installed and updated with Google Talk or doe
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by nivla 14y ago
>What if Microsoft includes an optional os level ad block with windows blue that is on by default. Huh? So much for baseless FUD. Ad-blocking is much different than adding an extra header for voluntarily respecting someones privacy. Inc
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Its atleast disabled by default in latest versions of Ubuntu and other distros, but regardless paul_f shouldn't have posted it without any disclaimer.
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by nivla 14y ago
As a visitor, no I never use them and I seem to think no one will want to use them. However, as a webmaster, I prove myself wrong, a lot of people do use them and they do seriously become part of your site's daily traffic. So in other words
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by nivla 14y ago
Can't we say the same about the PC market? Sure, Apple doesn't make mobile apps for any other devices but it doesn't sing the same song when it comes to PC. Apple makes the official versions of Itunes and Quicktimes for Windows. Why? Becaus
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by nivla 14y ago
As much as I want to be on the ditch Flash bandwagon, I can't. Reality hits hard, trivial things that gets done using Flash is impossible or requires a lot of workarounds when implemented in pure html/javascript. A few weeks back I was look
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by nivla 14y ago
I know when its appropriate for me to use Comic Sans but not sure when its appropriate for me to listen to Justin Bieber's music.
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by nivla 14y ago
Yup obstacle did forget his footnote which I was also interested in. Making a guess that it is going to be a link to Amazon, let me steal that chance: http://www.amazon.com/Just-My-Type-About-Fonts/dp/1592407463...
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by nivla 14y ago
To nitpick: Why is Knowledge subjective? Knowledge just means familiarity with something. Now, whether it can be productive for you or not is subjective. For Example: Say, you visit an ancient Mayan temple, learn about their customs and how
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by nivla 14y ago
One hypothesis would be to prevent ad-blindness. If you visit the same layout day after day, after a while your mind learns to subconsciously detaches adverts from the content, it will be like it doesn't even exist. New layout, the learning
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by nivla 14y ago
But atleast with most laptops we can upgrade/replace the RAM, hard drive and the battery. I am starting to hate the new trend where phones are going: no easy access to the inside, batteries are glued on making it impossible to be replaced,
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by nivla 14y ago
I think you are wrong about that. Apple shipped the iMac starting with USB v1.1 in 1998 [1]. It was the first Mac with a USB port. USB was developed in 1994 from a group of seven companies Compaq, DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and Nortel.
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by nivla 14y ago
If i recall correctly you don't need to use any gestures or click anywhere to lookup a program in Windows 8. Just start typing the name on the Start Screen and it will search it up. Wasn't it touted as one of the plusses of Windows 8? Alter
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by nivla 14y ago
Thank You very much. That puts a lot of context to what I read in the report.

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