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by nivla 12y ago
It looks like they borrowed the Apple's chiclet keys and frame, when he flips it over the PCB has Microsoft written over it [1]. To be fair for a prototype why wouldn't they use it, it looks nice and sleek, its flat and thin so se
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A Motion-Sensing Keyboard(research.microsoft.com)
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by nivla 12y ago
I am not sure about the claims made on the post but there was something else that caught my eye a while back. I registered for Adsense when starting a side-project. I tried my best to follow all the requirements such as only 3 block of ads
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by nivla 12y ago
Man, as someone who loves Windows Phone, I am sad to see this merger go through. I wished if Nokia remained separate from Microsoft. Nokia as a company and culture gave Windows Phone a standing chance where most had already declared the mar
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by nivla 12y ago
It is included in the js file [1] and seems to be under MIT and Apache. [1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sutoiku/formula.js/master/...
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by nivla 12y ago
I would say the percentage is higher than you think. So much that the Xbox One seems to be designed more like an entertainment system than a gaming console. I don't game much but I use my Xbox 360 as a glorified streaming device. WMC,
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by nivla 12y ago
>Just like "surface" vs "surface pro"! More correctly "Surface RT" vs "Surface Pro". "Surface" was initially Microsoft's interactive table [1], so yeah pretty much a branding disaste
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by nivla 13y ago
I am really sorry. I had Ghostery running, it took out the entire plan block so I was only able to see the FAQ.
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by nivla 13y ago
Awesome News. Competition really pushes companies to please their customers. Ever since Digital Ocean became the new hip, Linode has been pushing harder. My experience with them has been mixed. Forgiving their previous mishaps and the feeli
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by nivla 13y ago
I switched from an Andriod but this was a few years back when it was still on Gingerbird with a noticeable lag. Android may have fixed most of its issues by now but at that time Windows phone OS felt butter smooth and so minimal I could tea
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by nivla 13y ago
> Now contrast that with Apple or even the Android world - they don't have such silly branding problems. I bet your mom will be even more confused if you tell her about KitKat. However I agree with branding issues, if you don't
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by nivla 13y ago
> Windows 7 / 8 is such a disaster. If you calling Windows 7 a disaster compared to XP, am sorry but you have no idea what you are talking about!
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by nivla 13y ago
Because Linux or BSD is not a drop in replacement for Windows XP. It comes at a cost of rewriting their existing working applications and not to mention the time and money required to retrain the existing employees. Does anyone know how goo
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by nivla 13y ago
Fine, is amazon considered a normal place? Because even there its ~ $50. Infact everywhere I have looked it has been around that price. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Lumia-520-GoPhone-AT/dp/B00E4504...
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by nivla 13y ago
The Lumia 520 actually sells for ~ $50 (or lower if you look around) with no contract[1]. Its the cheapest a phone can get for the given specs: 4" LCD touchscreen, 5MP camera & 13 days standby. Too bad it hasn't been hacked ye
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by nivla 13y ago
I think its only the first episode to attract viewers. I was surprised when I noticed they were airing this season's first episode of Game of Thrones on Xbox for free with no registration/app download requirements. Glad to see con
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by nivla 13y ago
Well to be fair OneDrive is not actually competing with Youtube, it is competing with Google Drive and Dropbox. Off topic but who do you actually consider a real competitor to Youtube? The only other major service I can think of is Vimeo. I
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by nivla 13y ago
>The "Get a Mac" campaign portrayed the PC as a lovable, if incompetent and comic, laughable even, character. That is totally subjective. Some may have viewed him as "lovable" but others viewed him as "ignorant&q
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by nivla 13y ago
>I also feel that their "if you can't compete on product, slander" negative ad campaigns (e.g., scroogled) will continue to hold Microsoft back as a company and as a culture. Well wouldn't the PC vs MAC ads be similar
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by nivla 13y ago
This totally reminded me of CueCat. Despite CueCat being free, it was commonly sold on ebay because it made the cheapest barcode scanner on market. Amazon dash will end up being similarly awesome for hobbiest to hack on.
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by nivla 13y ago
I did notice some of them only to work in IE since it uses the MS- prefix. However they are also marked as an issues that would be fixed later. So hopefully it be corrected soon but since its already open sourced and the syntax is merely
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by nivla 13y ago
You can go here [1] and select "Register as a developer with App Studio" - Free, and create apps to run on your own Windows Phones [1] http://developer.windowsphone.com/en-us/featured/devpreview
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by nivla 13y ago
If I remember correctly they did mention the Offline part when they first revealed about Cortana. I think their plan is to do offline language processing with possible online cross checks where cellular internet service is either terrible o
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by nivla 13y ago
Since you have access to Cortana's notebook, you can set boundaries as to what she tracks about you. This and what I heard about them making Cortana work offline, I just hope Apple and Google would follow suit. Honestly, I am just tire
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by nivla 13y ago
Watch the presentation: http://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp It starts around 1:12:00
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by nivla 13y ago
The beginning where he talks to Cortana, it totally reminded me of the movie Her. [1] It seemed fascinatingly real. Although that bit might have been pre-recorded, I think we will eventually get there, where a computer's voice and its
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by nivla 13y ago
Well your assumption that a stock has to outperform a specific market index to be consider worthy is not true. S&P500 is just an index of 500 capital sorted hand picked companies. You made some flawed assumptions: [1] All companies in t
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by nivla 13y ago
>Are you trying to stengthen my argument? You've just proven that they were doing the very thing I'm arguing is unethical. No, the point is you are trying to use emotions to determine the "good" guy from the "bad
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by nivla 13y ago
I would take a dividend paying stock that is slightly under performing than the market, than a non dividend paying one. Also everytime a dividend is issued, the price is adjusted for any possible arbitrage. If you were to solely depend on S
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by nivla 13y ago
Alright let me take your example and turn it around. Say someone decides to build a big fancy complex mall on Main St that will not only generate 10's of thousands employment but also attract a good amount of tourists. They finally fo

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