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by pbz 14y ago
Sure... 2, 3, maybe 4 times harder, but not hundreds or thousands of times. The fact that we have such huge gaps is cultural, and a testament to how well they've been able to sell themselves. The gap hasn't always been this wide, and it's n
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by pbz 14y ago
Using Total Commander, hit F6 (move), hit tab to move to the "only files of this type" box, type "A*Z", and then hit Enter.
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by pbz 14y ago
It's usually the other way around; meaning foreigners have to wait way more than citizens. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. If you ever had the pleasure of going through the US Embassy for a trip to the US you'd think people who end
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by pbz 14y ago
I agree with what you say, except for point #1. At least as far as Europe or East Asia is concerned you can find much faster and cheaper internet connection. Even for hosting it's common when buying from Europe for them to advertise unlimit
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by pbz 14y ago
Hopefully they have a better system so that if anything breaks on the page, the returned result is an error page / code.
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by pbz 14y ago
There used to be plenty of search sites that were querying multiple search engines and showing a combined result set.
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by pbz 14y ago
Using it as an alternative to documentation is a small part. First of all you get a confirmation that what you have up to that point is somewhat correct. If the dropdown doesn't show then something's wrong - sometimes that's ok and expected
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by pbz 14y ago
AnArray.Sort(e -> e.Salary) and if there's no built-in way to compare two Salary objects (let's say they're complex objects), then you come up with an interface that the sorting function would use and the objects would implement. This w
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by pbz 14y ago
Even keeping the icon where the old one was which when clicked would take you to the new "start menu" would have helped...
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by pbz 14y ago
"I.E. they hit start and begin typing." -- people do that because the start menu in W7 has a text box that says "Search programs and file" and a visible caret telling them they can type. In W8 you do not get any visual clues to tell you tha
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by pbz 14y ago
You're not seriously saying Google is a squatter, are you? When a company buys another company it's a package deal. How would you separate the value of the domain from the rest of the acquired IP? It's too much of a headache; remember they
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by pbz 14y ago
How's it different? For once there's more friction in buying land. There's more paperwork involved, there are zoning rules, and so on. More importantly you can't buy a piece of land for $10 and sell it for $50K a few years down the road. An
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by pbz 14y ago
It's too late for .com but for the new batch they could've done something to at least try to address the problem.
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by pbz 14y ago
So if I owned example.org, but example.com is used by a squatter -- assuming example is a specific, trademarkable name -- are you saying I could get the .com via UDRP? Have there been cases where this worked?
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by pbz 14y ago
If somebody (Google) doesn't want to sell the domain is because they have a good use for it (probably trademark protection). These cases are rare compared to the number of parked domains that only have the "for sale" sign on them. If the sq
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by pbz 14y ago
Not sure if possible, but they should have a rule where a single person can only own X domains. Justifying that you use the domain for content is tricky and can be easily bypassed. At least they should be trying, similar to the IPv4 shortag
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by pbz 14y ago
People expect the before taxes fee, because most seem to do this. Yesterday I booked a hotel on Orbitz via Hipmunk (I like the map view btw). There was roughly $10 price difference, i.e. Hipmunk was showing $X but after clicking on the link
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by pbz 14y ago
Again, I'm not saying that being rude or inconsiderate is ever justified. However, when trying to look at a response from a psychological point of view, you kind of have to throw out notions about what is right and wrong as these tend to ta
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by pbz 14y ago
I agree that thousands < millions, but was there a study to see how those millions feel about the UI? The change was from beta to RC. Was there really a study done in such a short time to ask those millions? If such studies exist then w
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by pbz 14y ago
Of course interactions like this are childish and unproductive. However, I feel that these are symptoms of being ignored. When people feel that the VS side has their fingers in their ears, one needs to yell louder to be heard. Claiming to p
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by pbz 14y ago
What I find strange (not sure how true) is what I hear from random MS employees that customer feedback is more valuable, or weighs more, than the feedback from MS employees. To me, this shows a low level of trust from management in their ow
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by pbz 14y ago
It's probably directly proportional to one's OCD level or amount of pain accumulated through the years. There's also the need to show and feel that you're superior, and sometimes the need to point out that somebody's superiority is irreleva
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by pbz 14y ago
That would never work though, at least not in the perfect, non leaky way the author and you would like. When you have a loop, even if the database could somehow understand that loop, you can put anything inside it. You could make a call to
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by pbz 14y ago
Nobody said there's anything wrong with it, only that you can't use any other engine.
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by pbz 14y ago
When you have a question that is upvoted and answered a lot, and then the mods come in and close or even worse delete the question, it's just them flexing their muscles. There should be a way for the community to couter vote the mods if you
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by pbz 14y ago
I would assume being able to guarantee a certain level or "service quality" played a bigger role than finding out what people are talking about. They're probably going to integrate Skype at a much deeper level into WP8 and they need to make
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by pbz 15y ago
I have two-way enabled, but when logging in via Google Talk (windows app) it seems to bypass it. If I go straight to gmail.com and login I'm asked for the second auth, but clicking via Google Talk (already signed in) it logges me in to GMai
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by pbz 15y ago
My comment was about the population in general. They focus on the negatives (perceived poverty, perceived lack of culture, perceived mediocrity, etc) while ignoring the positives. Similar to how an above-average looking girl beats herself d
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by pbz 15y ago
The problem with Romanians (imo) is low self esteem and negative self image. Like you said, after many years of psychological abuse it's hardly any surprise. If they could only see their potential ... unfortunately, most times you have to b
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by pbz 15y ago
I remember Anders saying that that was one of his regrets for not implementing this from the beginning. According to him adding this now would break quite a few things, but he hasn't yet given up on the idea.

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