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by pinaceae 14y ago
no. Surface/Windows RT is aimed at consumers. SurfacePro is aimed at businesses. Source: Micrsoft, who has approached our company to build a Surface Pro app to compete in the enterprise space.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
the main issue is that any conversation in the internet gets saved. nothing is forgotten, ever. it might be encrypted, but that only delays reading it. you want a safer way to communicate. use the telephone, non-voip. the content of your co
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by pinaceae 14y ago
so what's your beef with @IDFSpokesperson then? those are press releases, just in Twitter not through Reuters. @USArmy, @USFOR_A + @ISAF_RC_South + @ISAFmedia, @DeptofDefense, @StateDept, @NATO, http://www.pentagonchannel.mil/ ... all ex
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by pinaceae 14y ago
you mean besides the 'iconic' picture of the war room with Obama and his top aides watching the raid? detailed accounts of what happened? pictures of the aftermath? an onslaught of books, movies, references? nope, nothing at all. but someho
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by pinaceae 14y ago
does Hamas recognize the right of Israel to exist? this is war.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
that is a very good question - and thanks to the ongoing drone warfare by the US, this is being answered right now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_unmanned_aerial_vehi... the wikipedia article above is a good entry point. note ho
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by pinaceae 14y ago
actually pilots are being actively trained to ignore their senses and trust the instruments. instrument-rated pilots do exactly that (=all commercial pilots). the human eyes do not work in fog, night, rain, etc. the human ear does not hel
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by pinaceae 14y ago
well, the liability is still there. but, the operator on the ground can stay clear headed. far less adrenaline rushing through you. also do not forget that a lot of catastrophes are happening due to pilot error. see the air france crash off
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by pinaceae 14y ago
the era of pilots seated in the plane is coming to an end, as so often, the military (air force) leads the way. the f22/35 will be the last platform to deploy with cockpits. air space all around the world is becoming open for drones. cargo
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by pinaceae 14y ago
red bull, on launch, did everything "wrong". mr mateschitz chose the narrow, tall can. every retailer told him to fuck off, he should comply with the standard coke/pepsi can. he did not comply. every retailer told him that red bull was too
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by pinaceae 14y ago
what isn't that clear in the article, is the speed advantage over chinese-produced cheap fashion goods. the t-shirt might look the same, a sort-of copy of a Lagerfeld piece. but the Zara one is in stores practically immediately after the fa
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by pinaceae 14y ago
practically nobody used Opera, Safari only was relevant on OSX (when was it released for Win? I do not remember). Opera was innovating, but did not break any stranglehold. Remember you had to pay for it? Remember it had ads embedded? My num
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by pinaceae 14y ago
and that's why US cars suck ass compared to German ones. because, no, actually it is really hard to build a good powertrain. and this is what customers actually buy from you. your customers don't give a shit what you can do with your softwa
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by pinaceae 14y ago
i know you mean well, but you really shouldn't be posting this. it does not reflect well pn MS if one of their major differentiators, Office, was not in the loop during this major new product's development. by the way, it is even worse with
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by pinaceae 14y ago
sold units is meaningless without profit. iirc Lumias are being sold with razor thin margins (or even at a loss). see here for a more detailed analysis, courtesy of Horace Dediu: http://www.asymco.com/2012/10/19/nokias-lumia-brand-strategy
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by pinaceae 14y ago
I don't agree with the statement that ERP will not move into the cloud. The same was said about CRM (omgwtfbbq it is our customer data) - and look how the market has changed. SAP themselves are pushing HANA, which is seriously cool tech and
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by pinaceae 14y ago
oh boy aren't you smart. the old "just marketing" troll. all you need to make an mp3 player successful is marketing. all you need to make a smartphone successful is marketing. all you need to make notebooks successful is marketing.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
I don't get your point. The FDA approval system is not the problem. It is scientific and one of the toughest approval processes worldwide. It has improved dramatically in the last 15 years. Speeding up the process would be dangerous as it i
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by pinaceae 14y ago
no. the upfront costs for pharma development are prohibitive. the chances of a new molecule making it through clinical trials is really small. the economic crisis has put a lot of emphasis on efficacy for inclusion on various formulary sc
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by pinaceae 14y ago
citation? law degress seem more prevalent, looking at obama and romney alone.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
If I were Google and my main stream of income was ads, I would not give a shit about platforms and release map apps with ads for any relevant platform. Not like Google makes significant money off of Android itself. But, the more apps and pl
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by pinaceae 14y ago
see, cheap and functions as well appeals to a certain demographic. by that mindset you would never by a BMW (to stay out of mobile) - which is perfectly fine, you can argue that this brand of car does not add anything useful to the table.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
don't you get tired of this blah? HN is about founders and the IT industry. mobile technology is the biggest growth area right now. Apple and Google are dominating, with different concepts software and hardware wise. Samsung is in there as
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by pinaceae 14y ago
no, it is not personal, never. it is about the argument itself. like chess. but yes, i enjoy that style of environment, i can guess it is like professional sports. your feelings are worth crap. maybe it is a very male worldview. or a nerd
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by pinaceae 14y ago
I get the points, but being in that position - gosh, why do i bother? I have 3 people reporting to me. Designing product. I have them cause this is how you grow. Each design review is painful. They present. I shoot 500 holes in their design
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by pinaceae 14y ago
So you're a luddite then? All that minimalism but still using an iPod? What is real value? Why is value important? Is fun a part of value?
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by pinaceae 14y ago
I wasn't precise enough, I meant financial departments within companies of all areas. Finance as in banking of course has its special tools - but I would be surprised if Excel is not used for anything quick and dirty. MS Excel is not precis
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by pinaceae 14y ago
undoubtedly. of course it came after visicalc, but by now it is not hyperbole to say that a large part of the world economy runs through excel spreadsheets. and it is really hard to displace. the optimisations in that tool are amazing, yo
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by pinaceae 14y ago
'ignorance is bliss'. go ahead, tune out the news. please stop voting though, democracy relies on the informed voter. and good luck in the capitalist economy, that one relies on information as well. as this is hn, let's focus on the founder
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by pinaceae 14y ago
how exactly will profits increase in a commodity market like the smartphone one? apple and samsung make profits - who else? which margins? tablets I would understand, no mobile carriers to worry about, lots of room in enterprise to push int

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