recoiledsnake

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Nobody Really Likes Google Glass (businessinsider.com)
8 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|10 comments
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
>Gmail is designed for everyone and has to support the full spectrum of users, in particular the new ones (because they're the ones picking new email accounts - consider that they're partially trying to target people who still don't hav
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
But the toll free numbers that these kind of services typically operate from have a different system which cannot be spoofed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_identification
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Court Denies Motorola Billions From Microsoft for Patents(allthingsd.com)
2 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|0 comments
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
HN comment thread discussing Tripathi being one of the bombers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575392
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
The issue is that they don't have a big moat like Google, Facebook and Amazon do. Competitors are nipping at their heels(the big decline in margin from a year ago shows it) and one bad iteration of their products is enough to turn the tide
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
The real news is that their margins seems to have shrunk dramatically from 48% to 38% and profit is down 18% from the year ago quarter. Looks like they're facing pressure and are dropping prices to maintain sales.
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Why Amazon Supports An Online Sales-Tax Bill(npr.org)
1 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|0 comments
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ICloud servers again experiencing major outages for a growing number of users(9to5mac.com)
1 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|0 comments
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Texas Explosion Seen as Sign of Weak U.S. Oversight(bloomberg.com)
2 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|1 comments
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
jere's was a rhetorical question. It took me a second to get it but I got it on first reading. One clue was the lack of a question mark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
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Apple Breaks Below $400 for First Time Since December 2011(cnbc.com)
2 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|0 comments
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Apple Stock Skids to One-Year Low Amid Signs of 'Lacking Demand'(cnbc.com)
2 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|0 comments
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Motorola Plans Stock Android Phones, Sized 'Just Right'(pcmag.com)
4 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|0 comments
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
Why isn't Microsoft's Windows division included in "the entire PC industry" ? Or even Intel?
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
Edit: Boston police reporting at least 2 dead, 22 injured and 10 people losing limbs. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/explosion-reported-near... Looks like there were two explosions. Picture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BH6fCgFCQAER
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Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line(wcvb.com)
872 points by recoiledsnake 14y ago|586 comments
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
It will be interesting to see Apple's Mac sales numbers this quarter. Last quarter they were down close to 20% year-over-year. My personal theory for some of the loss in sales is that PCs are lasting much much longer than they used to. I ju
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France threatens EU action over Apple App Store ban(reuters.com)
15 points by recoiledsnake 14y ago|23 comments
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
>as a user I want to be able to find the best apps for my task. Quality apps. Apps that will help me achieve whatever it is I'm doing. And I want Apple to decide that Why? Anyway it's abundantly clear that Apple is failing at that task,
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
The HN Rankings graph does show a slower decline, so my best guess is that it was flagging. http://hnrankings.info/5523672/
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Microsoft account to get two-factor authentication soon(liveside.net)
1 points by recoiledsnake 14y ago|0 comments
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
>something like 90% of them were found to be bogus Reference?
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The Wayland/Weston Fork Is Now "Banned"(phoronix.com)
3 points by recoiledsnake 14y ago|0 comments
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
>Boot into recovery mode with Esc-Refresh-Power, hold Ctrl-D at the right moment, confirm that you want to wipe the stateful partition, and away you go. Yes, switching to Developer Mode requires deleting all non-OS data on the Chromeboo
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
My reaction to something nasty like this would've have been to stand up and ask the person to leave and if they don't, just walk away. This is nowhere close to being acceptable. Where does this person work where it's acceptable for employe
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
Your Surface RT(if you really have one) does not come with a Windows 8 Certified Logo sticker.
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
First, Windows 8 runs fine with secure boot disabled, so there no need to "disable-reenable-disable-again etc. to switch between operating systems". Second, how many folks that are able to install and configure Linux are unable to turn a se
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
>It's about microsoft insisting that the only pre-loaded encryption key is theirs, to the exclusion of all other encryption keys. Please, stop the FUD, it just makes people look totally ignorant. Microsoft does not insist that in any sh
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by recoiledsnake 14y ago
Stats from Steam show Windows 8 to be close to 11%: Windows 7 64 bit 55.11% -0.37% Windows 7 13.40% -0.43% Windows 8 64 bit 9.92% +1.03% Windows XP 32 bit 8.35% -0.62% Windows Vista 64 bit 3.87% +0.57% Windows Vista 32 bit 2.72% +0.18% MacO

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