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by scholia 10y ago
Cutting out most or all processed foods is a great start. There are plenty of nourishing high-fat foods that you can eat, and that are good for you. This includes eggs, avocados, salmon and mackerel, macadamia nuts etc [1] > All these t
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by scholia 10y ago
Most of the Fortune 500 still use IBM mainframes, which are still the children of the S/360 launched in 1964. The interesting questions include: how long does it take to move off them; how reliable is the move; and what happens to your
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by scholia 10y ago
I wasn't, I was making a joke. Have you used Firefox in the past couple of years? Even if it were slow (which it isn't), it's not doing surveillance for money. If you really want a Chromium-based browser, you could always use
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by scholia 10y ago
I've been watching like a hawk for the past couple of weeks and not found anything that does it, so I assumed it was just made up. However, the only app I use is Microsoft Health.
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by scholia 10y ago
Aha, many thanks. I read the story and missed the link....
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by scholia 10y ago
How did that get here? I was disappointed to find that it didn't mention the greatest Russian Hamlet, which was the 1964 black and white movie version directed by Grigori Kozintsev (1). This used a translation by Boris Pasternak. It wo
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by scholia 10y ago
Great idea. I assume that could be offered as an extension for the non-computerate, but I don't expect G+ has anything like Facebook's share of the non-computerate audience....
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by scholia 10y ago
Thankyou ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
I don't see how this would work, even as a conspiracy theory. (1) People who own Irish government bonds get interest on them, and can sell them whenever they like. $14bn isn't going to make any difference in that context. (2) Bond
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by scholia 10y ago
Exactly. I wish I could claim to be viewing a new wonderland of Google Plusness, but it ain't so... Of course, if you logged on, you'd also see your own profile pic. This is useful if you've forgotten who you are.
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by scholia 10y ago
Only a very bad person would put the crappy performance of Google products in non-Google browsers down to anything nefarious. Really, they just don't care ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
Agreed. It's interesting to compare with Facebook's web layout. The timeline column isn't much wider, but Facebook fills the extra space with information. (Menu, Trending stories and ads etc, friends' activities.) I&#x27
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by scholia 10y ago
Dictating for voice recognition is a skill you can learn, just like typing. More than a decade ago, I saw voice dictation working 100% perfectly. The guy who did that was being paid to do the demo by the software company that wrote the voic
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by scholia 10y ago
> I think I know what a radio phone might do. Radio clocks even exist I assume a radio phone would be a walkie talkie, and those can still be useful. Further, I used to have a cheap mobile phone that had a built-in FM radio, but now I
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by scholia 10y ago
I had the same experience -- I have numerous PCs and no evidence of any attempt at a forced installation. Not even on my wife's PC, and she's as non-technical as people get. I've generally assumed that people either don'
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by scholia 10y ago
The business model hasn't changed. Windows is an always has been a paid product (with some minor variations) and Microsoft is not a significant player in the advertising business. (AOL does sell Bing ads, I think.) Of course, if you ha
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by scholia 10y ago
Another serious question. I used to love my Model M but switched to a cheap Fujitsu split keyboard. Anyone have a view on which is the best Model M-alike with a split format? I have my own office so I don't care how loud it is.
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by scholia 10y ago
If it were there, you'd have to assume that Bob Zeidman would have found it. He's spent enough time looking. He therefore feels safe in offering $200,000 for it, which makes the whole thing look like more of a publicity stunt....
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by scholia 10y ago
We must have had a dozen of these in the 1980s. An internal IBM one was I've Been Moved. Others I can still remember include Install Bigger Memories, It's Better Manually, Itty Bitty Machines, and Idiotic Bumbling Morons....
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by scholia 10y ago
IBM: You can buy better, but you can't pay more.
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by scholia 10y ago
It was hosted by SoftLayer, which IBM bought in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftLayer
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by scholia 10y ago
Have you tried Vivaldi? Chromium-based, very configurable (including keys), lots of features, and they are always interested in adding new ones. I dropped Chrome after Vivaldi came out, but there are plenty of other Chromium-based browsers
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by scholia 10y ago
True, but it probably reduces the range of products you can work on ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
How can this not get fixed after 10 years? You'd have to assume that googlers use their own Calendar, so why aren't they out with pitchforks to incentivize the programmers? Do the in-house Calendar feeds get refreshed every hour o
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by scholia 10y ago
Microsoft launched Office apps for iOS in 2014. So when did they start writing them? UPDATE Note: Office 365 already supported Macs, and alternative browsers.
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by scholia 10y ago
> Windows mobile OS trying to compete with iOS and Android - which they seem to have given up on. Microsoft's strategy is to be cross-platform, which is why it has dozens of apps on iOS and Android, and supports Linux on Azure. Mi
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by scholia 10y ago
Google has been trying to monetize its online suite since 2007, when it introduced Google Apps Premier Edition for $50 per user account per year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Apps_for_Work > very bad at mon
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by scholia 10y ago
I have the same problem. At one time, more than half the Gmail spambox was legitimate email, so I had to check it every day. (It was so bad, I kept screen grabs as evidence.) This year, things got much better for a few months, and now they
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by scholia 10y ago
Does needing an account really make it a walled garden? I borrow books and CDs from a public library: I need an account. I borrow videos from BlockBuster or stream them from Netflix: I need an account. I want to comment on HN or whatever:
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by scholia 10y ago
From the Guardian story at https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/29/buy-design-cla... "Take, for example, the famous Eames walnut and leather armchair with matching ottoman. The officially lice

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