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by scholia 10y ago
> Same with email: I have a few addresses but my primary one (99% of the time) is tied to outlook.com Open a Gmail account and get it to collect all your email from outlook.com. Also, set up mail forwarding so all your outlook.com emai
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by scholia 10y ago
On Device Research said the overlap was only 24% in the USA. 45% only used Facebook and 31% only used WhatsApp. Also, WhatsApp was strong in some parts of the globe where Facebook was weaker. In particular, WhatsApp was used in mainland Chi
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by scholia 10y ago
Same in the UK....
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by scholia 10y ago
Odd that they won't work in a £700 phone when they work perfectly well in a £10 phone.....
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by scholia 10y ago
Can you ELI5 why this is a benefit, please? Cellular bandwidth is expensive and supplies are finite. You can add more bandwidth, but that generally means building more cell towers etc. By contrast, a single FM broadcast can support millions
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by scholia 10y ago
Wasn't that story thoroughly debunked? The data flows didn't support it, and Facebook denied it.
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by scholia 10y ago
> the coverage in the 'impartial' BBC has been anything but Really? What do you have in mind? Which mainstream sources have been more impartial?
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by scholia 10y ago
> Writing is subjective. Your idea of elegant prose is different from mine, especially when context isn't specified. Yes, the context being the important thing. Creative writing is somewhat subjective, but other fields have more
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by scholia 10y ago
I note that "good software they enjoy using" includes software that people have been using happily for many years, but less experienced users might still find a bit of a nightmare. As a Windows user, the tools I've used for a
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by scholia 10y ago
Not heard of it before (I'll go and get it) but have you compared it with Search Everything? https://www.voidtools.com/ Maybe the names should be the other way round because Search Everything just finds filenames while
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by scholia 10y ago
> Of interest there are rumours that the EU is to announce a superstate http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/683739/EU-referendum* The Express is a provably unreliable source with no interest in telling
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by scholia 10y ago
> Perhaps it's because the media coverage has been so one sided All the most one-side media coverage was on the Leave side, wasn't it? The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express in particular -- the main mass-circulation t
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by scholia 10y ago
> If you think you can get a better deal than the one we have now, you are irrational or uninformed, if not stupid. Sad but true. It seems to me the EU has every incentive to offer the worst deal possible, to discourage other EU states
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by scholia 10y ago
Are you really coding all day on a laptop with no access to power points? That doesn't sound very ergonomic. Why not use an external battery pack? http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/macbook-portable-battery/ I gue
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by scholia 10y ago
A short survey....
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by scholia 10y ago
Works here....
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by scholia 10y ago
Sorry if this is not much help, but I'm not seeing any instances of """ in Firefox or Vivaldi (Chromium-based) in Windows 7 Pro.
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by scholia 10y ago
Great selection! I'll be working through those.... There's a CD of Pachelbel's Greatest Hit - The Ultimate Canon (2003), which has 14 different versions of the Canon. https://www.amazon.com/Pachelbels-Greatest
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by scholia 10y ago
There were so many rival versions, it almost became a competitive sport. MattRach was also amazing -- better than the original, I think. He did several versions.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAj5LiXG5w
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by scholia 10y ago
I assume this got downvoted by somebody who doesn't know the facts and/or didn't understand the point. If so, this is a pity, because it's better to learn from what you don't understand, rather than downvote it out
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by scholia 10y ago
They're avoiding paying taxes on it (as is Microsoft). It's more profitable to raise debt at low interest rates than repatriate cash and pay taxes.
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by scholia 10y ago
Link should be to http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/techflash/2016/...
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by scholia 10y ago
> it means that any "improvements" are always going to be pointed at the lowest common denominator, which has a habit of leaving power users out in the cold. Power users usually remove any influence they might have by opting
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by scholia 10y ago
See: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality by Clay Shirky (February 8, 2003) http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/powerlaw_w... "In systems where many people are free to choose between many options
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by scholia 10y ago
Yes, it's fine to have both -- no objection from me. However, switching keyboard layouts tends to be difficult for most people, and the gains are generally rather small. Many if not most users would be better off devoting the same amou
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by scholia 10y ago
Well, they're more ergonomic because you can align your hands with your arms, instead of twisting your hands at an angle. This is a matter of fact. You are entitled to prefer a flat keyboard -- that's entirely your choice -- but i
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by scholia 10y ago
Seems a little strange to concentrate so much on keyboard layouts rather than switching to a split or ergonomic keyboard....
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by scholia 10y ago
What's more, PowerPoint was pretty much free. The Microsoft Office bundle was cheaper than buying the programs separately. You probably bought Office even if you just wanted Word and Excel.
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by scholia 10y ago
Correct. The sufferings of the ones who'd learned IBM Displaywrite were even worse....
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by scholia 10y ago
> I think the Macintosh doesn't get enough credit for what it inspired at the time. I think Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for what it did for the Macintosh ;-)

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