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by scholia 10y ago
The first Microsoft spreadsheet, which ran on DOS, was called Multiplan. The graphical versions of Word and Excel were developed for the Mac. Windows versions of Word and Excel superseded the DOS versions of Word and Multiplan.
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by scholia 10y ago
Loads here in Firefox (not e10s, with about 100 tabs) in 2.962 seconds -- 232K loaded, with 70 images. No delays or freezes. I'm also running uBlock Origin and Ghostery, which is blocking 7 trackers....
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by scholia 10y ago
Firefox got to be much better a couple of years ago. In my experience, it's generally equal to or better than Chrome.
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by scholia 10y ago
I stopped using Chrome a couple of years ago because of multiple crashes per day. The browser itself didn't crash, but individual tabs did. Or else Chrome tabs failed to load (giving just a pale blue background) presumably because it h
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Yes, I think so...
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by scholia 10y ago
A lot of research comes out of universities, where it gets publicized because people want their research funded. Google's contact lens project for example, originally came out the University of Washington and Microsoft Research got pub
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by scholia 10y ago
Yes indeed. Chromium is open source, and Chrome isn't. Which is where I came in ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
4-minute YouTube video (2015) by Arika Okrent at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhqr-GNNgGo
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It's in The Register.
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Chrome is more proprietary than Vivaldi, and both based on the same open-source Chromium. The main difference is that you can read the Vivaldi source code (even though it's not open source) whereas you really have no way of knowing wha
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by scholia 10y ago
All of which may be true but misses the point. The size of the US market, and the availability of venture capital, means that there is no level playing field, and it's therefore almost impossible for most non-US tech companies to compe
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by scholia 10y ago
This may well be true. However, it's better to have a behavioral problem without guns than a behavioral problem with guns widely and easily available.
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Some academics tested 110 popular, free Android and iOS apps in the Journal of Technology Science. They found that "73% of Android apps shared personal information such as email address with third parties, and 47% of iOS apps shared ge
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by scholia 10y ago
The business model is the same as every other browser: monetized search, plus a small number of paid-for bookmarks. However, Vivaldi is a small operation so it doesn't need many users. Also, it's self-financed so there are no outs
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Right, because it's not a level playing field. I could start a company in a small European country for €X but tackling the US market would cost me 10 times that, which I haven't got and can't raise. However, the comparable US
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by scholia 10y ago
Which is a very polite way of pointing out how out of date it is ;-) I think I read most of those books they were popular, but I'm not that much younger than he is. I'm not sure I'd recommend all of them now....
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by scholia 10y ago
It's also known for its porn industry and has, or used to have, a big sex exhibition, Erotica Sex. Sadly, I don't speak from experience on this....
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by scholia 10y ago
The BBC says: We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the p
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by scholia 10y ago
Yes, I agree completely....
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by scholia 10y ago
Thanks, I'm very happy with 0 ;-) Agree on the stock market. Luckily I don't buy stocks and shares or (a) I would have made big losses or (b) made big wins and been jailed for insider trading....
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Where should we send them, if we think of any later? PS Love the idea of your calendar and hope to consult it....
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by scholia 10y ago
Delaying the move to Windows 7 cost them vast amounts of money due to more frequent crashes and reboots, less efficient operations, greater susceptibility to malware, and generally higher support costs etc. It didn't save them any mone
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by scholia 10y ago
Yup, overall, it has been doing fine. It is not doing fine at the moment, which is the usual implication of the word "is". However, I note that my accurate and true comment has been downvoted anyway ;-)
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> Apple's is doing fine under Cook Apple's stock price peaked at $132.54 just over a year ago and recently bounced from $90. Over the past year, Apple is down about 20% on NASDAQ and the S&P 500....
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> Similar happened to Balmer, he came in after the boom was over. Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, before DOS on the IBM PC transformed the company. He was a big part of its success all the way through..... > But tr
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> And, unfortunately, it seems like intelligence-led prevention is the only real way to stop terrorism I wouldn't expect British Airways to do its own SIGINT but there's no reason why it can't source that info from the c
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It would be interesting to know how the TSA-free airports are doing. How many passengers is San Francisco losing, or gaining? Given the widespread view of the TSA's lack of competence (which has been easily demonstrated by tests), I su
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The airlines actually care about the safety of their planes, because failures have a significant impact in the marketplace. TSA staff don't care to anything like the same extent. If they screw up, they probably get more money and more
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You could remove the TSA and let airlines do their own security checks at the gate. Airlines really don't want their planes hi-jacked.
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> it's probably the best mobile choice in regards to those factors right now Well, I use Android, but it basically has no privacy. I ought to be bothered enough to install Cyanogenmod, but I haven't.... > someone who has

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