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by scholia 11y ago
> It's not necessarily bad It is necessarily bad if you make yourself (or, more important) your business totally dependent on somebody who is a monopoly supplier. > doesn't mean that philosophy failed, and the recent resu
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by scholia 11y ago
One of the things that didn't run on NT4 was the AOL client, which was a pretty big thing for consumers at that time.
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by scholia 11y ago
Sure, because it's obviously better to use closed, proprietary hardware from a single source than one that's not just open to global competition but lets you build PCs yourself....
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by scholia 11y ago
The EU fined Microsoft for bundling the Windows Media Player, and forced it provide a version of Windows without the Media Player. Nobody bought it, so apart from providing the EU with some cash, it was completely irrelevant. It was also ch
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by scholia 11y ago
> Are you suggesting MS has legitimate claims to IP used in android? Are you suggesting that MS has no legitimate claims to IP used in android? It seems to me that companies wouldn't do thee deals if there was no case to answer. I
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by scholia 11y ago
Techrights is an anti-Microsoft hate site, and would never let actual facts -- or the lack of them -- get in the way of its bigotry....
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by scholia 11y ago
From November 8, 2010
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by scholia 11y ago
Yep, games certainly looked and sounded better on the C=64.... Might be fairer to compare the Atari 800 with the Vic-20, since the Vic-20 came out well after the Atari ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
Jobs was shown the door because the Mac flopped. It had nothing to do with the ][, which was keeping Apple afloat.... > That "cheap toy" delivered the ability to learn to program to more kids than Apple's BMW priced compu
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by scholia 11y ago
TIME magazine cover story 1982: America's Risk Takers "Steven Jobs, 26, the co-founder of five-year-old Apple Computer, practically singlehanded created the personal computer industry. This college dropout is now worth $149 millio
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by scholia 11y ago
Apple dominated the microcomputer market with the Apple ][ before IBM joined in with the IBM PC in 1981. Apple targeted the business market with high-priced machines including the Apple III and the Lisa. That's where it lost out to IBM
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by scholia 11y ago
> The C=64 had a built-in sprite generator. It had first class graphics (for the era) baked right in. The C=64 had much less powerful graphics than the Atari 800, which was out well before the C=64. The C=64 got big by reducing build q
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by scholia 11y ago
> I hear that Europeans are lean compared to North Americans) A lot of them [us] are catching up, especially in the UK, where the diet has been Americanized.
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by scholia 11y ago
> still refuses to give up milk Good for her! Milk is one of the most nutritious foods you can get. Lots of protein, vitamin B12, calcium, riboflavin etc. It reduces the risk of osteoporosis -- important for ageing people -- and tends
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by scholia 11y ago
You are correct.... The McGovern committee (of the U.S. senate) published the first Dietary Goals For The United States in 1977. This was supposed to reverse the epidemic of heart disease. McGovern rubber-stamped the prevailing views first
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by scholia 11y ago
> so many factors at play like lack of alternatives you don't take into account It looks as though there are no real alternatives now but that wasn't the case when Facebook was starting out. It was much smaller than MySpace,
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by scholia 11y ago
> Depends what kind of info you're looking for. Of course. However, the simple-minded truism that you can find obscure technical information in obscure places doesn't make YouTube or Stack Exchange a replacement for the New Y
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by scholia 11y ago
> if Apple really wanted to mess with Microsoft, they could make OS X installable Microsoft once offered to help Apple to make Mac OS a widely-used industry standard. Apple decided it would rather sell $2,500 PCs than $50 software ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
This is like wanting a history of movies that doesn't mention any movies. You're welcome to try it (1). That's a good way to prove yourself wrong ;-) (1) I've done quite a bit of it myself.
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by scholia 11y ago
Where do you think insights come from? Are they generated spontaneously out of thin air in the absence of facts?
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by scholia 11y ago
Good luck finding high quality content on YouTube or Reddit, because roughly 99.9% of it is garbage. It would take a full-time staff the size of the New York Times, and with a similar level of research and linguistic expertise, to winnow th
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by scholia 11y ago
People will produce "long-form writing on a specific subject" but usually only if they have an axe to grind. They are not necessarily independent and their work is not necessarily subject to the editorial checks and balances that
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by scholia 11y ago
So that eliminates almost all the financial stories, all the hardware and software reviews, and all the sports coverage, just for starters ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
The problem is that the content that's "free and free of advertising" probably won't be very good, or very well researched, or independent. High quality content often depends on access (which can be hard or impossible to
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by scholia 11y ago
Yes, if you're prepared to disregard truth...
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by scholia 11y ago
Ah, thanks!
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by scholia 11y ago
I do the same, except I use Vivaldi for Google sites ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
Might be a factor of certain systems. I was registered with NMI (not having a middle name) on IBM computers in the early 1970s. Not seen it since.... We were still using punch cards back then.
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by scholia 11y ago
When it comes to privacy concerns, people can be highly selective. Look at the lack of furore over Google Android compared to Windows 10, for example.
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by scholia 11y ago
Missed point error: they are different products. Regardless of people buying smartphones and owning multiple devices, PCs are still selling well. In fact, they are selling in greater volumes than in most previous years. Smartphones also ben

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