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   by scholia 11y ago

   Real science is just about universal, whereas non-science varies with geography and fashion. I'd be happier with "real phsychologists" if they were closer to the "real science" end of the spectrum. More like, for e
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   by scholia 11y ago

   Good points. Microsoft, of course, had a major problem, which was how to get the market to move from DOS-based Windows to NT. Not even offering OEMs 75% off the price of NT managed to shift them. Ultimately, Microsoft had to do whatever it
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   by scholia 11y ago

   Well, Microsoft did go with "NT OS/2" -- it just quickly replaced intended OS/2 compatablility with Windows compatibility. Otherwise, IBM claimed Workplace OS was new code. NT, of course, wasn't written for x86 in t
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   by scholia 11y ago

   A period when IBM was spending more than $1 billion a year on OS/2 and WorkPlace OS to try to kill Microsoft? A period when IBM formed an alliance with Apple and Motorola to create a PC Reference Platform to try to kill both Microsoft
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   by scholia 11y ago

   Windows was selling well while OS/2 sales were, to quote Gates, "dismal", and Microsoft couldn't afford to support a failing project. (IBM may have had more programmers on OS/2 than Microsoft had programmers.) Thank
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   by scholia 11y ago

   They're certainly refocusing but Azure and Office 365 are both growing rapidly. Of course, they're cannibalizing their own stuff. The interesting question is the effect on revenues a few years down the line.... Microsoft has also
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   by scholia 11y ago

   IBM at its peak was much more dominant than Microsoft ever was. Microsoft -- thanks to IBM (via PC DOS and Basic) -- eventually became the IBM of software. But Intel became the IBM of processors, Cisco the IBM of routers, Google the IBM of
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   by scholia 11y ago

   Spending $25 billion on a PC company was a pretty dumb idea. Spending $25 billion on Compaq, which had spent almost $10 billion on DEC, was even dumber: either it duplicated the existing business (PCs) or complicated the existing business (
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   by scholia 11y ago

   IBM has a smaller turnover and employs even more....
10. 1180.▲
    by scholia 11y ago

    Which run of the mill wireless keyboards have mechanical key switches?
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    by scholia 11y ago

    Based on more research on mice? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413114... I love the graphic with this paper....
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    by scholia 11y ago

    Maybe. Or else it could be about Chaos theory, as in the famous "butterfly effect" (a very small difference in the beginning can make a very large difference in the end).
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    by scholia 11y ago

    Interesting... but the million images were released in December 2013. http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013...
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    by scholia 11y ago

    > Mac forums are stull full of people hating on Microsoft Which is odd because Bill Gates appeared at the Mac launch and Microsoft was the biggest and keenest early supplier of Mac software. Microsoft even offered to help promote the ado
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    by scholia 11y ago

    For most people, "online" means "the web", so roughly two decades of online services (1975-95) have ceased to exist. This includes FidoNet, Usenet, Prestel, Teletel, CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy and too many others to mentio
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    by scholia 11y ago

    You can improve the signal/noise ratio by using lists to follow groups of people with common interests. This is even more work, but in some cases, you can follow other people's lists instead. You can get an even better signal&#x2F
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    by scholia 11y ago

    Facebook. That's really Twitter's major problem. Facebook used to be mostly friends chatting to family and friends, but nowadays it's the single biggest source of news links and the sort of viral spam that used to circulate o
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    by scholia 11y ago

    I see "while you were away" on the browser/desktop version as well....
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    by scholia 11y ago

    The Fujitsu KBPC E is a similar USB keyboard. Quality is adequate -- no mechanical keys etc -- but it's pretty flexible and you can sometimes get new ones for low prices on eBay. Since the split is adjustable, you can experiment with t
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    by scholia 11y ago

    The rear-engine design was pioneered in the 1950s by Sud Aviation with the SE 210 Caravelle. It was very successful for its time.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sud_Aviation_Caravelle
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    by scholia 11y ago

    I haven't seen that message from Bing. However, when I go to Google in IE, I get the same type of message. It says: "A better way to browse the web" and "Get Google Chrome". Google has been doing this for years. Of
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    by scholia 11y ago

    Has anybody switched to writing on a screen as a regular thing?
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    by scholia 11y ago

    I was an "ink monitor" at school in the UK in the 1950s. My job was to go round and fill up empty inkwells. It was the pinnacle of my career ;-) I don't remember any problems. We were very well-behaved.
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    by scholia 11y ago

    Mmm, Desktops v2 seemed to work OK, though I never tried it in Windows 8. And there were always third-party alternatives. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881 I am glad that virtual desktops
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    by scholia 11y ago

    Sorry if I'm being thick, but I'm using the same clipboard to paste between the same two documents, so I still don't see why GDocs should interpret them differently.... I can try clearing the clipboard between pastes: would t
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    by scholia 11y ago

    Ask the people who spent years attacking Word for being "bloatware" ;-)
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    by scholia 11y ago

    If somebody out there has a reliable way to measure resource consumption in Windows (Mark Russinovich?), I'd be interested in a comparison between (say) a thousand word document in Word and the same document in Google Docs in Chrome. I
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    by scholia 11y ago

    I just don't get how we still allow closed source operating systems for critical business tasks. Maybe I'm a bit behind the times, but some collection of VM, MVS, OS/390 aka zOS, CICS, IMS, DB2, RACF, SNA, Oracle, SAP etc e
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    by scholia 11y ago

    I get this as well, and I have another problem. I usually work in Word but one company wants things in Google Docs. OK, I create the document in Word in Times Roman and paste it into Google Docs.... which converts it into Arial. If I copy s
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    by scholia 11y ago

    I use Ghostery and uBlock Origin, plus "Google search link fix". Ghostery is opt-out by default and works well. I trust it more than I trust AdBlock. uBlock Origin doesn't use as many resources as any of the versions of AdBlo