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by scholia 9y ago
> let only Americans get suckered by the S version. As in, "suckered into getting a version of Windows 10 Pro for $50"? The upgrade option is already there in 10S, and it only takes a couple of seconds to authorize it.
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by scholia 9y ago
So many US schools use Apple products and/or Chromebooks and/or Android, I would have thought that approach was already unsustainable. It can hardly be essential software, can it?
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by scholia 9y ago
That's a decent, factual summary -- especially in the context of the ignorance and bigotry shown in so many other comments here. > Because the upgrade goes right to Pro, rather than Home, for $50, this actually isn't a bad dea
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by scholia 9y ago
How hard would it be to convert your custom software to UWP apps that could be deployed from the Windows Store?
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by scholia 9y ago
> I'm pretty sure you won't be able to do that with Windows S, so, no, it's not exactly like ChromeOS. You are correct, it's not. You can turn Windows 10S into full, unlocked Windows 10 Pro in a few seconds, and tha
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by scholia 9y ago
Suburbia started at Aldgate, which is just outside the city walls ;-) A good rule of thumb is (or was): Does it have black cabs?
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by scholia 9y ago
You live in the centre when you're young and single and changing jobs. You move to the suburbs when you have married, settled down and want kids, a garden, good local schools etc. When the kids have moved out, you can downsize to that
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by scholia 9y ago
Which is why Londoners move to suburbia...
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by scholia 9y ago
If you were a Mormon living in Utah, you might need space for three or four wives, not to mention lots of children...
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by scholia 9y ago
Yahoo had a female CEO before Mayer, I think. Carol Bartz (from Autodesk) ran it from 2009-11.
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by scholia 9y ago
She also made all Yahoo's products dramatically worse -- at least, she ruined the ones I used via the web. That applies to Flickr, Email and Yahoo Finance in particular. The general approach appeared to be to make things look prettier
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by scholia 9y ago
Because she didn't. Yahoo's value was the stakes it had in other companies (Alibaba and Yahoo Japan). Mayer had nothing at all to do with their increase in value, and therefore nothing at all to do with Yahoo's subseqent incr
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by scholia 9y ago
Even if you are truly self-aware, there is no view without a point of view. (And if you think you are truly self-aware, you have not read Thinking Fast and Slow. You should.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast
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by scholia 9y ago
> No news source is truly objective. No reader is truly objective either, including you ;-)
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by scholia 9y ago
> Most shoppers are extremely price-sensitive They are quite sensitive to the prices of things they buy regularly, but not as sensitive to the prices of things they buy rarely -- unless they are relatively expensive. Otherwise, price i
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by scholia 9y ago
Not at all. I'm just stating the facts. You're indulging in speculation.
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by scholia 9y ago
> I can't help but wonder how delusional you must be to buy waterfront property. I expect most of them not only bought property, they voted to make a coal-supporting climate-change denier president....
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by scholia 9y ago
That was never going to happen. The value proposition for DOS and Windows was that they were open to running anything and everything. Microsoft was the ocean, not the shark. As for adding features to browsers, they all did that. Netscape tr
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by scholia 9y ago
Absolutely agree. There are also animal products that can be produced ethically, including eggs, milk, cheese and yogurt. In passing, anybody who eats a lot of salads also eats at least a few insects ;-)
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by scholia 9y ago
In passing, "The heal is iCloud" should be heel, if there's still time to correct it...
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by scholia 9y ago
Now about those Apple routers, monitors and NAS's... ;-)
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by scholia 9y ago
I'd say Microsoft Studio was an innovative desktop platform, and so is the HP Envy Curve. There's interesting stuff happening in gaming desktops, too, including VR add-ons. If you include laptops as part of the "traditional d
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by scholia 9y ago
Indeed. Firefox is the only major browser that where the rendering engine isn't owned by a large manufacturer, ie Apple, Google or Microsoft. It's also genuinely open source.
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by scholia 10y ago
Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc certainly promoted it as a feature: "Solitaire. Hearts. Minesweeper. These are games that have been played millions of times over the years in Windows. And they are coming back in Windows 10. If you’re
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by scholia 10y ago
It's closer than I thought to my 2011 vintage Core i5-2500. I don't see any point in upgrading either.... http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-860-vs-Intel-Core-i5-2...
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by scholia 10y ago
Thanks: good points. I as assuming that Canonical support would mainly have to tackle pretty tough problems, because users will solve the simpler ones themselves. That's very unlike Windows support, where quite a lot of people get stum
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by scholia 10y ago
If you're just giving money to a company like Canonical then surely it's a donation rather than an investment. Maybe Shuttleworth should just make it a charity and invite donations. I would guess that Canonical's current st
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by scholia 10y ago
Nonetheless, I would assume investors are looking to make a profit at some point. And as far as I know, Canonical has never made a profit, nor come anywhere near it. Indeed, it's hard to imagine any circumstances where it would make a
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by scholia 10y ago
You can just save the pages in MHTML format (so each page is a single file) and keep them in "read later" folders. Or you can use one of the services that saves pages online....
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by scholia 10y ago
There were two factors here: one was the prestige of the platform, and the other was the transformation that began with the invention of the microprocessor. Both required luck. Today, it probably wouldn't be a newspaper. It might be a

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