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by sunchild 15y ago
Or, possibly not. Either way, it's a minor victory on all sides!
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by sunchild 15y ago
Great point. Some of the most attractive people alive aren't beautiful. See the entire genre of Rock & Roll for sources.
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by sunchild 15y ago
The real problem is Excel executing embedded flash. Without that, the exploit has no purchase, or at least would require an additional step from the user.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I think the confusion is due to the attacker's focus on RSA customers like Lockheed (who were apparently compromised).
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by sunchild 15y ago
When Tim Cook says "Apple won't change", I take that to mean that Apple will continue to stay ahead of the curve. Not changing means changing everything from time to time, since that's become Apple's SOP over the past years.
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by sunchild 15y ago
It's a top-down problem. If the company's executives are pushing salespeople to work in the 1990's-era enterprise sales model, you get websites with zero useful information and a phone number for upselling.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I enjoy the idea that this account wreaks havoc on nyt.com's internal metrics.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Mea culpa, and I'm truly sorry. I mistook your plea for a demand. Seppuku at dawn?
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by sunchild 15y ago
To this day, I log into nyt.com with: user: cowboyneal pass: cowboyneal Anyone else?
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by sunchild 15y ago
Yes, I realize that it's somewhat tasteless to discuss the stock when Steve is clearly struggling with his health. I reconciled that issue a long time ago – Apple is a business, and a group of human beings at the same time. The first thing
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by sunchild 15y ago
Lots of us knew it had to be soon, even if we didn't want it to be. He looked really unhealthy in June. I was off by a few months, but here's a snippet from my Ameritrade account: 06/07/2011 12:37:38 Sold 69 AAPL @ 333.3 Granted, I hedg
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by sunchild 15y ago
CoffeeScript compiles to Javascript. Batman.js can most certainly be a Javascript framework and give examples in CoffeeScript. Many people prefer CoffeeScript for a variety of reasons, including readability. Also, you aren't entitled to
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by sunchild 15y ago
Lack of reliable free (or inexpensive) VOIP/Video conference even though I have 22Mbps/22Mbps. It is totally unacceptable to be dropped or clipped during a business conference call. Also, lack of a inexpensive, easy to use conference bridg
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by sunchild 15y ago
Here's the actual decision: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/cases/show.php?db=special&i... It looks like EMI prevailed on some claims, but not the claim that de-duplicated storage is itself a copyright violation.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I've considered offering this service via my law firm. I'm curious what people would pay for generated ToS/Privacy Policies derived from a Q&A interface. My gut feeling is that the price should be under $250.
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by sunchild 15y ago
SAP's business model is to license a framework for waaay too much money. Then they tell you to hire one of their consulting partners to (not) make it work. Finger pointing in all directions when things go wrong – but one thing is for sure
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by sunchild 15y ago
Actually, what you describe is illegal in most developed countries. Microsoft knows this better than anyone. They've been strung up for "bundling" and "predatory pricing" many times. Also, their position in their "monopoly" markets are w
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by sunchild 15y ago
HP, Dell, SAP, Oracle, Motorola, Autonomy... it feels like 1999 all over again. These companies made their own beds – rather arrogantly, too – and now they pay the piper. The whole phenomenon of the "enterprise" is drying up. I see it fi
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by sunchild 15y ago
I can tell you for sure: no one I've ever met is remotely loyal to Groupon. Groupon is viewed as, at best, a deal – at worst, an off-target annoyance. There are no meaningful barriers to entry. Margins will tend to zero in the face of com
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by sunchild 15y ago
Been thinking more about this: With http://www.google.com/patents , a collective should be able to prepare detailed research on prior art for all kinds of obnoxious software patents. That research could be neatly packaged and ready to go
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by sunchild 15y ago
I've negotiated against Autonomy before, on behalf of a customer. I've also used their products at various jobs. The company conducts itself like most enterprise vendors – everything is about making the sale while limiting the hard commit
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by sunchild 15y ago
First of all, it takes almost no time at all to learn HTML/CSS. I'm willing to bet that it takes just about as long as it takes to learn how to use all the controls in Muse. Supporting IE6 is the most time consuming aspect of cross-platfo
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by sunchild 15y ago
Honestly, I don't see how WYSIWYG GUI front-ends for building HTML are at all like compilers for high-level languages. Care to elaborate? I think your analogy will start falling apart pretty quickly.
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by sunchild 15y ago
That's my point: it's not a traditional "enterprise" market. Neither price (what you pay to Apple) nor terms are negotiable. There is a certain amount of "support" involved, via the App Store approval/appeal process and transaction disput
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by sunchild 15y ago
I could be wrong, but I think IV's model was to pay inventors for patents that the inventor couldn't afford to enforce. IV then turns around and sells blanket licenses to companies in the portfolio market space.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Doing the research for prior art seems like a great project for crowd sourcing. The lawsuits could be brought by big corporate stakeholders based on that research.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I've reviewed the iOS Volume Purchase Program in some detail recently. It's not "enterprise" in any sense that I would use that word. To me, enterprise solutions means tightly coupled service and support, and negotiable terms/pricing. iO
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by sunchild 15y ago
WYSIWYG for HTML is just never a good thing. You spend more time learning the idiosyncrasies of a crippled GUI when you could just get busy in a text file.
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by sunchild 15y ago
This issue is related to a similar issue in copyright – is the "sweat of your brow" enough to render a protected work? The classic example is the white pages.
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Wasn't Office 365 released a few weeks ago? Not off to a good start. I feel bad for corporate users who are stuck with that junk as their toolkit. I wish this were enough to convince people that they don't need Word or Excel – they just

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