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by tanzam75 13y ago
So how are you solving the problem of connecting desktop app to web app? Are you writing an Excel add-in to propagate and receive changes? Or making changes to OpenOffice? P.S. You complained about the selected-cell animation in the web a
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> I do not know what you mean by "Microsoft knows it and invests in it accordingly". For me, the big quality of Excel is that it has almost not changed in 20 years. If Microsoft changes anything in excel, this will hurt millio
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> The UI of Google spreadsheet works much better than Excel (not to mention OpenOffice). No such nonsense as, for example, you can only paste something you copied once. I'm not seeing this. You can indeed paste from the clipboard
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Here's an alternative scenario -- The technology is 20 years ahead of the need, or it takes 20 years to work out the kinks in the process. So the patent expires just as it becomes valuable. But once the patent expires, no company can
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by tanzam75 13y ago
It is good practice to offer multiple shipping options. Package delivery differs greatly by location. In some areas, the postal service is the best. In some areas, UPS. In some areas, Fedex. That having been said -- because of the disco
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> You're only accounting for the RAM power. Accessing the SSD costs power, too. A typical modern SSD reads at 500 MiB/s, consumes 3 watts when reading, and 0.3 watts when idle. A stick of DDR3 RAM consumes about 3 watts, just
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Windows' Task Manager has generally counted memory occupied by the disk cache as "available." Windows Vista got lots of complaints about memory usage, because Task Manager listed memory as Total, Cached, and Free. Peo
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by tanzam75 13y ago
I'm not convinced that insurance fraud will actually be a big problem. Just do a random spot-check of all the policyholders that the insurance company is claiming a subsidy for. If the amount claimed is more than x% over the amount ca
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> The funny thing is, your own comment could make you look like an "asshole" in a few decades when moral fashions change again. Oh really? Do we look at Abraham Lincoln was an "asshole" because he referred to "
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Well, it's not quite that bad. Until open enrollment ends, you could always drop your off-exchange coverage and re-buy on the exchange. So up until March 31, you only lose a pro-rated portion of the subsidy due to you. That's
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Your last sentence indicates you know the truth about the statement your penultimate sentence makes. Which might be better stated as "Which means you earn enough to pay for healthcare according to this dog's breakfast known
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Well, there's the caveat that the Federal site has the last word on whether you're really due a subsidy.... It's worse than that. You are required to buy through the exchange to get a subsidy . The way the law is wri
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Single-payer wouldn't have had this problem, because you wouldn't have needed to sign up for anything ...
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Someone who underwithholds has to have that money in the first place to do so. Sure, they may have spent it, but it suggests an ability to earn money commemorate with the debt incurred. ... With insurance subsidies, scamming "ins
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> I'm suspecting that there's a diversity of situations among the people in the individual market that would make this challenging. These are people who are self-employed, or have low wages, or irregular work. I'm afraid
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by tanzam75 13y ago
The Kingdom of Hanover was not named after the family. Rather, both the Kingdom and the House of Hanover were named after the capital city of Hanover. This is quite common for Western European royalty. Because they didn't have actual
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> And there's certainly a desire to avoid fraud given that schedule of payments, if I'm correct about it. But why is it any different than the desire to avoid fraud through underwithholding of income tax? If someone files an
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> What percentage of people with individual plans (who need to get new plans) would actually qualify for subsidies? I don't, so I have more options: (1) I can buy another individual plan from my insurer (2) I can shop other insurer
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Office 2010 only uses their own copy when running under XP though unlike older versions and 2013 don't support XP at all so they don't have their own copy anymore. That explains why Office 2013 isn't vulnerable. That,
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> TIFF is a great example of how a terrible specification can lead to endless security vulnerabilities in parsers. TIFF is an Adobe spec, and we all know how great Adobe is at security ... Actually, TIFF predates Adobe involvement. It
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> I'm running firefox with noscript on Win7/64 and have Word 2007 installed on the system. ... at no point did I open a word doc ... So, I guess the question is, how paranoid should I be? Security advisory 2896666 covers onl
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> The stock is up $1.61 on the day, the stock did not tumble, what tumbled was wall street's interest. Up $1.61 at the closing bell, then down $22 after-hours, equals down $20. Quite a substantial move for a $176 stock -- at least
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Besides, it's refreshing to find a site structure from the 1990s that hasn't succumbed to link rot.
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> When I read campaign stances on this site last year I was really surprised how socially moderate their campaign was. If you were surprised by Dole/Kemp from 1996, you should look at when Bob Dole ran for Vice President -- Ford
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> I actually got a bit sad during a trip a few weeks ago when I saw that Meigs Field had been demolished. And Microsoft Flight Simulator has also been cancelled. :-(
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Win9x is not a portable OS. Because of its DOS and Windows heritage, the underpinnings are very much tied to x86 and would be difficult to port to ARM. (Although not as difficult as OS/2, which uses the dreaded ring 1.) Whereas Windo
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> It was also one of the first movies to combine significant CGI with real-world interaction. The was no CGI in Who Framed Roger Rabbit . It was all traditional animation, hand-drawn on celluloid sheets. It wouldn't be until Te
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Apparently I had Win8RT confused with WinPhone. WIn8RT allows you to sideload freely. WinPhone requires you get a (free) developer's a account, but still has tight restrictions. Windows RT does not allow you to sideload freely.
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Aren't you comparing conditionally-issued insurance with guaranteed-issue health insurance? In addition to guaranteed issue, the Obamacare plans have (1) an annual out-of-pocket limit (2) no annual or lifetime limit on benefits
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Microsoft brought in a new ad agency for the Surface 2. If they did the Hulu ad, then this was a change for the better.

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