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>That is one of the reasons. That's the primary reason as I've been told by former MSFT employees. > But free as in beer, when you also take into account things like support, doesn't exist. Support exists, red hat and o
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Krita + Gimp can cover nearly all use cases from my understanding. Yes, as I mentioned GIMP doesn't really have CMYK support so that's limited to RGB editing (web, digital etc..), however Krita has it and has come a long ways. So
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The free upgrade was to gain critical mass for the upgrade, they learned with vista, 8/8.1 that users were happy with xp/7 and wouldn't pay to change, even with LTS running out. Free upgrade was a way to convince a lot of tho
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From a rudimentary reading. They introduced a state cache to fix conditions where applications poll continuously for certain states (mouse button press for example). This wasn't thread safe however, and multi-threaded applications coul
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To be fair, this is not for CS5 compatibility specifically (that was one of the more visible impacted apps), but multi-threaded applications that continuously poll for mouse state against a non-thread safe state-cache introduced in an earli
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There is a second factor. McDonalds is seen as unhealthy fast food relative to other fast foods (subway etc..) To combat this, they introduced a 'healthy' menu that makes people think mcdonalds isn't that unhealthy, they have
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> in some respects it's hard to come back at Project Veritas outright lying and fabricating stories to try and discredit news organizations seems like it can come back on your no matter what happens. In this case, Veritas has egg on
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Or maybe not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader Loose money to attract users/creators who put more money into the system. I don't see how this would qualify as dumping in any way.
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I'm not sure if props is any different yet TBH. Give us money for tokens we promise you will give you access to content you want at a later date? Depending on how much of that money goes towards content creation or attracting content c
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>including punishment for false claims I don't see that happening any time soon. The automated nature of the takedown system (which is really required due to volume) is going to have a set false positive rate. the very same companie
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One could argue you can stretch any term to mean something and then it becomes meaningless. That doesn't make the argument valid. In your case, you're wrong because Digital Currency means "Only Digital", where the form o
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9y ago
Title: Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital Currencies Combined Digital currency does not require decentralization, not sure why you and others keep bringing this up. They aren't claiming to be the biggest decentrali
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I'm amazed at your lack of knowledge on a subject you insist on repeatedly commenting about. Net Neutrality has existed longer than you pretend, nearly 15 years in various forms that have gotten stronger over time. We have past example
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9y ago
RT specifically, but this type of media package was sold to a large number of media outlets, public and private. Twitter itself is public and has become 'the medium' for much information.
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Fraud and problems should be seen as two different things. This looks like a clear case of fraud. lying to investors and regulators. That isn't a "growth problem" from having a target on your back, its a legal/cultural&#
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Propaganda has got a lot more interesting with the growth of the private sector.
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It was a production defect, it was not working as designed. The software fix to disable the feature on all devices before they start being sold means there is little likelihood that this specific problem will impact any customer. Google jum
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They've already moved to become a full forwarder, including warehousing, order consolidation and other services (or are in the progress), so I imagine this valuation is based on the market for forwarders, not brokers. from the article:
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9y ago
It depends on if you're hiring the general contractor or the guy to install the cabinet doors.
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It's bad/overly casual language lacking professionalism. I don't even know many "bro's" who would write like this, and it's a female author who seems to consistently write in this horrific style.
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This seems conflicting: >It was at the same time that Travis agreed in writing to modify the company’s voting agreement to ensure that the board was composed of independent, diverse, and well qualified directors. Despite agreeing in writ
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Ubers legal battles were because they didn't license, and thus got kicked out of multiple cities by violating their requirements. By working with licensed drivers/companies or licensing their drivers, they would have avoided much
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I would disagree with the order of events here. His actions and business practices directly led to 'a world allied against uber', and getting kicked out of cities. That wasn't incidental, it was a direct result of their choic
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>travis + allies being more long term His actions and bad management hardly seem long term based thinking. While you could be right that is his intention, his actions to date, the bad management issues well documented, or his possible pa
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Did you? They didn't explicitly say the company signed off on the talk/presentation, just the project.
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Aware and signed off on the project and aware and signed off on the defcon presentation are two different things. I only know what I've read in this article and discussion on this, but I don't read "Salesforce executives were
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I thought so, but at the same time I've seen not sarcastic approaches to open office plans that aren't that far off.
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>And you don't have to be "easily offended" to dislike interacting with Linus. If you don't do something because of a personal dislike, and expect others to cater to your culture and personal preferences, then the pro
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I wouldn't say he is unreasonable. He is firm, strongly opinionated, and doesn't waste time catering to irrelevant feelings. That isn't "unreasonable", more "difficult" in my mind as far as personal intera
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That sounds horrible. Also extroverted vs assertive, I would lean towards engineers are assertive but not extroverted. There is a whole lot more to extroverted that isn't included in speaking your mind, and that speaks directly to why
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