jmcintyre

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by jmcintyre 13y ago
It's something like being a devil's advocate, plus being a fan. Spreading mistruths actually hurts things. When people say things like "Windows 8 won't boot without secure boot enabled", it's no longer opinion(
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
No, and never did. I am actually working on NetBeans/PHP/Drupal(gah!) on the other monitor, though I am primarily a C# guy. And even I did work for MS, how does that invalidate any of my points? If I worked for Microsoft, does tha
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
Sorry to reply to myself but I seem to have found a source for the below. >I find it really hard to believe that quarter of all computer sales are Chromebooks. Does anyone have a source? One would expect Google to announce real shipments
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
>"has seen Chromebooks race to a quarter of all computer sales and one fifth of all new PC school deployments." Are there any hard numbers on Chromebook sales apart from nebuluous things like "being on top of Amazon"
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
Also this: >It’s a little known fact that top contributors to EE got VIP treatment. They were flown to different locations around the world, wined & dined, and got lots of cool swag (computers, tablets, etc). When the experts came to
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
If their crime was only that they ranked highly because of the text in the questions and sold access to answers, I would be okay with that, but EE decided to let Google index the _answers_ too, for SEO purposes, and then hid the answers to
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
Apple stimulates brain's religious responses, claims BBC http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/apple-stimulates-brains-reli... I guess this isn't true just for Apple, but for other major brands as well.
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Terrebone Parish teen arrested for using app to "shoot" classmates(ksla.com)
2 points by jmcintyre 13y ago|0 comments
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E-ZPasses Get Read All Over New York (Not Just At Toll Booths)(forbes.com)
269 points by jmcintyre 13y ago|164 comments
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
From http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee... . >In at least four cases, Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, according to a source close to the incidents. In
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
I think the announcement was a setup, but not the person who asked the question. It was pretty obvious that someone was going to ask that question, you could bet on it. The person writes this: >Skepticism be damned, I'm actually an
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
Wasn't the Moto X supposed to be super configurable like this? It got me excited from the rumors and the hype. At the end it turned out to be just some colors that can be picked. http://www.talkandroid.com/154586-rumor-
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
There's also this fee among a lot of other fees while applying: In 2007, the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA), reported on two programs, the High Growth Training Initiative and Workforce Innovation R
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
Except that with physical titles it's pretty inconvenient to pass around disks all the time, so there's a natural limit to sharing. With the new kind of sharing, you could share your library with someone on the other side of the c
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
It isn't just the colors, the shape and the plastic back look quite similar to the Lumia 620. https://www.google.com/search?q=lumia+620&tbm=isch&tbo=u
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Google charged $14.5M for abusing Motorola FRAND patents in Microsoft case(9to5google.com)
1 points by jmcintyre 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmcintyre 13y ago
Wasn't there a company that did a similar sentiment analysis on Twitter and wanted to trade the stock exchanges on that information? I wonder what happened to that.
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Microsoft Wins Trial on Google’s Patent Licensing Tactics(bloomberg.com)
44 points by jmcintyre 13y ago|17 comments