I'm not eager in getting or testing the new windows 10. After they figure out all the bugs or at least once it goes to consumer market I will try it, it is that the purpose of Focus groups and usability test, to evaluate...
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@ david. Good point. They really how to asses to gain a market advantage using this technology. Some other company can come up and make it better beating them in the market.
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Maybe I'm cynical, but I wonder how long it will be before phones that look curiously like the iPhone begin to outsell it in China 10 to 1. And i wonder how long after that until Apple sells it phone line to a Chinese co...
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@Jastroff- I like the way you put it. It is like we're whispering in each other's ears. I've noticed the only time anyone does that anymore is children (well in a public setting). Maybe we should learn from our kids and...
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Nice to see Surface doing well. I like the product. I can't help but note that Microsoft is a software company that is increasingly making its revenue from have some physical thing involved. Cloud revenue requires them to...
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Well, it's not very exciting, but one way to "round it out" would be with a dual source plant. Use solar energy when the sun is shining, and turn on the gas when it isn't. What about the practicalities? Does it take the...
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Wonderful observations, @dave The beauty of the telephone is that it capitalizes on the intimacy of the voice of the caller being directed right into the ear of the person being called (sorry, speakerphones). For people...
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@Charlie- I don't think this time around they are going after Apple's customers so much as Apple's seamless use. I find Apple to be underpowered, but I know when I sit down to one of their things it is like all their other...
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@Gary_El- True. While solar is getting very efficient and cheaper, it isn't getting "more available." We need to store it better or round it out with other stuff. I guess my issue is that it feels like a consolation prize....
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It looks like a case of "what's old is new again". I think that the only reason that this is desirable or at least necessary is that there doesn't seem to be any remotely efficient way to store solar energy for when the...
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@Joe- My wife is a big Sims 3 fan. She is now exploring Sims 4 and enjoying it as well. I'm not a fan of open-ended games. I like rewards and goals and missions. But if you don't mind making your own goals or having no goals,...
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Why containers in the cloud? Miles Ward, global head of solutions for Google's Cloud Platform, said in a blog Jan. 9: 'Rapid availability: By abstracting just the OS rather than the whole physical computer, this package...
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@joe- Sounds great! Going to check that out. It reminds me of another game that I truly love. I think it is called lifeboat. The idea is that a ship is sinking. Your family gets on a bunch of life boats with othe families....
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Indeed, wasn't this what the recent Palo Alto-Juniper patent squabble was about? As I recall, it involved the difference between technology that didn't let suspect traffic through at all versus technology that let...
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My brother restarted GTA V today, and it occurred to me that that would be a great game to start stuck in the snow, because the first mission starts in a snow-filled setting.My brother and I, however, are presently...
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Thanks for the link! I happen to have come into possession of Sims 3 by accident; I bought it for Christmas for someone but she didn't want it. I have yet to try it out.
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The foreign board game I like best is Kolejka (English translation: Queue). It's a Polish board game that's about life in 1980s Communist Poland. The whole game involves standing in various lines for scarce...
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@vnewman2- That's OK. Your parentes probably didn't know who Leif Garret was. :)
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@Gary_El- I toyed with being a physics major, too. Then I ran into a level of calculus that cleared that up. :)Not to belittle a new natural gas infrastructure but that sounds so 19th century. I thought that was how Rockefeller...
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@Nomi- It will be interesting to see if the new browser from Microsoft learns from the IE mistake, too. If it does, then they have really started to do an organizational turn around which will be impressive.
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@TerryB- Don't worry. There were instructions on the USB on how to make the right USB. :)
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