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barista

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    Comment #7549404

    Seriously. Google's stance on this has been childish at best. Time to grow up.

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    Comment #7520121

    This is very helpful. Now all we need is autoupdate so that as a developer I can confidently depend on those new features in the dashboard to be actually deployed on client machine…

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    Comment #7491253

    Nice to see them come back so quickly admit and correct. Microsoft is making some good moves these days.

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    Comment #7484771

    That's why this release is pretty awesome that it allows you to read documents for free. It's only editing that you need to pay for looks like.

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    Comment #6998655

    I got one myself the other day and am amazed how neat the device is. Great capabilities and great battery life. Love the ability to use it with usb keyboard/mouse once in a while. …

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    Comment #6811965

    > 1) don't use Google services Is that really possible today? Have you tried to browse the web without trying to hit Google servers? Do you know how hard it is? No common man is ca…

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    Comment #6811765

    how about charging you more because you have a higher risk of a certain disease?

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    Comment #6811748

    If it was a institution where people expressly donated their data for research then that is the right way to do it. The concern is about selling that data and using it for other co…

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    Comment #6811582

    The author is trying to use that relationship to stress a point which stands no matter whether the founder is related to Google founder or not. Take that piece of information out a…

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    Comment #6810582

    What about sites like amazon that serve both type of content? Reviews for research and an option to buy?

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    Comment #6776557

    and isn't it open so that anybody can implement it for Linux and other platforms as well?

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    Comment #6776552

    Isn't Miracast the open solution that is open and supported by many?

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    Comment #6746451

    that you are ignorant?

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    Comment #6746074

    Why worse? Weren't the rrod Xboxes replaced by Microsoft? PS4 has not made any public announcement that I know of.

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    Comment #6746066

    If you clicked on the link above, you will see that nearly 40% of the Amazon reviews are 1*. There is a good chance that most of those people received a dead PS4. Agree that not ev…

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    Comment #6728729

    Didn't Microsoft demo something similar a couple of months ago. Running halo on windows phone via cloud?

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    Comment #6714626

    Does not render on IE 11!!!

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    Comment #6693761

    Can you really blame Microsoft here? The slow rate of ie adoption is from corporate users who are reluctant to update more frequently because of the risk of breaking their internal…

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    Comment #6666802

    Apple did the dame thing basing OS X on unix kernel. Google is just following the lead. The only part that the OSS community was fooled on was the hypocrisy of Google

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    Comment #6658155

    Most of the thoughts expressed there are philosophical. e.g. a good UI should work for al skill levels, It should satisfy Gestalt rule, absence of dock, etc. Of these the last is n…

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    Comment #6658138

    then you should check out Lumia 1020. The Camera is just awesome on it.

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    Comment #6658130

    Is it the name nokia that matters? I think MS got their cell phone business which is the one that designs and manufactures the phones and related tech. I am hoping that they stick …

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    Comment #6650427

    What platforms is it hosted on? Did that have anything to do with who is helping out?

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    Comment #6643301

    If text was such preferred and dominant ways of communication for deaf people then sign language would not have been invented in the first place. The fact that it is used more comm…