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opal
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Comment #338059
But those names suck.
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Comment #335653
4.53% is the accepted ISO standard.
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Comment #335650
Seeing if people are willing to pay for it is still a great metric. But until (if ever) the advertising bubble actually pops, extremely few web products will be best served by free…
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Comment #335620
There is always a competitor willing to give more away for free with the bet that they can make up for it once they control the market. This is for the WEB though where cost/user i…
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Comment #335612
The real genius of bittorrent is how it brings together many people who are interested in sharing the same file all at once so you get great download/upload speeds. This mostly isn…
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Comment #335556
Very true. On the web, it's not uncommon for free vs paid users to be 1,000,000 to 1. For desktop apps it may be different, but online, way over-hyped.
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Comment #334403
No we don't, accurately, and thanks for nothing.
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Comment #334400
Wow, interesting. The only shortcoming is that you made this all up. People in PLENTY of more evenly paired occupations flirt all day long. If flirting is something a woman hates t…
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Comment #333569
Now lets look at the men's situation.
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Comment #333398
Just to add, the guys have it far worse in this situation.
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Comment #328878
Crazy in that it's a big shift. Crazier if it actually happens. I don't see anyone saying that it's a bad idea though.
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Comment #328268
Will is a strong word for so early.
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Comment #327880
No time for no return.
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Comment #325275
January is a heavy vacation month...?
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Comment #325270
I'm sure that there are some colleges where other factors have greater influence on the behavior of the college. But for the vast majority, all that I've seen, the schools are oper…
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Comment #325137
I guess he got bored with the pickle slicer.
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Comment #324992
No. You can compile the vast majority of unix projects on linux and run them with no modifications. Darwinports is ok if you want only the top 1% of popular projects, often several…
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Comment #322985
Too bad it's a fake *nix. Not compatible out of the box with 95% of linux applications.
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Comment #322042
I signed up for a site like this before.... never heard from them again. Good luck making it popular enough to work.
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Comment #319851
Java's "write once, run everywhere" is a sham. Even within just the mobile targets.