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  1. Re: Microsoft worry? Not in my world... on Is Chrome OS Threatening Windows? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    .-NET/COM add-ins don't embed code. VBA macros don't have to
    And it's a bit funny to complain about embedded macro code and then go do Google and let them run whatever they want in your browser.
    You are correct about the TCO. But I'd like to see numbers for it being an alternative "for most".

  2. Re: Microsoft worry? Not in my world... on Is Chrome OS Threatening Windows? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What about small businesses? They far outnumber the large ones..

    Well, you wrote "most uses", not sure if that's correct when it not applies to larger businesses. Anyway, many smaller business also use add-ins, and Google Docs does not solve many of the things these add-ins exist for.

  3. Re: Microsoft worry? Not in my world... on Is Chrome OS Threatening Windows? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's way more than good enough for most uses, even business uses, and it has overwhelming advantages in maintenance, security, multi-editing, and access from any device, anywhere.

    Sorry, but office apps are moving to the web faster than Microsoft can do anything about that. Native apps aren't needed for this any more.

    There's not a single large business in the world using Office without powerful .NET/COM add-ins to automate/customize it.

  4. Yeah that's what I meant, I used the wrong English word

  5. I don't know how this works in Japan, but can't you just send a registered letter for a lot less?

  6. News for nerds on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    stuff that matters

  7. Re: Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    The link I posted in the other reply shows clearly that even at the time there was a mess about this and the version ratified by the states and authenticated by Jefferson did not have this misplaced comma

  8. Re:Does it really require this level of thought? on Why Don't We Care About The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of TV Shows? (digg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well if sex is all you want out of the relationship, it doesn't make sense to have a girlfriend either. Use prostitutes, or even cheaper, watch some porn and fap off.

    He didn't say anything about girlfriends. And in case you don't know, having sex with a person who also likes having sex with you is better than paying prostitutes in every imaginable aspect

  9. Re: Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Well this is much clearer, with the period after "infringed" instead of the comma. It seems quite clear that the US does not stop arguing about what it means precisely because it is not so clear, as written in the amendment version. Like here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Re:Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, the table is per 100,000 people

  11. Re:Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The USA has more guns than most countries, and yet still manage fewer homicides than countries with fewer guns and stricter gun laws.

    Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Re: Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    English language fail.

    Diagram that sentence.

    Unfortunately your founding fathers fucked up that sentence so bad, nobody since has been able to understand what this is supposed to mean.

  13. The checking is rarely what takes 6 hours a day, I don't know about Adobe but my email client tells me if there is new stuff. The work that follows is what takes time, but this has nothing to do with email, it's just that email is how I learn about work that needs to get done and finish much of it the same way, by writing and sending a reply.

    And seriously?

    email is most popular among people between the ages of 25 and 34 -- today's Millennial generation, roughly. That group spends an average of 6.4 hours in their Inboxes each day, compared to 5.8 hours for those between the ages of 18 and 24

    You know, maybe that's not because it's "popular" because between 25 and 34 people are more likely to work than people between 18 and 24.

  14. their algorithm is paying attention, and knows if it has shown you the ad 99 times, on the 100th time you will accidently click on it.

    I still won't watch a series I am not interested in. Showing me stuff that is relevant surely would increase Amazon's chances of me watching it

  15. It's the same for me on Prime as well. Worse for Amazon, they conditioned me to dismiss the ads immediately because:
    * When I'm in the middle of a series and between two episodes, I am absolutely not interested in a different series.
    * They keep showing me the same ads that I already dismissed a hundred times because I am not interested in them (and if their algorithm believes that I am then it did not pay attention)

    So now what happens is that I always immediately click the dismiss button and an not even seeing recommendations that it actually might be interested in. It would be so much better for Amazon and me if they simply put the series on the recommendations list that I can browse at my leisure

  16. Re:I've been using Model Ms for 20 years on 'Why I Use the IBM Model M Keyboard That's Older Than I Am' (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    It is an additional mod key just like Ctrl and Alt and is used in many window management shortcuts apart from opening the start menu. In Linux DEs as well

  17. Re:So let me get this straight on Post Office Owes $3.5 Million For Using Wrong Statue of Liberty On a Stamp (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Guy didnt sculpt and most likely in no way contributes to the statue of liberty; he took a picture of it and then gets money for a pic? lol wat

    Copyright in america is broken to all hell

    You should try to read the article

  18. Thank you.

  19. Re:Liability... on Tesla Autopilot Safety Defeat Device Gets a Cease-and-Desist From NHTSA (autoblog.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can also knit a rope and hang yourself, but being on sale as a ready-made product will give it legitimacy in the eyes of some that it shouldn't have

  20. Seems easier and more effective to ban it instead of waiting for it to kill people and the following protracted law suits

  21. /. seems on a mission to prove Betteridge's law on Can NASA Protect Earth from Catastrophic Asteroid Collisions? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    n/t

  22. Yes, if you want to watch a comedy show on Should Professional Sports Switch To Robot Referees? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    n/t

  23. Big deal on Studies Find Evidence That Meditation Is Demotivating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    So meditating made them less eager to participate in your study.

  24. Re:Please no on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No it doesn’t. Plastic is inert. That’s why we use it.

    It isn't and it isn't

  25. Re:Marx and Engels on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I was expecting that I would have to write something like this myself. "Babyboomers did it", yeah right, hahaha