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Comment · 13 years ago
Reaver drop was not invented by Zileas, he only popularized it.
Comment · 13 years ago
It may not depend on it, but it will improve it by some small margin most of the time.
Comment · 13 years ago
There's a VS plugin from the company that makes IDEA, called Resharper. Resharper + VS >> IDEA :D
Comment · 14 years ago
IMHO they would never do that and you're just being naive ;)

Encryption in the browser would mean no targeted ads, less profit for shareholders, problems with the government.

Again IMHO the reality of today is governments and big business are controlled by a very few people, working against the interests of the masses - i.e. a huge conspiracy.

Comment · 14 years ago
"a company that's supposed to be beholden first and foremost to its users" - it's only supposed to if you're stupid enough to believe the PR talk. Generally Microsoft is as trustworthy as Google and any other big corporation (i.e. not much, when it comes to power struggle - which is what privacy is all about).
Comment · 14 years ago
Many still have IE 6.0 on XP SP3 ... It's fully supported by MS.
Comment · 14 years ago
Writing a good novel is pretty hard to do, why are people not just republishing old ones?
Comment · 14 years ago
Of course they are similar, they both stole the concept from Lisp.
Comment · 14 years ago
Mentioning poor, useless Quora when the topic is billion dollar companies makes me laugh.
Comment · 14 years ago
I guess you can say that. There will be lots of MS bits in, once the site goes up :D
Comment · 14 years ago
Or about the music and movie industry?
Comment · 14 years ago
Of course there is, e.g. any government/public funded mobile app will have to be developed on Android first or only.
Comment · 14 years ago
Full license, including the name, access to Play, all Google apps is between $10 and $20 per device. The license comes with a very good rate for every online search made from an Android phone or tablet.
Comment · 14 years ago
They don't have to grow ecosystem, it's Samsung store would be just another site to upload your app beside Google's and Amazon's.
Comment · 14 years ago
Aha John, good thing this is a new account as it's gonna be silent banned in a few hours ;-)

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