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Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 247

by Doogie5526 (#25772091) Attached to: Success Not Just a Matter of Talent

I think those problems are because once you have a successful business model, you then try and diversify without undermining the successful business model. I feel it's a totally different ballgame. Although, this doesn't exactly explain Vista, win mobile, and digital music (but other than to compete with Apple, why would they have pioneered digital music?)

I think entrepreneurs are good at working at what they got, usually with a single strong vision of what they want and usually working well with limited resources.
Communications

Submission + - Apple Silencing Rejected Appstore Developers (dailytech.com) 2

Submitted by MarkvW
MarkvW writes: This should add fuel to the fire. Apple is apparently slapping nondisclosure agreements on developers who get rejected from the Appstore. I got this from Anandtech which got it from DailyTech.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Close but no Cigar from Netflix 1

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Ponca City, We Love You
Ponca City, We Love You writes: "In October 2006, Netflix, the online movie rental service, announced that it would award $1 million to the first team to improve the accuracy of Netflix's movie recommendations by 10% based on personal preferences. Each contestant was given a set of data from which three million predictions were made about how certain users rated certain movies and Netflix compared that list with the actual ratings and generated a score for each team. More than 27,000 contestants from 161 countries submitted their entries and some got close, but not close enough. Today Netflix announced that it is awarding an annual progress prize of $50,000 to a group of researchers at AT&T Labs, who improved the current recommendation system by 8.43 percent but the $1 million grand prize is still up for grabs and a $50,000 progress prize will be awarded every year until the 10 percent goal is met. As part of the rules of the competition, the team was required to disclose their solution publicly. (pdf)"
Operating Systems

Submission + - Are .tmp files necessary or just bad programming?

Submitted by planckscale
planckscale writes: After spending another hour deleting .tmp files from a bloated XP machine I started to wonder, is the .tmp file necessary when coding an application on the MS platform? Why do so many apps produce .tmp files and is it just because of bad coding or does the use of them dramatically speed up an app? Don't coders use dev/null to reduce them in linux? I can understand the use of them in case an app crashes for recovery purposes, but why don't more apps have the capacity to delete their own .tmp files once they are done with them? Is it too much to ask to at least have the option when closing an app to delete your temp files?
Be

Submission + - How to make people to like you more

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anwar001
anwar001 writes: "Making people to like you can be beneficial in many situations — be it in politics, social relations, public meetings, sales calls, business meetings, relationship with your boss etc. Here is a neat little trick. I did not find an appropriate category to put it in, so placed it under science as it really has some scientific principles to it."
Media

Submission + - Killer's alleged step-mom writes to Gabe of PA

Submitted by Shambhu
Shambhu writes: In this Penny Arcade post (scroll down) Gabe displays an email received from someone claiming to be the step-mother of one of the teenage killers of a homeless man that got so much press recently. The letter was in response to Gabe's earlier rant about the media blaming video games for violent crime which included a link to this CNN article. It doesn't make for very pleasant reading, and while I don't know how or when the authenticity will be confirmed, the letter confirms what most people expected: that these kids were not 'normal' in most senses of the term.
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Which Is Better for Vista Gaming, ATI or Nvidia?

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mikemuch
mikemuch writes: "It's fairly well known that PC games run a bit slower in Vista than in XP, but by how much exactly? And to what degree should the graphics drivers be held responsible? Jason Cross compares game performance under Vista using Nvidia and ATI hardware. He ran 3DMark and five popular games at three different resolutions first on XP, then on Vista, and reports the difference. Surprisingly, in a couple of cases games actually ran faster under Vista."
Programming

Submission + - preferred C++ source file extension

Submitted by bobl
bobl writes: What is your preferred C++ source file extension?
  • .c++
  • .CC
  • .cpp
  • .cxx
  • .g++
  • .cbn

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