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Comment Re:The beaks won (Score 1) 138

I think it has more to do with being light weight since birds fly.

RFTA

Flying mammals like bats have the ability to fly without forgoing teeth for a beak.

Archaeopteryx, widely considered the "first bird." . . . flew, and sported plumes and chompers.

Comment Re:Short sighted (Score 1) 230

You shut down your laptop? What year is this? 2002?

It's another one of those years when MS Windows tells me it's going to automatically shut down my laptop in a minute, unless I'm looking at it at the time the dialog box pops up letting me delay the shutdown for 10 minutes or 4 hours.

Comment Re:100% Agree (Score 1) 567

Personally, I disagree.
I seldom need only one document open at a time, and landscape works much better for viewing multiple documents, especially when they have "standard" 8-1/2"x11" pages.
In addition, most of the documents I work on are in landscape mode already (typically 17"x11", 36"x24", 42"x30", or bigger), so why try to squeeze them into portrait mode?

Comment Re:two is better than one (Score 1) 567

That may be what you need, but what I need is two large monitors in portrait mode arranged top to bottom.
Most of what I work on (construction drawings, spreadsheets, photos, etc.) is in landscape mode. Documents in portrait mode work great side-by-side on a single monitor.
Unfortunately, all I have is a medium sized monitor and a laptop screen.

Comment Re:Here come the certificate flaw deniers....... (Score 1) 80

No matter how hard you try to fail-safe the use of software made by someone other than yourself, the entire thing boils down to trust of the user in the vendor, anyway.
The problem exists that this entire chain depends on trust in each and every one of the links, and if any one of them becomes compromised, (or even compromise themselves on purpose - NSA?), it becomes a trusted attack vector.

Comment What that subscription will get you (Score 1) 415

The question is, what will subscription get you.

From the COO's talk to investors:

But, we're able to have coopetition, a new word that we're continuing to learn the exactly what it means and how we are able to create swim lane clarity around.

Zero-royalty on nine-inch and below devices . . . You're seeing $99 Windows tablets, embracing and extending the ecosystem by lighting up some of these new business model scenarios, allowing us to monetize the lifetime of that customer through services and different add-ons that we're able to be able to incorporate with that solution.

Office and .NET going cross-platform, very important for us, again, to embrace and extend and I'm excited about those changes, being able to run on iOS and Android, as well as our own platform.

So, what you'll get is the "Embrace & Extend" treatment.
Extinguish is on hold for now, I guess, until they see how Embrace & Extend goes.

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