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15 years ago @ TechCrunch - Why I’m Craigslistin... · 0 replies · -4 points

Why doesn't Microsoft port the Office Suite to iPad? Are they concerned that they wouldn't sell enough copies to break even? Or that it would somehow impact the sale of Windows 7 on similar devices down the road? Or that there is the appearance of selling out one's own efforts in another building?

15 years ago @ TechCrunch - Facebook Has Been Mass... · 0 replies · +2 points

It is hard for me to let go by without comment the claims that Facebook increases by 6 bazillion users each minute because doing so assumes each account belongs to a brand new unique user. Some folks out there, especially the gamers, have multiple Facebook accounts. I have two; the second one I use to check what the public can see of the first account. My wife has several. I'd be ok if FB says they add 6 bazillion _accounts_ every minute because that's something they'd know for sure.

15 years ago @ TechCrunch - AOL To Sell Bebo For A... · 0 replies · 0 points

First, AOL bought the company for a billion in the first place, and then (!) AOL is going to give the company away? The article doesn't even begin to speculate about what's really going on. Correcting the operating direction of a 1 billion dollar web site biz just two years after purchase doesn't cost another billion dollars to implement. Are the operating costs anything like too expensive for words? I can tell you right now they're not. Is someone guaranteed to be paid a gazillion samoleons if AOL continues to own the site after 24 months?

15 years ago @ PLATO History - PLATO History: What To... · 0 replies · +3 points

There were Chicago PLATO terminals at Malcolm X College, Wright Jr. College, UI Chicago (nee Circle Campus) in '74-'75 'cuz that's how I got on while attending high school in Chicago, I'd switch between 'em so that they wouldn't notice me sneaking time on the terminals. I don't know how early those sites were installed, but I would expect the Circle Campus site to be an early one. A few years later, a friend of mine, Marco M., became a PLATO site administrator at Truman College while he was attending high school; he showed up in a suit, interviewed and got the position. The college kids treated him as an instructor because he dressed up and looked the part.

15 years ago @ The Loop - Apple sued for distrib... · 0 replies · 0 points

This GlennF guy gets around...

The thing is, I don't access the iTunes store as a web site. If you typewww.itunes.com, you wind up at a web page on apple's web site that talks about iTunes, but isn't iTunes. To get to iTunes, you need to install the iTunes App.

-Mike

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