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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

>Have you ever seen Adobe's PDF reader on Windows? Is that really serious? OK so Adobe9 doesn't work on Vista, you can't rollback to 8 and Adobe's site won't let you download 8 if you are on Vista. But that's not really serious for the majority of PDF users who are happy to fiddle with the registry to fix things but aren't capable of installing Foxit.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

People buying Macs are a threat to Windows. Even the idea that there exists an alternative to Windows is a threat to Windows.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

It's a safe (politically, legally, physically) place in an unstable region to base your headquarters or send your workers for R+R. Monaco has survived for 500years for similar reasons without a great deal of mineral wealth.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

More tech start-ups funded (and controlled) by VCs are shutting down as VCs try to get their money out. Startups started by people who have a business plan to actually make money ,sell real product to real customers, rather than just attract VCs and cash in are doing rather nicely thank you.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

It's reporting that there are rumours = telling you something about how the locals feel. That's the reason for newspapers and reporters (and spys) instead of just reading raw data feeds. What people are saying - true or not - is the important news.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

>1. Shut down their physical production lines, immediately saving millions of dollars a year. Move to online only format. >2. Move full time staff to consultant roles, and retain a small editorial staff of the highest quality. >3. Focus less on news snippets,

The christian science monitor has done this and successfully gone from being a very local to a world wide brand.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Because people will pay for 'NEWS' but not for newspapers. People will pay for upto the minute stock market data rather than the 15min delayed version, they will pay $1000s for market reports, they will pay for WSJ articles on companies they want to buy.

But most newspapers aren't selling news - they are selling entertainment. I don't pay to find out the death toll in some plane crash the day before - I pay for a newspaper to read columnists, editorials, cartoons. That's why sunday papers are the largest and most profitable.

It's like the difference between paying to watch a movie and reading the plot summary fro free on IMDB.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Because if they didn't agree to what ticketmaster wants - ticketmaster will boycott them band/venue. Good luck setting up your own ticker sales site and agreeing deals with every other venue/band.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Usually they are bees, urinals have had them for a century

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

It is also a joke, bee in latin is 'apis'

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

You can search SO, you can see the dozens of other answers to similar questions and you can see other answers by the person answering you. Realtime works for some set of easy quick answers - if the answerers are in your time zone.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

It also says this will only be sold in none-developed markets. It's a way of selling cheap(free) copies of windows in China/India to reduce piracy while still protecting the market of business customers.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

The Apple stores will only fix Apples - that's what you're paying the premium for. You might benefit from all the new apps that will get ported to Mac if it suddenly has 3-4x the market share.

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

>Because bookstores form communities around them? The same Waterstones/B+N who destroyed the small bookstores by voiding the net book price agreement are now complaining that Amazon are undercutting them. And small bookstores by selling used books on amazon are doing better than ever!

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vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Did you switch on the TV on shabbos?

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