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robert_nsuon Digital music sales top physical music sales

This is why SOPA/PIPA shouldn't exist. People aren't criminals. I wish the corporate sponsors of these bills would open their eyes and see this.

robert_nsuon Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

> Google+ is already more usable for me than Facebook, and they already have far better tools available to deal with an information overload that doesn't really exist there yet. I'm far more confident that as more people I know starters using Google+, I won't drown in updates I don't care about.

Facebook lets you tone down updates and the like as well. Also, have you tried managing a page with Google+ yet? Let me let you in on a secret: they did not make it very intuitive.

> A big part of it is that it is just too much work to clean up what you see to a point where I don't have to wade through massive amounts of pure junk to see anything that's interesting. > No, I don't care what you had for dinner

That's not a Facebook problem, that's a "people" problem. Whenever there are people involved, you will know what someone had for breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, etc.

robert_nsuon The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal

I've been watching this for a little while. With powershell, a lot of the *nix commands have been or can be aliased to the windows commands (e.g. ls and Get-ChildItem). Judging from his notes so far, he isn't taking advantage of this, but hopefully he will.

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Relevant but downvoted and generally ignored comment.

robert_nsuon Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Some of the tools are free and some are not. Also, some are open source, and others are proprietary. I'm sure he has his favorites, but others will certainly prioritize differently; either with their wallets or their ideologies.

robert_nsuon Facebook is Hiding Your Mail

I just looked at this. Most of the messages in the 'Other' section are things I probably would have ignored anyway. I did find a five year old message that slipped past me. I was looking for a good python book and this guy recommended Dive Into Python. For a while, I was a bit aggravated at everyone ignoring my question, but I suppose I would have complained about Facebook spamming me if they would have made more effort to notify me of those incoming messages.

robert_nsuon Apple patents NFC workflow

I would much rather see Apple implement NFC in their phones before patenting what you do with it later on. There is so much potential for NFC, but we only have a handful of phones that support it at the moment.

robert_nsuon RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases

No, I (obviously) can't download a car.

Apparently, I can't send a file to someone else and remove it from my iPod, Galaxy S, Blackberry, office and home pc either.

robert_nsuon Barnes & Noble Exposes Microsoft's Trivial Patents and Strategy Against Android

> Making a Windows Mobile phone only teaches you how not to make a smartphone. Not to say it's not valuable knowledge.

I don't follow. Could you elaborate for me?

robert_nsuon Redesigning the country selector

I like this. However, I'm wondering if including all the common and local names of a country would become too cumbersome during implementation over time.

robert_nsuon Dell confirms: Secure Boot disableable

Two words: Hanlon's Razor

robert_nsuon The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage

I would like things better if I were the only anything scanning my emails, but we all know that will never happen.

robert_nsuon Is Nokia's CEO a Microsoft mole?

I was under the impression that they wanted to transition to Windows Phone or Android. Anything to help them become/stay competitive in the mobile space.

robert_nsuon Motorola Droid Razr

I'm actually interested in getting this based solely on the fact that it is a Razr. I've been dogging Android lately, but I've always had a soft spot for Razr's. The only other thing I would like to see is a detailed tear down of this new Razr. All in all, this may be a phone that can withstand repeated (accidental) abuse from me.

robert_nsuon Iris Is (Sort Of) Siri For Android

Not going into details, but yes, I was/am pretty mad at Google and Samsung. Seven months of use followed by a total loss of data left me with a negative attitude.

robert_nsuon Iris Is (Sort Of) Siri For Android

In all seriousness, they probably should have called it something other than Iris. I'm not a fan of Android these days (since my Galaxy S died on me at a really bad time), but this name will (most likely) fuel the fire of Android being a total rip of iPhone.

Of course, I might just be reading too far into the name thing. Their humor is pretty obvious.

robert_nsuon Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

RIP Dennis Ritchie. I can't honestly say that I've spent an entire day at work over the last five years without looking at something that was either created by him or inspired from his work.

robert_nsuon Netflix kills Qwikster

I'm streaming only. It boils down to me not watching enough TV to justify the two. I might spend 3 hours in one evening consuming some form of media, but I have to decide whether I want to play a game or watch TV.

robert_nsuon Nuance To Acquire Swype For $100+ Million

Wow. For a second there, I thought that said Skype.

robert_nsuon Steve Jobs has passed away.

RIP Steve Jobs

robert_nsuon Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting

You can script and automate IIS and MSSQL using powershell. I'm willing to bet dollars against pesos that if MS hasn't made everything in Windows scriptable via Powershell, they are currently working towards it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh245198(v=SQL.110)....

robert_nsuon Microsoft has lost $9 billion on Bing

I wish I had a nickel for every time someone told me the blue "E" has gone missing from their desktop.

robert_nsuon Don't confuse it with Quickster, QuickStar, Quik-Star, Kwik Star, or Kwikster.

I agree. I said the same thing to a friend last night.

robert_nsuon Sony to ban gamers from PSN unless they waive right sue over security breaches.

I'm not an expert in these matters, but I am interested to see how this will be interpreted under Louisiana's redhibition laws.

robert_nsuon Microsoft Garage releases Mouse Without Borders

You don't, however, I think the article is playing up the word "innovation" a bit too much. All I see is some guy (who works for Microsoft) writing a program to make his life a little easier.

robert_nsuon Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

Yeah, that's the one. I use this for my office keyboard and a Logitech G510 at home.

robert_nsuon Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes

I looked at the heatmaps, then looked at my keyboard. The keys with rubbed out labels nearly match his findings 100%. My 'N' isn't (only because the key is slightly larger than my other keys). Other than that, he is spot on.

robert_nsuon Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO

relevant link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20102379-93/revisiting-yaho...

robert_nsuon Yahoo up for sale

I'd like to see if they can get $45 billion this time around.

robert_nsuon Cosmos - OS Written in C#

I played with this OS, but didn't do too much with it. I remember reading a paper about it though. The author ported ext2 to Singularity. If I can find a working link, I'll post it.