You may deem me off-topic, but I hate any page that has auto-play set, that too with volume! I visited your page in Firefox with NoScript and it was playing audio right away even without the video loading. Sorry, that's bad design!
It's not just patent trolls (shell firms with no products of their own) that are the plague on this world. There are also the extortionists (IBM, I'm looking at you), and the litigants (Apple - threatening to kill VP8 by using MPEG-LA)!
Ya, it's so useless it's one of the best selling gadgets on Amazon!
Not saying you're lying, but to rule something out as "useless" just because it doesn't work for you (and the closure of your acquaintances) just makes you look stupid!
May be he went up to get permission from Steve for some other hire!
Just making a joke. This sure is remarkable and I admire this. Wish I could do it one day myself.
It's always been 1984 with Apple. They deride anything that competitors do until they turnaround do it themselves. And then, it's the most awesome thing. And the fans always agree with it. It was true of Intel architecture (from Power PC) then, and it's true of Phablets now.
Still, probably proportionally less layoffs in MSR than the rest of the company overall during these cuts. The insinuation was that Microsoft is shuttering Research entirely, which is very far from true.
I read the comment "what about them?" along with the poorly headlined link, as insinuating that Microsoft Research was being shut down. If someone thought that Silicon Valley was their main lab or didn't know either way, that headline would easily give the mistaken impression that Microsoft was canning the whole endeavor. My apologies to rasz_pl if I mistook his/her meaning.
For what it's worth, MSR historically hasn't been beholden to find commercial applications for their work. If anything, it's usually disappointing how much really cool stuff they come up with that isn't ever productized in an accessible way.
Kind of agree. The author arbitrarily took 1 year as "startup" and any business longer than 1 year as "establishment". It was probably possible to start and sustain a small business in 1 year earlier, perhaps. But now the world is integrated, and the probability of survival by serving people of your neighborhood or city, is much less. IOW, a business has to grow big and hence it takes longer than 1 year to succeed. So by author's definition, Blockbuster being disrupted by Netflix doesn't count any more because it's establishment displacing establishment.
I'm in the same boat (KeePassX and Dropbox), but I have been thinking about a peer-to-peer sync option. I don't need it to sync on WAN, just LAN sync is probably good enough for me. If it syncs between my couple of laptops and my phone, that's good enough for me. I have to see if BitTorrent Sync helps me do this.
