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Do you plan adding voice recognition later to test our pronunciation too?
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> Applications should provide this option in addition to "buy".

I recall reading that this is a hard requirement for apps that offer in-app purchases.
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Please retain original article titles as per the guidelines [1]. In this case, the new title is also inaccurate.

This article is actually called "Microsoft's plan to stop Bing's $1 billion bleeding", and the loss on Bing alone is $5.5 billion since mid-2009. It was only Microsoft's total online services division losses that reached $9 billion, and that was since 2007.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"The coverage in question was to include images of injured civilians, which were allegedly removed by Khanfar."
When was the last time that the major media in the US showed injured or dead civilians? The tendency to sanitize the effects of war is hardly limited to Al-Jazeera.
I really don't like how people consider App Store apps "legit" and all the rest "illegal hacker shit".

Jailbreaking is simple and performed by millions. Support issues aside, if I were selling iOS software I would offer it in the App Store as well as on Cydia.
Because what The Science Museum wants to do is interpret them rather than simply dumping them out there. There are thousands of pages of documents which the Science Museum has already catalogued. What they are going to do (if I understand correctly) is build a web site so that people can access and search them in an intelligent and useful manner.

This is not about bandwidth.
"For that to work people would have to change the way they think about microsoft as well"

I honestly don't really care that Bing is part of Microsoft - if they consistently started finding noticeably "better" search results than Google I'd stop using Google in exactly the same way that I stopped using AltaVista/HotBot/etc.

YMMV.
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Tried the Japanese one... Can I suggest you stick to the hiragana and katakana syllabaries? You've thrown a couple kanji in there and it's confusing for some of them because you want the kanji form, but others you want straight hiragana... With no rhyme or reason for it.

I also just tried a French one (not the one you linked) and the hints to the side were less than helpful. I guess that's to be expected from a user-generated list. I think I'm also not used to listening to French, and that didn't help... Couldn't really hear what was being said. Again, that could just be my ears, though.

All-in-all, I think it'll be great learning tool... But I thought I'd bring the above to your attention.
You needn't single out Fox, since all of the major US networks behave similarly in this regard. Some wear their bias on their sleeve a bit more than others, it is true.

Instead of quoting a Fox News anchor, I can quote Dan Rather, who sad the following when the Iraq war was just beginning: “Look, I’m an American. I never tried to kid anybody that I’m some internationalist or something. And when my country is at war, I want my country to win, whatever the definition of ‘win’ may be. Now, I can’t and don’t argue that that is coverage without a prejudice. About that I am prejudiced.”
Sometimes I get the feeling that SCOTUS thinks they have said something meaningful when they haven't. It would be a decent study to see if judges are just re-applying their priors but, of necessity, using the language of Bilski.

That would be better than statements about conclusions, since it would help build a clear set of criteria the Court can apply to itself when they want their ruling to have a predictable effect.
Yes! Why didn't we think of this before, we could just... go back to doing what we were doing before that never worked very well!

People already complain about too much competition on the App store. On the web you're competing with virus' and everything else as well. And people have to figure out where you are.

Having your app on the App store is like having it in some giant big box store. Having it on the web is like having your app somewhere on the planet.
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I wonder what else is in the online services division?
"Bing will likely be better than Google over time, but even if it is, users and advertisers still need to go to them," said Sid Parakh, analyst at McAdams Wright Ragen. "To be clear, this will take a long, long time to play out. This is something Microsoft will continue to lose money on."

That's an example of an annoying tendency that I see in many news sources. Why is a vague quote from an investment advisor relevant here? Who is Sid Parakh and what justifies his opinion? I see nothing related to search on his linkedin profile, at least.
Foreword: I've been using various flavors of Linux for a good chunk of the last decade (since 2001) and totally ignored Windows until last year, so I am no Windows fanboy.

2. This may be true for the good old cmd.exe but.. have you tried PowerShell? I've been playing with PowerShell 2 on Windows 7 and found that it leaves little to be desired. It is self-documenting (a-la Emacs). It can be extended using .NET. You can pipe entire objects instead of unstructured text streams. Coming from a strong UNIX background I /am/ impressed and actually think it is way better than a POSIX-compatible shell. I even wrote a couple of scripts [1] to post-configure my Windows 7 installation in a similar way I do on Linux with Puppet [2].

7. This is true even for Windows, in my experience. Every time I do a Google search for troubleshooting I am directed to Microsoft's Knowledge Base or the (free) MSDN website.

11. AFAIK, you can uninstall the GUI component on Windows Server 2008 (you will be left with a heavily stripped down GUI, without the usual graphical shell)

12. It may be a pain but at least it is a consistent way to store configuration settings and it is widely adopted as such. Compare it with the plethora of different configuration file formats used on a typical Linux/Unix workstation (Mac OS X being the exception since they seem to consistently use XML-based property lists almost everywhere). Each system has its strengths and weaknesses but I wouldn't call the Windows Registry "a mess".

I don't comment on your other points either because I don't have enough first-hand experience with it (1, 4, 5, 9, 10) or because I partially agree with you (3, 6, 8).

Anyway, it seems that you're a coming from a strong UNIX mindset and that you try to forcefully shoehorn it to Windows (3rd and 4th points), along with (my guess) lack of experience in certain areas of Windows administration (2nd point).

As for me: I was really impressed by Windows 7. Some things I really miss are a decent Window Manager (but this is true of every commercial OS I've ever tried) and a good software management solution (either a decent, standardized, package manager, an AppDir mechanism like OS X or both).

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[1]: https://github.com/lvillani/powershell-2
[2]: http://puppetlabs.com/
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Now apply that statement to other things we use today that collect a lot of data on us.
Then again, Google was new with no baggage of previous wrongdoings.

Many people remember how Microsoft operated in the past (and I suppose, in the present).
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Mea culpa, Obi Wan.

A couple of levels up I mistakenly thought that the +1 buttons next to my search results were an early buzz effort for Google+. I thought "recommend this page" implied "recommend this page to my friends on Google+". I made that mistake because of the name similarity and the timing of release. If a marketer introduces an ambiguity, I don't think it's the responsibility of the target to disambiguate the message.
I thought that the transcripts were a very interesting read. He raises some very interesting points. Not that many issues transcribing verbatim either.
I bet if you asked 100 people in the street who owned bing, less than 10 would say Microsoft.
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Violating a partner company's NDA to give personal opinions of an unreleased product can be a severe matter.

For comparison, if a Sony employee tweeted the following: "The iPhone 5 is using Sony's CMOS camera module, that's pretty cool. The call quality on the iPhone 5 is ok, I would rate it a 7 out of 10" -- do you think that Apple wouldn't mind?
Sounds like bing probably represents better bang for your advertising buck than google at this point. Could be good deals there for marketers.

For microsoft's part, it just seems like they're always one step behind google, which is one step behind Facebook, which sooner or later will be one step behind someone else when they've maxed their revenue from their current business and feel compelled to stray from their core competencies. History repeats itself and the young grow old.

Also, thought it was an interesting bit about bing gaining marketshare from yahoo (their partner) and not google. Ouch.
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You're being generous. At least 98 of them would say, "What's Bing?". Almost certainly more.
There were loads of search engines around when Google started - as far as I recall people started using them because their search results were dramatically better than what you'd get from other sites. Simple as that.
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Let me elaborate. Google.com it's the ultimate advertising resource in the Internet. Google+ is now being accused (i don't have an opinion, i don't have an account and I don't have the real numbers) of stagnation and Google just:

1) opens Google+ to everyone
2) makes this arrow

It is a cohesive move: You put an arrow because it's open and it's open because of the arrow.

But, giving the timming, one could think that someone at the C level at Google agreed to use 'the nuclear option'.

If that doesn't work for Google+, Google is out of options to push Google+ for good (it could run tv ads. but it won't, and it would be expensive and not really a good way to promote a social network).

Also, other people could find it confusing and reject the idea just because it's too "right on their face".

But, it could work super! That would be bold (because of the risks named above) and great for Google & Google+
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This seems like over-analysis to me. Why is said villain going to be printing a gun? To rob money, right? And what is he going to do with this stolen money? Buy a car? Why doesn't he just print that instead?

I think when the day arrives that we can just print out whatever we can get a blueprint to the world will be so drastically changed that our current biggest concerns won't even be relevant anymore.
I remember Google having reported various problems with their app store in the past, so the accusation is not valid, at least with respect to what we're discussing here.
The examples of "semantic search" reported in the article don't look innovative at all to me. Giving you specialized results (eg maps) based on the search query has been done for ages, and expanding on that can be useful but it will hardly be revolutionary.

Moreover, trying to guess the semantics of user's queries can be very annoying to some users, especially the geekier ones which are often also the trend setters in this area - there are lots of people already being pissed off by google when they search for synonyms of what you type, and not exactly what you type.

Competition is always good and I hope that Bing and Google will make search always better, but I'm not so sure how useful will be what was reported in this article.
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Wouldn't this draw anti-trust battles?

Could be -- it sounds like a possible "tie-out" (a variation on tie-in). AFAIK There haven't been many tie-out cases, but as antitrust litigator George Gordon [1] put it a few years back, "The term “tie out” is often used to refer to arrangements in which a license prohibits a licensee from dealing in and/or developing competing, noninfringing technologies. [Footnote omitted] Such arrangements have been found to be intellectual property misuse and could form the basis for an antitrust claim as well." [2]

If MS were to do something like this, I imagine Gary Reback [3], its nemesis in previous antitrust battles, would be all over it ....

[1] http://www.dechert.com/george_gordon/

[2] http://www.dechert.com/library/Analyzing%20IP%20License%20-%...

[3] http://www.garyreback.com/garyreback.html
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There are real diminishing returns on technical interviews. If you've got well thought out, well structured questions that cover the key areas for your organisation, unless you're doing something massively complex or specific, you can work out whether someone has the level of competence you're looking for in a couple of hours.
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One wonders why with an apparent 15% share they're losing so much?

Also find it interesting that they're gaining share, while the article states it's from other providers but Google, doesn't that still mean that these users are actually choosing Bing over Google? That they're chosen it because it's better?
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Shorts in a car can generate an awful lot of heat and smoke - within the confined space of a car this can be pretty alarming.

I've been in a passenger in a car that had a short in the facia while driving - the car immediately filled with dense choking smoke and we nearly crashed. Scary stuff. This wasn't recently though - I hope the standards for in-car wiring have improved a lot over the years!
Increased by 100% would mean it has doubled. Increased by 47% is much less.
A 47% increase is not 'doubled'. 100% increase = doubled.
Bing has had pretty heavy marketing. I'm guessing 10% would have at least heard of it in a major city.
Being dramatically better than google is a high hurdle. It's tough for competitors but google pretty much did an end-run around the search problem and to be just like google is not good enough a reason to switch.

Now if someone would do to google what google did to altavista that would move the needle on many fronts.

I suspect DDG is not it, but I'm not saying it is not possible.
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What distingishes QuickCheck from regular unit testing is that you give it a function to test, some invariants that must hold and an input generator. Some of this is automated with compiler magic (where possible) to make simple tests really simple to write. QuickCheck will then grind through a bunch of random inputs and see if the invariants hold, finally showing you the failed cases.
If you're going to sell a small number of units you'll need to sell them at a high price. So you need to ask if people will be willing to pay a high price for what you're building.

If you're software is something that saves the user millions of pounds, for example by helping petroleum companies optimize their mining or reducing medical diagnostics cost then selling it at a high price is perfectly viable.
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Quite simply, moving up the Kardashev scale need not harm the desires of those who want to live in their own version of harmony with nature, while satisfying the desires of those who prefer continually advancing technology.

Maybe it needn't, but if history is any indication it does.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02diamond.html?pag...

Preserving the status quo, forcing urbanization, or reverting to a more agrarian society also will satisfy the naturists/locavores/etc., but at the expense of the technologists/futurists. Thus, from a utilitarian perspective, technological advancement provides greater net satisfaction than technological stagnation.

Either the interests of the two groups are compatible, or they are not. You can't say that they are when one group gets what they want, but they aren't when the competing group does.

Of course in reality there's a vast spectrum of coexistence and compromise. Your argument boils down to a carefully selected excluded middle.

Not that it matters, since your conclusion begs the question anyway by equating technological progress (presumably as measured by the proxy of energy consumption) with utilitarian satisfaction. Certainly there's a correlation up to a point (vaccines, plumbing, healthcare, etc). But if you look at quantitative happiness metrics in the US they've been stagnant for the past 60 years, while per-capita energy consumption has doubled.

It's naïve linear thinking to say that additional energy/stuff consumption will increase our happiness. I call it the Drinking Undergrad Fallacy. The eponymous poor sap tells himself, "if three drinks makes me feel good, then 9 drinks will make me feel three times as good!"
It won't happen, and if it does happen, it won't matter.

Can you imagine the Anti-Trust problems this would create? Microsoft is still a big fat target for anti-trust lawsuits and this one is pretty blatant.

And if it does happen, while we're waiting for the Justice Department to end it I'm pretty sure the Linux hackers will find a way around it. When there is a will, there is a way.
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Not to defend Windows here, because it certainly has its flaws, but you're so deluded it's not even funny any more. You seem to like 'openness' so much, but the concept of 'open mind' seems to be completely lost on you.

"There fore all means of getting things done on a windows machine for a developer have to go somehow through a set GUI's to get work done programatically."

This alone is enough to discard anything you say about this topic. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Everything in Windows is programmable, through a standard object model, and the facilities to put them into any program are standardized, too.

"Which is not easily possible with windows, heck using those tools on windows is big pain."

Windows != Unix. If you are a bricklayer and you get into gardening, would you complain that your concrete mixer doesn't work well for shoveling a garden? Unix tools on Windows is a crutch for people who refuse to adjust to the environment they're in (or as a band aid for a quick and dirty port of Unix functionality).

"tools like DBus. Sockets et al are vastly superior in UNIX than windows."

Windows != Unix. The concurrent tasks model in Windows is based on threads, not process spawning. Don't take your Unix prejudices to Windows when you write software for Windows. Are you seriously suggesting there are no working ipc mechanisms in Windows? There are vast amounts of functionality to do so, and on a much deeper level than just 'pipe text from one process to the next' (i.e., a proper object model that can be used to share code written in several languages and with which you can pass objects and not just text).

"Lack of multiuser login,"

WTF are you talking about? Have you ever seen a Windows box since Windows 95?

"Registry is a pain on Windows, I don't have to worry about those hassles on UNIX."

What? Are you saying you prefer 25 different file formats, spread out in non-standard ways, without a standardized layout? Or are you saying that editing Apache config files with sed and awk is a good idea? If so, you're clearly off your rockers. Of course you can hack together something that 'mostly works', but at least with the registry you have a standard format, standardized and cross-language APIs and a (more or less) standard organization of data.

Now I'm not defending the implementation of the registry; it has outlived its design. But being against the idea is lunacy - why do you think the Gnome guys realized in the early 2000's that they needed something similar?
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It could be a big bang for the buck, but you're limited to only 15% of the users...
it seems that you're a coming from a strong UNIX mindset and that you try to forcefully shoehorn it to Windows

I come from backend server based mindset and find it difficult to shoehorn the concepts there to a desktop operating system. For no justifiable reason. I still see no reason why I must use Windows on my backend.

I fail to see the need to endlessly shoehorn Windows for all my backend tasks(powershell included) when I can get everything of that in a Vanilla linux installation.

If you say Windows is good desktop operating system, you are correct in your own right. But literally there is no comparison between the UNIX and Windows on the server end.

On the similar lines, there are many things in Windows (like directory share on network, printer settings) which are far more easier to use than on Linux.
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