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Zoho, are you listening?

I think that landing page needs to change. I mean my comments in the most constructive way and I want to see competition and companies like Zoho compete.

The marketing copy on the landing page right now sounds a tad defensive and like they are trying to prove something. They have NOTHING to prove, because just like they say, "you have most of the familiar functionality found in Microsoft Office, ... other things Microsoft Office doesn't offer, like the ability to easily share and edit documents online... use it for free."

You NEED to make an acronym out of "FAKE Office"... I can't think of one right now, but even Free Ass Kickingly Effective Office would be a start ;)

Run an entire campaign on this like a politician, seriously.

First, the top banner needs to be changed, because the emphasis needs to be more positive "Zoho the Free Ass Kickingly Effective Office that Microsoft doesn't want you to try" (with the f,a,k,e, emphasized some how).

ALSO, you can take Microsoft's quote out of context:
They said "we're not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Office]," he [Ron Markezich, corporate VP of Microsoft Online] said.

So in the copy, quote them! Microsoft's VP of Microsoft Online said "FAKE Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Office]."

Make a comparison chart with Office that matches check for check what Zoho offers and then the one-sided Zoho checks for FREE and the ability to share and edit online.

Remove your line of "you have most of the familiar functionality of Microsoft Office".

This is just a start and I would be more than happy to pitch in and help and I'm sure the rest of the community wouldn't mind lending a hand too ;)
Yeah, it's the same thing at very different time scales.

In other words, the standard deviation for 3-year returns is much lower than the daily standard deviation.

You can get a positive return in 3 years without being especially good or lucky. But getting a positive return every single day for 3 months is extremely unlikely.
That's overkill. Perhaps, one day, there will be a need to suspend all oAuth authorizations while a rogue app is identified.
Brilliant: Lord Christopher Monckton (if you follow the global warming debate)
Every OAuth site has a "log in with Twitter" feature, correct? Maybe Twitter could organize things such that, when you change your password, you're automatically logged out of every OAuth site?
Novell Pulse -- Enterprise collaboration based on Google Wave
Sometimes I think it would be really, really nice to live small - maybe whenI retire and the kids are gone.
Hacking the Universe (no pun intended)
What if you had a bad year and the future looks bleak?

What if people are not surprised that you did not die?

As for individual recognition, wouldn't a recent achievement worthy of recognition be better?
All my (transient) hand and wrist pains have gone away since I started doing pushups, crawling, pullups, etc. I think they were just weak, not an RSI problem.
Get a pair of $3 sport wristbands to keep your wrist joints warm and flexible.
You're absolutely right. It is anti-competitive and anti-open in this case.

No I don't mean it's okay. I'm simply stating why there isn't a fuss about Apple.
Then my advice would be to avoid celebration.

Consider it a catalyst for change, even if only in mindset.

That said, birthdays are also unique: If you don't tell anyone about it, you could just as well ignore it yourself. You won't see reminders about your birthday in the local store, as you do for halloween, Christmas, etc.

In that sense, if one doesn't want to celebrate their birthday, they don't have to. It's an optional holiday.
I'm getting a beagleboard with a touchscreen for xmas and I plan to start hacking away :)
Why do I have to sign up to use their free document tool?

0. http://fakeoffice.org/ ->
1. click "Try Zoho Now" ->
2. A cluttered menu of options ->
3. click "Zoho Docs" ->
4. see three purchase options & feature list ->
5. "Why do I need to see this? I'm not buying anything" ->
6. click "Free 1GB space" ->
7, 8, 9??? CREATE ZOHO ACCOUNT!

I want to try your product. Stop making it hard for me to do so.

Seriously, that makes sense if I want to "save" the document I'm going to play with, but I don't understand why I need to sign up for an account to see if I can insert a table into a document and then set different backgrounds for different table elements.

Nor do I understand why there are so many steps between clicking 'try now' and actually being able to 'try now'! If I click "save" I can understand. Theoretically I'd like to be able to open a document too, without having to register, but I understand limiting that to one or two.

The reality is, I already have Office installed. If you want me to try your alternative, you should have barriers as low as possible. I even picked Documents, instead of, say, CRM, because I -knew- I'd be able to test a document without signing up. I was wrong.
I guess I don't quite follow the logic here, though I'm not advanced in the ways of the web yet.

When you connect to a site with OAth, doesn't it require that you a) sign in using Twitter or b) are already signed in using Twitter? I would think this is necessary, otherwise people with multiple Twitter accounts, each of which use the same OAuth site, would end up with a lot of confusion.

So given this, Eva would have to a) sign in to Alice's Twitter account, which she can't do because Alice changed her password, or b) continue to be signed into Alice's Twitter account, while Alice changes her password, which would also be a security compromise of Twitter in general, no need to get into OAuth at that point.

Did I crack this thing or did I miss something?
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Sony Ericsson C702 phone in the earth of wireless communication with tempting look beside with many diverse role. The phone is shatterproof with the clanging core and it will be spendthrift to use such multi function phone every
Don't take my phrasing too literally. "Market" was my term. I wasn't quoting the law and I am not a lawyer. From scanning the FoF document that I linked to, it appears that the appropriate jargon is "relevant market", and it appears that an utter lack of substitutes is not the criterion. Rather, look at the following from section III:

"33. Microsoft enjoys so much power in the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems that if it wished to exercise this power solely in terms of price, it could charge a price for Windows substantially above that which could be charged in a competitive market. Moreover, it could do so for a significant period of time without losing an unacceptable amount of business to competitors. In other words, Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market."
Verizon illegally squeezing wireless resellers
1) After a certain point you level max. There are loads of people here that I could learn a lot from, but the forum is greatly limited and becomes repetitive. The reason new members think that it's devolving is not that HN is changing, but that they themselves are learning.

That's a very interesting point, I never thought of it that way - but it feels right.

So what's the next level?
PragPub, November 2009
Some [evil] hackers go on to start security companies (Kevin Mitnick, Frank Abagnale Jr.), so any of the company's techniques could work (though not mainstream or probably even known).
Are your mom and pop really doing high-frequency trading in their spare time or are you being facetious?

In reality the people that GS wins money off of on a given day are wearing charcoal grey suits and driving ridiculous cars (just like the GS people).

Your browser won't refresh the etrade website fast enough to even play their sandbox.
...and yet, until the 1990s, Microsoft invested almost nothing in lobbying and political campaigns. Once the antitrust case entered the equation, Microsoft rapidly became interested in influencing government.

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000115

1996 contributions: $251,474

1998 contributions: $1,364,821

2000 contributions: $4,628,893
Agreed. You already sold me on the product - I want to give it a test drive... so why are you hitting me with a wall of text for your gigantic, confusing list of different products? I'm a test driver, not a power user, guide me through this.
Ethnographic Study Looks at Gossip in the Workplace
Bizarrely, the flat Apple keyboards are the nicest and least RSI-inducing keyboards I've ever used.
Among the wealthy this is a very common line of thinking. Many rich people with foresight who are concerned buy land in South America and develop plans to quickly emigrate.

South America is the ideal expat location for those who can afford it.
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A trackball took away all of my mouse-based pain and it has never come back.
>Look, I just don't agree with you that we are inevitably sliding towards tyranny.

You may not, but history repeats itself and human history is filled with a lot more tyranny than gilded ages. Hell we are only 200 years out of it now. Rome who we modeled ourselves after slid into it and imploded. So all historical relevance leads one to logically consider that it is a slightly higher than average possibility that we will repeat the cycle of history. Did we do so much better this time?

>If you struggled like I do to consider that the Man could organize His way out of a paper bag, let alone subjugate us all with tyranny.

It's happening all around the globe as we speak. It does not take much effort to find tyranny everywhere you look. Just because the 1st world has grown comfortable and detached does not mean that the 3rd world does not still experience it. Many times from 1st world people that are propping up the tyrants.

>Not every battle is worth fighting to the steps of Capitol Hill

Yes it is this is how tyranny works, the slow erosion of rights. One of the greatest quotes ever penned was by Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller in which he said:

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

This was in response to the Nazi's tyrannical rule of Germany.

The point being, slow erosion of rights and targeting of other groups is the modus operandi of oppression. It has to be checked at every advance or it becomes that much more difficult to resist.

Have you ever noticed that not one President has ever repealed any powers gained by the executive branch and many times oversteps the allotted powers they are given. Make no mistake about it absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It is human nature, the founding fathers new it and tried to set up a system that would leave it in check. Unfortunately, with the erosion of the state governments and militias as a counterweight and the devastation that Europe felt in 1 and 2 it left the US executive branch with the legislative branch as it's only opposition and much like the senate of Rome we can see how well that counterweight worked.

So you can not agree, but you are disagreeing with a lot of historical evidence to the contrary and are pinning your hopes on the fact that this time above all the rest we got it right.

Me I will remain a paranoid whack job like the founding fathers where and the Jews of Germany where and like the Taiwanese are today.
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CrunchPad dead? Delayed by higher-than-expected costs?
The comment from a Microsoft VP says "we're not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Office]."

Given that he's spot-on right, I'm not sure what the big deal is. The online office apps don't even compete favorably with OpenOffice, much less Microsoft Office.

On the other hand, Microsoft's Office Live offering isn't going anywhere as far as I can tell. They don't understand the importance of simple.
No, it's not AT&T. My old Razr outperforms both the iPhone I (wife's) and iPhone II (son's) in terms of being able to make or receive a call with a weak-signal. I simply suspect the transceiver is not as sensitive (don't know about iPhone III, however).
sad, isn't it?
I got to http://writer.zoho.com/home?serviceurl=%2Findex.do before giving up. I'm not going to sign in just so I can see how the Word Processor works.
isn't that what i said? :) Maybe I was vague in my NCLB description
I don't think Adobe cares much about people on Linux. There isn't much market there.
Have been using Wordpress for a good while now and it's still as fast as ever
YES! I would LOVE to see the 'layout' of the account page applied to the landing page where they have all their products, but focus on three:

Letters (Word / Pages)
Spreadsheet (Excel / Numbers)
[ROTATE] - [A/B testing, good data]

If I click on any of those three, I should go straight to the application.
It's true that we can represent commodities with paper and digital bits (in fact some say silver prices are misrepresented by paper and would explode if the SHTF, and physical delivery was demanded), but that doesn't change the meaning of my statement much. Unlike oil, stock or bonds, gold just sits there, heavily, not doing much of anything. It's only attractive when people lose faith in the ability of un-backed paper currency to hold its value. When and if the U.S. can solidify that mentality gold will fall out of favor. I agree, though, with a long gold position.
>In theoretical physics there is an absolute authority by which to judge what is good and bad, namely the degree to which it conforms to reality.

There might be an absolute authority of this sort if we could just ask God whether or not a given theory conformed to reality, but in practice there is no absolute authority for judging work in science -- and you certainly find plenty of disagreement between scientists once you go beyond textbook material. Personally, I'm not a complete subjectivist about aesthetic and critical judgments, so I think that an "absolute standard" exists in principle for a lot of work in the humanities. For example, I think it is a fact that Jane Austen wrote good novels. However, I'm a little uneasy about your reliance on the correspondence theory of truth (the idea that a true theory is one which is some obscure sense "conforms" or "corresponds" to reality). Although I am not a skeptic or subjectivist about truth, there are well known problems with conceiving truth in this way.

> Also, when that theoretical physics is later applied being wrong about it can be have real negative consequences.

Being wrong about the kinds of subjects that the humanities touches on (e.g. relations between human beings) can also have real negative consequences, if you are not a robot.

>It is not clear to me that saying something is wrong in literary criticism even has a meaning, and even less clear that it would ever matter if something was wrong.

I'm sorry that these things aren't clear to you, but the notion that critical and aesthetic judgments are "meaningless" is one that's been thoroughly discredited over the past 50 years. Logical positivism has been dead for quite some time now.

>If one were to examine it a priori or from an athiestic viewpoint it is not at all obvious or clear that anything has a value outside of its practical utility to mankind.

Again, if you believe that, then you believe that there is something which has intrinsic value -- utility. In any case, it's not clear to me why someone looking at things from an atheistic viewpoint would choose utility as his yardstick for value. I'm an atheist and I value a whole bunch of different things. I do value things for being useful, but I don't give utility any privileged place, or see any reason to do so.
Design Patterns 15 Years Later: An Interview with GoF
Is HN a success? What is the measure of success?
When will big boys learn not to punch down? The little guy can always benefit from picking a fight with the 800lb gorilla, but MSFT has nothing to gain from even acknowledging in their public statements that Zoho exists. Now they've just told everyone listening to them that competitors exist and they're worried enough to discount them.
Microsoft isn't competing with Zoho. They're competing with Google which is competing with Zoho. If they were trying to trash talk, they would have trashed Google docs. Instead, they mentioned Zoho, Google, and Zimbra in order to make Google look like a bit player.

So, you've given Google's competitor's product a try because of what Microsoft said. Maybe Microsoft knows a little about marketing after all...
What you are demonstrating is the userland toolchain. What was suggested above is an improvement by not requiring meddling with the kernel. Nothing prevents a userland toolchain for Linux from supporting what you are describing above without kernel modifications.
This is guerilla marketing. Taking what one competitor says and saying "they haven't tried it yet and neither have you" isn't.

Aggressive tactics, but all's fair in love and war.
4 days == 27 million
Cloud Computing Expo - The GoGrid and HP Booths
Yes, but it's a lot easier to pass the "WTO 2009 Compliance Act" than the "Copyright Act of 2009". For starters, they'd bundle the copyright stuff with a pile of other trade stuff, and it'd be cast as "fulfilling our trade obligations", not "giving crazy rights to Disney and friends".
Am I wrong here? I'm honestly not sure why this is in negative territory...
No, our treaties are ratified by representatives of corporations. Corporations buy reps and those reps vote for laws proposed by the corporations.
An hour ago an actor was in my room trying to get a printer to work. He bounced all over the place, broke out into song and maniacal laughter, made a bunch of bizarre hand gestures while speaking, and talked to himself in full question-response format. ("What should I do now? You should click that. But what if it doesn't work? Trust me, you should..." etc.)

Software developers are among some of the least weird people I know. They are more normalized in personality and have similar mannerisms, even at the very extremes of the group. The difference is that they have a sort of solipsism that persists in thinking they are somewhat standout and unique in large groups. They aren't. In fact, they're rather the opposite.
Exactly. I told myself for years that I was better off doing the material on my own. The autodidactic tradition is strong among computer programmers, and I suspect that many reading this would feel the same way. But the truth is, I have learned 10x more in one year of school than I did in five years of muddling through textbooks on my own. Fear of failure is a strong motivator, as is immersing yourself in a community of like-minded people.
This just deserves to be seen, if you haven't. Also check out "Balcony" for a nice combination of photography and LEGO.

http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/balcony.html
App Store passes 100,000 apps
Server is down for me -- let's face it, they weren't prepared for being linked to from Hacker News!
OMG Ponies (AKA Best Idea: Ever)
It is a conspiracy, as has been proven in court more than once.
Don Dodge is Leaving Microsoft
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I doubt anyone would have a problem with toolchain support being added. But you don't need a kernel patch to fix the user end of the equation. It doesn't add anything that can't be provided just as conveniently (or more so - the shell script approach doesn't require any changes on the users side) without it.
I'm not sure who is correct but Wikipedia lists the anniversary on November 10th (in a couple of places) - I wonder if Google is a little bit ahead on this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street
The skill-building recession
There are already quite a few iPhone apps that do this for Netflix
How about some other place? That place gives me the creeps.

Sharp Edge?

(Being a church-goer, it feels blasphemous. (I know, I'll get downvoted wildly. It's OK, go ahead. ;-))
Easily. It has already been passed as a law in France. And is under discussion in the entire EU. Therefore we conclude by analogy.
i don't mean to be trolling in the general MS-bashing mood, but this is consistent with a lot of, let's say, grey-area marketing they have done in the past (see internet explorer).

And, you can call bing the fake google, but not "fake search".

Having said that, best of luck to Zoho.
pretty much. Do you really think we'd take our cheeto-stained hands off the keyboard and start shooting at people? I know I'm not ready to get shot for some abstract idea. Sure, I'd maybe spend some time and/or money, but I don't think anyone but the crazies would start shooting.

Besides, I think that shooting back is rarely effective in modern warfare; it's all about 'hearts and minds' these days, not about who can kill more of the other dudes.
I remember when the diocese "de-commissioned" the church when it was sold. Many local Catholics were very upset.
I quite like it - my iPhone really hates it though.
I'm a reddit refugee.
You make a good point about comparing their performance to the index. If the market as a whole is rising, and there are always other people willing to take the opposite position of you (or Goldman), it is conceivable that you could only have one negative day.

If this was during a negative quarter for the market as a whole, that'd be a different story. Like the other poster noted, the likelihood that Goldman would consistently be on the positive side of millions of trades for ninety days is probably pretty slim.
Visual Studio 2010: UML modeling projects
Nice effort (great to see a real Capp app), but a bit ugly.

Perhaps unleash a really good designer on the UI?