easyfrag

What I really want is an iTunes for stocks and maybe some other simple securities, something that will allow the really small investor to dabble. I guess there's a whole bunch of regulatory and legal reasons that this can't happen.

Perhaps not to us, however Nintendo bet the farm on this vision. The Wii is weaker graphically and in online connectivity than its competitors. It also had the disadvantage of following the (relatively) disappointing Gamecube. Had the interface failed Nintendo could have ended up like Sega: left to publish games for other consoles.

Yes please. I work for a Canadian health care provider and I legally cannot upload the data for which I would find your tool useful.

Google didn't win by having a better particular feature, it won by being better at the core competency of its competitors: delivering relevant search results with a minimum of spam.

That's all well and good but if the Xbox was its own entity it would have been closed down years ago, I don't think the division is yet profitable.

What they are doing is using the profitability of Windows/Office to buy market share in other segments. Sometimes it is successful (IE/Sharepoint) other times not so much (Zune).

I guess they read Warren Buffet's Times Op-Ed, I hope buying when others are fearful doesn't just apply to stocks.

and it is also one that treats symptoms and not the underlying conditions.

I know in the podcast Spolsky and Attwood have discussed making a "community answer" a feature.

As I recall there were some issues around community answers in general, because of the wiki-like behavior of allowing others to edit answers there needs to be some threshold where an answer belongs to the community rather than the user who originally posted it.

I have to say, the beta of Stack Overflow is looking real good. It has real good potential, I just hope it's not seen as only a .NET resource.

I disagree, this is a technical problem. Atwood closed the dialog box and it still popped up a realistic UI.

The people reading this site might know there's something up but your average user won't. Windows and the programs that run on it pop up legitimate warnings all the time to regular users: "Please install this patch...", "There's an update to your program...", "You have unused icons...", etc.

People now expect messages like this. It is simply unrealistic to expect your average user to be not fooled when a well-written fake pops up on the screen.

I read some of the stuff on this list but having someone recommend Donald Trump sets off alarm bells. But I am willing to be proven wrong. Anyone else concur with the selection of Art of the Deal?

No doubt, I've been doing it too for a while (although my reasons are safety-based). But not everyone has access to a modeling tool (and the data) to create a business case that convinces a big multinational to make it into corporate policy.

yes it is at now par, but it wasn't always: http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?from=CAD&to=US...

Why was I expecting a discussion involving Star Schemas and Fact tables?

You're introducing unnecessary complexity into the system; instead of the lock, light, and wiring between the two we would have lock, light, motion detector, and wiring between all three. It may be trivial, but ensuring fewer failure points is good design, especially at 30 000 feet.

This is really bad for Microsoft, not the content of the story which was known weeks ago, but the fact that this is now the most emailed story on the New York Times site. What was common knowledge in the IT community is now spreading in the "real" world where the consumers live. Not good for the brand.