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by Duff 15y ago
The issue may be more complex. Steam has been around for awhile now -- there may be an Amazon.com like issue where new passwords are secure, but older passwords are using crypt or something!
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The point is, the GPS transponder lowers the bar for supporting surveillance to the level that widespread abuse is possible. This is particularly true of smaller police or quasi-police organizations whose professional standards aren't quite
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I think there is a long tail of small weddings. My wife and I did catered turkey dinner at a church hall for 130 people. DJ was a guy who owed me a favor. Total cost was about $11k. If you rent a more expensive place and do a barebones dinn
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by Duff 15y ago
Huh? So if I operate another marketplace/platform for delivering computer programs, say Steam, I should be out of business? How is destroying the competitive marketplace good for competition?
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Apple is loving the huge revenue share in the App Store on iOS. Do you really think that they will not try to use the app store as a tollgate for everything? 30% of Adobe sales == big number.
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Totally different situation. In a large corporate setting with lots of dumb management, a majority of those Indians are going to be contractors, and a majority of them will be on work visas. Why is that relevant? They are hired guns, who ar
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Customers don't read the 40-page FAQ that starts off with "What is a Computer?" Customers do look at search results, especially if they are written by people with good writing skills.
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The other factor is that the patents that serve as a disadvantage for MP3 will be expiring sometime around 2015-2018.
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I think of Apple as akin to a warehouse club like Costco or Sam's. These "clubs" sell a high margin membership, and you get to buy low-margin toilet paper 50 rolls at a time. Likewise, Apple sells digital media, which is a relatively low-ma
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Yes, think of internet explorer. A decade later, many developers are still supporting IE6's peculiar dialect of HTML. And a few are still supporting IE5's even more peculiar dialect.
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I work at a large government IT organization. We were way ahead of the curve on this trend -- we did a POC deployment in late 2008. There are real issues with Mac vs. Windows in an enterprise for many categories of user. We found that some
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by Duff 15y ago
Huh? Have you ever worked on a shared document before? To an end-user, the directory tree is a system of record. Many types of files need to "freeze" at a certain point in time -- say a letter that needs to be crafted by multiple people, or
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by Duff 15y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I work for a services organization in a huge IT environment, and we do everything by the month. But in this case, Dropbox is competing with people who are going to buy a Windows server to host files. And $795
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In many cases, they need to. At the end of the day, Dropbox can do whatever it wants, but that feature basically eliminated many potential customers from ever using it.
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That fact is well known. If your university hired someone who only spoke Mongolian, would you be upset at the speaker, or the idiot who hired him?
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I think Twitter has two key aspects. The first is this general flow of information en masse. If you're at a party or other social event, it's like the general tone of the room. Have you ever been to a shotgun wedding? Or a corporate event w
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by Duff 15y ago
Gartner does consulting, but they mostly provide analysis of IT-related stuff. Think of them as a "Enterprise" Ars Technica who pushes specific products, and whose analysts you can pay to call for a 30-60 minute presentation. Probably 70% o
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You've declared me a right-wing nut and then stuff words in my mouth. Thanks. I'm not an expert in California, but I happen to live in Upstate NY and pay careful attention to what is (or isn't) going on. The size of the New York economy is
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Money is one issue, time is another. In most US jurisdictions, dozens of entities have the ability to say "no" to a development project. In states that are actively hostile to business, like New York or California, there may be hundreds of
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by Duff 15y ago
I'm pretty sure these studies have been debunked in the past. I tend to agree with the debunking, because the arguments against summer vacation always stand up a strawman with the assumption that "good parents" send kids to camp, take the s
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It's "get tough" politics. Unions donate billions to Democrats, and they are unhappy with immigration in many industries. (ie. Meat packing, whose union membership has declined dramatically as a result of companies being allowed to exploit
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I don't think that's true. Life was slower when most people were farmers. But culture has always changed with time.
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You need to stop posting about this on the internet and get some competent advice. If you actually have $12.8M + potential damages at stake, saying "I cannot afford a lawyer" is ridiculous.
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How exactly do you identify muslim students? You probably aren't running into many devout/conservative type muslims who pray during the day or wear appropriate regalia. By that logic, you could argue that Catholics are underrepresented, bec
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One of the benefits of a long-standing, distinct Jewish culture, IMO, is that their cultural stability avoids many of the negative affects of decisions made by the broader culture in which they live. In the Middle East today, the relative p
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Right on! It is about time that computer users buck up and take some personal responsibility. It's not like you can just look up at the sky and figure out what time it is! The hard work of innovators who figure out complex issues like the t
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Mr. Jobs will be well remembered. It's also sad in that his passing is among the first of a generation of pioneers in this crazy industry we all work in. Best wishes to his family.
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I started doing hay (which involves throwing and stacking 40-50 pound bales in a hot barn) at $6.00/hr. After a year or two I was doing a variety of jobs that were a higher value to my employer. Also worked for an awesome family who worked
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NAFTA was the catalyst the created the waves of immigration from Mexico. Why? "Free trade" destroyed many US factory jobs, but it vaporized Mexican agriculture. Small proprietor farms were out of business overnight by the flood of cheap US
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I worked on a farm in high school. I was making $12/hr in the 90's -- pretty decent money. Sitting on your behind is easier, regardless of pay.

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