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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm not a Global Warming advocate. But I've never found the "Global Cooling" argument very compelling. I don't think you can take any misconception from 34 years ago and use it to invalidate a current scientific theory because the technolo
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by SamAtt 17y ago
The problem with that logic is that Apple doesn't just put its money in a corporate savings account they invest it (a savings account of any kind would be financial malpractice on the part of the CFO). When you hear about how much money Ap
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by SamAtt 17y ago
This is a good point. I work for a non-profit and it's my job to maintain the web site. We notice users who click on our banner ads the most are IE6 users and AOL users (who use a newer browser but who you can identify by the IP). The les
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Being an expert is about knowing how to do something not about making things look easy. In fact, things that aren't easy take more time so the last thing you want to do is make them look easy because then your customers will have unreal e
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I read the blame differently but I don't agree that the physicians are at fault here either. The article treats the researchers' opinion as if it was unquestionably correct. The researchers said x wouldn't work and this person tried it so
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I don’t think it’s as black and white as this article suggests. We don’t know what causes Autism and to the best of our knowledge it doesn’t exist in any other species. Even if it did exist in other species it would be almost impossible to
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by SamAtt 17y ago
You left out one important point that he mentions but doesn't give enough credit to... 3) There's still a lot of features on the iPhone that you can only access through native apps. He claims most of the apps he has could be web apps. But
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Also, people seem to be forgetting the cache. HTML 5 apps and Google Gears apps cache data locally and Google made a point of saying the data "will sync" constantly. Network PCs (at least the one I saw from Oracle) didn't have local stora
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by SamAtt 17y ago
If Microsoft wants developers to develop for Silverlight so bad why don't they just make a Chrome OS plug-in? The thing is open source. Moonlight already runs on Linux. Wouldn't take a rocket scientist. That's even if Google wants Silver
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At first I thought this list was bogus because of all the tech names that were left off. But when I really thought about it I realized people like Robert Scoble, Jeff Jarvis, and the rest look big because they have the whole self-referentia
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Netbooks are dead. Long live the notebook(blogs.techrepublic.com.com)
5 points by SamAtt 17y ago|1 comments
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I think he’s wrong here. Job titles serve two real purposes. To denote rank and to represent what rank someone had at a previous company so they can get other jobs at that level. The first need exists in any company with more than one per
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I agree. But I'd also like to add that anyone who has ever compared Compete's numbers to an actual site knows that a 2% change in traffic is well within Compete's margin of error. So even if you believe these numbers to be an accurate meas
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by SamAtt 17y ago
The problem I have with the "Late 2007" start date is it doesn't seem to be backed up with facts. GDP grew in Q1 2008 ( http://useconomy.about.com/b/2008/04/30/still-not-a-recessio... ) and Unemployment was flat from Dec. '07 to Jan '08 an
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No, but it had been going down for a while before that so I'm not sure it counts ( http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_i... ) The beginning of this is generally considered to be the Collapse of Lehman brothers and the
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I’m not hating (I’m a .Net developer) but I don’t see the point of this. Even the worst of .Net haters wouldn’t claim you CAN’T do cool things with MS technology. They’d just say it’s harder and more expensive than doing it with Open Sour
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by SamAtt 17y ago
The irony of my comment above is that I'm just the opposite. A picture of any kind embedded in the content is usually my cue to move along.
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I remember a survey that said essentially that (I tried for a couple minutes to find the link but I can't). I forget the actual numbers in the study but my recollection was that the number of people who read an e-mail with a picture of a sm
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Twitter did facilitate the Iranian protestors. And facilitated getting the word out to the world. Twitter did help make the Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck a sensation! Twitter did keep us updated about Balloon Boy in real time. Do you have an
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CrunchPad Feeling the Cost Crunch?(gottabemobile.com)
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To me that's the bottom line. The real problem with the "Gold Rush" stories is that they make it sound like you can create an app over a weekend and pull in $100k for it. What I got from this post is that writing an app for the app store
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Passion for a subject This would be my best answer. I love technology and think it can do a lot but it can't make you love a subject in the same way a great teacher makes you love a subject. To this day I find one of my most profound in
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I honestly thought this was terrible advice. The problem this kid has is everyone has praised him seemingly since birth and so he thinks everything is simple. The mere fact that one teacher saying his dream was silly could throw his life
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I agree with the analysis. The only thing I'd add (that they don't mention) is that the Earth's temperature will fluctuate wildly on it's own regardless of our CO2 output. We know this. The Earth dropped into an Ice Age and then got hot
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I don't think it's a failure as much as it's a case of the market not being ready yet. Hulu, last I checked, reports about 370 million streams a month which lines up with Compete.com's numbers which puts them at about 7 million viewers per
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2 Things here... 1. This is marketing. The Obama administration is attempting to use this as an olive branch to the Muslim community in these countries so that those Muslim's who hate America might say "Hey, maybe those Americans aren't s
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There's really no excuse for not testing in all browsers but I can understand the impulse to "get the change out the door" too. For myself I tend to iplement a change in a separate file and leave the old page in place. Then as I test each
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It's a silly test to begin with. It doesn't take into account shortened URLs which are a big part of the Twitter discussion. It can't take into account phrases like "Democratization of News" or "New Media". It doesn't even take into acco
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by SamAtt 17y ago
And Self Important. I think most of the reason Twitter gets so much face time on the blogs is because people using it want to believe they're on the ground floor of some kind of revolution. So it becomes a self-referential cycle of pumpin
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by SamAtt 17y ago
As someone who works as an IT person in the Mental Health industry I'd nominate that industry. Mental Health has all the problems of regular health care times 10. To give the most basic example, there is no formalized charting system in th

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