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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I can't speak to PowerMeter but on Google Health they have no one to blame but themselves. I desperately wanted to employ it here (I work for an agency that takes in abused children and had envisioned putting the kids records into Google H
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The problem is the Officers are actually the least guilty here. SB1070 actually requires officers check people's papers. Officers COULD do that before SB1070 but they weren't. So the legislature passed 1070 in part to force officers to
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
You're wrong on this (or at very least looking at the issue without nuance). More often than not "just following orders" IS a sufficient defense. Only in the most heinous of acts is it considered insufficient (if that weren't the case the
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Have you bothered to "think about" this? Police officers have a sworn duty to uphold the law. They don't write it. If you have a problem with the law your issue is with the Legislators not the cops. (This is the very definition of "killi
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This is my issue with the whole discussion. The pundit class has latched onto the "HTML5 will kill Flash" story so a lot of people now think it's gospel. But in truth there are a lot of features that HTML5 makes no attempt to duplicate. T
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To me this article boils down to one main point: Apple is a premium brand that's decided to sell its product for a less than premium price. People almost always prefer the premium brands. It's a rare person who would pick a Honda Civic ove
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I'm not sure the abstraction bothers that many people. If every time you lifted your hand a virtual hand appeared on the screen I think people would get by. I certainly think Kinect is preferable to the Apple's current desktop solution (t
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Right but if you don't have to reach you don't have to use your shoulder to hold up your arm. Just your elbow to move your hand up above the keyboard so the Kinect Sensor can see it.
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I'm not sure that's the issue. For Microsoft to release a commercial license they have to be able to support it. That means relatively no bugs, staffing tech support, etc... I don't think Microsoft is ready to do that with Kinect. In fact
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Kinect for Windows is, IMHO, Microsoft's only chance of really getting back in the game. It is an Apple level sea change if they can capitalize on it. I mean lets be real here. Touch is a great way to interact with computing devices but i
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I Assume Honeycomb is a template to where the phone is headed (given Google's announced intent to merge the two OS forks and the fact that Honeycomb was branded 3.0). If that's the case you'll have all the same buttons and they'll be ever
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You can see their logic though. Even one button means you have to give up a whole inch with of space on the phone. I don't see Google removing the side buttons (assuming the Motorola Xoom is where the phone is headed in terms of button de
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The problem here is they made this announcement to the Wall Street Journal. Had they done this at a developer conference it would be "just another Microsoft sending mixed signals" thing. But by saying "HTML5 is our development engine" to
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Edit: I guess it was spelled out. See other reply.
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I don't think the iTunes Plus fee of $.30 to upgrade a DRM track to a DRM-free track is that unreasonable. I paid it when it was first offered and now I can re-download DRM-free versions without a problem. So from my perspective it would
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I agree with everything you say but I wanted to add one thing. I'm so sick of these surveys being published without any methodology information. Methodology can very easily impact a survey. We see it all the time in political surveys whe
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Cringely is in the business of trying to look prophetic so he makes wild predictions like this to get attention. I don't think anyone, Apple included, things the Personal Computer is going anywhere for the very reasons you laid out above.
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On the music I have to give Apple credit. At first glance I was kind of annoyed at "download again" being their solution. But the more I think about it the more I think it's better than streaming. You get unlimited downloads so you can a
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You're partially right. But I'd draw your attention to this part of the article... "Underlying the discussion is that developers have clients, and clients want applications that run on a platform with a future. Currently, Microsoft is prom
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I generally think MG Siegler is one of the better TechCrunch writers but this article is exactly why the site has developed the reputation it has. Pure sensationalism based on a weak understanding of both the facts and the history of the c
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The price isn't really that special. It's in-line with what people expect Google to charge and Amazon charges around the same amount (Amazon breaks it down by space used and charges $1 per Gigabyte). But both Amazon and Google offer unlim
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First I agree the cost Michigan pays per prisoner is too high. Texas manages to get by at $13,000 per prisoner Michigan shouldn't need $40,000. But that's for all the expenses to keep them alive (room, board, medical, etc...). So the com
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There are two issues here. On the initial point about Wikipedia's accuracy I'd offer this very article as proof of the problem Wikipedia has. In the opening sentence of the second paragraph the author says... "It's been over five years sin
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He could be right. But I think he's cutting the cycle off short. To me the cycle is this... * People worry about a new feature * The feature sticks around and people do get more comfortable with it (this is where Zuckerberg ends) * At so
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I agree there's an irony here (Microsoft getting paid for each handset while Google doesn't get anything). But in the end Google still has the more lucrative position. Because Google is still pretty well embedded into Android. So Google's
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The last thing Microsoft needs is Gates to come back. Comparing Microsoft’s dilemma to Apple and Steve Jobs isn’t an accurate comparison. Apple was almost out of business when Steve Jobs returned. When a company is practically out of busi
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I don't want to start the whole global warming debate again (those threads can be a real pain on here) something did bug me here The author says... "Speaking of worlds, climate change is real. Even my amateurish, admittedly clunky analyses
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People seem to be missing the most cogent point here... "The agreement is based on a template supplied by an organization called Medical Justice, and similar agreements have been popping up in doctors' offices across the country. As we dug
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I'm just guessing here but I think the point was just to draw people's attention to Paint.net. It really is a great little project. I've been impressed at how feature rich it is. As someone responsible for well over 100 classroom compute
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I don't think anyone's ever complained about technology related articles. It's the stuff like TSA, Gay Marriage, and so on. The problem with these topics is they can't be debated rationally since their underlying issues are ones of judgmen

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