TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
What you're talking about essentially exists in the form of Western Governors University. It was a project started by the Governors of the 19 western states to supply accredited online degrees to the under privileged (as a new Governor is
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
You still didn't answer his question of what exactly makes your solution a "graceful combination of scopes". Follow the advice and write some kind of post that explains what makes this solution better
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Getting past the individual situation here it does raise some interesting questions about what ownership people have over information they submit for the good of others. If Quora restored all his answers against his will I don't think I'
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Which plays into the author's main point which is you deny young children the opportunity to hear how stupid these theories are when you don't discuss the matter. Because you can't really silence a school of thought. All you can do is dri
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'd contrast that with this chart: http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/downchart_gr.php?chart=10... If you look at Federal Tax Revenue from income taxes you see the pct of GDP stayed remarkably consistent even in times where taxes were much
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
In fairness just because something is published on the web doesn't mean it is in the public domain. A manufacturer can publish blueprints but you can't build and sell an improved version of their product if they have a patent on it.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't think there's much that can be done with this. I spent a week with a Xoom and while it isn't slow it isn't lightening fast either. So you can't really cut any of the hardware specs. The cheap Android tablets that came out before s
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It is if the parent company told you to alter your story. That's not what happened here. What happened was some low level employee whose job it was to be an advocate for the studio asked them to alter the story. They had every right to say
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't see how this says anything about their integrity. Integrity is when you do something against your best interest because it's the right thing to do. Since AOL seems to have given them free reign to attack their sister sites there's n
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This is only slightly related so I ask forgiveness in advance. But historical accuracy is a pet peeve of mine. That said Steve Jobs bought Pixar after seeing the Luxo Jr video ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxo_Jr. ). The true genius beh
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Yeah. OS/2 and Smalltalk for me. Thankfully the MVC pattern really picked up steam so it wasn't a complete waste
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Without making a judgment one way or the other in regards to the people at Microsoft I'd make one point about what you said. The problem with looking at Microsoft through the lens of Windows NT to Windows 7 is that Microsoft consists of com
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
For the record that's not really true. By the time Windows ME came out windows development had been split into two pieces. There was the Shell group that was consolidated under Brad Silverberg. And then there was the core operating system g
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think this attitude has been the downfall of a lot of developers over the years. You fall in love with the development environment and then you transfer that love to the platform itself. The problem is sometimes great platforms aren't pai
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Ray Kroc started Mcdonalds when he was 59 years old. Henry Ford started the Ford Motor Company at age 40 after his first attempt failed. Edison didn't patent his Light Bulb until he was 33. There are thousands of other examples but that m
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I bet the Madison Rally's Dad could beat up the Tea Party Rally's Dad too... http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Agreed. I have a very conservative, very anti-union family and there's not one of them who isn't in favor of higher teacher pay as long as it's tied to performance. So I really don't know who would be against it
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't know what's going on in that powerplant but this article is alarmist. One of the reasons you know is the only expert they could find to support their claims is a blogger ( http://theenergycollective.com/peterbradford/53418/fmr-nrc-c
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think you're right but I give him credit for drawing attention to a big issue that everyone else is ignoring which is Japan's diminished production capacity (rather than focusing on the doomsday meltdown scenarios most of the media are fi
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I can't see many of these selling. And in saying that I’m not saying I don’t think ChromeOS will succeed. I’m saying I can’t even imagine a scenario where it does. Unless Google does several MAJOR updates in the next couple months the Chr
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It turns out you only needed $150 million to make the Forbest 400 in 1985 (the equivalent of around $310 million today): http://tinyurl.com/4sjgdbh These days it takes a billion: http://tinyurl.com/4ggvbak
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Basically #1. If there's absolutely no chance someone is going to hire me I'd just assume not spend my time going through an interview with them. The entire idea that racist should hide what they are is flawed in my opinion. I see far mor
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't think I made my point clear here. What I'm saying is a racist would never say "I'm not hiring you because you're skin's [Whatever Color]". He'd just make up a legitimate excuse. And since everything other than race, religion and a
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'd argue against a law like this (if it isn't already illegal). Like most discrimination laws it would be complete unenforceable. Since an employer can not hire you for any other reason. They can claim they didn't hire you because you h
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Actually I think someone already invented this: http://www.winwap.com/desktop_applications/browser_emulator
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This is the average salary and vacation time for a RI teacher... Average Salary: $64,130(elementary), $60640(secondary) Weeks of Vacation per Year: 15 (source: http://tinyurl.com/5dhgl8 ) That's pretty good by today's standards. That's a
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
As others have said this is a ploy to allow the school district to get rid of bad union teachers and I think that's a good thing. People need to start realize this isn't a union issue it's a PUBLIC union issue and the public unions have be
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
OK, here's a challenge to you. What has Nathan Myhrvold actually ever created. He didn't make any great contribution to physics or cosmology. His software company made a product that was a clone of another product. Microsoft Research ha
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It's essentially a modern day protection racket created out of our poor patent system. Myhrvold and company patent a bunch of vauge "forward looking" ideas. Actual product people then create an actual product and have to pay them because
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I make a rule to only visit when I'm doing what I call "brain dead" tasks. Waiting on hold, the time before meetings where I show up on time and everyone else is fashionably late, and so on. It doesn't work when I get in a really intense d

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