TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Iraq is definitely a sink hole. But the War in Afghanistan has cost $370 billion which is $200 billion less than Korea (in inflation adjusted dollars). http://costofwar.com/en/ http://historical.whatitcosts.com/facts-korean-war.htm
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The U.S. was only in WWII from 41-45. It was only in WWI from 1917-1918. Also saying "The war on terror" is kind of misleading since troop levels have varied greatly. To give one example the initial Afghan offensive only involved about 1,
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The article’s interesting but it didn’t really answer the question I wanted answered which is “who is actually making more money?” Netflix is at the forefront of on-demand visual media and we all know how that story is going to end. I don’
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Do you know that people are making money off Facebook ads for a fact? I'm not necessarily agreeing with the author as much as I'm trying to point out the fallacy of believing every ad platform is effective. Your argument seems to be "if th
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Well it isn't a "false" argument it's an argument you disagree with. But your circumstantial evidence (that you click on ads) is no more or less compelling than his circumstantial evidence ("that he doesn't"). The question boils down to w
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Actually the author's contention, true or not, is that Facebook will never be able to improve their platform because people don't go to Facebook looking for information they go there to interact with their friends. So Facebook ads will alw
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think you missed his point (though I can't really blame you because he has a peculiar writing style). The way I read it he has two basic points. 1. Facebook ads are different than Google ads (or other web site ads) because you go to Face
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Two thoughts popped into my head after reading this. 1. Beautiful people tend to have more confidence. If you recall from grade school there's an old rule about multiple choice tests which says "if you don't know for sure go with your fir
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Absolutely right and the software came from a company called Pixo which was founded by an ex-Apple employee (the company was acquired by Apple shortly after the iPod shipped). While the interface was mocked up by a guy named Tim Wasko (who
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
There is a process by which analyst make their official predictions. I'm not an expert in that process but I know enough to say it assumes the mean value between the best the company could have done and the worst. So if the company manages
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Do you have a reason for doubting that? Steve Jobs has been an amazing leader for Apple but he's not an engineer. For example the iPod and iTunes came from external companies (PortalPlayer and SoundJam respectively). I suspect Jobs' influ
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Ummm...do you have a reference for that first claim? Jobs founded NeXT right after he left Apple and in interviews I've seen he's praised his time at NeXT
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Fair Point.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I can't retype the whole thing here so I'm just going to give you a link to a post I made which makes the argument that Steve Jobs does enjoy it too much and that's exactly why he won't be back. See here: http://tomstechblog.com/post/Ie28
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I’m Not Sure Steve Jobs Is All That Sick…But He Also Might Not Come Back(tomstechblog.com)
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Just because the soviet union did something doesn't mean that's what's happening here. Look at the facts... 1. Mr. Danchev took pictures to "prove" his apartment was bugged ( http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/we-need-help-with-the-str...
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
While all the sarcastic responses are funny there is a serious point here. If you're a technology VC you get a skewed view of the world because... 1. Everyone you interact with (Entrepreneurs, Journalists, Fellow VCs, etc...) is crazy for
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
University of Phoenix was part of a trend that took advantage of the rigid nature of traditional academia and actually customized educational programs around working adults schedule. The problem is they charged outrageous rates for their s
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
If they were to force H.264 out they'd clearly have to make an exception for devices that were not capable of playing WebM. To think otherwise would be idiotic (and is an obnoxious straw man argument on your part). But that's not hard to
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
If Google really wants to force WebM adoption they need to go "all-in". Set a deadline for pulling all h.264 videos from YouTube and force Apple and Microsoft to support the WebM standard. I know that sounds worse than what they're doing b
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Tell that to Tim Berners-Lee. Last I checked he was not a gazillionaire
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I mostly agree. I don't think anyone would defend this woman's maturity level but it is her personal twitter account. She clearly wasn't representing the company and MG's been posting non-stop attacks on AT&T since the Verizon announce
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The article's basic point: Tablets will kill netbooks because netbooks aren't tablets. Look at some of his reasons... - "The Major Issue with netbooks is that they lack touch screens" - "Netbooks are boring...Tablets feature touch screens,
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
MPEG LA can still change the terms whenever they please and theor recent behavior has been troubling ( http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100430/0232599255.shtml )
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think Google's playing the long game here. So they won't switch tomorrow but they'll try to make WebM the defacto standard by getting everyone but Apple on board. Then they'll leverage the open nature of the codec and its new found marke
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Not being at another company's mercy seems like reason enough to me. Right now Google is a company that's sunk hundreds of millions into Android and it's all at risk because Oracle bought Sun. I'd imagine that wake up call made them look
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Google's H.264 decision: It's all about YouTube costs(zdnet.com)
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
That would only make the decision simple if you absolutely had to use only one search engine. You could just as easily use Google's encrypted interface for insecure connections and Bing at home IF you thought Bing was better. Only Semi-Rel
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with an engineering response. The issue is in defining the problem where as engineering is about applying knowledge to a problem. The theory I'm putting forth is that Google tends to see things in the ab
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I found this paragraph interesting from not just a Health IT perspective but from an "understanding Google" perspective... “If I were not doing what I’m doing and I wanted to do something in health care … I would go to all of the research u

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