TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This is nice to say and I don't disagree with the sentiment but people need to get real. The unions are the democratic base. No one denies that. A Democrat can't govern without their support and they aren't going to budge on pension/heal
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Read my comment - I specifically said "Sadly many of the union contracts specify employees be provided a cell phone so he's only going to get so far with this." The order is simply too broad for him to have taken time to evaluate each posit
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This doesn't have as much to do with cell phones as it does with Jerry Brown's need to cut something. In other words I think he knows a lot of positions need cell phones but I think he also knows most people have personal phones they'll us
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
What's all this about forking the browser? That is WAY over complicating the matter. Both Chrome and Firefox extensions are essentially Javascript. So while they aren't 1-to-1 compatible they could use 95% of the same code. The real probl
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Tim Cook's (non)response (via TechCrunch's live blog)... Will not comment on the roadmap." No promise of a new CDMA iPhone in summer. Tim Cook: We chose CDMA because the LTE chipsets forced some design concepts that we would not make. When
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Pretty much what everyone expected. The same phone on Verizon's CDMA network. The only a few things I noted were... 1. You can use it as a WiFi Hotspot 2. Redesigned antenna (obviously) 3. Verzion isn't getting the 3GS (which is probab
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
What specifically are you referring to? I've forced myself to listen to what he says (I listen to one show a week) and I've never once heard him advocate violence in any way. Beck is paranoid. He believes the government is becoming more p
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The first bubble came at the end of a recession too. Beyond that VCs are in the business because they have money where others don't and they want to get in on the ground floor of investment opportunities.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think it's more valuable than other ways I might waste time. That said there's another advantage that I think is more important. I'm passionate about technology. The people who work for me like technology but aren't as passionate as I a
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
" This bubble is very close to bursting. Too bad for those pension funds and university endowments. " Not even close. As someone who lived through the very end (and hence the worst of it) I think this does mark the return of the bubble.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I posted this because I'm curious to see how the "Android will win because there will be a race to the bottom" crowd responds to it. $49 is still a lot of money for some people but those people generally won't buy smartphones (if $49 is a l
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Apple follows AT&T, drops official US iPhone 3GS price to $49(appleinsider.com)
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
There's certainly some truth to what you say but I'd encourage you to look at the context of the conversation here. pg's blog and Hacker News appeal to people who are generally looking at the world from one of two perspectives: investing o
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
To me the cogent point is that IBM re-invented itself but only after it broke from a line of internally groomed CEOs leading all the way back to the Watsons. IBM was about to be split into pieces when Lou Gerstner was hired from the outsid
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The core of his point was the degradation of search results. How does that translate to him leaving "selling ads against search" out? I'm starting to think half the people commenting here didn't read past the 4th sentence
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think you're being too hard on the piece. You picked one sentence out of the article and are dismissing the point completely on that basis. But he wasn't offering those 4 products as his only justification. He quoted several articles t
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Your logic is flawed here. You're basically saying the author's statement that the "poor are blessed in industrialized nations" is incorrect because of people who are not blessed for reasons other than simply being poor. By that same logic
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
With all due respect you don't know what you're talking about. I grew up very poor. Not only were we on welfare but my mom would turn around and sell the food stamps to get money to buy booze. Yet I still had food, shelter, education and ev
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The problem is, by the site's own admission, the number of apps has doubled (see their previous post) Meaning the per app sales of the store are half of what they were. So while the numbers aren't as bleak as we thought they aren't great e
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
More and more I'm forced to face the reality that ChromeOS is doomed. Conceptually I still like the IDEA of ChromeOS more but I just can't see a consumer choosing what is essentially a browser over something like this. My only hope is that
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Right. I'm saying Google is a platform company (among other things) BECAUSE they're building a mobile platform. I'm disputing the fact that he doesn't think that. The logic I used is this... - Apple is a platform company because they cha
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
He's not wrong but I don't agree. Advertising is a form of payment not an end in itself. People still pay Google they just do it in attention which Google than turns into money by selling that attention to someone else. So to say Google is
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Yeah I knew that. I was just trying to make the point that I wasn't biased against Apple. If you look at Samuel_Michon's comment history you'll see he comes out fiercely in favor of Apple even going so far as to attack pro-Apple people fo
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't disagree with that. Especially in a Private, Christian school for students who are sent there specifically because they want to excel in education. Though my contrarian side would ask whether full laptops would be more appropriate
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Control: I'm talking about control in the classroom. Being able to stop a kid from browsing the Internet while you are giving a lecture. Power: If you think an iPad will last all day while constantly in use you haven't tried it. In my tes
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It's not about the operating system. His point was that Apple doesn't address these types of issues. My counter point to him was that someone with Android could address the issues if Apple didn't. So the issue wasn't the OS it was Apple's
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
You're probably right but it's an excellent opportunity for a startup wanting to use Android. I listed a lot of the bad stuff but the advantages were pretty significant. Touch really is a more natural interface. Kids as young as 3 take to
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Nice idea but as someone who manages technology for a school I can say tablets just aren't there yet. A few things (that might not be apparent with 41 hand picked kids)... ========== Damage: Understand that planning technology for a school
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I specifically didn't include them in the total for just that reason
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Just to give the full number the average Californian owes $132,655 with National Debt, State Debt and Consumer Debt (including mortgage, car, etc...) U.S. Debt: http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html California Debt: http://www.usdebtclock

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