TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
He has a (semi-)valid point but he distorts it by not understanding what a bubble is. The problem is his definition, "A bubble occurs when an asset moves up today only because it moved up yesterday", is wrong. A Bubble is actually when peop
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Hitchens was essentially a Marxist (by his own admission) who was also in favor of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the foreign policy it represented. So there was very little I agreed with him on. But I'm terribly upset about this and I'll t
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The one thing I always wonder about these stories is if they are true why haven't we in the United States been surpassed? The first time I remember hearing about Finland's education system was 5th grade yet I'm in my early 30s and Finland
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't think this is practical. So say your friendly neighborhood oil company sends a memo out to its employees saying "We need to drill in the [Insert National Park] to stay in business. So if you want to keep your job you need to send
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Honestly, if you think something this complex is simple and the people who disagree with you are idiots than it's probably you who is acting like an idiot. To give just one flaw in your logic. Protesting is speech. If I work I can't prote
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I hope this type of talk evolves into a discussion about creating apps that can adjust to their environment. That, in my opinion, is what we really need now that all these new connected devices are popping up (Phones, TVs, 7" tablets, 10"
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The "given how easy they are to implement I see no reason not to" part is what bugs me the most about this. I don't think there's a modern language in existence that doesn't have at least 3 free ways to implement an RSS/Atom feed. Every f
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I'll give you my suggestions based on a mini version of the configuration I've been using for a couple years (except for the dropbox part which I just started using this year). This is only for Windows but most works on Mac and Linux... 1
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
> Because they could not? The only way they could was to buy it from HP, and that costs money. The money saved on software licensing isn't enough to make the difference if these companies were "desperate" for an alternative. As you poi
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
While I agree I really don't see hardware manufacturers adopting webOS. Since webOS is now Open Source it would be much easier for them to adopt the innovations of webOS (particularly interface wise) and use it as a shell on top of Android
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
If these companies are "desperate for an alternative" why didn't they embrace webOS before? Or why aren't they pushing Windows Mobile? Or, if they want open, why not just fork Android like Amazon and Barnes and Noble? Are you seriously su
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Well free stacks aren't really free either but we could argue that point until we're blue in the face. The issue with Microsoft right now is they seem to want to throw away everything they've created over the last decade and embrace the web
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
This is a good thing for Microsoft. Microsoft needs to become more outwardly focused and influential softies leaving the fold and pushing from the outside will do that. Right now the two good things Microsoft has going for it is MVC and C#
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I agree the unemployment number is messed up but for different reasons. His logic doesn't track for me. Babies who were just born aren't entering the job force. As disturbing as it is to contemplate we have no idea how many of those babie
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I'm not saying it's not a good thing. But it's an equally good thing if a Mexican family pulls_themselves_and_their_families_out_of_extreme_poverty. If you thought through my point rather than just emoting you would have realized that.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Yes but the western world itself is less than a third of the world's population and no one would argue against it having the majority of so-called "dynamic" people. Without knowing how many people we're talking about (and neither of us do)
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Actually there's plenty of evidence to say entrepreneurship could be partially hereditary (or more to the point a genetic disposition to be intelligent and a genetic makeup that allows you to deal with stress through low blood pressure, a c
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I just defined the problem I didn't put forth a solution. But your indignation shows exactly why the problem is so significant. Having said that I'm not saying it isn't the way to save America either. The problem right now is while Chines
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
But Foxconn wouldn't have to pay all the fees and middle men involved with getting products from China to here. So they could afford to pay more because their product would need nothing more than a truck.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
>> the idea that all the most innovative people only exist in the United States (or even that people in the US are on average more innovative than others) is ridiculous, and stating it is just blind nationalism... You couldn't be mo
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I think you’re projecting what you want the problem to be on top of what the problem actually is (apologies in advance for the tl;dr factor below) The economic crisis of the last couple years is not America’s problem. America’s problem is
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I have no criticisms for sink.js my comment was more on the philosophical side. The danger in a solution like sink.js is it becomes "good enough" until people need more than it can provide. Then they turn to the APIs and end up dealing wi
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It occurs to me we're starting to go around in circles. The author suggests... "To make it work in both Chrome and Firefox, we had to use sink.js, to abstract the differences between the audio APIs." But isn't that exactly what Flash is?
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't disagree but I think the larger point here is Government is painfully ineffective at meddling. So much so that they end up making the problem they were trying to prevent worse. I mean, this was a pretty obvious work around for McDo
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The last numbers I know of are from 2003 but in 2003 Happy Meals accounted for about 20% of McDonalds Sales (Link found through Quick Google Search: http://www.fool.com/investing/small-cap/2004/09/03/the-steal... ) Apparently they distribu
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Here's my explanation from experience... 99% of writing code is basic stuff that anyone out of school can do. (Yes I made 99% up out of thin air but in my experience it's reasonably accurate) In the world there are a lot of programmers that
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I understand that but I think the inferred point was "drop DRM and people will buy from multiple sources" which I don't think is true. My point is people don't want to use multiple services. If Amazon makes it easy to purchase books peopl
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I really don't think history bears this out. The lesson of Apple seems to be people will accept DRM if you make it easy for them to buy. There were plenty of places to buy DRM-free music (including Amazon) yet people still went to iTunes
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
There are a few major flaws in this measure. The first and most obvious is it doesn't take into account income. Clinton, for example, had a massive amount of tax revenue to play with so he could have spent more and still have increased th
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't think that's true. I think the innovation of the iPhone was in two areas... 1. It was the first product to popularize touch. That's going to have a big impact in the future of technology. The gestures pioneered by the iPhone (sw

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