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by angstrom 16y ago
Current trends are supposedly looking better. I saw an article last year that claimed 1 million sold before Christmas and continuing to trend upward: He is also forecasting that 2.4 million Nooks will be sold this year, and more than 3 mil
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by angstrom 16y ago
Sometimes you need to learn from your mistakes, regroup, change strategy, and try again. It's a balance between avoiding failure and learning from it, but not fearing failure of something that is just beyond your reach. Otherwise, we risk m
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by angstrom 16y ago
Wal-Mart also guarantees scale when they negotiate to put something in their stores. It's what allows them to put downward pressure on their supply chain to lower their prices. The logistics of getting the product efficiently to the shelves
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by angstrom 16y ago
So, they're a "high-end Wal-Mart".
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by angstrom 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVMPd0zl-_Y This sums up the average computer user. If iOS can handle their email/office needs there isn't anything stopping them from using a blue tooth keyboard.
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by angstrom 16y ago
I would sell the equity and invest it in a six pack of socks. Honestly, I think anyone working for a startup should continually re-evaluate their commitment to the vision every 3-4 months. If it pains you to see where things are going you'r
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by angstrom 16y ago
I wouldn't go because I'm not into cannibalism and I'm aware of the less glamorous side of history. Jamestown, Plymouth, Donner Party, Roanoke...unfortunately this repeats itself way too often. It's much different from Disney's Pocahontas a
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by angstrom 16y ago
It's still something that has to be cleared by Nokia's board. He can't make a unilateral decision like this and have everyone go along for the ride.
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All-American Streetcar Boom Fuels Urban Future(npr.org)
2 points by angstrom 16y ago|1 comments
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by angstrom 16y ago
While I agree that it frees up manual labor it raises another specter. The unskilled manual farm-hand labor shifted to unskilled manual manufacturing labor. We're now telling people well past their prime to switch to more cerebral jobs beca
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by angstrom 16y ago
Chained, but not oblivious. Windows 8 will borrow heavily from Surface. Registry will be gone. It will be good, but it may be too late.
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by angstrom 16y ago
Ultra High Fast, no less. Personally, I only use Ludicrous speed cables.
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by angstrom 16y ago
The odd thing, the hardest thing to comprehend, is how our reality continues to exist. The ground state of the universe is a vacuum. Void of matter and shielded from radiation is the quantum foam of field fluctuations and virtual particles
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by angstrom 16y ago
Reminds me of this chapter in Superfreakonomics: http://books.google.com/books?id=_Gy-McfqgYgC&lpg=PA26&#...
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by angstrom 16y ago
That's something that should be better normalized. Unfortunately, it varies sometimes based on the state and whether that coverage is required to be extended, but under a different plan. I still think a single-payer system would be best for
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by angstrom 16y ago
It depends on your situation (age, health, dependents). Last startup I worked at did a high deductible health insurance and subsidized it with a $2000 Health Savings Account (deposits made with each paycheck on your behalf with pretax dolla
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by angstrom 16y ago
I'm good with euthanasia and all, but go practice this in an uncrowded field if that's going to be the method of dispatch.
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by angstrom 16y ago
Santa Clause?
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by angstrom 16y ago
That was my thought as well. Anyone have a chart of the margins? Is the 60/40 split inverted?.
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by angstrom 16y ago
They're a middle man providing a service that has taken different forms in the past. You can be cynical, but realistically their goal is to make a profit by providing a service which has it's own costs to cover. How much would those develop
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Boston Developer/Designer Startup Meetup (students free)(developersdevelopersdevelopersdevelopers.org)
1 points by angstrom 16y ago|0 comments
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by angstrom 16y ago
It's worked fairly well for music, but in the case of reference material I agree it's a poor substitute to skimming the actual book. Maybe something like a Zune Pass for books would be better. Flat fee, read as much as you want, keep rights
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by angstrom 16y ago
I agree, this is the reason DRM should be relaxed to allow 20-30% of the book be readable without license. As it stands it's 100% readable when the DRM is stripped off.
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by angstrom 16y ago
Maybe, but what's not in the electronic profile is just as important as what is. No facebook account? No phone record? No credit cards? Suspicous? Yes, if they're not homeless.
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by angstrom 16y ago
This was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this. For-profit colleges could be a viable venture if they were partly liable for the loans students must take to attend. That would align their profit motives with the success of stude
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by angstrom 16y ago
Has your spouse seen this video? If not please watch it. I would be curious if you could debunk/shed more light on some of the issues it raises: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/view/ My concern about for-profit educatio
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by angstrom 16y ago
I think Bertrand Russell's take on this is one of the best: Here there comes a practical question which has often troubled me. Whenever I go into a foreign country or a prison or any similar place they always ask me what is my religion. I
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by angstrom 16y ago
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is another great read. It's the first in a 3 part series (came out in 2007): http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Name-of-the-Wind/Patric... The next one, The Wise Man's Fear is coming out in M
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by angstrom 16y ago
msysgit works just fine, both 32/64bit windows...however, I agree I'm not aware of many windows devs that use it. I tend to straddle win/*nix so I have git/svn installed in both environments for convenience.
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by angstrom 16y ago
From one atheist to another. Merry Christmas.

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