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by ansy 15y ago
I think that's called Groupon. Taking billions of dollars of investor money and tying it up with no hope of making a single dime. You'll get millions of users and entrench yourself deeper and deeper in a broken business model.
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by ansy 15y ago
While I give the author the benefit of the doubt he or she has every intent to respect privacy, if I really care about my own privacy I should do what I can to protect it myself before I place my trust in a third party. It's like revealing
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by ansy 15y ago
This always seems like such a good idea to me. Like walking around a busy city bustling with people all around. But then I realize I would never use it. The idea of broadcasting my browsing habits page by page to a third party is creepy bey
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by ansy 15y ago
Apple doesn't care one whiff about any single app's livelihood. If integrating something improves the user experience, then it gets integrated. iOS 5 is already taking aim at Instapaper (Reading List), the entire ToDo category (Reminders),
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by ansy 15y ago
I think if HP has to flood the market with zero margin devices to make a dent it did the right thing by getting out of that business once and for all. It has better ways of occupying its resources. EDIT: I fully realize the TouchPad costs m
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by ansy 15y ago
Interesting, if a little more kitchen sink than I have come to expect from Apple. Maybe Apple will use this and tie it in to NOAA's National Weather Service in the USA. http://www.weather.gov/view/nationalwarnings.php It could save a sign
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Will Jon Rubinstein and Todd Bradley Surrender Too?(allthingsd.com)
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by ansy 15y ago
This guide should probably mention that TRIM support is not enabled for after-market SSDs under Snow Leopard or Lion. You are relying completely on the SSD chipset's internal garbage collector to tidy up dirty pages and stave off SSD rigor
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by ansy 15y ago
I don't think it's clear, but it seems like the person who wrote the article is a QA tester and the developer who suggested the fix was another person. I doubt they would fire a QA tester just for finding a bug. He might have been laid off
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by ansy 15y ago
I find F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby's placement on the list appropriate and Plato's to be suitably ironic. Gatsby had a library of uncut (i.e. never opened) books and Plato argued against placing too much importance on books thems
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by ansy 15y ago
This is really an example of taking Google's strengths and making them out to be weaknesses. Google's search algorithm is tuned to what actually works for most people. Does anyone search for Java and click on coffee links? Or links for Java
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by ansy 15y ago
I don't have good citations for these figures, but I'm pulling this out of Stephen Fishman's book "Working for Yourself." In one informal survey of self-employed people it was found those who charged fixed fees earned on average 150% more t
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by ansy 15y ago
Guys, it's called AirPrint and Apple advertises it quite visibly. It's one of the major features of iOS 4. You can see an extensive tout for it on Apple's website here http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/airprint.html All of the printers t
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by ansy 15y ago
"Competing with lower margins is stupid" Fixed that for you. If you can have lower prices with the same or higher margins that's called an epic win.
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by ansy 15y ago
The TouchPad is a real disaster. 10% sell rate even after promotions? This is like ET for the Atari 2600. Best Buy was ready to just send back 245,000 out of the 270,000 it ordered because it couldn't sell them. At least HP agreed to give t
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by ansy 15y ago
Technically, Amazon could make the Kindle in the USA out of parts shipped in from various Asian countries even though it could not make each of those components in the USA as well. But then, what really could be made entirely in one country
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by ansy 15y ago
SMS is arguably less secure than email over an SSL connection. Why would you even consider sending credit card details over SMS? Not only can SMS messages be sniffed and you have no idea if carriers are encrypting it or unencrypting it, but
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by ansy 15y ago
Only if HP can't sell the Palm assets to someone first. That should be priority number one. If the new buyer wants to open source it let them go through the trouble of due diligence. If webOS can't be sold, which would be surprising in this
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by ansy 15y ago
I see the similarity, although webOS is nowhere near the heart and soul of HP that Mac OS is to Apple. Should HP's management be fighting a two front war against IBM and Apple? Maybe not. Apple dumped Xserve, has nearly dumped the Mac Pro,
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by ansy 15y ago
I believe the comparison HP would prefer you use is to IBM. Unlike Apple, HP has a whole lot more than consumer PCs. Between its servers and EDS, it's arguably much more like IBM. IBM was synonymous with the PC especially in business and go
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by ansy 15y ago
Facebook has a responsibility to do the right thing or lose a lot. It has executives, investors, and assets which are all exposed to lawsuits and criminal investigation. A dude in Thailand that makes a free "Angry Birds Cheats" app does not
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by ansy 15y ago
Now Apple just needs to do something about the address book and we're good. I don't particularly like any random app having silent, unrestricted access to my entire address book. It's only a matter of time before we find out some super popu
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by ansy 15y ago
Enterprise software is a hell of a lot more than racks of web servers and managing licenses for Microsoft Office. Any publicly traded company, even one that is not a software company, has tons of business processes that are specific to its
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by ansy 15y ago
What? The cloud IS Oracle, IBM, SAP, and HP's future revenue model. They are going to build the cloud, build the enterprise cloud services, and bill out consultants specializing in the cloud. HP's future is nothing but the cloud moving forw
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by ansy 15y ago
This was perhaps a good plan delivered with the poorest tact. The reality distortion field seems to be working in reverse for Leo & Co. Moving toward an enterprise only strategy could make HP healthier and more profitable in the long ru
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by ansy 15y ago
I disagree pretty strongly. All of the major game consoles are an IBM PowerPC CPU with nVidia/ATI graphics. Everything is off the shelf. The Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and Playstation 3 are pretty much all based on those same designs (althoug
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by ansy 15y ago
I am skeptical about Palm's IP finding its way to Amazon. Amazon seems to have invested heavily in Android not only with its own store but a whole line of tablets and phones coming out very, very soon. The talent might be good. But the pate
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by ansy 15y ago
Nintendo will have to have a string of spectacular failures before it starts share cropping. Remember n64? Remember GameCube? Both were pretty lackluster compared to Super NES. VirtualBoy? Disaster. The Wii U and 3DS might be disappointing,
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by ansy 15y ago
It appears this kills any chance of another manufacturer picking up webOS. If HP can't make it work why should anyone else try? Hindsight is 20/20. Google and Palm could have made a deal. At least then the WebOS team could merge with the Ch
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by ansy 15y ago
What the hell? This is a serious change in direction. HP was supposed to transform its PC division into a higher margin business by more aggressively pursuing the luxury market. Also the PC division was part of the WebOS master plan by bund

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