ben1040

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by ben1040 16y ago
Maybe it's just that my mother raised me with the idea that you catch more flies with sugar. But, I don't think it's terribly reasonable to mail the CEO of a company with the tone they used, even if the product in question is defective. I
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by ben1040 16y ago
One day in and the Woot acquisition is already bearing fruit -- Amazon is now selling Woot's famous "bags of crap." Being Prime subscribers, my wife and I get a shipment from Amazon usually on a weekly basis. I might try this just because I
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by ben1040 16y ago
I really liked the original iPhone for how solid and a little heavy it felt, as though it's actually worth the $600 you paid for it. I'm glad to see that back with the iPhone 4; the 3G model just felt like a cheap toy. Reminds me of that s
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by ben1040 16y ago
You have to have access a computer to first turn on an iPad, but my grandmother has gone just fine so far using an iPad with no accompanying computer. If you don't sync photos/music and use the iPad for watching Netflix, email, and web surf
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by ben1040 16y ago
I had been thinking of renting out a condo of mine. The catch is that I have an out-of-area cell phone number and want potential tenants to be able to make a local call. I'd gladly pay even $20 or $30 to buy another line on my GV account i
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by ben1040 16y ago
AT&T has nothing to do with the "AT&T" N1, and 2.2 is not officially out for any N1 model, be it the T-Mobile version or AT&T/Rogers version. The devices getting the Froyo update via OTA right now are a subset of the AWS-compati
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by ben1040 16y ago
I think more than simply rewarding professors for being "nice," it's rewarding those who recognize that people often have lives outside of school (as Mr Yanai did). A university education is supposed to be challenging, but shouldn't be impo
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by ben1040 16y ago
I would love to see a real estate search site that used what Latitude or Foursquare know about me to suggest houses/apartments. I imagine a search service that tells you things "4 times a week, you check in at restaurants with 1 mile of thi
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by ben1040 16y ago
AT&T's "commitment free" price for the 16GB 3GS is $549, with a $599 price for the 16GB iPhone 4. Although I'm guessing there's still some carrier subsidy hidden in that price since commitment free != unlocked, and even if that phone is
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by ben1040 16y ago
One neat idea they had at Google I/O that I had never seen before was that they offered you the option to embed a vCard with your contact info as a QR code on your badge. I've had people give me their business cards at conferences, and the
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by ben1040 16y ago
This article definitely made me stop and think; my grandfather passed a couple months ago, and suffered from AMD for the last couple years of his life. He had always been a fan of crosswords, and for a while my mother had been bringing over
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by ben1040 16y ago
At some airports TSA does scan boarding passes and match the name to ID cards; where they do, it's done out in the open (these airports are usually also where mobile boarding passes are supported). The barcode data on the boarding cards is
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by ben1040 16y ago
1) Bring a short extension cord with multiple outlets, so you don't have to fight with people in boarding lounges to charge your gear. This will also make you a hero at conferences too... 2) If you're going to begin a long term run of trave
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by ben1040 16y ago
First, 10 years is an awfully short time to go from the development of a scientific tool (the human genome map) to real-world medical treatments. Not only that, it's only really been in the last 3 or 4 years that the sequencing technology
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by ben1040 16y ago
There was at least a little precedent in that Google gave phones to I/O attendees last year and established that it was not out of the realm of possibilities they might do it again. That said I did not buy my ticket to I/O this year under t
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by ben1040 16y ago
No, but in some circles there's an assumption that self employment is just a stopgap, and you're only working for yourself until you can find another position where you can pad someone else's bottom line instead of your own.
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by ben1040 16y ago
Anecdote is not the singular of data, but I have been able to send/receive long messages using Android and iPhone on AT&T. Just yesterday I even noticed Android's core SMS app is even nice enough to tell you when the message is overflow
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by ben1040 16y ago
This about sums up my opinion of iPhone 4. My N1 is still a wonderful phone and for the features I use, I still don't think I'd want to trade it (back) in for an iPhone just yet. I think the key phrase there is "for the features I use," ho
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by ben1040 16y ago
My scheduled zeppelin tour ended up getting rained out, but the next time I'm in the bay area and have the time to spare, I'm totally going to give it another try.
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by ben1040 16y ago
> it seems as if facebook/twitter are in a real place to sell me stuff i might actually want, which could be a great service in and of itself. As a programmer working in data mining problems, I can certainly concede just don't find th
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by ben1040 16y ago
I notice the author mentioned "leave-behind Powerpoint decks." I had a short stint in consulting after getting my MBA, working with enterprise software clients. Within that job I've never once seen a Powerpoint deck that was useful after
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by ben1040 16y ago
>If you had bought one last week then you would have gotten the all you can eat plan for $30. But you can't sign up for the unlimited plan and turn it off whenever you please, which is how Apple is still advertising the iPad despite t
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by ben1040 16y ago
As for consumers putting up with it, we'll see. People never had problems understanding how long-distance worked. And charging by the minute seems to be working well for Skype. That's because a minute of usage for both Skype or long dista
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by ben1040 16y ago
>Or does it need to be delivered and activated before I'm a 'customer'? This: you'd need to have the iPad in hand and activated with AT&T, and should you ever cancel it there's no going back.
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by ben1040 16y ago
The big deal is the CEO of Apple stood on a stage and talked about the crazy new price structure they negotiated with ATT. Sign up whenever you wanted, cancel whenever you wanted. Because of the way it was announced, a lot of people bought
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by ben1040 16y ago
I use about 500MB/month, and this didn't change much when I switched from an iPhone to a Nexus One. This is usage from two email accounts, a lot of web surfing, and maybe an hour or two of streaming music via rhapsody or pandora. This past
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by ben1040 16y ago
The US postal service's mechanism for doing this is slightly less invasive; they charge a $1 fee to your credit card card so they can confirm that the card's billing address is one of either the "old" or "new" addresses.
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by ben1040 16y ago
>The only weakness compared to the iPhone is the quality of apps, but that is quickly changing. One of my disappointments when first getting an Android phone was that the apps trended toward being uglier and more buggy than on iPhone, b
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by ben1040 16y ago
This experience about mimics mine with the iPad. The first two weeks or so I couldn't put it down, and now it's just kind of something that I have on my coffee table. I still find it very useful - I can now just "hand a web page" to my wif
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by ben1040 16y ago
I don't feel it needs to be free, but the service certainly does not feel like it's worth $100/year (or even the $69/year it costs if you buy a MobileMe activation code on Amazon rather than direct from Apple). But that's because I'm paying

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