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by betterth 14y ago
Welcome to the new reality. The speed at which Google can release Android and the speed at which manufactorer's can implement/upgrade Android are two very, very different things. And unlike Android, Apple does not have this release/implemen
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by betterth 14y ago
Looks like they didn't have to buy them to get those perks.
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by betterth 14y ago
I disagree. Experts have understood the true risk of a cyber war for over a decade, at least. The infrastructure of the United States, both public and private, is woefully unprepared for such attacks to be brought against it. I'm reminded o
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by betterth 14y ago
As silly as it is, it's what I'm doing for a lot of my non-essential sites. Being able to see who I've signed up with is also nice, as I'm sure I'm signed up to a whole host of sites that I have zero memory of. That, and Facebook supports t
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by betterth 14y ago
As someone who loves to see what is going on but is never within two thousand miles of where these conferences are held, I love the live tweeting and live blogging. I get that it may be an annoyance to those who attend, but to the thousands
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by betterth 14y ago
Pot, meet kettle.
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by betterth 14y ago
"This web site that you're posting on is dedicated to entrepreneurs who create businesses in their home offices without the need for a big corporation to back them and provide HR, Accounting, and other overhead services. That revolution in
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by betterth 14y ago
Technology has decreased the amount of time it takes for you to do your job. So much so that your company learned it could fire the guy next to you (or let him quit and not replace him, however you like to look at it) and make you do his wo
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by betterth 14y ago
To be fair, I'm two episodes behind on Game of Thrones, so two weeks back. I've seen only one spoiler for the most recent episode, but if I hadn't already read Books 1 - 3, it wouldn't have been a spoiler. I only knew what I was looking at
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by betterth 14y ago
You assume that the number of shares being offered was static, hence the price drop by half. More realistically, Facebook should have sold less shares, which would have kept the price at that target. But I guess it couldn't sell less: they
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by betterth 14y ago
From what I've seen, it was hugely overvalued. Maybe $25-$50 billion, with a share price of $28-$32. Last minute change to $38+ was suicide.
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by betterth 14y ago
Every industry does everything possible to prevent itself from having to change. But what does it matter? The companies who hire shipping companies or run shipping departments are themselves run by number counters -who don't care-. Companie
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by betterth 14y ago
I know, right? I'm going through the list of issues that happen for Android, and these aren't common PC issues. Resolution issues and render capabilities per screen size? Games pick resolutions and settings dynamically for best performance.
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by betterth 14y ago
The iPod may have beat the competition in the beginning, but after a couple of years it quickly remained the either the most expensive or close to the most expensive device in it's class. Apple notoriously only sold the shuffle under $100 w
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by betterth 14y ago
The fanboy is strong with you. Google is CLEARLY trying to create a Apple-style universe. Hence the music store. Hence the app store. Hence forcing every google user in existence into at least seeing these services, and being automatically
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by betterth 14y ago
I waited, and I saw half-baked software addons to Android, some of which weren't even operating at show time. I saw an ugly beast of a phone that clearly spent most of it's time in Legal instead of Design. So much for Samsung wowing us.
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by betterth 14y ago
I think you may have misunderstood: If I rollover a username, it drops down a popup. If I move away from the username, the pop-up remains. It notices my onMouseOver to instantly rolldown, but ignores my onMouseOut when I leave. This dispari
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by betterth 14y ago
The CSS needs some cleaning up, I can see a few little issues, but I personally like the new style a tad better. I get the whole hackernews/reddit meme of "thou shalt design the most basic UI and never change it", but these days it feels mo
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by betterth 14y ago
It must aggrevate Google to know that they have very little control at all over the the majority of Android tablets out there. It must also excite Samsung to know that it's possible to be successful using Google's software while simultaneou
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by betterth 14y ago
What do you propose the player does in an action oriented, modern, gun-based game? What skill based mechanic can eat up 30 hours of a 40 hour game and is superior to point and click FPS shooting? At the end of the day, your player has to PL
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by betterth 14y ago
This is pretty offensive to anyone who actually plays FPS games and isn't just bitching from the outside. There are some great FPS's with amazing stories that make up a large part of the bedrock that is gaming as a cultural medium. They are
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by betterth 14y ago
Did you read the article? Most of these pundits don't hate G+, or Google's business model here, or what they're doing with social. They hate the PR nonsense that Google's feels is neccesary to abstract away the fact that they're tiny compar
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by betterth 14y ago
(I am not an expert, this is just what I think) The problem is: you need tens of thousands of dollars for a single manufacturing run. You can either raise capital by selling equity (traditional investment), or raise capital by preselling yo
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by betterth 15y ago
Even funnier: Let's tell the President to stand in the way of the legal, sovereign bill writing by our duly elected Congress. Talk about a disgusting ignorance of the separation of powers. The President should never get to veto the writing
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by betterth 15y ago
I don't think DuckDuckGo is Google's biggest competitor (are they even into the ad game at all?) I think their biggest rival is Facebook, hence why they went so far out of their way to make a Facebook clone. As amusing as it is to watch Goo
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by betterth 15y ago
The FDA has a number of ways of getting around this for drugs that have limited effect. This is for drugs to be used in the general population, drugs for major illnesses. Orphan drugs are treated differently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O
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by betterth 15y ago
I'm under the impression that iOS5 introduced no-sync-required activation.
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by betterth 15y ago
I agree, but the risk is this: the current model produces the majority of the world's NME's (new molecular entities, or truly new drugs that aren't just old drug + ibuprofen and a new name). We can sit here and talk about what's wrong with
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by betterth 15y ago
Switch razors to Occam's Razor: all other things being equal, the idea that makes the fewest assumptions is better. Either the government is engaging in a disinformation campaign that is so broad and so pervasive that even the blogs at the
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by betterth 15y ago
Funny thing about meth is that it's not that dangerous -- it's almost identical to adderral. The methyl group (meth-amphetamine vs amphetamine) really only improves the ability of the drug to cross the blood-brain barrier. It's basically a

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