cosmicray

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by cosmicray 16y ago
> Why is no one competing with PayPal? Go raise yourself 20-50 mil in VC money, then get several suites of legal types. PayPal has licenses in (by my count) 42 states. To operate in foreign countries, I'm sure the issues become much mor
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by cosmicray 16y ago
How about ... RAID isn't backup. RAID is there for system interruption protection. RAID is there to keep flickr cruising along without interruption. If they delete content from a volume covered by RAID, then all the mirrored copies go poof
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> The tower-devices will be broadcasting their presence and location To a certain extent, yes. You could use highly directional 802.11 antennas (yagi or shotgun) and disguise them. If they have minimal side lobe bleed, they may be indis
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Part of that the result of the Vietnam Conflict. The US military did not control the spin of the daily war news, and suffered mightily as a result.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
OK, I clicked on Site Map. I get this zero-pixel border/gutter on the left side (on Safari), which I find incredibly annoying. Does anyone else see this ?
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Started out in a college in the early 70's as an EE major. Fortran was a required course. Decided I like it so much better, that I switched majors. Spent a summer hacking the OS internals on the college mainframe to make it more efficient.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Keep one eye on Steve's participation on the BoD at Disney. If that drops off, that could be an indicator as well.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Apple licensed variants of OS 7 to the clone makers. When Steve returned, someone decided that the clone license agreements did not cover OS 8 ... so boom . New OS, but no new license. IIRC, Apple did buy one of the clone makers (possibly
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Someone should make the CNC milling instructions for the driver head, then open-source it under the GPL.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Make that a $5 billionaire (not counting the Apple stock value). Back when Disney bought out Pixar, I made a little spreadsheet that calculated how many DIS shares Steve wound up with. Assuming that he has not sold off (or gifted) any/much
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Considering his monetary pay is $1/year, I think he really enjoys doing something, where he has the resources, and backing, to "do it right". And when something doesn't come out right, he can breath a little fire (e.g. MobileMe problems a y
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by cosmicray 16y ago
carriers want you to take the subsidy bait. because it makes you less likely to jump ship than if you were only paying the monthly usage fee. I hope that having ~4 providers on compatible LTE bands will reverse that behavior.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Early developers used to put NOPs into code, so they would have a place to insert hex patches later on. At a minimum they could plug in a branch instruction, bounce down to the end of the code segment, put a longer sequence of code there, t
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by cosmicray 16y ago
It could also be an LTE iPad, leaving the iPhone for the usual summer product refresh. I don't really believe that, but it is an alternate possibility.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
An interesting question left unmentioned in all this ... will the Verizon iPhone have a SIM slot & card ?
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by cosmicray 16y ago
What isn't mentioned in all this, is that the runways were slightly east of true north in the first place. Please see the FAA diagram on wikipedia... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/KTPA-FAA.pdf If probably didn't take that
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by cosmicray 16y ago
You could also restrict it to people who buy, and sell, on Google Checkout. Putting real money/goods on the table tends to weed out the fake accounts.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
and every consumer should multiply those speeds by 0.707
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> One of my clients is a Bank. In that case, and based on their brush off, don't deal with IT. Send your concerns to the Internal Auditing department. They (usually) have the stroke to make people sit down and take things seriously. Int
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by cosmicray 16y ago
I wanted urm.om, but Oman didn't seem like the kind of place that go there.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
I would hope, and hope is a strong word, that having multiple carriers (plus MVNOs) on the interchangeable LTE bands will encourage some competition that is sorely lacking due to incompatible frequency allocations. Every spot in the US will
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> The problem is, there's no great alternative. Always remember, Google (by themselves) lives and dies based on original content. Google supplies very little OC (other than perhaps Google Maps). The millions and millions of sites that p
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by cosmicray 16y ago
I'm expecting it no later than Apple's next quarterly earnings report (mid Jan iirc).
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Yeah, those banks were slow getting on the bandwagon (for whatever reason). I was working at a bank in 1977 (in the systems/apps group) when they installed the first ATMs in Tampa. It was an interesting time. The original development unit h
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by cosmicray 16y ago
I've had the same problem using Preview. While recent versions of Preview might open the USPS labels, they did not render as well as they did in Acrobat. An earlier version of Preview did a better job of rendering.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Some of those lands you refer to are leased for for the fiber optic conduits. Lvl3 has 12 ducts on one side of a US Highway not far from me (it also has a state highway number). Lvl3 is paying a periodic lease (probably annually) for the ri
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by cosmicray 16y ago
back in the 1960s, USDA drew up several sets of plans for ag facilities, and homes, that contain fallout shelters. LSUAgCenter has a few of them still posted... Three Bedroom House with Emergency Shelter http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_o
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> Another solution would be for them both to negotiate a lower price. I disagree. If you want to get something for less than the offered price (i.e. OBO) you should talk to the seller before you place a binding order. Taking a valuable
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> Telling a salesman you'd like to buy a product doesn't contractually oblige you to buy, submitting an order for a product does. When the order is binding, has much to do with how the ToS of the site/store is written. Some sites take t
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> I think Verizon did the right thing by turning down Apple at first. It would be helpful to understand what actually went down... Back in 2006, Apple wanted a new way of selling handsets. Apple did not want to do subsidized, they wante

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