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by crander 15y ago
Note that many casual users do not know that shift click to maximize will "properly" maximize many, but not all, OS X apps.
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by crander 15y ago
Sure, but you are arguing for short-term spending vs long term capital investment. Basically you are arguing that you don't need to get more sleep, you'll just have a red-bull tonight. So the red-bull is better than getting more sleep in
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by crander 15y ago
The feds took over radio spectrum in the early days of spark gap transmitters for the "public good." It's just the way it is unless you want to fight the FCC at this point. One of the major reasons all the consumer wireless devices suck is
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by crander 15y ago
Intel can see it. The development of the Atom was partially a reaction to ARM. Intel is in a classic innovator's dilemma and unwilling, apparently, to pursue the most successful strategy to counteract it - create a standalone business ent
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by crander 15y ago
Is it me or do the pictures portray a vastly different level of social prospects for each of these categories?
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by crander 15y ago
Read "The Pentium Chronicles" by Bob Colwell. The Pentium 4 is the time frame when marketing took over Intel and fed this Ghz myth when many knew it was a doomed long term path.
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by crander 15y ago
Does this linguist really think higher interest rates will drive away capital in an open economy?
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by crander 16y ago
No, no they wouldn't.
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by crander 16y ago
The iPad shipped a year before the competition. Sure it doesn't have a multiuser operating system... it was based on smartphones. Apple faces engineering tradeoffs too. They shipped, they delivered, and they will add this if it makes sen
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by crander 16y ago
Tools for developers and designers is a big point. Especially with new hires. Ten years ago joining a major corporation gave you access to resources you didn't have on your own. Exchange was better than Yahoo mail. The T20 cost so much a
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by crander 16y ago
My home button died on my iPad after six months. Warranty replacement.
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by crander 16y ago
You do realize that an air superiority fighter can shoot down every other plane in the sky, and not just other fighters right? There are also battle groups with F-18s and AWACS planes and so on that are much nearer than the F22s in Hawaii.
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by crander 16y ago
Anyone else remember when Google offered a free public VPN service to solve this problem a few years back? They shut it down in weeks. Awesome but I expect they had way too much traffic.
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by crander 16y ago
First, to argue that web application need to be "on par" with Desktop applications to replace them is totally false. See The Innovator's Dilemma. In a nutshell existing technologies become too feature rich and complex and exceed market de
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by crander 16y ago
You cannot discuss innovation without discussing Christensen's Innovators Dilemma and disruptive innovation. The market incumbent strives upmarket and creates a performance oversupply (a surplus of features in excess of customer demand) whi
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by crander 16y ago
I view it as a compliment to Jobs as a visionary. From a business perspective, the desktop industry was still to peak and then shifted to a luggable version of the same ecosystem with laptops.
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by crander 16y ago
I prefer to think of this in a Christiansen disruptive technology context. Technologies grow upmarket beyond the needs of its user base and create a disruptive opportunity for downmarket technologies. I recently made a comment about this o