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by crucialfelix 14y ago
Inability to add more disk was a huge problem when were at slicehost [now rackspace]. Glad to see that finally lifted. I was under the impression that it wasn't wise to run a high read/write database on SSD because they have limited writes.
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by crucialfelix 14y ago
Cool, the slide deck was interesting. I saved your links. The Samsung thing sounds like it could just choose a likely significant event and make it into a story. it could be extremely lame and unworthy of a patent. it could be entirely as
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57527545-71/samsung-tries-... Samsung patent: "The analysis unit analyzes the log information collected from the information collection unit and decides at least one topic representing the user's daily li
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by crucialfelix 14y ago
I'm just forming the actual startup now. I'm not yet interested in audio/video, but that's eventually where the puck will be (so that's where we should be skating to - if you're familiar with that metaphor). But in fact I think what's exter
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Maybe we need an industry that is the opposite of the search engine : the hide engine Obscurity.com -- disorganizing the worlds information
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by crucialfelix 14y ago
The life recorder is inevitable. I mean full video and audio. I've been talking about it for decades. The social and psychological shift is going to be huge. Are you self conscious when somebody is following you around taking pictures ?
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by crucialfelix 14y ago
Well that's because we accidentally took a publishing system designed for academia and turned it into the largest explosion of design and media in the history of mankind. Anyway, use compass sass or less. Use frameworks.
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I agree with all these statements. But the most important thing to point out is that CSS 1 and 2 and even 3 didn't solve the layout issues we needed solved. But there are improvements like native column support and true layout control comi
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actually for OS X I have often forgotten and myself and many coders I know are one or more versions behind. I have to try to guess which cat is more bad ass: tiger or leopard ? I don't know which one would win in a fair fight. and I find i
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Here's the first place I saw this in video form: http://www.mutek.org/en/tv/191-biosphere-genkai-1 CINECHAMBER CHANNEL BIOSPHERE - GENKAI-1 Official video by Egbert Mittelstädt From the album N-Plants It's performed in the cinechamber wh
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I see it as an interface demo, not a search results demo. obviously you would connect it to the best search results at your disposal. that's a different problem entirely.
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It's kind of funny. The article is pro entrepreneurship, pro capitalist and pro free market. So many here are taking it as an attack on success or the rich. Theres a huge misreading of the article and a lot of attacks on minor points and st
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In 1896, Thaddeus Cahill filed a patent on the “art of and apparatus for generating and distributing music electronically” and until 1914 he fed music signals down AT&T’s telephone lines with his Telharmoniums apparatus. Elisha Gray tra
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by crucialfelix 14y ago
They've lost $92m since 2000. I'm also wondering if those unknown artists arent possibly algorithm glitches or they just luckily match some sonic parameter so they keep coming up in the playlist. I'm so cynical :) http://tech.fortune.cnn.
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by crucialfelix 14y ago
Sorry, I shouldn't have said "killed". The commenting on articles in the context of reader was great. We had bunches of gmail friends who would get some good conversations going . Buzz extended that and for a while it was high-quality at l
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by crucialfelix 14y ago
which is why I won't bother to post to google+ after killing google reader and buzz I just don't trust them anymore and won't put anything of value into their ecosystem. they should find a way to just support everything forever even if deve
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by crucialfelix 14y ago
No, its not a price point that the market resolved. Its not like a moving company that has a businesses with costs and then they compete with other identical businesses and test the customers and have a price discovery phase and then arrive
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> the other big mistake and looks at what the artist makes. Actually I'm calculating only what the rights holder gets and doing the comparison between sales and streaming income. Its completely irrelevant to the discussion what the arti
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> If the customer are crazy about it the musician would most likely earn more if he listened through spotify rather than buying it. Estimates vary, but $0.0033 is quoted as a possible pay per stream from Spotify. I had some plays on one
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From a musician's perspective the entire problem with Spotify is that its replacing sales and yet its paying broadcast performance royalties. Broadcast has always been promotion for sales. That's how you sell recordings: you get it on radi
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by crucialfelix 14y ago
Ketamine is a commonly used, fully tested anaesthetic. Every ambulance has a stock of it because it's the safest anesthetic to use in emergency situations. It's not an anti depressant, it's not approved as one. But the recent interest is
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by crucialfelix 14y ago
I've got quite a few friends in Zimbabawe and Tanzania that I talk with regularly on Facebook. and just last night we were talking about Myanmar connections who had added us. When I was traveling everybody wanted to link up on FB. One frien
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yes, but the big money for the brokers is in sales. most of them want to concentrate on representing fancy exclusive sales.
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more significantly, the major NY brokerages have managed to keep a real MLS from forming. every other US market has multiple listing service, but in the city its been killed and any attempts (like VOW) have been effectively squashed. this
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broker/makler fees in Berlin are usually paid by the owner as far as I have found. this may change now that demand is so much higher than supply. it certainly wasn't like this 5 years ago.
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There was a music software language called Pyrite. It ran inside of Max graphic programming environment. It then evolved into SuperCollider which is now one of the most used music programming languages in experimental and academic music.
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This really has nothing to do with retail investors. Retail is completely insignificant. Its about what the bulk of the trading is: robots trading with robots without any regard to the stocks they are trading. The big whales are the mutua
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you guys have totally destroyed this thing ;) the beauty was that it got me to wander around like a little kid for a while. the little spots by the beach, textures, jokes, wondering which way was out of a mine shaft, the sense of taking