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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Thinking Renault engines... Around that period they had the central display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Clearly their engine management shop had been bored one day, because they'd written a test programme which enabled them to play t
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Supercharged, unreliable, unsuccessful sadly. Other early very high power engines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_engine - 1941 450bhp to 1966 840bhp, equally unsuccessful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W125 - 1937 600bhp
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
From a pure engineering perspective I absolutely agree. I'm too young to remember the P34 or BT46 in person but the shock of seeing different approaches is definitely sadly missed. In sporting terms though, I (sadly) think they've gone down
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
F1 anorak - that article is years out of date. You can tell that anyway from the tech but when it starts talking about the new ruling for 2001.... Much of the core technology isn't that different, significantly because they first restrict
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Ducks, gets ready for the onslaught Actually, for simple mockups which seem to be what most people here are talking about, I most often use PowerPoint... Obviously it's a long way behind Photoshop for general sketching, let alone the fa
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12433045 The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo said the announcement caught everyone by surprise, and all over the city drivers honked their horns and people fired guns into the air. But the army takeov
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
This works only if you're close to the centre of gravity of the site's population. I'm a Christian and politically centre-left - not actually very unusual over here, as it happens, I'm just in a small church so that option doesn't really wo
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
They're mad. Firstly, tying one company struggling to keep afloat to another struggling to take off (in this domain at least) is hardly the obvious ideal strategy. Secondly, they're about to go onto what, their fourth platform strategy wi
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
At the moment, they're significantly more expensive and less compatible. They're also, by virtue of design, far easier to steal / lose and we've had quite enough (UK) stories about laptops being left on trains by mistake or stolen from home
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect#The_Osborne_Myth
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
You really see offices full of workers staring at tablet PCs, trains & planes full of road warriors bashing out long reports on touchscreens? The home market may primarily shift to tablets; I'm not convinced by that and I think there's
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
In general, I agree that if a culture is to grow it needs to be capable of taking risks and making experiments. When every experiment succeeds, either you weren't innovating enough or you're lying and now supporting a failure. When he star
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
There are two criteria for protection in the quote: * Come in early * Give complete and truthful disclosures Come in early is a clear problem, I agree, partly because as I recall the way penalties are structured means everyone has an incent
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
To repeat the quote: "With regard to whistleblowers: those who seek to be treated as true whistleblowers need to know they must come in early and give complete and truthful disclosures.... Mr. Birkenfeld did not come in and give complete a
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I agree I wouldn't have turned down the buyout, but from what I understand they're certainly not easily replicable. Sure, you or I could set up a site that offers all the tech of Groupon pretty quickly. Then what? The strength is in their
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
While this seems a strange way to encourage whistleblowers to come forward, for perspective - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/business/20tax.html Mr. Birkenfeld pleaded guilty to helping Mr. Olenicoff evade $7.2 million in taxes on $20
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Well, yes, I agree in the grand scheme of short-sighted bad decisions from 15-20 years ago it's fairly low down the scale. But I'm still firmly of the opinion that the desktop CD burning revolution was decidedly foreseeable even then; I rem
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Eh? The CD-R spec was published in 1988 . By 1995 the drives were still expensive but patently heading on the road to being cheap commodity parts, by 2000 they were clearly commodity parts fitted to many, many PCs. Microsoft had ample evid
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
if losing people is a disaster, you should be paying them enough that it would be insane for them to leave unless they were planning a complete career change. Not to go against the immediate interests of my fellow workers, but how often h
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Wireless keyboard with integrated trackpad :-) Worked very nicely as a remote control until it broke, but that's another story. In fairness, I don't use this machine just as a media player; it's also a file and print server for me, and wher
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
For me, CEOs also need to enable their staff to produce their best performance. If the dirty dishes are getting in the way and the staff are honestly pushing to the limit elsewhere, IMHO it's a sensible enabling behaviour for the short term
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
It's this sort of thing (among others) that's why I have a PC hooked up to my TV for streaming media. As far as every provider is concerned it's Just Another PC so I don't have to worry about compatibility or this sort of silly artificial r
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
And do Geico and Home Depot get much possible value from your viewing their adverts? I'm not wholly against you on this; the current media market setup is patently flawed in the Internet age and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that so's
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
The BBC's mission is to broadcast content. Clearly that future is digital content, I'd argue equally clearly that future is in Internet-style streamed distribution over CDNs rather than in classical broadcasting. This puts the BBC as having
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
In 1996 I was in school and broke :-) One major difference for me in the intervening period is the availability of free development platforms. In 1996 I couldn't have coded up a basic LAMP webapp even if I knew how and options for free desk
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
And yet I regularly hear of people on-shoring manufacturing again, after many years of having to do very intensive spot-checking of the manufactured goods to ensure they were being built to the agreed spec and not having cheaper components
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
UK too. After 3 years at University and 10 years building a career in IT, I have friends who make more laying carpets and other flooring for office blocks. A kid I know went straight into retail banking at 16 (so 2 years earlier than I left
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Last I heard though, Oracle was generating mountains of spare cash. The sort of profits they can lay their hands on can buy a lot of Next Big Things to let others take the initial risk and then sell out to Oracle when they're more establi
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
You certainly can get netbooks with 9h battery life. http://www.compuplus.com/ASUS-Eee-PC-1015PED-MU17-1166505.ht... for example. GPS - when I can get a standalone satnav unit for $70 with its own processor, screen battery et al, that's h
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
No. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org

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