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by emarcotte 16y ago
(Conspiracy Theory) Embrace and extinguish? I'm no expert on the numbers but neither seems to be on top of the market. If they can 'work together' they could perhaps change this situation or at least improve it in their favor. If they're m
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Denmark hotel guests cycle for supper(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by emarcotte 16y ago
Sure, his idea is definitely interesting considering the time, but the article is not. Like I say, he didn't just predict mobile phones, he predicted mobile communication which has been possible much longer than the phone version.
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by emarcotte 16y ago
Not sure why this is novel... mobile comunication has been possible for many years, cell phones didn't invent it. Walkie talkies, etc all existed long before cellular phones. In fact, I would argue walkie talkies are closer to what he was t
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by emarcotte 16y ago
Perhaps I don't understand what they do then? If they sell screen time for advertising and bundle it with my information how is that any different?
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by emarcotte 16y ago
If I'm reading a magazine that has advertisements that is fine. They help cover the costs of production. If I join a club and they sell my information (where I live, who referred me, what actions I perform in the club) to another company th
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by emarcotte 16y ago
How long before account deletion becomes an event for friends to view? "X is deleting their Facebook account. Tell them to reconsider!"
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by emarcotte 16y ago
Very strange. I just finished reading Robert Harris' "Pompeii" which I started a couple days before the Iceland Volcano started putting out ash. Now the aqueduct breaks. Very strange coincidence... I hope my brain isn't projecting the conte
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by emarcotte 16y ago
Personally, I wouldn't try to build a brain like ours. Sure we have nice passions, and deep insight frequently. But there is so much badness possible with our brains. Take for instance the "cognitive cars" if we built a brain like ours, how
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by emarcotte 16y ago
but what if the problem is something like: I have no choice when it comes to selection of service, or, I am paying you while you fight in court for decisions to be over turned that I don't support What are they going to do about those?
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by emarcotte 16y ago
I am not suggesting it is valid or acceptable behavior. I'm just trying to point out that "It could be worse" :)
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by emarcotte 16y ago
Indeed, however, I suppose another company could have applied for and gotten the same patent and started trolling with it.
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by emarcotte 16y ago
I'm not sure about this, the only part I don't see happening anymore (at least, not as often) is printing. We still create and edit documents, then pass them along (email, IM, web, etc). Are you saying we'll have some completely new concept
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by emarcotte 17y ago
There was recently a bunch of discussion on basically this topic on an episode of "Whad'ya know." The authors of "Music: Broken Symmetry, Geometry, and Complexity" were on and talked about the sounds that pictures make using pictures like f
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by emarcotte 17y ago
I may be wrong, but this seems like just a rage dump. I don't work for a large corporation so I can't say how they treat this stuff, but the way we're approaching this is "starting conversations." In addition, if you don't have any presense
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by emarcotte 17y ago
Imagine trying to drive a truck load of food/supplies to the center of it. Driving a big rig (or would it be too small for the demand?) through 50 miles of Brooklyn sounds incredibly tedious.
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by emarcotte 17y ago
And when privacy policies change, do I have to re-evaluate each time/product that may or may not be involved (since google products are sort of all merged into one)? If I do re-evaluate, and decide I no longer agree with the policy, and I d
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by emarcotte 17y ago
I believe the reason is freedom of choice. Clearly not everyone wants to be part of this system. Do you not know of people who lock their profiles on facebook, or people who strictly avoid social networking sites in the first place? If that
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by emarcotte 17y ago
Teela Brown? So lucky that she got to go see and save the Ringworld as her first and last mission.
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by emarcotte 17y ago
Yes, and in addition to this, those many MB spread sheets are also feared by the people who maintain them. I have seen spreadsheets that have migrated from ancient lotus products that I never knew about. There is code in them that people do
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by emarcotte 17y ago
That's interesting because Andy, on the first episode of "Nerd TV" said Bill was big on trying to get developers brag about how little time/code/etc, and implied it was so he could try and get them to commit to smaller budgets
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by emarcotte 17y ago
I would imagine its probably sort of like the electric grid. In the morning there is a huge surge as people wake up, flattens out during the day while people are working and goes down at night while most (normal) people are asleep. If it wa
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by emarcotte 17y ago
So, what is the hourly pay rate of the players that are only really involved the plays, not planning/strategy? What is the caloric output during play of the typical NFL player? How does that relate to how much money they make and how does t
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by emarcotte 17y ago
Moog has a pretty interesting digital guitar guitar too, a fancy midi controller: http://www.moogmusic.com/moogguitar/?section=product&pro...
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by emarcotte 17y ago
Breathing... keeping hair dry... same thing :)
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by emarcotte 17y ago
Didn't Larry Niven have something like this on the fly-cycles in Ringworld? They were of course a lot more than just umbrellas... but still a sort of air cushion surrounding the user.
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by emarcotte 17y ago
Latent appliance fetishist rejoice. L. Ron Hoover and the First Church of Appliantology would approve. Of course, it did mention that it didn't vacuum, so maybe not.