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by erbo 13y ago
Exactly. These days, I'm inclined to say, "Put not your faith in stock options."
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by erbo 13y ago
Not to mention that it wouldn't have been Oracle's fan base, but Sun's fan base. Android 1.0 was released in September 2008. Oracle bought Sun in April 2009. Of course, Sun wouldn't have sued in the first place...
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by erbo 13y ago
Karl Denninger has pointed out [1] that these pension benefits that were cut as a result of the bankruptcy were effectively negotiated "at gunpoint and by fraud," and there was no true adversarial process in the negotiations, sinc
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by erbo 13y ago
Let's also keep one advantage of physical books over e-books in mind: If I take a book into the bathtub, and drop it, the book may very well be salvageable. At worst, I'm out the price of the book. If I take an e-book into the bat
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by erbo 13y ago
It has indeed. See the case of Charles Hall, who invented the modern waterbed in the 1970's, and was denied a patent on his invention because Robert Heinlein had already described the waterbed in novels as early as 1942: http:/&
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by erbo 13y ago
I should add that I hope we haven't seen the last of his Code God skills. The title of "CTO" kind of scares me in that regard, unless, of course, Oculus is still small enough that the CTO might still be expected to put his
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by erbo 13y ago
Yes, as their CTO. Which makes me wonder if we've seen the last of his Code God skills. (But maybe not...)
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by erbo 13y ago
There's other ways of expanding the "because-noun" construction. I've occasionally posted a link to Facebook with a comment like "This is incredibly awesome and you should read this, because SPACE." In this ca
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by erbo 13y ago
Bear in mind Mulally not only saved Ford, but saved the Taurus: "I arrive here, and the first day I say, 'Let's go look at the product lineup.' And they lay it out, and I said, 'Where's the Taurus?' They
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by erbo 13y ago
I wonder what I tweeted or what it is about my network that would cause you to infer that I'm a parent when I'm not? Of course, as you say, it's probabilistic, meaning it's not "wrong" that it incorrectly ident
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by erbo 13y ago
I've no quibble with what it found out about https://twitter.com/erbo except that it labeled me as a "parent" when I'm not. What's it basing that assessment on? Or would that be telling?
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by erbo 13y ago
The Technic Launcher system helps get around a lot of the complexity of distributing modpacks, once you get them put together. I did this, primarily so my godsons and their mother can easily get all the mods they need to come play on my pr
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by erbo 13y ago
Part of the reason scans cost so much is that medical imaging businesses are essentially a cartel in many states, thanks to so-called "CON" laws. In states where these laws are in effect, you can't just buy a CT scanner and
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by erbo 13y ago
And let's not forget their use of SCO as a sock puppet with which to attack and possibly destroy Linux (see: perhaps 50% of the Groklaw archives). Note: There may not be a "smoking gun" that establishes M$ as the true force
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by erbo 13y ago
Exactly. I closed the page when that thing popped up. Besides, it didn't have an option on it saying, "I don't HAVE a business, you insensitive clod!"
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by erbo 13y ago
Remade in the 90's by a Santa Barbara alternative band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32yjbCSVpU A little harder-rocking, but no less emotional.
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by erbo 13y ago
We know that astronauts frequently have had to be badasses, and even flight controllers have had to be badasses (e.g. John Aaron, Apollo 12, "SCE to AUX"), but this is proof positive that even the guys that fix the bugs in the ro
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by erbo 13y ago
The flipside of his argument is, of course, is it really a good idea to rely on silos like Twitter, Yelp, StackOverflow, and Wikipedia for all our knowledge resources? Those then represent single points of failure, which can be taken dow
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by erbo 13y ago
"At the time, I was working for a “closed” company. One, in fact, that practiced stacked ranking, and prohibited contributing work back to open source projects." Sounds like a certain company occasionally known as "The Beast
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by erbo 13y ago
It seems that GTAV's parody of Facebook as "LifeInvader" was even more spot-on than Rockstar Games realized. (I wasn't among those that objected to the "Friend Request" mission. After all, who hasn't wa
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by erbo 13y ago
I agree with you on Red October, which is one of my two favorite naval movies. The plot is fairly compressed and "amped up" compared to the book, but it still holds up pretty well. I suppose the only thing one could wish for i
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by erbo 13y ago
Hmm, I'd have thought it would be tied into GTAV online multiplayer, which doesn't open until tomorrow. In any event, market PvP might provide an interesting counterpoint to actual PvP in the multiplayer environment. (My fiance
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by erbo 13y ago
We all know there are three ways to ensure something gets done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone else to do it. (3) Forbid your kids to do it. But I'm surprised that this surprised the LAUSD. They chose to pit their intelligence a
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by erbo 13y ago
I want to echo the comments of Wiz Zumwalt in The Wizardry Consulted: "Sure, if you've got a computer that can render hieroglyphics, and if you never need to remember what you did." On the other hand, Wiz later used a l
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by erbo 13y ago
This makes me think of the "hypercards" in _Snow Crash,_ which "look" like business cards in the Metaverse, and are easily transferrable from one avatar to another, but can contain vast amounts of information (such as th
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by erbo 13y ago
An essay in the book What Ifs? of American History (Robert Cowley, ed.) by Robert L. O'Connell, "The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust," details what might have happened if Arkhipov had not been successful and the Ran
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by erbo 13y ago
I want to see something like "The people responsible for this utter incompetence have been sacked. And the people responsible for sacking those people responsible for this utter incompetence have also been sacked."
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by erbo 13y ago
They are bundling in the Ask toolbar, a known piece of malware/spyware. See: http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/ask-toolbars/ Whenever you see the word "toolbar," just think "virus," beca
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by erbo 13y ago
I'd hardly be surprised. The first N articles of policy of any government agency are "In case of trouble, cover your ass." Everyone involved in this blatant attempt at covering up, not only this error, but all future
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by erbo 13y ago
M$: "Google also says that we are not complying with its 'terms and conditions.' What Google really means is that our app is not based on HTML5. The problem with this argument, of course, is that Google is not complying with

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