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by flatulent1 16y ago
When Apple has moved on to a new technology, support for the legacy technology has generally lasted about 5 years. If they wanted the more demanding apps off of it, it made sense to close the door to 64 bit. Apple has put considerable eff
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Perhaps Madhu Yarlagadda would call this a "course correction"? He wrote on the subject of course correction on his blog in a July 4th posting. His writing may give deeper insight into him than a list of accomplishments or complaints would
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Back in 2009 he wrote Steps to Success see his blog: http://madhuyarlagadda.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2009-...
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by flatulent1 16y ago
I agree that the mechanisms behind lower success aren't specific to digital, but they do often apply more. Much of it is about honesty and trust. Beyond relevancy, most of us have learned to distrust and ignore ads. Certainly even in trad
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Good for you. (opps, message got threaded away from parent, reply to user who avoided VC) It seems best to avoid those that bring money but no skills/services to the table. While some could prove to be good allies, many others are more apt
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by flatulent1 16y ago
That was a refreshing piece. It's good to see Ubuntu doing so well, and it is pleasing to hear that 11.04 will have some focus on more behind the scenes stuff like making more use of powerful GPUs. VLC is already doing some of that (an ar
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by flatulent1 16y ago
It's surprising that Slashdot isn't in there, but it isn't a survey measuring traffic.
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Well if people are going to worry about solar flares, they might as well figure on EMP (electromagnetic pulse) protection from high altitude nukes too. Energy levels can be very high, and the very short pulse risetime results in energy ext
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Perhaps VirtualBox (open source, was SUN, now Oracle) will be part of the VMware of the future equation. The comparison with Microsoft is not a very good one, as there is good FREE competition and we're unlikely to see domination through ma
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by flatulent1 16y ago
The bottom of your daz home page and others says "all rights reserved", but text on the homepage says the database is GPL'd "The data on this site was bootstrapped using the freedb.org data set (yes, our database will remain GPL'd, no strin
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by flatulent1 16y ago
This isn't just "a" bacteria, but a gene making a number of existing bacteria types resistant. The article cites "E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae" as already affected. It looks like cases in the U.K. link back to Pakistan and India. When
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by flatulent1 16y ago
The iPod was a good thing for Apple, but the real kick start out of the dismal Performa days in consumer space started earlier with the original iMac. Some may recall Steve getting the nickname of iCEO after that.
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Is it "real" to predict Apple failure based on the margins seen by PC vendors, and to assume that the buyers are just a percentage of existing Mac owners upgrading? Yes he had figures for both of those things, but they're the wrong numbers
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by flatulent1 16y ago
"The author made a well-researched, well-formulated, convincing argument." The author presented a number of fairly well known facts, but made the mistake made by many writers in treating Apple much like Gateway or another PC vendor. He thr
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by flatulent1 16y ago
"* The effect on "poor people" is probably salubrious: many of them don't own cars to begin with, and without parking lots vying for land, land prices will go down)." Who was the politician that said "poor people don't need to drive"? You
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by flatulent1 16y ago
There are cities that have trouble finding workers at the lower wage end of the spectrum because the cost of living for those people is just too high. A good example is Santa Barbara California. The poor are taxed enough already. If you
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Silence is valuable. People take for granted not paying for that audio-frequency near-field modulated air pressure bandwidth. Why shouldn't that spectrum be sold? Shouldn't we be paid to have people talk to us or make noise? It's time to
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by flatulent1 16y ago
The tutorial certainly lacks any emphasis on security. It ought to be mentioned right up front. Does the choice of development environment matter? Say so!!! Trying to add security after the fact is painful and tends to be only marginally
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by flatulent1 16y ago
With increasing numbers of users disabling Flash and some going with platforms that don't support Flash, the writing is on the wall. It's time to look to other platforms than Flash. Between Android and the Apple there are other areas expe
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by flatulent1 16y ago
VoIP is content. SMTP/POP/HTML email is content. Do you want your ISP to monitor those to decide which are okay? Discriminating against torrent traffic can be like racial profiling. A protocol is not an intent. If you do want profiling,
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by flatulent1 16y ago
You might configure your household router to favor VoIP traffic over your torrents and that's fine. The problem comes when ISPs, especially the large ones, do things that stifle competition. A good example would be having AT&T get awa
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Consumers will probably like this, geeks probably won't. The current model is x86 based (1 GHz or so, single core, something like a Celeron M) and runs a stripped down version of OS X. It's a bit underpowered, but with some work loading th
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by flatulent1 16y ago
The two people that I know that upgraded (from G and GS) both say that overall reception is better than before and they love their phones. We're in a hilly area. The phones are still sold out in many places, I can't believe there is any s
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by flatulent1 16y ago
I suspect there's more of the early HP spirit at Agilent than at HP. Somehow when Compaq got the HP computer division, they got the name too, and the very cool test equipment part of HP got the new name Agilent. (This is my recollection,
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Actually, a 5% return looks BETTER not worse, when there's deflation - you're getting the return, plus the base value of the investment which later can buy MORE. In your example the investment would allow buying 10% more later, the mattre
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by flatulent1 16y ago
"Well-managed firms"? Some would debate whether that term describes MS very well. The notion of directing resources towards what's profitable isn't new. The lesson should be to have smaller brilliant teams with clearly focused targets.
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Well Slashdot posts never get removed, just modded down (below the thresholds some users may read at, but they have a choice). The meta-moderation process should help catch abusive moderation and reduce the frequency of bad moderators gett
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by flatulent1 16y ago
The enforcement is primarily complaint driven. It does catch some legit cases of abandonment, but also sees abuse. Although the state vehicle code section cited in their paperwork mentions the court, the actual process of dealing with SLOP
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Most of these youngsters probably haven't heard of Hypercard either. Links before HTML... (but they were local) Too bad there's no Hypercard app for the iPad. That could be fun if done right.
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Looking around more, it looks like HREF really is/was a Macintosh resource type... but it is still a URL. Basically it's a text track in a Quicktime movie that contains a URL. To make this interesting enough for you guys to read, here it i

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