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by gamble 16y ago
I should point out that this supposedly-ruinous fixed-fee system has been working in Canada for over fifteen years.
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by gamble 16y ago
I prefer my nuclear engineers to pay attention to the worst-case scenario, even if it does make them a wet blanket at parties.
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by gamble 16y ago
Yes, the upbeat reaction to Fukushima outside Japan has been disturbing. The fact that it would be hard to equal Chernobyl doesn't diminish the reality that this is easily the second-worst disaster in the history of nuclear power. People ha
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Retail availability of Apple products is almost always reduced before new launches. The iPad 1 was easily available right up to the iPad 2 launch. Best estimates right now are around 500k units. Given
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by gamble 16y ago
It looks to me like Apple was trying to rush the iPad 2 onto the market before the flood of competing tablets later this year. Consider the limited stock at launch, the very short delay between the announcement and retail availability, and
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by gamble 16y ago
The economics of the games industry mean that you can't turn a profit on AAA games without sequels. The new IP push was about reducing EA's dependence on sports titles and externally-licensed IP. (Also, to a degree, an attempt to reinvigora
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by gamble 16y ago
I don't do anything special: just create a listing on Craigslist with pictures and a good description, then wait for someone to express an interest. I always keep the original box and accessories to make it more attractive. Once somebody bi
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by gamble 16y ago
It's safe to say that there's little appetite for a new console generation right now. As in the movie industry, the middle ground in the games industry has been disappearing. Your best shot at turning a profit is either to make small bets o
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by gamble 16y ago
Apple hardware has always held its value extremely well. I've never had trouble selling my old Macs on Craigslist for a substantial fraction of their purchase price after upgrading to the latest model.
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by gamble 16y ago
It's going to be a while before there's another console generation. (In a sense, the Kinect and PS Move were an attempt to refresh the consoles without changing the base hardware) I haven't even heard rumors of new console development yet,
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by gamble 16y ago
> You write a really long document using one citation and formating style, and then you find out the journal requires a completely different style. ... If you are changing to a known style such as IEEE for example you can simply downloa
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by gamble 16y ago
> If I'm middle class and screw up I end up middle class. No, you end up working a crappy part time job at a call center with no benefits and no future, desperately trying to convince yourself that you're still middle class because you
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by gamble 16y ago
All of Apple's 'post-PC' products have been competitively priced. And the one exception, the Mac, is hard to compare because almost no PC manufacturers build to a comparably high standard of industrial design. The few that try (eg. Dell Ada
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by gamble 16y ago
Not a great example, but it's still disturbing to me how aggressive and universal SEO has become in the last few years. It's starting to feel like a 'virus writers versus Windows 98' situation, but with Google as the monoculture under assau
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by gamble 16y ago
The reliability problems with the Vertex 2 make me wary of anything from OCZ. There are many, many reports of OCZ drives failing within a few days of use, some within minutes of booting up. Plus there are well-documented problems with power
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by gamble 16y ago
It's because American airports stupidly don't have sterile transit, unlike practically every other country. I'm a Canadian, and when I transfer through LAX and go through customs, I pop out in the arrivals area. There's nothing to stop me f
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by gamble 16y ago
"Digikey" :)
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by gamble 16y ago
I was surprised to see Jobs hit Samsung with the repudiated 'quite small' quote, but at the same time Samsung hasn't exactly been eager to release their sell-through numbers. They haven't been shy about claiming their tablets are big sell
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by gamble 16y ago
Yes, I was thinking of the RAM. To support my original point, though, iSuppli's breakdown of the iPhone 4 last summer had the 16 GB flash chip as the second-most expensive component, after the retina display, at ~15% of the total outlay on
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by gamble 16y ago
Sorry, you're right. It's still discrete packages.
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by gamble 16y ago
Not all flash is the same. SD cards and USB sticks use cheap, slow, high-density flash manufactured with older processes. The A4/A5 flash is also integrated into the same package as the CPU(s). Most analysts estimate the flash as a signific
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by gamble 16y ago
With a highly profitable paper card business, Wizards has always been concerned with cannibalizing paper sales and pissing off the physical card distributors. MtGO players are largely also paper card players - in particular, the intensely c
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by gamble 16y ago
Actually, there is another startup that recently released a similar online TCG called Shadow Era: http://www.shadowera.com/ Both games seem to borrow more from the World of Warcraft TCG than MTG. Shadow Era is still at an early stage, but
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by gamble 16y ago
Directs some of them, too.
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by gamble 16y ago
One bad movie pays more than a year in the lab.
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by gamble 16y ago
Just group all the related managers in a single shared office. This is what my husband's company does - he shares a large private office with the two other leads on his project. Confidential info has not been an problem. If shared space is
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by gamble 16y ago
Managers (and many programmers) tend to believe on a gut level that programmers are only truly productive when there are fingers on the keyboard. Unfortunately, in most organizations you don't want to be 'that guy' who spends half his time
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by gamble 16y ago
One thing I've noticed in open-plan offices is that mid/upper management almost always has private offices, with desks that face the door. Funny how that works, isn't it? It's always struck me as a little strange and off-putting that some p
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by gamble 16y ago
You're reading too much into my post. Employer-based health insurance is a terrible idea. Single-payer is IMO the only reasonable choice, but employer-based private insurance is just about the worst conceivable option. Unfortunately, it is
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by gamble 16y ago
Exactly. Unless you're going to allow people to die in the waiting room at the ER because they don't have insurance, someone is bearing the cost of treating the uninsured. It's either a spouse, the government, or everyone else who has ins

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