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721.
by gamble 16y ago
Google's self-marketing is entirely based on how ethical they are. Google does no evil . Android is open . Whether true or not, Google has benefited from that image. They can't betray their supposed principles and expect no one to notice
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by gamble 16y ago
> Except we do get 3G on our Kindles For a $2 per book fee.
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by gamble 16y ago
This deal is just a fig leaf. Google supported net neutrality when it suited their business goals. The moment Android took off it became a non-issue for them. If anything, they should be taking more flak. Google's enjoyed an incredibly soft
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by gamble 16y ago
What is the difference between taking part in the scheme and being 'for it', exactly? Google was perfectly free not to participate, but they made the call that the growth potential of China was worth being in partnership with a repressive r
725.
by gamble 16y ago
I am skeptical that employers have been raising wages. The average could have increased simply because job losses have been concentrated at the low end of the wage scale. Even if we are in a deflationary environment, that isn't necessarily
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The HP Way: Two-thirds of HP Employees Want To Quit(hpphenom.blogspot.com)
7 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
The sad truth is that private retirement savings schemes have been a total wash. The only lasting effects of these plans were the stock and real estate bubbles that effectively transferred the wealth accrued during the Boomers' prime earnin
728.
by gamble 16y ago
So what exactly does google do that justifies their our-shit-doesn't-stink reputation? It seems like they behave exactly like any other self-interested major corporation when the chips are down. They were for censorship in China before th
729.
by gamble 16y ago
> Blockbuster is a horrible example. A lot of good that deal did them! This monopolized monoculture you describe has been crushed and blown to bits long ago by Netflix, Amazon, Apple and the rest of the internet. Too bad Verizon hadn't
730.
by gamble 16y ago
I wonder what Orwell's publisher would have said if he'd written 1984 using the premise that every citizen would voluntarily carry at all times a device that could be used by the police or security services to surreptitiously record their c
731.
by gamble 16y ago
I get a lot more than 20 Mbps through my wifi router, even though every other house in the city has identical hardware. It isn't just about bandwidth - geographic separation matters as well. You can always build more towers and crank down t
732.
by gamble 16y ago
Except that it won't be VOIP that's prioritized, it will be Skype, or Magic Jack, or whatever company offers Verizon the biggest kickback. It will be terrible for consumers, since those companies with a monopoly will have no incentive to ex
733.
by gamble 16y ago
Net neutrality isn't about charging consumers a different price depending on what services they use. Providers like Verizon want to exploit their control of the infrastructure to extort kickbacks from web-based businesses. Take VOIP, for ex
734.
by gamble 16y ago
In essence, it doesn't matter who colonized you. The states that were colonized the longest did the worst, in direct proportion to how long they were colonies.
735.
by gamble 16y ago
Within many game companies, the goal of DRM is to prevent people from pirating the game for the first week or two. They know better than anyone it'll be cracked eventually. But DRM definitely has an effect on sales if the pirates have to wa
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by gamble 16y ago
No one I know in HP is going to miss Hurd. The company has been a miserable place to work since the Fiorina days. Of course that may be a temporary state of affairs, since Hurd has been working to turn HP into a brand name applied to low-en
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by gamble 16y ago
Microsoft is trapped in a classic innovator's dilemma. For those who aren't familiar with the book, the basic idea is that well-managed firms are structured to direct resources toward the needs of their most profitable customers. In Microso
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by gamble 16y ago
It's huge for a contemporary PC release. 150k copies would be great performance for a typical PC game in its first week on the market. Most AAA PC titles will never break a million copies.
739.
by gamble 16y ago
It's seemed to me like the people most upset by the antenna problem are the ones who don't use Apple products. This is not a controversy driven by outraged iPhone 4 buyers.
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by gamble 16y ago
These clauses are only enforced when it's an easy win for the litigator - for example, key employees going to a direct rival or a startup with no legal budget.
741.
by gamble 16y ago
Few kids in grade school pay for their own texts. They are provided by the district, and new sets aren't purchased every year. Cost is a less salient issue than politics and changes to the curriculum. The 'solution' to expensive textbooks f
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by gamble 16y ago
Before the iPhone 3G came out, it was impossible to find reasonable data plans here in Canada. The only options were $30/50MB plans intended for Blackberries. What a difference two years make. I picked up my iPhone 4 this morning - 32 GB, f
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by gamble 16y ago
If not the 'worst evar', this has been a summer when supposedly safe "pre-sold" properties like Robin Hood and Prince of Persia fell flat - critically and commercially. With so many licensed films coming down the pipe, that has to put t
744.
by gamble 16y ago
The Kindle is best at reading straight-forward linear text with minimal formatting, like novels. You can't go wrong with a Kindle if you read plenty of novels, especially if you read outside. OTOH, the iPad is far superior for heavily forma
745.
by gamble 16y ago
I tried to contact these people about a year ago, but never received a response. Couldn't find any evidence that they've ever imported a fox for anyone else, either. They may not be a going concern.
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by gamble 16y ago
Apple's multitouch technology comes from a startup called Fingerworks that Apple bought years back. Fingerworks trackpads were so well liked that they're still selling on eBay for hundreds of dollars. The difference between Belkin and Apple
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm hardly the only one who's mentioned it: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/15/please-wont-somebody-th... Part of the problem is that Synaptics and Alps Electric together supply the vast majority of PC trackpads, and I've got no problem
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by gamble 16y ago
Two reasons. First, external multitouch trackpads have been basically unobtainable until now. Apple bought the one company that used to make them and incorporated their technology into Apple products years ago. The only other model I've see
749.
by gamble 16y ago
It's fine to suffer in coach during international flights if you're a vacationer who only takes one or two long trips per year - totally different if you're a frequent flyer. I'd be extremely reluctant to take any job that required me to fl
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by gamble 16y ago
Hard drives didn't completely eliminate tape either, but they did chase it off into specialized applications where capacity was more important than speed. Flash will do the same thing to magnetic storage. Superior power consumption, form-fa

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