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by gamble 14y ago
Ouya reminds me of that open-source smartphone project everyone got excited about a few years ago, Openmoko, before everyone also realized that it's extremely expensive and difficult to put together a modern smartphone, and that openness is
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by gamble 14y ago
If I was to speculate, I'd say that the early Digg audience may have been what ultimately led them down the path to failure. The ranking algorithm on Digg was blatantly rigged to produce a front page with mass-market appeal. Overly nerdy or
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by gamble 14y ago
The Digg redesign had any number of problems, most of them inherent in any project to completely reimplement a complex piece of software that already has a large user base. Bugs, missing features, etc. IMO, the larger problem was one of phi
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by gamble 14y ago
The problem is not technology, but the willingness to pay for it. The average flight is only a few hours long, but costs at least a hundred dollars. Most people are willing to put up with a lot of discomfort to save a few bucks. A supersoni
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by gamble 14y ago
ME3 actually exceeded expectations, despite all the online whinging. It's the failure of TOR to achieve WoW-killing success that's keeping the stock low.
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by gamble 14y ago
EA Vancouver had a hiring freeze for the longest time, thanks to how expensive it was to hire developers in a city with such a high cost of living. They may still have it, I'm not sure. EA's Canadian strategy in general is to hire as few pe
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by gamble 14y ago
Surface is already irrelevant, because Microsoft has decided that to placate Windows OEMs it won't be sold in retail stores. It doesn't matter that Microsoft may have scoured the earth for the purest metals with which to craft its case if t
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by gamble 14y ago
The answer is, in part, that Best Buy and other retail stores are addicted to kickbacks from manufacturers. If a product in a retail store is anywhere other than sitting on an obscure shelf, it's because the manufacturer paid the store for
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by gamble 14y ago
It has to be powered up all the time anyway, to detect orientation changes.
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by gamble 14y ago
Buy a dedicated navigation app. The Navigon and TomTom iOS apps are every bit as capable as a dedicated GPS, but cost $50.
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by gamble 14y ago
Could be. It's definitely possible to do everything offline with a smartphone, but it isn't easy yet. I ended up buying a couple of topo map apps on my iPhone, and they did everything I needed.
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by gamble 14y ago
And yet, standalone GPS systems are still absurdly expensive. I was looking at a handheld system with topological map support for hiking this summer, and the Garmin options basically start at $250 - and don't even include the maps, which
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by gamble 14y ago
Supposedly. Everyone has been waiting for the big payoff since the 90s, but Amazon remains a stubbornly low-margin retailer. Eventually people are going to be forced to face the fact that there is no sinister Phase 2. Amazon is just happy b
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GM Pulled Facebook Advertising Over Refusal to Publish Intrusive Ads(adage.com)
2 points by gamble 14y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 14y ago
Yep, but it's still a problem for the company. Facebook has been on a hiring spree, backed by an implicit promise that anyone in before the IPO would be practically guaranteed to make a buck. If the IPO is still a bust by the time the locku
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by gamble 14y ago
Facebook options trading began today.
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by gamble 14y ago
The early investors made out like kings, but I doubt Facebook's employees are in a cheery mood as they watch their options sink underwater and their vested paper wealth dissipate while waiting for the lockup period to end.
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by gamble 14y ago
Traditionally, the point of an IPO was that it let the company raise more money than private investors could provide, so that the company could fund further growth. It's hard for me to see what opportunities this IPO opens for Facebook. The
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by gamble 14y ago
Advertisers have no way to measure just how ineffective their TV advertising is. It's pretty well established that traditional media marketing budgets have only the most tenuous link to results in the marketplace. Until recently, however, i
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by gamble 14y ago
Most traditional publishers refuse to publish more than one or two books per author in a given genre, out of a perception that it will hurt sales because the author's fans will only spend so much money on books from a single person per year
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by gamble 14y ago
I'm not seeing how the government was an issue in this case. The article is about how private companies use kickbacks and cartel behaviour to restrict what products are available to hospitals. It seems like a lack of government action is th
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by gamble 14y ago
I'm surprised that he doesn't address the effect of DRM on Amazon's infamous $9.99 pricing strategy. Part of the reason the government went after the publishers and Apple rather than Amazon, even though Amazon has a near-monopoly on ebook s
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by gamble 14y ago
This coin is cool, but it isn't intended for circulation so one wonders how durable the design is. I actually think the 'poppy quarters'[1] are a bit cooler, because they've been in use since 2004. At the time they were the first coloured c
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by gamble 14y ago
As I said, I've got an AppleTV and the Boxee. The AppleTV is the one I prefer to use - the interface is the nicest of any streaming box I've used so far. Unfortunately, it really doesn't play anything except h.264. The Boxee is basically th
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by gamble 14y ago
I really like mine as well, but for most people it's probably not the best streaming box on the market. I also have a Boxee for the codecs AppleTV doesn't support, and when I bought a streamer for my inlaws as a Christmas gift the Boxee is
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by gamble 14y ago
You're right. I did see the two-thirds figure quoted in an article elsewhere, but I'll take the NHTSA's word over theirs.
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by gamble 14y ago
Ever been inside an actual castle? The lord's family was lucky if they had one or two private rooms. Most castles are tiny compared to their presentation in the media. Aside from things like 18th-century manor houses - a tiny proportion o
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by gamble 14y ago
Not mentioned is the fact that something like 2/3 of traffic deaths in the US are pedestrians struck by vehicles. That's around 20,000 people per year. Auto manufacturers are pretty good at protecting the people inside the car, but we're
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by gamble 15y ago
Strikes me as a great idea. I board my dog with the doggie daycare that she goes to every day, but before they started offering that service I hated boarding her. There just aren't any boarding services in town that I trust, and our dog has
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by gamble 15y ago
Nav systems are still $1000+ options in many cars, when a superior Garmin costs $100. I'd be surprised if it didn't have a huge profit margin, like most optional upgrades on new cars.

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