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by gamble 15y ago
.NET is doing alright in corporate server development, but the deeper problem is that Microsoft let third-party Windows application developers twist in the wind for years. The Windows and Office teams tend to keep their UI code and controls
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by gamble 15y ago
> I don't understand why people continue to naively trust these online wallets or even exchanges A huge proportion of Bitcoin enthusiasts are speculators. It's hard to speculate without using an exchange. Bitcoin is an interesting syste
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by gamble 15y ago
I think it depends on the type of rental. Vacation rentals or rentals where the owner is present can work, but it's extremely risky to hand a stranger the keys to your home and disappear, hoping they won't steal anything or trash the place.
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Whatever happened to the smartphone? (2006)(theregister.co.uk)
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Nokia Cedes Smartphone Crown to Apple, Samsung(online.wsj.com)
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by gamble 15y ago
> junior level courses your freshmen year Not if the upper-level courses have prerequisites, which is typically the case in STEM programs. In my EE program the courses were scheduled so that it was impossible to graduate in less than fo
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by gamble 15y ago
I suspect that the real sticking points are the DRM certification process the movie studios demand to ensure that Bluray-compatible PCs can't rip the video stream, and the need to develop a new, considerably more complex version of DVD Play
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by gamble 15y ago
I hope this is true. The revamped MBA is very attractive, but the 13" screen kills it for me. I'm ready to say goodbye to my optical drive.
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by gamble 15y ago
The original article linked by this post had it right: the cultural ad-hoc rules for Monopoly evolved to make the game less frustrating for young children. Traditional board games like Monopoly are mostly played by families, and games that
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by gamble 15y ago
Couple the hikes with announcements of new streaming content? No one will be happy with a fee hike, but they should perceive that it's going to improve the service rather than a cash grab to bump Netflix's stock.
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by gamble 15y ago
Netflix needs to figure out how to announce fee hikes without provoking outrage. If they intend to become a serious replacement for cable or satellite subscriptions, they will need to bring in a comparable amount of revenue. That means Netf
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The Terrazzo Jungle (2004)(newyorker.com)
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by gamble 15y ago
Average people have an incredible mental block against switching from PCs to Macs. I'm speculating here, but it seems to me like what market share they've acquired for the Mac in the last decade has come largely at the margins - geeks, arti
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by gamble 15y ago
I think it's more a result of the fact that China produces little intellectual property of its own right now. Enforcing copyright would raise costs, hinder development of copycat industries, and deplete the mountain of foreign exchange they
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by gamble 15y ago
America used to be notorious in the 18th and 19th centuries for ignoring copyrights and patents filed in Europe. For example: "Johns describes how the first generation of American publishers came to constitute themselves as book pirates who
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by gamble 15y ago
What's the point in having engineers who can't engineer because their tools are inadequate? Would you hire a carpenter to work on your office who offered to give you a 2% discount, because he has to stop several times a day to fix broken to
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by gamble 15y ago
I'm sure that was the policy, but how often was it enforced? Most universities have draconian policies against cheating that are never enforced, except in the most egregious cases. It's extremely rare for any school to discipline as many pe
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by gamble 15y ago
I used to work for the gas company (ATCO) in Alberta. It was an informal rule, but they wouldn't shut you off during the winter for an unpaid bill. I don't believe there was any law to compel them, but it's bad PR to destroy homes and poten
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by gamble 15y ago
I believe the inflection point when video games became mainstream was the release of the original Playstation in 1995. Prior to that point, at least in my experience, video games were strictly a pass-time for nerds. The Playstation was very
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by gamble 15y ago
They shut down Pandemic, but Bioware has been doing pretty well. Mass Effect and Dragon Age have been very successful, and if Star Wars: The Old Republic finds an audience it will probably justify the investment several times over. EA wasn'
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by gamble 15y ago
I have this bulb. The phosphor has one killer feature: it gives a much broader emission pattern than any LED+reflectors bulb on the market. Every other LED bulb I've tried has been too directional to use for general lighting.
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by gamble 15y ago
I bought one of these as an experiment. I've been trying out LED bulbs for a while, and this is the first one that's worked well enough to be a viable CFL replacement. Unlike others I've tried, this bulb has great color temperature, brightn
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by gamble 15y ago
Ugh. This article confuses being a founder of a poorly run startup with being an employee. At least as a founder, you probably learn something of use. Aspiring to be a employee at a company where no one knows what they're doing is soul-ki
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by gamble 15y ago
The shuttle was the worst of both worlds. They replace enough parts to make each mission absurdly expensive, and keep enough components in place that it's extremely difficult to be sure they won't fail in flight.
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by gamble 15y ago
The irony is that (in my experience) ~90% of instructors don't use Blackboard for anything more than an easy way for the HTML-illiterate to distribute syllabi, course notes, and assignments. Unless forced by the administration hardly anyone
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by gamble 15y ago
I used to work for a startup with a similar product aimed at K-12. This is a pretty good summary of how the whole learning management software industry works. It's unbelievably hard to sell educational software, but once you have some custo
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by gamble 15y ago
Dell and HP manufacture almost nothing in the US. Many/most of their products aren't even designed in-house. They contract with Asian design houses and slap their own bezel on the result. You're right about Intel. They are one of the few si
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by gamble 15y ago
Moller is an investment scam. The Moller skycar is a pretty fiberglass shell he's been hawking to magazines and television news programs for forty years. I'm amazed anyone still falls for it.
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by gamble 15y ago
If by manufacturing, you mean chemicals, pharmaceuticals, processed agricultural products, pulp&paper, and heavy industrial equipment. Electronics and consumer products manufacturing is dead in the US.
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by gamble 15y ago
In at least two of these categories, (search and social networking) today's market leaders started up during low points when nobody thought their was room - or even demand - for another entrant. Seriously, when Google was founded building y

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