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by ghaff 3mo ago
Maybe. Intel got out of the memory game baecause it became a commodity. That said, I was involved in some research years back where there was the potential opportunity for memory optimized for specific purposes. Which didn't make sense
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by ghaff 3mo ago
And how much did A/UX sell? I Have an A/UX coffee mug in my kitchen. It even has a phone number on it.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I think you're absolutely right. Apple couldn't be seen as ignoring the gamer geek (or other potential opportunities) space as it wasn't very interesting to them at their scale and that automagical AR was a decade or more awa
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I think that's a good shorthand. Apple needed cool glasses that could do useful xR in ways that weren't just useful to gamer geeks.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Still, in the scheme of Apple stuff it was a failed experiment--even if a worthwile one.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I generally agree. Xserve didn't work out for Apple and they dropped it pretty quickly--think I still have an A/UX coffee cup. Wasn't really in their DNA even if there was an argument before Linux took off. For better or wors
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Tim Cook was probably mostly disinterested because it didn't seem like a real business opportunity. Wherever AVP fell on the VR/AR spectrum, VR (while having other opportunities) was mostly a niche for high-end gamers and AR, what
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Corporations donate to 501(c)3s as entities and even have matching gifts. In fact, a lot of charities have corporations/foundations as some of their largest contributors.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
One can disagree about aspects of corporate financing of elections etc. while also accepting that everything doesn't get thrown up in the air if a corporate officer leaves for another company. Corporations are established entities that
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Well, Dvorak was primarily a writer for PC Mag for many years so that was pretty natural.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Probably. With some exceptions, he wasn't flat out wrong. But he did push the boundaries from time to time.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
He was a very readable columnist for PC Mag among other places. He was also more focused on being interesting and at least a bit provocative than being correct. >He was a hilarious curmudgeon. Agreed.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
There have also (rarely) been intra-fault earthquakes. A fairly large one in Kansas if I recall correctly.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I don't really know the history but physical bonds and stock certificates were things within my lifetime. Safety deposit boxes for such were also a thing.I've never had one but my parents certainly did.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Microsoft had a lot of CD sets back in the day when there was bit of wonder that you could have all this stuff on your local computer. There was a lot of things related to music, maybe natural history, etc.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
There are plenty of anecdotal examples of co-CEOs not working very well.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Yeah, JC Penney was not Apple Stores (which by the way probably looked awful to a lot of people on paper--see Microsoft's attempt to clone). But JC Penny was a discount brand whose shoppers absolutely weren't looking for an expens
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by ghaff 3mo ago
The sound and visual recognition around a lot of things is pretty impressive and I imagine it will work its way into less obstrusive AR in a lot of ways over time.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Well, yes, although the ag school at Cornell has plenty of domesticated animals on campus.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Church in a lot of places.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Water is definitely an issue--I thought it and didn't write it down. The heat, yes, but also a dry heat :-) so some evaporative cooking; I think Intel has at least one fab plant in Arizona. As I say, no longer really in the space, but
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by ghaff 3mo ago
There also used to be bearer bonds. In part because of concerns about money laundering, a lot of more or less untraceable large monetary instruments have gone away.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I've been out of direct involvement in the space for a while, but my understanding that Arizona nad parts of Nevada were probably the safest locations with respect to natural disasters that could affect data centers.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Not on my property in New England certainly. In fact, just went through an (expensive) process with a neighbor who wanted to get property lines squared away after they were botched on the initial property subdivision. We were fine with a ha
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by ghaff 3mo ago
In MA, there are a number of documents you can use. I don't have a Social Security card and haven't had in decades and got my REALID.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
There are a lot of FOSS projects that aren't sponsored in a major way by corporations: LibreOffice, SQLite, the Linux desktop interfaces, a number of languages... I won't claim that corporations don't support those and others
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I no longer have an SS card--which was in a wallet stolen years ago--or, perhaps, a birth certificate which I looked for recently but couldn't find. I do have a passport.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
It doesn't take much. A neighbor and I just had to deal with a bunch of property line confusions in the US where a property subdivision 25 years ago wasn't handled correctly. None of us really cared but it would matter in the even
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Sovereignty has gone from being a theoretical concern that a lot of cloud (esp. AWS) advocates poo-poohed to something that is a very real concern in the minds of many. It's not just US foreign policy either. It's even within Euro
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Honestly, I think a lot is pretty well documented. But people don't have a good sense of what an inch more or less related to the seat actually means and don't necessarily know how picky a given airline is going to be on the size

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