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by iigs 18y ago
Of course, when Twitter goes down, which is actually much more often than MobileMe, well, people are just up in arms. And while some are likely turning back to e-mail, I still think that Twitter is a bigger force than many of us realize.
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by iigs 18y ago
My opinion comes down 180 degrees from the article Author. The full name of the brand is "Eee PC", not just "Eee" - a mistake the article author makes. It's clumsy and inelegant, too long, nobody says the whole thing, and if you say it alou
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by iigs 18y ago
BMW's brand tells a very clear story: "We sell performance sedans and four seat coupes. You can denormalize for comfort or price to a limited extent." Even their convertibles 2 seaters (the old Z3 which was fairly slow) and their SUVs (X5,
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by iigs 18y ago
I contend that concept products correlate highly with companies that have a high cash/agility ratio. GM and Ford, despite their dire financial situation, have such low agility that they pass this test. Toyota had some Scion car at the last
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by iigs 18y ago
Garb for trendy terrorists: http://imgs.xkcd.com/store/imgs/stand_back_square_0.png
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by iigs 18y ago
I personally think RIM's success is going to be contingent on updating or modernizing the appearance of their UI/OS. BB crushed all competitors to date by offering a smartphone that was acutely targeted at their market - business users. Now
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by iigs 18y ago
The real coup with the the iPhone is Apple's handling of the user's experience in the iPhone App store. BB certainly has the least retarded relationship with US carriers (especially now that they're so big), but their old-world mindset of s
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by iigs 18y ago
Note: I use the first person in this comment but I'm not related to any of this tomfoolery. The tone of this article is incredible. The quoted "stock answer" for how bloggers want to be approached is there for a reason -- people don't want
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by iigs 18y ago
Maybe I'm not understanding the article here, but could this apply to the problem with aggressive lane-changers on a highway? When people (I find this in myself) get on the freeway, it seems like they tend to get clear over to the fast lane
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by iigs 18y ago
My preference here is to not have the machine sleep at all when it's closed. I do more sysadmin type work than local development type work, and having TCP (SSH) sessions end every time you close the lid would drive me bananas. I would have
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by iigs 18y ago
Most people I give PC buying advice to really don't think like I do -- either they want a $400 computer, or they want some $2500 thing with some gimmick feature set (custom color lid? who cares? lightscribe blu-ray burner? do that at home!
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by iigs 18y ago
It's a tough market right now. I think they look pretty good, overall. To me they pass the "would you buy from them?" test that you hear about occasionally. I think this means that we don't have to hear "A second quarter with no IPOs!" in S
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by iigs 18y ago
- Don't bother wiring coax and cat5 into places you're not sure you'll need it. What you really want is Smurf Tube ( http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=901909 ) dropped to places where you think you might want something somed
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by iigs 18y ago
It really comes down to the features you actually need or desire. Take a hard look at your workflow and usage scenarios: Do you plan on running a lot of stuff at once? Visual Studio or Eclipse use a lot of resources, you'll probably want to
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by iigs 18y ago
During the launch of Google App Engine, my idea for a test site was a pet owners social networking site, with the ability to put in contact info / special needs and the pet's collar / Avid chip ID, so that a lost pet could be cared for as w
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by iigs 18y ago
http://ii.gs/combss.jpg (4800x1200, large-ish jpg file) FreeBSD + WindowMaker + Synergy Server on the left (IBM P3 from 2002 w/ 4g RAM and SCSI) Windows XP on center and right screens (ThinkPad T60p), Synergy Client I tend toward maximize
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by iigs 18y ago
"Apple bashing" isn't the new anything. Semi-informed yay/boo-{apple,commodore,ibm} thing has been going on since at least the mid '80s when you could buy software on floppy disks at your local Wal-Mart/K-Mart, and probably before that but
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by iigs 18y ago
The article takes it on faith that the current margins Apple has can't last. Maybe I missed the part of the article where they back that up, but overall it seems like Apple's done a bang-up job selling (the perception of) lack of computing
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by iigs 18y ago
From the link: There is one aspect of Friday's FCC ruling, however, that seriously troubles us. Consider how the FCC got here. In 2005, without any authority or guidance from Congress, the FCC announced a "policy statement." Now, in 2008,
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by iigs 18y ago
This is resolutely brilliant. My employer follows the Starbucks antipattern of calling employees "partners". No longer content to be a UNIX Engineer, I'm henceforth a UNIX Barista. Thank you for this. You've made my day.
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by iigs 18y ago
This theoretically works for passive observation attacks but is not helpful against the threat outlined in the article -- the Man In The Middle attack. As a hostile AP owner, I could intercept all SSL communication, originate it myself from
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by iigs 18y ago
Agreed. In (some fraction, likely of) 30-35 years time, the companies that are staying away because there's no money or the market is ill defined are going to look as silly as the ones who thought the market for desktop personal computers h
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by iigs 18y ago
I had written up a long comment about what to do, but this more or less nails it. Here's what I had to say from a more DNS centric perspective: You can do this with no downtime if you don't have any other outside circumstances forcing your
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by iigs 18y ago
Fold and map are beautiful, but they work just as well in the guise of a foreach loop. It's hard to argue with the foundation of the article -- namely that for any novel programming paradigm we've seen implementation of key features in a
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by iigs 18y ago
Hello. I'm a lurker but I registered to make this comment, because I feel pretty strongly about it. I can understand that the tone of the article is one that you might not want to represent Hacker News, but I think the article subject is on