jamesmcintyre

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by jamesmcintyre 15y ago
Is that you Steve Ballmer? ;) I don't doubt Microsoft's ability to get Windows 8 into consumers homes as much as I do not doubt their ability to shoot themselves in the foot by pushing yet another half-baked product out the door. Sure in 20
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by jamesmcintyre 15y ago
If Microsoft can retain and gain mindshare you may very well be right, going forward I just doubt Microsoft's ability to "capture people's imaginations" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvskEGWMLp4 ).
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by jamesmcintyre 15y ago
If Apple didn't have large multi-touch trackpads on their macbooks with a slew of natural gestures for navigating things like launchpad and mission control they WOULD be mindlessly scaling the iOS UI to the desktop... but alas, they have di
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by jamesmcintyre 15y ago
The interface is beautiful but I think it will prove to be nothing more than eye candy veneer for an increasingly out-of-touch piece of software. Let the desktop metaphor evolve respectively until it's no longer needed (by most), do not sap
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by jamesmcintyre 16y ago
Here's an idea, buy the domain and steal it! Filter It ( http://fltr.it ) Install the fltr.it browser extension and you will begin to see the site's you visit most frequently in a different, more relevant way through the fltr.it overlay hea
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by jamesmcintyre 16y ago
the other scenario is that they have a tiny bluetooth camera pendant/lanyard (like microsoft's sensecam) that would allow people to literally immerse themselves in their friends' surroundings. having this bluetooth device and the platform w
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by jamesmcintyre 16y ago
that's exactly what I was thinking. I see this as being a very novel concept that if reaches a certain threshold of brand-awareness and good design could be a perfect acquisition target because merely replicating the feature-set would be li
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by jamesmcintyre 16y ago
alt.emo, lol
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by jamesmcintyre 16y ago
lol, nice tumblog, is that ur photography?
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by jamesmcintyre 16y ago
Something I just wrote that i think relates: i wonder why they don't care to wonder of what wonders i wonder but i know it's been ruthlessly sapped of them never asked of them so that we don't expect much of each other and all the while i'm
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
just sent this email to the rapportive team (I'm guessing rahulvohra will be the first/only to respond since he's "on top" of this HN thread): ----- When "mail.google.com" loads (the "inbox view") the emails from people in my crm/social net
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
"readability" is feature book-readers care about, unfortunately most "consumers" aren't "book consumers" therefore if the iPad is designed for the average "magazine (ultra-light) reader" than it will be a "kindle-killer". If the iPad is go
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
solution: design the rss feed with "top readers" in mind, inject "calls to action" links in the rss feed (like "Hey you, yea you the RSS subscriber, you're an avid reader and I appreciate that! I give FULL CONTENT access via RSS in hopes th
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
When Google released the Nexus One it revealed another very important strategic imperative for offering Android free of charge. Google realized that all the smartphone manufacturers were scrambling to build/acquire mobile operating systems
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
impressive even without knowing it pushing the graphics development envelope.
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
The guy who wrote this is from an enterprise consulting background... enough said.
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
Regardless it seems Graham drawing a synthesis between hackers and painters worked well as a generative metaphor to accomplish what he explained the books purpose was: "This book is an attempt to explain to the world at large what goes on i
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
looks like my predictions are aligned with "new tips on Apple tablet" from NY Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/2010-the-year-of-th...
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
The title of the article featured the word "e-reader", and surely enough you read an article I wrote about my thoughts on e-readers, where I postulated the rumored Apple tablet is not "a better take on the tablet" but instead a solution to
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Thoughts on "e-readers"
43 points by jamesmcintyre 17y ago|51 comments
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
You know most average pc users think someone "sends them a virus", they ask "why do they write viruses to attack my computer?". You and I know this is the question of someone who doesn't understand the purpose(s) behind malicious software.
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
thanks cesare, that's very interesting! It really resonates with what I attempted to articulate in the post.
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
masochism is deriving pleasure from what would be considered pain by the majority. I think we should hope that us humans have a predisposition to seek pleasure (even when veiled in apparent pain). have you ever read A New Earth by Eckhart
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
yea, i think thats a close interpretation! thanks!
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The "Game"
6 points by jamesmcintyre 17y ago|9 comments
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Yield (when your bliss feels like a curse)
1 points by jamesmcintyre 17y ago|4 comments
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by jamesmcintyre 17y ago
The ambition of the project has been inspiring, the slowly encroaching failure is a little disheartening. If it's true, however, that the XO spawned the netbook than OLPC has succeeded in an indirect way. First netbooks, then kindle, then