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by jpadkins 14y ago
which has never worked in history. as soon as you raise prices, you lose market share...
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by jpadkins 14y ago
Anyone else think this looks like the Gartner Hype cycle? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle Maybe I need to get back in to bitcoin mining...
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by jpadkins 14y ago
It's not the first smarter than human AI that is the threat. It's the first self-improving AI that people have to worry about. It can start out at a much lower than human intelligence (whatever that means) but as long it can keep improving
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by jpadkins 14y ago
it's sci fi, but we haven't ruled out that human brains can't acquire knowledge at rates orders of magnitudes faster than current learning methods. Big advances in neuroscience and linguistics could make this possible. Right now, the limits
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by jpadkins 14y ago
are you stating that computer manufactures don't rely on computers to design the next generation manufacturing techniques? Or that faster/better software isn't going to increase the rate of improvement in computer manufacturing? Material s
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by jpadkins 14y ago
Everyone knows Gabe worked for MS, right? He had a stellar career there before he quit one day to start valve. No way he sells to microsoft. There is no positive aspects for the company, the owners, or the employees.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
people who get paid for coming up with new icons and logo's are going to create new logos and icons.. it's what they do. Is there every a "reason" to create new logo's or icons? Other than someone feels a new for a new or fresh look...
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by jpadkins 14y ago
merging two good products does not make a great one.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
I think there is a big difference between "impossible to not make money in that situation" and growing revenues by 100B under your leadership. A lot of companies in that era did not grow revenues by 100 billion dollars.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
I used to be like Richard Posner, where I was generally against patents except for a few cases like pharmaceutical. Until I read Against Intellectual Monopoly. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstne... See chapter 9
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by jpadkins 14y ago
Two counterpoints 1) It is better to avoid problems then hit them / solve them. Understanding where other people have failed is very valuable. Of course there is diminishing returns to this type of information and of course you are not goi
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by jpadkins 14y ago
It would probably be more accurate to say this is the first hard disk for NAS sold to a consumer market . All storage vendors sell NAS specific hard drives. Typically called 'enterprise SATA' or 'enterprise SAS'. They have similar enhance
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by jpadkins 14y ago
You didn't actually lean out the process, you just pushed more work on to a different group of people. Did people pay for this software? I can't imagine buying software that makes me find/submit bug reports and then on top of that re-submi
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by jpadkins 14y ago
uhh people don't drop $200 for just a better phone when a replacement regular phone is $0-$50. Do you really think android was far superior product to Palm Pre? Or maybe the advertising had a bit to do with it...
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by jpadkins 14y ago
can you show us some examples of your work that put this site to shame?
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by jpadkins 14y ago
what windows app exactly will people trade for few hours of battery life? seriously, other than PC games, I don't know a single windows app I want to run on a tablet form factor.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
For a file system that is a big 'other than'.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
add sugar to your list. People definitely eat for recreation and it is addictive. People simply don't think rationally about the war on (some) drugs.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
yet somehow we allow nicotine to be sold... or sugar. both are highly addictive.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
yea I think I get it now. Thanks for explaining it to me. It is a bit mind blowing. It's like taking the AS/400 model and applying it to the entire internet (or all of computing).
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by jpadkins 14y ago
I think it was excellent design that democracy is sub-optimal for defensive war and terrible for offensive war. You wouldn't want the choice best economy with no drawbacks. Otherwise, democracy would be the dominant strategy.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
a) global address space for all computer data for all time? how big does that need to be? b)yes, but in those messages are references to data. How do you reference that data across computer address spaces? Right now, we use an URI that is
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by jpadkins 14y ago
in this world, how do you programs on different computers reference the same piece of data? ipv6 address/memory address? the whole path/file thing is really useful for distributed computing. Also what would users use for object naming(espe
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by jpadkins 14y ago
maybe. if mobile ads means using geo, then the ads revenues might be better. Think "check out this new bar near you" or "here is a deal a block away". There is a lot of money chasing foot traffic in urban areas.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
we are talking about Balmer and his reign, which includes then entire winmo era.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
Their first smart phone was windows mobile 2003. They been at it 9 years, 1 reboot and 2% market share. (longer if you count their pda days). it's pretty much a failure.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
there is always a lot of competition if you in an established market. Either your product/service is obviously better than the competition or you should be in a new market without a lot of competition... This doesn't change with what stage
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by jpadkins 14y ago
State machines are very useful in game programming. Unrealscript supports state machines at the language level. http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UnrealScriptStates.html it's fairly simple syntax, using goto's.
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by jpadkins 14y ago
I feel for the illustrators, but its supply and demand in effect. There are lot more good illustrators than good developers out there.
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by jpadkins 15y ago
The reason why it is a hard problem is HIPAA regulations, not because of some deficiency with the PACS. Any social or semi-public solution would be instantly shut down.

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