mikecane

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by mikecane 14y ago
People are all privileged in different ways and in different circumstances. I think this idea is what tends to get swept under the rug when pointing to some overarching Privilege.
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Samsung Said to Be in Talks to Sell Liquavista to Amazon(bloomberg.com)
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Open that iPad before you buy it(us.cnn.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
Show of hands: How many here recall Microsoft's "Palm-size PC"? It began with a "3D" interface. It flopped and MS redid it as "Pocket PC" with a flat UI. (They also moved Start down to the lower left corner, like the PC Windows.) The mo
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by mikecane 14y ago
"Don't Touch My Dongle?"
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by mikecane 14y ago
Nah. That's happened before. Once it was a submission I made that I didn't know was junk science, it got a lot of votes, and then was [dead]ed.
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>Today's culture IS created in silos, by large corporations. Wow. That will come to a shock to every writer out there who bet their life on the work they were doing unseen by anyone else.
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>Indeed, the kind of content that is protected by DRM is mostly entertainment, and not very much culture. Did you ever go see a Batman movie? A Superman movie? Iron Man? The Avengers movie? Those weren't considered "culture"
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by mikecane 14y ago
A free speech shitstorm has erupted. Frankly I want no part of this. But I didn't flag anything. I just avoided reading it.
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by mikecane 14y ago
Culture is not created in silos. Culture is created by free exchange (which is not to be confused with "no things should be paid for"). DRM is just a speedbump on the road.
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by mikecane 14y ago
Those who don't know how Microsoft once operated need to read this book: Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Silicon-Adventure-Jerry-Kaplan... Hell, anyone doing a startup needs to read it anyway.
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by mikecane 14y ago
I haven't read the patent. But it seems to me that prior art would be CompuServe's CB Simulator -- from the early 1980s. That's what I thought of when I first encountered Twitter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cb_simulator
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by mikecane 14y ago
This is a stupid article and the Commenters in the know are setting him straight. And newspapers wonder why they're increasingly irrelevant? What happened to Research 101 to begin with?
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Welcome To My 2006, Kindle Users(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
You should have added a poll. My answer is No. I need to try first. EDIT: I should note my reply is a general No. I am not your accounting market at all.
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by mikecane 14y ago
So it's a year later and sharing still isn't broken and Google still isn't part of it. Maybe that's the point?
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Cyprus-style solution proposd for New Zealand banks(scoop.co.nz)
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Android To Surpass Microsoft Windows(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>"The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present--and that's not fully valued." That is the quote that matters. What if IBM had wanted to buy Apple or Microsoft? Where would
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Former scientist sentenced in software piracy case(sfgate.com)
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Here are eight cyber crooks who got less prison time than Andrew Auernheimer(scmagazine.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>Anyway, that's far away from your "death spiral of the entire worldwide financial system." :) We'll see. Bank accounts are private property. This is an unprecedented confiscation. And if this happens without open rebellion
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by mikecane 14y ago
Yes, I didn't mean to say twenty dollars was an insignificant amount for most people. A ten dollar difference does matter. A penny matters if the storekeeper wants the full price and you lack a penny.
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RIP Shannon Larratt(technoccult.net)
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The Deeper Meanings of Cyprus(charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
This is the kind of thing independent filmmakers would do to raise funds. There was no Internet or VC funds in those days to help. They'd pitch professionals who needed to invest: doctors, lawyers, accountants, dentists, and the like. Do
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Tablet users’ preferences: two studies, two conclusions(garciamedia.com)
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Vietnam’s Microchip Industry Keeps Getting Bigger(techinasia.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
I've said the same thing. I term it "blank hardware." We're already seeing some convergence with cheap Chinese smartphones at unknown-to-America low prices. And there's AllWinner, Rockchip, Mediatek, and other CPUs coming on line to chal
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The Irritating Vapidity Of The Spoiled(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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