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by mikecane 14y ago
See? I rest my case. I think even people who love Apple to the point of slavishness think of them as a company, not as a Mom.
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by mikecane 14y ago
I just can't get passed the implicit assumption that this guy doesn't live in the real world. There have been prepay cellphones as low as twenty dollars in the U.S. alone for quite some time. And yes, they can text and have removable ba
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>The rational will transfer their accounts to more stable banks, e.g., in Germany Ah, so Cyprus will just collapse on its own then without any repercussions elsewhere? I don't think so.
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by mikecane 14y ago
They can't reopen the banks without limiting the amount of money people can withdraw. Thus the death spiral of the entire worldwide financial system begins.
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by mikecane 14y ago
This really doesn't seem analogous to me. >>>For the veterans, the Red Cross went from being a little like Mom, to being the corner store. Who really thinks of Google, for example, as Mom?
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by mikecane 14y ago
I can't. This is a PC that is too slow for SP3 now. I tried it when SP3 was released and it just made it slower. I had to roll back. I use defensive measures and have been able to ward off bots and virii so far (not that they didn't get
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ARM, FXI want HDMI sticks to replace cable boxes (with browser-based software)(liliputing.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
XP SP2, Firefox 19.0.2 and all I get is a screen that quickly fades to black and then ... nothing.
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by mikecane 14y ago
Viewing page source reveals: http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/612500/la-2013.pdf I guess I should also mention what's at the end too:
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by mikecane 14y ago
Everyone has forgotten Nolan Bushnell's Petster? Hackers Get Cat Of Their Own http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-08-14/entertainment/... There's not even a Wikipedia entry for it. Shame.
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>I find it interesting that as recent as 25 years ago they were still suggesting that we would used advanced technology to print off a newspaper instead of read it off a screen. Twenty-five years ago, most screens were crap.
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>The future is weird. Now she's learned the lesson. Instead of buying you a CD next time, she'll just give you a list of music you might enjoy to stream. Wow, the future gets even weirder.
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by mikecane 14y ago
It's always worth reminding everyone of this: Haber process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process >>>Fertilizer generated from ammonia produced by the Haber process is estimated to be responsible for sustaining one-third
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by mikecane 14y ago
Tourists and outsiders love Corporate Times Square. Native New Yorkers loathe it.
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by mikecane 14y ago
Reminds me of Connie Willis' line in Bellwether : Just because people are experiencing things doesn't mean they have any insight into them.
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>>>Bill marvels at the way the neighborhood sleaze has been systematically cleaned up, thanks to massive redevelopment among Sunset Boulevard. Yes. Now Bill can marvel at the Corporate Playpen it's become, just like New York's T
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>Going public with a dispute is high maintenance. Sometimes that's the only way to effect change. And the only way to warn others who might see you as an example and want to follow your lead into the same damn trap.
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Then/Now(lefsetz.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
It will probably be unpopular to say so: But learn how to strip DRM. If you paid for it, you should own it.
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Barnes & Noble Loses Bid to Dismiss Alcatel-Lucent Claims(bloomberg.com)
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How To Move From Google Reader to Bloglovin(gimmesomeoven.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>You can't succeed in business by being this high maintenance. Since when is holding a publisher to contract terms it agreed to abide by "high-maintenance"?
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Researchers find cicada wing structure able to kill bacteria on contact(phys.org)
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Apple filed for a similar patent and I wrote about it in 2007: https://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/oy-apple-backsided...
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The Yahoo Kerfuffle(lefsetz.com)
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You can grab a PDF version of the entire book that has this essay, for free, here: http://books.google.com/books?id=Rvk-AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22the%...
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Samsung will no longer sell the ATIV Tab(sammobile.com)
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The 1920s Scheme To Create A National Bookstore Chain(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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A Flying Monstrosity From 1921(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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Passenger Air Service In 1921(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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