mikecane

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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>not achieved much in life Your expectations are wrong then. EDIT: You asked what to do . Change your expectations. Really, that's probably the root of things. What are you calling "achievement," to begin with?
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Child Prodigy Harold M. Finley (1922) [d. 1999](ipeopleblog.wordpress.com)
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I have made these into basic ePub eBooks people can download for free from Google Docs: http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/an-experiment-in-e...
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An Experiment In ePub eBooks (two 1922 essays)(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
I don't know what your ad income is -- and I'm not asking -- but just looking at the HowIDidIt page, this is a book that screams for you to redo it for the iPad in iBooks Author. It's exactly the kind of book that app was made for. EDIT:
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by mikecane 14y ago
So he wants security in hardware? A Security Processing Unit?
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Engineer Charles Lee Cook (1920)(ipeopleblog.wordpress.com)
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SF TV producer Gerry Anderson has died(jamieanderson.me.uk)
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by mikecane 14y ago
Oh, AM also published a great many profiles of real people too. I set up a separate blog to highlight those: http://ipeopleblog.wordpress.com/
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Follow This Rule — If You Want To Be Popular (1922)(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)(mikecanex.wordpress.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
>>>I already have an account there Good for you. I would have tried it if I could have logged in with Twitter or my WordPress account.
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Cohen on the Telephone(en.wikipedia.org)
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Welcome to Pottersville(letsfaceitstories.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
I was going to try it, stopped at the Persona (who?) log in. I'm not going to create Yet Another Damn Account I have to remember the password to. Then I read here that it's based on RSS, and that kills it for me altogether. BTW, I've tri
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by mikecane 14y ago
Why should anyone be surprised? Do you really think abuse of power is absent because a business is on the Internet ? How many times have publishers had their Buy buttons removed from their books at Amazon? How many stories are there of s
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Stigmergy(georgiebc.wordpress.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
Yes, it can be tricky, but sometimes what gets cut is the stuff that professionals with a deeper understanding of their field require. Ask any pro photographer about iOS Photos not using metadata (I don't know if that's still the case, but
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by mikecane 14y ago
People like to chat with other people in real time. CompuServe's CB Simulator was a huge money draw for them (back then you paid per minute of connect-time).
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by mikecane 14y ago
Yes. As an example, Jobs putting actual typefaces into the original Mac. Anyone used to the existing computing paradigm back then would have asked, "Why would a user want that?" Another infamous example is the marketeers at CompuServe thi
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by mikecane 14y ago
It's very simple. In any environment, the person who asks, "Why would a user want to do that?" is the one who should be fired first.
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Birth Defects and Superpowers(petermichaud.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
1) Where are the stores? You'll need to eat, do laundry, probably buy some hardware (to hang stuff or whatever), get dry cleaning (if needed), and vet care. 2) Is the apartment under Rent Control or Rent Stabilization (a NYC thing, mainly)
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Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation(youtu.be)
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by mikecane 14y ago
A bigger question would be, What is the true price of an unsubsidized phone? It seems to me the prices are inflated because of this discounting.
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8 tips for using Twitter Lists(poynter.org)
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Hartmut esslinger's early apple computer and tablet designs(designboom.com)
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Open webOS running on HP Slate tablet(youtu.be)
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Former Kindle ad guru sues Amazon over termination, alleges internal retaliation(geekwire.com)
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by mikecane 14y ago
I have a non-systematic assortment of inspirational videos in a YouTube Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um9KsrH377A&feature=share...

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