mikecarlucci

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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Oh, no doubt. But they handle it pretty well.
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Missed the best reason carrots are like junk food: they're sweet.
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
You pay a little more for hardware, but Apple usually outdoes itself in support. At the 3 year mark I decided to replace the optical drive on my macbook with a big hard drive and use an SSD to boot. Three weeks later the computer is dead. I
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Also, Sellout.Woot has had an iPad 16 WiFi today and at least one WiFi+3G model during today's WootOff. People looking for sub-400 iPads are in luck.
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
I think that Steve Jobs himself has already set the groundwork for breaking the ties with (a local computer copy of) iTunes down the road. Jobs talked about Cars and Trucks. The desktop, and many laptop computers, are trucks. They can do th
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Haven't a number of courts ruled that an IP address isn't a person? I feel like that should apply here. Edit: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/court-confir... I guess they don't want to sue the visitors just reveal identity
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
For all the press Mahalo gets I've never seen a Mahalo page show up in the first page or two of Google results. Maybe I'm not looking for the right stuff, but ehow, wikihow etc. all would show up before adding them to Personal Blocklist.
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Searching in the various app stores feels like the time before Google came to web search. You type your query into each of several OK search apps and see what happens. MLB just released it's annual application: MLB.com At Bat 11. Say I don'
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Whoops. Well, even better! In slightly related news, I wonder if this is what came out of the TechCrunch rumors last year about free Kindles for Prime customers: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/12/amazon-wants-to-give-a-free... Maybe we'll
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
That could be a powerful offering if Amazon can boost the library a bit. $89 per year for Amazon Prime with 2 day shipping and streaming is a few bucks cheaper than a year of Netflix streaming only (7.99*12=95.88) and potentially much more
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Also, coffee and tea are drinks that people will accept even if they aren't exactly a person's preferred style/flavor. People will order and drink coffee at any restaurant when the choice is generic coffee vs. decaf. Brand certainly helps b
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
I have the same thought, but had really wanted a "book safe" since watching The Matrix. Enter an old college textbook. Selling for $0.01 on Amazon and now 3 editions old. It was a fun project. Any book still usable though, I don't have the
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
I agree. If I feel I can add something of value to the discussion, including occasional humor, I'll chime in. I call it the Mr. Ed principle.
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Even for people who call it a big iPod touch; the touch starts at $229. The bigger screen and battery aren't free. $499 is a fair price, even if 16GB of memory is a bit stingy. Funny to remember before the iPad introduction people were expe
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
I've found it to be a mixed bag, which really, as beta software and limited hardware shouldn't be unexpected. The good: First, it helps if you were already a big user of the Google services. After losing all my work when my laptop got soake
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
I took a few CS classes at a liberal arts college and those exams were miserable. 3 hours on friday nights a few times a semester. That was part of the reason I switched from CS. Same thing; no compile no grade. And there would be some nerv
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
I'll second that. Even the next step of taking out the optical drive isn't too tough, at least on a pre-unibody white macbook. Runs a bit hot/loud with 2 drives though.
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
A friend who just joined the Linux Foundation saved $400 or $500 on a Lenovo with the Linux discount. They don't advertise the exact discounts publicly, but if you were joining anyway, or already a member, that could be something to pursue.
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
I can see it now... "A business announcement from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: We have acquired Wookiepedia."
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
One of the greatest pieces of baseball detective work ever.
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
OK. Just making sure. Sometimes "the arts" get too much of a bad wrap here.
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Not to troll, but Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Leonardo DaVinci etc. were all technical people with understanding of philosophy, art, history, mathematics. Obviously these are cherry-picked examples, but having only technical knowledge i
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
It might take a while to get the right audience but it could be like the App Store for small/new developers who could never get any sizable audience at all to really explore a project in process.
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
It's the continuation of a strange cycle. Path is a social network the encourages you to have only a few friends, why not acquire a company that hasn't launched for the users?
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
It feels like it would pass a fair use defense test...not taking too more than necessary and shouldn't harm the commercial market for the original. And any bill with an internet shutdown is something the MPAA could get behind :)
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Maybe they'll cite Independence Day, when our own satellite communication network was used against us. If the bad guys are using "our" Internet to communicate we should shut it down and evacuate everyone to Area 51 with the help of Will Smi
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
I agree. Downloading Doubletwist does give you a bit of the Android Market, but nothing like the iTunes experience. The most surprising thing is how many of the big apps for iOS are on Android. Not all, but enough. Unfortunately Google does
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
According the article, and assuming Evergreen and China are honest about environmental regulations, the labor prices are not the real issue here. It's grants and loans made by the Chinese banks and local governments that are making up the b
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
Well, Google does make some noise about releases. I forget which version (proving your point) of Chrome brought the Store, but at the time it was touted by version number, despite the silent update. Probably something we'll see more of as c
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by mikecarlucci 16y ago
It will be interesting to see what this does to Verizon's Droid pricing. If Verizon adopts similar plans to AT&T with a cheap, limited, data add-on, a Verizon iPhone could be just as big a boost to Android.

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