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by mschwar99 16y ago
Makes sense to start in an area where some of the big players have territory that overlaps. To be clear though - companies like Clear and Sprint aren't just selling 4g wireless devices, they are selling hotspots filling the roll of routers
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by mschwar99 16y ago
They are preparing to fight off 4G wireless. Here in Austin, Clear is marketing their wireless full tilt: all the media and even door to door (had two salesmen come by). The pitch is that the service is as good as cable broadband (for the
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by mschwar99 16y ago
Aren't the rating agencies a counter example of the success of this model? They have proved that private market "over-site" is just as susceptible to influence of the regulated. A flavour of this idea already exists inside the government a
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by mschwar99 17y ago
It will be interesting to see how the iPad will do in the non-techie segment when the market becomes saturated with all the other pad-type products. In my little world I have noticed that most all of my non-techie family and friends conside
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by mschwar99 17y ago
Looks like it might take an act of Congress to bestow the authority? Can't find the full text of the decision yet, but first reports seem to suggest the court finds the FCC's authority doesn't extend to enforcing net neutrality rather than
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Federal appeals court rules for Comcast and against FCC on net neutrality case(latimes.com)
2 points by mschwar99 17y ago|1 comments
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by mschwar99 17y ago
And its fair to speculate that this lack of substance is contributing to the ratings decline by making places like CNN boring or immediately interchangeable with the web. Why spend your time watching what feels like "easily" produced news
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by mschwar99 17y ago
I think you are probably partially correct in the sense that a company as large as Google is not comprised of one single personality. The decision making voices in Google could well run the spectrum from those advocating a moral line in th
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by mschwar99 17y ago
I totally agree with your overall conclusion that the article is silly alarmist. However, even government bodies that don't deal with "secret" information house lots of "sensitive" data whose public release would be a big deal. Department
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by mschwar99 17y ago
A large part of that broadcast was also targeted at the civilian, middle management Federal bureaucrat. They need buy in from the rank and file content managers of federal program offices because that is where the bulk of the non-headline F
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by mschwar99 17y ago
If this is a economic winner, I would have already expected it to be done informally already by hustling undergrads... is it common? Going only off of personal experience I frequently swapped or loaned books within my social circle. Alread
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by mschwar99 17y ago
Personally I think it would work better at which ever school you were able to be more engaged with and / or knew better. There might be some benefit to focusing on a more technical school in terms of the student's willingness to trust a web
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by mschwar99 17y ago
Right on. If you are going to focus on a single community I'd suggest branding the site (or at least a corner of the site) that way. When trying to build your first community I think it would earn more trust from people if they knew that
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by mschwar99 17y ago
I know that I would have loved to have a service like this that functioned when I was in school. Can't quite tell how you are going to go about it, but it seems like this type of venture might have the best shot of working by focusing on a
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by mschwar99 17y ago
From what I have seen in working with the government and the web I think that anigbrowl's comment is spot on. Many people use tools that are designed for the web or the desktop in the same way that they used to use tools designed for print
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by mschwar99 17y ago
A government document can't (shouldn't) be rasterized because it would loose all the tagging information making it non-accessible in a 508 sense. It is however trivial for even a non-technically inclined person to remove the text content th
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by mschwar99 17y ago
Those categorizations are an interesting way to search through recipes - I like it. For what it's worth: I think the UI to the right and the UI at the top of the recipe pages is really busy and not all that intuitive. (things like print / s
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by mschwar99 17y ago
I remember the major American news sites like cnn.com and msnbc.com becoming more or less swamped and unreachable by the late morning of 9/11. They came back a little while later with static, text only versions of their home pages for the
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by mschwar99 18y ago
As someone who opened a similar business I thought that the ratios that were listed as rules of thumb were failry on target with my experience, but the statement "If you haven't hit the latter mark in a month, close" was crazy. 1.) Your pot
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by mschwar99 18y ago
"Good tools for non technical people vs Flexibility" Depending on the group of people using the installation I think this is huge. For user groups that include a big slice of non-technical people web interfaces still have a ways to go. Lot
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by mschwar99 18y ago
Don't know what kind of management you are pitching this to, but when I have had to convince "semi-technical" manager types I have found pointing to other places that use the same tech helps. It at least gives them a feeling of cover - tha
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by mschwar99 18y ago
Along the lines of do one thing and do it well: Start narrow but deep in an area that you either know well or have connections to. Excel in a small, defined area in order to build buy-in from businesses and credibility with your audience a
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by mschwar99 18y ago
Evidently there is VHS / DVD out there. Didn't find anything streaming, but didn't look too hard. Mr Cringley was nice enough to point us in the right direction: http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/ http://www.amazon.com/Nerds-2-0-1-Brief-
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by mschwar99 18y ago
Triumph of the Nerds is great. Hopefully Cringley will make a version for this decade about Web empires.
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by mschwar99 18y ago
Very true. Must be the one of first times a major Hollywood studio employed a consultant that had taken something beyond College Algebra.
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by mschwar99 18y ago
Fan of: The headache inducing blue ribbon winner: Pi - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/ The slightly corny but worthwhile: Sneakers - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/