nobody31415

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by nobody31415 15y ago
it's not like they hide their ideology though - the paper is called the economist! Oddly enough they and The Telegraph (the most conservative UK daily) were the only places with decent science reporting, which is an interesting difference w
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by nobody31415 15y ago
I think that's actually the mathematical definition of zero !
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by nobody31415 15y ago
If you have a CNC mill or a 3D printer in the office you can certainly turn around prototype designs quickly!
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by nobody31415 15y ago
It cuts both ways. There are designers who build things that can't be made - and especially things that can't be mass produced cheaply and easily. But there are also people with 20years of manufacturing experience who don't what that we can
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by nobody31415 15y ago
I think it's more that when the NYT talks about the new "Job's designed iPad", Ive kicks the cat.
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by nobody31415 15y ago
>Do some fancy satellites have proximity sensors and self-destruct mechanisms. If the opposition had just spent $XXXBn on a reusable space shuttle to retrieve satellites and you were a paranoid cold war enemy wouldn't you?
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by nobody31415 15y ago
So apart from the tricky business of grabbing a bit of space junk going past you at Mach33 and changing it's delta-V so you can grab it and attach it to your satelite. And the tricky business of dismantling a satelite and somehow re-wiring
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by nobody31415 15y ago
Porting pure .Net apps should be trivial - if you also believed that Java was "build once and runs everywhere"! But how many real world (especially corporate in-house) .Net apps don't also assume a windows file structure, or a keyboard, or
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by nobody31415 15y ago
Corporates will buy it because it's Windows. Average Joe will buy it because MSFT has a massive ad budget Of the rest; (money>sense) > iPad : Android ;
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by nobody31415 15y ago
It was a very 'sensible' decision if you are an MBA! If Sony had been a little more flexible and far sighted it could have worked. But as you say, it resulted in the DAT tape and minidisk being restricted to protect the studio. It's the sam
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by nobody31415 15y ago
If you wanted a tablet that had no compatibility with Windows - why would you get a Windows tablet? You are stuck in the problem of either adding a 'bit' of backwards compatibility until you get into the state of supporting 1980s netware ap
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by nobody31415 15y ago
He doesn't have to run a company - that's what VPs are for - he has to LEAD a company. In the 70s you lead by having the best hardware - you needed Woz at the head. In the 80/90s you lead by having the best OS - that's why Next mattered. Th
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by nobody31415 15y ago
You could take everything you just said and apply it to Sony in 1980. Then their founder, Akio Morita, retired with poor health and they diversified into lots of sensible business decisions about owning studios Then some little computer com
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by nobody31415 15y ago
Twas ever thus. Ben Rich was Kelly Johnson's assistant at the original Lockheed Skunkworks (creator of the U2, SR71, etc) - he was regularly approached to leave and create skunkworks for every other aerospace company. As soon as he talked