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by roc 14y ago
My entire point is about a different market with different needs. It's like we're both standing at an amusement park and we're looking at an electric go-kart racing ride. I'm suggesting the general concept, an electric mini-car, holds a n
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by roc 14y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't get too hung up on the way Joel phrased it. Clearly ideas have to be considered to some reasonable degree, possibly run past a couple people from different departments, to see if there's anything there. The trick is just 1
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by roc 14y ago
And decades of dumping. And slum lords. And wild dogs. And squatters. And massive pollution. And peripheral crime. And dodgy-to-nonexistent infrastructure. People see cheap building sales in Detroit and they don't realize those almost alway
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by roc 14y ago
For most of the people for whom an electronic scooter makes more sense than a bicycle, they're well past caring about that.
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by roc 14y ago
> "There aren't that many people who can stand but can't operate a segway" I think this is where we're disagreeing. I've met plenty of people who can stand, but couldn't handle a walking tour and simply cannot take the risk of a spil
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by roc 14y ago
I'm working from the assumption that the more people talk about something, and the more we view that talk as acceptable, the more likely people are to follow through on that talk and do those things. And vice-versa. (The more we shut down c
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by roc 14y ago
Inasmuch as this post is about encouraging people to follow Wheaton's law and give a little more benefit-of-the-doubt to those actually in the trenches, I concur. But I read it as dipping toward "defer to consensus" and I'm not sure that's
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by roc 14y ago
The real problem with the Segway are two primary things you're glossing over: 1. Gee-whiz technology, with non-trivial downsides, that could be obviated with a third wheel. [1] 2. Everyone-will-want-one marketing for a device with deal-brea
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by roc 14y ago
Sure, but you're only talking about form-factor inasmuch as it's a proxy for price. So rather than suggesting people want/will be happy with the 7" Chinese tablet, the Uruguay experience is weighing in on whether the 7" Chinese tablet one c
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by roc 14y ago
I've only seen/heard of setups where the performer is pushing video. Some throw the group of viewers into a shared chat channel, some don't. But, yeah, there it is. It's not my cup of tea, but they seem pretty popular, profitable and disr
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by roc 14y ago
> "I doubt the actual description of the patent would describe Google Glass" The independent claims of the '859 patent (1 and 17) both specify stereoscopic displays. Inventions can only infringe a patent if they, at a minimum, include
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by roc 14y ago
> "surely if you're into ebooks (like I am) then you'd be better off with an actual Kindle." Unless you're into content that is more than just ebooks. [1] Or you like to be able to flip from your reading to research [2]. Don't get me
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by roc 14y ago
Yeah, they already have that.
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by roc 14y ago
And how much more profitable would they be without things like their Entertainment division, Bing, Ad company acquisitions, etc?
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by roc 14y ago
If Ballmer was aiming for the next IBM, he'd have spun off Windows Phone as IBM sold off its PC business. They wouldn't be buying companies and pouring resources into it and pissing off the OEMs by pouring resources into Surface. And if th
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by roc 14y ago
Ticketing has long been ripe for re-invention. The big problem is that TicketMaster has anti-competitive contracts with most popular venues. Louis CK, in trying to do his own thing, is facing largely the same troubles Pearl Jam did in thei
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by roc 14y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
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by roc 14y ago
Touching it at all is likely a deal-breaker. People would likely prefer using a 'remote' on their phone to issue commands, rather than using an indirect pointing/clicking device on their temple. Mobile is primarily different from Desktop i
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by roc 14y ago
The implicit context for that claim is the consumer mobile market. What works or doesn't in the desktop market is as relevant as what works or doesn't in the server market. Microsoft has never generated anything of note in the mobile or con
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by roc 14y ago
Which was one of the original and useful points of (apps) hungarian notation.
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by roc 14y ago
Short version? Instapaper, PDF and CBR/CBZ. There tend to be workarounds for some of these depending on the eInk tablet, but none do all three well. (Frankly, none that I've seen do any of them well . It's more a question of whether they d
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by roc 14y ago
I'm not trying to say it's the wrong size or anything. I have a friend who lives in a warm climate, wears cargo shorts year-round and couldn't care less about anything other than long-form reading on the thing. And he won't shut up about
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by roc 14y ago
I've never understood the 7" tablet argument. Yes, the size and price makes it far more appealing for kids. And women who want a Kindle++ that fits in the purse they already carry everywhere (but is too small for a 10" tablet) could make a
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by roc 14y ago
Close enough. The market maker knows the odds and is incentivized to be honest with the customer, to keep their trust and get as many people to play as possible as it 'wins' only in the aggregate as more and more people play. [1] But the p
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by roc 14y ago
And even the casino analogy is largely unfair to casinos. They don't get to bet against their clients, lie about returns, or collude with other casinos. And that's even if we grant the rumors and whispers as true; that the casinos might hav
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by roc 14y ago
You already recognized the positioning: it's all about Google Play. Google TV exists/existed because Google wants to be in the living room. But they can't get TV makers on board. They can't get content owners on board. They can't get ISP
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by roc 14y ago
It's a shame they over-promised out of the gate. If they didn't start with that absurd concept video, revealing a life-blogging/recording peripheral with future potential would be pretty interesting. Instead, it's a guaranteed let-down eve
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by roc 14y ago
For the same reason no-one asks after Chrome OS much anymore: Google doesn't seem to know why they're making it or where it fits. Until they figure that out for themselves, they're not going to have any useful answers to give us.
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by roc 14y ago
> "but your boss's boss, or your boss's boss's boss, would rather cut costs and increase profit." That's a touch optimistic in my experience. There are definitely those who would love to cut costs and bump profit. But those who are
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by roc 14y ago
The Oxford Comma question isn't like FizzBuzz, it's like a question on K&R vs BSD brace style. It's irrelevant trivia. All you're going to do is trip up people who may not have been exposed to the terminology or hadn't encountered both

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