sammyo

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by sammyo 17y ago
The one detail I found most interesting is the historical point: "The executives I met all showed pictures of their youth, reminding me that just a few decades ago, their country was nothing more than sand, tents, and simple stone." The ide
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by sammyo 17y ago
ditto, ditto
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by sammyo 17y ago
Yep, I had downvote access for a while and then it passed me by... story of my life.
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by sammyo 17y ago
So perhaps he should start with "Venus Plus X" by Sturgeon...
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by sammyo 17y ago
This is all fairly old news but do review details of the 1938 marketing campaign, absolute genius (if evil ;-)
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by sammyo 17y ago
Check? Look at how NearlyFree does it: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/mailing Cost of handling at some volumes may be more than 4% though.
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by sammyo 17y ago
Well you're not alone... got a lot of commentary to this post, eh? My small datapoint that helps me to some degree at my moments of 'life dispair' is my 'hobby', a small sailboat. Just big enough to sleep in, it's not an expensive yacht, he
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by sammyo 17y ago
This sounds like someone hoping to get a gov grant but obfuscates the real issue: once detached from the mother ship the rocket still needs to accelerate from around 4-500 mph to 17k mph to reach orbit.
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by sammyo 17y ago
A moderated usenet group with the moderation being a 'reletivly' simple filter works well. For misc.writing.screenplays.moderated the moderation is basically just no cross-posting. It's public, a few spams slip through but are easily ignore
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by sammyo 17y ago
It certainly is a game. It's an attempt to construct a game of 20 participants bidding on a scarce resource (you, the buyer) with specific rules. And would likely work, unless say, a few buddies happened to chat over beers and the subject o
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by sammyo 17y ago
I wonder what they use for forward looking sonar. The ocean is rather littered with logs, boards, containers (that fall off ships, floating a foot below the surface) and the occasional whale.
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by sammyo 17y ago
Find the right level of simplicity and lock it frack'n down, someone thought of about 30 super-important fields to add to bugzilla, maybe one is used, but probably shouldn't be... just makes navigating dense, annoying and slow.
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by sammyo 17y ago
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions The Road to Reality (and I'll probably be able to post this for the next 3 or more threads of this type :) Dead Until Dark (well when it comes in, certainly not
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by sammyo 17y ago
Not as effecient as the cat editor. $cat > $kernelroot/drivers/custom/screen_driver.c [note, you learn not to make any typos eventually]
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by sammyo 17y ago
dn;dc
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by sammyo 17y ago
I did not see him pedling at all, deal breaker if it's just a scooter. Looks like a prototype that will never get further, the cost for that many high quality hinges will put the manufacturing price way past a reasonable price point.
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by sammyo 17y ago
Some food is grown for visual appeal as well as more realistic goals as increased shelf life or disease resistance. The huge beautiful, yet almost flavorless Golden Delicious being a classic example.
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by sammyo 17y ago
Exactly, and there are a good 50-100 thousand of folks like you. Er, maybe total in the world. Now will that pay the infrastructure and salaries of the business like the Times? But that's probably true for only one newspaper, will you also
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by sammyo 17y ago
Serious answer. http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/ Ok look, I'm really not trying to make a nut-case argument, but cost of information allows aggregation of badness as well as goodness. Google is an extreme example but the level of inform
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by sammyo 17y ago
I was always disappointed with daliclock,I remember a distinct image in my mind the first time I'd read the name of an old fashioned pocket watch that draped over any particular window on the desktop, like in a Dali painting. Hmm, project.
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by sammyo 17y ago
I didn't find the essay on a quick google but I remember a classic pg discussion that hiring a publicist was their best investment. Largest expensive also, but the right one knows how to get the mentions in the media. But don't worry about
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by sammyo 17y ago
Er.. it's not like these folks will be going out of business soon. There is a large existing infrastucture (non-free) in companies like lexis-nexus.
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by sammyo 17y ago
I use the AA site fairly often and am far from in love with it but I don't care at all for the re-design. AA for me is work, sometimes painful work if I need a booking for a bad family issue. A pretty island that I'll never get to visit wil
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by sammyo 17y ago
Carying any false ID would be a very very bad idea. They give prison sentences for stuff like that. Fake id on a kid looking to buy beer is one thing, that's probably just going to get taken away, but up against the wrong judge could be a s
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by sammyo 17y ago
(Just a rant here:-) but won't the next industry changing payment service be true micro-payments?
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by sammyo 17y ago
'Out at sea' past a 50 mile line, communication is very slow and very expensive. Some exceptions, there is free email with a ham license, non-commercial and certainly no images, A single sideband HF transceiver and modem is 1-2k$, think 960
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by sammyo 18y ago
Yep, all three of us....
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by sammyo 18y ago
Also opening a couple dozen new browser windows is a good way to ensure your site is only used once.
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by sammyo 18y ago
Twitter is in the news a lot. At the Davos summit it seemed to be the only positive story in the entire world (twitter being used by legit journalists). It just works for a whole lot of folks. I suspect the new investors current opinion is
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by sammyo 18y ago
If the downturn is slow and steady there may be time for adjustments, as opposed to a crash.

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