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by tanzam75 14y ago
Actually, the war was every bit as intense in 1914 as it was in 1915-1918. 400,000 casualties at the Battle of the Frontiers. 250,000 casualties at the Battle of Tannenberg. Half a million casualties at the First Battle of the Marne -- w
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by tanzam75 14y ago
> Or something, I don't know. Linus says it best though: That's a very interesting read, especially with Microsoft's recent adoption of Git in its development tools. (Visual Studio and Team Foundation) After all, Git was started by Lin
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Suppose that there was no Microsoft. Who would have taken its place? DR was charing $240 for CP/M 86 -- the same amount it charged for CP/M on other platforms. At the same time, Microsoft was charging $40 for DOS. The other option on th
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Well, they learned their lesson. Microsoft is now a prolific spender on DC lobbying. In the tech world, they are matched only by Google. Bill Gates used to be a Congressional page, and his father was a lawyer. So I'm surprised he had suc
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Stevens was replaced by Sotomayor, who also voted with Breyer in this case. However, it is certainly true that a junior Associate Justice is not exactly a one-for-one replacement. Stevens' seniority and eloquence gave him an influence that
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> Maybe lobby for higher duties (as compared to tariff rates). Not sure I see the distinction. According to the WTO, "customs duties on merchandise imports are called tariffs."
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Unlike the stock market, the startup world isn't even close to 50/50. If you say that they will fail, you're much more likely to be right than wrong. Note that Google had no way of making money in 1997. It was actually Overture that pione
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by tanzam75 14y ago
In 1995, Quicken, Money, and Managing Your Money already had the ability to dial-up to banks, retrieve your balances, and even move money around. In 1995, there was already airline reservation capability on CompuServe, AOL, and the like. I
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by tanzam75 14y ago
$1 million during the dot-com bubble was essentially a signing bonus.
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IBM was in no position to buy Microsoft in the early 1990s. That was just when they were in financial trouble from the downturn in the mainframe business. Lou Gerstner took them out of that hole by laying off a lot of people. And, of co
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by tanzam75 14y ago
You can't always depend on market irrationality, though. VC firms became quite frantic during the market meltdown of 2008-2009. If a startup was burning cash, they told them to fire most of their staff. There was simply no exit possible -
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Actually, the Chinese have a large malaria control program. They get a lot of cases in southern China, especially along the border with Myanmar. So do the (South) Koreans. They get a lot of malaria cases along the demilitarized zone, whic
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by tanzam75 14y ago
It's because Git has won, in terms of usershare. Bitbucket, the Mercurial hosting service, now also offers Git. Xen, the first major project to use Mercurial, just switched to Git last month. Microsoft has added Git to Visual Studio and T
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Then why doesn't everyone do it? Why does Patrick reveal all of his financials, except for his second product? (Which, by the way, I think is a smart thing to do.) Web 2.0 software-as-a-service is not helped too much by blog posts about
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Of course, anything that you buy is a product in some sense. Services are also products. The maid you hire to clean your house is also a product. Healthcare is a product. And yes, education is also a product. But this is a different top
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by tanzam75 14y ago
That's exactly my point. You've chosen to be in a business where blogging doesn't hurt you -- and in fact, it helps you. As for giving non-software its due, that's a different discussion altogether. I was commenting on a post that talked
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by tanzam75 14y ago
That's a start, but it only gets rid of the stupid people. It leaves the people who are great at checking things off on a list. As long as they stay out of trouble, they might muddle along for decades, until finally retiring as an O-6.
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Because the United States won World War II, and because it outclassed every opponent it fought after World War II. Winning has a very bad effect on innovation. In contrast, it's when you lose that the old doctrines get discredited and in
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by tanzam75 14y ago
No, it's not "closer to median life span." Expected value is a mean. In the case of life expectancy at age X, it is the mean, conditional on having already survived to age X. (In other words, life expectancy at age 20 excludes everyone who
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Indeed. I read all four of the blog posts. All four of them make the majority of their money from consulting or from training -- books, videos, and workshops -- rather than from products. The split ranges from around 50/50 to almost 90/
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Could you translate the sidebar, please? Google Translate seems to say that they want to tax Microsoft on annual income , rather than the transfer itself. And it gives a surprisingly large amount for the amount that Microsoft is supposed
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Google Translate says that Microsoft underpriced Navision software by 11 billion kroner in the "previous income year," and owes 5.8 billion kroner in taxes on that!? That sounds like an income tax dispute on annual earnings. I don't unders
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Apple's marketing department can sell ice to an Eskimo. Microsoft's marketing department cannot sell water to a man who's dying of thirst. Although -- whoever at Microsoft decided to ship a free Surface Pro to a popular online artist had th
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Whatever the original reasons for China's atomic bomb program, they became completely irrelevant after relations with the Soviet Union deteriorated. By 1964, when the first Chinese atomic bomb was tested, China was barely on speaking term
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The Chinese nuclear arsenal was built to deter the Soviet Union. That is why it consists primarily of medium-range missiles. The Russian population is concentrated in European Russia, which is easily within range of a medium-range nuclear
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Resolver One was a great idea, but it has been discontinued: "But while many people did buy Resolver One, we struggled to turn it into a commercial success. The vast majority of people are happy with either Microsoft Excel, or one of the fr
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by tanzam75 14y ago
They stay in business because their competitors' databases are in worse shape. Or because the data wasn't as important as they thought it was. Verizon's billing system is the same way. Is it bad? Yes. Is it worse than AT&T's? Proba
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The "engineering" in financial engineering does not refer to engineering as a technical profession. Rather, it refers to engineering in the sense of "engineered lumber." Engineered lumber is when you glue a bunch of different woods togethe
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by tanzam75 14y ago
> They could have made a real Windows Store instead of a WinRT-only store. And they didn't have to wait for Windows 8 to do it, either. Roll it out with Windows 7 SP2. Microsoft is way too wedded to their multi-year release cycles.
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by tanzam75 14y ago
I personally think that Microsoft is far too willing to roll over and play dead when it comes to anti-trust issues. They should simply ban any adware on Windows that is opt-out rather than opt-in. If anyone breaks that rule, they should pu

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